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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 293–316.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the changing practices of Japanese incarceration as different forms of racial subjection linked to the (re)formation of racial subjectivity. Hence, Citizen ’s seemingly progressive narrative trajectory belies an ambivalent development in which the contradiction of racialized citizenship gets remediated...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in white subjects by bolstering their sense of their own virtue, and how this happiness alienates African Americans, for whom antiracism is embedded in the experience of ongoing racial violence. Writing in the heyday of second-wave feminism, Walker examines how, even as antiracism shores up happy feeling...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 235–268.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., however, this rarified relationship was grounded in and served to reinforce racial hierarchy. Even as the discipline turns away from the cultural elitism associated with New Criticism, Ransom’s understanding of the literary object as natural and thus subject to disciplinary study continues to inform...
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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 (2009) 55 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of difference is
underwritten by a visual economy that reads these social relations onto
the body of the racialized subject and then projects this exterior distinc-
tion onto the interior of that subject as the very grounds of that subject’s
identity. It is this double displacement embedded in the logic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of comparison; matching shapes repeat, even as they fail. Park illuminates both the aesthetic potential and the limits of repetition. Like Tang, Park neither turns away from nor seeks to resolve the deep ambivalences that define the racially triangulated Asian American subject; instead, with her eye firmly...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 85–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
... racialized subjectivities than on thinking critically about the formation of racialized subjecthood itself. Andrews’s key concept, “critical thinking,” is one she hopes to sharpen and repurpose (it is “normally a milquetoast bucket into which we put vague hopes of a better citizenry”) (11). Much...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... me when I sit down to eat. No dark ghost thrusts its leg against mine in bed” ( [1928] 1995 , 827). The surety of her performance as a racialized subject produces affective indeterminacy in Hurston’s white beholders, leaving them unsure “whether to laugh or to weep” in response to what they must bear...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 168–195.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and brutality that are omitted from the white electorate’s visual
horizon. As a racialized subject, he is constantly surveyed by the apartheid
state; his movements are curtailed by its socioeconomic structures and pass
laws, and he is always susceptible to the threat of police violence. Within...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 445–484.
Published: 01 December 2009
...
specific behaviors, habits, and preferences, some of which correlate with
vying racial, sexual, and class interests. The conflicts she depicts are subject
concurrently to social and biological definition.6 Racial groupings and
class pecking orders divide the human species not just into social identi...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 341–348.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the feminine that canonical,
modernist texts subsequently displace onto “the socially vulnerable:
women, effeminate men, and racial minorities” (5). In an important move,
Forter suggests that this displaced anger bears a racial component, arguing
that these authors conflated the racial other...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2000
... in the positions of dominator and
dominated, illuminating subject-object relations along axes both psycho
logical and social. This is a dialectic; insofar as it is trained on the particular
American history of racial oppression in the South, it is a dialectic working
within an African American matrix...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 60–89.
Published: 01 March 2012
... between commerce and the subjectivities it “fashions,” at-
tending to how consumer culture’s contradictory imperatives impact
women’s economic status, sexual lives, and social and racial identities.
Charity almost seems to turn her back on such imperatives when she
returns to the hotel without new...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 343–368.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., ill-use, stereotyping, defensiveness, misnaming, betrayal, and co-optation.” As a black woman, Williams’s personhood and position is routinely subject to “racial distortion,” a distortion literalized by the line judges calling out the “so-called wrongness of her body’s positioning...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2013
... writers to navigate new bodily experiences, particularly the
vulnerability of the body to penetration by technologies. Many scholars
of modernism have postulated a crisis of the body, but Vetter’s approach
is new in its emphasis on women writers and writers from racialized mi-
norities—groups...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 217–236.
Published: 01 September 2019
...” poem—“inhale,” “take,” “fetch”—he is not himself the subject of these actions, which remain removed and abstracted. The abandonments rehearsed in the revision of “to whom” to “to which” to “near which” describe his own dispossession from being. For the poet, poisonous racial imagery is thus valuable...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 153–181.
Published: 01 June 2007
... a “desire for whiteness,”
Thompson’s Gatsby is threatening to the worldview with which the text
allies itself (85). Along with the attempt at class passing, the novel’s
subversive subject is the paradoxical phenomenon of racial pass
ing, the racial masquerade implicit to many black people’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (2): 95–126.
Published: 01 June 2024
...). “I reckon,” he explains, “I mistook him for the sp––k” (115; my redaction). Rowde’s putative mistake is that he misapplies to the Canal Zone a US racial lens that treats Jim’s father and the local man as interchangeable subjects on one side of a white/nonwhite racial binary. But if Rowde’s racist...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 2009
...John C. Charles © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual , by Reid-Pharr Robert , New York : New York University Press , 2007 . 208 pages. Review
Desire, Agency, and Black American Subjectivity
Once You Go...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of constipation and intestinal sluggishness, . . . I prescribe fresh yeast” ( Fleischmann’s 1932) . 14 Laws forbidding racial intermarriage were in place in the majority of the United States in this time period. Schuyler wrote a pamphlet on the subject, in which he names only twenty states (including DC...
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