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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Mary McGlynn Focusing on one of the most frequent and explicit targets of Thatcher’s economic policies, working-class men in traditional heavy industries, I explore representations of the dissolution of both unions and private space under Thatcher. Looking at fiction, films, and screenplays...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the unionization drive and feminist protest occupation of Grove in 1970. 16 Miller demonstrates a similar antipathy toward the Alger myth. In Tropic of Capricon , the vice president of the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company encourages Miller’s literary double to write an Alger narrative about the messengers...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 119–144.
Published: 01 June 2016
... environmentalism, this article thus suggests, searches out the possibilities and limitations of a posthuman postcolonialism. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 human capital posthuman Bhopal postcolonial literature human element rebranding Dow Chemical Union Carbide Early in Indra Sinha’s...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 145–166.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... 2006 : 1458). While the breakup of the Soviet Union resulted in the emigration of many Russian speakers to the United States, this movement has slowed in the past decade, just as the number of people returning to Russia has also declined. Keith Gessen (2014) writes, “As for all the émigrés who...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 377–384.
Published: 01 June 2013
... that
not only “explained” the Soviet Union to Americans but also became
“everything that an American propaganda agency, or the propaganda arm
of the CIA, might have hoped for in its wildest dreams” (4). In his book,
Kosinski claims that in the Soviet Union objective reality is supervised
so thoroughly...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2019
.../Jessie_Labov.pdf . Lazarus Neil . 2012 . “ Spectres Haunting: Postcommunism and Postcolonialism .” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 , no. 2 : 113 – 16 . Liebert Saltanat . 2009 . Irregular Migration from the Former Soviet Union to the United States . New York : Routledge...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 217–236.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., devoted equal and often greater space to a domestic problem more in Americans’ control . . . , the resurgence of militant unionism as a reaction against corporate war-preparations speed-ups.” Military-industrial speculation led to mounting pressure on factories and to what Filreis describes as “a truly...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 371–378.
Published: 01 September 2018
... debates about totalitarianism have tended to focus on Europe during World War II or to compare the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in a manner that precludes discussion of the racial injustice stemming from democracy’s entanglement with colonialism and the slave trade. Race and the Totalitarian Century...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 674–680.
Published: 01 December 2013
... origins? Did she
carry her provenance as part of her self-styling? Lispector did not go back
to her birthplace; her reflections during her stay in Warsaw, where she
went following her husband as she refused the Soviet Union’s invitation
to visit, are telling. She thinks that the place of her birth...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 June 2005
... view the poem
celebrates “a tacit, rickety communion” that “might seem a kind of peace”
during wartime (39).
In his next chapter, Rotella discusses Robert Lowell’s negotiation
of the personal and the public in a masterly analysis of “For the Union
Dead,” emphasizing...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 120–127.
Published: 01 March 2018
...” of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, and Umberto Eco. The third threshold of postmodernism, the “interregnum” (65), occurs in 1989–90 with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the incipient dissolution of the Soviet Union. Whether this phase marks a “late” form of postmodernism ( Green 2005...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2019
... six months, national variations of political disintegration enveloped Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Romania. Two years later, in December 1991, the Soviet Union itself dissolved. By historical coincidence, November 9, 2014, was also the last day of the annual meeting...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
...
Mitchum Huehls
The Voyage of the Narwhal “explores the interdependence of women very
differently situated in the global division of labor and imagines a perhaps
overly harmonious empathetic union bringing them to the commons
together” (103).
In place of empathetic union, Kathy Acker’s Pussy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 71–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... epistemology in the entire socialist Eastern Bloc, irrespective of differences among individual countries—between, for example, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. This structure of feeling inhabits much of Novakovich’s work and provides a strong template for his plots, protagonists, and ironic worldview...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 516–538.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in the Volvo-driving professional-managerial class from
Minnesota to DC, while Adam Haslett’s Union Atlantic (2009) plunges into
the world of the old and new elites controlling the financial markets in
Boston and New York. As their titles indicate, each of these novels claims
a broad national ideal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2023
... closer to egotistical self-aggrandizement than do the more well-known “Hymn” (1956) and “Singling and Doubling Together” (1973), the latter of which meditates expansively on the union with an unnamed “you” immanent “in leafspeech” ( CP 2:86) only to finally, humbly acknowledge the “you”’s transcendent...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 June 2003
...” (Complete Poems
62—70). Her mother explained one of the inspirations for that poem:“One
day when skating in Central Park, and coming to a statue o f.. . Daniel
Webster, [Marianne] noted the words inscribed ‘Liberty and Union,
now and forever,’ and thought his notion was as appropriate to the fam...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2001
... revolutionary capital, the rival and enemy of the head, with
its hated intellect, the aristocratic prerogative of the human being, that is
such an offense to communism” (Paleface 178). Communism, in particu
lar the Soviet Union, was another force, and perhaps the most frighten
ing of all...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (2): 279–285.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Quartets,
asceticism for Eliot, as it was for Buddha, is not an isolating end in itself
but a means toward union with God and an escape from the Void. “Who
then devised the torment? Love. / Love is the unfamiliar Name,” the poet
says in “Little Gidding.” Purgation is the route to beatitude...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 347–370.
Published: 01 September 2018
... semantics” of the term “British” as a cultural or ethnographic marker ( Pocock 2005 , 37)—specifically its denotation of a modern, economically expedient union between England and Scotland, commingled with nebulous connotations of ancient Anglian society and a presumably common racial vocation to “rule...
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