...Pieter Vermeulen Starting from the observation that the notion of the Anthropocene invites us to alter the ways in which we imagine human life (and the relations between different human lives), this essay argues that transnational accounts of literature and culture—in the fairly new field...

... in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Callaloo 19 : 1 ( 1996 ): 209 - 225 . Doherty Thomas . “Harriet Jacobs's Narrative Strategies: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Southern Literary Journal 19 : 1 ( Fall 1986 ): 79 - 91 . Doriani Beth Maclay . “Black Womanhood in Nineteenth...

... OF OKLAHOMA 2005 REFERENCES Agamben Giorgio . `` Une biopolitique mineure: un entretien avec Giorgio Agamben '' in Vacarme (Paris) 10 , Winter 1999 , 4 - 10 . —. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Trans. Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford, CA : Stanford U P , 1998...

... Company , 2003 , 15 - 22 . Yule Emma Sarepta . `` Filipino Feminism .'' Scribner's June 1920 : 737 , 743 in Record Group 350, Box 871, File 17087-6, U.S. National Archives, College Park, Maryland . A FILIPINO WOMAN IN AMERICA: THE LIFE AND WORK OF ENCARNACION ALZONA...

...Timothy Dow Adams Fuchs Miriam , The Text is Myself: Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2004 . COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Egan Susanna . Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary...

... . New York : Simon and Schuster . Berry Paul Bostridge Mark . 1995 . Vera Brittain: A Life . London : Chatto and Windus . Blake Nicholas . 1935 . “Gaudeamus Igitur.” Spectator , November 15 , 828 . Coomes David . 1992 . Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage...

...Sarah Allison This essay places Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë in the context of responses it provoked from contemporaries, including their retrospective rereadings of Jane Eyre . By 1857, the novel form had come a long way from its eighteenth-century origins in the roman à clef...

... of The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life , by Anahid Nersessian . Critical Inquiry (website), December 4 . https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/marjorie_levinson_reviews_the_calamity_form/ . McGann Jerome . 1983 . The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation . Chicago : University...

...Timothy Wientzen This article argues for the centrality of ideas of automatism and habit within the political and aesthetic life of literary modernism. D. H. Lawrence's characteristic interest in the raptures of sexuality and corporality are read in relation to shifts in the nature of political...

... draw on recent research that has turned to the private concerns of everyday life, or micropolitics, under fascist regimes. McCullers's emphasis on the micropolitical dimension of small-town American life echoes these recent insights in fascism studies, demonstrating the evident transatlantic context...

... less understood is the lifelong nature of her empathy: she is a habitual empathizer and has been her entire adult life. Critical opinion generally considers Clarissa's empathy for Septimus an exceptional moment that she experiences only in isolation. But her social inclination to bring others together...

... that make them marketable to a broad new audience for modernism. First revealing how literary life writing of the 1930s establishes its place in the historical developments of the genre, from “table talk” to autobiography to celebrity gossip, the article then argues that a key tension at the heart...

... of the Jewish memorial book, a literary genre both testimonial and folkloric, on Foer's depiction of shtetl life and its destruction during the Holocaust. Jewish memorial books, encyclopedic record books composed by Holocaust survivors, memorialize, with deep nostalgic longing, the lost inhabitants and culture...

... analysis as a result of the separation of private life from public life. In the recent past such labor was sometimes delegated to the state, but today it is increasingly delegated to the labor market. This produces the “wagification” of reproductive labor, which results in large-scale migrations of care...

... Elizabeth Bennet's desires, we see them actualized in the same way that domestic life is constructed in the Bennet home—through repetitive and circular movements that straddle the divide between the concrete and the abstract. Mining the creative tension between physical movement and narrative movement...

...Shirley Brice Heath This essay examines narrative forms and types of metaphor that relate to “getting on with life”—that middle part of life's story, which is neither start nor finish. Narrative theorists tend to assume that humans, since they began telling stories in ancient times, have relished...

... from a distinctly biblical context, mapping the permutations and vicissitudes of his protagonist's rise and fall in fortunes to the life and narrative of Saint Paul—primarily his conversion and his epistolary interventions in the shape of a universal(ized) Christianity. The authors ground this Pauline...

...Lauren Silber This article examines the public essays of the immigrant activist Jose Antonio Vargas. It situates his 2011 New York Times Magazine essay “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” and his 2012 Time magazine essay “Not Legal, Not Leaving” in the larger historical context...

... of the Anthropocene. Only Lovers was often dismissed by critics as easy on substantial ideas and heavy on seductive sheen, and yet the film deftly deploys the vampire trope to explore enduring attachments, as well as endangered and endangering ways of life. Set in Detroit and Tangier, Jarmusch’s film tracks...

... as sufficient to the aspirations and desires of Black political life and reorients Black political subjectivity back to what Singh calls “Black worldliness.” Genre, Vol. 53, No. 1 April 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8210750 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Abandoning This Sinking Ship America : The Classical...