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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Ryan Crawford Abstract This essay takes the last pages of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at its word: at the moment the narrator achieves a definitive conception of the work he intends to write, he sees society composed, not of people of flesh and blood, but of monsters fit for a museum...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 231–295.
Published: 01 December 2022
... construction masquerading as mere ontological fact. Yet historians remain committed to the fiction as if it were fact, occluding the ways that narrating the Human requires evading full recognition of the ubiquity and permanence of anti-Blackness in the modern world. Indeed, this article argues...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 June 2022
... enthusiastic alternatives to Baldwin, the latter half of this article examines idiosyncratic attachments to the film that are routed through the demonic. By disidentifying with the possessed child, the narrators of Larry Duplechan’s Eight Days a Week (1985) and Blackbird (1986), James Earl Hardy’s B-Boy Blues...
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 177–204.
Published: 01 December 2004
.... That invisibility to which I refer occurs because
of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom
I come in contact.3
The narrator insists that his invisibility is not natural, nor even acci-
dental, but the product of a "refusal" on the part of others...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 69–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to understand the place of Joseph Conrad’s
Marlow- narrated fi ction within the modernist novel.4 Marlow was
a “familiar spirit, a whispering ‘daemon’” whose origin and func-
tion Conrad was never willing to discuss fully or directly.5 As Fred-
eric Jameson argues in an early study, Marlow...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 369–394.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the narrator of J. M. Coetzee’s early novel In the Heart of the Country (1977) just as it becomes clear that she has lost control. 1 Having murdered her father (and more than once, if the reader does not choose between the various alternations and self-contradictory accounts of her inner monologue...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 189–229.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the collective nature of the reblinding act point at other possible readings? Matalon’s novel probes these questions by exploring the relation of sight and blindness to narration and, specifically, through readings of visual matter. By analyzing Matalon’s elaborate readings of photographs, this essay...
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 December 2014
...
jesse cordes selbin
A review of Rae Greiner, Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century
British Fiction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Cited
in the text as SR.
After the Town and County Bank fails and Miss Matty Jenkins los-
es her life savings, the narrator of Elizabeth...
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of Austerlitz, the narrator recalls vis-
iting the newly opened Antwerp Nocturama and watching a rac-
coon sitting beside a little stream “with a serious expression on its
face, washing the same piece of apple over and over again, as if it
hoped that all this washing . . . would help it to escape...
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 263–278.
Published: 01 June 2012
... made about her and Zero.
Zero then briefl y becomes visible on camera and declares that
he was not the fi rst man to suffer from the virus, proceeding to
narrate his sexual escapades before once again becoming invisible.
Visibility for Zero is thus contingent on his cooperation in narra...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 179–206.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of
blackness: whereas it is possible to articulate the end of a colonial
domination named as secular within terms of the world, the end of
the slave position requires the end of the world as such. It is in this
sense that the ever renewed possibility and narration of the world...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 281–293.
Published: 01 December 2017
... (the narrator in particular, but not only), and these scenes almost inevitably become moments in which the novel offers some kind of a reflection on the multiplanar aspect of language use, or on the ways the roles of animator, author, and principal are more distributive than integral, even in what we might...
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Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2015
... unfolding and what, “equivocally enough,” in-
dicates on the part of the narrator less perspicuity than ingenious-
ness. The elaboration of how the matin light streams, at least as it
relates to questions of plot (in terms of both the story Melville has
written and the script produced...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
... the aegis of this thought— a version of “everything is
dead already”— that Wordsworth launches the story of the dream
of the Arab. A “Friend” to whom the narrator has told his worries
tells the story of reading Cervantes’s Don Quixote by the seaside,
which somehow leads to his meditating on “Poetry...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 295–382.
Published: 01 December 2017
... point of grammar is indeed a question of political significance. In Poe’s story, the narrator tries to get to the bottom of the mysterious charisma of the war hero Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith, and in particular the enigma of his unparalleled manly physique. “I never heard a clearer nor...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2018
... in a summer resort. In this minimal story Auerbach selects a passage narrating a still more minimal event: the housewife, Mrs. Ramsay, is knitting a pair of stockings destined for the son of the lighthouse keeper, and she tries to measure them on the legs of her son. This seems to be a very odd choice...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
... objects or things thus become the narrators of their own fate, money, be it in the form of coins or in the form of banknotes, features prominently as the autobiographical protagonist of a whole series of books, almost constituting a subgenre, with titles like The Adventures of a Bank-Note (1770...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 405–417.
Published: 01 December 2019
... 1. See, e.g., Roberts, Fatal Invention ; Fullwiley, “Biologistical Construction of Race” ; El-Haj, Facts on the Ground ; TallBear, Native American DNA ; Mukharji, “Bengali Pharaoh” ; Keel, “Race on Both Sides of the Razor” ; and Burton, “Narrating Ethnicity and Diversity.” 2...
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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 95–143.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., the feverish jolting of your lumbar vertebrae. Who then has scalped you? ( cm , 232–33/144–45) The rhetorical questions are traditional—the narrator is interrogating another about their status and thus their legitimacy as a witness to his own meditations—but their manner of development is not. At each...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 95–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in the literary study of
blackness. For many critics and readers alike, Douglass’s narration
of his life was their introduction to the routine bestialization expe-
rienced by those enslaved in the southern United States. Douglass’s
text relies heavily on the explanatory power...
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