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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (1): 22–49.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Caroline M. Woidat Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 w
The Indian-Detour
inWilla Cather’s
Southwestern Novels
Caroline M . Woidat
You think of us only
when your voice
wants for roots,
when you have sat back
on your heels...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 251–258.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Karen Leick Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction , by Spiro Mia , Northwestern University Press , 2013 . 308 pages. Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel , by Brown J. Dillon , University of Virginia Press , 2013 . 246...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 107–140.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of our current
conceptions of hybridity. Maud Diver’s Candles in the Wind is representa
tive of a body of colonial fiction that constructs its images of Eurasians
as being in between Indian and British culture, negating in the process
the possibility of their existence as Anglo-Indian.2...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 388–395.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of it are maturing. However, there is much that is
unsatisfactory inTreuer’s presentation. His jumpy introductory sketch of
the place of “Indians” in American literature draws on without crediting
D. H. Lawrence’s observation that the “Indian” haunts American litera
ture. He blurs the troubling ubiquity...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 92–113.
Published: 01 March 2001
.... A
Twentiety-Century Literature *47.1 • Spring 2001 • 92
popular college textbook, it has prompted many readers to treat the sto
ries as stages of a novel. That is the general approach taken here.
“Indian Camp,” with the devastating trauma o f its Caesarian section and
the suicide...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 511–518.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of Literary Nationalism in India , works on two levels. First, it is an analysis of important Indian literary works of the 1930s, centering on Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1936), Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938), and Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940). Second, and perhaps more important, the book tackles...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 214–237.
Published: 01 June 2000
...
two forces are an undertone of Indian pessimism and a persistent lack of
generosity in one’s estimation of blacks. Throughout his political fiction—
including, along with The Mimic Men (1967), In a Free State (1971), Guerrillas
(1975), and A Bend in the River (1979)—these attitudes direct, shape...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
Twentieth-Century Literature 55.1 Spring 2009 1
Aaron Easdey
healer into a politician, initiating a personal metamorphosis that culmi
nates in his becoming G. Ramsay Muir, M. B. E., a West Indian envoy
operating in England and a shameless British mimic man (220Nineteen
forty-six” is heralded...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 245–253.
Published: 01 June 2010
...–37). And though it
was driven by the political agenda of religious and nationalist leaders, it
was facilitated, ironically enough, by British scholars and administrators
who sought to show that Indian civilization was at least as old as that of
the Greeks or Romans, its intellectual...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 470–491.
Published: 01 December 2000
... in the English
471
TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
club: “Indians are not allowed into the Chandrapore Club even as guests”
(41). Significantly, he is later able to extend an invitation to Adela and Mrs.
Moore to “be Moslems together” on the train because membership...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... Union Carbide, the Indian government, and Dow Chemical have all refused to recognize the presence or health effects of MIC in Bhopal’s water supply, despite a wealth of evidence. Key elements of what was once considered a mutually beneficial project for economic development, the factory, the chemicals...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 374–390.
Published: 01 September 2001
... that
mongrel as I am, something prickles in me when I see the word
Ashanti as with the word Warwickshire both baptising
this hybrid, this West Indian.
—Walcott, “What the Twilight Says” (10)
D erek Walcott, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992, has...
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 (2014) 60 (2): 169–196.
Published: 01 June 2014
... immediate social and
cultural environments. The fictions I read closely here—“The Indian
Uprising,” “Report,” and “The President,” all of which were collected
in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, published in the tumultuous year
1968—dramatize the contradictions inhering in American political...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 December 2001
... if a definable national
identity exists. He interviews Indians of different backgrounds and eco
nomic statuses, and a crowd confronts him and asks “How can a coun
try that never previously existed become independent? What does it mean
to call this crowd of separate national histories, conflicting...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 305–329.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., or complete, articulates the novel’s ethical dimension. The first example comes when Adela breaks off her “understanding” with Ronny. Having spoken without thinking while visiting Fielding, Aziz, and some other Indians, Adela has just discovered that she has already made up her mind not to marry Ronny...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 259–264.
Published: 01 June 2018
... nature of this extended literary-philological moment, in which often-overlapping bodies of writing came to acquire, through a process of historicization, distinct personalities as ‘literature’ along national lines” (97). The creation of Indian national literature was inherently connected...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
...: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Hofmeyr Isabel . 2007 . “ The Black Atlantic Meets the Indian Ocean: Forging New Paradigms of Transnationalism for the Global South: Literary and Cultural Perspectives .” Social...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 596–618.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of migrants from
the Indian subcontinent to Britain.” In the first case migration is a cate
gory far removed from history, and in the second it is inextricably a his
torical event. The status of such statements as truth claims is hardly the
issue. The point, rather, is to understand...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 545–568.
Published: 01 December 2001
... allowed, the Indian talent for non-stop
self-regeneration. This is why the narrative constantly throws up
new stories, why it “teems.”The form—multitudinous, hinting
at the infinite possibilities of the country—is the optimistic
counterweight to Saleem’s personal tragedy...
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