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The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead 财产之梦:威廉·t·沃尔曼的《垂死的草》和莱斯利·马蒙·西尔科的《死者年鉴》中的法律与环境
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10341748
Ted Hamilton
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The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession 驱逐的场景:大萧条时期剥夺叙事的物化与反抗
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084526
Cody C. St. Clair
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Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era 边缘的黑暗：萧条时期的修正黑人激进主义
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084582
J. Allred
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How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table 文学如何理解贫困：餐桌家谱
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084596
K. Welch
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On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction 透视与价值:黑人城市主义、黑人室内设计与公共住房小说
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084540
Crystal S. Rudds
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Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing 空袖故事：残疾、乞讨与内战生活写作
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084484
Jean Franzino
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Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene 移民、流浪者与人类世的形成
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084554
Jason Molesky
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Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty 导论:美国文学如何理解贫困
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084470
C. Callahan, Joseph Entin, I. Hunt, Kinohi Nishikawa
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The Whiteness of the White 白色的洁白
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084568
J. Marsh
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Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 19世纪中期的贫困图景
IF 0.5 3区 文学
AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10084498
Lori Merish
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