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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Whiteness of the White22
Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence22
The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship7
Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History5
Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?4
Shattered Remains: Richard Wright and Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism and the Destiny of the Common4
Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred3
What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?3
Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship3
Cultural Gradients and the Sociotechnics of Data3
Transatlantic Abridgment and the Unstable Economics ofRobinson Crusoe2
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies2
In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic UnseenWhat Was Literary Impressionism?2
The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari1
The Game Theory of Sex1
What the Afterlife ofSCUMCan Teach Us about Autotheory1
Computing Race1
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing LiteratureLiterary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism1
Announcement1
Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze1
The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead1
National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times1
Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation1
Unliterary History: Toni Morrison, The Black Book, and “Real Black Publishing”1
Brief Mention1
The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War1
Artificial Bloom1
“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions1
Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth1
The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street0
The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession0
When Citizenship and National Belonging Diverge0
Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities0
The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature0
Pain after 2020, An Introduction0
Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass’s Literary Landscape and the Racial Construction of Nature0
Introduction: American Game Studies0
Artificial Intelligence in Video Games0
“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital0
Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler0
How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table0
The Black Atlantic Monthly: Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship0
On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction0
Ann Petry and the Existential Phenomenology of Race0
All Hail Cthulhu! On Lovecraft, Monstress, and Asian American Bildung0
Military Technologies and Human Labor0
Data/Dispossession0
Breaking Up (with) AI Ethics0
Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition0
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry0
The Origin of OthersGoodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison0
Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making0
The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction0
The Many Ecologies of AI0
Afterword: The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies0
Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’sMan Who Lived Underground0
Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance0
Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital0
Colonizing the Heavens and Earth: Eclecticism, Epistemology, and Evangelism in the Jesuit Valentin Stansel’s Astronomy0
Market Nation: Forging Economic Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century African America0
Brief Mention0
The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans0
Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing0
Brief Mention0
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
Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era0
The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America0
Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects”0
Critical AI: A Field in Formation0
Announcement0
Black Madness::Mad BlacknessDisabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present0
Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire0
Afterword: A “Citizen of the Ocean” in an Empire of Small Islands0
“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman0
Thinking with Robots0
Democratic Aesthetics: Scenes of Political Violence and Anxiety in Nari Ward and Ocean Vuong0
Incommensurate Labors: The Work behind the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman0
Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels0
Literary Forensics as Method: Chemical Analysis, Food Stains, and Readerly Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks0
The Suspended States of Latinx Literature0
The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher0
Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism0
Introduction: How American Literature Understands Poverty0
Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife0
Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’sLetters to Memory0
Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics0
Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart0
Announcements0
With, Without, Even Still: Frederick Douglass,L’Union, and Editorship Studies0
Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult LiteratureA New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich0
Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”: The Translational Politics of the American Yiddish Theater and Its Afterlife0
Muriel Rukeyser “among Wars”: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave0
Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene0
Can the Computer Speak?0
“Ain’t Any Chance to Rise in the Paper Business”: Poverty, Race, and Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Novels0
Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War0
The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology0
Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates0
Announcement0
Can We Read Neural Networks? Epistemic Implications of Two Historical Computer Science Papers0
On Personal and Impersonal Data0
Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation0
“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
Announcements0
On (Not)Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi0
Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century0
Lorraine Hansberry and Miriam Makeba’s Affirmative Movements in History0
Madre de Sangre / Mother of Blood: Vampirizing La Virgen in Feminist Short Fiction by Terri de la Peña and Kleya Forté-Escamilla0
Manufacturing Belief: Religion, Slavery, and Benito Cereno0
Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler0
Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging0
Revolutionary Worldmaking: James Monroe Whitfield’s Poems in Martin Delany’s Blake; or, The Huts of America0
The Sweetness of Race: On Synesthesia, Addiction, and Self-Possessed Personhood in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth0
The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho0
Brief Mention0
“For Ought Is Known”: Hearsay, Antislavery, and the Golden Rule in Colonial North America0
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
New Citizenship Studies: An Introduction0
Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging inPapers, Please0
Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle0
John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture0
“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope inRed Dead Redemption 20
Authentic-Deconstructionist Games and Tragic Historiography in Assassin’s Creed III0
Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health0
Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’sCollectionand Brothertown Orientations0
Counterfeit Detectors: The Literary Origins of the US Secret Service0
“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”:Dictée’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics0
A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender0
Becoming “Fellow-Servants”: Slavery, Theft, and Improper Fellowship in the Nineteenth-Century South0
Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness0
Health Care Fictions: The Business of Medicine and Modern US Literature0
Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction0
Literary AI: Are We Ready for the Future We Imagine?0
Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper0
Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO0
Announcements0
“Because It Never Dies”: Archipelagic Time in from unincorporated territory [ lukao ]0
All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence0
Diversity Aesthetics: Figuring the Fate of DEI in Contemporary Black Office Fiction0
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