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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
... representations of transnational exchanges, exploring to what extent women migrants achieve agency in the complex world of multicultural transactions. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Nadja Tesich Natasha Radojčić transnational literature US post-Yugoslav novel women migrants women’s agency...
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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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
... particularities of the fictionalized events and their significance for analyses of US migration and empire under developing transnational or global frameworks. Bharati Mukherjee’s (2011 : 683) catalogue of writers who participate in a new form of US immigrant writing that she calls the “Literature of New Arrival...
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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
Journal Article
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
... . Read Justin . 2009 . Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies . New York : Palgrave . The opening chapter argues that transnational poetry of the Cold War demands a critical approach that, first, respects “the autonomy of poetry and literature”; this approach must neither...
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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
... that subtend critical conversations within the new modernist studies: ethics of comparison, field definition, methodology. But there is one practical problem that remains to be addressed: namely, the accessibility of women’s literature more generally. Snaith calls for critical editions of Rhys’s work, but many...
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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...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of America’ or ‘People’s Republic of USA.’” Shteyngart’s oneworldedness is perhaps most clearly exhibited 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...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the chance to read all the books in the series, I can speak with equal enthusiasm of Peter Kalliney’s Modernism in a Global Context (2016) , a book that manages very helpfully and deftly to merge postcolonial theory with theories of global and transnational literature. Addressing debates about world...
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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
... extends from her family to infinity” (170). The ecological, political, aesthetic, and historical points made throughout Ireland, Literature, and the Coast sometimes get vaguely mingled in Allen’s frequent use of maritime metaphor—for example, “a study of literature and art adrift on the rushing tide...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 43–70.
Published: 01 March 2019
... postsocialist memory Soviet Union transnational US literature It is becoming increasingly clear that new “critical contexts” ( Goldsworthy 2014 : 3) and methodologies are needed to engage with work from the former Eastern Bloc ( Godzich 2014 ; Starosta 2013 , 2015 ). Recent fruitful debates about...
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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
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The Négritude Renaissance
The Practice...
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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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