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    Situating Normal: Questions of Centrality in American Studies

    Jeff Allred

    Associate Professor

    Hunter College/CUNY

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    Jeff Allred 10/17/12 10:55 AM

    Comment [1]: Note that theres a title tha

    gives some sense of the topic. And note that

    its not on a separate page or underlined or

    boldor italic.Jeff Allred 10/17/12 10:56 AM

    Comment [2]: Here youll put your name

    the course number, and perhaps the date and

    instructor.

    Jeff Allred 10/17/12 11:03 AM

    Comment [3]: Note that pages are

    numbered! Always a helpful thing to do. A

    note that the margins are normal (1

    top/bottom; 1.25 sides) and Ive used a

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    Jeff Allred 10/17/12 10:59 AM

    Comment [5]: Heres the usual procedure

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    Comment [6]: Since Ive included theauthors name and the book title above, I just

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    Comment [7]: This is the classic citation:

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    Schryer, Stephen.Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-

    World War II American Fiction. Columbia University Press, 2011. Print.

    Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, Youre so

    Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is About You.Novel Gazing:

    Queer Readings in Fiction. Ed. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Duke University Press,

    1997. 137. Print.

    Taylor, Mark C. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Chicago:

    University of Chicago Press, 2001. Print.

    1For representative visions/versions of post-national, transnational, borderlands, and Americas studies

    respectively, see John Carlos Rowe,Post-Nationalist American Studies. Berkeley: University of California

    Press, 2000; Paul Giles, Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary .

    Durham: Duke University Press, 2002; Hctor ldern, ed. Criticism in the Borderlands Studies in Chicano

    Literature, Culture, and Ideology. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991; Eric Cheyfitz, What Work IsThere for Us to Do? American Literary Studies or American Cultural Studies? American Literature67.4

    (1995): 843853.2For an examination of the long history of the relationship between sovereignty and the state of the

    exception in Western jurisprudence and culture, see Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception. Trans. Kevin

    Attell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.3The long tail refers to the phenomenon by which the digitalization of cultural media, with its shrinking

    costs of production and distribution, allows for an ever-extending range of niche products consumed by

    small pools of consumers. See Chris Anderson, The Long Tail, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the

    Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. Hyperion, 2008.4For an extended argument that links Facebooks aesthetics to suburban houses and spaces of

    consumption, see Charles Petersen, In the World of Facebook. The New York Review of Books25 Feb.2010. Web. 10 Aug. 2012.5Jacobson derives her use of spiritual geography as a lens for neodomestic fiction from the work of Ines

    Salazar. See Ines Salazar, Can You Go Home Again? Transgression and Transformation in African-

    American Womens and Chicana Literary Practice.Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race,

    Ethnicity and Literature.Eds. Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press,

    2000. 388-411.6As many readers will remember, in October of 2001, Franzens The Correctionswas chosen as an Oprah

    Book Club selection, at which point Franzen made public comments criticizing the uneven quality of past

    Club selections and insisting that his readership would be uninterested or perhaps hostile to the novels

    being an Oprah book. Winfrey then withdrew the invitation, and much ink was spilled in defenses of

    both sides of the issue and in more nuanced analyses of what the affair reveals about networks of culturalcapital in the twenty-first century.7Jamess long analogy likening the novel genre to a house with a million windows is found in the

    preface toPortrait of a Lady; the analogy is particularly suited to discussions of the neodomestic, since it

    emphasizes the way the novel genre makes any stable relation between subjectivity and object matter, or

    form and content, impossible (James 45).

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    8Criticism, Inc. refers to the title of an influential 1937 essay by New Critic John Crowe Ransom that

    argued in behalf of the special technical expertise of the university-trained literary critic (Ransom 4961).9The series of posts on seasons four and five of the show are part ofKritiks broader project of opening up

    theoretical discussions to a broader public: see http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/ [accessed August 10, 2012].