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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 547–577.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Kathryn Walkiewicz Abstract This article grapples with the messy legacy of Ora V. Eddleman Reed, editor of Twin Territories magazine in the Muscogee Nation, Indian Territory, at the turn of the twentieth century. Twin Territories vocally opposed US statehood in Indian Territory and furthered...
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in The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction
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Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 2 Cover, Twin Territories (August 1899). Courtesy of the University of Oklahoma Western History Collections
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in The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction
> American Literature
Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 3 Cover, Twin Territories (June 1903). Courtesy of the University of Oklahoma Western History Collections. This cover, or one similar, appeared on most issues published from 1902 until the publication’s end.
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in The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction
> American Literature
Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 4 “Types of Indian Girls,” Twin Territories (July 1902), 204. Courtesy of the University of Oklahoma Western History Collections
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 394–396.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Clare Callahan Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture . By Wu Cynthia . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press . 2012 . xiii , 203 pp. Cloth , $84.50 ; paper , $28.95 ; e-book , $28.95 . Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Cynthia Wu This essay uses both ethnic studies and disability studies to read two late-nineteenth-century American texts that refer to Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twin entertainers from the country then known as Siam who were popularly called the Siamese Twins. Mark Twain's sketch “Personal...
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American Literature 11792411.
Published: 07 March 2025
... as an eclectic missionary-scientist. The second work melded observational astronomy, the Iberian Jesuits’ twinned concepts of “imaginary space” and “possible worlds,” and Menippean satire (the ancient Greek impetus of the Baroque picaresque) against the colonial backdrop of Indigenous servitude and African...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 597–619.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... copyright and privacy laws and to show how these complexly interrelated areas of legal discourse manifest themselves in Salinger's fiction. The two opposed rulings in the case (district and appellate courts) reveal the twin purposes of copyright law: to provide the public with great art through the granting...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Elephant, as It Was and Is (1873), a text that subtly yet unmistakably aligns the white elephant with the figure of the Siamese twin, suggesting that despite their apparent differences, America and Siam might share a fundamental—and, for Bacon, repulsive—intimacy. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2009
... imitative and derivative aesthetics with sympathy and intersubjectivity, the essay argues that texts created by and for young women can offer critical insight into the twinned processes of individuation and deindividuation at the heart of “republican” theories of the subject. That is, it contends...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 551–581.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., transparent representation of the world, but rather as a highly discriminating, distinctive style that was consistently engaged with the twin principles of human self-cultivation and the neoclassical economy of representation. The example of Garland’s Crumbling Idols has proven so illuminating for this essay...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 859–885.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., was not genetically
hers. As the media declared, Donna Fasano had delivered ‘‘twins
‘‘one white, one black but the status of her motherhood was chal-
lenged as Deborah and her husband Robert filed for custody of their
genetic child.2 In March 1999, the couples reached an agreement: The
Fasanos would give ‘‘Joseph...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 596–598.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., “expose the contradic-
tions and gaps upon which citizenship is founded” (15).
The most ambitious section in Reading Embodied Citizenship draws on
this theme to provide a fresh reading of Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894),
reading that work alongside both “Those Extraordinary Twins,” the short...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 598–600.
Published: 01 September 2013
... citizenship is founded” (15).
The most ambitious section in Reading Embodied Citizenship draws on
this theme to provide a fresh reading of Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894),
reading that work alongside both “Those Extraordinary Twins,” the short
story on cojoined twins that was “extracted” by Twain...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 604–606.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to provide a fresh reading of Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894),
reading that work alongside both “Those Extraordinary Twins,” the short
story on cojoined twins that was “extracted” by Twain from the novel during
the process of writing, and a 1868 essay by Twain on the famed conjoined
twins Chang...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 591–593.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., “expose the contradic-
tions and gaps upon which citizenship is founded” (15).
The most ambitious section in Reading Embodied Citizenship draws on
this theme to provide a fresh reading of Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894),
reading that work alongside both “Those Extraordinary Twins,” the short...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to provide a fresh reading of Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894),
reading that work alongside both “Those Extraordinary Twins,” the short
story on cojoined twins that was “extracted” by Twain from the novel during
the process of writing, and a 1868 essay by Twain on the famed conjoined
twins Chang...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 593–596.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., “expose the contradic-
tions and gaps upon which citizenship is founded” (15).
The most ambitious section in Reading Embodied Citizenship draws on
this theme to provide a fresh reading of Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894),
reading that work alongside both “Those Extraordinary Twins,” the short...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.
Published: 01 December 2024
... enslaver, Tarsekayahke Shoe Boots, a Cherokee warrior. He was Doll’s fourth child and a twin. William’s older siblings—Elizabeth (Lizzie), John, and Polly—were also born to Shoe Boots and Doll and became Cherokee citizens after Shoe Boots submitted an emancipation petition to the National Council in 1824...
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America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word; Crimes of Art and Terror
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 901–903.
Published: 01 December 2004
... is shared here
than imagery, the authors assert. Indeed, it is argued that avant-garde art-
ists and terrorists share certain key political characteristics, even have ‘‘twin
motivations’’ (168): for instance, the desire to change the social order or to
powerfully affect the consciousness of large...
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