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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 211–230.
Published: 01 November 2002
...NICOLE KING Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Baker , Houston A. Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 . Banton , Michael . The Idea of Race . London: Tavistock, 1977 . Benedict , Ruth . Race and Racism...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2002
... . “Racism and Nationalism.” Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities . Ed. Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein. London: Verso, 1991 . Barber , Benjamin R. “On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism.” The Nation 21 Jan . 2002 : 11 –18. Beck , Ulrich . Risk Society...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Ann duCille Treating the popular and academic discourse surrounding Toni Morrison's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 as a case in point, this essay critiques the ways in which race and gender—“black” and “female”—have been used as loaded signifiers to limit, qualify, segregate...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 273–276.
Published: 01 August 2003
...GENE JARRETT DEAN MCWILLIAMS, Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002), pp. 280, cloth, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Anomalies and the Fictions of Race DEAN MCWILLIAMS, Charles W. Chesnutt...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 May 2004
...MARILYN MOBLEY MCKENZIE THADIOUS M. DAVIS, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (Durham: Duke UP, 2003), pp. 339, $79.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Strategies of Containment: Faulkner's Narratives of Race...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2007
... Bischoff. Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 1989 . Horsman , Reginald . Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1981 . Jefferson , Thomas . Notes on the State of Virginia . 1784. Ed. William Peden. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 159–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Avak Hasratian DUVALL JOHN N. , Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction: From Faulkner to Morrison ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 ), pp. 194 , cloth, $80.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Ellison Ralph . “Change the Joke...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 303–325.
Published: 01 November 2004
... Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980 . Appiah , Anthony . “The Conservation of ‘Race.’” Black American Literature Forum 23 ( 1989 ): 37 –60. Blount , Marcellus . “The Preacherly Text: African American Poetry and Vernacular Performance.” PMLA 107 ( 1992 ): 582 –93. Brawley...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 179–203.
Published: 01 August 2006
... . Byerman , Keith . Seizing the Word: History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois . Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994 . Cleman , John . “Blunders of Virtue: The Problem of Race in Stephen Crane’s ‘The Monster.’” American Literary Realism 34 ( 2002 ): 119 –34. Cooley , Charles...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 406–423.
Published: 01 November 2013
... ( 2006 ): 37 – 59 . Lemert Charles . “The Race of Time: Du Bois and Reconstruction.” boundary 2 27 . 3 ( 2000 ): 215 – 48 . Marx Karl . Capital: A Critique of Political Economy . Trans. Fowkes Ben . New York : Vintage , 1977 . ———. Grundrisse: Foundations...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 11–23.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kent Puckett This essay asks why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would feature something as practically political as a caucus. After nearly drowning in Alice's tears, the Dodo suggests to her and other animals “that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.” In order to figure out what...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 365–374.
Published: 01 November 2017
... , coined by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields to capture the epistemic and political confusion surrounding the category of race in the post–civil rights decades. In an era in which the distinction between the truths and lies of the race concept no longer carries much rhetorical force, American...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Nidesh Lawtoo In the wake of Chinua Achebe's critique of Conrad as a “thoroughgoing racist,” much has been said about race in Heart of Darkness ; and yet, so far, the anthropological meaning of the rituals Conrad describes has tended to remain unexplored. “A Picture of Europe” reopens the race...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 362–373.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Vaughn Rasberry Abstract Reading British writer Francis Spufford's 2008 novel Red Plenty , a fictionalized account of life in the Soviet Union during the early Khrushchev years, this essay defends a bare theory of race against what it calls a novelistic theory of race. Whereas the latter—powerfully...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Priscilla Layne Abstract Black Germans occupy a unique position of simultaneous invisibility and hypervisibility. Since their country did away with the category of race due to its associations with the Nazis, on paper Black Germans are read as just “German” and de facto white. But they are also...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
... anxiety about determinism and, paradoxically, anxiety about lack of clear identities, a tug of war that is of course intrinsic to American ethnic literature. Eugenides could be said to recoup the old American immigrant novel promising self-making within the political context of a city of race riots...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 355–359.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... Shelley's novel, much more forthrightly political than Cooper's, is not about sequence and unfolding but about withdrawal and implosion. By adopting a different approach to the problems of empire, race, and historical melancholy than Cooper does, Shelley is forced, as it were, into greater formal innovation...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
... genres of detective fiction and comic books reveals how its race consciousness and postmodernism inform each other. Samuel R. Delany theorizes paraliterature as the discursive other against which “literature” is defined. The Intuitionist takes paraliterature seriously so as to (1) pay homage to Edgar...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 442–459.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Ezra Dan Feldman Abstract The form and formlessness of histories, regions, races, ballads, fictions, lists, characters, and mountains are among the topics of concern in Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days , and they pose a real challenge to conveying what this novel is like. Caroline Levine's Forms...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 May 2009
... iconography, and western archeological advances into Palestine. The principal authors under consideration—Franz Delitzsch, Lew Wallace, and Ferdinando Petruccelli—each exploited a potent combination of ancient Christ images and modern race theory to construct detailed literary portraits of the historical...