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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Peter Leman Abstract This article examines Nuruddin Farah's 1979 novel Sweet and Sour Milk , asking how we read representations of postcolonial mourning and living death in the context of global authoritarianism. The first novel in Farah's influential dictatorship trilogy, Sweet and Sour Milk...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Aviva Briefel This essay argues that by the second half of the nineteenth century, British artists and writers succumbed to “colonial-hand envy,” marked by a desire to claim the authenticity of South Asian manual productions. This condition flourished in a climate that mourned the figurative...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 355–359.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Jonathan Elmer In 1826, Mary Shelley published The Last Man and James Fenimore Cooper published The Last of the Mohicans . Cooper's novel uses the themes of mourning and extinction as a way of imagining the sequential unfolding in space-time that twenty years later would be labeled Manifest Destiny...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 124–131.
Published: 01 May 2010
... as a (compensatory) response to the burdens of everyday existence in urban-industrial modernity. Here again the thesis is that the writer's mournful negation of his own project generates a perspective that parallels Benjamin's brief speculations on the folkloric genre. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., that process; while a marriage plot, it mourns the sacrifices accompanying such a course rather than reinforcing marriage as a route to liberal notions of civic “happiness.” In addition, by revisiting the Middle Passage, it exposes the liaisons between a particular vision of democracy and the birth of finance...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 May 2007
...STUART BURROWS MITCHELL BREITWEISER, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature (Stanford UP, 2007), pp. 336, cloth, $60.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Looking Back
hVTCHELL BREITWEISER, National Melancholy...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of peace. But do not harbour a
tlioztglzt fhat mine is the joy offear. Logan neverfelt fear. He will not turn on his
heel to save his life. Wois there to mourn for Logan ?-Not one. (Jefferson 53)
Thomas Jefferson included this speech by the Mingo warrior Logan in Notes on
the State...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 May 2017
... as the “lost tongue of the nation's soul” (21). He offers a compelling reading of Joyce's “The Dead” as a text that registers tensions between language preservation and revival at a transitional moment and that mourns the loss of an Irish-speaking world (29–30). McCrea insists that if the Irish language has...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 389–408.
Published: 01 November 2012
...: A Biography . Oxford : Clarendon , 1971 . Gilbert Sandra Gubar Susan . The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination . New Haven : Yale UP , 2000 . Holm Christian . “Sentimental Cuts: Eighteenth-Century Mourning Jewelry with Hair...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 324–326.
Published: 01 November 2002
... of embodiment, referring to
lexical systems that falter when enigmati; information is communicated through demonstra-
tive movements by a body that has been dynamically actualized. Another meaning is linked
with specialized memory. Writing about mourning Freud used "incorporation" as a nega-
tive...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 270–272.
Published: 01 August 2003
... analysis, "'imperial-
ist melancholia': a form of blocked mourning for both the victims of imperial violence and
the lost privileges of imperial power" (57). This blocked mourning informs the ambiva-
lences of Twain's writing on domestic race relations, just as it forms Twain's own (which...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
... realized a shocking thing. I couldn’t
become a man without becoming The Man. Even if I didn’t want to. (518)
Race is impervious to the new molecular dispensation. Cal mourns not its imper-
viousness for African Americans but his own loss of potential, locked into being
“The Man.” During...
Journal Article
Novel (2007) 40 (3): 329–332.
Published: 01 November 2007
... as a "satirically melodramatic pastiche" of the experimental
modernism that it so deliberately eschews (72). The novel mourns the death of the rural
aristocracy and with it the possibility of national coherence. At the same time, through the
use of the form, it also mourns the death of the "estate novel...
Journal Article
Novel (2019) 52 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 May 2019
... through the medium of historical grief,” whether that mourning stems from an enslaved past or from the more recent past of the civil rights era (14). The loss, then, her two answers show, is a double one. As my quotations to this point of How to Read African American Literature suggest, Levy-Hussen...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as a compensation for suffering. Other books, such as Julian Barnes's Levels of Life (2013) and Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk (2014), deploy an austere style as an expression of mourning, one that suggests an attempt at psychic mastery while simultaneously indexing an emotional turbulence untouched...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 398–422.
Published: 01 November 2003
... Winston . “Relation of Emotions to Injury and Disease: Legal Liability for Psychic Stimuli.” 30 Virginia L. Rev . 193 ( 1944 ). White , G. Edward . Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History . New York: Oxford UP, 1985 . Winter , Jay . Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): iv.
Published: 01 May 2007
... Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Contributors
VIVASVAN %>MI is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. He has recently
completed a book manuscript titled Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity,
which uses Greek...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 353–376.
Published: 01 November 2000
... the beholder in a chain of mournful postures
extending from the elder Beaufort and his bereaved daughter through Alphonse
Frankenstein and his sons, and as Marie-Helene Huet observes, "[tlhe painting
becomes emblematic of all present and future deaths" as "ftlhe scene illustrated
by the canvas...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 November 2015
... . Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology . Trans. and intro. Olscamp Paul J. . Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill , 1965 . Emison Patricia . “ Istoria [historia] .” Grove Art Online . Oxford UP , 2007 < http://www.groveart.com >. Frank Robin Jaffee . Mourning...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 301–310.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of the differend in Lyotard to the idea of the untamable,
the unredeemable, and so on. And so a certain mourning of modernity originating
from [Theodor] Adorno and the Frankfurt School resulted in a kind of mourning
about the illusions of modernity. So it was part of the discourse of the end. And I
had...
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