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Andy Connolly Cuny
Summary: This article offers a critical reassessment of the ways in which Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" has been read in the era of Donald Trump. It questions the application of liberal anti-fascist politics to the text and explores Roth's formal concerns with ambiguity, irony, and contradiction.
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Kerri Greenidge, Holly Jackson
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Anthony Shoplik, Jeffrey Glover
Summary: This passage narrates the story of James Indian, an enslaved individual who sued for his freedom in Massachusetts Bay around 1670. As his case faced delays, he found support from colonists who collaborated with him to critique New England slavery law.
NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS
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Thomas S. Davis
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
(2022)
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Alys Moody
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Chadwick Allen
Summary: This essay compares two stories of Indigenous-settler first contact in the twenty-first century, highlighting the unexpected intersections and overlaps. It raises unresolved questions about the role of American literary criticism, specifically when Indigenous voices enter the settler academy. The essay explores the possibilities of centering Indigenous knowledges and research agendas within current conventions and addresses the issue of settler erasure of Indigenous claims in social and political contexts. It questions whether neutral stances on these issues are enough or if Americanist scholars are obligated to disrupt settler business as usual.
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
(2022)
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Literature, American
Darius Bost
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(2022)
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Jonathan Arac
Summary: In Matthew Arnold's "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," he emphasizes the critic's duty to refuse, which leads to independence and a rejection of partisanship. This role has provided important opportunities for marginalized or minoritized figures and contributes to defining the new social role of the critic.
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
(2022)
Book Review
Literature, American
Molly O'Hagan Hardy
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
(2022)
Book Review
Literature, American
Sophie Seita
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
(2022)
Book Review
Literature, American
Adam Hammond
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
(2022)
Book Review
Literature, American
Nick Selby
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
(2022)
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Literature, American
Lisa M. Corrigan
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
(2022)
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Literature, American
Stephen Knadler
Summary: Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations explores the overlooked cognitive biopolitics in post-Reconstruction debates on African American progress and democratic citizenship. It aims to uncover a previously unmarked history of African American neurodiverse disabilities and examines their relation to the emergence of modern diagnostic categories of intelligence. By analyzing Pauline Hopkins's works, the essay demonstrates the significance of Black neurodiversity in the genealogy of modern neurodiversity and challenges the focus on middle-class white children. It raises questions about how engagement with Black neurodiversity history impacts our understanding of politics, particularly in relation to antiblackness and cognitive disability in white liberalism.
AMERICAN LITERATURE
(2022)
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Literature, American
Hannah Manshel
Summary: This article examines the works of Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier to argue that they both challenge the idea of property ownership that has contributed to the subjugation of Black and Indigenous people. By exploring the concept of Black Radical Tradition, the authors suggest that Jacobs and Long Soldier create alternative worlds beyond legal violence. They both find an alternative to the law in the divinity of maternal care, highlighting the interconnectedness between Black and Indigenous freedom struggles.
AMERICAN LITERATURE
(2022)
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Catherine Keyser
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Andy Harper
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Laura Wilson
