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Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature by Brian Norman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 174–180.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Gary Edward Holcomb Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature , by Norman Brian , University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 214 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Gary Edward Holcomb
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The “Nature” of American Literature: Race, Place, and Textuality in John Crowe Ransom and Elizabeth Madox Roberts
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Sharon Kunde “The ‘Nature’ of American Literature” explores how John Crowe Ransom and his less-studied contemporary Elizabeth Madox Roberts advanced a theory of literary objects that emerged from nature itself. This theory formed the basis of Ransom’s bid, in “Criticism, Inc.,” for disciplinary...
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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
... slavery, Jim Crow, and the Nazi Holocaust. The article demonstrates how the novel’s unconventional and controversial emplotment allows Williams to create a distinctive historical critique not only of slavery and the Holocaust but, more broadly, of otherization, racialized violence, and modernity itself...
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Robert Lowell, the New Critics, and the “Unforgivable Landscape” of Liberalism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to those of his New Critical mentors, such as John Crowe Ransom, for whom the individual of the liberal political order is entwined with the history of Puritan iconoclasm and Romantic views of the poetic subject. It argues that Ransom’s critique parallels those of later critics, such as Marjorie Perloff...
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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
... and southern US culture the novel uncritically offers as the true nature of Jim Crow society. By emphasizing Lee’s self-conscious deployment of literary history in her construction of an Anglo-Saxon racial essence, the article distinguishes between the novel’s reactionary critiques of colorblind liberalism...
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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
... political power during early Jim Crow. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 Hofstra University 2025 antiwar novel Civil War nonviolence Race Riot Wilmington coup d’état In this brief review, then, of the history and present political condition of the American Negro I cannot omit...
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Reading Word, Image, and the Body of the Book: Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin’s Cave Birds
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 18–58.
Published: 01 March 2004
...” (“Hanged Man” 86).The seeds of Crow (1970), the volume that
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Reading Word, Image, and the Body of the Book: Cave Birds
firmly placed Hughes on the map of modern poetry, were sown shortly
after Plath’s suicide in 1963, when, in an effort to “drive Hughes ‘from
despair into activity Baskin asked...
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A Turning Point in Native American Fiction?
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 388–395.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Ceremony, Welch’s Fools Crow, and Erdrich’s Love Medicine to
be “great” but insists that they deserve respect for their artistic excellence,
not for the supposedly authentic embodiment of their authors’ traditional
cultures. They offer limited insight into those cultures, he charges...
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Imagining Ted Hughes: Authorship, Authenticity, and the Symbolic Work of Collected Poems
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 414–436.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of
Birthday Letters. We might even see England’s former poet laureate, or the
author of such well-known works as “The Thought-Fox,” “Thistles,” and
Crow. Even the academically invested, approaching the book with special
ized knowledge, are likely to bring with them a set of associations...
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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
... World War II, Rasberry argues, the black soldier occupied a more ambivalent position: rather than embodying two fronts of resistance against totalitarianism in Europe and Jim Crow in the United States, black soldiers’ participation in the occupation of Germany and Japan made them ambivalent emblems...
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Call for Papers
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 420.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., 2004: LaraTrubowitz, 308 EPB, Dept, of English, University
of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 and Phyllis Lassner, Jewish Studies Program,
Crowe Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208. ...
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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
... as much as it reveals and illuminates,” and thus “relocating the black political radicalism that has been chronologically situated during the late 1960s in an earlier political landscape dominated by the southern movement’s struggles against Jim Crow reperiodizes civil rights and Black Power...
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“A Nother World” In Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
... cause such mayhem that no politician could ignore it” (296). When the crow declines his second wish, to make the impossible first wish possible, finally Zafar says, “I would like to see the face of my enemy.” The crow responds: Behold, the Kampani. On its roof are soldiers with guns. . . . From...
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The Green Depression: American Ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s by Matthew M. Lambert
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in Southern Literature (2012), Lambert analyzes the false nostalgia of Southern apologists in works such as John Crowe Ransom’s essay “Reconstructed but Unregenerate” (1930) and William Alexander Percy’s 1941 autobiography Lanterns on the Levee . Percy’s work draws on the trope of the South as a contentious...
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Learning to Be Yourself
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 277–285.
Published: 01 June 2010
... a reading of Cameron Crowe’s
Jerry Maguire to critique Judith Butler’s critique of Althusser in The Psychic
Life of Power. Until this point she largely avoids arbitrating between the
competing ontologies of self she describes, but she drops her neutrality
when it comes to Butler. As a consequence...
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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
... Hollywood’s racist illusions to very real social consequences: “Psychologically and ethically, these negative images constitute justifications for all those acts, legal, emotional, economic, and political, which we label Jim Crow” ( CE 305). In his second novel, Ellison explores these dynamics between shadow...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the New Deal: Queer Poetics and the Welfare State in Key West
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Wright’s classic “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.” Like the New Deal as a whole, such literary efforts were attacked by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and this Red Scare deeply influenced post-WWII readings of Bishop as apolitical, obscuring what I read as Bishop’s statist queer poetics...
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Mode indigo
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 681–689.
Published: 01 December 2013
... stood John Crowe Ransom, who, as a central figure in
the Nashville Agrarian movement (and a later progenitor of the New
Criticism), weighed in regularly in such debates. “Regionalism,” Ransom
wrote in 1934, “is as reasonable as non-regionalism, whatever the latter
may be called: cosmopolitanism...
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Index: Twentieth Century Literature Volumes 41–45, 1995–1999
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 115–124.
Published: 01 March 2000
... Hughes’s Crow, or through the Looking Glass
and What Crow Found There.” 43.1 (1997): 26-40
Berman, Ron. “Vaudeville Philosophers: ‘The Killers 45.1 (1999): 79-93
Bevis, Richard. “Actaeon’s Sin: The ‘Previous Iconography’ of Fowles’s ‘The
Ebony Tower 42.1 (1996): 114-23...
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Early Civil Rights “Voice Work” in Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 238–266.
Published: 01 June 2012
... is achieved
structurally. The text is framed by two stories about women. This fact itself
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indicates the importance of female characters to the text and suggests an
implied female as well as male audience.16 The first story, “The Ethics of
Living Jim Crow,” appears...
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