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Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Paul Stasi © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane
A “Synchronous but More Subtle Migration”:
Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane
Paul Stasi
In part 1 of Cane we encounter a poem that has seemed to many of
its readers to articulate...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Adrienne Brown Beginning with a comparison of Virginia Woolf ’s vision of passing a “fine negress” in “A Room of One’s Own” (1929) to Zora Neale Hurston’s refusal to allow white women to pass her without some roughhousing in her 1928 essay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” this essay grapples...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
...), which she deeply admired, involve not only subtle appropriations of turns of phrase, image, and point of view but also revisions of racial themes and subversions of narrative closure. Examining Larsen’s engagement with Wharton—particularly in Quicksand (1928), Passing (1929), “Sanctuary” (1930...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 431–454.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Jeffrey Blevins Are T. S. Eliot’s notes on The Waste Land a scholarly resource or a literary hoax? This oft-repeated question gets to the heart of the poem, which thrives on its allusions, whether seriously or cynically. However, scholars have largely passed over the notes’ (and the poem’s...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 423–454.
Published: 01 December 2014
...-
sessed: if the wrapped still life object seemed to offer Cam a sense of
security in “The Window,” it helps to construct the ghostly look of the
Ramsays’ house in “Time Passes.” Here, in the middle of the novel’s three
sections, the house is uninhabited, and all of the furniture is covered...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Steven Wandler © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Race and Citizenship in Sinclair Lewis’s Kingsblood Royal
Race and Citizenship
in Sinclair Lewis’s Kingsblood Royal
Steven Wandler
A prominent concern of American “passing” novels before the mid-
twentieth century is especially...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 385–406.
Published: 01 December 2021
... such pains to feminize his biracial protagonist? The answer commonly given is that Johnson disapproved of biracial people who passed for white. 12 Robin Miskolcze (2013 : 134), for example, argues that, for Johnson, “being black is the more masculine and admirable choice for a biracial man,” and, reading...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
... see it as a text that foregrounds class over race ( Warren 2011) , frames an attack on “racial capitalism” ( Retman 2008) , or articulates a theory of passing fiction ( Mullen 1994) . Others have located the novel in a lineage of African American science-fiction ( Lawson 1996 ; Lavender 2011...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 449–482.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., “Time Passes,” in which indomitable nature and pitiless plot decimate character. In this way, even as Woolf renders consolatory storyline impossible, she privileges characters’ defiant moments of respite, outside of plot, which keep these vulnerable persons anchored to life. Darwin himself...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (3): 306–329.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., as a kind of threshold across which the inner and outer
worlds could pass. Bishop solves the problem of depth by imagining verse,
nature, and mind as two-dimensional surfaces capable of opening out
three-dimensionally into each other through complex relations of absorp
tion, reflection...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 72–91.
Published: 01 March 2001
... or pass, was the gateway through
which German troops had violated (the “Rape of Belgium”) “poor lit
tle Belgium,” as it was referred to in the world press. Jake had called her
a “little girl.” She may have been more damaged by the war than was
Brett (24-27).
Later...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 273–306.
Published: 01 September 2008
...:
We were chased across the [Rhine] by Hitler (or Goering) had
to pass through ranks of children with red flags Banners
stretched across the street “the Jew is our enemy” “There is no
place for Jews in So we whizzed along until we got out of
range of the docile hysterical crowd...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): vi–vii.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Cary Nelson © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Twentieth-Century Literature’s
Andrew J. Kappel Prize
in Literary Criticism, 2009
The winner of this year’s prize is Paul Stasi’s “A ‘Synchronous but More
Subtle Migration’: Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane.” The
judge is Cary...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 518–529.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of study.
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Robert Boyers
It is possible, of course, that Trilling exaggerated something that was,
all the same, in the process of coming to pass. There is, in many recent
tributes to the modernist imagination, a nostalgia for a time when an ex
hibition of surrealist paintings or the mere...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 153–181.
Published: 01 June 2007
... pass Gatsby and Nick on the way into the city,3 it is less
obtrusive than Tom’s “unabashed racism” (Washington 43). Revealingly,
Washington finds the many “so-called ethnic” names of Gatsby s party
guests—as recorded by Nick—to
clearly attest to Fitzgeraldian outrage at the new America...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 187–189.
Published: 01 September 2019
... in order to examine changing cultural interpretations of gender and race. Her most recent scholarship is especially interested in how racial perception impacts outcomes for health, wealth, and social justice. Copyright © Hofstra University 2019 Sometimes when I pass a bunch of Jews and hear quiet...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 34–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
... is able to join his Africanness with a
sense of literary and cosmopolitan belonging. John has journeyed “to the
great city to be tested and transformed,” and this moment reveals his suc-
cess in passing the test. The test was not to blend in as an Englishman, after
all, but perhaps, to acknowledge...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2000
...,
as we are encouraged to read past Toomer’s style to uncover the racial, psy
chosocial meaning beneath. The poem in part 1, “Song of the Son,” is held
to bear a truth at once personal and aesthetic: before he could become a
great artist, Toomer—an olive-skinned young man who passed for white...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 60–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
... had convicted of
manslaughter and of a “half human” (102) mother who willingly gives
her up, and at age five, when Charity’s father asks him to bring her down
from the Mountain and raise her “like a Christian” (101) in North Dor-
mer, she becomes Royall’s ward. When Mrs. Royall passes away...
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