Literature, American

Summary: This article examines the literary imaginaries of the haptic in Black speculative fiction, discussing the importance of sensory praxis and touch to ecological thought and racial politics in the Anthropocene. By analyzing the works of Alexis Pauline Gumbs and N. K. Jemisin, the article explores the concept of geohaptics and its role in imagining new forms of sensory wayfinding and contesting racial power dynamics. The works of these authors highlight how sense and touch can transform the geographies of power in the Anthropocene, emphasizing the significance of Black women's geographies and the political potential of anticolonial and abolitionist ecological thought.

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2023)

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Article Literature, American

The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong's Bitter in the Mouth

Sunhay You

Summary: This article examines the influence of lexical-gustatory synesthesia on the senses through Monique Truong's novel Bitter in the Mouth. It reveals the association between whiteness and the taste of sugar, portraying whiteness as a substance of addiction and defense against the ideals of white supremacy. The novel suggests the possibility of reshaping the senses and ideas of personhood to disrupt harmful desires for racialized intimacies.

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2023)

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Book Review History

An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States

Rachel B. Herrmann, Lauren F. Klein

NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS (2023)

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Article Literature, American

Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics

David Pham

Summary: This article examines the role of fire in Vietnamese diasporic aesthetics and compares it with the element of water. Through the analysis of works by Ocean Vuong and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, it explores the significance and potential of fire and ash in refugee poiesis and narratives of trauma.

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2023)

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Article Literature, American

Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to Senses with/out Subjects

Erica Fretwell, Hsuan L. Hsu

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2023)

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Book Review Literature, American

The Origin of Others Goodness and the Literary Imagination

Eric Lott, Toni Morrison, David Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, Mara Willard

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2023)

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Article Literature, American

Rethinking the Aesthetic in Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting . . .

Rohan Ghatage

MELUS (2023)

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Article Literature, American

Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze

Sylvie Boulette

Summary: This article follows the activities of a mood-altering entheogen called peyote, which affected Native peoples, particularly those living under colonial occupation in the early 20th century. The article also discusses the opposition to peyote worship and the governmental policies and measures related to it.

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2023)

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Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship

Clare Mullaney

Summary: This article explores the championing of women with chronic illnesses as conduits for mediumship in 19th-century Spiritualism and the significance of automatic writing in disability history. With Gertrude Stein and Lucille Clifton as examples, it argues for the importance of extrasensory perceptions in the compositional scene and challenges traditional notions of authorship.

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2023)

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