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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
... (1926), was once much lauded for its modernist portrait of the Caribbean during the US construction of the Panama Canal. This essay tries to show that Walrond’s allusions to the US South in Tropic Death and his later fiction reveal his abiding preoccupation with the modern US empire’s fundamental...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the categories of empire. In the novel’s historical narrative of the Second World War, Samad, a Bengali soldier, finds himself frustrated at the racism of the English soldiers in his tank division. Resisting their use of the term “Sultan” to describe him as a Bengali, Samad asks, “Is it so complex, is it so...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 324–347.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Quentin Bailey Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 m
Heroes and Homosexuals:
Education and Empire in
E. M. Forster
Quentin Bailey
H e had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec’s turn
to bring out the hero in him .They must live outside class...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 131–163.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Kurt Koenigsberger Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI
Elephants in the Labyrinth of Empire:
Modernism and the Menagerie
in The Old Wives’ Tale
Kurt Koenigsberger
D espite his deep sympathies for things Continental and a mild con
tempt for narrowly English cultural...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 96–105.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Annette Gilson Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire , by Lassner Phyllis , New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2004 . 241 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Recovering Empire’s Critics
Colonial Strangers:
Women Writing the End...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 328–345.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Henry S. Turner Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Empires of Objects: Accumulation
and Entropy in E. M. Forster’s
Howards End
H enry S. Turner
[T] here seems something else in life besides tíme, something which
may conveniently...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., they reveal a mode of perception in her narration that not only elucidates the dialectical relationship between her romanticism and modernism but also offers a dialectical perspective on the relationship between her elegiac tendencies and her visions of empire.. Schiller ([1800] 1962 : 413) opens On Naive...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Troy Urquhart Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Truth, Reconciliation,
and the Restoration of the State:
Coetzee s Waiting for the Barbarians
Troy Urquhart
I never wished it for the barbarians that they should have the
history of Empire laid upon them.
—-J...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 64–97.
Published: 01 March 2005
...
invested in the ideals and rhetoric of Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime, so
it is no surprise that his writings from the time of Mussolini’s declaration
of empire have a decidedly imperialist quality. Where he had, during his
years in London, practiced a form of cultural guidance that offered...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Dominick LaCapra Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Twentieth-Century Literature's
Andrew J. Kappel Prize
in Literary Criticism, 2003
The winner of this year’s prize is Kurt Koenigsberger’s “Elephants in the
Labyrinth of Empire: Modernism and the Menagerie in The Old Wives’
Tale...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 353–363.
Published: 01 September 2022
... nation-states. Allen largely steers clear of correspondences between “Black” and “green” Atlantics, a notable absence given the relations between maritime empire, race, and enslavement. The complexities of this issue have admittedly required full volumes to unpack, such as David Lloyd and Peter...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... (1941). In much of West’s oeuvre, her critique of empire is found at a confluence of key modernist discourses and techniques, notably the rupture of literary and patriarchal traditions, experiment with cultural appropriation, and the development of spatially self-conscious narrative. Tracing...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 433–435.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Thomas Henthorne Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel , by Adams David , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2003 . 249 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 A Conradian Odyssey
Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel
by David Adams...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 368–393.
Published: 01 December 2004
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of which consists of critical essays. While in these two examples all the
additional material points toward Conrad’s story, John Kucich’s Fictions of
Empire binds together Heart of Darkness, Kipling’s “The Man Who Would
Be King,” and Stevenson’s “The Beach of Falesa” with other materials...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 347–370.
Published: 01 September 2018
... . 1987 . “ Masked with Matthew Arnold’s Face: Joyce and Liberalism .” In James Joyce: The Centennial Symposium , edited by Beja Morris , 9 – 20 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Devine T. M. 2003 . Scotland’s Empire: 1600–1815 . London : Allen Lane . During Simon...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): v–viii.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to the other. It combines
the historical record of Eurasians in India (mixed-race people of
British and Indian heritage) during the raj with a close reading
of a representative popular novel by Maud Diver to question
how race and gender work in the context of empire.
The originality of “Distancing...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 287–317.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of admitting that the problem was
not merely empirical? And if the impossibility of investigative closure is
acknowledged at the highest levels of the intelligence community (FBI
director Herbert Hoover made a similar comment [Select Committee,
Investigation 77 why all the subsequent investigations...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
... scientists ( Chari and Verdery 2009 ), and has only more recently become a subject of anthropological scholarship. The study of (former) Eastern Bloc nations also appears to contribute little to multiethnic approaches or critiques of neoliberalism and US empire that have been the focus of much US...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 164–192.
Published: 01 June 2003
... the empire itself, to
give it territorial integrity and its basic existence” (2). Maps were not
merely neutral representations of imperial territory; by submitting these
territories to the common language of latitude and longitude, they forced
the heterogeneity and chaos of far-flung colonial places...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2010
... The Waves sug-
gests that even a critic of empire should pause to mourn this decline. In
her portrayal of Percival, a figure clearly allied with imperial Great Britain
and both loved and despised by his friends, Woolf explores the obstinate
bonds of attachment that bind us even to dysfunctional forms...
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