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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 (2020) 66 (4): 463–484.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of her writing life, adopted synesthesia as an aesthetic principle. It helped her critique the atomization of the human senses under the technological conditions of modernity, but also to condemn both the militarism of the Great War and the rise of totalitarian politics in the late 1930s. Ultimately...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 129–160.
Published: 01 June 2018
... . . . are necessarily general . . . so that each concrete individual case with its unrepeatable set of circumstances somehow escapes it. —Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism So when we come to look at liberalism in a critical spirit, we have to expect that there will be a discrepancy between what I...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2014
... narratives,’ more likely to lead to totalitarianism than
liberty. . . .A new epic fable of the end of epic fables unfurled across the
globe” (45). Motivation isn’t fully collapsed into politics in Money, but it
is characterized along similar lines, and both appear entirely absent. Self
may not fully...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 25–54.
Published: 01 March 2024
... fear and shame” (115). Totalitarianisms tug at the disinherited by promising them a relatedness otherwise missing from the modern world. Speaking of “the Volk or race fasciated behind its Führer ,” Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (1992 : 31) points to “fascism’s” etymological root in “binding”: the early...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 64–97.
Published: 01 March 2005
... readers
the tools for making their own decisions, his writings of the later 1930s,
such as Guide to Kulchur (1938), share a sense of purpose and method with
the totalitarian propaganda efforts of Mussolini’s cultural ministers. While
early fascist propaganda allowed and even expected a certain...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 401–408.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., Henry Roth, and oth-
ers, investigate how some ethnic writers drew on modernist form and
Hemingway’s hard-boiled masculinity to represent and rewrite discourses
of American community; and chapters 14–17 turn to international poli-
tics, totalitarianism, and the concept of cultural capital in order...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 377–384.
Published: 01 June 2013
...
between aesthetics and politics” (4). By analyzing literary fiction of the
period, Belletto demonstrates that chance is commonly associated in
American works with democratic freedom, while its preclusion—and
even its manipulation—characterize the totalitarian system of the former
USSR...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2019
... school amounted to the “best safeguard against totalitarian developments in our society” (quoted in Davis 1990 : 355). The early Cold War context provided a clear purpose for national defense and a cultural affirmation in the face of the foreign communist threat. Other central events of this period...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., transcending its status as mere “entertainment.” But while Buckton’s book takes the form of a comprehensive survey, Lassner’s analysis concentrates on how spy literature and cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s address the menace of totalitarianism and reveal the plight of the exile. More specifically, she...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
...,” an avenging justice meted out against the totalitarian nonidentity of the postwar Soviet Union and the apathetic capitalist consumerism of postwar France and America. Powers retains significant reservations about the mode of postwar resistance sketched in Harris’s prequel novels, however, following Dina...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 123–131.
Published: 01 March 2011
... theorists—Scheingold among them—have long
looked at the ways faith in modernity was shaken by the past century’s
“[contamination] by total war, the destabilization of democracy and the
emergence of totalitarian regimes.” In The Political Novel, the political
scientist Scheingold shifts his method...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 71–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... models for the study of transnationalism in US literature and culture. 6 Resolution 1096 of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in 1996, Resolution 1481 of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in 2006, and the European Parliament Resolution on European Conscience and Totalitarianism...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 477–485.
Published: 01 December 2022
... an important shift in his strategy of offensive mimicry” (49). In his later work from the 1930s onwards, “self-mimesis” (53) where “the organism ensures its survival by simulating death or injury,” becomes the focus, a response to the Great Depression and the rise of totalitarianism in Europe. His book Hitler...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 337–367.
Published: 01 December 2004
... on the germ of the novel, he wrote: “totalitarian
ideas have taken root in the minds of intellectuals everywhere, and I have
tried to draw these ideas out to their logical consequences” (Howe 287).
Following along these lines, John Atkins, in an early response to 1984,
Twentieth-Century Literature...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 213–238.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of man,” typified by works such as Reinhold Niebuhr’s The Nature and Destiny of Man (1943). Reacting to World War II, and to the crumbling of liberal democracy in light of the rise of totalitarian governments in Europe and elsewhere, this discourse argued for a permanent, universalist, and “unmarked...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 421–432.
Published: 01 December 2004
... contributions to theory. As early as 1941,
Marcuse criticized the reductive association between Hegel’s logic and
totalitarianism in Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory.
In “The Ends of Man” (1968), Derrida remarked the symptomatic signifi
cance of the confusion (in the wake...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 493–529.
Published: 01 December 2010
... “a functioning police state needs no police” at
all (31). For this reason, when assigned to establish a totalitarian state,
Benway abolishes “concentration camps, mass arrest, and except under
certain limited and special circumstances, the use of torture” (19). Rather
than the arbitrary infliction...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 80–113.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to assume a teleological trajec
tory in his work toward the horror of his Rome Radio broadcasts and
have attempted to diagnose key elements of his totalizing (totalitarian,
in fact) World War II persona. Tim Redman and Lawrence Rainey have
focused on Italian fascism and Pounds hero worship...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 115–127.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to hear in forms it doesn’t want to see; second is
the modernism of complicity, where lately we’ve found those same heroic
modernists in fact cooperating with modernity’s unsavory features from
racism to totalitarianism. Two recent works from Cambridge University
Press—John Xiros Cooper’s...
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