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 But an unpublished novel by W. E. B. Du Bois offers a strikingly different analysis...

..., the Factory Boy . London: Henry Colburn, 1840 . Wallins , Roger P. “Victorian Periodicals and the Emerging Social Conscience.” Victorian Periodicals Newsletter 8 June 1975 : 47 –59. Knowing Too Much and Never Enough: Knowledge and Moral...

... 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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...Kalyan Nadiminti kalyan.nadiminti@northwestern.edu Madhumita Lahiri , Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone ( Evanston, IL : Northwestern UP , 2020 ), pp. 232 , paper, $34.95 , cloth, $99.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023...

... 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...

... Kahn. New York: Grosset, 1971 . 110 –48. Said , Edward . Orientalism . New York: Knopf, 1978 . Sangari , Kumkum . “The Politics of the Possible.” Cultural Critique 7 ( 1987 ): 157 –86. Silverstone , Marilyn . Lagos, young Nigerian boys amusing themselves in ‘magic...

.... 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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...: they trace in chronological sequence the activities of the same three characters, Simón, whose exclusive perspective holds sway throughout; David, the boy he adopted on the voyage from their previous existence; and Inés, the woman he chooses to be David's mother—not to mention the dog, Bolívar...

... Peter . “Intimacy and Affliction: DuBois, Race, and Psychoanalysis.” Modern Language Quarterly 64 . 1 ( 2003 ): 1 – 32 . Davidson Adenike Marie . The Black Nation Novel: Imagining Homeplaces in Early African American Literature . Chicago : Third World , 2008 . Du Bois W. E...

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... in God ( The Scarlet Letter ), or men who encounter a racially charged designation that proposes them as “boy” instead of man (Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ). It becomes somewhat intriguing to notice that Bramen's book doesn't try to account for these works. They never attempt to be nice...

... 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...

... : Library of America , 1984 . Vol. 1 of Literary Criticism . ———. The Novels and Tales of Henry James . 1907–09 . New York ed. 24 vols . Fairfield : Augustus M. Kelley , 1979 . ———. “The Pupil.” The Novels and Tales of Henry James . Vol. 11 . 511 – 76 . ———. A Small Boy and Others...