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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 176–196.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of his own fatally dangerous fast driving at the moment when, as a result of that driving, he has been stopped forever from going anywhere. That is what Gaspard, or rather Jacques—the collectivizing code name adopted by the revolutionaries—means: speed the speeding bastards to their graves. One may also...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 379–403.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the future has, since the late nineteenth century, formed the basis of a connection between the history of the Anglophone novel and the history of left-wing political activism. At a crucial historical moment, novelists saw that they shared with some revolutionaries a strategic and ethical problem: balancing...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 339–359.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and revolutionary politics. Focusing on a hydroelectric facility yet to be constructed, A Wreath for Udomo reaches for the formal capacities of the novel to stage how the process of formal enclosure specific to and resulting from economic planning results in an analytic enclosure that slowly undoes the possibility...
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., socialist bildungsromane sought to provide the traditional form of the bildungsroman with a genuinely internationalist horizon. The genre of the socialist bildungsroman encodes the checkered history of socialism, in particular the problematic of a revolutionary temporality as well as the fraught...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of decolonization, recurring problematics that nonetheless make the case for its existence as a distinct genre. No novel better emblematizes this genre than William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face (1963). Smith's novel is read as an attempt to narrativize the problem of intersectionality for a revolutionary...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2009
... ambivalent about the threat or promise of what Perry Anderson has called “the revolutionary horizon” visible at the turn into the twentieth century. In a contemporary, postmodern, historical novel such as Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day , history is what Pynchon calls “time's pathology”—a pathology whose...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and appropriated them for a burgeoning revolutionary culture. In his teaching notes, Zhou upholds the people as the transformative engine for social progress: they are authors of their own culture, the political subjects of popular democracy, and in solidarity with the working classes of the world. This essay...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 389–409.
Published: 01 November 2023
... argues, rework the industrial‐novel genre as a way to figure a crisis of British culture—and of the novel as a form. In the era of British imperial decline, the apparent massification and globalization of modern Western culture, and revolutionary changes in gender relations and family life, the synoptic...
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Novel (2024) 57 (3): 399–417.
Published: 01 November 2024
... conceptualize the difficult territory between revolutionary transformation and institutional reform. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Novel, Inc. 2024 Asian American literature institutions literary form the 1960s the political With its fierce protests, strikes...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., “geometrically constructed,” riveted by the study of lines and shapes. Reading Jude 's manifold geometric imagery in the context of the revolutionary non-Euclidean break in Victorian-era mathematics and tracing the novel's bold typographic experiments, this essay highlights Hardy's surprising exuberance about...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 429–448.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Hugh McIntosh “Misreading and the Marketplace” explores how the culture of popular reading in nineteenth-century America played up a specific kind of critique: the refusal to share social anxieties at the heart of British novels. From excitement about the revolutionary mob that threatens Charles...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 263–282.
Published: 01 August 2022
... inhabit; nevertheless, possibilities for potentially revolutionary collective action still exist. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 economic ecosystems postcapitalism analytical Marxism network theory It seems that there exists a curiously unexplained...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
... becomes revolutionary in this way, suggesting that dictators share a common fate: they will be deposed or, eventually, die of old age. However, like a horde of the living dead, others like them will return. The article concludes with analysis of the apparent pessimism of this point and the global...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 May 2000
... story certainly looks like a tribute to
Madison Washington's struggle against slavery and the nation itself. However,
American history would argue that the "trope of revolutionary struggle" at the
center of "The Heroic Slave" actually serves to trap African Americans in an
identity based...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Instead of letting the people's lethargy prevail, he turns into a galvanizer of the people. Combat literature, revolutionary literature, national literature emerges” (159). Fanon's discussion of “combat literature” is echoed in Alexis's definition of realism. In “Of the Marvellous Realism...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2007
... much! I am so ignorant" [371 have
attached to Carton holds no currency within the Revolutionary world. At the
moment of their execution, the difference between the characters "all flashes
away": "[Tlhe knitting-women count Twenty-Two Twenty-three" (371). The
numbers specify...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of deep irony, exploiting the white presumption that Black people are “great eaters” to conceal in plain sight the means for violent revolutionary action. Gondolier's plan taps into the same mode of white imperception that had led Royer to believe that the enslaved people in the hold of the Vulture were...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 188–209.
Published: 01 August 2018
... how the revolutionaries could have believed themselves to be acting by a natural law of morality in supporting the have-nots while simultaneously committing the atrocities of the Terror against the haves ( 562–63 ). When it comes to explaining how rights discourse went “from being the prerogative...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 529–532.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of an overburdening materialism. Structuralist and poststructuralist writers likewise severed textuality from the sensible world. What gets completely lost in this long critical tradition of disdain for descriptive detail is recognition of the revolutionary potential of the aesthetic embrace of materiality. Rancière...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 175–178.
Published: 01 May 2016
... “one could entertain revolutionary aspirations and postrevolutionary aimlessness” (49). In Victorian England, by contrast, the grisette was nipped in the bud: within a progressively advancing commercial nation, bohemia was seen primarily as “a neighbourhood . . . ripe for gentrification” (71). Jane...
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