{"title":"Correction to: Character and Conduct","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139150427","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":"Rebecca B. Clark, American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature","authors":"Liliana M. Naydan","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139271134","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":"Thorns Served on Honey: Lyric Difference in Lola Ridge's “The Ghetto”","authors":"Kristin Grogan","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139274016","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":"Josh Lambert, The Literary Mafia Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature","authors":"David Brauner","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139274232","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}
In The Antinomies of Realism, Fredric Jameson argues that the historical novel of the future will have to be science-fictional. My essay contends that it will have to be climate-fictional. Like Jameson, I focus on the connections between late capital’s reification of the present and the forms of time-consciousness that such reifications foreclose. But, I place Jameson into dialogue with Jonathan Crary and Andreas Malm to show that the foreclosed modes of time are intimately linked to a natural world that contemporary capital purports to have vanquished. This essay discusses two examples of cli-fi historical fiction—Matt Bell’s Appleseed (2021) and Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019)—in this context. Despite important differences, these works are both concerned with thinking the climate crisis historically. Both explore how the natural world persists in our “postnatural” present in the form of an uncanniness that denaturalizes the social. This uncanniness liberates traces of the past and future from a present that declares itself bereft of such ghosts. Each novel develops a fantastical form to grasp this temporal heterogeneity, and each retrieves the kernels of utopian futurity from the material history of our present—even and especially, from the climate-devastated and inexorably destructive tendencies of that present.When the deep time of the natural-historical negates yet preserves the historical time of intensified reprisal . . . then and only then will a new universality of the planetary be born.
{"title":"Towards the Cli-Fi Historical Novel; Or, Climate Futures Past in Recent Fiction","authors":"Greg Forter","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad156","url":null,"abstract":"In The Antinomies of Realism, Fredric Jameson argues that the historical novel of the future will have to be science-fictional. My essay contends that it will have to be climate-fictional. Like Jameson, I focus on the connections between late capital’s reification of the present and the forms of time-consciousness that such reifications foreclose. But, I place Jameson into dialogue with Jonathan Crary and Andreas Malm to show that the foreclosed modes of time are intimately linked to a natural world that contemporary capital purports to have vanquished. This essay discusses two examples of cli-fi historical fiction—Matt Bell’s Appleseed (2021) and Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019)—in this context. Despite important differences, these works are both concerned with thinking the climate crisis historically. Both explore how the natural world persists in our “postnatural” present in the form of an uncanniness that denaturalizes the social. This uncanniness liberates traces of the past and future from a present that declares itself bereft of such ghosts. Each novel develops a fantastical form to grasp this temporal heterogeneity, and each retrieves the kernels of utopian futurity from the material history of our present—even and especially, from the climate-devastated and inexorably destructive tendencies of that present.When the deep time of the natural-historical negates yet preserves the historical time of intensified reprisal . . . then and only then will a new universality of the planetary be born.","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515304","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":"In Service to Kin and Community: Seeking Indigenous Masculinities that Heal","authors":"Steven Sexton","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139272227","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":"Abby L. Goode, Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability","authors":"Michelle C Neely","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139270947","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}
This essay explores the temporal and narrative dimensions of speculative proslavery thought, considering proslavery political economy in particular as a genre that articulates a vision of capitalist modernity unbound by liberal accounts of national futurity. This defense of slavery has its formal correlate in an ambivalent embrace of the speculative novel as a means for imagining slavery’s extension through time and space. Taking as its literary examples Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker’s The Partisan Leader (1836), and Edmund Ruffin’s Anticipations of the Future (1860), the essay argues that proslavery’s imagined futures are characterized by exhaustion, both of narrative and social reproduction. Considering exhaustion as the temporality that characterizes slavery’s modernity leads us to question the idea that the latter is best articulated in terms of the institution’s disavowed centrality to capitalism.Proslavery theorists made slavery central to capital by tying capital to the conditions of its hinterland; imagining the world the slaveholders could make, they got stuck in the one the plantation made.
{"title":"A Plantation Illogic: Narrating Proslavery’s Imagined Futures","authors":"Tomos Hughes","doi":"10.1093/alh/ajad153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad153","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the temporal and narrative dimensions of speculative proslavery thought, considering proslavery political economy in particular as a genre that articulates a vision of capitalist modernity unbound by liberal accounts of national futurity. This defense of slavery has its formal correlate in an ambivalent embrace of the speculative novel as a means for imagining slavery’s extension through time and space. Taking as its literary examples Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker’s The Partisan Leader (1836), and Edmund Ruffin’s Anticipations of the Future (1860), the essay argues that proslavery’s imagined futures are characterized by exhaustion, both of narrative and social reproduction. Considering exhaustion as the temporality that characterizes slavery’s modernity leads us to question the idea that the latter is best articulated in terms of the institution’s disavowed centrality to capitalism.Proslavery theorists made slavery central to capital by tying capital to the conditions of its hinterland; imagining the world the slaveholders could make, they got stuck in the one the plantation made.","PeriodicalId":45821,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515306","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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