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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 687–717.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Hsuan L. Hsu Hsu's essay argues that the racially differentiated experiences of mobility depicted in Huckleberry Finn are informed by a range of vagrancy laws that restricted access to public spaces. Such legal constraints on mobility were deployed throughout the South and West to control...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 551–562.
Published: 01 September 2022
... , released in 2020, constellates an extraordinary range of texts from the eighteenth-century Atlantic world around the claim that the open-ended, indeterminate nature of vagrancy, as it was imagined in law and in literature, made thinkable the institution of the police as a technology of population...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 749–775.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Act 17 Yet Child’s style of narrative ‘‘vagrancy’’ was philosophically more akin to that of Henry David Thoreau, who would claim in Walden that he ‘‘feared chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the nar- row limits of my daily experience, so...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 235–236.
Published: 01 March 2011
... © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Announcements 2009 Don D. Walker Prize Hsuan L. Hsu’s essay “Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and ‘Three Vagabonds of Trinidad’” (December 2009, 687–717) received the 2009 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and the Historiography of Sexuality” (Septem- ber, 469–95) and Hsuan L. Hsu for “Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and ‘Three Vagabonds of Trinidad’” (December, 687– 717). Members of the judging committee were Mark McGurl, University of California, Los Angeles (Chair); Michael Moon, Emory...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
Published: 01 December 2020
...) discussion of how vagrancy laws in the 1910s and 1920s created surrogate enslavement that restricted movement and obstructed the ability of the property-less to subsist. None of us is immune to the allure of this particular fantasy, not when we live in a society in which public health is ensnared...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
Published: 01 September 2022
... possessions to his home, and his “interference” was so successful that the police came to arrest him for vagrancy. Even with Barnes gone, the eviction proved a challenge. Apparently, the evictee was a hoarder, and the sheer number of objects required a five-man crew and took at least three days to remove...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 227–253.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... Bernays turned to Hawai‘i to counteract the international perception of the United States that resulted from oppression and tense race relations in the southern United States. Ignoring that “Hawai‘i and the U.S. South are tied by a plantation economy whose vagrancy laws emerge partly from the penal codes...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 March 2002
... writing, the bachelor appears as a producer and consumer of narrative, and in this regard the early national bachelor served for Irving as a topos for articulating ideas about male authorship. ‘‘Rip Van Winkle’’ locates the origins of the male author in the vagrancy of the solitary male...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 701–728.
Published: 01 December 2023
... version of the Underground Railroad, refers to the ambiguous and arbitrary legal ground for Frank’s detention as follows: “Interesting law, vagrancy, meaning standing outside or walking without clear purpose anywhere” (9). The peripatetic movement of Frank’s body is restricted within the state-controlled...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 325–355.
Published: 01 June 2006
... replied that she should ‘‘go and get her living as other prostitutes do 1 Then he went to the police to accuse her of vagrancy and prostitution. One night later, Norman tracked him down and plunged a dirk knife into his chest as he arrived at the exclu- sive Astor House. Ballard survived...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 797–826.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Rudolph Lapp, Blacks in Gold Rush California (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1977), 242. 71 See Hsuan L. Hsu, “Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckle- berry Finn and ‘Three Vagabonds of Trinidad American Literature 81 (December 2009): 687–717, 701. 72 Knadler, for example...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 March 2015
... for “vagrancy” and finds himself handcuffed to a bed in a Seattle ward.5 In the same way as 98  American Literature his sister, Frank is doubly excluded: barred from the political realm and yet included as the biological locus of politics. He is cast as a patient but an untreatable one, handcuffed...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 91–119.
Published: 01 March 2019
... (the police) arrest Tom for vagrancy. As he waits in jail for his trial, “this guy in the next cell” yells out, “Like your suite, deary?” Tom has no trouble reading “this guy’s” sexuality: “He has a squeaky voice. I can see that his eyebrows are plucked. . . . This guy is as queer as they make them...