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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 293–316.
Published: 01 September 2021
... as a temporal problem. In doing this, Citizen demonstrates how the racial break represented less a rupture than a continuation—how the antagonisms of racialized citizenship under white supremacy are sublimated by racial liberal rule. © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 economy of sight racial liberalism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... maturity and political liberty constitute the core features of a mythologized Anglo-Saxon racial inheritance, one shared by her novel’s white characters, and over the course of the novel, as its protagonist Jean Louise Finch rejects psychologically stunted and politically naive colorblind liberalism, she...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 197–221.
Published: 01 June 2014
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with eliminating racial reference within juridical discourse and
public policy. (10)
Whereas the racial liberalism of the post-World War II era endorsed the
defunct idea that racial injustice could be cured through the elimination
of prejudices and the fostering of sentimental pathways...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 121–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
... virtue to modern liberal contracts as the primary social bond, and privileging planter-class racial paternalism over the abstractly egalitarian rulings of northern courts. Jean Louise takes Uncle Jack to mean that she shouldn’t marry Henry because his presence at the meeting revealed an innate moral...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 307–338.
Published: 01 September 2008
... for the twentieth century, and no one takes
him very seriously—which is perhaps why he can be safely entrusted with
the occasional gesture toward racial liberalism. He is sometimes suicidal.
Yet to compare the suicide of Todd’s father with that of Will Barrett’s
father in Walker Percy’s The Last Gentleman...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 397–404.
Published: 01 September 2014
... negotiating and contesting the
racial order that attempts to construct them as somehow outside and
beyond ‘normal’ national culture” (16).
After a first chapter that describes the context for the emergence of
the white-life novel as a response to the white liberal demand for protest
fiction...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in assisting the struggle for civil rights.
Nonetheless, Chinitz is too meticulous to read Hughes’s post-thirties
politics as anything but cautious about liberalism’s ability to combat
racial and class inequity in the US, or to whitewash the poet’s continuing
idealization of the Soviet Union...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
... (colonization), etc. They have Bigger sit between them in the front seat of the car, and as he does, his body physically contracts, a concretization of their power relations. 21 These processes of racial domination implicate both liberalism and communism. 22 For example, in her fascination with Black...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... If new forms of racial violence have arisen in the era of liberal multiculturalism, they require reformulations of the field’s tried and true paradigms as well as a rethinking of the Asian American subject, given that the means by which Asian Americans have gained inclusion today are the very same...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
... into the local. The American ideals of liberal democracy trumpeted on the global stage are revealed as a sham when considered in light of the normalized systems of racial oppression at home. Controversially, Hurston’s universalism is largely founded on a particular kind of individualism—on the assumption...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2000
... of Karintha is liberating insofar as it forces
the reader to reflect on the larger racial symbolism she is made to “carry.”
This notion of Karintha as mediator, however, has a repressive charge as
well, for the very structure of symbolism itself is predicated on a notion of
artistic “service...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (3): 378–384.
Published: 01 September 2005
... constituencies in or
der to reaffirm liberal faith in individual upward mobility while leaving
systemic racism largely undisturbed. To a certain extent Lee accepts this
explanation, indeed seeing multiculturalism as part of a larger strategy
of racial management through transracial...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., a commitment to the idea that these histories are defined by racial sentiments against blacks and Jews, respectively. This essay considers Styron’s commitment to the economic explanation alongside the fate of that explanation in Robert William Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s controversial history of slavery, Time...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 2009
... challenges the social conservatism
and essentialism of Black nationalists as well as the contradictory pes-
simism of Black liberals and leftists. Black nationalists claim that Black
American identity emanates from a pure, ancient, and unchanging African
origin. Black liberals and leftists repeatedly...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 688–693.
Published: 01 December 2012
... feminist
activist Frances Gage in 1855 (qtd. in Olwell 1). As Olwell comments,
with the writerly pith and punch that are among her fine book’s many
pleasures, “Within the familiar idiom of liberal democracy, Gage’s exhor-
tation is exactly two-thirds intelligible.” Indeed. Possessive individualism...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 439–461.
Published: 01 September 2012
...
that He would liberate and deliver retributive justice, American blacks’
439Twentieth-Century Literature 58.3 Fall 2012 439
Joshua Pederson
corporate identification with Biblical Hebrews also served as a founda-
tion for establishing group identity. Werner Sollors terms the process...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the racial categories
on which American culture relies. (Indeed, this concern accounts for the
trope of contagion through sexual reproduction common in “passing”
novels.) In this reading, Sinclair Lewis’s 1947 novel of passing, Kingsblood
Royal, can be seen as the obverse of earlier such novels...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (4): 367–398.
Published: 01 December 2024
... understanding of African American liberation struggles as aligned with anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements abroad—in his post-WWII writing. Against McCarthyism and the United States’ militant Cold War nationalism, Hughes develops a jazz poetics that salvages a margin of his ideal of revolutionary...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 663–687.
Published: 01 December 2012
...., class mobility, the left, women’s
liberation, racial segregation), modern fiction reinterpreted the meaning
of abortion, transforming it from an isolated act in a woman’s life into a
referendum on the day’s most pressing social issues. Far from supplanting
the works’ reproductive politics...
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