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Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba’s Affirmative Movements in History Lorraine Hansberry和Miriam Makeba的平权运动

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10345421

Soyica Diggs Colbert

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Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife 被毁坏的文献与奴隶制法律余生文学中的种族脆弱性

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10345337

V. Sirenko

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Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground 《住在地下的人》中的重复与价值

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10345407

Douglas A. Jones

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On (Not) Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi 《等待戈多:密西西比的荒诞与行动

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10345449

Paige Mcginley

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Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance 存在主义：黑人、文学、表演

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10345393

Soyica Digg Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. Paige McGinley, Shane Vogel

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What the Afterlife of SCUM Can Teach Us about Autotheory 人渣死后的自我理论教给我们什么

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10341734

Anna Ioanes

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The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher 多样性要求；或者，亚裔美国学生教师的模糊偶然性

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10341762

Douglas S. Ishii

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Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism 启示录的隆隆声:凯瑟琳·e·比彻的国内经济与环境保护主义

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10341706

Alan L. Ackerman

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Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler 命令式阅读:《兄弟城》和《福勒姐妹》

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10341691

A. Schwartz

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Unliterary History: Toni Morrison, The Black Book, and “Real Black Publishing” 无文化历史：托尼·莫里森、《黑皮书》和“真正的黑人出版”

IF 0.5 3区文学

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10341720

E. Brier

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