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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 May 2022
... are often excluded. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 Black German autofiction Black Lives Matter racism critical race theory intersectionality queer of color In a scene in the novel 1000 Serpentinen Angst ( 1000 Coils of Fear ) by Olivia Wenzel...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 165–169.
Published: 01 May 2019
... to the plea of the marginalized and excluded, “the subaltern, the unrecognized, the unnatural” (4), or, as we read in another passage, “women writers, queer writers, writers of color” (8), and a conservative critical position that, almost eighty years after Eliot, would silence exactly those voices...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2014
... than a passionate union with a youthful soul mate, Nanny reflects on the hurts and ‘‘hold-backs’’ of slavery: ‘‘Us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come around in queer ways’’ (Hurston, qtd. in Abdur-Rahman 26). What this observation means, in Abdur-Rahman’s view...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 159–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
... already shown—that no such proprietary boundaries exist. Racial features and styles ranging from bodily comportment to skin color are no less mutable in life than in fiction. Indeed, they have increasingly become so in an American culture that has perfected racial cross-dressing to the point...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 412–414.
Published: 01 November 2000
... people of color to an out- side against which the center is defined. Her writing in this chapter ranges from an analysis of Morrison's Playing in the Dark on the ways in which blackness haunts the presence of supposedly white American literature to a reading of the Hughes brothers' film Menace I1...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 304–310.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., in such paintings of sleeping women as Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s “The Siesta” (1878) and Frederick Leighton’s brilliantly colored and voluptuous sleeping figure “Flam- ing June” (1895). cucullu | dream girls into insomniacs 307 The allure of fluidity, color...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., with humans appearing in the last minutes of the year. Hardy's novels are yet another, continually developing similar phenomenologies of scalar perception whose aesthetic complexity far exceeds that of color-coded diagrams. Hardy's treatment of scale not only contemplates the existence of time beyond...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 94–110.
Published: 01 May 2012
....” Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies . Ed. Wonham Henry B. . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 1996 . 140 – 57 . Quinn-Judge Sophie . Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years 1919–1941 . Berkeley : U of California P , 2002 . Robeson Paul . Here I Stand...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 441–451.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., woman of color, brushed by a touch of pink and the hint of a bright red manicure), the interesting, Ngai warns us, may appear to be an “aesthetic without content” ( 120 ). But she theorizes it as a literalization of the critical engagement with the other that defines aesthetic judgment...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 388–405.
Published: 01 November 2022
... ( 2014 ): 157 – 61 . Fawaz Ramzi . “ A Queer Sequence: Comics as a Disruptive Medium .” PMLA 143 . 3 ( 2019 ): 588 – 94 . Feinberg Leslie . Stone Butch Blues . Los Angeles : Alyson Books , 2003 . Ferguson Roderick A. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 57–75.
Published: 01 May 2020
... colour and form and character” (10). The muddled state—a state of confusion, struggle, and difficulty—is here depicted as “the very sharpest of realities,” a description that lends the muddled state a paradoxical sense of clarity. Maisie's muddled interpretative style and her inscrutability become...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 35–55.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., “It seems hard as my sister Deane should have that pretty child; I'm sure Lucy takes more after me nor my own child does” (61). Later she confesses, “I can't help loving the child as if she was my own, and I'm sure she's more like my child than sister Deane's, for she'd allays a very poor colour for one...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 May 1999
...-characters in fictions" (24). Morrison's re- sistant and revisionary tragedy of slavery is followed by the revisionary comedy of The Color Purple and The Women of Brewster Place. Not simply comic or utopian romances, in Taylor's analysis these books link laughter intimately to their critiques of power...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 510–514.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Baker’s From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954 (1998), Henry Yu’s Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (2001), and Roderick Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black: Towards a Queer of Color Critique (2004), has illuminated...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., and it therefore fits at least one description of postmodern culture. Wah- neema Lubiano considers postmodernism “a ‘name’ that allows certain of us Afri- can Americans to organize our response to modernism’s blind spot in regard to people of color . . . a general epistemological standpoint for engaging...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 324–328.
Published: 01 August 2011
... incipient critique of British imperial wander- lust measured against the novels of his postcolonial interlocutors, Achebe, Naipaul, and Dabydeen; DuBois’s “conceptual migrancy” during a uniquely American racial time of the color line (100); Fanon’s writing of race-nation consciousness in the midst...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2008
... successful and most interesting local color stories, "Tamango"-a shipboard slave revolt story that gets restaged in Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (a film version of the story featuring Dorothy Dandridge) and in Boubacar Boris Diop's Le Temps de Tamango. Miller then turns to Baron...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 179–192.
Published: 01 August 2013
... relationship with one another” (Lukács 36). The flatness of the central character is the background for the play of the great historical personalities in Scott’s novels. These vibrant characters are there not for historical color but because they represent in their own personalities the social forces...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of the notion of black kinlessness. In this narrative, a black Harvard undergraduate convinces his white classmate to undergo an operation that will temporarily make him a “Negro.” Once he undergoes the operation, however, the student discovers he has entered “the fourth dimension of color,” a new domain...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 489–492.
Published: 01 November 2014
... modernity’’ where this fracture is experienced differentially by white women and their indigenous counterparts, a closer consideration of race and queerness in Maata seems crucial (75–79). However, Majumdar does offer a rich account of Mansfield’s metonymic troping of landscape. He shows how Mansfield...