...Torleif Persson Abstract This article begins by noting that recent debates about the relevance of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man to contemporary American culture enact an opposition between historicism (the idea that the novel is a Jim Crow artifact) and universalism (the idea that it transcends...

...Clare Callahan Abstract This article illustrates how Black literary production in the Jim Crow era grappled with the necessity of seeking representation shaped by a historically dispossessory archive. In The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) the reinvention of swampland by an abandoned Black woman...

...Sachelle Ford Hardison Ayesha K. , Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2014 , pp. 296, cloth, $65.00 , paper, $29.50 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Even as recent literary...

... of strategy of historical anachronism, a defining feature of American literary racecraft at the turn of the twenty-first century, is meant to take on the most pervasive of the “post-“ claims—the claim that the official end of the Jim Crow era has ushered in a postracial phase of American national history...

... Dandy.” Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy . Ed. Annemarie Bean et al.. Hanover: Wesleyan UP, 1996 . 257 –72. Lhamon , W.T. Jr . Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998 . Liebenow , J. Gus...

...@ by the dominant order. Whereas "Jim Crow society demands a subject who is bound by death and the unconscious, Wright is committed to Wig bound by conscious un- derstanding and a reflexive life: Wright's life depends on his success in bringing to con- sciousness all the details of the unconscious pattern...

... made mention of Wright's battle with Party orthodoxy, while also acknowledging the appeal that Communism held for black Americans in imagining alternatives to Jim Crow society. What remains compelling about Wright's statement, however, is not the way that it attempts to explain or justify...

... ably demonstrated, Black cultural politics emerged in the United States as an “elite-driven” strategy to combat Black disenfranchisement under Jim Crow ( “Reply” 407 ). 2 Outside the United States, and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, one finds a comparable history in which postcolonial...

... of their servants—the Irish chambermaid and the negro waiter” ( Portrait 149; qtd. in K. Warren 28). Warren asserts that the failure of James and other American realist authors to challenge the late nineteenth-century notion that Black people are vulgar facilitated the rise of Jim Crow segregation, which purported...

...] command," then suddenly the point of view shifts to that of "crows sailing overhead," who see Jane timidly peep out, then stare at the house, then come to a "sudden stop" and fall into "stupid re- gardlessness" (449). At this point, the writing self intervenes. Having earlier looked back to see...

... person,” Daniel Defoe, speaking through the narrowly opened doors of his novel, an author who means well and says well. The Crowing Cock The Crusoe who styled himself a type of prodigal son or Jonah at the beginning of Robinson Crusoe matures by taking himself less...

... as southern literature and what (ac)counts as history. Or put another way, southern women's writing renders itself visible as it exposes and politicizes Jim Crow ideology in its representations of the grotesque, the unspeakable, the gargantuan, the hybrid, "the throw-away bodies," the "mingling of dirt...

... the human and to find new ways to represent and acknowledge animal consciousness, agency, and being” in an effort to “animalize the novel” (116). Through trenchant explications—of the scene of Jude in the cornfield, identifying with the hungry crows; of pregnant Fanny Robin in “On Casterbridge Highway...

... for transformations wrought long before the sight of gray hairs and crow's-feet, an operation still underway with the belated recognition, “I'm getting old.” These contentions serve as the foundation of Jacob Jewusiak's Aging, Duration, and the English Novel , a study focusing on how nineteenth-century British...

... in nature and nurture, including time and space, as hermetically sealed. Moved by the same outlook, I followed Devil on the Cross with Matigari and the latest, Wizard of the Crow . I discovered the real magic of the novel in the liminal heterotopia of the prison. I believe that the novel has...

... of the cellar to the LaFargue Clinic suggests that the attempt to become visible for African Americans in Jim Crow America could also be a sign of pathology. The cellar as asylum is a mixed site, a refuge that provides the redemptive conclusion of Invisible Man even while it requires subterranean isolation...

... What's Said in Their Eyes Were Watching God STUART BURROWS In "The Trope of a New Negro," Henry Louis Gates traces the connection between the brutality of the Jim Crow era and the proliferation of racist images. "Everywhere a white American saw a black image...

... of legal segregation’s demise, adopts the curious posture of preserving the culture of Jim Crow in narrative form. For even though Gates does not desire racial seg- regation as such, the culture and the community that he recalls nostalgically are bound up inextricably with that social order...

... capitalism, see Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow ( 2006 ). Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . State of Exception . Trans. Attell Kevin . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2005 . Appiah Kwame Anthony . In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture . New York...

..., although blacks ceased to function exclusively as cornrnodi- ties, their occupation of the lowest rungs of the American social and economic order remained a group characteristic, enhanced by sharecropping and the apartheid system of Jim Crow along with other less formalized manifestations...