... Sentimental Novel nell sullivan, university of houston – downtown In his review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Michael Chabon (2007, 1) notes the novel’s consonance with “the growing sense in the minds of readers and writers alike, since the mid-­twentieth century, of the plausibility...

... as the nonprofit care regime that has arisen to oppose and ameliorate its effects. Because these structures converge around overt and subterranean investments in settler colonial frontier fantasy, the essay focuses particularly on Lost Children Archive 's engagement with the tradition of the white male road novel...

..., and their two children who are stepsiblings on a road trip from New York City to the US Southwest. Along the way, characters take photographs, and, more unusually, record their own voices and the sounds of the environments they pass through. This article extends explorations of how sound works in the novel...

... closely at a version of the postcolonial bildungsroman proposed by the Kannada writer U. R. Ananthamurthy in his 1965 novel Samskara . The novel follows an orthodox Brahmin priest from Karnataka who, disillusioned by the corruption and moral decay in his community, embarks on a pilgrimage to rediscover...

... ideologies that were tacitly endorsed in the traditional “American road novel” (e.g., Kerouac's On the Road ). Breaking from that legacy, Lost Children Archive attempts to “imagine anti-imperialist solidarity aesthetics” that are contrary to the surveillance regime that dominates the US-Mexico border...

... Actually Exists”: Biopolitics and Utopian Praxis in William S. Burroughs’s The Place of Dead Roads christian haines, dartmouth college William S. Burroughs’s late trilogy, consisting of the novels Cities of the Red Night (1981), The Place of Dead Roads (1983), and The Western Lands (1987...

... that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up. (309) The dream, which becomes the basis of McCarthy’s next novel, The Road (2006), invokes the possibility of generational continuity, expressing a desire for filial transmission...

... . Johnson Charles . `` Keeping the Blues at Bay .'' The New York Times Book Review ( March 10 , 1996 ): 4 . Karrer Wolfgang . `` The Novel as Blues: Albert Murray's Train Whistle Guitar .'' The Afro-American Novel since 1960 . Ed. Bruck Peter Karrer Wolfgang . Amsterdam...

...) and elaborated on by Lolita, Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), John Updike’s Rabbit, Run (1960), and Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road (1961), among many others. This pattern, which has come to dominate the suburban novel genre, runs as follows: the oppressive conventionality...

...). Kim Carsons s metamorphosis in The Place of Dead Roads (1983) from a mor- 274 GEN RE bid youth of unwholesome proclivities into a gunslinger who spills the brains of two homophobes makes manifest the transformation of the dandy into the cowboy of Burroughs s late novels (Burroughs 1983: 23; Gutkin...

... Morris, The Composite Novel: The Short Story Cycle in Transition (New York: Twayne, 1995), 4. 3 Robert M. Luscher, "The Short Story Sequence: An Open Book," in Short Story Theory at a Cross- roads, ed. Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellen Clarey (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press...

..., and the project of postcolonial emancipation, on the other. Managing contradictions is a standard feature of the bidungsroman, though, and the essay argues that what makes Nervous Conditions interesting is the way it addresses this particular core contradiction. What marks Dangarembga's novel as distinct from...

...Phillip E. Wegner COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2006 WORKS CITED Armstrong Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1987 . Arrighi Giovanni . The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power...

... early US fiction ultimately finds themselves with a conundrum: why do so many of the works we designate as novels stray so far afield of the generic requirements that we associate with the novelistic genre? The simple—perhaps even simplistic—answer to that question has always involved an argument about...

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...Mitchum Huehls Abstract “The New Opioid Novel” explores a collection of contemporary US fiction published in the 2010s that tackles the current opioid crisis. Differentiating these new opioid novels from earlier opioid literature, opioid memoirs, and other contemporary drug literature, this essay...

... that are already too late. Out of such failures grows the increasing density of affect. In the novel’s opening pages, against the infernal backdrop of the perpetually smoking hill- sides, Jane and Roche make their way to Thrushcross Grange: “The asphalt-road was wet-black, distorted in the distance...

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..., and the modern medical and judicial sys- tem, on the other. Throughout the unfolding escalation are tantalizing hints of possible solutions, of roads not taken — possibilities that come to naught at the dark close of the novel yet nonetheless call into question the inevitability of the tragic ending...