... politics in the postwar era. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Three Days before the Shooting … civil rights-era literature African American vernacular culture African American literature political strategies Works cited Abrahams Roger D. 1962 . “ Playing the Dozens...

... “Don’t bother about her”; she will not be noticed because she is a simple-looking woman. Most contemporary writers on Smith have noted her self-deprecatory pose as a political strategy: it is not beauty she demands. The most apparent intertext for the poem must be the short poem...

... abstract metaphysics to the avant-garde’s viable political strategy. So that’s the book’s claim and architecture—let’s look at the particu­ lars. According to Coméntale, romantic modernism follows Pater into a dangerous fixation on form. From Joyce’s “Circe” to Roger Fry’s and Clive...

... to this book as a model. Yu understands why innovative poets develop their non-narrative, nonlyric strategies, and he is remarkably attentive to how these strategies work in particular poems. He also provides a meaningful account of how these strategies relate to various political ambitions, and he...

... by a hard political border: Russia of the Soviets and Russia of the exiles. Leonid Livak’s In Search of Russian Modernism ranges daringly over this complicated terrain, surveys it expertly, and concludes that its fissures are not all that they are made out to be; unity and continuity hold sway...

... of writing. She is a celebrated academic literary scholar, author of Writing beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers; H.D.:The Career of That Struggle; and Genders, Races, and Religious. Cultures in Modern American Poetry. She is an innovative poet working...

... avant-garde literary practices typically excluded from modernist studies for being too ‘transparent,’ too ‘realistic,’ too ‘ethnic,’ or too ‘political’—or simply for using languages other than English” (8). Hughes, for so long faulted for being—like his most famous fictional character—“Simple...

... to the gap that opens up in modernist literature between the representation of environs and a sense of care and concern for those environs is to diverge from ecocritical practices that have “often involved promoting a reading strategy whereby the critic parses an archive in search of clear statements...

... in recent experimental movements, the goals and strategies appropriate to feminist writing, and the political value and force of linguistically innovative writing. Fortunately, Kinnahan, while making her own positions clear, is committed to documenting carefully the discussions that have taken...

... of the embodied self en­ ables it to “refuse the holocaust.” As experience in Bosnia and elsewhere testifies, genocide and the rape and murder of women are not mere meta­ phors of each other: they are intimately related in the political strategy cum sociopathology of the masculine subject, which impels...

... and was educated abroad, as was Nehru, he crafted his political identity as oppositional to Western mod­ ernization. This strategy does not detract from the sincerity of Gandhi’s commitment to political self-determination through rural life; rather, it exemplifies the way in which the gendered model...

... Barksdale (Wood Harris) and Stringer Bell (Idris Elba) attempt to take their case federal. Told by their contacts in the FBI that since 9/11 the agency is no longer interested in drug cases but only in terrorism or political corruption, they produce evidence that their targets...

... . . . Overliberated, you might say” (116). 24. One of the most widely applicable and useful strategies of aesthetic persuasion for the current political climate that can be formulated from these inquiries into the effects of Burroughs’s early works is best articulated by a formula Slavoj Žižek, in “The Secret...

... the relation of intellectual life to global political crisis was unavoidably at issue. Moore’s contribution to the proceedings, “Feeling and Precision,” proved a defining statement of her compositional principles. Situating Moore’s statement in relation to the inquiry Wahl set out to develop through...

...Christopher McVey Ethnic Modernism , by Sollors Werner , Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2008 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Review Border Trouble: American Modernities, Ethnic Modernisms, and the Politics of Literary History Ethnic Modernism...

... of certain Eurocentric tendencies within these recent theoretical developments. Of the many critics who have commented on the relationship be- tween Coetzee’s literature and his politics, one of the more intriguing is Sarah Brouillette. In her study Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary...

... to perform on practically any white writer of the period, given the political realities of American society at the time) and then proceed to condemn his work on that basis. Instead, they go on to trace the function and consequences, for both his own poetry and his relationship to some major black...

... distinctions between the ways in which men and women confronted and processed the war, it has also tended to downplay the fact that writing their stories required female authors to adopt certain coping strategies employed by male solider-writers. I therefore agree with Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate...

...), though she eliminated the line in the 1952 reprinting. The 1923 version leaves no doubt that one of the principle goals of the piece was to redefine “America” to include the hemisphere’s non-English-speaking places and inhabitants. 2 Porter’s relationship to the political intrigue surrounding...

... in the Orient: Margaret Drabble’s The Gates of Ivory.” 45.3 (1999): 278—98 Boxwell, D. A. “(Dis)Orienting Spectacle: The Politics of Orlando’s Sapphic Camp.” 44.3 (1998): 306-27 Brandt, Peter. “Somewhere Else in the Forest.” 42.1 (1996): 145-64 Brecht, Bertold. See Eubanks; Walker Breton...