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Genre (2000) 33 (2): 129–149.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Allison Stedman A GALLERY OF AUTHORS: THE POLITICS OF
INNOVATION AND SUBVERSION IN MONTPENSIER'S
DIVERS PORTRAITS
ALLISON STEDMAN, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
When Anne Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier published the
Divers Portraits [ Various Portraits], her first...
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Genre (2006) 39 (4): 151–154.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Hua Hsu Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature . Lawrence Keith Cheung Floyd , eds. Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2005 COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Arkush David Lee Leo...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 89–109.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Marjorie Worthington Ruth Ozeki's novel A Tale for the Time Being is an autofiction—a novel whose protagonist is a characterized version of its author and thereby straddles the line between memoir and fiction. In an American literary context, autofiction is a genre dominated by white male authors...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 359–383.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Rod Rosenquist With an examination of a number of memoirs by and about modernist authors and artists published during the 1930s, this article raises questions about the complex relationship between the high-art subjects of these volumes and the popular forms of gossip and celebrity anecdote...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 239–268.
Published: 01 June 2012
... women a set of skills for navigating emergent economic and professional opportunities and provides a culturally authoritative means of self-advocacy. Focusing particularly on Gilman's What Diantha Did and Ferber's Fanny Herself , the author shows how the quantitative practices of their heroines function...
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 35–71.
Published: 01 April 2015
... other for comparison and contrast. This study examines the evolution of transgender memoir with an eye for comparison to the coming-out story. Central questions include: How are gender transition narratives affected by transgender authors' perceived need to prove their gender identity to public...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 239–265.
Published: 01 July 2017
... be generated in his first major novel, Blue White Red . How Mabanckou picks his way through these intercalating terms speaks to the appeal and centrality of his work in a world literature canon. The authors argue that Mabanckou quite consciously and effectively makes use of the figures of allegory and parable...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 371–395.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Eric D. Smith Central to the polarizing discussions of the late-period work of V. S. Naipaul has been the author’s apparent faithfulness to methods—and political presuppositions—derived from nineteenth-century British models of literary realism. This essay explores Naipaul’s pivotal late-period...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Benjamin Bergholtz The author argues that Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014) is an encyclopedic narrative that encourages and interrogates the pursuit of knowledge. Rahman achieves this feat by creating a deceptive dialogue revolving around knowledge and narrative. While his...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Maaheen Ahmed; Shiamin Kwa In his discussion of the “big, ambitious novel,” James Wood dismisses both male and female authors but singles out Zadie Smith's White Teeth for most of his critique of what he terms “hysterical realism.” For Wood, recent long novels display too much imagination...
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 359–393.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... An effect of Haggard's anxiety over burgeoning metropolitan female agency and Afrikaner political strength, the heroines of Haggard's female colonial romances enabled the author imaginatively to redirect feminist energy — from metropole to colony, from self (as he saw it) to service, from suffragism to soil...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 153–179.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., which have been widely accepted by critics. Rather, the author situates Mankell's Wallander series in the literary tradition named by Ernest Mandel as the “disintegrative” thriller, which Mandel sees emerging in response to late capitalism's restructuring of electoral politics and in the context...
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 81–103.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... Relief aid is routinely stolen or misallocated, while aid workers are overwhelmed in spite of their best intentions. Yet many child soldier narratives portray humanitarian advocacy favorably, and in particular the memoirs are a vehicle for advocacy against child soldiering. The narratives’ authors...
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Genre (2018) 51 (3): 209–236.
Published: 01 December 2018
... history or identifying rigid classes of characteristics that define any given genre, this essay demonstrates that “genre performatives” allow for comparisons across the longue durée (long term) of literary history and across ostensibly unrelated literary texts. The authors under consideration include...
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Genre (2019) 52 (2): 109–125.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of The Twilight Zone (as the show’s cultural context was and is perfect for the task) reveals afresh that mood (involving an author’s attitude toward content) is necessarily more important than genre (involving content itself) when narrative content approaches the unknowable. What perhaps surprises...
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Genre (2019) 52 (2): 85–108.
Published: 01 July 2019
... on their way to better employment elsewhere. Providing readings of novels by well-known writers of academic fiction such as James Hynes and Alex Kudera alongside lesser known authors such as Geoff Cebula, Gordon Haber, J. Hayes Hurley, and Julia Keefer, the essay ultimately argues that the adjunctroman reveals...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Christian Ravela This article explores the way The White Boy Shuffle delinks American citizenship’s hold on Black political subjectivity. Through a narrative analysis of Shuffle ’s protagonist and minor characters, the author argues that the novel forwards what cultural historian Nikhil Pal Singh...
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Genre (2020) 53 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2020
...—as it relates to an analogous formal process here named the sensorytextual screen . The author shows how presumptions of what constitutes an abled body inflect the (dis)abled realism of Joyce’s novel, which at once depicts and mocks ableist presumptions. Representations of blindness, sight, and low vision thus...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of hindsight. To avoid postures of certainty and authority that come with both political power and narrative omniscience, the narrator uses irony and self‐consciousness to critique storyworld power dynamics and expectations of literary realism. Burns's big, ambitious novel reveals that conveying a whole world...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 139–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Bradley J. Fest In the twenty‐first century, digital technologies have made it possible for writers and artists to create massively unreadable works through computational and collaborative composition, what the author has elsewhere called megatexts . The ubiquity of texts appearing across media...
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