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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Claudia Sadowski-Smith; Ioana Luca This article places an emergent body of cultural productions by US immigrants from former Eastern Bloc nations in dialogue with scholarship on US immigrant and transnational writing. We argue that the collective work by authors of (post-)Soviet and Central/Eastern...
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Staging the Postsocialist Woman: Saviana Stănescu’s Alternative Transnations
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 167–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
...)socialist knowledge. Copyright © 2019 Hofstra University 2019 Central and Eastern Europe immigrant theater postsocialism transnational theater women in the theater Through theatricality, the other is positioned and understood. —Jon D. Rossini, Theater in the Americas Saviana...
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Imagining Rooted Cosmopolitanism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 355–364.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Kalyan Nadiminti Nabokov, Rushdie and the Transnational Imagination: Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds , by Trousdale Rachel , New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 . 252 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review
Imagining Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Nabokov, Rushdie...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 97–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
...). The main protagonists of both novels are transnational mediators whose migrant identities are reshaped at the intersection of Yugoslavia and the United States, and they offer provocative perspectives on women’s interlinked lives in homeland and host communities. While Tesich fictionalizes a postsocialist...
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Classicism and Colonial Retrenchment in W. B. Yeats’s “No Second Troy”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 174–190.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of a colonial idealist home from the metro-
pole. His labors in Dublin as a playwright and theater manager, first with
the Irish Literary Theater, then with the National Theater at the Abbey,
brought him face to face with “those enemies of life, the chimeras of
the Pulpit and the Press” (Essays 119...
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Dadaism and Classicism in The Waste Land
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (3): 269–292.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that exceeds the prescriptions of the various ideologies the poem evokes and then discards. Besides its theatricality and transnational movement, The Waste Land also parallels Dada in upsetting traditional aesthetic standards. On his way to Switzerland in 1921, Eliot stopped in Paris to leave a copy...
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(Re)Embodying the Disembodied Voice of Lyric: The Radio Poems of Derek Walcott and Sylvia Plath
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Collection at Indiana University’s Lilly Library. 11 This production later traveled to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the 59E59 Theaters in New York City in October of 2010. 12 In another interview Shaw complains, “I don’t want to get into the whole Ted Hughes-versus-Sylvia Plath thing...
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Julian Mayfield and Alternative Civil Rights Literatures
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 115–140.
Published: 01 June 2017
... the Harlem Writers Guild and the black theater scene in the early 1950s, to a novelist and journalist based in Puerto Rico in the mid-1950s, to an increasingly radical intellectual who by 1960 had traveled to revolutionary Cuba and run guns for Robert F. Williams, the NAACP leader internationally famous...
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Early Civil Rights “Voice Work” in Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 238–266.
Published: 01 June 2012
... a representation of Bigger’s response to getting
off (which it is suggested he does in the theater without the accompani-
ment of this lyrical language). Something different is happening here. For
Bigger to figure Bessie as the sea on which he rides, or as a figure of care
or renewal does not challenge...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Mechanics of Poetic Pretence
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 June 2018
... with those things and with each other. This power makes the exchange between a poet and her reader a political one, a fact that Bishop underscores by translating the interpersonal relationship into a vision of transnational relations, where “the growth of the small nation into the empire contains infinities...
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Start Spreading the News: Irony, Public Opinion, and the Aesthetic Politics of U.S.A.
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 419–447.
Published: 01 December 2008
... qualifies as a
political ill, Lippmann’s proposed remedy was an independent, global
news organization staffed by expert readers, writers, and observers: a sort
of nonprofit, transnational, positivist news organization that would en
sure that unbiased information was impartially and globally...
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The Business of Forgetting: Postwar Living Memorials and the Post-Traumatic Suburb in Chang-rae Lee’s Aloft
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 196–231.
Published: 01 June 2013
... and histrionic.”2 Lee’s decision to follow his
earlier work, praised for its originality and transnational scope, with a pro-
totypical male midlife crisis novel is indeed perplexing, especially when
one considers that the novel takes place in the geographical and temporal
backyard of the September 11...
