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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Hard-Boiled Anthropocene and the Infrastructure of Extractivism22
White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to StockettBlack Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery15
Afterword: The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies6
Unliterary History: Toni Morrison, The Black Book, and “Real Black Publishing”3
Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism2
Announcement2
Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler2
Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass’s Literary Landscape and the Racial Construction of Nature1
Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence1
Ann Petry and the Existential Phenomenology of Race1
Thinking with Robots1
Revolutionary Worldmaking: James Monroe Whitfield’s Poems in Martin Delany’s Blake; or, The Huts of America1
Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife1
Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition1
The Black Atlantic Monthly: Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship1
Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History1
New Citizenship Studies: An Introduction1
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing LiteratureLiterary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism1
Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze1
Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation1
The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology1
The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher1
Announcement1
Cultural Gradients and the Sociotechnics of Data1
The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship1
“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman1
The Whiteness of the White1
Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?1
All Hail Cthulhu! On Lovecraft, Monstress, and Asian American Bildung1
Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness1
Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels1
On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction1
Muriel Rukeyser “among Wars”: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave0
“For Ought Is Known”: Hearsay, Antislavery, and the Golden Rule in Colonial North America0
What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?0
On (Not)Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi0
Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’sMan Who Lived Underground0
Announcements0
Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty0
Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”: The Translational Politics of the American Yiddish Theater and Its Afterlife0
John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture0
Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred0
The Many Ecologies of AI0
Health Care Fictions: The Business of Medicine and Modern US Literature0
Brief Mention0
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry0
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
Breaking Up (with) AI Ethics0
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
Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction0
In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic UnseenWhat Was Literary Impressionism?0
Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital0
Introduction: The Infrastructure of Emergency0
Afterword: A “Citizen of the Ocean” in an Empire of Small Islands0
The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession0
Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health0
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart0
With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass,L’Union, and Editorship Studies0
What the Afterlife ofSCUMCan Teach Us about Autotheory0
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
Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making0
Transatlantic Abridgment and the Unstable Economics ofRobinson Crusoe0
The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth0
Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship0
Announcements0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian EntanglementsGiving Form to an Asian and Latinx America0
Manufacturing Belief: Religion, Slavery, and Benito Cereno0
“Ain’t Any Chance to Rise in the Paper Business”: Poverty, Race, and Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Novels0
Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist EthicsLegally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage0
The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America0
Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’sLetters to Memory0
Brief Mention0
Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects”0
Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics0
Black Madness::Mad BlacknessDisabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present0
Incommensurate Labors: The Work behind the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman0
Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels0
Counterfeit Detectors: The Literary Origins of the US Secret Service0
Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing0
Announcement0
Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities0
The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari0
Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820–1860Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism0
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies0
“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions0
Military Technologies and Human Labor0
Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba’s Affirmative Movements in History0
Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation0
Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine?0
The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead0
Market Nation: Forging Economic Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century African America0
When Citizenship and National Belonging Diverge0
The Suspended States of Latinx Literature0
Colonizing the Heavens and Earth: Eclecticism, Epistemology, and Evangelism in the Jesuit Valentin Stansel’s Astronomy0
Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO0
Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene0
Democratic Aesthetics: Scenes of Political Violence and Anxiety in Nari Ward and Ocean Vuong0
Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging0
Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging inPapers, Please0
The Game Theory of Sex0
War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century0
Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire0
The Subsident Gulf: Refiguring Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage0
Computing Race0
All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence0
Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult LiteratureA New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich0
The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction0
The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature0
Announcement0
Artificial Bloom0
“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope inRed Dead Redemption 20
Introduction: American Game Studies0
The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho0
The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans0
Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War0
More than “A Matter of Deciding To”: Citizenship, Border Positionality, and Irresolution in Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman0
“Never Allowed for Property”: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law0
Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates0
Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit0
“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital0
Can the Computer Speak?0
Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer Science Papers0
A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender0
“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”:Dictée’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics0
Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler0
The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War0
Critical AI: A Field in Formation0
Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle0
“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace0
National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times0
Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century AmericaRespawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life0
Becoming “Fellow-Servants”: Slavery, Theft, and Improper Fellowship in the Nineteenth-Century South0
Authentic-Deconstructionist Games and Tragic Historiography in Assassin’s Creed III0
The Origin of OthersGoodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison0
Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual RealmModernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureGears and God: Tech0
Pain after 2020, An Introduction0
“Alive in Every Fibre”: Chopin and Wharton on Pain, Pleasure, and Private Feeling0
How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table0
Brief Mention0
Brief Mention0
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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
The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street0
Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’sCollectionand Brothertown Orientations0
Data/Dispossession0
Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth0
Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era0
Artificial Intelligence in Video Games0
Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century0
Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper0
Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance0
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