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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Madhu Krishnan Abstract In June 2020, a group of more than one hundred African writers published a statement of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter uprisings that emerged around the world in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In this statement are a number of claims around the extension...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of Novel: A Forum on Fiction offers a contemporary take on the relationship between Black politics and the novel, our journal's privileged cultural object, by considering the global reach of Black Lives Matter (BLM). The contributors to the issue treat BLM as a fresh opportunity to engage the question...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 8–18.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Kinohi Nishikawa Abstract The Black Lives Matter movement experienced a groundswell of support in the summer of 2020. The scale of mobilization was staggering, with marches and rallies held in every corner of the country. Since then, support for the movement has dropped, and some see...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 19–37.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Grace A. Musila Abstract While the Black Lives Matter movement is widely recognized and supported in Africa, its framing prioritizes experiences of anti‐Blackness in the United States and the Black diaspora. This is partly owing to the movement's genesis as a direct response to domestic forms...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., vis‐à‐vis her pregnancy, and the endless possibilities her future self and her future child can take. By using a narrative form—autofiction—that embodies the relational, fluid self of a queer, diasporic, Black subject, Wenzel's novel best captures Black Lives Matter's desire to center those folx who...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., this article shows how 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests indicate the contours of what we might think of as a “post‐global” politics: that is, a movement that reflects a globally informed analysis but nonetheless draws only implicitly on ideas of global commonality. National movements affirm the unity...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 16–36.
Published: 01 May 2020
... emphasis on invisibility's applicability to essentially all human interaction is structurally analogous to the indignant reframing of the powerful “Black Lives Matter” into the vacuous “All Lives Matter.” This dynamic is furthermore discernable in Ellison's reception by large swathes of the white literary...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of the few. 44 For the development of the die-in by ACT UP, see Reed 195 . The practice has taken on new significance in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. 45 My discussion here is inspired in part by Joanna Zylinska's call for a “minimal ethics for the Anthropocene”; Timothy...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2011
... House intern surfaced dur-
ing the summer of 1998? For Morrison, the answer lay not in moral outrage over adultery,
which after all is a fairly routine matter, but in the blackness that Clinton’s biography ven-
triloquizes. “Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 362–373.
Published: 01 August 2018
... ] charges against this man.’” As he is being dragged into the station, the drunk man sobers up and apologizes, swearing that he was angry about another matter and that he holds no “race prejudice against those Black gospoda [gentlemen].” The black men take pity on the man and accept his apology. “We...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Times quoted the Swedish Academy's description of Morrison's work as a kind of lustrous poetry that seeks to liberate language from the fetters of race, its cover story went on to identify Morrison as the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize and to define her subject matter as “black American life...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... it seems to me that in any Black book, no matter what it deals with or what the story line is, you realize that the people are not free. You know the conversation always starts off with “The trouble with us is . . . ” We've heard that millions of times. The trouble with us is that we're not free. We're...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
... knowledge, an epistemological gain. “Outside
of the mind you may study mind,” he tells his classmate, and “outside of matter”
you “have a striking view of the intestines of civilization” (223). Here we can begin
to see more clearly why Du Bois figures race as a spatial dimension: the black
subject’s...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 98–121.
Published: 01 May 2000
... of dead animals to mere accumulations of matter. Like
Derrida, he resists the generalization implicit in the category "animal"
("L'animal" 280-82), preferring the impossible task of acknowledging the singu-
larity of each individual creature.
Ian Hacking, in a review of The Lives of Animals...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 303–325.
Published: 01 November 2004
... : Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism . Durham,: Duke UP, 1997 . Frankenberg , Ruth , ed. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993 . Gaines , Kevin K. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... doesn't genuinely aspire to a world shaped by cosmopolitan struggle—after all, he is trying to live an integrated life as a Black man in Paris; he is just too jaded to wage it. This is why it is frustrating that Paul Gilroy should commend The Stone Face for its transnational re-framings but fault...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 361–365.
Published: 01 November 2009
... achieve much of their political force. Via a hard-boiled form born of 1930s cynicism, Mosley's Easy Rawlins novels insist on the still-lived experience of “being black there.” © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of the novel suggests
Ellison’s sense of the importance of a Southern black consciousness after all, at least insofar as
it intersects with matters of black mental health.
campbell | neurosis and anti-psychiatric animus in invisible man 463
Busby, Mark. Ralph Ellison. Boston...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 18–51.
Published: 01 August 2007
... document of New World expfora-
tion, and you see that we have here a degree of verisimilitude quite out of the
ordinary.
There is a complex politics and sociology to what is documented and how and
why. We make history not from whole lives but from scraps and detritus (no
matter how official...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... reenactment in Remainder and one describing the objects found on a storm drain cover (“one large men's black plastic work glove,” “one dense mat of oak pollen,” “one unblemished dead rat,” “one white plastic bottle cap,” “one smooth stick of wood”) from Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter ( 4 )—a book...
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