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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... whose 1920s‐era story registers as actually being about the post–civil rights period in which the novel was published. The essay goes on to suggest that such an allegorical function is served by the African American novel in general, insofar as African American novels are understood to thematize...
FIGURES
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Rolland Murray Literary and cultural critics have tended to interpret African American literary postmodernism as a broad threat to the cohesion of racial community. Alternatively, this essay submits that contemporary novels by Charles Johnson, Andrea Lee, and others have also construed...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the novel has within the African American literary tradition and what role fiction can play in interrogating the limits of a mode of political thought hemmed in by a racialized political economy. alex_moskowitz@emerson.edu Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 This content is made freely available...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
...: A Forum on Fiction 30 . 3 ( 1997 ): 309 –28. Kostelanetz , Richard . Politics in the African-American Novel: James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison . New York: Greenwood, 1991 . Krasteva , Yonka . “Chaos and Pattern in Ellison's Invisible Man...
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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): 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): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
... while it remained a historical reality. Faced with the notion that African Americans had “no family tree,” some black writers responded with novels that located recognizable bloodlines for African American families. But an unpublished novel by W. E. B. Du Bois offers a strikingly different analysis...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 364–385.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the novel interacts with transnational models of black national identity in order to better define the position of African Americans both within and beyond the borders of the United States. This article bridges the gap between these interpretations by showing how Hopkins employed Jamesian psychology...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 275–295.
Published: 01 August 2013
... to this final twist to the
tale? The American declines to rule over the African tribe, leaving them to run
their own affairs, but at the same time he violates their most sacred religious and
political institutions. The novel had held its protagonist up to early ridicule for
imagining that a trip...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 423–430.
Published: 01 November 2009
... cultural impact, let alone the relation-
ship between the two. In the present instance, our understanding of Bleak House is
altered when the novel is viewed through the lens of its African Americanization,
but a proper understanding of this phenomenon itself requires close attention to
the text...
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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 (2022) 55 (1): 19–37.
Published: 01 May 2022
... their dependence on Euro-American literary patronage “with an awareness of colonial historical and cultural dependency and the limitations it foists on them” ( Ede 113 ). As Eileen Julien notes in her conceptualization of what she terms the extroverted African novel, this novel and its outward address...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
... foreword to the volumes in the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers series ( 1988 ), African American women published more novels and other works of fiction between 1890 and 1910 than black men had published in the preceding half century (xvi). The 1920s and 1930s had been...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 208–227.
Published: 01 August 2023
... then with African Americans. By examining a critically overlooked function of the Albany house—its spatial representation of the novel's plot—this article shows how narratives of Black people escaping slavery along with late nineteenth‐century definitions of vulgarity centrally define Isabel's pursuit of freedom...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 381–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... function of the African American novel; and Deidre Lynch turns to scrapbooks to loosen the novel's formal grip in a way that blends its conceptual with its material status. In order to think through questions of form and medium we must address a further distinction between forms and form. To return...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., including in Germany. Emine Lâle Demirtürk describes vulnerability as one of the key themes at the center of African American novels in the era of Black Lives Matter. In this era, Black people are battling not only physical violence, but also a “new racism” that works through “colorblind racism” (2). 4...
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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
... a group of African and Caribbean writers associated with the Paris-based journal Présence Africaine . The root-seeking movement achieved its ultimate expression in the novel Red Sorghum . Through an analysis of Red Sorghum and its relation to the “Red classics,” my essay's second part reevaluates...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 376–379.
Published: 01 August 2016
... largely inattentive to the literary production of black female subjectivity. Ayesha K. Hardison's Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature offers a unique critical approach to the period by bringing together understudied and overlooked novels by female and male...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 490–494.
Published: 01 November 2015
... her argument largely through slave-castle photography, readers of Novel should consider how this critique might alter the way we read several African American novels, including The Color Purple , a novel that offers only a limited view of Africa through the fictional “Olinka” village. “I do...
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