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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 898–901.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Benjamin Bateman Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission . By Kevin Ohi . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2015 . 326 pp. Cloth, $96.50 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book available. Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility . By Alexis Lothian...
View articletitled, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary <span class="search-highlight">Transmission</span> Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 737–765.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Elizabeth Freeman This essay argues that Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood is a complex meditation on the queer power of the sacraments. Engaging the Foucauldian account of how the regime of sexuality emerges from the confessional, Nightwood proffers the sacraments lost in this transmission as ways out...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 815–837.
Published: 01 December 2016
... through rapid-scanning technology, captured the enormity of the storm, its dynamic cloud structure, and the sharpening of the storm’s eye as the continent dimmed under the setting sun. But despite the complicated process of data gathering and transmission that is involved in meteorological satellite...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 767–797.
Published: 01 December 2014
... labor, technologically concretized, finds its demand for justice depicted through the retelling of an industrial disaster. Focusing on technology’s both literal and figural sources of social transmission, Rukeyser’s poem redirects our attention from assured Communist redemption toward more transitional...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... At stake here are the constraints that select an array of marks from the noisy reservoir of all possible written constellations, paths and media of transmission, or mechanisms of memory . . .. [A] discourse network has the exterior character—the outsideness—of a technology. In Kittler’s view...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 297–324.
Published: 01 June 2024
... by sentimental appeals. Sensation texts may also, in their directness, tell us something useful about the sympathetic apprehension of represented pain, linking the nineteenth-century model of psychosomatic “nervous conditions” to the more concretely somatic neurological structure of pain transmission. In all...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
Published: 01 September 2010
... that made
submarine telegraphic transmissions possible.5 Writing for Graham’s
Magazine during the fall prior to the assault, William Dowe marvels
over the superior insulating qualities of gutta-percha in his assertion
that “Nature . . . had something better than hemp and tar for the use...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2000
... transmission and inheritance. The mis-
cellany thus traces how Crayon learns to read beyond the boundaries
of a national English culture and claim the heritage Hazlitt deems
anachronistic...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and their relation to each other, kinship is predicated on institutionality and custom, whereas contagion is predicated on singularity and accident. By and large, the study of contagion is the study of unintentional transmission between strangers, requiring neither a deliberate nor a sustained encounter to shape...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 767–779.
Published: 01 December 2020
... a “pneumonia of unknown cause” (WHO 2020 ) in the Chinese city of Wuhan, a coronavirus outbreak has unfolded across multiple digital platforms as a real-time event. COVID-19 has been tracked via apps, live-feeds, and interactive maps, with the disease’s transmissibility monitored on online dashboards...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 851–852.
Published: 01 December 2008
... University Press
852 American Literature
single-spaced pages, 12-point font). Bibliographies and documented material
should follow the MLA style manual (most recent edition).
We currently do not accept submissions via e-mail or fax transmission from
within the United States. Contributors should...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 852.
Published: 01 December 2008
... University Press
852 American Literature
single-spaced pages, 12-point font). Bibliographies and documented material
should follow the MLA style manual (most recent edition).
We currently do not accept submissions via e-mail or fax transmission from
within the United States. Contributors should...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 409–435.
Published: 01 June 2012
... on transmission and parceled out in twenty-five-
year generations (the same understanding of futurity on which Edel-
man’s critique depends), where does the spinster—quintessentially
childless, by definition uncoupled, by reputation asexual—find her
future? When does the spinster’s day come...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2019
... transmissions across space and time; commentary on nature and natural states of being; the conflict and the rhetorical device of the tar, including its resonance as a commodity and its blackness as an analogy for race; the drama of the rabbit’s desire for recognition from the Tar Baby and the connection between...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in this aesthetic scene is surprising. Instead of acting as a purveyor of political agendas, the artist functions as a kind of technology of transmission that cannot be connected to conventional authority or methods of accountability. We might speculate in other words that the texts of author-activist literature...
View articletitled, “A form of life in which art is not art”: “Life in the Iron Mills” and the Artist as Worker in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 755–786.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in Faubert’s collection. Moreover, the mother’s death, the foreclosure of biological filiation, and the evacuation of the national/domestic household, force Faubert to revise his earlier vision of Haitian propagation: the final transmission of national value does not flow through the exploitation of female...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the function of textual practice in an era of digital transmission. Edwards cites the work of anthropologists Dilip Gaonkar and Elizabeth Povinelli as an indication of his attempt to move beyond what they call a “virtuoso reading” of any given object (quoted on 88), and though many of us might retain...
View articletitled, Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 645–655.
Published: 01 September 2012
... “identities are always and only constructed by the
mechanisms of transmission and reception” (145). The emphasis of
Kearns’s book is mostly on his two authors’ efforts to resist and cre-
atively work apart from such mechanisms. Taking a very different
approach, Machor in Reading Fiction...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 665–693.
Published: 01 December 2016
... cannot predict with certainty how people reacting to these individuals will take up their actions or what remote harms and misfortunes will result from this ongoing series of transmissions. Brown’s fiction radicalizes the problem, since in many cases characters are not able to predict, and in some...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
... it aspires. Yet this dream itself parallels the world in which Harris played, one where queer had at last gotten outside of time and opened new, impossible worlds. Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman offers, through narrative form, a theorization of oral-to-print folkloric transmission in different terms: the act...
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View articletitled, Inventing Queer: Portals, Hauntings, and Other Fantastic Tricks in the Collected Folklore of Joel Chandler Harris and Charles Chesnutt
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