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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 202–220.
Published: 01 August 2012
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 506–511.
Published: 01 November 2012
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 417–422.
Published: 01 November 2009
... between the novel and history in a peculiarly sharp form, a point emphasized by Perry Anderson during a 1983 conference commemorating the centenary of Marx's death when he described Powell's avowedly anti-Marxist series A Dance to the Music of Time as “the most important piece of postwar fiction...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in the nation's cultural and political life, when forms of political engagement, democratic or anti-democratic, were at issue: Mori Ogai's 1890 The Dancing Girl , in the first mature bloom of Japan's cultural modernity and the formative years of a new democratic state; Natsume Soseki's 1914 Kokoro , during...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 261–283.
Published: 01 August 2014
...—the subject of human rights appears in the mute slave Friday's dance while wearing the magistrate's scarlet robes of office and that, through such figures of politicization, Coetzee's novels offer responsibility and redress for the wrongs of empire. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of these texts, which signal a shift from the national to the transnational, from postmodernism to dense realism, and from the “middling” protagonist to marginal, subaltern protagonists. Working through close readings of two representative novels, Peter Kimani's Dance of the Jakaranda (2017) and Esi Edugyan's...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 404–424.
Published: 01 November 2021
... consisting largely of bread and bean paste. By contrast, we hear nothing of such peculiarities in Estrella, which appears to be an unremarkable modern town, “a sleepy provincial city with an exiguous cultural life” ( D 29). Its cultural life is not all that exiguous, in fact; it has an Academy of Dance...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 166–170.
Published: 01 May 2016
... provoked by imitative behavior. During the course of the book, Lawtoo identifies the power of mimesis at work on various scales: in intimate encounters through the transmission of gesture, facial expression, and dialect; in groups through drama, music, or dance; and at the level of the nation or the crowd...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 264–278.
Published: 01 November 2008
... that emphasized in Pepetela's title. The fundamental figure of
this allegory returns us unexpectedly to the theme of music, in a trio of parables
that appears initially to reproduce once again the tragic narrative sketched
above. In the first of these parables, Anibal describes a dance where he met...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 November 2012
... evidence in Conrad’s problem-
atic image of Africa, which, in Achebe’s view, functions as the smoking gun that
proved Conrad to be “guilty” (338) of racism: namely, his dehumanizing represen-
tations of rituals wherein African people dance, collectively, to the sound of drums
in a state...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 162–165.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Morrison's Paradise (1997), Thorsson argues that these “novels of the cultural nationalist revision” (4, 12) theorize a cultural nationalism that depends upon “shared longing and radical imagining” (12) as performed through practices of organizing, cooking, dancing, mapping, and inscribing. “Women's work...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
... down here quick. What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing. (3) That “Creeping Thing” is, of course, the epidemic disease “Jes Grew”—an “anti - plague” of compulsive dance that actually invigorates its sufferers (6), infusing them with the energy of African-derived rhythms and thereby...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 324–326.
Published: 01 November 2002
... essayists celebrate the tactics of cultural producers
whose once-marginal activities are now disclosed as particularly smart survival strate-
gies. Working from eyewitness descriptions of Josephine Baker dancing in her own after-
hours nightclub, Janet Lyons proposes that "instead of the anticipated...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 144–146.
Published: 01 May 2013
... occasioned by the “healing” power of cultural exchange. “The phonograph
makes it possible for white people to tango in ragtime, dance a maxie, or ‘do an impromptu
cake-walk’ if they are in the mood,” as Goble points out, “all without requiring the services
of, or inviting any contact with, a black...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 258–276.
Published: 01 November 2004
...: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa . New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003 . Rodarmor , William . “Dances With Sheep.” San Francisco Chronicle ( 1994 ) Review 30 : 3 . Rose , Jacqueline . On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
... his only appearance
by turning up at a party, where he dances sensually as the narrator watches and
imagines, in a sudden wash of pleasure and power, that she herself is Octaviano
touching and seducing his dance partner: moving her hips, feeling her hair, tast-
ing her sweat, kissing her mouth...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 169–192.
Published: 01 November 2002
... with Dorcas, an l&year-old girl
who lives with one of his clients. When she loses interest in the affair, Joe follows
her to a party where he shoots her as she dances with a younger man. Dorcas
dies because she refuses to go to the hospital to avoid focusing attention on the
party and its illegal...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: “Maypole weaving to celebrate the spring. Ribbons danced into a woven pattern judged pleasing to the eye. The pole a symbol of the axis mundi, the world tree. We danced that dance” (387). It is a miniature, spatialized model of the collective, charged with embodiment and emotion, and resistant...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 204–220.
Published: 01 August 2006
.... In a gunny sack slung over his shoulder, he carried on stage four-year-
old Joseph Jefferson 111, likewise arrayed in the colors of Old Glory. During his
song-and-dance sequence, Rice rolled his mini mimic from the sack, and Joe per-
formed an imitation of Jim CroStowe must have known this story...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 190–192.
Published: 01 August 2007
...
"her dance inside Harry's skin" (164). But she suffers in comparison to the similarly
fleshed-out Melville. Writing that Melville "is able explicitly to represent black resistance
to slavery in a manner that Uncle Tom's Cabin is not" (193), Tawil irnpliatly demotes
Stowe to "a good reader...
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