... 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 But an unpublished novel by W. E. B. Du Bois offers a strikingly different analysis...

..., and the March of Intellect . Durham: Duke UP, 2001 . Riley , Denise . “Am I That Name?”: Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988 . Trollope , Frances . The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy . London: Henry Colburn...

... that, for W. E. B. Du Bois, both make Black subjectivity possible and seek to regulate it. W. E. B. Du Bois's turn to the novel with his 1911 The Quest of the Silver Fleece suggests an attempt to extricate himself from the always partial and often misrepresentative nature of the archive. Du Bois had...

... improvisers of the new. Characters such as Toloki in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995), Ahl in Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones (2011), and Kotchikpa, the boy narrator in Uwem Akpan's “Fattening for Gabon” (2008), each navigate a terrain of insecurity to improbable ends. They challenge us to rethink our assumptions...

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... of foreign relations" (1). Her ar- gument ranges through texts from historical romances to Mark Twain's popular lectures on and writing about Hawaii, best-selling novels from the turn-of-the century, W. E. B. Du Bois's sociological analyses of US race relations, and the movie Citizen Kane to demon...

..., romance and realism—permits her to offer fresh readings linking authors as seemingly disparate as Pauline Hopkins, W. E. B. Du Bois, Joseph Casely Hayford, Chinua Achebe, Richard Wright, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Caryl Phillips. Goyal also turns her attention to less clearly literary figures...

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.... As Norton watches, one of the women gently pushes forward a young boy of eight o'anas (which means that he is “around ten by the Western calendar”), who accompanies the chief inside the hut. What follows is essentially a ritual of sexual initiation, whereby the boy is sodomized by nine different men from...

... of nineteenth-century literature and culture. In hs final (quite substantive) chapter, Evans returns to Du Bois and the legacy of Boasian anthropology, offering a finely-focused optic for viewing the ethnographic irnagi- nation in American literature. Although theories of diffusion, detachability...

... into intellectual life, it is not through the female protago- nist Lyndall but through the boy, Waldo Farber, the subject of "love glances" toward an unnamed male Stranger who leaves him with a book. Although in principle leaving no place for the woman, the masculine erotic model is used cryptically...

... and maddeningly dilatory novel. A young man is attracted to an older man he comes to call his teacher. He senses a deep darkness in the teacher, who repeatedly drops hints to the boy of the cause of his soul’s corruption, hinting and never quite revealing anything much at all. Of course the mystery of the tea...

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... theoretica and reflected in the interrelated subjects of the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. David's dancing surpasses not only the rules of reason but the laws of nature themselves: “As if the earth has lost its downward power, the boy seems to shed all bodily weight, to become...

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... to “turn the historical amnesia of disavowal into recognition” (12). The very violence of imperial expansion, in the name of “manifest destiny,” was accompanied by the expansion of concepts of human sympathy. W. E. B. Du Bois even declared, in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), that the nineteenth century...

... thirty-five bad experiences with boys); the man from the PI0 returns to try to convince him that his lack of confidence in the next boy is un- founded, and to offer him assistance in procuring a thirty-sixth child. This confi- dence game comes to its final (and financial) conclusion when Pitch...