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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
...J. Bradford Campbell This essay argues that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) provides promising ground and a certain imperative to investigate the underexamined intersections between literature and the history of psychiatry. Especially where African American literature is concerned, there has...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 294–319.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Jean-Christophe Cloutier This article considers the impact of the comic book on Ralph Ellison's concept of the novel form, tracing the comic book allusions scattered within Invisible Man as well as Ellison's work and association with Dr. Fredric Wertham, founder of the Lafargue Psychiatric Clinic...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 16–36.
Published: 01 May 2020
...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...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Priscilla Layne Abstract Black Germans occupy a unique position of simultaneous invisibility and hypervisibility. Since their country did away with the category of race due to its associations with the Nazis, on paper Black Germans are read as just “German” and de facto white. But they are also...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 84–106.
Published: 01 May 2019
... Russell Hochschild calls “emotional labor,” the act of performing an inauthentic feeling publicly for money. Like modern caregivers, Lucy Snowe expresses a sense of invisibility and stress over her cultural alterity. When Madame Beck's surveillance forces Lucy to enact her teacherly persona constantly...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., 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...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 362–373.
Published: 01 August 2018
... dramatized in novels like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) and Richard Wright's The Outsider (1953)—stresses the (long-denied) depth and complexity of black subjectivity, the former eschews considerations of black particularity for a punitive, state-sponsored approach to racial injustice. Copyright ©...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 381–400.
Published: 01 November 2010
... shows how he fits both categories, as the novels disclose the exclusionary potential of realist conventions that tend to function invisibly, providing comfort and coherence. The novels as a whole may be viewed as similarly (and simultaneously) inclusive and exclusive, since they delimit a world in which...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 515–518.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Lindsey Andrews BRADLEY ADAM , Ralph Ellison in Progress: From Invisible Man to Three Days before the Shooting … ( New Haven : Yale UP , 2010 ), pp. 256 , cloth, $27.50 , paper, $20.00 . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press Indeterminacy...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 147–152.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Carrol Clarkson MARAIS MIKE , Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee ( Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2009 ), pp. 249 , cloth, $72.00 . HAYES PATRICK , J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett ( Oxford : Oxford UP...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 503–507.
Published: 01 November 2021
... something proportionate to the visual acuity of a singular observer—narrator or reader. The invisibility of the displaced speaker, the indecipherability of indigenous language, the sounds not selected by the colonial ear—each of these supposed absences accrue form and significance to a critic furnished...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Wertham, and others, LaFargue serves as a backdrop for Ellison's essay “Harlem Is Nowhere” ( 1948 ) and his novel, Invisible Man (1952). Alworth sees Ellison as part of a larger tradition of black writers (W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, James Baldwin) who had some sociological training and who advocated...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 26–48.
Published: 01 May 2016
... blind spots. And these blind spots must not be understood as impairing vision but as constituting it. 2 It is one such invisible elision—an elision invisible to itself—that I track in Cooper's novel. Set in 1805, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, The Prairie poses the question...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 141–145.
Published: 01 May 2017
...). Having established this logic of contradiction in the first two chapters, the remaining three chapters run the risk of repeating, with new examples, the same pattern whereby versions of networks and crowds “make visible” connections otherwise invisible and immaterial. This is certainly true in chapter 3...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of possibility” and “condition of impossibilitypossibility because they
allow each other to affirm radical difference; impossibility because the law that is required
to set up the initial boundary will remain not only unstable but also invisible until the end.
The task of The Stelliferous Fold, as Gasché...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 538–541.
Published: 01 November 2018
... are produced in a capitalism that Reber analyzes more in its justification of itself than, for instance, in its social relations of production. When Reber discusses the origins of this discourse of the immanent, homeostatic, and “horizontal,” she turns to Adam Smith's metaphor of the invisible hand, first...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 489–493.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . . . is reimagined in ways that grant representation and at times consolation” (121). Mrs Dalloway 's celebrated network of metaphors of invisible connection across public space “reflect in language the ineffable ways an entity living in one body may transfer into another,” showing how “Woolf's language encodes...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2000
... particles, she
analyzes the paradox of "dust" in Victorian economies of seeing, where it is at once a dan-
gerous and supplemental threat to life and beauty, as well as the condition of possibility
for both life and sublime aesthetic effects. Moving from the barely visible to the invisible,
Flint...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 154–157.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and cannot be recognized, appear not unlike the gothic frames of visibility and invisibility that Davis charts in Padmanabhan's play. The work of the gothic global thus seems not limited to artwork alone. Explicitly linking colonialism with globalization, this turn to the gothic global gives us a helpful...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 398–422.
Published: 01 November 2003
... to reconstitute and to give voice to injury offers lan-
guage its most meaningful instruction-the very counsel that Benjamin claimed
had fallen mute after the war. This silence is rooted not just in an impoverished
grammar, but also in the inability of language to address war's invisible
injuries...
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