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Prozac Americans: Depression, Identity, and Selfhood
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 346–368.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Abigail Cheever Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Prozac Americans: Depression,
Identity, and Selfhood
Abigail Cheever
ecounting the circumstances that led to Darkness Visible: A Memoir of
Madness, William Styron claims he decided to write his...
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Midnight’s Children: Kashmir and the Politics of Identity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 510–544.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Patrick Colm Hogan Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Midnight's Children:
Kashmir and the Politics of Identity
Patrick Colm Hogan
M . Keith Booker has recently drawn attention to a common ten
dency in the interpretive criticism of Salman Rushdie, and indeed of
much...
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Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Modernist Fictions of Identity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 277–297.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Laura Green Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Hall of Mirrors:
Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness
and Modernist Fictions of Identity
Laura Green
I n 1928, as she was preparing to appear as a defense witness in the pros
ecution of Radclyffe Hall’s novel...
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The Gold Standard of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Anthony Dawahare Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 The Gold Standard of Racial Identity
in Nella Larsen s Quicksand and Passing
Anthony Dawahare
Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold?
Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair,
Wrong right, base noble, old...
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“Bitched”: Feminization, Identity, and the Hemingwayesque in The Sun Also Rises
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Todd Onderdonk Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 HI
“Bitched”: Feminization, Identity,
and the Hemingwayesque
in The Sun Also Rises
Todd Onderdonk
In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald after the publication of Tender Is the Night
in 1934, Ernest Hemingway urged his friend...
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“Sensible of Being Étrangers ”: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Bridget T. Chalk © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 “Sensible of Being Étrangers: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo
“Sensible of Being Étrangers”:
Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo
Bridget T. Chalk
The subtitle of Claude McKay’s 1929 novel Banjo tells readers what...
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Writing Muslim Identity by Geoffrey Nash
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 189–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Noor Hashem Writing Muslim Identity , by Nash Geoffrey , London : Continuum , 2012 . 160 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Review
Writing Muslim Identity
by Geoffrey Nash
London: Continuum, 2012. 160 pages
Noor Hashem
What makes up Muslim writing? What...
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Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction , by Stanka Radović
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Allyson Salinger Ferrante Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction , by Radović Stanka . University of Virginia Press , 2014 . 192 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction goes beyond...
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Passionate Debates on “Odious Subjects”: Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 131–167.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Brenda S. Helt Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny
Passionate Debates on “Odious Subjects”:
Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories
of Androgyny and Sexual Identity
Brenda S. Helt
Contemporary scholarly...
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Art Spiegelman’s Bounding Boxes: Mishkan, Midrash, Maus
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 317–366.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Emmy Waldman As vexing questions of Jewish identity and Holocaust memory loom large, this essay asks what it would mean to read Maus as a Jewish text. Thinking, with Hillary Chute’s landmark 2006 essay, “The Shadow of a Past Time:, History and Graphic Representation in Maus ,” it uses Spiegelman’s...
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“My Trespass Vision”: Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality in Hart Crane’s Versions of “The Idiot”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 56–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
... national borders. This identification between two people with differently marginalized—and inherently sexualized—identities shifts within and outside the border of the United States, and, in this, Crane explores the nature of social marginalization as it relates to US national identity. Copyright ©...
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Death Styles: The Language of Trauma and the Trauma of Language in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 103–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Douglas Atkinson Malina demonstrates the paradoxical struggle that characterizes any attempt at reflecting on the uncanny relationship between the embodiment of language and the expression of pain. As Elaine Scarry (1985) notes, pain can be used to both make and unmake an identity; pain’s...
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Famine Memory and Contemporary Irish Poetry
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marian Eide Contemporary Irish poetry is producing a tradition of memorial to the Famine years of the 1840s. Countering purist versions of Irish identity as Catholic, indigenous, and rural, this body of work is provoked by Famine memory to explore Irishness as diasporic and widely transnational...
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Elizabeth Bowen’s Negative Epics: Landscape and Realism in The Last September and A World of Love
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 460–483.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Jeannie Im The role of landscape in Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish novels has been overshadowed by the critical emphasis on her representations of the Anglo-Irish big house. In contrast to this critical trend, this article argues that Bowen’s Irish landscapes stage questions of national identity...
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“A World of Tomorrow”: Trauma, Urbicide, and Documentation in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 June 2020
... by examining the diarist’s representations of the effects of rape and rubblestrewn Berlin. Third, the essay details the complicated publication history of the diary through a consideration of the relationship between the trauma sustained by the survivors of mass rape and the blows to German national identity...
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Communal Imagination and the Problem of Allegory in Tomás Rivera’s . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 53–74.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to create a communal text. Ultimately, the essay argues that the literary can help illuminate the workings of ethnic identity by exploring new forms for imagining community belonging. 14 When I teach it, I often place Tierra on a syllabus that includes Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows (1922...
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James Weldon Johnson’s Feminization of Biraciality
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 385–406.
Published: 01 December 2021
... this reductive reflex, this essay reads James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as a serious exploration of biracial identity and experience. Specifically, the article argues that Johnson draws on early twentieth-century conceptions of femininity as a vehicle for rendering mainly...
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Gertrude Stein, Success Manuals, and Failure Studies
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 191–212.
Published: 01 June 2017
... her early writing about ethnic women, through her more recondite grammatical experiments, to her public emergence at the outset of the Depression. And I argue that Stein’s move from literary experiments rooted in the question of identity to her conservative rhetoric about white masculinity...
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“Bullets for Hands”: Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, and the Spectra Poems of World War I
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 223–246.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the most resonant poetic responses to World War I. Recent criticism of Spectrism understandably tends to emphasize the hoax aspects of this fascinating episode in modernist history, focusing for example on the performance of identity. Yet Bynner himself stated his genuine affirmation of the anthology’s...
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Recovering Islands: Scotland, Ocean, and Archipelago in To the Lighthouse
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 347–370.
Published: 01 September 2018
... upon a paradoxical construction of Scotland as both a primitive colonial hinterland and an utterly familiar, necessary component of British identity in the wake of Irish independence. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 archipelago modernism oceanic studies Scotland Virginia Woolf...
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