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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 August 2015
... literary artifacts—how different kinds of value accrue to them—thanks to the social-indexical relations established through their use. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Marcel Proust language-in-use pragmatics indexicality sociology context Imagine listening...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 67–89.
Published: 01 May 2014
... experimentation drawn from a global cultural palette while exploring domestic or local themes. Like their Egyptian literary forerunners, these young writers addressed social and political questions, but both the urban and the geopolitical context within which they worked had altered dramatically as a result...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Jeanne-Marie Jackson Abstract This essay argues for a structuralist approach to reading the recurrence of formal, geographic, and epistemological schisms in the Zimbabwean novel from the 1970s through today. The essay makes this claim within a wider context of plurality's fetishization in African...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2019
... their intrinsic limitations while calling attention to the new conceptual work each genre's conventions might perform in unexpected narrative contexts. In its approach to generic hybridization, North and South typifies Condition of England novels, which routinely relocate existing generic conventions of many...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... struggles for freedom that are always relevant for their present‐day Black readership, irrespective of the historical contexts in which the novels themselves are set. Finally, the essay notes that the 1988 trade paperback edition of Mumbo Jumbo substitutes different images for some of the ones that were...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 May 2021
... gradually taken on reactionary undertones in the context of changing expectations since the 1980s and 1990s. By contrast, the second phase, from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, is marked by a more troubled relationship between Vargas Llosa's fictional works and his extraliterary activities. Public...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Peter Leman Abstract This article examines Nuruddin Farah's 1979 novel Sweet and Sour Milk , asking how we read representations of postcolonial mourning and living death in the context of global authoritarianism. The first novel in Farah's influential dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Brouillette have described the novel form in an African context as both “exhausted” and “residual,” inextricably implicated in the violence of neoliberalism. By drawing on comparative readings of non‐novelistic work such as Marechera's House of Hunger and the Chimurenga Chronic, this essay concludes...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Madhumita Lahiri Abstract With the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, extensive restrictions on travel and migration effectively destroyed the global mobility of persons, while widespread supply chain disruptions meant that commodities were no longer as globally mobile. Drawing on this 2020 context...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in relation to a distinctly twentieth-century context within which, as Hannah Arendt has it, human action came to be seen as more dangerous than ever before. Ishiguro's nonactors can be seen as the legacy, but also as the mutations, of this understanding in our own era and in the contemporary novel...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 23–30.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as Lukács (especially in his later work), who represent the novel form in terms of an abstract totality. In the context of Victorian visuality, I argue that it is precisely the abstract nature of photographic representation—its tendency to homogenize details and identities—that made possible the productions...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 261–267.
Published: 01 August 2009
...James Buzard The thesis of my 2005 book Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels is gestured at by the three words of this essay's main title: nineteenth-century Britain's imperial expansion is the ultimate context in which to make sense of the nineteenth...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
... anxiety about determinism and, paradoxically, anxiety about lack of clear identities, a tug of war that is of course intrinsic to American ethnic literature. Eugenides could be said to recoup the old American immigrant novel promising self-making within the political context of a city of race riots...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 337–342.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Joseph Drury The dynamic structural model for the erotics of narrative in the eighteenth century was not l'homme moteur of Freud but l'homme machine of French philosopher Julien de la Mettrie. Set in this context, the narrative digressions symbolized by Corporal Trim's arabesque in Tristram Shandy...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 546–554.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and literature. Nevertheless, the advantages of marginalization and distance from the mainstream end up becoming precisely the most attractive features in the eyes of an editorial industry and a general public avid for a reformulation of Latin American literature in a global and politically skeptical context...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Allan Poe and participate in recent critical approaches to the father of detective fiction that read him in the context of the racial discourse of his day, and (2) critique the hierarchical thinking that both banishes comics to the realm of the “subliterary” and sustains racist ideology. In this sense...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 189–196.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that Rushdie and many of his defenders characterized as the result of a failure to attend to the fictiveness of fiction. The essay points out, in the context of this controversy, the temptation to assert a categorical distinction between fictive and nonfictive discourses—and the limitations of any...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 187–195.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of Rancière's article “The Thread of the Novel” in this context and situate the other articles in this issue (by Elaine Freedgood, Emily Steinlight, Raji Vallury, Sarah Winter, and Davide Panagia) in relation to the same quandary. Introduction: Jacques Rancie`re and the Novel
TIMOTHY BEWES
Jacques Rancie...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 257–275.
Published: 01 August 2012
... by demystifying their ideological structures but by immersing American and Sri Lankan legends, Billy and Sailor, in a proliferation of artifacts, genres, and contexts that traverse several national and supranational traditions. Archival form effectively subjects these national legends to defamiliarization...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 301–326.
Published: 01 August 2012
... that narratives of the nation-state ( devlet ), bound to the secularization thesis, have often been contested by Ottoman, Islamic, and Sufi contexts (signifying din ). I argue that the unresolved opposition between the secular, material narratives of devlet and the sacred, redemptive narratives of din...
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