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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Alya Ansari Abstract This essay foregrounds the hermeneutic purchase of totality in contemporary literary criticism. Responding to the recent proliferation of the “gig work” novel, the essay takes up two interrelated lines of inquiry: How might we rethink the conceptual affordances of “totality...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 189–229.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Liron Mor Abstract This essay explores visual reading and its colonial aspects by analyzing the novel Ze ʿ im ha-panim elenu ( The One Facing Us , 1995), by Ronit Matalon, an Israeli Jewish author of Egyptian descent. In this novel Matalon displaces the dramas of Mizrahi Jews (Jews originating from...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 219–240.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and connect Black identities across space and time. The majority of the essay focuses on close readings of two contemporary novels on diasporic pasts, presents, and futures, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu (2018), to contrast “vertical” and “horizontal” epistemologies...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (2): 341–367.
Published: 01 December 2023
... his argument against the US monopoly within the genre of science fiction is reflected in his novels. Focusing on Lem’s paralleling of female masochism and epistemological critique, the essay reads Solaris as a novel invested in inspecting the interrelatedness of systems of oppression...
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of natural history. As the novel culminates in images and concepts that are essentially nonhuman, inhuman, or posthuman in character, it demonstrates an exacting knowledge of what the present is only now beginning to realize: after two world wars and humanity’s recent entry into what is called the age...
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“Les Hypothèses Trop Hasardées”: Synecdoche and Speculative Method at the End of the Rougon-Macquart
Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 337–366.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Justin Raden Abstract This essay argues that the difficulties Émile Zola faced in closing the Rougon-Macquart novel cycle reveal a political imaginary whose notion of a clean line of progress depends on a technical supplement it disavows. At critical points Zola’s method exposes the disavowal...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 367–386.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in an unfulfilled past and a home to which a community based on shared positions, not identity, can return. The argument is based on an exegetical approach to an ur-document in transnational post-Yugoslav literature, Ugrešić’s 1997 novel The Museum of Unconditional Surrender , as well as on a key distinction...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 319–328.
Published: 01 December 2022
... ). It engages with Nancy’s novel understanding of prophecy to understand his own writing as a form of “prophetic voice” receptive to the emergence of the present and its opening onto the future. A meditation on time, the loss of history, and on the need to be receptive to what comes to us as the real and from...
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Qui Parle (2023) 32 (1): 75–104.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Roy Chan Abstract Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–89) is best known for his utopian realist novel What Is to Be Done? (1863). However, he was perhaps most celebrated as a literary thinker in China as a result of the Soviet canonization of the nineteenth-century “democratic critics.” This essay...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ianna Hawkins Owen Abstract This essay concerns the descriptions of exhaustion connected to the suicidal thoughts and actions of Anyanwu, the protagonist of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Wild Seed (1980). Expanding the disability studies concept of desirelessness to graze Black diaspora studies...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 June 2024
... and the transcendent in a novel and counterintuitive dynamic. This constitutes Wittgenstein’s most significant contribution to the study of the ordinary: a demarcation between language as the domain of the ordinary and mystery as the realm of meaning. The intricate interrelationship of these realms animates...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and recount their life narrative. The first of these novels—Charles Gildon’s Golden Spy (1702)—gives voice to a bunch of coins. And the genre becomes self-reflexive when money starts to “coin words,” like the autobiographical protagonist of The Adventures of a Bank-Note (1770). Drawing on ancient sources...
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 521–538.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Spencer Adams 6. Delany’s Moby Dick –like 1968 space-travel novel Nova argues, in the midst of a tale of an Ahab-like spaceship captain trying to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of entering a star in the course of its explosion, for seeing technoscience’s purported secularism...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 127–150.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the Looking Glass
Near the end of David Copperfi eld, when David has become al-
most as successful an author as the one who wrote this novel, his
aunt Betsey says to him: “I never thought, when I used to read
books, what work it was to write them!” David replies: “It’s work
enough to read them...
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 363–384.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., marketers, assistants—and whose personal story stands synecdochically for the wider story the book tells about the institution of publishing. This book is Dan Kois’s novel Vintage Contemporaries . In the opening scene Emily Thiel, newly a New Yorker, meets another Emily: an artist living in a Manhattan...
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 69–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of the writer but rather the “posted presence of the watch-
er,” a center of consciousness positioned within the novel itself.
As Douglas turns his back upon the group of listeners around the
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hearth in “The Turn of the Screw” (1896), one might say...
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Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 243–261.
Published: 01 December 2016
... unexpected resistance: “The comments in course
evaluations by graduate students in English were worrying” (ww, 15).
These students described the novels Cheah taught as “wanting” and,
in one case, “terrible.”5 They reportedly questioned the syllabus for
its inclusion of novels...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 231–246.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., the subsequent four chapters pivot more explicitly toward literary studies to explore the liberal aesthetic and the liberal critique in nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels that reconstruct debates between liberal and radical thought in intellectual and literary history. Anderson, who began her career...
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Qui Parle (2022) 31 (2): 159–188.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of a reality that grounded, and was the source of, the text that depicted it ( B , 11, 66). This “classical” literature (and here Said was primarily speaking of novels, although also of philosophical writing from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries) did not present itself as a substitute...
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 281–293.
Published: 01 December 2017
... utterances would need to be aggregated with others over time for what is in the process of occurring to become evident. In his novel In Search of Lost Time , Proust sometimes stages scenes of people talking to themselves (the narrator in particular, but not only), and these scenes almost inevitably...
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