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... Dissing Identity LENNARD DAVIS, Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions (New York: New York University Press, 2002), pp. 224, cloth, $60.00, paper, $20.00. The title of this book, Bending Over Backwards, refers to the phrase used in recent court...

... Sousa . “Between Prospero and Caliban: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Inter-identity.” Luso-Brazilian Review 39 ( 2002 ): 9 –43. Santos , Boaventura de Sousa . “Entre Prospero e Caliban: Colonialismo, pós-colonialismo e inter-identidade.” Entre ser e estar: raízes, percursos e...

...Cynthia Tolentino Lee Christopher , The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature . ( Palo Alto : Stanford University Press , 2012 ), pp. 208 , cloth, $50.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Work Cited Chuh Kandice...

..., and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1895 . Cambridge UP, 2001 . Bellis , Peter . No Mysteries Out of Ourselves: Identity and Textual Form in the Novels of Herman Melville . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1990 . Bourdieu , Pierre . Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste...

...Guy Davidson Abstract The novel has been widely acknowledged as a historically significant factor in the construction of gay identities, and the novel is central to queer literary studies. Yet the genre of the gay novel is curiously undertheorized. Scholars seldom address the transformations...

...Victoria Coulson Abstract This article begins with critics’ hostility toward Gilbert Osmond, the notorious villain of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881). It identifies this tradition as a response to Osmond's identity as a trans woman and to the mode of embodiment that Osmond demonstrates...

... the coincidence that they were written at the same time. While the constitution attempts to fix a version of Irish identity preferred by the state, At Swim-Two-Birds _draws on constitutional rhetoric to stress performativity and the flexibility of identity, a utopian dimension that proves unsustainable...

...Christopher Douglas Marilynne Robinson's Gilead is a kind of companion volume to Toni Morrison's Beloved, recollecting through tropes of memory the history of American slavery: as with Morrison's novel, these histories are to be productive of contemporary identities. Gilead in particular helps...

... 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...

... 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...

... serving as US consul in Liverpool that Hawthorne first came to think of himself as a national, rather than a regional, writer. But this national identity took two different forms: one that was grounded in the customs and traditions, culture and commitments that make up the nation and another...

...”—the science of the excerpt is to find the right passage of text to produce a series of affects identical in nature, if abbreviated in time, to the series of affects the novel under consideration produces. Unlike the censorious critics interested only in the moral effects of fiction or the lazy critics...

..., invisibility, passing, and racial uplift. The ambiguity of its setting, which is congruent with its assertion of the inherent ambiguities of language and of individual and generic identities, marks The Intuitionist as an example of “postmodern” fiction. An analysis of the novel's allusions to the paraliterary...

... foregrounding of archival documents (letters, maps, ships' logs, newspaper clippings, etc.), loosens Powell's characters from the social identities to which they were bound. I offer a reading between novel and archive, focusing on a letter being written by Powell's protagonist, Lowe, and the letter's...

... of identity and action is precisely how one can control how one is remembered and, just as important, how one eludes the imagination of others. A Brief History adds to the collective memory of readers everywhere but recognizes that Jamaicans already have their own collective memory, that they are self...

... atmosphere of the Black Death in The Corner That Held Them . Disaffected with subjectivism, both writers look for new ways to open up their fiction to collective, “choral” consciousness. What they seek in the pastoral tradition is not a pristine national identity unsullied by miscegenation but a common folk...

...John Carlos Rowe Social media pose the greatest challenge to the novel since its rise to social influence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a key genre for imagining personal identity and social affiliation. Because digital social media are capable of representing individuals...

..., rhythms of speech, accent and intonation, word choice, etc.) reveals the occurrence through the use of those features of key forms of sociocultural activity (the production and maintenance of social identities, the reproduction of aspects of a social order, attempts to modify some part of that order...

... imagined around figures such as Dr. O'Connor whose desire, as he says, to “boil some good man's potatoes and toss up a child … every nine months” reinforces his queer identity and annexes the importance of disability in many of the novel's characters. Modernist cultural representations of the pregnant male...

... the novel interacts with transnational models of black national identity in order to better define the position of African Americans both within and beyond the borders of the United States. This article bridges the gap between these interpretations by showing how Hopkins employed Jamesian psychology...