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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Sean McCann Abstract In bringing literary sophistication to the zombie story, Colson Whitehead and Ling Ma also transformed the ideological core of the genre, changing it from a narrative of civilizational collapse and survival to a drama of professional-class status anxiety and status election...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 253–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
...) and Jazz (1992), Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day (1988), Samuel Delany’s Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984), and Colson Whitehead’s Intuitionist (1999). The point of convergence of these novels, in Dubey’s account, is their more troubled handling of the dilemmas that shoot through postmodern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 June 2005
...) and Jazz (1992), Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day (1988), Samuel Delany’s Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984), and Colson Whitehead’s Intuitionist (1999). The point of convergence of these novels, in Dubey’s account, is their more troubled handling of the dilemmas that shoot through postmodern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 259–261.
Published: 01 June 2005
...) and Jazz (1992), Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day (1988), Samuel Delany’s Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984), and Colson Whitehead’s Intuitionist (1999). The point of convergence of these novels, in Dubey’s account, is their more troubled handling of the dilemmas that shoot through postmodern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 261–265.
Published: 01 June 2005
...), and Colson Whitehead’s Intuitionist (1999). The point of convergence of these novels, in Dubey’s account, is their more troubled handling of the dilemmas that shoot through postmodern urban culture: “What forms of knowable com- munity are available in the novel environs of postmodern urban life? How...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 266–268.
Published: 01 June 2005
...) and Jazz (1992), Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day (1988), Samuel Delany’s Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984), and Colson Whitehead’s Intuitionist (1999). The point of convergence of these novels, in Dubey’s account, is their more troubled handling of the dilemmas that shoot through postmodern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 269–272.
Published: 01 June 2005
...), and Colson Whitehead’s Intuitionist (1999). The point of convergence of these novels, in Dubey’s account, is their more troubled handling of the dilemmas that shoot through postmodern urban culture: “What forms of knowable com- munity are available in the novel environs of postmodern urban life? How...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11638104.
Published: 06 March 2025
..., or the many examples of literary genre ctions Colson Whitehead s Zone One (2011) and Marlon James s Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) come immediately to mind that seem precisely to resist turning out market-friendly version of their genres. Here again, Sinykin s normative claim that conglomerate-era ction...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 139–172.
Published: 01 June 2017
... particularly like works that are intensely provocative of thought on big, serious issues but that leave the reader or viewer almost completely in the dark as to what the author “really thinks”—if, indeed, the author has settled views. Two favorites of mine are Colson Whitehead’s Intuitionist and Tom...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 541–545.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., “The texts of Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Dave Chappelle, Carl Hancock Rux, and Lezley Saar offer a prolegomenon to a progressive mixed race aesthetics and activism” (20). Elam is to be praised for situating aesthetic production as a form...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 545–549.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., “The texts of Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Dave Chappelle, Carl Hancock Rux, and Lezley Saar offer a prolegomenon to a progressive mixed race aesthetics and activism” (20). Elam is to be praised for situating aesthetic production as a form...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 549–553.
Published: 01 December 2013
... “Eve” or the “Race Remixed” series in the New York Times (2011). As Elam claims, “The texts of Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Dave Chappelle, Carl Hancock Rux, and Lezley Saar offer a prolegomenon to a progressive mixed race aesthetics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 554–555.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., “The texts of Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Dave Chappelle, Carl Hancock Rux, and Lezley Saar offer a prolegomenon to a progressive mixed race aesthetics and activism” (20). Elam is to be praised for situating aesthetic production as a form...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 556–559.
Published: 01 December 2013
... “Eve” or the “Race Remixed” series in the New York Times (2011). As Elam claims, “The texts of Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Dave Chappelle, Carl Hancock Rux, and Lezley Saar offer a prolegomenon to a progressive mixed race aesthetics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 560–562.
Published: 01 December 2013
... “Eve” or the “Race Remixed” series in the New York Times (2011). As Elam claims, “The texts of Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Dave Chappelle, Carl Hancock Rux, and Lezley Saar offer a prolegomenon to a progressive mixed race aesthetics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 563–566.
Published: 01 December 2013
... “Eve” or the “Race Remixed” series in the New York Times (2011). As Elam claims, “The texts of Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Dave Chappelle, Carl Hancock Rux, and Lezley Saar offer a prolegomenon to a progressive mixed race aesthetics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 566–569.
Published: 01 December 2013
... “Eve” or the “Race Remixed” series in the New York Times (2011). As Elam claims, “The texts of Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Dave Chappelle, Carl Hancock Rux, and Lezley Saar offer a prolegomenon to a progressive mixed race aesthetics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 321–348.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . 2006 . Three Books of Occult Philosophy . In Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy: Natural Magic, edited by Whitehead Wills F. . Mineola, NY : Dover . Alanus de Insulis [Alain de Lille] . 1855 . Summae Arte Praedictatoria . In vol. 210 of Patrologia Cursus Completus: Series Latina, edited...