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“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies "超越铁路和拘禁"？日裔美国人战时监禁文学与亚裔美国人文学研究的基础

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11092084

Rei Magosaki

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Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler 数据驱动的童年：弗朗西斯-拉弗莱什和弗朗西斯-罗尔特-维勒的男孩文学中的殖民定居主义和计算能力

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11092071

Laura Soderberg

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Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History 迈向土地抵抗文学：土地在美国文学、法律和历史中的作用

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11092045

Kyle Keeler

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John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture 废奴主义印刷文化中的约翰-班扬

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11092058

Isaac Kolding

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The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho 虚荣的篝火》和《美国精神病患者》中的金融资本主义色情虚构

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-11092097

Patrick S. Lawrence

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The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War 西班牙内战时期黑人反法西斯跨民族主义艺术

3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10950740

Brandon Truett

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Brief Mention 简短的提及

3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10950805

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Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory 残破档案:分析山下家族档案中的档案紊乱与山下凯伦泰的《致记忆的信》

3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10950792

Hayley C. Stefan

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Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War 亚非对抗与漫长的朝鲜战争

3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10950766

Kodai Abe

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Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper 反身性的本体论转向:《圆形废墟》和《纸上的人》中从控制论到自创生

3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10950779

T. J. Martinson

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