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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 293–316.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Christian Ravela Through an analysis of the economy of sight in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 (1946), this article argues that, as a graphic memoir, it registers a structure of feeling of racialized citizenship in the racial break. Following Okubo’s experience of incarceration, Citizen traces...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2005
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or not a phenomenon is ironic; and, perhaps most problematically, such
an irony reinstalls the sight that is the ground of aesthetics. Snow White’s
opening may cause us to confront the failure of aesthetics as seeing, but
armed with the ironist’s knowledge, the reader learns by or at book’s end
to see...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 June 2003
... sight to the monu
mental issues its presence and role bring into play. Deftly
combining detailed historical analysis with finely tuned critical
commentary, the essay argues that Bennett’s “realism,” itself
something of a period piece oblivious to its own implication...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 September 2015
... corner of the humanities, occupied by committed Marxists like Fredric Jameson and David Harvey whose work reliably attended to contemporary political economy, never lost sight of the material at all. And yet, the materialism in today’s “new materialisms” veers away from that long-standing tradition...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2017
... diffuse and too pervasive to allow a coherent narrative whole, film montage, again like memory, preserves the fragmentation while producing an illusion of coherence. But it is also a “screen against sight” in two senses: it may be projected onto a screen or hidden behind a screen, and thus filming...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 393–426.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the wedding of idealism
and commercialism. The idealistic treatment of Mesa Verde as a cultural
preserve was, moreover, only a second way to make money from the
cliff dwellings. The first way, tied to an extraction economy, was more
obviously exploitative: digging up pots and other...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 264–271.
Published: 01 June 2015
... for different modernities and different modernisms, we should not lose sight of the fact that it has taken thirty years for these three writers to be recognized as modernist. And, what’s more, in thirty years we still do not have critical editions of Jean Rhys’s interwar fictions, while much of Una Marson’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 514–525.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Robert Chodat Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words , by Godden Richard , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2007 . 251 pages. American Hunger: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840—1945 , by Jones Gavin...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 330–346.
Published: 01 September 2006
...” paper money, Michaels
identifies a cultural logic based on the repression of money as free-floating
signifier, which expresses itself in various (and always unsuccessful) strate
gies of escape from the money economy. An aesthetic expression of both
the desire for and the impossibility...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 287–321.
Published: 01 September 2009
... marginalized populations whose liberation has been celebrated in
many cultural histories.1 These forces included the City Practical urban-
planning movement of the 1910s, the emergence of a new nighttime
leisure economy in the Village, the heated gentrification battles in the
neighborhood between...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 207–238.
Published: 01 September 2004
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book leaf, and mother tongue. Here again, the verbal economy is disrupted
by an odd performance. In most metaphors one term is substituted for
another, but there can be no substitution of a figurative word for a literal
one if the literal one does not exist. Instead, we have what...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 299–328.
Published: 01 September 2017
... scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. —Virginia Woolf, Orlando Writing with pen and ink favors a steady hand and steadfast resolve. In a utopian scene of writing, the ink flows from pen to paper in a metered economy: precisely fluid enough...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2023
...), “Separations” (1965), “Guide” (1967), “Play” (1969), “Transcendence” (1973)—to name just a few—demonstrate an acute discomfort with the economy of the negative sublime, as do the many of the poems that feature talking mountains. In different ways, these poems indicate that “the transcendental” (724...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 193–216.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Kim Shirkhani M
The Economy of Recognition in Howards End
Kim Shirkhani
I n recent years, interest in E. M. Forster has revived among scholars
working in postcolonial and race studies, with new attention being paid
to anti-imperialist and pro-Eastern strains in his...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 492–512.
Published: 01 December 2000
... ties between males are implicated in what
Irigaray describes as “the amorous economy between men and women” just
as those “between women” are, for that matter (Elemental Passions 3).
The second line is spoken by Mrs. Allonby but is most apropos Illing
worth’s antagonist in the play, Mrs...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 June 2024
... voice. This voice itself functions as an authorial presence, one no longer hiding beneath the surface of the text but overlooking Yoknapatawpha in plain sight. Just as in The Town the machines of industry erode the individual lives of a southern hamlet, Faulkner’s techniques of typewriting...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Native Son (1940) and Alice Walker’s Meridian (1976) as two representative examples. Both novels portray what Sara Ahmed calls an “affective economy,” specifically the unequal affective economy produced by antiracism’s circulation as a cultural object. Wright considers how antiracism occasions happiness...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 318–340.
Published: 01 September 2010
...), Fielding reflects on the
significance of his actions:
he went on to the upper verandah for a moment, where the first
object he saw was the Marabar Hills. . . . It was the last moment
of the light, and . . . At the moment [the hills] vanished [from
sight] they were everywhere...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
... companies from the United States were beginning to technologically colonize the economies of India and elsewhere under the humanitarian banner of the Green Revolution. Expanding its Indian operation, in 1970 Union Carbide built its giant pesticide factory in the heart of Bhopal, and as oil prices spiked...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of difference is
underwritten by a visual economy that reads these social relations onto
the body of the racialized subject and then projects this exterior distinc-
tion onto the interior of that subject as the very grounds of that subject’s
identity. It is this double displacement embedded in the logic...
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