OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of American Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rabbi Balfour Brickner, Interreligious Dialogue, and the Ironies of Liberal Zionism in America, 1967‒1980	3
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“THE ONE WHO DID NOT DIE”: CAROL J. CLOVER’S MEN, WOMEN, AND CHAIN SAWS AND THE LEGACY OF THE FINAL GIRL	1
Sophie White, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Longing, and Labor in French Louisiana (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019, $32.50 hardback, $29.95 paperback). Pp. 325.	1
Ventriloquizing the South: Reading Melville across the Civil War	1
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Pukey Jocks: BBS Productions’ Drive, He Said (1971) and the Cultural Revolution in Sports	1
Aquinas in Brooklyn: Frank Samperi’s “Objectivist Poetics”	1
Scopes, Specula, the Speculative: Histories of Medical Experimentation and Looking in African American Art and Fiction	1
Sweep the Nation by Song: The Townsend Plan, Old-Age Pensions, and Popular Music	1
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Duck Fights: Walt Disney versus Dudu Geva and the Politics of Americanization in Late Twentieth-Century Israel	1
Black Power, French Existentialism, and the Expansion of Cultural Democracy in the United States after 1945	1
NOW I CAN WRITE: THE TENACITY AND ENDURANCE OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S THE SOUND AND THE FURY	1
MORE THAN A “TRUE MEMOIR”: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’S COLLECTED STORIES	0
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WHY THE GREAT GATSBY IS THE “GREAT IRISH DIASPORA NOVEL” AND WHY THAT MATTERS IN RACIALLY DIVERSE AMERICA	0
Kate Marshall, Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, $26.00). Pp. 232. isbn 978 0 2	0
The Oppens: Disability, Disease, and the Authorship of Late Work	0
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David Johnson Lee, The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2021, $54.95/£45.18). Pp. 188. isbn 978 1	0
Californians and Others: Children's Health, Nutrition, and Welfare in Depression-Era Migrant Camps	0

Doom Town, Nevada Test Site, and the Popular Imagination of Atomic Disaster	0
Ralph Rodríguez, Latinx Literature Unbound: Undoing Ethnic Expectation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018, $32.99). Pp. 200. isbn 978 0 8232 7924 1. - José Esteban Muñoz, The Sense o	0
Wages, Work, and the Industrial Past in Three Contemporary Labor Market Narratives – ERRATUM	0
Christopher Lloyd and Hilary Emmett (eds.), The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies (New York: Routledge, 2023, £104.00). Pp. 238. isbn 978 0 367	0
Sub-Urban or Post-Rural: Suburban Development as a Two-Way Street in the Mid-Twentieth Century	0
FAILURE AS CONSTRUCTION: ELIZABETH MCHENRY’S TO MAKE NEGRO LITERATURE	0
Chris Molanphy, Old Town Road: A Song by Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus (London: Duke University Press, 2023, £15.99). Pp. 140. isbn 978 1 4780 2551 1.	0
Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s	0
Hannah L. Huber, Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023, $26.00). Pp. vii + 185. isbn	0
The Talk	0
Martin Dines, The Literature of Suburban Change (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, £85.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4744 2648 0.	0
Blackface Shakespeare: Thomas D. Rice and the Return of Jim Crow as Otello	0
Laurence Jackson Hyman (ed.) in consultation with Bernice M. Murphy, The Letters of Shirley Jackson (New York: Random House, 2021, $35.00). Pp. 672. isbn 05139 34641.	0
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Cartographic Transcendence: Mapping the Process of Mourning in Great War Tourism Guidebooks	0
APG ROUNDTABLE: SCHOLARLY PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN RIGHT	0
From Austerity to Disentitlement: The Transformation of Food Stamps in the US, 1969–1984	0
Fitness as Political Practice in Modern History	0
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Better Intoned Than Read: Sound and Matter in God's Trombones	0
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’	0
Trent Masiki, Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023, $32.95). Pp. 237. isbn	0
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Benjamin Holtzman, The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, £22.99). Pp. 336. isbn 978 0 1908 4370 0. - Andrew J. Diamond and T	0
Rainbow Serpents and Boiling Springs: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Fight for Groundwater in the United States and Australia	0
“How Many Black Hippies Do You See?” The Counterculture in Black and White	0
David Bordwell, Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, $32.00). Pp. 491. isbn 978 0 2312 0659 4.	0
Greg Barnhisel, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, $55.00/£44.00). Pp 336. isbn 978 0 2311 6230 2. - Bryn Upto	0
Ellen Craft's “Spanish” Masquerade: Racially (Mis)Reading Hispanicism in Her Cross-Dressing, Feigning Disability, and Running to Sea	0
Chair's Address, BAAS 2022	0
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FAULKNER’S FRANCE, FRANCE’S FAULKNER: ANDRÉ BLEIKASTEN’S THE INK OF MELANCHOLY AND EUROPEAN FAULKNER SCHOLARSHIP	0
Reading America, Reading Rodriguez: Exploring American Literature at an English Prison Book Group	0
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BECOMING MY OWN AUTHORITY	0
Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (London: University of London Press, 2022, £12.00). Pp. 250. isbn 978 1 9127 0293 0.	0
Kevin Fellezs, Listen but Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the Transpacific (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, $28.95). Pp. 336. isbn 978 1 4780 0671 8. - Stephan	0
Gossip on Main Street: Visualizing Oral Exchange in Mid-Twentieth-Century Small-Town Photography and Art	0
The Trouble with Sumner Welles: Sexuality, Race, and the Limits of Mythmaking in Queer History	0
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The Latin American Bullring: US Evangelicals and the Reception of Anti-Protestant Violence from Cold War Colombia	0
Generative AI and the Nationalization of US Politics	0
Robert F. Zeidel, Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization (Ithaca, NY and London: Northern Illinois University Press, 2020, $49.95). P	0
RICHARD CORLISS, TALKING PICTURES: SCREENWRITERS IN THE AMERICAN CINEMA	0
The Ethno-economy: Peter Brimelow and the Capitalism of the Far Right	0
Roberto Clemente on the Black/Brown Color Line	0
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Mary M. Burke, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, £27.49). Pp. 272. isbn 978 0 1928 5973 0	0
The White Fraud: White Elephants, Siam, and Comparative Racialization	0

Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder, A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, £19.00). Pp. 308. isbn 978 1 3169 4133	0
Matthew Dennis, American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023, $32.95). Pp. 436. isbn 978 1 6253 4711 4.	0
Stuart Burrows, Henry James and the Promise of Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, £85.00). Pp. 217. isbn 978 1 0094 1968 0.	0
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“To Use This Word … Would Be Absurd”: How the Brainwashing Label Threatened and Enabled the Troubled-Teen Industry	0
Women’s Work in the Dystopian West: “The Colonies” in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale	0
ON ASKING QUESTIONS OF OUR OWN: THE LEGACY OF AMY KAPLAN	0
Gothing the Blues: The Afrogothic, the Afrosurreal and Transcending the Blue Devils in the work of Jean Toomer and Bob Kaufman	0
Concealed Commemoration: American Immigrant Memorials to World War I	0
Nicole Erin Morse, Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2022, $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper, $25.95ebook). Pp. 200	0
John Ernest (ed.), Race in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, $39.99). Pp. 452. isbn 978 1 1084 8739 9.	0
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession (Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2022, $29.00 cloth, $28.99 ebook). Pp. 443. isbn	0
Irena Księżopolska and Mikołaj Wiśniewski (eds.), Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory (Warsaw: Fundacja Augusta hr. Cieszkowskiego, 2019, £22.99). Pp. 350. isbn 978 8 3657 8712 5.	0
Edward Sugden (ed.), Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Junctures of Time, Space, Self, and Politics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, $110.00). Pp. 272. isbn	0
Julia Havas, Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2022, $34.99). Pp. 282. ISBN 978 0 8143 4656 3.	0
Writing the History of Pandemics in the Age of COVID-19	0
On Activist Mothers and Gentrifying Lovers: From the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement to the Model-Minority Myth in the Caribbean Romance Novel	0
Manan Desai, The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020, $34.33/£30.00). Pp. 264. isbn 978 1 4399 1890 6.	0
Gold Standard	0
“A False Picture of Negro Progress”: John Hope Franklin, Racial Liberalism, and the Political (Mis)uses of Black History during the 1963 Emancipation Centennial	0
DISCOVERING THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM BY NELSON ALGREN	0
Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien, eds., Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021, $28.00). Pp. 322. isbn 97	0
Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, $25.95). Pp. 288. isbn 978 0 3938 6767 1.	0
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Coloring outside the Lines: Antiracist Aesthetics in the Detective Novels of Chester Himes	0
The Anarchy of Children's Archives: Citizenship and Empire in the Global 1930s	0
Eric Weisbard, Hound Dog (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, £16.00). Pp. 144. isbn 978 1 4780 2508 5.	0
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Suzanne Bost, Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir & Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, $25.00). Pp. 147. isbn 978 0 252 08462 1. - Laura E. Pérez, Er	0
Second Coming: Donald Trump’s Reelection and Its Consequences	0
“Probably the Most Perfect Symbol of Our Democracy”: The Army, Sports, and the Re-education of German Youth during the Early American Occupation of Germany, 1945–1946	0
Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships	0
Food, Health and Welfare in the Long Twentieth Century: Introduction	0
The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895–1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an “International Mind”	0
Kristin Waters, Maria Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021, $35.00 paperback, $110.00 hardback). Pp. 338. isbn 978 1 4968 3675 5,	0
Donald Trump and the Turn to Right-Wing Populism in the Republican Party, 1990–2024	0
Erasing Minds: Behavioral Modification, the Prison Rights Movement, and Psychological Experimentation in America's Prisons, 1962–1983	0
From State Warfare to State Welfare: Family Values in Leonard Freed'sPolice Work(1980)	0
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Lauren S. Cardon, Fashioning Character: Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2021, $49.50). Pp. 302. isb	0
The “Open Sore of America”: Race and the American Congo Reform Movement, 1885–1908	0
ESSENTIAL ESSAYS, VOLUME I BY STUART HALL	0
Jessica R. Feldman, Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others (Charlottesville and London: Virginia University Press, 2021, $39.95). Pp. 322. isbn 978 0 8139 4511 8.	0
Carly Thomsen, Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021, $25.00), Pp. 264. isbn 978 1 5179 1064 8. - Anna Lv	0
Rhizomatic Organizing, Collective Leadership, and Community-Centered Pedagogy in the Early Asian American Movement	0
The Showmen's Culture: Life, Labor, and Negotiated Loyalty among Traveling Entertainment Workers in the Gilded Age	0
Michella M. Marino, Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021, $35.00). Pp. 296. isbn 978 1 4773 2382 3.	0
Hanging by a Thread: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Complexities of Memorializing and Mourning Lynching in America	0
Editors’ Introduction	0
Editorial	0
The President Has Been Shot: Political Assassinations in Popular Culture	0
STUDS TERKEL'S HARD TIMES: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION	0
Orientalism, Liberal Empire, and the 2003 Iraq War	0
THE APOTHEOSIS OF ABSALOM, ABSALOM!	0
INTRODUCING THE JAS BOOKSHELF	0
Are Racial and Ethnic Minority Voters Abandoning the Democrats?	0
Ira Nadel, Philip Roth: A Counterlife (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, £22.99). Pp. 568. isbn 978 0 1998 4610 8.	0
Kathryn Schumaker, Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s (New York: New York University Press, 2020, $45.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4798 7513 9.	0
Esther Wright, Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, $21.99 paper, $102.00 hardback, $102.00	0
Emilie Boone, A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, $104.95 hardcover; $27.95 paper). Pp. ix + 288. Hardcover isbn	0
Lisa Vox, Existential Threats: American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, Hardcover and eBook: $64.95). Pp. ix + 288. Hardcover	0
“Racial Discrimination Can in No Way Be Justified”: The Vatican and Desegregation in the South, 1946–1968	0
Alexander Laban Hinton, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (New York: New York University Press, 2021, $19.95). Pp. 233. isbn 978 1 4798 0803 8.	0
Maryanne A. Rhett, Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922 (London: Bloomsbury, 2020, $135.00 cloth, $40.95 paper). Pp. 137. isbn 978 1 3500 7324 1, 978 1 3501 9627 8.	0
Dawn Durante and Nancy A. Hewitt, 100 Years of Women's Suffrage: A University of Illinois Press Anthology (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, $26.00 paper, $14.95 ebook). Pp. 257. isbn	0
Poverty, by America Roundtable	0
Wages, Work, and the Industrial Past in Three Contemporary Labor Market Narratives	0
JUST IN TIME: PERCIVAL EVERETT’S ERASURE	0
BLACK REPARATIONS ROUNDTABLE	0
Constructions of Racial Savagery in Early Twentieth-Century US Narratives of White Civilization	0
Toward a Strategy for More Spatial Control: The Politics of MLK Street (Re)naming	0
Sepoys, Slavery and the Global Colour Line: The Indian Uprising of 1857 in Southern US Newspapers	0
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Exchange: A Signature Pedagogy for American Studies in the UK	0
Picturing Bad Refugees: Haiti, Vietnam, and the Racial Politics of Refugee Photography	0
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William L. Andrews, Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, $42.95). Pp. 389. isbn 978 0 1909	0
Constructing Age in Black and White: Race and Middle Age in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gertrude Elise McDougald Ayer	0

Modernists and Muslims: E. J. Pace and His Islam-Inspired Cartoons	0
Cross-dressing as Familial Care: Revising Gender in “Theresa” and “Lucy Nelson”	0
“The Best Place to Help the Panthers Is at Home”: Dutch Black Panther Solidarity in Pursuit of a Revolution	0
Eat Your Way to Health: A History of Ability in the Progressive Era	0
Kenneth Dauber, The Logic of Sentiment: Stowe, Hawthorne, and Melville (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019, $23.06). Pp. 164. isbn 978 1 5013 5736 7. - Xine Yao, Disaffected: The Cultural Politics	0
A Sinking Ship: William Raborn, Lyndon Johnson, and the CIA	0
Diletta de Cristofaro, The Contemporary Post-apocalyptic Novel: Critical Temporalities and the End Times (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, £29.99 paper, £100.00 cloth). Pp. 195. isbn 978	0
KEISHA N. BLAIN'S UNTIL I AM FREE: FANNIE LOU HAMER'S ENDURING MESSAGE TO AMERICA	0
BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA: REFLECTION	0
Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund (eds.), Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022, $29.95). Pp. 372. isbn	0
Brooke Blower, Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, £26.99/$34.95). Pp. 529. isbn 978 0 1	0
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“A Position Which my Gayness Itself Leads Me to Take”: Sexual-Minority Antiabortion Activists	0
Angela Esco Elder, Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022, $95.00 cloth, $27.95 paper, $21.99 ebook). Pp. 224.	0
Sarah J. Purcell, Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022, $95.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, $26.99 ebook). Pp. 352. i	0
Defying the Demos: Antidemocratic Thought in the United States, 1930–1950	0
The Political Uses of Food Protests: Analyzing the 1910 Meat Boycott	0
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“An Itchin ’Roun the Heart You Can't Get at to Scratch”: Exploring the Emotion of Love in Black Enslaved Communities of the Nineteenth Century	0