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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
regular workhorse font (here, Times New
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parentheses in the MLA format. Footnotes o
endnotes are reserved (as in this case) to mak
a side point that would distract from the main
argument but doesnt fit in parentheses.
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Comment [5]: Heres the usual procedure
for citation: the authors last name. If youre
citing a particular page, the page number goe
after the name, separated by a single space
with no comma. Here, Im citing two entire
essays rather than pages or quotes within the
so theres no page number.
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punctuation. I think you get the picture by
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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].