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Desire, Agency, and Black American Subjectivity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 2009
...John C. Charles Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual , by Reid-Pharr Robert , New York : New York University Press , 2007 . 208 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Review
Desire, Agency, and Black American Subjectivity
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The Evolutionary Invention of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Conservation” of Race and George Schuyler’s Black No More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Dana Carluccio Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Dana Carluccio
The Evolutionary Invention of Race:
W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Conservation” of Race
and George Schuyler’s Black No More
Dana Carluccio
For humanities scholars debating the contours of W. E. B. Du Bois’s...
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Cultural Exchange in a Black Atlantic Web: South African Literature, Langston Hughes, and Negritude
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 481–512.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Shane Graham Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 A Black Atlantic Web: South African Literature, Langston Hughes, and Negritude
Cultural Exchange in a Black Atlantic Web:
South African Literature, Langston Hughes,
and Negritude
Shane Graham
Ezekiel Mphahlele once wrote that Ebony...
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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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Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures by Jose O. Fernandez
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 199–204.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Press . At multiple points in the text, Fernandez restates the need for unity, for convergence, and for comparison. Although he offers a rationalization for this choice, I found myself wanting him to contend more seriously with difference. In the introduction he argues, “The shared fight by Black...
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Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing by Anthony Reed
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 213–219.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Press . Gikandi Simon . 2016 . “ Looking Back on the Black Aesthetic .” PMLA 131 , no. 1 : 9 – 19 . Leonard Keith D. 2005 . Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . Moten Fred...
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“Newark’s Just a Black Colony”: Race in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 161–190.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Jung-Suk Hwang Contextualizing American Pastoral within Newark’s history from the 1940s to the 1990s, including the 1967 riots and their continuing effects, Philip Roth contrasts this poor black city with the protagonist’s idealized image of America—a wealthy WASP suburb. Although largely neglected...
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Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination by Vaughn Rasberry
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Rachel Farebrother Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination , by Rasberry Vaughn . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 496 pages. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 Totalitarianism has been a defining concept...
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O’Hara, Blackness, and the Primitive
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Peter Stoneley 2012 O’Hara, Blackness, and the Primitive
O’Hara, Blackness, and the Primitive
Peter Stoneley
Since the publication of Brad Gooch’s City Poet: The Life and Times of
Frank O’Hara (1993), those who care to know about the poet’s personal
life will know that O’Hara had...
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Zora Neale Hurston, Participatory Listenership, and Boasian Anthropology
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 127–148.
Published: 01 June 2024
... is informed by the practices of the Black folk she encountered doing research for her anthropological project. In Their Eyes the protagonist Janie performs the kind of critical listenership Hurston observed in the southern Black rural communiuties, and, in contrast to Black communities centered on the male...
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Using the Rotted Names: Wallace Stevens’s Racial Ontology as Poetic Key
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 217–236.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Stevens, the language of which has been read as a device by which white protagonism defines itself in opposition to characteristics marked as “black,” as a “blackface” critique of white gentility, and as a melancholic attempt to locate the limits of the white imagination. Reviewing and critiquing...
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The Homoerotics of “Negrotarian” Patronage in Langston Hughes’s “The Blues I’m Playing”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... an interracial, intergenerational homoerotics of patronage between the white widowed elder, Mrs. Dora Ellsworth, and young Black pianist, Ms. Oceola Jones. The discussion places in stark relief the patron’s erotic competition with her protégée’s working-class African American fiancé. The article also grapples...
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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
...Rafael Walker In considering fictions centered on characters of mixed Black-and-white parentage, critics tend to assimilate these stories into African American literary paradigms—in much the same way that, in real life, America considers biracial people as simply black. Working against...
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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
... concerned with documenting segregation, but focused instead on racial capitalism, black history, internationalism, and on the ways “race” had meaning in postwar United States. Although he has remained largely absent from black literary histories, Mayfield was a prolific figure connected to numerous moments...
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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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The Plantation-Auschwitz Tradition: Forced Labor and Free Markets in the Novels of William Styron
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., a commitment to the idea that these histories are defined by racial sentiments against blacks and Jews, respectively. This essay considers Styron’s commitment to the economic explanation alongside the fate of that explanation in Robert William Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s controversial history of slavery, Time...
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Playing the Dozens and Consuming the Cadillac: Ralph Ellison and Civil Rights Politics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 147–172.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Cadillac on a US senator’s lawn to protest the senator’s racist pronouncements, I argue that Ellison adopts expressive strategies of black vernacular culture—the ritual of the dozens and African American automotive consumption—to explicate a singular conception of literary commitment, one that seeks...
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Fantasias on National Themes: Fantasy, Space, and Imperialism in Rebecca West
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941). Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 Black Lamb Harriet Hume India Orientalism topographies Yugoslavia When I am in a mood to slip out of life into fantasy, London enables me to pass in the drooping of an eyelid into a mere reenactment...
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“A Dirty Word These Days”: Anglo-Saxonism, Race, and Kinship in Go Set a Watchman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... learns to “think racially” and embrace the virtues of massive resistance to integration. The novel’s equation of psychological maturity and white supremacy is key to Jean Louise consistent denial of the centrality of anti-Black violence and oppression throughout the long history of Anglo-Saxon...
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The Modern Plantation Empire and Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Will Edmonstone The Caribbean-born, Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond is beginning to receive increased attention among scholars interested in transnational modernisms, Black diaspora cultures, and postcolonialism. Although he died in obscurity, his collection of short stories, Tropic Death...
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