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Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
... successor, Blow Your House Down (1984), whose very title unites reader and character, suggesting the precarity of the dwellings and, by extension, the economic situations of the women both novels take as their subjects. domestic space masculinity naturalism unions working class Copyright ©...
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Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and comfortably anchored in spaces affirming their relative self-sovereignty—their play set within the private and domestic spaces her employers control if not outright own—that they can afford to play so hard they black out. Having not only a room of one’s own but also laborers of one’s own allows her white...
Journal Article
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-
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Regina Martin
metry and frugality, is an external manifestation of the family’s character,
the Fifth Avenue houses are mere façade, “a thin...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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
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Kurt Koenigsberger
spaces of empire occasionally collapse within the English imagination,
and such moments reveal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 317–344.
Published: 01 September 2021
... our kind” (171), Amelia tells the Girl. 7 While scholars have criticized Le Sueur for identifying “the female self almost exclusively with maternity” ( Rabinowitz 1991 : 417), the Girl’s decision to have a child, in spite of lacking the material resources or domestic space to support its care, does...
Journal Article
Materialities of Abstraction: Jessie Dismorr’s Poems , Transatlantic Modernism, and Feminist Poetics
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
... 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, imagining philosophies that have no connection to the external world. (Winters also makes jabs at Dismorr’s affluence, labeling her “the candy-fed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 109–138.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Federici, Maria Mies, and Nancy Fraser’s Marxist-feminist analyses of domestic labor. Just as for Lefebvre the everyday “evad[es] the grip of forms,” this passage gestures toward the Western only to def late the generic expectations elicited by that form. “Despite the faint historical call to the US...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 June 2009
... house too can only be accessed
by penetrating the sexual space of the porn shop,11 which, like Verloc, is
a liminal figure, poised between inside and outside, mixing qualities of
the foreign with the domestic. Through these parallel homes, though, the
novel makes the grotesque suggestion...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 411–436.
Published: 01 December 2019
... 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 of the homosocial...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 530–534.
Published: 01 December 2007
...
to black consumers’ creative forms of self-invention, especially in
the domestic sphere. The effects of political-economic space—a
wholly confining terrain for black South Africans during the
period in question—are explored in the novel’s treatment of the
complex relationships...
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