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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 71–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of socialism and capitalism has enabled the two writers to intervene in unique ways in contemporary debates about history and memory. In its choice of themes, protagonists, and locations, their writing strongly advocates for a new transnational literature, while also asking for the development of new critical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jeffrey Lawrence This essay argues that Katherine Anne Porter’s Mexico writings of the 1920s and 1930s played a prominent role in the turn toward a transnational “literature of experience” in the interwar US literary field. Reading the stories “Flowering Judas,” “That Tree,” and “Hacienda...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 97–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... tradition that is discouraged and invisible in a patriarchal world where “nationalism constructs women as subordinate to men” ( Strehle 2008 : 6). Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Nadja Tesich Natasha Radojčić transnational literature US post-Yugoslav novel women migrants women’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 355–364.
Published: 01 June 2012
... and Salman Rushdie
as exemplars of transnational literature. While she does not directly cite
Stanley Fish’s notion of an interpretive reader,2 she posits a reconfigured
version of this notion in order to examine the transnational experience
as a primarily fictional and imaginative enterprise. What...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
... according to her is partially modeled after traditional Anglo-American writing, the “Literature of New Arrival” employs new transnational aesthetics by fusing languages and by presenting proliferating plots and neglected histories of the authors’ homelands. Similarly to Mukherjee, who only gestures...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Shamlu made available to his Iranian contemporaries a broad panorama of world literature that brought together Global Southern literatures, modernist poetics, and transnational political commitments. In tracing the literary and political forms shaped by Shamlu’s poetics of global solidarity, this article...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 34–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
...; the transnational is a precondition for the national,
one could say. Literary scholar Stefan Helgesson sees transnationalism in
Southern Africa, but we could also add in many places, including Aus-
tralia, as “a condition, a predicament of literature . . . not a programme or
an ideology. It is a predicament...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 March 2017
... argues that the forms of the radical American poets informed Zábrana’s “lyric subterfuge” (88) of Czechoslovak communist ideology. The opening chapter argues that transnational poetry of the Cold War demands a critical approach that, first, respects “the autonomy of poetry and literature...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Joseph Benatov The article argues that the transnational turn in American studies was born out of the demise of socialist Eastern Europe. To this day, the region has remained the unacknowledged generative transnational space that enabled the international reorientation of American studies...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 264–271.
Published: 01 June 2015
... introduces several writers into the broader category of transnational modernism. For instance, until now Sara Jeannette Duncan and Una Marson have primarily been discussed in the context of either Canadian or Jamaican literature, subordinating each writer’s cosmopolitanism to her national origins...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the need for rigorous analyses that can link diverse
but historically related contexts and archives to one another, challeng-
ing the organizing rubrics and ideas (about history, literature, national
identity, transnational connections, the role of artistic production, etc.)
that often define what...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
... immigrant artists. Stănescu’s work represents a diverse range of immigrant characters, not all of whom are Romanian or even Eastern European. Her plays thus move beyond the autobiographical bildungsroman, which has dominated much US ethnic literature, and into the realm of transnational and multiethnic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
...) , a book that manages very helpfully and deftly to merge postcolonial theory with theories of global and transnational literature. Addressing debates about world literature and reading modernism in a variety of global contexts, from Bandung to Afro-Caribbean modernism, the book encourages “a more uneasy...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in his second novel Absurdistan (2006). Like his first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002), Absurdistan repositions Russian Jewish immigrant literature within a transnational framework that is reminiscent of the work by Dominican American writer Junot Diaz. 3 Set in St. Petersburg...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 220–227.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Cosmopolitanism with an acknowledgment of the paradox embedded in his title: how can we speak of a particular, national variety of cosmopolitanism when cosmopolitanism makes claims for the affiliation of human beings as an inclusive, transnational community? What makes it possible for Pearson to speak or write...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 353–363.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Nels Pearson npearson@fairfield.edu Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled , by Allen Nicholas . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . 305 pages. Copyright © 2022 Hofstra University 2022 Studies of Irish literary traditions have focused primarily on land...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 43–70.
Published: 01 March 2019
... as with the role of fiction and its modes of circulation. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Eastern Europe immigrant literature postsocialism postsocialist memory Soviet Union transnational US literature It is becoming increasingly clear that new “critical contexts” ( Goldsworthy 2014...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 481–512.
Published: 01 December 2014
... on
the basis of a national tradition, black South African writers were eager
to enter into an already emergent transnational literary space created
by black writers from America, Europe, the Caribbean, and the rest of
Africa—the space of black Atlantic literature. Yet forging anything like a
unified...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 92–95.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Michael Soto The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the, Rise of Black Internationalism , by Edwards Brent Hayes , Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2003 . 397 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 HI
Reviews
The Négritude Renaissance
The Practice...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): v–viii.
Published: 01 June 2004
... book called Transnational Modernism: Contact and Travel Zones in the
New Modernist Studies.
Professor Friedman writes:
Judging the Kappel Prize for Twentieth-Century Literature is a
great honor that brought home to me forcefully the vital role
that journals play on the landscape...
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