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... in his “Song of the Open Road.” They are reflected, too, in the spirit of Vachel Lindsay's “I Want to Go Wandering” and by Henry D. Thoreau. (164) In his soaring rhetoric, Douglas reclaims the vagrant as a figure of American freedom, relying on an exclusively white, male literary tradition...

... , Richard . “Introduction: ‘How Bigger Was Born.’” Native Son . vii –xxxiv. Wright , Richard . Native Son . New York: Harper & Row, 1987 . The Road Out of the Black Belt: Sociology's Fictions hdBlack Subjectivity...

... (and the Domestication of the Savage Mind); the road through the forest as a symbol of writing and its power; and the solitary man, shut up in a closet, who attends to a disembodied voice but is distracted by noises from outside as a metonym for the experience of reading. While Achebe expresses a deep ambivalence about...

... by focusing attention on the specificities of literary analysis as a particular mode of judgment whose precepts and decisions do not always coincide with political or even ethical reason. Through a reading of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, this essay argues that this heuristic does not attempt to reconcile...

... Sartre's unfinished tetralogy The Roads to Freedom (1945–49) to Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (1962) and Peter Weiss's trilogy The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975–81). Building on Alain Badiou's understanding of the militant subject's “fidelity” to the revolution, the article describes the dialectical...

... action is embodied and interrogated in what I call the microeconomic mode , a ubiquitous twenty-first-century cultural formation defined by a combination of abstraction and extremity. From Cormac McCarthy's The Road to the Hunger Games franchise, this mode represents individuals making life-and-death...

... this climactic historical comprehension of people's temporal contemporaneity stop there: Dickens is not just evoking a passing now, now, now, in which all contemporaneously speed along different but interconnected roads. As Dickens repeatedly observes, the sweep of the story's time has brought readers...

....” ELH 67 . 1 ( 2000 ): 143 -78. Gregory , J. W. The Story of the Road: From the Beginning down to A.D. 1931 . London: Maclehose, 1931 . Hardy , Thomas . The Woodlanders . New York: Penguin, 1998 . Harris , Jose . Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914 . New...

... the putative barrier between action and environment, agency and materiality. One might say that site reading as a critical practice does for spaces what new materialism theory does for matter. It shows how a cellar can be an asylum, a road a vehicle for homosocial community, a dump a latter-day shell mound...

... . Michi [Road]. Bungei Taiwan ( June 1943 ). Ching , Leo . “Give Me Japan and Nothing Else! Postcoloniality, Identity, and the Traces of Colonialism.” The South Atlantic Quarterly , ed. Tomiko Yoda and Harry Harootunian (Fall 2000 ): 763 –88. Chô , Bunkan (Zhâng Wenhuan) . “Iyatumu...

...- ments in carriage design, horse breeding, and improved road infrastructure pro- vided “a material basis for the so-called Age of Sensibility,” a period when the self was “felt to be a phenomenon of the nervous system, of the body in motion” (207). Pursued by death, his body a machine that needs...

... by other works—notably Colson Whitehead's Zone One , N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, and Levar Burton's Aftermath —that focus on Black life as it survives the assaults of white supremacy. In the third thematic chapter, Bellamy's reading of Cormac McCarthy's The Road provides an especially...

... Can Reading Do?” BARBARA HERRNSTEIN SMITH Here in North Carolina (the original venue of this forum), where ads for summer Bible-reading classes appear along every road, one wonders whether the question “What can reading do?” might not evoke a broader set of answers. For example, we might...

..." trade turned upon its proximity to England. Located on the extreme western edge of the Anglo-Scottish border, Gretna is Scotland's southern-most village and hence the "first" Scottish community on the Western road as it passed from England into Scotland. Lying just inside...

... symbolic role as “that mysterious land beyond the Passes of the North” (18). Through the token Afghan Mahbub Ali, Kipling associates the region with stereotypes of both the East and the road. When Kim finds Mahbub at the Kashmir Serai, the Afghan horse trader is “lying on a pair of silk carpet saddle-bags...

...- essarily be limited to a fraction of black America, with institutionalized racism, violence, and a profound absence of capital providing the most obvious road blocks. At the same time, Du Bois's and Washington's own notions of elitism within "the race" suggest a less obvious yet equally formidable...

..., when the narrator recalls with a peculiar fondness his college years in the South: Many times, here at night, I’ve closed my eyes and walked along the forbidden road that winds past the girls’ dormitories, past the hall with the clock in the tower, its windows warmly aglow . . . on down...

... some ominous hints of misfortunes in the offing, Crusoe goes, in the words of his father, “abroad upon Adventures, to rise by Enterprise, and to make” himself “famous in Undertakings of a Nature out of the Common road” (5). In the second half of the twentieth century, there is an account...

...: “And all the longings and all the loss can't bring back the dead.” In a more sustained example of this tragic retrospective mode, Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road ( 2006 ) concludes with a similar image of a world irretrievably lost: Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You...

... expansion, but each one harks back to the 1820s and early 1830s, to the height of a stagecoaching era made possible by fast-driving, lightweight, long-distance coaches traveling along newly macadamized (smooth-surfaced) roads. Dickens’s retrospection in these novels, however, looks nothing like...