{"title":"Playing Games in Nineteenth Century Britain and America, eds. Ann R. Hawkins, Erin N. Bistline, Catherine S. Blackwell, and Maura Ives","authors":"Matthew Kaiser","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"14 1-2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139274285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When literary scholars enter the terra incognita of cheap fiction, they risk mistaking established customs of the land for baleful signs of the times. Commercial fiction has a history of its own whose internal logic would be worth understanding more clearly, and not only in opposition to literary fiction, in order to avoid reifying either.
{"title":"Genre Fiction without Shame","authors":"Andrew Goldstone","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad152","url":null,"abstract":"When literary scholars enter the terra incognita of cheap fiction, they risk mistaking established customs of the land for baleful signs of the times. Commercial fiction has a history of its own whose internal logic would be worth understanding more clearly, and not only in opposition to literary fiction, in order to avoid reifying either.","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rather than reading these works as polemics invested in an either/or choice on the matter of expansive or narrow definitions of writing, I suggest that each contribution be understood as an act of scholarly generosity that proffers decolonial ways of interpreting the communicative media of the Indigenous Americas.
{"title":"Writing the Indigenous Americas","authors":"Mark Alan Mattes","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad151","url":null,"abstract":"Rather than reading these works as polemics invested in an either/or choice on the matter of expansive or narrow definitions of writing, I suggest that each contribution be understood as an act of scholarly generosity that proffers decolonial ways of interpreting the communicative media of the Indigenous Americas.","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"46 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maria O’Malley, Imaginary Empires: Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature","authors":"K. Tillman","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139274007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David F. Eisler, Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present","authors":"Stacey Peebles","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"44 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139275442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Music, with its strong role in the politics of memory, has socialized the linguistically speculative, giving science fiction a groove that bends prose for queer, Black, and indie-minded futurity.
{"title":"Washed Ashore at High Tide: Music in Contemporary Science Fiction","authors":"Eric Weisbard","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad154","url":null,"abstract":"Music, with its strong role in the politics of memory, has socialized the linguistically speculative, giving science fiction a groove that bends prose for queer, Black, and indie-minded futurity.","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Robinsons’ lawsuit raised the question of just who embodied servitude in the post-Reconstruction US: the formerly enslaved, African-descended passenger or the normatively white railroad conductor? Focusing on the classical, medieval, and early modern periods, recent books by Julie Stone Peters, Noémie Ndiaye, and Urvashi Chakravarty offer Americanists fresh perspectives on the intersecting discourses of law, race, and slavery. This essay reads an unpublished 1879 civil rights case as an instance of “law as performance” (Peters) that contests – and revises – “scripts of blackness” (Ndiaye) in the context of Americans' post-Civil War effort to distinguish among “slavery, servitude, and free service” (Chakravarty). The sole female-initiated case to be [adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark _Civil Rights Cases_ (1883) began when formerly enslaved homemaker Sallie J. Robinson and her husband, Richard, sued the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company for discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The railroad racialized and sexualized Robinson in a successful effort to direct scrutiny away from its conductor's unconstitutional conduct and toward the “improper character” he ascribed to his African-descended, first-class passenger. The defendant's biopolitical tactics contrast sharply with the Robinsons' formalist approach to legal personhood. The Robinsons' lawsuit demonstrated that the new constitutional order depended on white men like the conductor performing their duties – including the fundamental democratic duty to respect the rights of their fellow Americans.
{"title":"Character and Conduct","authors":"Jeannine Marie DeLombard","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad155","url":null,"abstract":"The Robinsons’ lawsuit raised the question of just who embodied servitude in the post-Reconstruction US: the formerly enslaved, African-descended passenger or the normatively white railroad conductor? Focusing on the classical, medieval, and early modern periods, recent books by Julie Stone Peters, Noémie Ndiaye, and Urvashi Chakravarty offer Americanists fresh perspectives on the intersecting discourses of law, race, and slavery. This essay reads an unpublished 1879 civil rights case as an instance of “law as performance” (Peters) that contests – and revises – “scripts of blackness” (Ndiaye) in the context of Americans' post-Civil War effort to distinguish among “slavery, servitude, and free service” (Chakravarty). The sole female-initiated case to be [adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark _Civil Rights Cases_ (1883) began when formerly enslaved homemaker Sallie J. Robinson and her husband, Richard, sued the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company for discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The railroad racialized and sexualized Robinson in a successful effort to direct scrutiny away from its conductor's unconstitutional conduct and toward the “improper character” he ascribed to his African-descended, first-class passenger. The defendant's biopolitical tactics contrast sharply with the Robinsons' formalist approach to legal personhood. The Robinsons' lawsuit demonstrated that the new constitutional order depended on white men like the conductor performing their duties – including the fundamental democratic duty to respect the rights of their fellow Americans.","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"30 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cristina Rodriguez, Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty First Century Transnational Latinx Literature","authors":"Christopher González","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139271315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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