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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Tammy Amiel Houser This essay reads Ian McEwan’s Children Act (2014) as a literary tragedy that is in dialogue with the classical form and the philosophical discourse that surrounds it. Of particular relevance is George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s definition of tragedy as a collision between two...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 43–66.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Patricia Stuelke This essay analyzes Valeria Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive 's attempt to imagine anti‐imperialist solidarity aesthetics in a moment of the increasing imbrication of the US literary sphere and settler colonial capitalist surveillance of the US‐Mexico border, as well...
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Genre (2024) 57 (1): 53–75.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Alison Turner Abstract Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) explores how to find “lost children” who are forced to migrate and interrogates relationships among works of literature, archives, and archiving. Taking place contemporaneously with its publication, the novel follows Ma, Pa...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 167–193.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Valentina Montero Román This essay argues that Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) experiments with literary techniques often associated with the “big, ambitious novel” to represent the pervasive problems created by US racial construction. More specifically, it contends that Luiselli's...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 293–300.
Published: 01 September 2011
... or readers back from “the point.” Children, however, often relish the long middle portions of their storybooks, wanting to see how events move forward and back, rather than just how they end. Poets, along with post-modern writers of fiction, also have more tolerance for the openness of narrative middles...
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Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 171–202.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Jackie E. Stallcup COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2008 WORKS CITED Anderson Celia Catlett Apseloff Marilyn Fain . Nonsense Literature for Children: Aesop to Seuss . Hamden, Connecticut : The Shoe String Press, Inc. , 1989 . Bakhtin Mikhail...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 103–109.
Published: 01 April 2014
..., and material culture studies to complicate often polarized readings of these topics. According to Bernstein, these fields are best served by recognizing the mutually constitutive qualities shared by both children and childhood. She claims childhood is a “process of surrogation, an endless attempt...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 137–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
... . Bettelheim Bruno . The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales . New York : Knopf , 1976 . Bottigheimer Ruth B. “Fairy Tales, Folk Narrative Research and History.” Social History 14 . 3 ( 1989 ): 343 - 357 . Brinks Ellen . “Nobody's Children’: Gothic...
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 81–103.
Published: 01 April 2018
... decades have concerns about child soldiers been so widely expressed and also quickly obscured than during the public debates around the advocacy campaign Kony 2012. A marketing firm working on behalf of the US humanitarian organization Invisible Children produced the film Kony 2012, which has come...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 April 2014
... . The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Reese Debbie . 2008 . “Indigenizing Children's Literature.” Journal of Language and Literacy Education 4 . 2 : 59 – 72 . Reimer Mavis . 2008 . “Homing and Unhoming: The Ideological...
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Genre (2006) 39 (1): 89–114.
Published: 01 March 2006
... clustered around children and teenagers. In this psychic milieu, same-sex desire is dis- 6 Any list of such works is necessarily partial; the category easily ranges from late nineteenth- century texts such as R. L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to mid-twenti- eth...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... Hiroshige Utagawa, Ushimachi, primer for children: Takanawa, No. 81 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 4/1857. Wood- We here find evidence that, unlike the Chinese, block print. (Courtesy of the Brooklyn the artists of Japan have, as we have already Museum of Art, Gift of Anna Ferris.) hinted...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 December 2014
... romanticized picture of parenthood. In this book, a manual intended to instruct Catholics in the foundations of Christian marriage, Thomas states that the bond between parents and children is rooted in “the deliberate action of the husband and wife who give themselves to one another and whose...
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Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 33–62.
Published: 01 March 2001
... is that Dr. Flint is the father of her child, suggesting a syllogistic logic in regards to the narrator's own plight. I mean not to imply that Dr. Flint fathered Brent's children (and by analogy that Dr. Norcom [lacobs's master] fathered lacobs's children), but that the "guilty practices" are clearly...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 21–38.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, would appear to have been to exclude, by the fewest and fittest words, the two classes of cases - children born of alien enemies in hostile occupation, and children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign state" (682). In other words, the Court in Wong...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 343–370.
Published: 01 December 2017
... beyond the strict boundaries of the home and the nuclear family unit is met with severe punishment. The films’ tragic conclusions, where distance between the mother and her children is enforced through death, imprisonment, or exile, warn women of the perils that await women who fail to commit...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 213–237.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of children. Bridget’s married friends all lead lives organized around their children. Her friend Magda, for example, is characterized first with reference to her mothering. Her house has good stuff in it, but her conversations are always fractured by her simultaneous attention to her children...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2021
... be—a broad church.” Expelling BANs would not be ecumenical, and she doubts that Wood would sincerely prefer a “literary landscape” without Midnight's Children or White Noise . Embedded in the first half of her brief essay is a lesson on BANs. Given the circumstances at the time, she understands...
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Genre (2006) 39 (3): 141–156.
Published: 01 September 2006
... campaigns focused on selling them as contributions to the reader's translational and ethnographic knowledge, respectively. New's autobiography is an installment in the series of "Children of Other Lands Books." New's particularity as a Korean-American author is at risk of being subsumed...
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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Schraeder, he renews his enthusiasm for life, his children gain a mother and a future in the culture industry, Austria is fictionally purified at the time of the Anschluss, and Maria finds a more fitting vocation for her gifts than nun, with the effect — this is the largest matter at stake...