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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 411–436.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Chris Roulston This article explores the relations among childhood innocence, queerness, and nation-building in Rosemary Manning’s boarding school narrative, The Chinese Garden (1962). Recent scholarship by Lee Edelman and Kathryn Bond Stockton has questioned the innocence we invest in the figure...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 125–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Caroline Miles The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism , by Duck Leigh Anne , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2006 . 340 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 The South, the Nation,
and Global Cosmopolitanism
The Nation’s Region...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 470–491.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Teresa Heffernan Apocalyptic Narratives:
The Nation in Salman Rushdie’s
Midnights Children
Teresa Heffernan
The radically performative laying down of the law by the legislator
must create the very context according to which that law could...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 32–45.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Carol J. Singley Ul
Race, Culture, Nation:
Edith Wharton and Ernest Renan
Carol J. Singley
A n avid reader, Edith Wharton devoured volumes of philosophy and
religion. As R. W B. Lewis observes in his biography, she owned more
books on religion than any other subject (510).1 At every...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Andrew John Miller HI
Under the Nation-State:
Modernist Deterritorialization
in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano
Andrew John Miller
In a manner that anticipates the hybrid modes of identity explored by
many postcolonial writers, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano presents...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that gather around contested national spaces. Furthermore, in Harriet Hume West elaborates a rhetoric of fantasy—stylistically whimsical, and ideologically what might be called a fantasia on national themes—that was elevated to new importance a decade later in her archetypal attack on imperialism, the Balkans...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 254–259.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Sabine Haenni The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903–1917 , by Trachtenberg Barry , Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2008 . 222 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Sabine Haenni
How to Create a National Literature
The Revolutionary Roots of Modern...
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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...
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“My Trespass Vision”: Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality in Hart Crane’s Versions of “The Idiot”
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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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 516–538.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Caren Irr 2011 Caren Irr
Postmodernism in Reverse: American National
Allegories and the 21st-Century Political Novel
Caren Irr
Since the 1980s, the conceptual twin—or, better, dialectical counter-
part—of literary postmodernism has been the national allegory. As Fred-
ric...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 34–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Tonje Vold Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Tonje Vold
How to “rise above mere nationality”:
Coetzee’s Novels Youth and Slow Man
in the World Republic of Letters
Tonje Vold
J. M. Coetzee’s work presents critical reflections on literature that
circulate beyond their culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 427–450.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the composition of verse and the fabric of national narratives. Whereas Pound detects the rhythmic coherence of a robust economy beneath the surface differences of documented history, Moore’s attention to the syllabic material of the prose she read and the stanzas she composed trained her attention...
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in Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1 Miné Okubo, drawing (1941). Miné with open newspaper, Berkeley, California. © Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Miné Okubo Estate, 2007.14. Figure 1. Miné Okubo, drawing (1941). Miné with open newspaper, Berkeley, California. © Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Miné
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in Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2 Miné Okubo, drawing (1942). Evacuation Order No. 19, Berkeley, California. © Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Miné Okubo Estate, 2007.15. Figure 2. Miné Okubo, drawing (1942). Evacuation Order No. 19, Berkeley, California. © Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Miné
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in Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 3 Miné Okubo, drawing (ca. 1942–44). Arrivals at Tangoran Assembly Center, Topaz, Utah. © Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Miné Okubo Estate, 2007.54. Figure 3. Miné Okubo, drawing (ca. 1942–44). Arrivals at Tangoran Assembly Center, Topaz, Utah. © Japanese American National
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in Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 4 Miné Okubo, drawing (1942). Rooftop, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942. © Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Miné Okubo Estate, 2007.82. Figure 4. Miné Okubo, drawing (1942). Rooftop, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942. © Japanese American
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in Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 5 Miné Okubo, drawing (ca. 1942–44). Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah. © Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Miné Okubo Estate, 2007.203. Figure 5. Miné Okubo, drawing (ca. 1942–44). Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah. © Japanese American National Museum
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in Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
> Twentieth-Century Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 6 Miné Okubo, drawing (ca. 1942–44). Leaving Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah. © Japanese American National Museum. Gift of Miné Okubo Estate, 2007.205. Figure 6. Miné Okubo, drawing (ca. 1942–44). Leaving Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah. © Japanese American
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Claudia Sadowski-Smith; Ioana Luca This article places an emergent body of cultural productions by US immigrants from former Eastern Bloc nations in dialogue with scholarship on US immigrant and transnational writing. We argue that the collective work by authors of (post-)Soviet and Central/Eastern...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of solidarity on the basis of translations from so-called third-world literatures and explores how Shamlu’s political aesthetic traverses national borders to embrace ignored and marginalized poetic traditions. Rather than relying on French and other European modernisms to reinvigorate his national literature...
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