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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Jeffrey Allen Tucker Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999) tells the story of a black female elevator inspector who “intuits” the machines' safety. The protagonist searches for both those responsible for the apparent sabotage of an elevator for which she was responsible and the blueprints...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 442–459.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Ezra Dan Feldman Abstract The form and formlessness of histories, regions, races, ballads, fictions, lists, characters, and mountains are among the topics of concern in Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days , and they pose a real challenge to conveying what this novel is like. Caroline Levine's Forms...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 397–408.
Published: 01 November 2017
... like, I outline a theory of the critique immanent to the literary form of the novel itself, and I conclude with a brief reading of a recent novel as critique, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad . In this essay, I argue that Marxist theories of the novel, embedded within broader Marxian...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and White
gene andrew jarrett, Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature
(Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007), pp. 232, cloth, $49.95.
To mark the one-year anniversary of a black man being elected president of the United
States, novelist Colson Whitehead announced...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 365–374.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., Gerald Vizenor, Colson Whitehead, and Karen Tei Yamashita. Literary criticism was initially slow to keep pace with the shift in protocols of racial representation, due to the lingering power of the paradigm of corrective mimesis. Although critics widely noted the explosion of speculative and fabulist...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 343–346.
Published: 01 August 2019
... through five distinct forms of genre fiction: the novel of manners, the noir film, the detective novel, the Western film, and postapocalyptic novels. Works by Bret Easton Ellis, Zadie Smith, Vikram Chandra, Michael Chabon, China Miéville, Colson Whitehead, and Cormac McCarthy, among others, populate...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 5–23.
Published: 01 May 2001
... . Turner , Cheryl . Living By the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century . London: Routledge, 1992 . Whitehead , William . A Trip to Scotland . London: J. Dodsley, 1770 . Wordsworth , Dorothy . Recollections of a tour made in Scotland .New Haven: Yale UP, 1997...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of consolation may also hinge on the identity of the reader. In considering Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016), James wonders whether it is morally defensible to write beautifully about slavery. In this case it matters who is benefiting from that beautiful description and whose pain is being...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
... by climate change ( Flood of Fire ; Great Derangement ). In another direction, Colson Whitehead recombines the shared genetic code of science fiction and the historical novel in The Underground Railroad , taking up a countertradition initiated nearly four decades ago by Octavia Butler. In Butler's...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 235–252.
Published: 01 August 2000
...: Channel 4 Books, 1999 . Britain’s Slave Trade. Prod. Trevor Phillips and Phillip Whitehead. Made by Pepper Productions and Brook Lapwing for Channel 4. Broadcast October 3,10,17, 24, 1999. Radio Times, 2–8 May 1998. Radio Times, 18–24 April 1998. Radway , Janice . Reading the Romance...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and organizational promise, in part because of its tight grip on a particular roster of texts, a particular methodology, and a particular scholarly debate and its vocabulary. In terms of its textual selection, one wonders how the book might accommodate authors like Colson Whitehead and Paul Beatty. In terms of its...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 386–405.
Published: 01 November 2019
... mineworker in Moon (2009) memorably dramatizes the abjection of clone/artificial-human labor for an unseen corporate interest. Other notable examples include Gattaca (1997), The Island (2005), and Ex Machina (2014). 21 Anne Whitehead in her argument for empathy's dead end in Never Let Me Go...
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 165–183.
Published: 01 August 2012
... reference point for literary fiction—as recent novels by Colson Whitehead,
Kazuo Ishiguro, and Julian Barnes attest—a more experimental prose style has in turn been
reappropriated by “genre” writers like Richard Price and David Peace. And such crossings of
high and low are hardly...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 197–205.
Published: 01 May 2010
...
The Last Chronicle of Barset, I: 268 White, Gilbert
The Prime Minister, I: 268 The Natural History and Antiquities of
The Small House at Allington, I: 268 Selborne, II: 460
The Way We Live Now, I: 297 Whitehead, Colson
Tutuola, Amos...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 406–424.
Published: 01 November 2019
... fiction still has its skeptics, although more so-called literary writers have coopted the genre. Cormac McCarthy, Colson Whitehead, and Emily St. John Mandel have borrowed the tropes of dystopian futures, and perhaps as a result of this appropriation speculative fiction now feels like a tired...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 94–110.
Published: 01 May 2012
... to speak are Gertrude Stein, Pablo
Picasso, and Alfred Whitehead. I have met many important people, I have met several great
people but I have only known three first class geniuses and in each case on sight within me
something rang. In no one of the three cases have I been...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 26–48.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of a process, as Whitehead would say, unobservable up close” (157). Merleau-Ponty refers to an experiment conducted by Albert Michotte in La perception de la causalité (1954), a “duck test” of sorts in which moving traits projected on a screen give “the characteristic impression of life, whatever...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 1948 . Kahn Douglas , and Whitehead Gregory , eds. Wireless Imagination: Sound Radio and the Avant-Garde . Cambridge : MIT P , 1994 . Kreilkamp Ivan . Voice and the Victorian Storyteller . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2005 . Kurnick...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 316–342.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., Mario Vargas Llosa, Colson Whitehead, Chang-Rae Lee, Hilary Mantel, David Mitchell, Richard Flanagan, and many more taking over from an earlier generation given to more indirect, allegorical, fabular, or magical realisms. If contemporary historical fictions—and we can add the most recent novels of Toni...
