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

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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

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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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“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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