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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
... as it figuratively articulates the boy’s rite of passage.” Works Cited Anderson Maxwell . 1955 . Bad Seed: The Dramatization of William March’s Novel “The Bad Seed”: A Play in Two Acts . New York : Dramatists Play Service . Billingsley Andrew . 1992 . Climbing Jacob’s Ladder...
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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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that traditional elegy erases. This essay begins by reconsidering familiar ground—the Bloomsbury Group and the Cambridge Apostles—in order to place Woolf’s work squarely in the middle of what might otherwise seem an old boys’ club of elegiac inheritance. Not all systems of order that place an individual...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
...). Such an approach not only generates significant new insights by demonstrating that an array of midcentury black writers, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, Ann Petry, and C. L. R James, contributed to “a renewed political imagination of totalitarianism from the vantage of colonial modernity.” It also...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 25–42.
Published: 01 March 2005
... be a mistake to reduce Neil’s insecurity to factors of religion and class when it is ultimately ontological in nature and manifests itself most acutely in the sphere of love. Roth develops the motif of Neil’s “blackness” above all through his identification with the “small colored boy” (31) who...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 148–179.
Published: 01 June 2011
...; David is a writer distracted by his wife’s exploration of masculinity, racialized fantasy, and lesbianism.2 Early in the narrative, Catherine surprises her husband with a haircut “cropped as short as a boy’s” (14) explaining “I’m a girl, But now I’m a boy too” (15). That night she goes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 247–258.
Published: 01 June 2018
... world, just as it reveals his acquaintance with photographic prints of these different settings. Gérôme presents a young nude boy charming a large snake (the species is unclear) in a room that draws on details he had copied when visiting the Golden Passage of the harem in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 100–114.
Published: 01 March 2000
... momentarily through the gates of denial erected in Berlin’s mind: “Pretending he had not watched Billy Boy Watkins die of fright on the field of battle” (186). Historical fact keeps leaking through, even as the denials mount. It even comes as snatches of a song: “Where have you gone, Billy...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 56–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... The complex elaboration of the young man’s sexuality is perhaps best evidenced by Crane’s first written reference to the young man, in a letter to Waldo Frank from August 1926: I have made up a kind of friendship with that idiot boy, who is always on the road when I come into town for mail. He has gone so...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
...), drawing the interest of a variegated multitude of American intellectuals, including Margaret Sanger, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot, all of whom “endorsed some form of eugenics in the 1920s” (2). This broad appeal across racial and political lines, English suggests...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 619–656.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of my life, since I was a small boy, have been due to marrying [Valerie For the elder Eliot, his child- hood and his second marriage bookend a long stretch of unhappiness in the middle. The conflicting signals Eliot sends with regard to his childhood have led scholars to incompatible...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
... servants and their white employers, brilliantly enacts a critique of “racial capitalism”; and even late-career Du Bois, effectively marginalized by the Civil Rights Movement, whose The Black Flame trilogy (1957–1961), following the life of one character from Reconstruction to his death in 1956, offers...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2008
... girls and boys in a short story, with fantasy instead of psychology to float them. (23 March 1913, Letters 200) This inability to “write freely” and hence sincerely clearly lay at the heart of the crisis. In fact, Forster wrote several overtly erotic short sto­ ries about homosexual...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 53–74.
Published: 01 March 2022
... than to oppressive resignation or social activism.” At the end, “his only action is to climb a tree and wave to an imaginary playmate so as to confirm his own existence. Apparently change will come to this boy if he simply establishes his being and waits for the coming dawn” (18). Though they do...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): vii–xi.
Published: 01 June 2011
... makes you think I hate you?” “Because we’re girls,” wailed the boys. John Wayne held his sons and stroked their hair. “Oh, there, there, you’re not girls, you’re not girls,” said the father. “What makes you think you’re girls?” “Because we’re putting on lipstick,” said...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 473–479.
Published: 01 December 2019
... what has already been disqualified from life” (77). In response to such portrayals of black bodies, Cane and W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Georgia Negro Exhibit” invert photographic and linguistic media, experimenting with the technologies of vision in order to contest the monolithic portrayal of black bodies...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2009
... is both past and present, heard and unheard—this figure echoes a similar moment in W. E. B Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. That book begins with sight—Du Bois is marked in his otherness by the glance of a white schoolmate—and as Shamoon Zamir observes, “closes with Du Bois listening...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 411–436.
Published: 01 December 2019
... reflects the aims and aspirations of the nation-state. To an important degree, this makes the world of the boarding school fertile ground for fiction. While boys’ boarding school narratives have largely determined the genre, stories of girls in school have also circulated since the eighteenth century...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 199–223.
Published: 01 June 2011
... like a broken type- writer, the boys are old men, young hips quivering and twitching in boy- spasms go slack and flabby, draped over an outhouse seat, a park bench, a stone wall in Spanish sunlight, a sagging furnished room bed ” (79). Here the span of a lifetime is annihilated in a verb...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 214–237.
Published: 01 June 2000
... or extinguished by the simplicity of one side or the other, my side or the side that wasn’t mine. (152-53) On a Sunday drive when Singh is a boy, he sees in human features mark­ ers of the island’s racial history: We went through purely mulatto villages where the people were a baked copper...