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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to equate passing with self-denial, converting small talk to an equivocal medium for passing that, paradoxically, makes audible a protest against racial segregation and social regulation. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 Nella Larsen Harlem Renaissance passing sociolinguistics microsociology...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 376–379.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of the strategies writers deployed to represent the specific forms of gender, race, and class oppression black women faced under both Jim Crow racial segregation and what she calls Jane Crow gendered oppression. She argues that “black writers explored both racial and sexual discrimination during the heyday...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 377–405.
Published: 01 November 2000
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as the passageway through which he was able to leave the "Black Belt," the space
assigned to blacks under racial segregation, can be read as a metaphor for the
process that enabled him to envision himself in terms other than those prescribed
for blacks within the racial discourse of the thirties...
Journal Article
Novel (2017) 50 (3): 365–374.
Published: 01 November 2017
...), which materializes the histories of slavery and Jim Crow in its early twenty-first-century setting. The novel features the bizarre scenario of an African American man on trial before the Supreme Court for owning a slave and reinstating racial segregation. Beatty leaves readers in no doubt...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 208–227.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Caroline Wilkinson Abstract This article radically reframes Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady in relation to the Underground Railroad, the transatlantic slave trade, US slavery, and racial housing segregation. Focusing on the house in Albany, New York, where Isabel Archer stays in the 1850s...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 148–150.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to racial segregation—but Rosenthal offers a more surprising hypothesis. He suggests that the Victorian realist novel achieved something that other cultural forms have not: it figured out how to produce a feeling of shared moral intuition, a sense of ethical rightness that is not specific to its time...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 333–353.
Published: 01 November 2011
... clear that southern churches after the Civil
War did not give up their theological defense of slavery but rather that this defense
directly translated into a theological justification of racial difference and hierarchy
in Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction segregation (209–16...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (2): 294–319.
Published: 01 August 2010
... entrenched American values and insti-
tutions at a time when few other voices in popular culture did so” (B. Wright 136). EC’s Shock
SuspenStories became for a time “the only form in popular entertainment debating the issue of
racial segregation (139). A particular EC story from the early...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., The Intu-
itionist tempers the allure of the “hallowed verticality” granted by elevators with
a critique of hierarchical thinking about both genre and race. To Du Bois’s one-
and two-dimensional metaphors for racial segregation—e.g., “the color-line,” “the
veil”—the novel adds verticality, a third...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 May 2010
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of legal segregation’s demise, adopts the curious posture of preserving the culture
of Jim Crow in narrative form. For even though Gates does not desire racial seg-
regation as such, the culture and the community that he recalls nostalgically are
bound up inextricably with that social order...
Journal Article
Novel (2003) 36 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2003
...-from the horses ridden
by Fielding and Aziz, to the landscape, to the sky itself-then the novel's
opening clearly indicts the hermetic nature of British planning for causing inter-
racial tension. After describing Chandrapore's segregated layout, Forster shows
us its effects when introducing...
Journal Article
Novel (2019) 52 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of incarceration,” Ostrowski writes, “crime novelists picked up on similarities between slavery and forced prison labor, recognizing that a regime that (in some ways) treated inmates like slaves implied such a compromise of a white man's racial status that it could not but leave behind a sign” (135). The leading...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2007
... valiantly to manage the contradictions of the ethnic sublime,
primarily through a strategy of racial segregation: sovereignty is both assigned to
the land, as the immemorial property of a definitively lost people, and re-
established as the property of white settlement, at once an act of mourning...
Journal Article
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of fear,” and its development within networks of global capital, all indexes of the ultimate failure of the nation to move beyond its segregated past. In this essay, I will focus on representations of Johannesburg's mutancy, a concept that foregrounds its temporal movements rather than its spatial...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 211–230.
Published: 01 November 2002
.... King London: Macmillan, 1991 . 41 –68. Harper , Phillip Brian . “Passing for What? Racial Masquerade and the Demands of Upward Mobility.” Callaloo 21 ( 1998 ) 381 –97. Lee , Andrea . Sarah Phillips . Boston: Northeastern UP, 1993 . Lipsitz , George . The Possessive...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 328–352.
Published: 01 November 2000
... is a way to peserve racial segregation" (59).
For discussions of the custodial politics in nineteenth-century British and American narratives,
see Berry and Palwick.
NOVEL / SUMMER 2000
Africa as a properly (Protestant) Christian mission: "Our nafion shall roll the tide...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2023
... on the reader, pulling them into its deeply textured and detailed readings and asking for sustained attention to its cumulative logic. Police endure. From around 1660 to the book's endpoint in the early 1800s, policing implicates itself deeply in the racialized world made by capital. Its anticipatory...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... explore some of the contours, formal characteristics, and thematic preoccupations through which this desire is articulated. In Open City , for instance, Julius's nightly meanderings around Manhattan are rife with references to the racialized violence that lies at the city's foundations, forging...
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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 (2006) 39 (2): 245–267.
Published: 01 August 2006
... the nation; it can only serve as the mark and measure of belated-
ness, thereby thwarting the modernist spatial structures. The universal textual
model of civility-whereby the histories of slavery, indenture, plantation, and
racial segregation are sublated-becomes a place of refuge, yet rendered...
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