Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 1068
Search Results for visual culture
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 418–419.
Published: 01 June 2002
... but also for its introduction to an American
genre that has not yet received enough critical attention.
Peter Kvidera, Duke University
418 American Literature
The Eye’s Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture. By Karen Jacobs. Ithaca,
N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 311 pp. Cloth, $45.00...
View articletitled, The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 421–424.
Published: 01 June 2005
... in spaces normally reserved for white cultural life. In each the-
ater, Brown orchestrated often bold challenges to the culture that made the
410 American Literature
idea of a black theatrical company in the 1820s seem variously astounding,
provocative, and threatening to many white Americans. Indeed...
View articletitled, Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey;Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>;Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
View
PDF
for article titled, Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey;Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>;Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 June 2007
...June Hee Chung Duke University Press 2007 June Hee Getting the Picture: American Corporate
Chung Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan
Visual Culture in The Ambassadors
It may be counterintuitive to assert that Henry
James...
View articletitled, Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> in The Ambassadors
View
PDF
for article titled, Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> in The Ambassadors
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 209–211.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Samantha Pinto Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture . By Streeby Shelley . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . xxii , 328 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 ; e-book , $25.95 . Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity...
View articletitled, Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity
View
PDF
for article titled, Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 218–219.
Published: 01 March 2001
... emerging arguments for clearing
the deck in a new consideration of the national dynamics of sentiment, its
masculine performances, and its patriotic work.
Dana D. Nelson, University of Kentucky
American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture. By Shawn Michelle
Smith. Princeton, N.J...
View articletitled, American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span>
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 395–397.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., the book focuses on the early reception of the daguerreotype through a study of some daguerreotype images and of literary texts and news or periodical accounts of the image technology’s emergence. Focusing on the daguerreotype, Dinius argues, “introduces visual culture into conversations about...
View articletitled, Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 The Camera and the Press: American <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> and Print <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> in the Age of the Daguerreotype
View
PDF
for article titled, Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 The Camera and the Press: American <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> and Print <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> in the Age of the Daguerreotype
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 394–397.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Susan Rosenbaum Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature . By Rebecca Sanchez . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . viii, 198 pp. Cloth, $ 89.00 ; paper, $ 26.00 ; e-book available. Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made...
View articletitled, Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> Poetics in American Literature Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> in Midcentury America
View
PDF
for article titled, Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> Poetics in American Literature Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> in Midcentury America
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 880–882.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Lindsey Andrews Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture . By Ahad Badia Sahar . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2010 . xi , 195 pp. $40.00 . Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance . By Thaggert...
View articletitled, Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance
View
PDF
for article titled, Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 93–125.
Published: 01 March 2009
... a profoundly visual cultural moment, argued for a visual literacy that both denied the indexical power of white visual practices and embraced the power of the image to make injustice visible. Blackwood's analysis focuses on how texts by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs explore the representational...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 775–803.
Published: 01 December 2009
... related to his time at Mary's boarding house, accrue new meaning when considered in light of Ellison's broader investment in visual culture. Ultimately, Ellison creates a relationship between narrative and visuality that redefines simplistic perspectives on African American identity. As the titular...
Journal Article
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Jess Libow Abstract This essay traces the visual cultures that emerged around Civil War soldiers’ pain and argues that the method of portraiture has much to offer the field of health humanities. It begins by tracing efforts to capture Civil War soldiers’ pain in both popular and clinical media...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 817–818.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., audio playback, and visual culture—early magnetic recording materialized. In so doing, the essay offers scholars of both new and old media a sense of how we might better historicize the ostensible permanence and immateriality of contemporary data cultures and their digital economies. “Making the Perfect...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 639–669.
Published: 01 December 2023
... visual culture and literature to the development of twentieth-century antifascist ideology within a transnational perspective. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 antifascism African American visual culture Black studies transnationalism Spanish...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 263–293.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the recognition that there are limits to our capacity to know, describe, predict, classify, and rank nature, both human and nonhuman. “Antebellum Coral” assembles several written and visual reflections on coral beads and reveals how the cultural and natural history of these small everyday objects challenged...
FIGURES
| View All (7)
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
Published: 01 June 2011
... the concept of “popular fantasy” to describe how tropes of literary enchantment are deployed to make sense of emergent real-world social and political relations. Through a close reading of the X-Men in the mid-to-late 1970s, Fawaz shows how the comic book visually absorbed the cultural politics of the women's...
View articletitled, “Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!” Mutant Superheroes and the <span class="search-highlight">Cultural</span> Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America
View
PDF
for article titled, “Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!” Mutant Superheroes and the <span class="search-highlight">Cultural</span> Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 509–545.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperi-
alism (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2000), 151.
10 Shawn Michelle Smith, American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in
Visual Culture (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999), 170. Inter-
estingly, however...
View articletitled, The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and <span class="search-highlight">Visualizations</span> of the “Indian” in Black, White, and Native Educational Contexts
View
PDF
for article titled, The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and <span class="search-highlight">Visualizations</span> of the “Indian” in Black, White, and Native Educational Contexts
Journal Article
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...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
View articletitled, Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> Novels
View
PDF
for article titled, Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> Novels
Journal Article
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 197–200.
Published: 01 March 2017
... was anything but insular in his work. Moon’s Darger’s Resources offers a similarly queered reading of visual culture and its role in the negotiation of difference, but his work, in contrast to Fawaz’s and Chute’s, is only tangentially related to comics. Like Chute and Fawaz, however, Moon is profoundly...
View articletitled, Disaster Drawn: <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics Darger’s Resources
View
PDF
for article titled, Disaster Drawn: <span class="search-highlight">Visual</span> Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics Darger’s Resources
Journal Article
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
... neglected visual and photographic materials alongside more familiar literary texts. 3 As Gavin Jones ( 2003 : 766) argues, while US literary authors have long been concerned with economic inequality and poverty, and “despite the engagement of English departments with questions of social and cultural...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 501–526.
Published: 01 September 2008
... by a black American. Consid-
ered together, over a century and across an ocean, these writers invite
us to examine the racial politics of visual spectatorship: What does it
mean to “take pleasure” in looking at images of terror? And how does
visual culture, and writing about visual culture, work...
1
