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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 205–233.
Published: 01 December 2022
... inform any individual or collective effort to make sense of “our orphan's loneliness.” sgp31@case.edu Copyright © 2022 by University of Oklahoma 2022 ambivalence T. S. Eliot Black Arts movement Invisible Man essay genre “I too have become acquainted with ambivalence,” I said...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 249–272.
Published: 01 June 2006
...: A Vernacular Theory . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1984 . Butler Robert . `` The City as Psychological Frontier in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Charles Johnson's Faith and the Good Thing .'' The City in African-American Literature . Eds. Hakutani Yoshinobu Butler Robert . Madison...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 June 2004
... . Butler-Evans Elliott . `` The Politics of Carnival and Heteroglossia in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man .'' The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions and Interventions . Ed. Palumbo-Liu David . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1995 . 117 - 39...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 435–441.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., “Script Two: Aspiration in America,” describes the “up-­from” script. Here Buell focuses on a handful of twentieth-­century novels, including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, Theodore Dreiser’s American Tragedy, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. Buell chooses...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 1–46.
Published: 01 March 2004
... , 1973 . Ellison Mary . `` Jazz in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka and Roy Fisher .'' Yearbook of English Studies 24 ( 1994 ): 117 - 145 . Ellison Ralph . Invisible Man . New York : Random House , 1952 . —. Shadow and Act . New York : Random House, 1964. Rpt. Vintage...
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Genre (2002) 35 (3-4): 495–509.
Published: 01 September 2002
... breath, we wonder what it was that Walker had to say, we have only to consult ourselves. Ours, after all, is the last word. In Ross's story, Walker devotes an hour of his last day to reading Invisible Man by the late Ralph Ellison (whose verbal energy lives in Ross' story.) "I could kind...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Joyce's Ulysses .” For Greif ( 2009 ), the history of the BAN begins with two novels from the 1950s, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March . These varied historical contexts emerge as disparate points of view because they attend to different qualities of the BAN...
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 35–71.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Jennifer Finney Boylan's She's Not There and Jamison Green's Becoming a Visible Man . I conclude that the gender transition narrative has grown away from the imposed medical narrative of the twentieth century as transsexual memoirists have claimed the role of authors of their own lives. In the process...
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Genre (2000) 33 (3-4): 257–268.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... To people caught up in attempting to change policy, and, hopefully, the realities that would issue from it, Momaday offers us a story of one man facing an invisible foe. That foe, lurking on the outside, seeking to strike fear into those inside the comfort of traditional life, instead falls prey...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Jumbo (1972) and James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" (1957), invoke jazz and blues as both a metaphor and a cultural backdrop. Although it does not deal with jazz overtly, many consider Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) a narrative that incorporates jazz into its formal structures. Johnson's novel...
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 81–103.
Published: 01 April 2018
... at me like looking at me is going to be helping me. She is telling me to speak speak speak and thinking that my not speaking is because I am like baby. . . . But every time I am sitting with her I am thinking I am like old man and she is like small girl because I am fighting in war and she...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the realist epistemology fundamental to the diaphanous 4 GEN RE abled body. The next section also introduces the importance of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing s theories on literature and art (alluded to in Joyce s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and relevant to Proteus which suggest that artistic represen...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 13–26.
Published: 01 March 2010
... enough in France’s history of absolutism and revolution. The fact that the Ger- man people lived simultaneously in the Reich [empire], the Regnum Teutoni- cum, and in the German territories—a situation that still can be found expressed in the duality of Germany and German Reich—is not merely...
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Genre (2006) 39 (4): 85–103.
Published: 01 December 2006
... the Western theatre. Chinese theatre's minimal stage setting, its symbolic usage of props and stage furniture, and the presence of a property man whose function was to bring various props to the actors in front of the audience were identified as key features of the Chinese theatrical conven- tion...
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2012
... may only be grasped through the official and pompous letters he sends to Carafa or through the mysterious, almost mythi- cal narrations of other characters. It is from one of these partial identikits, for instance, that we find out that he is German: “He said, Carafa did, that the Ger- mans make...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 61–66.
Published: 01 April 2022
... mirror, spilling its light within a world thus reenchanted) or the negative (think of Paul de Man [ 1984 ] on the irresolvable if constitutive gap between Romantic rhetoric and grammar), this younger group have sought to complicate such dichotomies, no doubt often replacing them with polarities...
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Genre (2012) 45 (1): 143–166.
Published: 01 March 2012
...: North Atlantic. . 1989. Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles, 1957 – 1987. Edited by David Berg- man. New York: Knopf. . 2000. Other Traditions: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. . 2002. “John Ashbery.” Interview with Al Filreis. Kelly Writers...
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Genre (2019) 52 (3): 151–177.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., because radium often operates in a figurative register characterized as inconspicuous yet immensely energetic a text need not openly name that actant radium or describe it as radioactive. William Le Queux s Invasion of 1910 (1906), Conrad s Secret Agent, and G. K. Chesterton s Man Who Was Thursday...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 239–261.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and often anything remotely resembling a shark is identified as one. —“Impact of ‘Jaws’ Has Anglers and Bathers on Lookout,” New York Times [The] mad monster . . . in Jaws comes from the depths of inner- space — the sea as well as man’s nightmares. — Vincent Canby, “Entrapped by ‘Jaws’ of Fear,” New...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 57–82.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., which makes the Chinese man's stooped posture and darker clothing even more obscured, would suggest the anonymous bachelor's fundamental alienation from the two, Chinese child and white photographer. In addition to posing as an adventurer, Genthe projected a romantic self- image...