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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2002
... the Border: The Mason-Dixon Line, Resistance, and Hegemony.” Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics . Ed. Scott Michaelsen and David E. Johnson Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997 . Côté , Jean-François . “The North American Novel in the United States: Ishmael Reed’s Canada.” American...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 327–342.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and secure new forms of life, novels implement heterogeneous governmentalities. This essay examines Ishmael's testimony to the relationship between Pip and Captain Ahab to elucidate the contesting governmentalities at work in Melville's Moby-Dick . © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Phillip Brian Harper Abstract Observing that Ishmael Reed's 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo both oscillates between present‐ and past‐tense narration and traffics in historical anachronism, this article argues that these dual modes of temporal disjunction establish the novel as a work of historical allegory...
FIGURES
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 425–443.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Timothy Donahue Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 “I promise nothing complete,” says Ishmael in Moby-Dick (1851), “because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty” ( Melville 117 ). Notwithstanding this disavowal of comprehensiveness...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
... . Fox , Robert Elliott . Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of LeRoiJones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany . New York: Greenwood, 1987 . Gates , Henry Louis Jr . The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism . New York...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 169–192.
Published: 01 November 2002
... , Ted . The History of Jazz . New York: Oxford UP, 1977 . Gover , Robert . “An Interview with Ishmael Reed.” Black American Literature Forum 12 ( 1978 ): 12 –19. Hogue , W. Lawrence . “Historiographic Metafiction and the Celebration of Differences: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo.” Ed...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 409–425.
Published: 01 November 2017
... kleptocracy and the other an extensive array of familial, collegial, and otherwise bound characters linked up by our hero, the African American detective Ishmael. Although largely territorialized in Nairobi, the two networks also intersect in Madison, Wisconsin, where the novel begins and where Ishmael...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 501–517.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of a filmy daydream than a precise account of historical causality. Although we can imagine Melville defending some similar idea about the densely interwoven play of free will, necessity, and chance, the passage's torpid presentation seems more to suggest something about the languorous current of Ishmael's...
FIGURES
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 321–334.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to a collection of partial and incompatible experiences of the whole. To emerge as the only one left alive to tell the story of the drive for totality commandeered by Ahab and glimpsed in those moments where the novel seems poised to envision the modern world system, Ishmael has had to counter his attraction...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 47–52.
Published: 01 May 2010
... smaller
and for that reason more demanding. Reading Douglass’s “I am a stranger with
thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were,” it is hard not to recall that other
biblical stranger-sojourner who opens Moby-Dick. “Call me Ishmael,” Melville’s
narrator addresses his reader, and we immediately...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... In Herman Melville's Moby - Dick (1851), Ishmael rhapsodizes about the length of literary greatness: One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2007
... Ishmael Bush. Like Logan or his many
See Sayre, "h4ound Builders."
JONATHAN ELMER [ MELANCHOLY, RACE, AND SOVEREIGN EXEMPTION
avatars (Cooper's Chingachgook, for example), Bush is bereft of a son, and thus
in a sense marooned in history. And like these Indian models, Bush is drawn...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 381–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of virtual reality technology in his astute account of Richard Powers's novel Plowing the Dark ; Kent Puckett sees the novel form at work in political documents; Phillip Brian Harper shows how the inclusion of photographs in Ishmael Reed's novel Mumbo Jumbo forces us to think about the form and political...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 316–318.
Published: 01 November 2002
... that
heterogeneity of interests and identities in her reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved in
which summary references to Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Gay1 Jones's Corregidora, Ishmael
Reed's Flight to Canada, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and
Charles Johnson's The Oxherding Tale...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 317–319.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., Ken Kesey, Thomas Pynchon,
Joyce Carol Oates, Ishmael Reed, Sandra Cisneros, N. Scott Momaday, on and on, the legion.
McGurl gets to them all, does brief takes that are often like droll monologues, deadpan, epi-
grammatic. He has a cool take on Kesey’s literary bravado and Merry Prankster...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., the sinister foreign.
Except for Houdini, who nonetheless had something swarthy about him” (57–58).
The only term left out here is “mumbo-jumbo,” also the title of Ishmael Reed’s
1972 novel, which is also an African American novel about a text that, like Fulton’s
plans for the Black Box, is divided...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 147–162.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., that I would
now fain put before you. Yet it is no easy task. The classification of the constituents
of chaos, nothing less is here essayed. Listen to whnt the best and latest authorities
have laid down. (Moby-Dick 145)
Thus, famously, Ishmael embarks on his project to provide...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 267–269.
Published: 01 August 2003
... thinking that its theoretical framework might tell us much about the narra-
tives of Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and William Gibson but couldn't imagine what it
might have to say about the work of Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, or Louise
Erdrich. If a symptomatic reading of cultural...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 166–175.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of techné —that of skill or craft as global command vehicle—gives over to another, as Ishmael, sole survivor, clings to the same coffin we met earlier, and drifts, current-borne, until picked up. This degraded death-craft, this dented black box, thus becomes, quite literally, a narrative vehicle...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 263–266.
Published: 01 August 2003
... framework. Now the hero's antagonist is not only moral but
physical disability-Ishmael vs. Ahab, the rational narrator vs. the mad Roderick Usher.
Or virtue is represented by the pathos of disability-Quasimodo and Tiny Tim. This use of
a disabled person to finesse narrative continues in recent...
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