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differences (1999) 11 (2): 228–247.
Published: 01 September 1999
... minority discourse in Asian American literature. Birchall, Diana. Her: The Story of Onoto Watanna(Winnifred Eaton) . Urbana: U of Illinois P,forthcoming. Cole, Jean Lee. “Guided By Voices: The Strange Career of Winnifred Eaton Reeve.” Diss. U of Texas at Austin, in progress. de Man, Paul...
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differences (2001) 12 (1): 50–78.
Published: 01 May 2001
... is currently finishing a book on Asian American representation. Affron, Charles. Star Acting: Gish, Garbo,Davis . New York: Dutton, 1977 . The Birth of a Nation . Dir. D. W. Griffith and Frank Woods. Based on the novel and the play The Clansman, by Thomas Dixon, with additional material from...
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differences (2002) 13 (3): 121–142.
Published: 01 December 2002
.... “Narrative Forms.” The Cambridge History of American Literature . Vol. 2 . Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995 . 605 –778. Berlant, Lauren. The Anatomy of National Fantasy:Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991 . Budick, Emily Miller. Nineteenth-Century...
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differences (2003) 14 (2): 78–105.
Published: 01 September 2003
...AMANDA EMERSON Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2003 amanda emerson is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Brown University. She is completing her dissertation on “equality”as a flexible means of national affiliation in early American...
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differences (1996) 8 (1): 57–93.
Published: 01 April 1996
...Jennifer L. Fleissner Copyright © 1996 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1996 Works Cited Ammons Elizabeth . Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1992 . Ardis...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 196–203.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Mignon R. Moore In Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality , Katherine Franke asks what kind of freedom and what kind of equality the capacity to marry mobilizes. She explores this question comparatively through, on the one hand, the case of African Americans after slavery and, on the other...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 55–87.
Published: 01 November 1989
... of The Scarlet Letter .” Ideology and Classic American Literature . Ed. Bercovitch Sacvan and Jehlen Myra . Cambridge : Cambridge UP . 1986 . 247 - 66 . Barker-Benfield G. J. The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America...
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differences (1990) 2 (3): 29–51.
Published: 01 November 1990
... ofAsian literatures tell us about the seemingly wider and more ready acceptance of feminism in American universities? Jj this is a reflection of how feminism itself has become "normalized, "thenfeminists need to ask what other kinds ofinstitutional marginalization continue in the course of their own...
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differences (1999) 11 (3): i–xii.
Published: 01 December 1999
... . Denning, Michael. “`The Special American Conditions': Marxism and American Studies.” American Quarterly 38 ( 1986 ): 356 –80. Ellison, Julie. Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999 . Ginzberg, Lori. Women and the Work of Benevolence:Morality...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Rebecca Wanzo This essay is an attempt to work through the nature of the cultural injury produced by the African American male celebrity—an injury that is frequently enacted as intimate violence—and to hypothesize why public accusations of such injuries so often affectively challenge black subjects...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2018
... the civil status of gay people as a counterpoint to the failure of matrimonial rights to do the same for heterosexual African Americans. This essay considers some of the assumptions about race, racism, and racial representation that underpin the architecture of Franke’s argument and the meaning of “black...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 21–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ann duCille Marriage , like family , has been a contested term in African American historical, sociological, and cultural studies. This essay surveys and interrogates the dominant literature on black intimacy, coupling, and family life in the slave community from the publication of E. Franklin...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 163–180.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Ann Ducille This essay was originally delivered as the keynote address at a conference on passing held at Vassar College in April of 2019. Titled “Quiet As It’s Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities,” the conference was inspired by the legacy of Vassar’s first African American graduate...
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figures 9 and 10 Rosalie et Léontine vont au théâtre by Romeo Bosetti (1911) . Betty and Jane (their American names) laugh hysterically at a hokey stage play in this French film comedy that was widely exhibited in the United States.
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figures 9 and 10 Rosalie et Léontine vont au théâtre by Romeo Bosetti (1911) . Betty and Jane (their American names) laugh hysterically at a hokey stage play in this French film comedy that was widely exhibited in the United States.
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differences (2015) 26 (1): 141–167.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., this essay argues that black women’s sexuality functions at once as a lubricant for neoliberal governmentality and as a domain of collective preservation within this order. The author reads the queer force of black women’s survival in the Museum of African American History’s Changing America exhibit, along...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 178–197.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Éric Fassin In transatlantic sex wars, gender is supposedly alien to French culture, as if it were essentially American. This nationalist cliché can be turned upside down if one takes language seriously. Gender is not only, but it is also, a grammatical term, especially in French. It is omnipresent...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 54–73.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Nick Seaver The American Piano Company, in the early twentieth century, built a reenacting piano that could automatically play back performances recorded by virtuoso pianists. This article examines the production, in the company lab, of that piano’s fidelity—the terms by which an original...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 127–159.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Mark Garrett Cooper; John Marx The authors argue that contemporary discussions of crisis in the humanities are best understood as part of a longer genealogy of crises extending through the mid-twentieth century to the late nineteenth-century beginnings of the modern American research university...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 110–140.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Hannah Zeavin “No Touching” argues that we can locate analytic solidarity in the boundaries drawn to protect analytic work from sexual enactment. The author traces ongoing elaborations of the notions of boundary and boundary violation as they become codified across the twentieth century in American...
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