American Literature

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)
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 Formation9
The Chronopolitics of COVID-197
Introduction: The Infrastructure of Emergency6
How Do We See COVID-19? Visual Iconographies of Racial Contagion4
Dread4
Plague Time (Again)3
Introduction: American Game Studies3
Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthropocene3
Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer Science Papers2
“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois2
“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace2
Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation2
COVID-19: Pandemic Reading2
Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects”1
Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels1
The Stock Ticker in the Garden: Frank Norris, American Literary Naturalism, and Capitalocene Aesthetics1
What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?1
The Hard-Boiled Anthropocene and the Infrastructure of Extractivism1
The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision1
Breaking Up (with) AI Ethics1
Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine?1
The Subsident Gulf: Refiguring Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage1
War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century1
Unliterary History: Toni Morrison, The Black Book, and “Real Black Publishing”1
The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead1
The Rise of the Conspicuously Young Novelist1
The Biology of Intimacy: Lamarckian Evolution and the Sentimental Novel1
Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’sMan Who Lived Underground1
Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging inPapers, Please1
Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass’s Literary Landscape and the Racial Construction of Nature1
Public Humanities in the Reconstructed University1
Brief Mention0
Announcements0
An Overstory for Our Time0
Transatlantic Abridgment and the Unstable Economics ofRobinson Crusoe0
Democratic Aesthetics: Scenes of Political Violence and Anxiety in Nari Ward and Ocean Vuong0
All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence0
Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler0
Brief Mention0
“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital0
Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century AmericaRespawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life0
Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness0
Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba’s Affirmative Movements in History0
Agonistic Audiences: Comic Play in the Early National Theater0
“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions0
John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture0
Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation0
Artificial Intelligence in Video Games0
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
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing LiteratureLiterary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism0
Announcement0
A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender0
Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty0
Military Technologies and Human Labor0
Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of ExchangeStrange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives0
Announcement0
Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship0
Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene0
An Ethics Debate for the Ages: American Individualism and the Dilemma of the Healthy Carrier0
Announcement0
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
Who Counts? Old Age in COVID Times0
Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult LiteratureA New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich0
White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to StockettBlack Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery0
The Civil War Dead and American ModernityBattle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil WarI Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War LettersThe Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black 0
Utopias of OneLiterary Primitivism0
Announcements0
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
Data/Dispossession0
Word of Mouth: Gossip and American PoetrySomebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative0
Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist EthicsLegally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage0
Writing and Democracy in the Early United States0
The Origin of OthersGoodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison0
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
Giving Postblackness the Silent Treatment0
Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a LiteratureMestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity0
With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass,L’Union, and Editorship Studies0
How Quarantine Attempts to Universalize the Black Condition0
Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual RealmModernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureGears and God: Tech0
The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War0
The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession0
Announcements0
The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher0
The Game Theory of Sex0
The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America0
Genres of Valuation: Marginalist Economics and American Literary Realism0
Announcement0
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies0
Brief Mention0
The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho0
National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times0
Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”0
“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”:Dictée’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics0
Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o NovelHispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National IdentityWhere the New World 0
Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper0
What the Afterlife ofSCUMCan Teach Us about Autotheory0
Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze0
The Many Ecologies of AI0
Authentic-Deconstructionist Games and Tragic Historiography in Assassin’s Creed III0
The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature0
Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism0
Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”: The Translational Politics of the American Yiddish Theater and Its Afterlife0
The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari0
“Ain’t Any Chance to Rise in the Paper Business”: Poverty, Race, and Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Novels0
Artificial Bloom0
The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship0
Health Care Fictions: The Business of Medicine and Modern US Literature0
Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American RacismLovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White MessiahsRacial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction0
The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street0
Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory0
The Whiteness of the White0
Muriel Rukeyser “among Wars”: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave0
Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New OrleansProvocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States0
Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era0
Enumerations: Data and Literary StudyPasswords: Philology, Security, AuthenticationThe Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture0
Giving Up0
Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery FictionKeep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women0
“Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature0
Brief Mention0
Computing Race0
Incommensurate Labors: The Work behind the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman0
On (Not)Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi0
Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?0
The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth0
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
Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital0
“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling0
The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic WorldFrom the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity0
Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife0
Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War0
Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle0
How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table0
Cultural Gradients and the Sociotechnics of Data0
Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness0
In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic UnseenWhat Was Literary Impressionism?0
Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred0
Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century0
As She Lay Dying: Locating the Gothic in Kaui Hart Hemmings’s The Descendants0
Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics0
Announcement0
Brief Mention0
Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire0
Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence0
Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820–1860Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism0
Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the UndergroundFugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison StateMobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment0
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry0
Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History0
Can the Computer Speak?0
Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene0
Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing0
Manufacturing Belief: Religion, Slavery, and Benito Cereno0
Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler0
Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates0
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart0
Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth0
Richard Wright and the Black Metropolis: From the Great Migration to the Urban Planning Novel0
Ann Petry and the Existential Phenomenology of Race0
“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope inRed Dead Redemption 20
Postmodernism in Pieces: Materializing the Social in U.S. FictionLyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel0
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On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction0
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
Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular CultureTwenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature0
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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s WarLiterary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Natio0
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Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit0
Can You Tell by Looking? A Postvisible Definition of Asian American Literature0
Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian PolicyArchives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States0
Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century0
“Never Allowed for Property”: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law0
Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance0
Thinking with Robots0
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
The Unacknowledged War: Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism0
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Pain after 2020, An Introduction0
Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’s Collection and Brothertown Orientations0
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