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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 March 2005
... provide detailed his-
tory, genealogy (a favorite term of hers), and taxonomy, and a very few useful
analyses.
Peter Hays, University of California, Davis
From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots
of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. By Thomas Hallock. Chapel...
View articletitled, From the Fallen <span class="search-highlight">Tree</span>: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826; Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place
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in A Storied Place: Jonathan Carver’s Travel Narrative and the Indigenous Map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 7 Carver’s illustration of the communication made by his Dakota guide on a tree. © British Library Board (Add. MS 8950 f169r)
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
... few minutes, sirens blaring. A tree blooms in the median on Broadway underneath our window. It was bare the last time my sons went to school; we have been confined for over a month. I have trouble with scale. Some minutes last forever, and then suddenly the day is over. The recent past feels like...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., “but
I think it has a thread of interest which might be interesting to your
readers” (2002, 207). The piece he enclosed was “The Marked Tree,” a
story of a slave woman who takes revenge on the master for the sale and
subsequent murder of her son. Through the use of conjure, a variation
of African...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 459–490.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of evidence that African cultural codes and realities were becoming creolized as well. “Here is how one makes a macandal,” Courtin writes. First, one gathers a number of materials, which Courtin lists as bones (preferably of baptized children), metal nails, the crushed roots of banana trees, bits of a figuier...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... storage and curation, concluding with an invitation to imagine grafting (an arboreal metaphor), data planting, and data planning, where the really smart city incorporates the “wisdom ingrained in its trees and statuary, its interfaces and archives, its marginalized communities and more-than-human...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
...) of the women who survived this brutal history. Park’s poetic use of the paintings both pays homage to and refigures Kang’s work. In her transposition of the cherry tree from “Purity Lost Forever,” a tree that represents both the young girl’s innocence and her traumatic sexualization, to the scene of “Punish...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 489–516.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of Rural Art and Rural Taste (1846–1875) , December , 275 . “The Principle of Life.” 1833 . Lady's Book (1830–1833) , February , 90 – 91 . Thoreau Henry David . (1860) 2002 . “The Succession of Forest Trees.” In Wild Apples , edited by Rossi William , 93 – 108 . Athens...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 423–425.
Published: 01 June 2019
... Press . 2017 . xii, 156 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $27.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 A Robert Frost poem frames my foray into these recent interpretations of Henry David Thoreau. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1923) the speaker pauses before trees and evokes...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 273–300.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., however, produced not only ground provisions
for their own consumption, but also tree fruits and excess staples
for trade within an informal, internal marketing system. Historians
have debated the meaning, for planters and slaves, of the provision
system. Whereas some have...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2011
... image of Tarzan is of a white man
“flying” from tree to tree through a jungle canopy, an image that’s
been imitated so many times as to strip away much of the novelty that
originally made it worth imitating. And because this familiarity makes
it easy to forget all that the image...
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The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... One of Dunbar’s most evocative poems, “The Haunted Oak,” grimly indexes the geography of oblivion, lapsing into prosopopoeia to dramatize dialogue between a tree that has recently served as the site of a lynching and a credulous observer, all while making the tree itself a victim of the horror: “why...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
... writers to
participate directly in the Romantic pastoral tradition. Because South-
ern forests consist of “trees that were used to enforce southern lynch
law . . . anti-pastoralism continues to the present day” as the “main
current within African American culture.” Bennett is careful to point
out...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 843–867.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and loud, but—queer—
the music doesn’t quite come through.
It comes in snatches, dim then keen,
then mute, and yet there is no breeze.
The giant trees stand in between...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 March 2005
... will likely draw a readership significantly
different from Fallen Tree, as if to indicate how extensively green criticism is
developing. Those fascinated by Hallock’s ‘‘deep historical context’’ (6) may
find Van Noy’s arguments thin; I had questions, too, about his selection of
subjects, and the relationship...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Figure 7 Carver’s illustration of the communication made by his Dakota guide on a tree. © British Library Board (Add. MS 8950 f169r) ...
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American Literature 11792395.
Published: 07 March 2025
... of wetlands full of marsh grasses and American Literature, Volume 97, Number 2, June 2025 DOI 10.1215/00029831-11792395 © 2025 by Duke University Press ADVANCE PUBLICATION 272 American Literature cypress trees, leading to massive coastal land loss (Milman 2024). It is a site of the plantationocene within...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 151–167.
Published: 01 March 2023
... but the tombs and the graves. That’s why it is called that instead of ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave ,’ it’s called in Mississippi ‘the land of the tree and the home of the grave ’” (Brooks and Houck 2013 : 58). In these opening lines to one of her best-known speeches—“I’m Sick and Tired...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 301–325.
Published: 01 June 2012
... and dis-
orienting.21 The poetics of this text are fragmented—beautiful but
jagged, like the accompanying imagery of trees: “Wisps of wind ruffled
the orange and avocado and peach trees which rolled and tumbled as
far back as the etched horizon of the mountain range. A cluster...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 435–438.
Published: 01 June 2023
... trees and audiovisual sensors within the game’s world. Instead of a prescripted game, this experience becomes unique in each playthrough by organizing it around an unpredictable and terrifying nonhuman alien. Other games have combined AI representation and systems. For example, the first-person survival...
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