... of the psychological romance, the modern psychomachia, of narration amid the personae of character, narrator (and what kind of narrator), implicated author, and a newly activated and yet indulgently consuming reader, participates in a widespread game of aesthetic interpellation that leads to what contemporary...

... normative literary modernity has been displaced by an “informatic modernization.” A new urban Hinduness asserts itself more by its affects and spectacles than through the act of narration. This “informatic” public culture can orchestrate signs, emblems, mantras, and doctrines of disparate affiliations...

... must not start in the 1970s, however, nor with distant forerunners such as James Joyce's Ulysses , but from 1945. After the Second World War, critics and novelists negotiated the sort of literature that would count as great after the end of high modernism, in service of a new humanism. The novels...

... his novels are written as much as the landscape being traversed by his narrator. It is metaphorical, in the sense that Sebald explores a set of imaginary spaces nested within each other: those occupied by his characters, who inhabit several worlds simultaneously, and that allocated to the narrative...

...). But the narrator, a busybody gossip committed to disclosures of pri- vate intimacies and so a figure of modern publicity, also exists as Mellifont’s more intrusive public double. Mellifont’s old-style public identity, that is, re...

... . Long Jonathan J. 2007 . W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity . New York : Columbia University Press . Mirzoeff Nicholas . 2005 . Bodyscape: Art, Modernity, and the Ideal Figure . New York : Taylor and Francis . Mitchell W. J. T. 2004 . “ Romanticism and the Life...

... for which novelists get a lot of credit for attempting.4 One student of modernism has written that Beckett, no less than Columbia Pic- tures, devised a “new set of technical tools that made it possible to escape meaning—which is to say narration, representation, succession, descrip- tion, setting...

... in Lermontov’s work. Kazy-Girei’s narrator represents his North Caucasian homeland in order to reveal his struggle to reconcile personal memory with his own self-conscious performance of this Orientalist trope. In so doing, I emphasize the geospatial and ideological location of these narratives on the threshold...

... to produce narration. This is why, as Kapur argues, the frontal ico- 9. Ashish Rajadhyaksha, ‘‘The Phalke Era: Conflict of Traditional Form and Modern Tech- nology Journal of Arts and Ideas, no. 14–15 (1987): 47–78. 10. Ravi S. Vasudevan, ‘‘Shifting Codes, Dissolving Identities: The Hindi Social Film...

... Brother- hood. In a single sentence, the narrator sets himself against all the powers the book has conjured. These forces map as ‘‘un-American subaltern- American, and hegemonic-American. They include Jack and the Brother- hood, which is a fictional group modeled on the Communist Party; they include...

... . Austerlitz . Translated by Bell Anthea . New York : Modern Library . boundary 2 47:3 (2020) DOI 10.1215/01903659- 8524505 © 2020 by Duke University Press The Bricolage of Words and Images: W. G. Sebald s Austerlitz He Ning Translated by Claire Xue Li The name W. G. (the Chinese transliteration...

...Sebastian Veg This article attempts to bring a new perspective to the debate on Chinese modernism and, in so doing, to reflect on the idea of modernism itself. Rather than opposing European “high modernists” and an early twentieth-century Chinese literature defined by Enlightenment and nineteenth...

...-modern cultural forms (the short story, the novel, the essay) in the mid-nineteenth century. The ‘‘Lakhaan stories’’ appear three times in The Calcutta Chromosome,vari- ously as events experienced by Grigson (a linguist who suspects Lakhaan), Farley (a missionary who is killed by the boy ghost...

...- vide overviews of the novel and its place in modern criticism. It is also absent from all the anthologies of criticism devoted to Melville in general and to Moby Dick in particular. Richard Brodhead mentions...

... by Duke University Press. 150 boundary 2 / Summer 2004 challenge of modernity rather than simply as the solution. Liberating, yet, at the same time, profoundly challenging, secularism is for Heine a constitutive moment in the experience of modernity. As a result, modernity emerges in Heine’s work...

..., ‘‘Reflections 49. 6. Ralph Ellison, ‘‘The World and the Jug in The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), 156. 7. Interview with Ralph Ellison, in Robert Penn Warren, Who Speaks for the Negro? (New York: Random House, 1965), 343–44. 160 boundary 2...

... questions of history, are a dominant theme in the literature and history of both the Old and the New South. As the extremely influential W. J. Cash so elegantly states, ‘‘So far from being modernized, in many ways it [the South] has actu- ally always marched away, as to this day it continues to do, from...

... dramatized on stage as an aesthetic rendering of the Black experience, is the spectacular opposite of the speeding up of work time that governed plantation culture, as indeed it has governed so much of the history of the working class at large. The idleness of the “gipsies” that Wordsworth's narrator...

... Is a Nation in Nation and Narration, ed. Homi Bhabha (London: Routledge, 1990), 19. 28. For background reading on the place of the ‘‘myth of return and homeland within the modern Jewish Diaspora, see Etan Levin, ed., Diaspora: Exile and the Contemporary Jew- ish Condition (New York: Stimatzsky/Shaposky...

... . 2011 . The Korean War: A History . New York : Modern Library . Darda Joseph . 2015 . “ The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War .” American Literature 87 , no. 1 : 79 – 105 . Day Iyko . 2016 . Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism...