... , 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... chapter. The end of the first chapter closes with the line: “Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures—the creatures of this chronicle among the rest—along the roads that lay before them” (1:2). Here for the first time...

....” 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...

... in a series of sites, part pedagogy, part narrative, part theater in which multiple actors come together to create the dynamic text. In an obvious debt to Walter Benjamin and with a nod toward Michel Foucault's late work on heterotopia, Alworth devotes chapters to dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums...

... . 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...

... 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 of the novel launched by Ian Watt that has tried to domesticate Crusoe’s rambling disposition. From Watt’s...

...: “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...

..., and there was light piercing into the room. She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond, outside the entrance-gates. On the road there was a man with a bundle on his back and a woman carrying her baby; in the field she could see figures moving...