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White-Collar Masochism: Grove Press and the Death of the Managerial Subject
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... publications, white-collar masochists styled themselves as revolutionary suicides or self-destructive saboteurs squandering the human capital of the organizations in which they worked. Nevertheless, this imaginative solution failed to overcome the press’s own class contradictions, which came to a head during...
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Hard Romping: Zora Neale Hurston, White Women, and the Right to Play
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Adrienne Brown Beginning with a comparison of Virginia Woolf ’s vision of passing a “fine negress” in “A Room of One’s Own” (1929) to Zora Neale Hurston’s refusal to allow white women to pass her without some roughhousing in her 1928 essay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” this essay grapples...
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“White-Life” Literature Reconsidered
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 397–404.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Mollie Godfrey Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel , by Charles John , Rutgers University Press , 2012 . 280 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Review
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Sublime Anamnesis: Hysteria and Temporality in Thomas’s The White Hotel
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 196–220.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Steve Vine Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Steve Vine
Sublime Anamnesis:
Hysteria and Temporality
in Thomas’s The White Hotel
Steve Vine
Hysterics suffer mainly from reminiscences.
—Sigmund Freud (Breuer and Freud 58)
In his...
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To “Flash White Light from Ebony”: The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer’s Cane
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Catherine Gunther Kodat To “Flash White Light from Ebony”:
The Problem of Modernism
in Jean Toomer’s Cane
Catherine Gunther Kodat
The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from
insufficiency to anticipation—and which...
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Disastrous Aesthetics: Irony, Ethics, and Gender in Barthelme’s Snow White
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Jeffrey T. Nealon Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI
Disastrous Aesthetics:
Irony, Ethics, and Gender
in Barthelme s Snow White
Jeffrey T. Nealon
The observer ought to be an amorist.
—Kierkegaard (47)
F ro m...
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Empire and the Rhetoric of Total War in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (3): 261–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Matthew Thompson In reading Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) this essay proposes a definition of total war that illuminates the close connection between the rhetoric of war and the rhetoric of imperialism. Building on the recent scholarly accounts of how “totality” is never truly possible...
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John Fante’s Ask the Dust and Fictions of Whiteness
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 530–544.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Matthew Elliott Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Matthew Elliott
John Fante’s Ask the Dust and Fictions of Whiteness
Matthew Elliott
“I could never become one of them,” Arturo Bandini declares at the
end of Robert Towne’s 2006 film version of John Fante’s 1939 novel Ask...
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Whiteness and the Affective Economy of Happy Antiracism in Native Son and Meridian
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 147–176.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Taylor Johnston-Levy This article explores how antiracism cultivates happiness among white subjects and how that emotion alienates people of color. It argues that a cohort of twentieth-century African American writers critiqued this happy antiracism in their fiction, examining Richard Wright’s...
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“Pigeons” and the Future of Moore Criticism
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 385–404.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Heather Cass White This essay presents the textual history of Moore’s “lost” poem “Pigeons” and argues for the poem’s importance in unifying two major strains of Moore criticism: that pertaining to her Protestant faith, and that pertaining to her careful reading of Darwin. The essay suggests...
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Introduction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 377–384.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Heather Cass White; Fiona Green Copyright © 2017 Hofstra University 2017 Marianne Moore at home, during a photo shoot for a feature in Life , 1953. Copyright Jean Bubley and Estate of Esther Bubley Marianne Moore at home, during a photo shoot for a feature in Life, 1953. Copyright Jean...
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The Book of Ephraim by James Merrill
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 157–162.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Heather Cass White There is some question in my mind about which readers, exactly, are likely to be helped by Yenser. I imagine a flummoxed undergraduate, for example, appealing to the notes on section A and reading “it might be heuristic to point out the quibble here on ‘deadline’ and ‘dead...
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Readerly Contingency in Bishop’s Journals and Early Prose
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 322–356.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Gillian White © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Gillian White
Readerly Contingency
in Bishop’s Journals and Early Prose
Gillian White
The poet may mean more than he knew.
—William Empson (Letters 215)
In 1938 Marianne Moore criticized...
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Difficult Ground: Poetic Renunciation in Marianne Moore’s “Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks”
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 341–370.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Luke Carson; Heather Cass White Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Marianne Moore’s “Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks”
Difficult Ground: Poetic Renunciation
in Marianne Moore’s “Walking-Sticks
and Paperweights and Watermarks”
Luke Carson and Heather Cass White...
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Elizabeth Bishop’s Calling
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Heather Cass White Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI
Elizabeth Bishop s Calling
Heather Cass White
Call evidently marks a distance. Unlike a whisper or a murmur,
or even plain speaking, it puts space between the calling one and
the called not merely to emphasize...
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Vital Disconnection in Howards End
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Leslie White Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Vital Disconnection
in Howards End
Leslie White
I n the final scenes of Howards End, Schlegels are ascendant and Wilcoxes
shamed and acquiescent. For many readers, however, the novel’s compet
ing impulses are resolved...
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Using the Rotted Names: Wallace Stevens’s Racial Ontology as Poetic Key
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 217–236.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Stevens, the language of which has been read as a device by which white protagonism defines itself in opposition to characteristics marked as “black,” as a “blackface” critique of white gentility, and as a melancholic attempt to locate the limits of the white imagination. Reviewing and critiquing...
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“A Dirty Word These Days”: Anglo-Saxonism, Race, and Kinship in Go Set a Watchman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 151–178.
Published: 01 June 2022
... maturity and political liberty constitute the core features of a mythologized Anglo-Saxon racial inheritance, one shared by her novel’s white characters, and over the course of the novel, as its protagonist Jean Louise Finch rejects psychologically stunted and politically naive colorblind liberalism, she...
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Racialized Flânerie, Commodity Fetish, and Empire’s Cosmopolitan Glamour in Lao She and Jean Rhys
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2025
... is entangled with the metropole’s consumption of exotic racial images, the essay observes the diasporic lives of Chinese antique shop owner Ma Zereng and the white creole tourist Sasha Jansen at the intersection of racialization and economic exchange. By bringing together a novel told from outside imperial...
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Charles W. Chesnutt’s Moral Alternative to War in The Marrow of Tradition
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2025) 71 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2025
... Race Riot, conservative white North Carolinians recast racial equality as Black tyranny and then invoked the Declaration of Independence to portray their ensuing extralegal overthrow of elected authority as the newest iteration in a decades-long revolutionary battle against unconstitutional racial...
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