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“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions “与美国民主精神一致”:追踪美国武装部队版本的网络

3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10950753

Anna Muenchrath

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Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’s Collection and Brothertown Orientations 赞美诗般的场所营造:Samson Occom的收藏和兄弟城取向

3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10950727

Bradley Dubos

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Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze 被另一种生命所感动：佩约特狂热中的情感变化与历史波折

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679209

Sylvie Boulette

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Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity: Escaping the Woman Within 华盛顿·欧文与男子气概的幻想:逃离内心的女人

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679307

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The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth 种族的甜蜜：论《口中的苦涩》中的通感、成瘾与自恋

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679237

Sunhay You

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Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship 额外的意识，额外的手指：自动写作与残疾作家

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679223

Clare Mullaney

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Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics 越南散居美学中的触灰

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679251

D. Pham

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Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth 黑人女权主义者的地理触觉和破碎的地球

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679265

Sho Tanaka

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Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects” 感官的再分配:“有/无主体的感官”简介

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679195

Erica Fretwell, Hsuan L. Hsu

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In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic UnseenWhat Was Literary Impressionism? 在视线之内与视野之外:现代主义写作与摄影的不可见——什么是文学印象派?

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679279

D. Tomkins

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