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Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature by Brian Norman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 174–180.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Gary Edward Holcomb Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature , by Norman Brian , University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 214 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Gary Edward Holcomb
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“A Dirty Word These Days”: Anglo-Saxonism, Race, and Kinship in Go Set a Watchman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and southern US culture the novel uncritically offers as the true nature of Jim Crow society. By emphasizing Lee’s self-conscious deployment of literary history in her construction of an Anglo-Saxon racial essence, the article distinguishes between the novel’s reactionary critiques of colorblind liberalism...
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Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 September 2019
... slavery, Jim Crow, and the Nazi Holocaust. The article demonstrates how the novel’s unconventional and controversial emplotment allows Williams to create a distinctive historical critique not only of slavery and the Holocaust but, more broadly, of otherization, racialized violence, and modernity itself...
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Charles W. Chesnutt’s Moral Alternative to War in The Marrow of Tradition
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2025
... political power during early Jim Crow. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 Hofstra University 2025 antiwar novel Civil War nonviolence Race Riot Wilmington coup d’état In this brief review, then, of the history and present political condition of the American Negro I cannot omit...
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Willa Cather’s My Ántonia: Haunting the Houses of Memory
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 193–213.
Published: 01 June 2000
... intricate representation of the processes and effects of memory,
both personal and collective.3 As Jim Burden narrates his nostalgic return,
Cather is able to portray not only the content of Jim’s memories but also
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their structuring...
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“Immaculate Manhood”: The City and the Pillar, Giovanni’s Room, and the Straight-Acting Gay Man
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 596–618.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., and in both cases this
attraction ends disastrously. In the original 1948 edition of The City and
the Pillar, Jim Willard murders Bob Ford, the man he has loved since
high school, when Bob rejects his sexual advances; in the revised edition
of 1965, Jim rapes Bob instead of murdering him.1 And David...
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Irreverent Intimacy: Nella Larsen’s Revisions of Edith Wharton
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Saxon purity, Larsen’s story unveils the problems inherent in the dominant late nineteenth-century concept of race. It explores what happens when one is called upon to perform “charity” for a “race” whose members, especially in the Jim Crow South, are so culturally, politically, and economically...
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Willa Cather’s Naivete
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (3): 305–332.
Published: 01 September 2020
... nonobservers, such as Ántonia. I also depart here from George Dekker (1987 : 226–29, 256–65), who gives sustained attention to Schiller’s naive/sentimental distinction in Cather but who mostly classifies characters as masculine-sentimental (Jim) or feminine-naive (Ántonia). 11 According to Schiller...
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“White-Life” Literature Reconsidered
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 397–404.
Published: 01 September 2014
... American literature
came into being and came to an end concurrently with the rise and fall of
Jim Crow—Warren’s book has functioned as a call for scholars to articu-
late what, for them, the term “African American literature” defines, who
defines it, why we feel that definition is important...
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A Conradian Odyssey
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 433–435.
Published: 01 December 2004
... is impressive in his use of textual and historical evidence and
ultimately convincing in his claim that Conrad recognizes the inadequa
cies of British imperialist ideology as a means of reoccupation.
In the section on Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Adams focuses
more directly on art’s...
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Distancing the Proximate Other: Hybridity and Maud Diver’s Candles in the Wind
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 107–140.
Published: 01 June 2004
... and the narrator’s commentary
on the characters leave no doubt as to how the reader is meant to judge
them. Lyndsay’s husband, Jim Videlle, is not only unworthy of the sacri
fice of Lyndsay’s commitment to him, his cowardice and weakness prove
him undeserving of life itself.The perfect compatibility between...
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Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination by Vaughn Rasberry
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
... World War II, Rasberry argues, the black soldier occupied a more ambivalent position: rather than embodying two fronts of resistance against totalitarianism in Europe and Jim Crow in the United States, black soldiers’ participation in the occupation of Germany and Japan made them ambivalent emblems...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the New Deal: Queer Poetics and the Welfare State in Key West
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Wright’s classic “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.” Like the New Deal as a whole, such literary efforts were attacked by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and this Red Scare deeply influenced post-WWII readings of Bishop as apolitical, obscuring what I read as Bishop’s statist queer poetics...
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“I sure like to get letters”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 June 2012
... it was good to hear from you!”
Hemingway wrote to Jim Gamble, who had been his commanding officer
in 1918 when Hemingway was wounded in Italy. “I’m so darn glad to
hear from you that I don’t know what to write” (181), he continued—and
then went on to write another 2000 words. “I sure like to get...
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Julian Mayfield and Alternative Civil Rights Literatures
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
... as much as it reveals and illuminates,” and thus “relocating the black political radicalism that has been chronologically situated during the late 1960s in an earlier political landscape dominated by the southern movement’s struggles against Jim Crow reperiodizes civil rights and Black Power...
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 575–581.
Published: 01 December 2010
.... Part II concludes
with the mid-century’s eccentrics, Jim Thompson and Patricia Highsmith,
and their “perversion of sentimentality.” Part III takes crime fiction from
the 1960’s domestication of the private detective in the long-running
series of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, Ross MacDonald’s Lew...
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Zora Neale Hurston, Participatory Listenership, and Boasian Anthropology
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 127–148.
Published: 01 June 2024
... recognized that a host of good reasons explained my great-great-grandmother’s reluctance to talk about slavery with a white interviewer in Dixie in the age of Jim Crow. But her silence stirred my own questions about memory and slavery: What is it we choose to remember about the past and what is it we...
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Early Civil Rights “Voice Work” in Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 238–266.
Published: 01 June 2012
... is achieved
structurally. The text is framed by two stories about women. This fact itself
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indicates the importance of female characters to the text and suggests an
implied female as well as male audience.16 The first story, “The Ethics of
Living Jim Crow,” appears...
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The Modern Plantation Empire and Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., England, the Black Caribbean writer Eric Walrond published one of his last pieces of fiction in the hospital’s literary journal, the Roundway Review . The semi-autobiographical story mainly charts the US experiences of its Caribbean protagonist, Jim Prout, who has recently arrived in New York...
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