... Chapter 5 moves the geographic to consider how ideas about Kenya as a prelapsarian space traveled to the metropole and beyond. It focuses on the romance novels of Nora Strange, arguing that they presented readers with an image of Kenya as a “eugenic landscape,” a space that separated fit...

... Nora Strange eugenics romance novels degeneration ...

... novels, but the first, published in 1980, is criticized for depicting conflicts about race and shredded. A chapbook of Hettie’s poems is published in 1981; she’s forty-seven, copyediting romance novels for money. Helene at fifty-four runs high fever and loses hearing. Hettie too has crisis regarding her...

... of humanistic scholarship in terms closer to Henry James’s view of the novel itself. For these writers, what is most valued is the possibility of affirming the potential of both realism and romance, without simply mistaking the one for the other. Ian McEwan Bruno Latour realism critique humanities ...

... of the novel itself. For these writers, what is most valued is the possibility of affirming the potential of both realism and romance, without simply mistaking the one for the other. Ian McEwan Bruno Latour realism critique humanities Rooney argues that symptomatic reading distinguishes itself...

...The Romance of Consumption ...

... Chapter 1 examines three sinophone texts that foreground sentimental plotlines of female sexuality, romance, domesticity, or friendship during SARS: Joan Chen's 2012 short film Shanghai Strangers ; Hu Fayun's 2004 internet novel Such Is This [email protected] ; and Chen Baozhen's 2003 diasporic...

... Oil lives in a kind of ethical blind spot. The fuel drives so much in industry, agriculture, and personal life, of course. Oddly, then, literature and film have mostly left it alone. One can count on one hand the great oil novels written in all languages. Substances ranging from diamonds...