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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., and beyond, to the enforced servitude in ancient Greece and Rome. —William Styron, introduction to The Cunning of History The sea journey of the slave ships was a horror comparable only to the German freight cars. —Richard L. Rubenstein, The Cunning of History The only mass experience that Western...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Blues achieves its political reframing of history. In doing this, I will argue, Williams blends a variety of literary and cultural forms, including the neo-slave narrative, the Holocaust memoir, the epistolary novel, the research paper, and the blues. The “imaginative recovery of the historical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 462–494.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of “slavery” and “freedom” to suggest, audaciously, that
the Abolition of Slavery was emblematic of a civilizing force the world
was better off without.
European women as bonded slaves is one of the most pivotal of these
metaphors. Protesting not a lack of women’s rights but a set of European...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
... African fiction caravan trade ivory slaves Swahili coastal life Joseph Conrad postcolonial The thirty years between V. S. Naipaul’s first publication in 1957 and Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah’s in 1987 spans at least three major epochs within the field of postcolonial studies: the era...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2011
...), the critical geographies of fugitive slave
narratives written in Mexico as well as the US and Canada (Chapter
Two), the perspectives on mainstream “American” literary movements
such as modernism and the Beats made possible by a transnational or
non-US-based optic (Chapters Three and Four), comparative...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 374–390.
Published: 01 September 2001
...
ists whose sympathetic anger regarding their degraded ancestors forces
them to reject the language and art of imperialist slave masters. Walcott
complains:
They cannot separate the rage of Caliban from the beauty of his
speech when the speeches of Caliban are equal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2009
... to thee,
Thy son, in time, I have returned to thee.
In time, for though the sun is setting on
A song-lit race of slaves, it has not set;
Though late, O soil, it is not too late yet
To catch thy plaintive soul, leaving, soon gone,
Leaving, to catch thy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 275–294.
Published: 01 September 2018
... for her husband. Understanding that to accede to the requirement to “make generations” would be to endorse what she calls the “slave-breeder’s way of thinking,” Mutt tells Ursa, “I ain’t your slave neither” (160), but then proceeds to assert his ownership of her—referring repeatedly, for instance...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 2009
...
American identity formation are still radically determined by a Hegelian
narrative in which “the master strikes the slave, the slave strikes back, and
thus a man is created” (4). The representative instance of this dynamic of
course is Frederick Douglass’s now-mythic thrashing of the slave breaker...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2001
... on the true story of Margaret Gar
ner, an escaped slave who killed her daughter in a desperate bid to save
her from the misery and indignity of slavery when threatened with re
capture— a story very few people knew before the publication o f Mor
rison’s book. Yet, while Beloved is a woman...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 264–291.
Published: 01 September 2002
... came to divide N orth from South, free states
from slave. The novel follows them, in part 1, “Latitudes and Departures,”
from their m eeting in 1760, w hen they travel to Cape Town to observe
the Transit o f Venus between the earth and the sun and help determine
the Solar Parallax...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 239–263.
Published: 01 September 2002
... o f making, but also o f mak
ing up, o f inventing things not actually real.
—James Clifford, “Partial Truths” (6)
It ain’t about right or wrong, truth or lies; it’s about a slave
woman w ho brought a w hole new meaning to both them...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 174–180.
Published: 01 March 2013
... achieved. Norman proposes the useful critical
term “temporal dysphoria to explain the effect of seeing images of Jim Crow
today when dominant cultural narratives suggest they should be then” (6).
He contrasts the neo-segregation narrative with the “neo-slave narrative,”
a concept associated...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 75–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with a hapless slave woman, all for the favor of the white master. 13 In this story, the white master is displaced by the Black working-class male, who competes for the affections of the Black female with the financially empowered white mistress. These pairings invite a queer reading, partly in their implicit...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 351–359.
Published: 01 June 2013
...)
Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” and Voigt’s sonnet sequence, like the three
earlier works, portray “the 1918 influenza pandemic as destabilizing and
linked to gender changes but they differ in denying their characters the
possibility of positive transformation” (38). And Buchi Emecheta’s The
Slave...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 405–413.
Published: 01 September 2014
... similarities
end as soon as we look at poems that engage law, such as Philip’s Zong!,
which ironically reorders the language of a 1783 legal decision concern-
ing the slaughter of the “cargo” of a slave ship, or Jamaican poet Lorna
Goodison’s “Annie Pengelly,” which “represent[s] the case” (51...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., on Walzer’s view, is crucial for questions of citizenship: “Hard work,”
he writes, “is distributed to degraded people. Citizens are set free; the
work is imposed on slaves, resident aliens, ‘guest workers’—outsiders all”
(Spheres 165). If doing hard work signifies someone as a degraded outsider...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and progressive ones traditionally made by Lee’s critics. jgbridgergilmore@ua.edu Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 colorblindness Jim Crow liberalism slavery US South white supremacy Slaves were the ghost in the machine of kinship. —Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 346–368.
Published: 01 September 2000
... somebody forces them—we’re not talk
ing Simon Legree here boss but importantly, “‘of their own accord’”
(198). Comeaux’s comparison to slavery here is important, for the situa
tions are formally but not materially different. If the worst of the “Southern
Way of Life” deprived slaves of selfhood...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 214–237.
Published: 01 June 2000
...) and in the acquiescence to the disintegration of his
marriage (72-73). He sees it also in his failure, in the face of class and ra
cial snobbery, to confront the Deschampsneufs, an old French slave-own
ing family. “Why, recognizing the enemy, did you not kill him swiftly?” (176),
Singh asks himself in several...