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Postmodernism in Reverse: American National Allegories and the 21st-Century Political Novel
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 516–538.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Caren Irr 2011 Caren Irr
Postmodernism in Reverse: American National
Allegories and the 21st-Century Political Novel
Caren Irr
Since the 1980s, the conceptual twin—or, better, dialectical counter-
part—of literary postmodernism has been the national allegory. As Fred-
ric...
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The Novel in a Time of Terror: Middlesex, History, and Contemporary American Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
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The Novel in a Time of Terror:
M id d lesex , History, and
Contemporary American Fiction
Samuel Cohen
I effrey Eugenides’s 2002 Middlesex, a critically acclaimed historical novel,
nas been praised as an expansive, epic...
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James Weldon Johnson’s Feminization of Biraciality
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 385–406.
Published: 01 December 2021
...-race fiction include William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853), the first novel by an African American; Francis E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy (1892); and Charles Chesnutt’s The House behind the Cedars (1899), to name just a few. In contrast, instead of presenting someone either congenitally doomed by mixed...
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“Electrical Nutrition and Glandular Control”: Eugenics, Progressive Science, and George Schuyler’s Black No More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Kim Adams In 1931, African American journalist George Schuyler imagined a medical treatment that could turn Black people white and American politics upside down. Schuyler’s novel, Black No More , uses this fictional race-altering technology to mount a satirical critique of progressive era...
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Charles W. Chesnutt’s Moral Alternative to War in The Marrow of Tradition
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2025
...Evan Reibsome This essay argues that, in fictionalizing the 1898 Wilmington coup d’état, Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition (1901) constitutes the preeminent African American antiwar novel of the early twentieth century. It demonstrates how in the months leading up to the 1898 Wilmington...
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Bad Seeds and Wayward Boys in Postwar Adoption Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-twentieth-century American adoption narratives suggests, however, that inherited traits were not the only concerns, an argument this essay pursues by considering March’s novel and its film adaptation alongside Richard Wright’s posthumously published novella Rite of Passage . All of the texts share certain...
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Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Mark A. Tabone This article focuses on the representation of history in African American author John A. Williams’s 1999 novel, Clifford’s Blues , a fictional account of a Black, queer American expatriate’s internment and enslavement in a Nazi concentration camp . Through a critical perspective...
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Film in Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 333–360.
Published: 01 September 2020
... the American movie industry correlates with both his technological savvy and his sociopolitical conservativism in the latter half of his writing career. Second, it shows how Ellison’s fascinations with cinematic effects shape the aesthetics and themes of his unfinished second novel. Finally, the article...
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Julian Mayfield and Alternative Civil Rights Literatures
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
... on northern “racial capitalism,” representing how a desire to integrate into American fantasies of capitalist acquisition actually serves to obliterate the possibility of black autonomy and self-definition. If The Hit is a “civil rights” novel, then, it operates in the field of “race radicalism...
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“Interested in Big Things, and Happy in Small Ways”: Curiosity in Edith Wharton
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
... University 2018 American novel curiosity Edith Wharton liberalism Matthew Arnold public/private sphere Though written at the height of her powers, French Ways and Their Meaning (1919) occupies a relatively marginal place in Edith Wharton’s oeuvre. Composed of articles written during the war...
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Transnationalism in Contemporary Post-Soviet North American Literature
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories (2007) are set in specific North American immigrant neighborhoods: Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue in Toronto for Natasha , and the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh in Little Chicken . These stories describe the deterritorialization of Russian culture...
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Numb Modernism: Sentiment and the Intellectual Left in Tess Slesinger’s The Unpossessed
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
Published: 01 September 2017
... among New York intellectuals who ineffectually conspire to found a radical magazine. Although the novel has typically been read as a roman à clef, its broader target becomes evident when positioned in relation to masculinist orthodoxies of objectivity and scientific materialism that dominated American...
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“A Not-Exactly-Good Man”: Lionel Trilling on Law and Judgment
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 129–160.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Katie Fitzpatrick This article reads Lionel Trilling’s 1947 novel, The Middle of the Journey , through postwar controversies about the relationship between law and conscience. The 1945–46 Nuremberg Trials divided American liberals, who disputed whether fascism was best combated by fidelity...
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“There Is No Such City”: The Myth of Odessa in Post-Soviet Immigrant Literature
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 121–144.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Mayakovsky’s “Oblaka v shtanakh” (“A Cloud in Trousers”). 5 References and allusions to the Russian literary canon are a common feature of Russian American prose fiction as well. For example, Irina Reyn’s novel What Happened to Anna K. (2008) recasts the plot of Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
... substantial works on Black knowledge of whiteness. 11 Jane Davis (2000) also deals with literary critiques of whiteness beyond the white-life novel. She provides a detailed taxonomy of white types in African American literature, and lists liberal whites, including those of Native Son , as one...
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Post-Postmodern Realism?
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 364–371.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Madhu Dubey 2011 Madhu Dubey
Post-Postmodern Realism?
Madhu Dubey
In his 1989 manifesto for “the new social novel,” Tom Wolfe com-
plained that contemporary American novelists were failing to take on the
pressing social issues of their time. Since the 1960s—in other words...
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Mourning the “Greatest Generation”: Myth and History in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Mourning the “Greatest Generation”:
Myth and History
in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
Sandra Kumamoto Stanley
I n a 1973 interview about his satirical book The Great American Novel,
Philip Roth describes the 1960s...
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The Worlding of American Literature
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 105–113.
Published: 01 March 2011
... owe my title, and my use of “world” as a verb, to Bruce Robbins’s contri-
bution to The Cambridge History of the American Novel, in which he uses “world-
ing” to describe the processes whereby novelists express the global resonance
of their narrative perspectives.
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Race, Culture, Nation: Edith Wharton and Ernest Renan
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 32–45.
Published: 01 March 2003
... was not only
impeding its own cultural growth, it was missing an important global
opportunity. It was a “curious” and “suggestive” fact, for example, that
“America’s acute literary nationalism has developed in inverse ratio to
the growth of modern travelling facilities” (“Great American Novel” 156...
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Conceptualizing Change in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 267–272.
Published: 01 June 2014
...-specific
chapters substantiate this thesis cumulatively, in the process advancing our
understanding of the novels they address, while cumulatively limning an
aesthetically diverse sense of American fiction in the 1990s. Assiduously
researched and eloquently executed, American Fiction in Transition...
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