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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 395–397.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Barton Keeton 2006 Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood . Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado. 2003. viii, 230 pp. $34.95. Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History . Stanley Corkin...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Michael A. Chaney © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Diasporan Self: Unbreaking the Circle in Western Black Novels . By J. Lee Greene. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2008. 257 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus . By Margo...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Andy Doolen © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic. By Eran Shalev. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2009. xiii, 311 pp. $45.00. The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Stephanie LeMenager Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963 . By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 564 pp. $34.95. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature . By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 897–898.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., Hunter College Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western. By Armando José Prats. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2002. xxi, 317 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of the body on the mouth-cunt disrupts the Western mind-body dualism, according to Yarbro- Book Reviews 409 Bejarano, revealing how ‘‘our attitudes about our bodies [and] our very bodies themselves are constructed With this knowledge, she continues...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 429–430.
Published: 01 June 2001
...: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Fron- tiers. By Noreen Groover Lape. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2000. x, 224 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. West of the Border participates in the ongoing recovery...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 669–670.
Published: 01 September 2001
...: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernity, 1993), and Marcus Klein (Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870–1900, 1994). Most of these studies argue that there is an important connection between the detective story as a genre and certain aspects of modernity. Ron Thomas takes...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 533–536.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Janet Dean [email protected] Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West . By Kevin Britz and Roger L. Nichols , Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2018 . xiii, 266 pp. Cloth, $32.95 ; e-book available. Fictions of Western American...
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Figure 2 Cover, Twin Territories (August 1899). Courtesy of the University of Oklahoma Western History Collections More
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Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 4 “Types of Indian Girls,” Twin Territories (July 1902), 204. Courtesy of the University of Oklahoma Western History Collections More
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 333–359.
Published: 01 June 2009
... and oppression with that of Native Americans. Anglo-American poets sometimes turned to haiku (after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the wars with Korea and Vietnam) to escape an identity they scorned: white, American, middle-class. Haiku's famed impersonality promised a release not merely from Western...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in the Western tradition: where the feeling of friendship comes from, the nature of the feeling itself, and how we ought to practice it. Situating the verses in relation to literary and philosophical writings on friendship including those of Socrates, Michel de Montaigne, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin...
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American Literature 11792427.
Published: 07 March 2025
... Pacific Northwest, Western ornithology’s discomfort with the raven’s maritime presence and stringent relegation of the bird to barren land becomes vividly apparent. In Haida, Tlingit, and other Northwest Pacific Indigenous traditions, the raven operates through an intertidal ecology to serve a prominent...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 151–179.
Published: 01 March 2010
...)coloniality. It also links his thinking to Western philosophy, including Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, in which the task of thought is frequently understood in terms of an awakening. Tuhkanen suggests that in Wright and Husserl the slippery distinction between dreaming and wakefulness is best represented...
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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. More
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
...R. John Williams Despite his enormous popularity as a native interpreter of Chinese culture for Western readers, Lin Yutang's literary career has been largely ignored in American studies and only selectively attended to in Asian and Asian American studies. This essay argues that much...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 677–705.
Published: 01 December 2008
... a decades-long struggle between the United States and the Sauks, as well as other native peoples in the western Great Lakes region, over how to conceptualize native landholding, diplomacy, and trade. The narrative explores the effects of reducing a complex regional matrix to a series of treaty-mediated...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2014
...John Levi Barnard While scholars have taken an increasing interest in the ways writers of the African diaspora have appropriated, revised, and otherwise intervened in the Western classical tradition, this scholarship has yet to fully articulate a cohesive theory of the political implications...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
... as Thailand’s formally uncolonized status obscured the violent codifications of gender, racial, and sexual norms to align with Western, imperial worldviews. The author argues that, just as Dictée marked a revolutionary period in Asian American literary studies as the field grappled with the role...
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