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...Jason Molesky [email protected] Homelessness in American Literature: Romanticism, Realism, and Testimony . By John Allen . New York : Routledge . (2004) 2018 . vii, 195 pp. Cloth, $160.00 ; paper, $52.95 ; e-book, $52.95 . Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature...

... immobilization of Chinese, Native American, and black bodies underwrote the romanticized white vagabondage at the heart of Huckleberry Finn and its intertexts. Vagrant Sources Although critics often frame Huckleberry Finn as a return to the South- ern scenes of Twain’s childhood, the novel’s...

..., reflecting the often meandering movement of her walks through the city, might seem to recall the directionless stroll of the flaneur. As Child herself noted, humorously chiding herself for her tendencies toward vague- ness and digression, ‘‘I cannot write a letter without becoming subject to the Vagrant...

... Mrs. Anderson, avoids Helga, apprehensive at the thought that her new husband might also en- counter her. Lurking beneath the surface of intellectual interests and polite behavior, Anne fears, is ‘‘a vagrant primitive groping toward something shocking’’ (Q, 95). In an impulsive act that appears...

..., moreover, speech is either withheld or threatened. Billy, like Set dur- ing his withdrawals, is laconic: T]he vagrant enemy’’ quells Billy’s speech so that he cannot even ‘‘cry out’’ his ‘‘doubt and Set’s voice is suspended when the bear clashes with his ‘‘resistance’’ (PS,65). By the time Momaday...

..., in the whole world for that matter. Best man with his fists, best man with dice, with a razor. Promoter of church benefits. Of colored fairs. Vagrant preacher. Lover of all the women for miles and miles around. (42–43...

... to downplay it, or to suggest it befell mostly vagrants or lowlifes’’ (Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America [New York: Random House, 2002], viii). 43 Despite the title, both men and women are included. Occasionally the col- umn includes a white...

... by canonical modernity.11 This superfluidity takes weird, vagrant forms. In Kara Walker’s paper silhouette Untitled (Milk and Bread) (1998), we’re reminded that it was not only cotton futures that made the U.S. South affluent but also the milk of black women who, as wet-nurses, were converted from human...

... idle and at worst vagrant. The takeaway is clear, at least when A Social History of the Sea Islands is read as part of the Social Study Series. The failure of the rehearsal for Reconstruction begun on the Sea Islands during the Civil War was complete, having produced not free labor but the sort...

...!’ The constable, being of like character, goes out, and seizing the first colored person he can find laughing loud, or standing unoccupied, he drags him before the alder- man as a disturber of the peace or a vagrant” (“Correspondence of the Era. Things in Philadelphia,” National Era, 16...

... “confer as to how best to rid themselves of the vagrant, usurping fellow,” and even “old Limp Underwood, who hated niggers” seems to fall under Barlo’s influence and wakes up the following morn- ing “to find that he held a black man in his arms” C( , 23). In its moment of musicality, a tale...

... at Buffalo they were gettin ready to throw some flour on Wil- liams Wells Brown. Remember when those mobocrats beat up Doug- lass? Even Douglass, knocked on the ground like any old vagrant’’ (FC, 72).35 In contrast, Stray is rewarded for playing out stereotypes of black masculinity. At the end...

... off a visible strain . . . . The peril of the heavy tower, of the restless vault, of the vagrant buttress; the uncertainty of logic, the inequalities of the syllogism, the irregularities of the mental mirror,—all these 56 American Literature haunting nightmares of the Church...

... in general, at the time of the narrative, the word had a par- ticularly strong association with unruly servants. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the term rogue referring to ‘‘idle vagrants or vagabonds’’ was commonly ‘‘applied abusively to servants’’ through the eighteenth century. In Knapp’s...

... the criminal, the insane, disabled vagrants, and the poor—bur- geoned in the United States; see Rothman, Discovery of the Asylum.The first institution for the ‘‘feeblemindedthe category so essential to eugenic ideology and practice—was founded in Boston in 1848 by Samuel Howe (see Steven...

... Library of Congress. Stowe, Byron, and the Art of Scandal 75 and not leave your dirty marks there!” Stowe is a dog in heat or a mas- turbating vagrant, in marked contrast to Byron’s cool, impassive intel- lectual. The rude sexual joke animating this image references...

... songs directly expressive of their personal experiences, as desti- tute, and as outlaws. He also points out, however, that since all such figures were, legally speaking, vagrants, they represented a blackness whose defining feature is a vulnerability to the law—a blackness fundamentally shaped...

... songs directly expressive of their personal experiences, as desti- tute, and as outlaws. He also points out, however, that since all such figures were, legally speaking, vagrants, they represented a blackness whose defining feature is a vulnerability to the law—a blackness fundamentally shaped...

... of their personal experiences, as desti- tute, and as outlaws. He also points out, however, that since all such figures were, legally speaking, vagrants, they represented a blackness whose defining feature is a vulnerability to the law—a blackness fundamentally shaped by an emergent discourse of police...

... of their personal experiences, as desti- tute, and as outlaws. He also points out, however, that since all such figures were, legally speaking, vagrants, they represented a blackness whose defining feature is a vulnerability to the law—a blackness fundamentally shaped by an emergent discourse of police...