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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 84–106.
Published: 01 May 2019
... on migration including Jamaica Kincaid. Although Lucy Snowe is the first protagonist to suffer from emotional labor, analyzing Lucy's condition helps us notice that throughout Victorian fiction, a host of minor characters—companions, governesses, nurses—share some of these characteristic traits. Villette...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 374–397.
Published: 01 November 2003
... , Joseph . “Tales of the Sea.” Notes on Life and Letters . London: J. M. Dent, 1921 . Conroy , Mark . “Colonial Self-Fashioning in Conrad: Writing and Remembrance in Lord Jim.” L’Epoque Conradienne 19 ( 1993 ): 25 –36. Constantine , Stephen . “Empire Migration and Social Reform...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Madhumita Lahiri Abstract With the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, extensive restrictions on travel and migration effectively destroyed the global mobility of persons, while widespread supply chain disruptions meant that commodities were no longer as globally mobile. Drawing on this 2020 context...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 328–331.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Jesse Matz DALGARNO EMILY , Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2012 ), pp. 215 , cloth, $99.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Woolf as Translator
EMILY DALGARNO, Virginia Woolf...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 163–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... In a forthcoming longer essay I discuss each of these three texts.
This essay analyzes the first, Lowe’s letter.
I offer a reading between novel and archive, focusing on Lowe’s letter and its
interaction with a history sometimes called “the coolie trade.” The history of Chi-
nese migration to the Caribbean...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 467–470.
Published: 01 November 2011
... . “Democracy vs. the Melting Pot.” Nation 18 Feb. 1915 : 190 – 94 ; 25 Feb. 1915: 217–20 . Park Robert . “Human Migration and the Marginal Man.” American Journal of Sociology 33 . 6 ( 1928 ): 881 – 93 . Simmel Georg . “The Stranger.” The Sociology of Georg Simmel . Ed...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 479–484.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Scott's stadialist historical novels to accommodate the tensions between “realist” settler agriculture and “romantic” settler migration. Prison reformers like Alexander Maconochie proposed a new system of actuarial surveillance intended to transmute unsettled convicts into upstanding wage laborers...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 443.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., so to speak, a life of
their own in their "detachability" and in the process of "character migration." They do so
because they exist in a mode of prolonged incompletion-that is, with continual
possibilities for them to absorb and be shaped by further collective imaginative work...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to draw from a constant yet changing repertoire of modernist strategies against the backdrop of a world regularly punctuated by colonial and contemporary inequality, human migration, and national-global aspirations of belonging. Beneath various impulses toward collectivity, Vadde finds a chimeric...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 330–333.
Published: 01 August 2019
... because it emphasizes the “global itinerary of novels and novelists,” thus dramatizing “the transnational origins of world literature” (41). Junot Díaz makes both Spanish and English “internal to the work” (37). Phillips writes born-translated books because he focuses on migration, while Mitchell features...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Foucault to migrate political relations from the family to the state and back again (a migration that I have always found compelling), he returns to dyads such as “fathers and children,” a phrase familiar from his exegesis of biographical conflicts in the career of Andrew Jackson. For Rogin, following...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 320–341.
Published: 01 November 2008
...," the foreign voices and
bodies that resist incorporation into the unisonant, homogenous spatio-
temporality of nation, as a "mobile army of metaphorsf' whose migrations and
dispersals are anti-metaphoric (315). In other words, metaphor's capacity not
only for similarity and substitution, likeness...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 250–271.
Published: 01 August 2018
... that problem, Carpoolers insists that recording the experience of individuals alone does not offer a more complete picture of their situation. 1 Or, as Roberto Schwarz, recalling Bertolt Brecht, reminds us, “Once reality has migrated into abstract economic functions, it can no longer be read in human...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 533–537.
Published: 01 November 2018
...). The novelists are Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and the novels are The House on Mango Street , Lucy , and Blu's Hanging . This chapter focuses on the interplay between making a home and the instability and upheaval of migration and on the argument that these novels “dramatize...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 488–491.
Published: 01 November 2011
...
in these fictions, but this “new work often conveys a sense of entitlement to American-
ness guaranteed them by the very heterogeneity of the crowds that greeted them at the
U.S. airport terminal” (20), as America itself becomes redefined as one globalized site of
diasporas and historic migrations of peoples...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2023
... both its constraints and its varied motivations. Her insights carry implications as well for today's global mobility crisis and spur us to think how police shaped the international governance of migration. Nicolazzo eschews a tidy arc for her history. Thus, her book puts some significant demands...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 132–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
... on geography, land, language, and traditions, becomes completely inef-
fective in this new setting. The divestment of cultural values produced by forced
migration is the starting point of an unveiling of life as the greater good for the
subordinate community. There is irony in the process. As Agamben...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 78–82.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... The text on our syllabus that September day was Season
of Migration to the North. This work rewrites Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness with
a geographical reversal: a dark-skinned Arabic-speaking African travels up the
Thames to London, and in that northern heart of darkness he commits several...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
... profession,
and she concludes that the faulty elevator in the Fannie Briggs Building “pretended
to be what it is not” (229) when it passed for an elevator that was safe. The Intuition-
ist also provides support for Farah Jasmine Griffin’s claims about the centrality
of migration to twentieth-century...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Frederick Douglass Boulevard with the sounds of street life as its constant background noise, the novel makes little explicit reference to the other, older African diasporic presence in the United States and instead explores newer economic migration from the continent. Save one reference in which Fatou...
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