American Literature

Papers
(The median citation count of American Literature is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels22
Unsentimental Historicizing: The Neo-Slave Narrative Tradition and the Refusal of Feeling14
Critical AI: A Field in Formation10
Introduction: The Infrastructure of Emergency6
Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthropocene3
“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois3
Introduction: American Game Studies3
Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer Science Papers2
“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace2
Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation2
The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision1
Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects”1
Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine?1
Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels1
“Never Allowed for Property”: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law1
War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century1
Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History1
The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship1
Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit1
The Rise of the Conspicuously Young Novelist1
“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope inRed Dead Redemption 21
Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’sMan Who Lived Underground1
The Subsident Gulf: Refiguring Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage1
Incommensurate Labors: The Work behind the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman1
The Hard-Boiled Anthropocene and the Infrastructure of Extractivism1
Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass’s Literary Landscape and the Racial Construction of Nature1
The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead1
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry1
Breaking Up (with) AI Ethics1
Artificial Intelligence in Video Games1
Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging inPapers, Please1
What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?1
Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?1
Unliterary History: Toni Morrison, The Black Book, and “Real Black Publishing”1
“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”:Dictée’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics0
Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred0
Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation0
Announcements0
Can the Computer Speak?0
Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing0
White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to StockettBlack Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery0
Genres of Valuation: Marginalist Economics and American Literary Realism0
Brief Mention0
Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a LiteratureMestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity0
Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction0
Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates0
“Ain’t Any Chance to Rise in the Paper Business”: Poverty, Race, and Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Novels0
National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times0
Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme IdentityOur War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary TransnationalismStoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 10
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American EssayEmpire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial CultureReaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victoria0
The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street0
Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary FormOn Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America0
Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife0
Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era0
Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’sCollectionand Brothertown Orientations0
The Suspended States of Latinx Literature0
Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance0
Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene0
The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction0
Cultural Gradients and the Sociotechnics of Data0
Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’sLetters to Memory0
Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics0
Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist PoeticsForms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization0
New Citizenship Studies: An Introduction0
Market Nation: Forging Economic Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century African America0
Announcement0
Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence0
Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century0
Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler0
All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence0
Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of ExchangeStrange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives0
The Unacknowledged War: Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism0
Pain after 2020, An Introduction0
The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari0
Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism0
Manufacturing Belief: Religion, Slavery, and Benito Cereno0
Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820–1860Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism0
“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital0
The Whiteness of the White0
How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table0
Announcement0
Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty0
Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”0
Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century AmericaRespawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life0
“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions0
Military Technologies and Human Labor0
Announcement0
Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth0
What the Afterlife ofSCUMCan Teach Us about Autotheory0
Muriel Rukeyser “among Wars”: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave0
Brief Mention0
Announcements0
Brief Mention0
Announcements0
Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist EthicsLegally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage0
Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle0
Black Madness :: Mad BlacknessDisabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present0
Giving Postblackness the Silent Treatment0
Brief Mention0
Transatlantic Abridgment and the Unstable Economics ofRobinson Crusoe0
Announcement0
Data/Dispossession0
Becoming “Fellow-Servants”: Slavery, Theft, and Improper Fellowship in the Nineteenth-Century South0
Authentic-Deconstructionist Games and Tragic Historiography in Assassin’s Creed III0
“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman0
The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War0
In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic UnseenWhat Was Literary Impressionism?0
Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze0
The Origin of OthersGoodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison0
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies0
Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship0
Ann Petry and the Existential Phenomenology of Race0
Brief Mention0
Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba’s Affirmative Movements in History0
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart0
Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler0
Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century0
The Many Ecologies of AI0
Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging0
On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction0
Democratic Aesthetics: Scenes of Political Violence and Anxiety in Nari Ward and Ocean Vuong0
The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho0
Thinking with Robots0
Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire0
Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”: The Translational Politics of the American Yiddish Theater and Its Afterlife0
Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper0
Artificial Bloom0
Health Care Fictions: The Business of Medicine and Modern US Literature0
Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier WestFictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950Failed Frontiersmen: White Men a0
John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture0
Woody Guthrie’s Modern World BluesBeyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues TraditionConjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army”The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Vo0
Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual RealmModernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureGears and God: Tech0
Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult LiteratureA New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich0
Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern AmericansBuilding Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City PlanningThe Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradi0
More than “A Matter of Deciding To”: Citizenship, Border Positionality, and Irresolution in Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman0
On (Not)Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi0
“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian EntanglementsGiving Form to an Asian and Latinx America0
The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher0
When Citizenship and National Belonging Diverge0
Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War0
The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession0
With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass,L’Union, and Editorship Studies0
As She Lay Dying: Locating the Gothic in Kaui Hart Hemmings’s The Descendants0
Computing Race0
Afterword: A “Citizen of the Ocean” in an Empire of Small Islands0
The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America0
Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness0
The Game Theory of Sex0
Brief Mention0
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing LiteratureLiterary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism0
The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth0
Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital0
A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender0
Announcement0
The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature0
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