... property law has systematically dispossessed women, The God of Small Things works to counter such exclusions by establishing an alternative structural logic. Roy's formal strategies are, I conclude, politically significant, as they delineate the possible form of a nonpossessive, relational...

... political body. A Hawthorne story from the same period as Tocqueville's study shows the new collectivity paradoxically requiring the constraints of classical liberalism just as liberalism in turn seemed to require the popular energy unleashed by democracy to justify its constraints and exclusions. Hawthorne...

... invested social practices as well as those groups who self- determine by way of them, thereby authoring a starkly anemic portrait of political life that itself has provided a warrant for democracy’s historical exclusions. 6 In addition, this relative avoidance of religion as a category...

... of “inputs” and “outputs” to national, economic, or political systems) in the 1930s. Handily demonstrated by Phillips's economic computer, a machine built to literally embody Britain's economy, Keynesian thought in particular is invested in quantifying and containing the nation's components. I contend...

... is In the Heart requires both the symbolic presence and political exclusion of women. See Lee's chapter "Fraternal Devotions: Carlos Bulosan and the Sexual Politics of America" (17-43). Ellison also depicts the presence of women as a threat to the political solidarity of the Brotherhood...

..., current critical paradigms, and the broad historical context of literature in this period. In the narrative that unfolds, previous studies of modernism seem narrow in their focus, and chance alone seems responsible for some of the more egregious exclusions from the canon. The "various modernisms...

... Rhetorics of Belonging willingly questions the theoretical doxa of postcolonial studies, it leaves untouched the political doxa of the discipline. Most conspicuous in this regard is the exclusive characterization of Zionism as settler colonialism. When this argument was first introduced in the late...

... as it is between complicity and resistance, material prosperity and immiseration (depending on the subjects privileged), incorporation and exclusion, and woundedness and a normalized recovery. Attention to formal matters works to enlarge political engagements beyond these reductive and repetitive binaries. Second...

... forms of individuation’’ (Mute Speech 117). The sentence is thus more than a meaningful utterance: it is a coordination of elements—an ensemble of parts—that exists but not exclusively for the understanding. This, I would say, is Rancie`re’s supreme and impossible lesson for political theory that he...

..., and slaves but goes so far as to consolidate the community it does imagine by means of their exclusion. I focus in particular on the reprinting of Bleak House in Frederick Douglass' Paper and its rewriting in, or as, The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited...

... to theorizing this new humanism, which would be based in a politics of interpersonal difference rather than in the assumption of human universals, Douglass practiced a form of cautious self-presentation that underwrote his politics. His tendency to draw a veil across certain pivotal scenes of intimate violence...

... raised a number of large and now unavoidable questions. What is the place of the political in literary studies today? How are we to construe the relationship between close reading and a broader sociopolitical analysis of literature as an institution? What authority do critics command as guardians...

... to “provincialize English” (42), it may seem counterintuitive that Born Translated focuses exclusively on works written in English and not on translations. Variously claiming that the description of other languages, the inclusion of characters from other parts of the world, or even reflections on the medium...

... as varied as Patrick Brantlinger’s Rule of Darkness (1988) and Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (1993) went a long way in closing the door on Victorian literature read exclusively within British borders. The explosion of studies of British fiction and empire traversed a wide range of issues...

... is an attempt to understand a specific combination of economic and political relations, and is therefore grounded in those relations, strategies for eliminating racism should concentrate less on trying exclusively to persuade those who articulate racism that they are 'wrong' and more...

... stigmatization, and ultimately corroborates logics of racial hierarchization and exclusion for the sake of her own white feminist politics. Weighing the salience of either of these readings, it is important to consider that Wuthering Heights itself does not treat Heathcliff and Catherine's rebellions...

... , Fredric . The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981 . Kurtz , Stanley . “Democratic Imperialism: A Blueprint.” Policy Review . April/May 2003 . 3 –20. Kipling , Rudyard . Kim . 1901. Ed. Edward Said. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992...

... judgment. Markovits, for example, cites the plot of Romola in an argument about Eliot's ambivalent treatment of action: “The book is still conservative, and political activity ends in disaster,” she writes, suggesting that the disaster tells us something about how, in Eliot's view, political activity...

.... 328, cloth, $59.95, paper, $24.95. During the seemingly endless presidential campaign just past, a variety of campus student groups asked me to talk about gender in national politics. Though I often critiqued both of the female candidates—for quite different reasons, as you might imagine—I did...

... has argued recently? If so, why the exclusive focus here on works by a canonical shortlist of internationally renowned male modernists? Moreover, all the authors in Form and Instability are exclusively Polish or Polish-born: might the conflict between “Polish” and “Eastern European” be foregrounded...