...Scott Newman Abstract This article examines the figuring of Black voices in literature, specifically addressing the grotesque sonority of Anglophone and Francophone African writing. The analysis focuses on the Zimbabwean Dambudzo Marechera’s stuttered speech in the semi-autobiographical short...

...Neetu Khanna Abstract This article revisits the Marxist anticolonial feminist writings of Urdu author Ismat Chughtai through a materialist exploration into how the female body—with its erotic curvatures and grotesque protuberances, its sticky and viscous textures and fluids—becomes the focalized...

... back, an act that gives her immense satisfaction. The map-carving scene has been read as the apex of Dolly City’ s post-nationalist and feminist subversion, a “postmodernist parody deconstructing national mythologies through critical and grotesque repetition” (Linda Hutcheon cited in Hasak-Lowy 91...

...: ensayos sobre poesía mexicana moderna . México City D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica y El Colegio de México, 1998 . 221 -35. Starobinski, Jean. La Mélancolie au miroir. Trois lectures de Baudelaire . Paris: Editions Julliard, 1989 . Swain, Virginia. Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau...

... the face of Death. The projection, like the refracted dou- bling of himself, is both internal and literalized in the external space within the fictive frame. It filters into that frame itself as Goliadkin, together with the nar- rator, sees in his curious, gleeful, grotesque, green-uniformed double—who...

... in American Fiction and Culture, 1840–1940 . Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina P , 1993 . Print . Heyer-Caput Margherita . Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity . Toronto : U of Toronto P , 2008 . Print . Kayser Wolfgang . The Grotesque in Art and Literature . Trans. Weisstein...

...., a psychopathic boiler stoker in the ghetto hospital. The novel also abounds in grotesque humor, temporal fragmentation, surreal episodes, and moral ambiguity. Even—indeed especially—the Jewish characters are morally complicated and sometimes despicable. As Al Alvarez has noted, “the victims are as contaminated...

... that in Dostoevsky, ideas are if anything too powerful). By contrast, in the novels of the Zimbabwean Tendai Huchu and the South Africans Imraan Coovadia and Masande Ntshanga, ideas are feeble, flickering in and out of narrative view, solitary refuges from “a grotesquely disjointed and disorienting web of global...

... and grotesque, while “web of men” has something terrible, something awful about it. ( This Craft 38–39 ) Taste alerts Borges to a false phenomenology: Góngora’s “baroque and grotesque” metaphor misconceives and thereby debases reality. Yet from a literary-historical standpoint, Góngora, enmeshed...

...” as a product of early-nineteenth-century Russian “noseology,” Ugrešic´ acknowledges more specifi cally in her “Author’s Notes” the infl uence of V. V. Vinogradov’s 1929 “noseological” literary history: “Naturalisticheskii grotesk (Siu- zhet i kompozitsiia povesti Gogolia ‘Nos (“The Naturalistic Grotesque...

... of nature and culture is, according to Rachel Poliquin, “the irresolvable tension that defines all taxidermy” ( 5 ). There is also, arguably, something quintessentially “transcendent” and “grotesque” about taxidermy as an art form—extending, even eternalizing, the life of a natural being (more powerful...

... . ———. “The Grotesque Image of the Body and Its Sources.” Rabelais and His World . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1984 . 303 – 67 . Print . Band Arnold . Nostalgia and Nightmare: A Study in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon . Berkeley : U of California P , 1968 . Print . Bartal Yisrael . “The Train...

... and presence being implicitly neither high nor low but simply manifest in the representation of human character and action. The “high textual/low bodily polarity,” useful perhaps in regard to carnival, the grotesque, and types of broad comedy, lacks the breadth of application that Wise appears to suggest...

... and presence being implicitly neither high nor low but simply manifest in the representation of human character and action. The “high textual/low bodily polarity,” useful perhaps in regard to carnival, the grotesque, and types of broad comedy, lacks the breadth of application that Wise appears to suggest...

... and presence being implicitly neither high nor low but simply manifest in the representation of human character and action. The “high textual/low bodily polarity,” useful perhaps in regard to carnival, the grotesque, and types of broad comedy, lacks the breadth of application that Wise appears to suggest...

... of the actor as an instrument and medium of communication, with physicalization and presence being implicitly neither high nor low but simply manifest in the representation of human character and action. The “high textual/low bodily polarity,” useful perhaps in regard to carnival, the grotesque, and types...

... on alternate days; then, later on, every day, except feast-days. We were each taken out walking separately between two guards with guns on their shoulders” (130). In the grotesque world of Nabo- kov’s novel, Cincinnatus is taken for a walk by his lawyer, Roman, who is supposed to defend him before...

... a grotesque, eschatological humor simi- lar to that of Quevedo—one that recurs throughout the text. In another episode, the protagonist discusses eating a soup that consists of the bones of a muleskinner’s wife (Chapter 11). Further, as Mier sleeps in one of many dreadful mesones, the inn keeper robs...

... this grotesque nightingale pie that causes the mouth to produce strange music and is ultimately responsible for the letter’s hallucinatory tone. The nightingale that Ephraim eats in Rome is the same that was once the symbol of harmony and complete continuum between human music and world music. Clearly, this time...

... of the formation of the new literary élites, citing generously from a vast array of sources in order to give his readers a sense not only of the quantity (enormous) and quality (grotesque) of the literary production of the masses, but also of their constant yearning for guidance from the “proper authorities...