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Dave Eggers's What Is the What : Fictionalizing Trauma in the Era of Misery Lit
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 621–648.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Elizabeth Twitchell Twitchell's essay examines Dave Eggers's What Is the What (2006) in the context of recent international interest in the morality of uncertainty, a stance which looks to self-erasure, not-knowing, and imaginative empathy as providing both the most humane response to trauma...
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A Queer Form of Trauma: Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Dona Yarbrough Duke University Press 2003 Dona A Queer Form of Trauma:
Yarbrough Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love
6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 125 of 246 The destruction of records and memorabilia...
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Literary Trauma: Sadism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Amercan Women's Fiction
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 677–679.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., focusing instead on the ways in which
fiction creates its own alternative, reflective world.
MariaDamon,UniversityofMinnesota
Literary Trauma: Sadism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Amercan Women’s
Fiction. By Deborah M. Horvitz. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. ix,
169 pp. Cloth, $60.50...
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The Nature of Trauma in American Novels Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Robin E. Field The Nature of Trauma in American Novels . By Balaev Michelle . Evanston, IL : Northwestern Univ. Press . 2012 . xix , 141 pp. Cloth , $79.95 ; paper , $29.95 . Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature . By Chang Juliana...
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A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma: Narratives of Bodily Healing from 1860s America
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Shari Goldberg Abstract Scholars tracing the genealogy of trauma generally place its emergence in the 1870s, when the condition began to be conceptualized as mental rather than physical injury, treatable through psychological measures. This essay locates a complicating earlier engagement. Oliver...
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in Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in “Multicultural” Children’s Literature
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Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 5 Ethnic trauma in Rosemary Wells’s Yoko ( 1998 )
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Ellen forced to overcome her sexual assault trauma by having to choose to f...
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Figure 6 Ellen forced to overcome her sexual assault trauma by having to choose to fight her attacker in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Cyberdreams Interactive Entertainment, 1995 ). Screenshot taken by author
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Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 887–888.
Published: 01 December 2000
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John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore
Quiet As It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison.ByJ.
Brooks Bouson. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. x, 277 pp. $21.95...
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Christina Zwarg When mesmerism first came to this hemisphere by way of St. Domingue, a complex association between radical abolition and the new science was born. Harriet Beecher Stowe takes up that association in her second abolitionist novel Dred . In so doing she charts an emergent trauma theory...
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One More Time with Feeling: Repetition, Reparation, and the Sentimental Subject in William Wells Brown’s Rewritings of Clotel
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2016
... and transformation that emerge from Brown’s self-duplication, I therefore argue that Clotel and its successors provide a new historiography of systemic trauma that is highly relevant to current debates on redress and reparations in the United States. Read together, this interlinked series reshapes what narrative can...
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Experience Beyond Bearing: Steinbeck in the War Psychiatry Archive
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 331–360.
Published: 01 June 2016
... texts in relation to one another and to see sociocultural phenomena in a new light, in this case both the trajectory of Steinbeck’s writing career and contemporary representations of war trauma. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 literature and psychiatry John Steinbeck archive...
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Salvaging History: Modern Philosophies of Memory and Time in The Age of Innocence
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 555–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the emotional trauma wrought by the war and a proposal for how the modern world might recover and move forward. Cannily manipulating time within the accessible form of the historical novel, Wharton makes readable a version of modern consciousness in which behavior and emotion, public time and private time...
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The Desert of Anatopism: War in the Age of Globalization
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 359–385.
Published: 01 June 2015
... argues, may lead to new acts of solidarity between combatants, but they also hold the potential to compound the traumas of combat and produce new acts of violence. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Iraq War Generation Kill military trauma References Appadurai Arjun . 2010...
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Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... a neutralization of the immunological fetishism of the postwar period. Rather, the loss of immunity precipitated a biopolitical melancholia. Having lost access to its privileged topos—the immune system itself—immunological governance in turn proximately cathected the object responsible for its trauma, namely, HIV...
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As She Lay Dying: Locating the Gothic in Kaui Hart Hemmings’s The Descendants
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 227–253.
Published: 01 June 2021
... framework to reveal connections across regional gothics in the United States and expose colonial legacies. The enduring trauma of British imperialism is well-documented, but American colonialism, particularly in Hawai‘i, is rarely addressed in the continental United States, making a gothic...
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Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 17–47.
Published: 01 March 2022
... aspirational, in that they build queer, utopic, and seemingly anti-racist worlds through the Asiatic space of the visual novel form. In so doing, they also allow players to explore the Asiatic as a means of repairing the traumas and distances of American imperial cultures. The article analyzes four visual...
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Organic Shrapnel: Affect and Aesthetics in September 11 Fiction
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Rachel Greenwald Smith Smith's essay examines history, politics, and literary form in September 11 fiction. It begins with the contention that the traditionally conceived relationship between trauma and form poses a problem for the analysis of September 11 fiction. It is often posited...
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Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 539–567.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and collective trauma. Paradoxically, these texts espouse the notion that any possibility of refugee futurity happens through contact with the subjunctive power of that which is insensible, ash. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Ocean Vuong Tuan Andrew Nguyen ash...
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Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of assembling and retelling destabilize the dominant narrative of a resolved family or national trauma to reflect divergent embodied experiences of distress and disability effected by racial debilitation. Offering concentric analysis of textual and archival reordering via Asian American studies, disability...
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The Normative Broken: Melinda Gebbie, Feminist Comix, and Child Sexuality Temporalities
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... The comic thus models the temporalities of surviving trauma. The feminist temporalities of survivorship here also model utopian futures that are homosocial, queer, often ecstatic, and resistant to normative scripts of what should give women comfort. Undergirded by a radical feminist perspective that sees...
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