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Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood; Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History

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Barton Keeton
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 395–397.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-010
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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The Diasporan Self: Unbreaking the Circle in Western Black Novels; Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus

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Michael A. Chaney
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 874–876.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-064
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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Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic; The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution; Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing

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Andy Doolen
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-069
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...
View articletitled, Rome Reborn on <span class="search-highlight">Western</span> Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic; The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution; Democracy&#x27;s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing View PDF for article titled, Rome Reborn on <span class="search-highlight">Western</span> Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic; The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution; Democracy&#x27;s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
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Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963; Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature

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Stephanie LeMenager
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 456–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266162
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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Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western; Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature

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Blake Allmendinger
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 897–898.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-897
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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The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America; Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature

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Michael Lundblad
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 409–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-409
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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West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers

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Blake Allmendinger
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 429–430.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-429
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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Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry

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David Carpenter
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 669–670.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-669
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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Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance

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Janet Dean
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 533–536.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361349
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

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Published: 01 December 2024
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Figure 4 “Types of Indian Girls,” Twin Territories (July 1902), 204. Courtesy of the University of Oklahoma Western History Collections

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Published: 01 December 2024
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Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival

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Karen Jackson Ford
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 333–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-005
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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The Work of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century American Friendship Album Verses

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Laura Zebuhr
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149321
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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The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology

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Sarah Rivett
American Literature 11792427.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792427
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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Richard Wright's Oneiropolitics

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Mikko Tuhkanen
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 151–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-072
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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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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Published: 01 December 2024
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The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter

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R. John Williams
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-006
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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Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk's Narrative

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Mark Rifkin
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 677–705.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-035
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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Ruins Amidst Ruins: Black Classicism and the Empire of Slavery

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John Levi Barnard
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 361–389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647027
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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“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”: Dictée ’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics

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Jasmine An
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345365
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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