Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679307
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679237
Sunhay You
“The Sweetness of Race” examines the sensorial effects of lexical-gustatory synesthesia in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth (2010). In this documentation of how words taste, whiteness becomes associated with the taste of sugar and its addictive properties. Throughout the novel, whiteness becomes legible as an object of addiction that defends against the failed ideals of self-possessed human personhood—a cornerstone to white supremacy. The novel then reveals opportunities to reorganize the senses and ideas of personhood as a means to disrupt particularly harmful appetites for racial intimacies.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679223
Clare Mullaney
Nineteenth-century Spiritualism championed women with chronic illnesses as the ideal conduits for mediumship due to their assumed sensitivity. Positioning the movement’s many historical iterations of automatic writing as central to disability history, this article turns to two twentieth-century practitioners of automatic writing, Gertrude Stein and Lucille Clifton, whose centering of extrasensory perceptions in the compositional scene upend the privileging of the rational male subject who dominates accounts of authorship in literary studies. By modeling collaborative forms of writing that exceed consciousness, Stein and Clifton make way for embracing disabled authorship in our past and present.
{"title":"Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship","authors":"Clare Mullaney","doi":"10.1215/00029831-10679223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10679223","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Nineteenth-century Spiritualism championed women with chronic illnesses as the ideal conduits for mediumship due to their assumed sensitivity. Positioning the movement’s many historical iterations of automatic writing as central to disability history, this article turns to two twentieth-century practitioners of automatic writing, Gertrude Stein and Lucille Clifton, whose centering of extrasensory perceptions in the compositional scene upend the privileging of the rational male subject who dominates accounts of authorship in literary studies. By modeling collaborative forms of writing that exceed consciousness, Stein and Clifton make way for embracing disabled authorship in our past and present.","PeriodicalId":45756,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42905615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679251
D. Pham
Water has held a privileged place in theorizations of Vietnamese refugee being. Drawing from Ocean Vuong’s chapbook Burnings (2010) and novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) along with Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s film The Boat People (2020), this article traces an alternative genealogy of Vietnamese diasporic aesthetics based on the element of fire. Theorizing fire as another critical site of refugee passages, these works evince a pyric refugee onto-epistemology, one that conceives of fire and ash as explicit matter-metaphors of living and beauty that refuse the sensory diminution of racialized subjects as a result of US imperial and militaristic violence. Fire carries with it a destructive valence, and ash is taken as evidence of ruin and disaster. However, the explorations of fire and ash in both artists’ work not only attest to the various onto-epistemological unravelings signified by fire and ash but also conceive of the possibilities and openings for a refugee poiesis that emerges in the aftermath of destruction. Both Vuong and Nguyen stage haptic encounters with ash that wrestle with questions of sensation and subjectivity in the narration of personal and collective trauma. Paradoxically, these texts espouse the notion that any possibility of refugee futurity happens through contact with the subjunctive power of that which is insensible, ash.
水在越南难民存在的理论中占有特殊地位。本文借鉴了Ocean Vuong的小说《燃烧》(2010)和小说《地球上我们短暂地美丽》(2019)，以及Tuan Andrew Nguyen的电影《船民》(2020)，以火元素为基础，追溯了越南流散美学的另一种谱系。将火作为难民通道的另一个重要地点理论化，这些作品证明了一种pyric难民的认识论，一种将火和灰烬视为生活和美的明确物质隐喻，拒绝因美帝国主义和军国主义暴力而导致的种族化主体的感官减少。火带有毁灭的意味，灰烬则被视为毁灭和灾难的证据。然而，两位艺术家作品中对火和灰的探索不仅证明了火和灰所代表的各种本体-认识论的解开，而且还构想了在毁灭之后出现的难民政治的可能性和开放。Vuong和Nguyen在叙述个人和集体创伤的过程中，都与灰烬进行了触觉接触，并与感觉和主观性问题进行了斗争。矛盾的是，这些文本支持这样一种观念，即任何难民未来的可能性都是通过与无意识的灰烬的虚拟力量接触而发生的。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679195
Erica Fretwell, Hsuan L. Hsu
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679265
Sho Tanaka
This article examines how literary imaginaries of the haptic in Black speculative fiction attend to the racial politics of the Anthropocene and the centrality of sensory praxis to ecological thought. Reading Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s M Archive and N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, the article considers how ecological touch—or what Erin Robinsong calls geohaptics—emerges as a central literary trope that imagines new forms of sensory wayfinding and worldmaking that unearth and contest the Anthropocene’s racial ecologies of power. Expanding the concept’s uses and forms, what the article terms Gumbs’s and Jemisin’s Black feminist geohaptics crafts new political forms of sensory dwelling and planetary futures of environmental liberation for Black life. Sense, these works show, makes legible and transforms the Anthropocene’s geographies of power, unearthing how the categories of the human, inhuman, and more than human are generated and mobilized within the matrix of domination. Their works articulate the production of Black women’s geographies within and against the racial, patriarchal, and colonial Anthropocene, orienting sense and touch as central political figurations for anticolonial and abolitionist ecological thought.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679279
D. Tomkins
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10679293
Eric J. Lott
{"title":"The Origin of OthersGoodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison","authors":"Eric J. Lott","doi":"10.1215/00029831-10679293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10679293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45756,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46312962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1215/00029831-10575063
N. K. Hayles
The human aura is now being subverted by a variety of simulacra. OpenAI’s language-generation program GPT-3 illustrates the challenges of interpreting algorithmic-generated texts. This article advocates interpretive strategies that recognize the profound differences (in the case of GPT-3) of language that issues from a program that has a model only of language, not of the world. Conscious robots, when and if they emerge, will have profoundly different embodiments than humans. Fictions that imagine conscious robots thus face a similar challenge presented by the GPT-3 texts: will they gloss over the differences, or will they enact strategies that articulate the differences and explore their implications for humans immersed in algorithmic cultures? The author analyzes three contemporary novels that engage with this challenge: Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous, Kuzuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, and Ian McEwan’s Machines like Me. Each interrogates how the human aura is subverted by conscious robots. The article concludes by proposing how a reconfigured human aura should be constituted.
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