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Postcolonial Lack and Aesthetic Promise in The Moor’s Last Sigh
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Alexandra W. Schultheis Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Postcolonial Lack
and Aesthetic Promise
in The Moor’s Last Sigh
Alexandra W. Schultheis
I n his documentary film The Riddle of Midnight, Salman Rushdie re
turns to India 40 years after independence to see...
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Coetzee’s Postcolonial Diaspora
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 9–19.
Published: 01 March 2011
...David Attwell Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Coetzee’s Postcolonial Diaspora
Coetzee’s Postcolonial Diaspora
David Attwell
My subject is the poetics of place but more particularly, the ways in
which place comes to define what is possible for the subject-of-writing.
I’ll...
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Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature by Robert Spencer
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 181–188.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Bianca Leggett Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature , by Spencer Robert , Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . 225 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Review
Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature
by Robert Spencer
Basingstoke...
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Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics by Peter J. Kalliney
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Jennifer P. Nesbitt Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics , by Kalliney Peter J. , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Review
Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture...
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Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature , by Christopher Krentz
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 225–232.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Alexander C. Dawson [email protected] Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature , by Krentz Christopher . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2022 . 198 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 Reflecting on the “compelling...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... The novel’s narrator, when his spine is twisted forward by the chemical toxins, adopts the name “Animal.” In contesting Western definitions of what constitutes a human, he helps to reimagine postcolonial activism by broadening its coalition to include nonhuman subjects. Sinha’s version of postcolonial...
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Gurnah and Naipaul: Intersections of Paradise and A Bend in the River
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
... second chapter, and the placement of Gurnah’s character, Kalasinga, as a Naipaul figure within the novel’s action. Gurnah’s novelistic play dramatizes the tension and concordance between his own generation’s and Naipaul’s postcolonial articulations. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 5 I am...
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Elizabeth Bowen’s Negative Epics: Landscape and Realism in The Last September and A World of Love
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 460–483.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and postcoloniality pervading mid-twentieth-century Irish culture and politics through negative epic forms, forms that reconfigure both realist and modernist conventions. In The Last September , landscape description reframes the scope of epic conventions and challenges narratives of geopolitical development, while...
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Trans Bodies and Embodiments in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., and the pathological framing of trans people in colonial epistemologies. In a postcolonial novel set in the colonial Caribbean, these kinds of trans embodiment interrogate the nature-culture or human-nonhuman divide, allowing certain characters to feel at home in their trans bodies rather than, as per liberal...
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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
...Will Edmonstone The Caribbean-born, Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond is beginning to receive increased attention among scholars interested in transnational modernisms, Black diaspora cultures, and postcolonialism. Although he died in obscurity, his collection of short stories, Tropic Death...
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The Politics of Inadequacy
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 365–375.
Published: 01 June 2012
...David James The Event of Postcolonial Shame , by Bewes Timothy , Princeton University Press , 2011 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review
The Politics of Inadequacy
The Event of Postcolonial Shame
by Timothy Bewes
Princeton University Press, 2011. 224...
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Traveling with Joyce: Derek Walcott’s Discrepant Cosmopolitan Modernism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 June 2001
... although he
continued to focus on writing about that island.
Two answers could be correct—-James Joyce and Derek Walcott.This tell
ing biographical convergence should cause us to reconsider the accept
ed critical oppositions of modernism/postmodernism and colonialism/
postcolonialism...
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The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India by Snehal Shingavi
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 511–518.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the metacritical question of how these texts can be understood in light of theoretical debates in postcolonial studies, subaltern studies, Marxist historiography, nationalist historiography, Gandhi studies, and Indian English literary studies. Shingavi deftly interweaves these different levels of analysis...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of Post-Communism: Television, Travel Sites, and Post-Cold War Narratives . New York : Routledge . Boym Svetlana . 2001 . The Future of Nostalgia . New York : Basic . Chari Sharad Verdery Katherine . 2009 . “ Thinking between the Posts: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism...
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Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry by Justin Quinn
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 March 2017
... replicates established “routes of scholarship, above all through the binaries of modernism and postmodernism, colonialism and postcolonialism” (21). For Quinn’s project, the latter binary is of greater concern than the former. Since the “structure of center-periphery that marks postcolonial theory...
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Recovering Empire’s Critics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 96–105.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of British and Irish
literature of the modern and interwar periods, has made herself proficient
in postcolonial theory in order to perform this investigation because she
believes that postcolonial investigations have by and large ignored the
relationship between World War II and the end...
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The Ethnic and the Ethical
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 538–544.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Oona Eisenstadt Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other , by Drabinski John , Edinburgh University Press , 2011 . Reprint edition, 2013 . 224 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Oona Eisenstadt
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Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett by Nels Pearson
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 220–227.
Published: 01 June 2017
...” (143). In developing this model, Irish Cosmopolitanism persuasively advances many of the more expansive perspectives of postcolonial studies, without adopting a fully postnational viewpoint, and thus offers an important contribution not just to Irish studies but also to the study of literary...
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Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction , by Stanka Radović
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 June 2016
... themselves in the world. They do so, Radović argues, by drawing upon both the material and the imaginative resources accessible through narrative. According to Radović, postcolonial studies still stumbles over its reliance on binaries and/or its promotion of an in-between solution to the problem...
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Poetry and the Natures of the New World
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 116–121.
Published: 01 March 2010
... as the social structures that define their relations
to each other.
As is already obvious from this short summary, New World Poetics situ-
ates itself in one of the most interesting recent developments in ecocriti-
cism, the attempt to link ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives with the
aim...
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