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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 510–546.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Dana Carluccio Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Dana Carluccio
The Evolutionary Invention of Race:
W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Conservation” of Race
and George Schuyler’s Black No More
Dana Carluccio
For humanities scholars debating the contours of W. E. B. Du Bois’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 161–190.
Published: 01 June 2018
...). Critical readings such as these, however, with their primary focus being the sixties, radical activism, the Swede, and Merry (who disappears from the novel in the early seventies), tend to ignore important aspects of the novel, especially issues of race and class. As Roy Goldblatt points out, Roth...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Rachel Farebrother Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination , by Rasberry Vaughn . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 496 pages. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra University 2018 Totalitarianism has been a defining concept...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 237–260.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Benjamin Mangrum This essay argues that the representation of race in O’Connor’s short story “The Artificial Nigger” (1955) owes a debt to the continental tradition of phenomenology. Rather than being an abstract philosophical position, this debt signals O’Connor’s self-positioning within...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., reversible concept whose ambiguity opens it to a rich variety of meanings.” Repetition and Race allows this richness of meanings to coexist; in keeping ambiguity and contradiction alive, it leaves us with a sense of repetition as a form of tension. Both Tang and Park highlight forms of repetition...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
... – 60 . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press . Ellis Cristin . 2018 . Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century . New York : Fordham University Press . Ensor Sarah . 2012 . “ Spinster Ecology .” American Literature 84 , no. 2 : 409...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... race is produced by kinship. Though Jean Louise emotionally rejects Atticus and his politics, ultimately she is pulled back into the gravitational field of white kinship, a concept that in the novel functions to relegate particular questions about the management of integration to the background. Key...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 60–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Gary Totten Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Gary Totten
“Inhospitable Splendour”: Spectacles of
Consumer Culture and Race in Wharton’s Summer
Gary Totten
In her posthumously published essay “A Little Girl’s New York” (1937),
Edith Wharton refers to her mother...
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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 88–91.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Nicole L. Sparling Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought , by Weinbaum Alys Eve , Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . 348 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 The Race/Reproduction Bind
in Modern Transatlantic Thought...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 153–181.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Benjamin Schreier Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 u \
Desire’s Second Act:
“Race” and The Great Gatsby’s
Cynical Americanism
Benjamin Schreier
I once thought that there were no second acts in American lives.
—Fitzgerald, “My Lost City” (31)
F e w...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Deirdre Coleman Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 The “Dog-Man”: Race, Sex, Species, and Lineage in Coetzee’s Disgrace
The “Dog-Man”:
Race, Sex, Species, and Lineage
in Coetzee’s Disgrace
Deirdre Coleman
In J. M. Coetzee’s most recent novel, Summertime, Sophie Denoël, one...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 32–45.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Carol J. Singley Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Steven Belletto This essay focuses on the life and writing of African American novelist, playwright, and activist Julian Mayfield, whose under-studied work and extraordinary life tell a story about race and civil rights in literature that challenges familiar accounts. By analyzing Mayfield’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Kim Adams In 1931, African American journalist George Schuyler imagined a medical treatment that could turn Black people white and American politics upside down. Schuyler’s novel, Black No More , uses this fictional race-altering technology to mount a satirical critique of progressive era...
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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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 343–368.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to histories of racial profiling and respectability politics, it analyzes how profile epistemology remains dependent on white supremacy, demonstrating how critical race theory, affect theory, and poetry can open up forms of oppositional looking to undermine the ostensible objectivity of data. Copyright ©...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the bad seed narratives’ determinism, drawing on many of the same discourses that inform both novel and film to offer an alternative perspective on race, gender, heredity, and adoption from the 1940s and 1950s. This returns us to the question of the persistence of bad seed mythology, even as adoption...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with topics like racialized obsession, the role of community in a black artist’s self-concept, and the best avenues for interracial solidarity across planes of difference. Understanding mature women’s legitimacy as sexual subjects and the persistence of queer loneliness (despite class and race privilege) also...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 379–404.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to be constitutive of a humanity predicated on a sovereign distinction from and dominance over those who are dehumanized through mechanisms of race and species. This nonhumanization, I argue, also opens new forms of life, as the contamination of the human by its other that plays out in these authors’ modernist...
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