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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 26–59.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Craig Bradshaw Woelfel Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Craig Bradshaw Woelfel
Stopping at the Stone: Rethinking Belief (and
Non-Belief) in Modernism Via A Passage to India
Craig Bradshaw Woelfel
The modern mind takes such small flights...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 305–329.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Stephen Ross This article argues that the central episode in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India is not the incident at the Marabar Caves, as decades of critics have argued, but the car accident preceding the expedition to the caves. Focusing on the specifics of the accident, and especially...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 511–518.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Ulka Anjaria The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India , by Shingavi Snehal . London : Anthem , 2013 . 235 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Snehal Shingavi’s complex book, The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Justin Omar Johnston This article examines Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People , an engagement with the consequences of the 1984 toxic chemical spill in Bhopal, India, in order to critique the humanist discourse of Dow Chemical’s massive rebranding effort, “The Human Element,” that began in 2006...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 107–140.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to
the ubiquitous theme of interracial romance and marriage in domestic
fiction written by the British in India, a body of literature previously rel
egated to the genre of romance and dismissed as what Margaret Stieg calls
“sub-literature” (3).While critics have begun to recognize that the focus...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 545–568.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of postindependence India.
The problem lies in the essential ambiguity of Midnight’s Children:
should literature even try to satisfy the “national longing for form”? This
epic longing, for Rushdie, represents a dangerous desire for consistency,
coherence, and meaning that can efface the cultural...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Alexandra W. Schultheis Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Postcolonial Lack
and Aesthetic Promise
in The Moor’s Last Sigh
Alexandra W. Schultheis
I n his documentary film The Riddle of Midnight, Salman Rushdie re
turns to India 40 years after independence to see...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 510–544.
Published: 01 December 2001
... that, in
the end, Rushdie does appear to repudiate communism as a real option
for India, a genuine possibility for fulfilling the hopes and dreams repre
sented by the 1,001 children of midnight.
Does this mean, then, that Rushdie offers no option for the future
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Patrick Colm Hogan
of India—or only...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 470–491.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Cortázar.
However, the events of the twentieth century have also cast doubt on
apocalyptic nationalist narratives. In E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, Aziz
clearly joins the revolutionary chorus when he declares that “India shall be
a nation! No foreigners of any sort! Hindu and Moslem and Sikh...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 324–347.
Published: 01 September 2002
... 204).To recover his creative impulses, according to this
narrative o f discovery, Forster traveled to India, taking extensive notes
and w riting frequendy to friends and family about his trip. O n his re
turn to England, he wrote the first draft o f an openly homosexual novel...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941). Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 Black Lamb Harriet Hume India Orientalism topographies Yugoslavia When I am in a mood to slip out of life into fantasy, London enables me to pass in the drooping of an eyelid into a mere reenactment...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 March 2016
... such a desire entirely. Sarduy’s interest is not in the “original” Buddhism that so fascinated Westerners like Arnold. Rather, it is a turn toward a future of shared global knowledge that can change the stakes of contemporary theoretical discourse. Kitsch India may have been all that was available to Sarduy...
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 (2018) 64 (2): 259–264.
Published: 01 June 2018
... experts of Oriental languages and literatures whom they sent to India to educate English civil servants and later colonial pupils who, as Mufti shows, would be taught the Orientalized version of their own cultures and languages. These pupils, who were the children of the upper- and middle-class national...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 596–618.
Published: 01 December 2001
...” with respect to its literary antecedents—sur
realism, magic realism, and European modernism—and its potential sphere
of evaluation, the Booker Prize—the interventions by South Asian Brit
ons in Bradford, Birmingham, Bolton, and London, and by self-serving
politicians in India and Pakistan, along...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 96–105.
Published: 01 March 2006
... it improved the lives of its subjects, for example by sup
pressing suttee and female infant exposure in India in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, and because it could regulate itself, having abolished
the slave trade with the Emancipation Act of 1834.Though books such as
Heart of Darkness have...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 245–253.
Published: 01 June 2010
...
by Simona Sawhney
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 213 pages
Samir Dayal
Beginning in the 1850s, a century before India’s 1947 Independence,
there was already an active cultivation of a cultural or national memory,
spurred in part by the humiliations of British...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 403–404.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., in the UK and in India and Yugoslavia. Jacqueline Rose, Tzvetan Todorov, Michel de Certeau, and Edward Said frame these discussions. But the essay is most striking in its granular engagement with the entire West corpus, often drawing on her reviews of other authors to cast light on her own works. West’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 260–268.
Published: 01 June 2010
... to India” (174).
Here, however, he employs it as a critical term:
What is here meant by “faking”? OED allows that the word has
musical meanings—for instance, the arrangement of a piece for
instruments—say saxophone and banjo—other than those speci-
fied in the score. Sometimes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 467–509.
Published: 01 December 2001
...,
and Midnight’s Children, his most widely acclaimed novel. The entire world
of Grimus is engulfed in the closing pages by existentially obliterating
mists. In Midnight’s Children, the generation of children born on the mid
night of India’s independence are finally wiped out by the “annihilating...
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