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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Mark David Kaufman This article uses the genre of speculative historical fiction as a point of entry into Virginia Woolf’s politics. Two spy novels, Ellen Hawkes and Peter Manso’s The Shadow of the Moth (1983) and Stephanie Barron’s The White Garden (2009), present scenarios in which Woolf becomes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the tendencies of both imperial and anti-imperial forms of history to represent the past in terms of just such totalizing categories. As historical fiction, White Teeth counters this totalizing tendency and, dwelling instead in ambiguity and uncertainty, suggests that a truly decolonial history depends...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 September 2019
... novel focuses on a few fictional Black characters, Clifford’s Blues is punctilious in its factual accuracy, even, like a research paper, including a bibliography to support its claims. It also references real historical figures such as jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow and the Black, Jewish artist Josef...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 411–436.
Published: 01 December 2019
... for innocence and a desire for sexual knowledge within a context of repressive normalization and antihomosexual panic. The Chinese Garden is also a fictional autobiography, foregrounding Manning’s own resistance to her pre-Stonewall historical present, and her fascination with the queer past. Copyright © 2019...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 June 2020
... a significantly more extensive historical and philosophical context. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s enthusiastically naive pastorale retains to this day a secure if modest place in the French canon. Brought out by the soldier adventurer in 1788 as a kind of appendix in fiction to his philosophical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 323–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
... [1983] the narrator speaks of this condition as the “boundless bounded” [ WH 83]). In Coetzee’s later fictions, this understanding of style will give rise to a poetics of embeddedness: the necessity of being situated in or bound by context (linguistic, biological, historical) means that living things...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 388–395.
Published: 01 September 2008
... directly
into the naturalism of his historical fiction, a point slighted by Treuer.
The value of Treuer s basic argument is diminished by his omission
of any reference to Gerald Vizenor, one of the most prolific, inventive,
and important of the first-generation novelists of the Native American...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 377–398.
Published: 01 September 2012
...,” a story that, unsettling the historical fiction genre, raises
questions about the fiction writer’s “responsibility to history” (Ware, “And
They May” 68). Much Munro scholarship explores the ambiguous rela-
tion among the implied author, the narrative, and the reader, established
by the many...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2018
... on the Philosophy of History” (1940), in order to explore the problem of how fiction engages historical silence. My largest claim is that Wicomb’s novel enacts a mode of historical knowledge that cannot be properly narrativized; it attends to echoes, inchoate correspondences, and the historically unsaid...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 307–338.
Published: 01 September 2008
... never principally about
that culture” but rather about “the passions o f the human breast . . . the
possibilities o f human language . . . [and] almost always also about itself”
(“Historical Fiction” 190,191; Barth’s italics).The former statement an
ticipates John Gardner’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-Century Women’s Historical Fiction . Albany : State University of New York Press . Lewis Pericles . 2000 . Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Marcus Laura . 2001 . “ Playing the Sacred Game .” Times Literary Supplement , August 24...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 371–393.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Samuel Cohen Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 w
The Novel in a Time of Terror:
M id d lesex , History, and
Contemporary American Fiction
Samuel Cohen
I effrey Eugenides’s 2002 Middlesex, a critically acclaimed historical novel,
nas been praised as an expansive, epic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 196–220.
Published: 01 June 2010
... Hotel cancels this possibility.
9. Roger Luckhurst speaks of an “explosion in historical fiction and a litera-
ture of anamnesis” (87) in the late 1980s and 1990s as a result of the diffusion
of trauma as a literary paradigm, and Thomas’s novel (1981) can be said to be
placed on the cusp...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 519–527.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., historical fiction, and documentary genres such as diaries and oral history can be interpreted as supplements to or critiques of official history. Because histories are written by the victors, we only have access to these unofficial sources for alternative tellings. However, the obverse effect of framing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 429–447.
Published: 01 December 2016
... psychologist Stephen D. Brown has recently called for a shift away from the practice, arguing that “commemorative silence disposes of the dead” and “[tends] to render them as more mute and inert” (2012, 250). 4 The transhistorical work enabled by Barker’s choice to write historical fiction, for example...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 March 2018
... passed . . . the order and meaning of the episodes changed, and became in a word fiction” (2008, 716). Commenting on this assertion and Porter’s later claim that “my fiction is reportage, only I do something to it,” Walsh argues that “‘Flowering Judas’ is not historical fiction that fixes on a specific...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 391–412.
Published: 01 December 2006
... escapes, and power always meets a corresponding resis
tance, cannot account for what Copjec describes as “the pockets of empty,
inarticulable desire that bear the burden of proof of society’s externality
to itself” (14). Nightwood is an historical fiction bedecked with emptiness,
its excesses...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 218–223.
Published: 01 June 2007
...
of the twin Hollywood careers ofJackie and Joan Collins elicits some of
the pleasures of the expanding sphere of celebrity literature, fictional and
nonfictional, but does little to position that literature in relation to the
history of popular culture. The lack of a historical framework means...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 474–481.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to and for. In the years since publication of Kaplan’s book,
scholarship on Howells has both extended and departed from her findings
in significant ways.
By contrast to Kaplan’s and others’ focus on cultural work Howells’s
fiction might have performed in its historical context, Petrie focuses on
explicating...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 391–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
... as a useful historical and aesthetic category: the story being told
requires, in the main, that there be a relatively clear postmodern model
in fiction which later writers can internalize and react to. Depending on
which younger writers each critic is most concerned with, the canon of
their postmodern...
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