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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 345–363.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Madhu Dubey Octavia Butler's various novels of enslavement are generally read within the critical framework of the fantastic neo-slave narrative. According to critical consensus, even as this genre disrupts realism in order to reveal continuities between past and present, it nonetheless retains...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 299–311.
Published: 01 November 2002
...JERRY PHILLIPS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Bauman , Zygmunt . Modernity and the Holocaust . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989 . Beal , Frances M. “Black Scholar Interview with Octavia Butler: Black Women and Science Fiction Genre.” Black Scholar 17 ( 1986...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 267–292.
Published: 01 August 2001
...MARILYN BUTLER Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Works Cited Beaufort, Frances. Letter to William Beaufort. 2 July 1797. Ms. 13176. Edgeworth Letters, to 1817. National Library of Ireland, Dublin. Bentham , Jeremy . “A Pupil of Miss Edgeworth’s.” Examiner 20 February 1814: 124–26...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 436–438.
Published: 01 November 2006
... in the process many of the contradictions that underlie bourgeois subjec-
tivity and ideation.
Incorporating Judith Butler's sense of a putative heterosexuality dependent on "pre-
empting the possibility of homosexual attachment," Haggerty understands how queer de
sire's "unlivable passion...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
... of North Carolina P, 2001 . Benston , Kimberly W. Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism . London and New York: Routledge, 2000 . Butler , Octavia . Parable of the Sower . New York: Warner, 1993 . Delany , Samuel R. “Generic Protocols: Science Fiction...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2020
...” that they address. That the role of this “you” comes to be occupied by us of course complicates matters, since we are unlikely to be their “likes”: butlers, clones, or famous musicians/saviors. And yet, had we not failed to “inhabit,” as Stevens might say, the role of the “you” that they ascribe to us, full...
FIGURES
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., Lord Darlington, cuts him off entirely from the possibility of collectivity with the “struggling ‘we’” ( 266 ). 3 Stevens will ironically observe of his dying father's butler accommodation that it was like “having stepped into a prison cell” (64). 4 For the best of many essays...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 13–18.
Published: 01 May 2012
... by speculating about the cultural packaging of sociocognitive complexity and about the levels of sociocognitive complexity that we expect from and reward in our students' papers. Works Cited Austen Jane . Pride and Prejudice . New York : Oxford UP , 2004 . Butler Nancy Petrus Hugo...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 232–266.
Published: 01 August 2001
.... “The Didacticism of Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent. ” Studies in English Literature , 1500–1900 17 ( 1977 ): 593 –605. Brown , Charles Brockden . “The Romance of Real Life.” Somnambulism and Other Stories . Ed. Alfred Weber. New York: Peter Lang, 1987 . 175 –80. Butler , Marilyn . Maria...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 212–234.
Published: 01 August 2000
...
"concrete projects" and citing Catherine MacKinnon as an exemplary academic
feminist because every one of her pages gets the reader's hands dirty in the "real
issues of legal and institutional change," Nussbaum's specific target is Judith
Butler. Butler, Nussbaum claims, leads a generation...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 21–38.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and criminality to convey a significant point about paranoia: it is not for everyone. With their boneheaded but nonetheless baleful investigation, Jim and John embody what Judith Butler calls “schematic racism and white paranoia.” In a 1993 essay of that name, which analyzes the trial of the four Los...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 270–286.
Published: 01 August 2021
... (as Gilbert and Gubar have suggested) but also more grievable in the Butlerian sense; 14 it renders her more fully human—a contested category according to Butler. Specifically, Catherine's death as a vulnerable, enervated, and physically weakened white woman creates this effect as it moves her...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the Army ‘Intelligence’ Tests Measured.” Opportunity 2 . 19 ( 1924 ): 197 –202. Busby , Mark . Ralph Ellison . Boston: Twayne, 1991 . Butler , Robert . “The City as Psychological Frontier in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Charles Johnson's Faith and the Good Thing.” Hakutani...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 316–318.
Published: 01 November 2002
..., Margaret
Walker, Paule Marshall, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Lucille
Clifton, Sherley Anne Williams, Gloria Naylor, Julie Dash, Ntozake Shange, Smone
Schwartz-Bart, Michelle Cliff, Jean Rhys, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Bharati
Mukherjee, and Jamaica Kincaid. I...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 147–162.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., 1997 . Burgess , Miranda . British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740–1830 . New York: Cambridge UP, 2000 . Butler , Marilyn . Jane Austen and the War of Ideas . 1975. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987 . Edgeworth , Maria . Belinda . Ed. Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick 1801...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 265–288.
Published: 01 November 2007
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trajectories of progressive butlers like himself: "For our generation .. . viewed the
world not as a ladder, but more as a wheel .. . revolving with these great houses at
the hub, their mighty decisions emanating out to all else, rich and poor, who re-
voked around them" (Remains 115). Even given his...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 47–52.
Published: 01 May 2010
... . Appleby , Joyce . Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992 . Arendt , Hannah . The Human Condition . 1958. 2nd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998 . Butler , Judith . Giving an Account of Oneself . New York: Fordham UP, 2005...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 353–355.
Published: 01 November 2004
..., and philoso-
phers, with Chantal Mouffe and Judith Butler figuring prominently. In brief, Esteve's corn-
mitment is to a structuring binary between an aesthetics of crowd figures (or even a sublime
that transcends ordinary aesthetics), and the irrepressible Kantian a priori that under-
writes...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 August 2006
...," the authors maintain, on Judith Butler's authority, "can become radical gestures
within a matrix of power relations." "By rejecting the jacket and all that it represents," we
read, "Lionel begins to accept the culture he has been taught to repudiate." Lionel, how-
ever, has been "taught" no such thing...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 216–239.
Published: 01 November 2007
... ironic commentary about the emotional
failings of his ambitious butler. But the novel takes seriously the idea that inter-
national, collective events can be transformed by local, individual actions. By
encouraging readers to notice both proximate and distant networks, Ishiguro
measures...
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