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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 222–242.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Dale Pattison © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Dale Pattison Writing Home: Domestic Space, Narrative Production, and the Homeland in Roth’s American Pastoral Dale Pattison On September 18, 2002, as part of the Lannan Foundation’s literary awards ceremony, author and activist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 449–471.
Published: 01 December 2003
...), to integrate what appears to be a domestic fairy tale about Laura Willowes’s search for her own space into a global framework. Applying this critical strategy to women’s writing during the interwar years allows a previously neglected historical context to emerge. The com­ bination of changing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of home and domestic life, resituating his characters within the parameters of the hotel, and thus creating new kinds of characters, representing in new ways individual subjectivity and its relation to material space as he explores the modern hotel in all its various incarnations. In doing so...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 213–237.
Published: 01 June 2012
... domestic spaces by eradicating live-in service altogether. In the way she describes an ideal domestic space, Wharton underscores utility but also privacy, which she regards as the most important facet of “civilized life” (22). As Vanessa Chase argues, Wharton’s limited perspective of the domestic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
... is that now we are asked to accept a tidy plot resolution in place of social change, to see personal affirmation as a triumph over adversity—what amounts to an acceptance of Thatcher’s claim that there is no such thing as society. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 domestic space masculinity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 429–447.
Published: 01 December 2016
... newborn had stopped whimpering” (188). It is possible that Amna may be dead, but this is a silence that does not let us know: we can no longer access the enclosed domestic space that, like Saidi, has become “immured in silence.” Works cited Agamben Giorgio . 1999 . Remnants of Auschwitz...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 60–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., “the female image was gradually thrust out of its older protective cultural shelter” (“Strategists” 113) within domestic space. The shop windows’ messages are most immediately embodied in the “showy- looking girls” (146) Charity encounters in a Nettleton restaurant dressing room. Initially, she...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
... to the context of the museum seems to reflect a fundamental unease with the simplistic, deductive interpretation of domestic space promoted by “At Home” profiles and some literary tour- ism. In “Small Talk about Meredith” (1919), published at the time she was writing Night and Day, Woolf argues...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... debates staged with her white male discussants, Hurston’s relationships with black women usually take place within domestic spaces. These relationships are not cast as warm sites of relief from the public sphere but are often strained by contentious generational divides, as with her grandmother or Cally...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 582–605.
Published: 01 December 2012
...) Whereas the Dagonet house expresses Ralph’s “inner consciousness” and links Ralph’s and his family’s identity to a domestic space that, in its sym- 587 Regina Martin metry and frugality, is an external manifestation of the family’s character, the Fifth Avenue houses are mere façade, “a thin...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 March 2012
... questions about how we might position Himes’s Harlem Domestic novels in relation to an alternative theoretical rubric for serial crime fictions—one first developed by Fredric Jameson in “The Synop- tic Chandler,” and focused upon fictions that repeatedly return to the same imagined space, the same...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (4): 421–448.
Published: 01 December 2003
... turned to her diary—in the same way that she would later turn to her memoir—in an effort to live through these “days upon days of miserable speculation” and “nerve-racking suspense” (Testament 142).The domestic space became its own batdeground to be managed and survived: Ordinary household...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 131–163.
Published: 01 June 2003
...” as those under the empire of the English were usually held to be.22 It also points out that the temporal and cultural distance between exotic reaches and domestic 147 Kurt Koenigsberger spaces of empire occasionally collapse within the English imagination, and such moments reveal...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., in spite of lacking the material resources or domestic space to support its care, does constitute a refusal to be contained and made legible. The reproduction of the working class, that is, further destabilizes an economic structure that already has failed to provide enough work for those who want...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
... on the essence of an image. A dilettantish poet, her “eyes . . . wander vaguely describing arc around ceiling of room—radius of arc strokes back of infinity—infinity: eternity—eternity vs. events—and the result is ‘Islands’”—a caricature that reduces Dismorr to a dreamy woman confined to the domestic space...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 109–138.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., and of the infinite technological developments necessary to reproduce them. In the “cool breezelet of systems at work” that converts “current into power” and connects “superhuman spaces” DeLillo evokes the violence necessary to protect world accumulation, both within and beyond the domestic sphere. The descriptive...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 411–436.
Published: 01 December 2019
... through the iconography of familial and domestic space.” In terms of figuring the nation, the trope of the family justifies and naturalizes relations of power and establishes patriarchal dominance, though in the boarding school even as patriarchal power is affirmed it is also displaced, on account...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., is derived from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ancestral home, dwelling, or native land. 11. Susan Jones points out this fact, explaining that the shop is an intermedi- ary space between the London streets and the domestic milieu. Through this mixed space, the novel “illustrates the interdependence...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 47–70.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., Sea Garden displays the same rejection of idyllic and domesticated natural spaces as the autobiographical, explicitly American protagonists in the prose do. “Sheltered Garden” presents the quintessential idyll, a space so romanticized and rarified that even the plants are shielded from the sun...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
... patriarchal hegemony read as the confining domestic sphere of a new housewife-ruled suburbia and an emasculating professional world of white-collar conformity. In their own briny way, the surf crew’s men without women were opting transgressively out of those spaces, not unlike Sal Paradise—or, in his wholly...