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Julian Mayfield and Alternative Civil Rights Literatures
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of this idea, Melamed theorizes “race radicalism,” which she defines as “antiracist thinking, struggle, and politics that reckon precisely with those aspects of racialization that official liberal antiracisms screen off: the differential and racialized violences that inevitably follow from the insufficiency...
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After Revolutionary Alliance: Jazz and Langston Hughes’s Midcentury Internationalism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 367–398.
Published: 01 December 2024
... © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 African American poetry postwar American poetry race and international politics Over the last two decades, critics have become increasingly attuned to the global, transnational dimensions of Langston Hughes’s work, commenting substantively...
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Citizenship in the Racial Break: Japanese Incarceration and Racial Subjectivity in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 293–316.
Published: 01 September 2021
... articulated” ( Williams 1978 : 126), especially at the level of subjectivity. Perhaps nothing in US history illustrates this shifting state of ambiguity about race and racial politics more than the history of Japanese incarceration and resettlement. Fighting in the Pacific theater in World War II...
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The Race/Reproduction Bind in Modern Transatlantic Thought
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 88–91.
Published: 01 March 2007
... as a feminist foremother. In reac
tion to trends in scholarly approaches to Gilman that either conclude that
her political beliefs about race are secondary to her feminist politics or
marginalize her theoretical essays in favor of her literary texts, Weinbaum
warns against privileging a feminist...
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“Electrical Nutrition and Glandular Control”: Eugenics, Progressive Science, and George Schuyler’s Black No More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the white race by means of eugenic breeding. Such programs of “racial hygiene” ( Rice 1929) required not only the separation of the colored from the white races but also the internal policing of the white race to weed out inferior strains. Particularly in labor politics, where those already in the United...
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Untold Stories, Old and New
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 385–390.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Camp Notes. It’s cus
tomary for teachers to choose prose works to address the subject of the
internment, but Duncan makes a fresh case for Yamada’s text as not only
evocative of the history but also alive to the politics of language in the
whole internment period. Duncan...
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The Gold Standard of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2006
... novels suggest that the New Negro promoters of race pride, like
their white-identified detractors, remain trapped by the capitalist semiotics
of race.
The political economy of Quicksand
Larsen first explores racial identity as a function of the capitalist politi
cal economy in Quicksand...
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Anger and the Alchemy of Literary Method in V. S. Naipaul’s Political Fiction: The Case of The Mimic Men
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 214–237.
Published: 01 June 2000
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the postcolonial writer or intellectual must go backward into the burden of
colonial self-division before he or she can go forward into the political
sphere. Naipaul’s protagonist, given his race, class, and temperament, can
not envision a recentering of cultural life for the entire postcolonial West...
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Textual Scapegoating
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Travis Rozier Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism , by Forter Greg , Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 217 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review
Mourning, Melancholia, and Textual Scapegoating
Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism...
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Liberalizing Twentieth-Century British Literary History
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 567–574.
Published: 01 December 2010
... the internal, symbolic, and external
forces that drive and delimit them. Eschewing modernism’s privileging
of interiority and disdain for linear narrative realism, Bottome’s fiction
critiques their political implications. Hirsch analyzes Bottome’s narrative
method as working at a “metapolitical level...
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Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes by David Chinitz
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., Cary Nelson, and David Chioni
Moore have positioned Hughes as a major figure in complex international
and interracial circuits of experimental, proletarian writing. And critics
such as Brent Hayes Edwards and Vera Kutzinski have begun to pay
serious attention to Hughes’s work both...
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The Plantation-Auschwitz Tradition: Forced Labor and Free Markets in the Novels of William Styron
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the lens of race—as genocide. Despite Stingo’s description of his critical reception—“once a racist, always a racist”—what his critics were essentially worried about is that for Styron it was never about racism at all. But despite these criticisms and Styron’s own impressions of them, I will argue...
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“A Dirty Word These Days”: Anglo-Saxonism, Race, and Kinship in Go Set a Watchman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
...-blind racism” ( 2014 : 3) has, in post–Civil Rights contexts, proliferated in “subtle, institutional, and apparently nonracial” practices. Commonly, then, the possibility of moving toward progressive political outcomes is conditioned on dispelling such blindness—on “seeing race.” Within this framework...
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Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination by Vaughn Rasberry
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and issue in twentieth- and twenty-first-century political discourse, but it has rarely been analyzed with reference to either structures of racial domination in the United States or European colonialism. As Vaughn Rasberry explains in his magisterial study of race literature and the Cold War, intellectual...
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“Sensible of Being Étrangers ”: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Traditional “story-telling had little
interest for him now if thought and feeling did not wrestle and sprawl
with appetite and dark desire all over the pages.”
For Ray, writing is both political action and response; it redeems
“the soil of life” from the cruelty of “the vast international...
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Fantasias on National Themes: Fantasy, Space, and Imperialism in Rebecca West
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in practice” ( BLGF 482). 16 See Peppis 2000 and Winkiel 2005 . See also Urmila Seshagiri’s (2004 : 59) essay, which shows how Woolf’s “material and formalist politics of race” works racial appropriation into its representation of Englishness. 17 Such artificial Habsburg-sponsored...
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“White-Life” Literature Reconsidered
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 397–404.
Published: 01 September 2014
... black writers
what Charles calls “racial privacy,” which he defines as “access to forms
of social, political [and] authorial autonomy unconstrained by dominant-
culture notions of race” (8). Writing in this mode, black authors asserted
their authorial autonomy by resisting hegemonic prescriptions...
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Hurston’s Art of Controversy in Dust Tracks on a Road
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
... for its apparently assimilationist politics, its reactionary downplaying of social realities facing Black people in the United States, and its denial of race consciousness in a celebration of American democracy and individualism. The very qualities that attracted praise among white reviewers—the book’s...
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Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The Changing Enemy by Oliver S. Buckton, Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film by Phyllis Lassner
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., representing contemporaneous international crises as the foundation of plots, characters, imaginative analysis, and polemical positions” (3). As David Trotter observes, the early hero of the thriller, the amateur or accidental spy, tended to be a “sleepy young Englishman whose lassitude and political...
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A “Synchronous but More Subtle Migration”: Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2009
... in
the civic and political community and the scope of rights and
entitlement. The integrity and self-certainty founded upon the
division between master and slave races was now without foun-
dation. (183)
What Homer Plessy’s dangerous passing revealed was the instability of
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