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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 361–365.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Daylanne K. English In this essay I offer a temporal-philosophical and literary-political reading of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins detective novel series. African American literature has conventionally been understood as following its own timeline; however, ascribing a distinct temporality to black...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
... as the strategies themselves, particularly in light of other post-1990s developments in Asian American and African American literature. The renewal of the white immigrant saga in the era of the genome certainly bears both aesthetic and political analysis. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Eugenides...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and even diminish the achievements of black women writers and their contributions to American letters. Sources from the New York Times to Henry Louis Gates Jr. labeled Morrison's win a “great day” for black women writers, for black Americans, and for African American literature; but few if any commentaries...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
...J. Bradford Campbell This essay argues that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) provides promising ground and a certain imperative to investigate the underexamined intersections between literature and the history of psychiatry. Especially where African American literature is concerned, there has...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for “the Black Box,” the perfect elevator. The novel announces its participation in the tradition of African American literature by performing numerous standard tropes; it responds to the call of antebellum slave narratives by linking literacy and freedom and addresses topics such as double consciousness...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 437–442.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of court, and then published Randall's novel—it misstated the political nature of parody to achieve a legal benefit. By sharpening the definition of parody to include the trope of irony, I demarcate the fine line separating African American literature's historic attacks on racial stereotypes from...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... literature into the mechanism of the world literary system, writers and translators transformed localism into an assimilable cult of culture. By looking at the shift of value in Chinese literature in the 1980s in relation to a change of consciousness in Euro-American literary culture in the same period...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Russ Castronovo JARRETT GENE ANDREW , Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature ( Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2007 ), pp. 232 , cloth, $49.95 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Howells William Dean...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 273–276.
Published: 01 August 2003
...-American literature at Ohio University.
During the past several years, McWilliams has recuperated the unpublished novels and
studied the influential career of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), a Cleveland-born
African-American essayist, short story writer, and novelist. By doing so, he has...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 May 2019
...,” like the neglected texts she considers in this chapter—that is, the “missing archive” of the chapter title (129). In this way, contemporary narratives of slavery can work as escape routes that readers must not take. In chapter 4, “Reading African American Literature Now,” Levy-Hussen extends her...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Novels of Martin R. Delany and Sutton Griggs .” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 5 . 3 ( 1978 ): 26 – 36 . Wilson Ivy G . “ The Brief and Wondrous Life of the Anglo-African Magazine ; or, Antebellum African American Editorial Practice and Its Afterlives .” Publishing...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 303–325.
Published: 01 November 2004
... Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980 . Appiah , Anthony . “The Conservation of ‘Race.’” Black American Literature Forum 23 ( 1989 ): 37 –60. Blount , Marcellus . “The Preacherly Text: African American Poetry and Vernacular Performance.” PMLA 107 ( 1992 ): 582 –93. Brawley...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 528–530.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Lloyd Pratt Lordi Emily , Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature ( New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 2013 ), pp. 304, cloth, $85.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Since the publication of Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic , only...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Ann Ducille Works Cited Jacobs Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . 1861 . Ed. Yellin Jean Fagan . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1987 . Wallace Maurice O. Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): iv.
Published: 01 November 2004
... Literature and the Politics of Place (Oxford UP, forthcoming).
GENE JARRETT is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.
His article here is part of a larger monograph, recently completed, about race, realism, and
the historical "problem" of African American...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... . “ Critical Essay Kelley’s Writing Style .” CliffsNotes on “A Different Drummer.” 21 Jul. 2022 < https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/a-different-drummer/critical-essay/kelleys-writing-style >. Gaston Jessie Ruth . “ The Case of Voodoo in New Orleans .” Africanisms in American...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 376–379.
Published: 01 August 2016
... Lucas, Third World Newark (1946), to demonstrate the “commodification and consumption of the black woman's intersecting oppressions” in the literary marketplace. While the novel, according to Hardison, is a “critical interlocutor in the rape rhetoric” of African American literature, the choices made...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
... . Jablon , Madelyn . Black Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African American Literature . Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1997 . Jackson , H. Jerome . “Sci-Fi Tales from Octavia Butler.” Crisis 101 ( 1994 ): 4 –5, 10. Jameson , Fredric . Postmodernism: Or the Cultural Logic of Late...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): iv.
Published: 01 November 2002
...: A
Polycenfric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History. He is
completing a critical study entitled Postmodernism, The African American and The Global
Periphery, and American and African American Narratives: Issues of Otherization.
SHERI I. HOEM is Associate Professor...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): v.
Published: 01 November 2000
... Press. WILFRED D. SAMUELS is Associate Professor of English
and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. He has published on African American fiction
and autobiography and is the President of the African American Literature and Culture
Society. ...
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