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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Sarah Balkin August Strindberg once claimed that his novels and stories were “plays in epic form.” But Strindberg's fluid formulation of genre and medium is complicated and enriched by his understanding of narration and authorship as vampiric. In the novel The Red Room (1879) and the play The Dance...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (2): 111–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
... . 2004 . Harriet Jacobs: A Life . New York : Basic Civitas . Zimmerman Jean Turner . 1912 . Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls . Chicago : printed by author . Narrating “White Slavery!” in The Wire:
A Generic Genealogy
laura t. murphy, loyola university new orleans...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 33–62.
Published: 01 March 2001
... ( September 1994 ): 198 - 206 . SLIPPING THE SHACKLES OF SUBJECTIVITY:
THE NARRATOR AS RUNAWAY IN INCIDENTS
IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
MARK EDELMAN BOREN, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON
From the moment Jean Fagan Yellin published her findings that Harriet Jacobs
was indeed...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 111–137.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., prejudices, and tacit understandings that undergird a society locked in sectarian conflict. The article argues that the novel's form—a first‐person, past‐tense narration—lends the character‐narrator unique credibility as a teller because she has both firsthand experience and the critical distance...
Journal Article
Genre (2012) 45 (3): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2012
... painting portraying the royal family of Spain, is the narration of an epistemological break through the analysis of an image. In a similar fashion, Q , composed in 1999 by the four writers of the Italian collective, the Luther Blissett Project, takes a fictionalized visual representation as a point...
Journal Article
Genre (2018) 51 (2): 159–181.
Published: 01 July 2018
... expectations, with a particular interest in revising their affective dimensions, the article exposes Vargas’s approach to political engagement, one that derives from the emotional work undocumented migrants undertake to narrate themselves into hostile and vitriolic discourses of belonging. undocumented...
Journal Article
Genre (2020) 53 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to demonstrate how ranting narrators usurp and redeploy sovereign speech to create a spectacle of their own abjection. Examination of Dimitris Dimitriadis’s “Abomination” and selected stories from Christos Iconomou’s Good Will Come from the Sea foregrounds the ranter’s dispossession and explores the disruptive...
Journal Article
Genre (2020) 53 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 April 2020
... characters’ analysis of everything from America’s intervention in Afghanistan to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem illustrates the ways in which the light of history, metaphor, and narrative (mis) shape the pursuit of knowledge, our own knowledge is limited by the history and metaphors of our twin narrators...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 67–87.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of Jacob ). Both novels investigate the challenges inherent in the project of providing an image of the world, and alongside various interventions on the level of content, each examines the kind of world‐image that different approaches to narrative voice can produce. In Flights , the narrator's striving...
Journal Article
Genre (2021) 54 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 July 2021
... exposed to distinct forms of violence, anecdotes that reveal the concerns of the human narrator and her daughter but also highlight other animals, their unfamiliar phenomenologies, and their cautious cross-species partnerships. More specifically, the article tracks individual animals across the novel's...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Genre (2012) 45 (2): 299–327.
Published: 01 June 2012
... culminated in “Je ne parle pas français,” where her mastery of parodistic skaz (narration as oral speech) and the influence of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (1989) are elucidated. Finally, the essay discusses the “dialogic play” between “Je ne parle pas français” and “Bliss,” concluding...
Journal Article
Genre (2016) 49 (1): 27–50.
Published: 01 April 2016
... as the primary constituents of narrative and undermines the ostensible authority of the “narrator” in service of representing focalizers' internal experiences. Her experiments with spatiality and focalization are less overtly radical than those of high modernist or avant-garde fiction writers. Instead, her...
Journal Article
Genre (2016) 49 (2): 181–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
... Freudianism. Sex—or its repression—manifests in unlikely places until the libidinally trussed narrator finds everything horrific. However, this interpretative key cannot dispel an overwhelming strangeness. The novel's dread is not just psychological but phenomenological. Reading this effect via Graham...
Journal Article
Genre (2016) 49 (3): 385–405.
Published: 01 December 2016
... modifies the bildungsroman, one of the most pervasive permutations of the realist novel, to narrate two revolutionary histories: the story of its heroine's development of a communitarian outlook and sense of herself and the story of the realist novel shedding its individualism-inflected past. The essay...
Journal Article
Genre (2013) 46 (2): 117–121.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Franco “Bifo” Berardi Franco Berardi narrates his initial encounter with Antonio Negri in 1967 and his growing involvement with Potere Operaio (Workers' Power), which led to his expulsion from the Italian Communist Party, of which he had been a dissident member. He discusses the emergence...
Journal Article
Genre (2013) 46 (2): 137–144.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Ed Emery This essay narrates the author's experiences as a militant translator and publisher of Italian Autonomist Marxism, including many works by Antonio Negri, from the seventies to the present. He describes his recent discussions with Negri, and his personal indignation at finding the results...
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Genre (2013) 46 (2): 175–182.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Michael Hardt Michael Hardt narrates his first meetings with Antonio Negri and describes the development of their collaboration and their compositional methods in relation to their respective backgrounds and critical aims. Their collaboration began when Negri invited Hardt to join the editorial...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 December 2013
... earlier European bildungsromans is, first, its relationship with its revolutionary moment, that is, to the Zimbabwean independence struggle, and, second, its deployment of narration and description, or of realist and naturalist narrative modes, in representing an epistemology of postcolonial resistance...
Journal Article
Genre (2011) 44 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Bimbisar Irom The article explores the novel form's engagement in narrating the crucial shift from the Old Left to the New Left in the United States by analyzing Norman Mailer's claims to have written a collective novel, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History...
Journal Article
Genre (2022) 55 (3): 205–233.
Published: 01 December 2022
... such as the one in which Ellison was raised. (His essay largely narrates “a personal dream” that symbolically equates Lincoln's assassination with the untimely death of Ellison's own father.) In obliquely writing back to his critics and to then‐regnant theories about Black lives, Ellison mingles quasi...
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