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Stephanie Li
Professor of African & African American Studies
African & African American Studies
stephanie.li@duke.edu
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Selected Publications
Elizabeth Warren’s
A Fighting Chance
Journal Article
American Literary History
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2020
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in American History
Book
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2020
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Reflections on Fifty Years of
The Bluest Eye
Journal Article
College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies
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2020
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The Evolution of JAY-Z
Journal Article
Black Camera: An International Film Journal
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2019
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Genre Trouble and History's Miseries in Colson Whitehead's
The Underground Railroad
Journal Article
MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
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2019
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Pan–African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
Book
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2018
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What Is Twenty-First-Century African American Literature? [Special Issue]
Journal Article
American Literary History
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2017
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Techno-Orientalism and the End of History in Gary Shteyngart's
Super Sad True Love Story
Chapter
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2017
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The Presumptions of Whiteness in Ann Petry's
Country Place
Chapter
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2017
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Beyoncé [Special Section]
Journal Article
Black Camera: An International Film Journal
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2017
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Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects
Book
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2015
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Valerie Martin's
Property
: A Neo-Enslaver Narrative
Journal Article
Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures
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2015
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12 Years a Slave
as a Neo-Slave Narrative
Journal Article
American Literary History
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2014
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Paradise Lost: Reconciling the Semiotic and Symbolic in Toni Morrison's
Love
Journal Article
Studies in the Literary Imagination
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2014
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Signifyin(g) Black and White Speech in Zora Neale Hurston's
Seraph on the Suwanee
Chapter
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2013
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The Parallel Lives of Bill Clinton
Journal Article
American Literary History
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2012
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Writing the Presidency [Special Issue]
Journal Article
American Literary History
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2012
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Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama
Book
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2011
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Five Poems
: The Gospel according to Toni Morrison
Journal Article
Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
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2011
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Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women
Book
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2010
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Performing Intimacy Using 'Race-Specific, Race-Free Language': Black Private Letters in the Public Sphere
Journal Article
South Atlantic Quarterly
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2010
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Becoming Her Mother's Mother: Recreating Home and the Self in Audre Lorde's
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Chapter
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2009
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Domestic Resistance: Gardening, Mothering, and Storytelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's
Gardens in the Dunes
Journal Article
Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
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2009
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Intimacy in the Radical Narratives of Toni Morrison
Chapter
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2008
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'Sometimes Things Disappear': Absence and Mutability in Colson Whitehead's
The Colossus of New York
Chapter
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2008
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Resistance, Silence, and
Placées
: Charles Bon's Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet
Journal Article
American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography
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March 2007
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Racial Alliances in a White Neo-Slave Narrative: Susan Straight's
A Million Nightengales
Chapter
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2007
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Love and the Trauma of Resistance in Gayl Jones's
Corregidora
Journal Article
Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
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2006
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Motherhood as Resistance in Harriet Jacobs's
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Journal Article
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
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2006
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Intruder in the Dust
from Novel to Movie: The Development of Chick Mallison
Journal Article
The Faulkner Journal
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2000
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Resistance through the Body: Power, Representation, and the Enslaved Woman
Thesis Dissertation
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