... usefulness of psychoanalysis for insight into transgender existence, is the usefulness of transgender and transsexual ways of being for revitalizing psychoanalysis itself” (323, 324). The special issue thus represented something of a watershed for contemporary transgender studies, given the recognition...

...Roberto Schwarz The international recognition of Machado de Assis began in the 1950s and proceeded with no reference to Brazil. In those same years a part of Brazilian criticism took the opposite direction: Machado's greatness was to be explained by his overcoming deadlocks that were central...

... interaction with a history sometimes called “the coolie trade.” The critical reading practice that I argue diasporic literature demands leads us from the literature back toward recognition of the archive itself as transnational. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Archives of the Black Atlantic...

... be linked, and that this linkage could lead to forms of recognition that appear only at the limit of narrative form. Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 contemporaneity narrative address historicism universalism Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is an ideal case study for thinking about...

... of interiorized characters and in open-ended narrative forms. Such an acknowledgment shows Austen's recognition that consumerist habits of mind are important to literary production, especially at a moment when novels vied for attention in a competitive literary marketplace. In such a marketplace, readers chose...

... the perspective of this novelist, transformed beyond recognition by the infrastructure of circulation. No longer the imagined center of a productive economy that draws people and objects into its orbit in order to assign them places as characters in the vast amphitheater of class relations—as in the classic city...

... and in the appeals it makes to readers and that forms my topic here: recognition. I do not mean the recognition Maitzen claims we all experience when we presumably agree that the translation is “awful” and “a failure”; rather, my pleasure in encountering the saying lies in the way it points toward a past...

... writers. Rewiring the Real does, clearly, support my concern. Four of five more or less equally substantial chapters are devoted to four novels: Gaddis's The Recognitions , Powers's Ploughing the Dark , Danielewski's House of Leaves , and DeLillo's Underworld . But I am given to understand...

... that create an opportunity for the recognition of a mutually shared humanity. This may not be a claim of dignity at all, according to Anker, yet the reader could perceive her critique of the liberal fictions of dignity all the same as the desire to make us aware of other forms of dignity, if by dignity we...

... consistently hostile to humanistic endeavor. Taking seriously our own objects of study offers one, admittedly utopian, way out of this seemingly inevitable decline. And yet if we take seriously the book's core insight—that forms are constructed against the recognition of their essential ungroundedness—then we...

... daughter of Thomas Jefferson. But to wager on recognition by way of kin- ship was a tenuous enterprise at best. As Robert Reid-Pharr has argued at length, when nineteenth-century writers fixed on black kin households as the necessary gateway to citizenship, they produced a fated double: not a citizen...

... of occurrence which they are assigned in the text” (15). We all know that this distinction con- tinues to be influential, even inescapable, in reflection on narrative time. And yes, it was a compelling recognition—to see that in life, events follow A to R, but in a novel, in The Good Soldier, in Mrs...

... to an incipiently collective mode of being defined, how- ever paradoxically, by its indifference to or removal from the recognition of others. Price provides ‘‘an interface between an embodied awareness and a global collective’’ (22). ‘‘In the economic fiction Clune writes, ‘‘the collective rises in the moment...

... and white” (168). In its awareness of the vexed history of minstrelsy, Duvall’s recognition of the ambivalence peculiar to masking—that it is not “good and evil” in Ellison’s sense so much as neither good nor evil—allows him to make a bold foray into critical race studies and a culture...

... Peter Kimani: When African Publishers ‘Lack Imagination.’ ” Publishing Perspectives 11 June 2019 . Armillas-Tiseyra Magalí . “ The Contemporary Novel and the Global South: Relation, Recognition, and the Utopian Impulse .” Studies in the Novel 53 . 2 ( 2021 ): 165 – 85 . Armillas...

... difference as through familiarity; the stranger disturbs the sense of a group’s coherence through a shock of recognition, manifesting “the extent to which [its] common features become general” and thereby “add[ing] to the warmth of the rela- tion founded on them, an element of coolness, a feeling...

.... Like the AI assistants installed on our phones, they thereby activate the automatisms of our socializing patterns rather than any wells of empathy or recognition. In four chapters, Ward tests out four versions of this aesthetic effect. The first chapter explores the model of “the feedback loop...

... traces the ways in which Tom’s character identity is formed and unformed in Fielding’s novel, my ultimate emphasis will be on the complex operations—both formal and political—of Sophia’s recognition of that character. I want to begin addressing these questions by briefly returning to Buchanan...

... are too conspicuous to overlook. To take one example, in her discussion of ‘‘shock’’ in book 4, Napier JUENGEL ‘‘MUCHSTUDYISAWEARINESSOFTHEFLESH’’ 313 predictably quotes at length Gulliver’s scene of fateful recognition, at the center of which lies the following...

... child flattened under the blankets. She could not speak, but her eyes lit up in recognition. I prayed for her to die. My grandfather's speculation that she was waiting for me was a prayer too. She passed away a few days later. Like many Africans, I have since lost many more loved ones to HIV/AIDS. I...