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Maryse Condé’S Heremakhonon As A Noir Novel, Irina Dzero
Maryse Condé’S Heremakhonon As A Noir Novel, Irina Dzero
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
A noir genre analysis of Heremakhonon explains the confusion, sensuality, red herrings, and flashbacks that permeate the novel, as well as the primacy of an investigation to the plot. Upon arriving in a newly independent West African country, protagonist Veronica witnesses the arrest of a political activist who opposed the ruling elite. When she investigates his disappearance, Veronica realizes that she is complicit with the elite perpetrators.
In And Out Of Place: Geographies Of Revolt In Camus's La Peste, Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
In And Out Of Place: Geographies Of Revolt In Camus's La Peste, Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
From Roland Barthes to Shoshana Felman, some of the most insightful readings of Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague) have focused on its historical dimension. In contrast, this article attends to less studied spatial representations, bringing recent insights from human geography to bear on depictions of Oran and exile in the novel. From its start, The Plague insistently connects plot, spatial setting, and notions of normativity and transgression. Understandings of place—and in particular, who or what is out of place—catalyze contestation and shape Camus’s universalized ethics of revolt, one that views evil and suffering as always out of …
The Lesbian And The Room: Proust’S Invention Of Difference, Christina L. Stevenson
The Lesbian And The Room: Proust’S Invention Of Difference, Christina L. Stevenson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
More than a conflict between external activity and internal sanctuary, the room in Proust's writing is a figure that weaves a complex fabric of narrative perception. If, in his youth, Proust's narrator believed the room to be a refuge for containing an eroticized feminine Other, the wiser narrative voice reveals the room as offering the disruption rather than the fulfillment of desire. The perspective of childhood is interwoven with the retrospective voice of the adult narrator who dispels the naïve fantasies of the desiring youth. This paper illustrates that confronting the failure of desire becomes imperative for the Proustian narrator …
Eric Touya De Marenne. Francophone Women Writers: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Cross-Cultures. Lanham, Md: Lexington, 2013. 195 Pp., Nancy E. Wardle
Eric Touya De Marenne. Francophone Women Writers: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Cross-Cultures. Lanham, Md: Lexington, 2013. 195 Pp., Nancy E. Wardle
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Eric Touya De Marenne. Francophone Women Writers: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Cross-Cultures. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2013. 195 pp.
Robert Zaretsky. A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus And The Quest For Meaning. Cambridge, Mass., And London: The Belknap P Of Harvard Up, 2013. 240 Pp., Melissa M. Ptacek
Robert Zaretsky. A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus And The Quest For Meaning. Cambridge, Mass., And London: The Belknap P Of Harvard Up, 2013. 240 Pp., Melissa M. Ptacek
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Robert Zaretsky. A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. Cambridge, Mass., and London: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 2013. 240 pp.
Speed And Convulsive Beauty: Trains And The Historic Avant-Garde, Marylaura Papalas
Speed And Convulsive Beauty: Trains And The Historic Avant-Garde, Marylaura Papalas
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The train, an invention and evocative symbol of the 19th century, somewhat ironically continued to fascinate avant-garde artists and writers of the 20th century, when faster and more exciting modes of transportation were in use. Locomotive imagery in Italian futurism and French surrealism, however, demonstrates a lasting fascination with speed, locomotive space, and their effect on perceptions of reality. Considering the work of more recent theorists like Paul Virilio, Michel Foucault, and various others who have contributed to the growing field of mobility studies, this paper aims to understand the persisting presence of the train as a symbol …
Touria Khannous. African Pasts, Presents, And Futures. Generational Shifts In African Women’S Literature, Film, And Internet Discourse. Lanham: Lexington, 2013. Xxv + 203 Pp., Marzia Caporale
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Touria Khannous. African Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Generational Shifts in African Women’s Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse. Lanham: Lexington, 2013. xxv + 203 pp.
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Putting Environmental Injustice On The Map: Ecotestimonies From The Global South, Erin S. Finzer
Putting Environmental Injustice On The Map: Ecotestimonies From The Global South, Erin S. Finzer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This introductory essay to STTCL 39.2 discusses the importance of testimony as a flexible literary genre that can tell the stories of environmental injustice in the Global South, which is disproportionately affected by environmental violence and less represented in the growing global environmental movement.
Edward J. Hughes. Proust, Class, & Nation. Oxford, New York: Oxford Up, 2011. Xiii + 287 Pp., Adeline Soldin
Edward J. Hughes. Proust, Class, & Nation. Oxford, New York: Oxford Up, 2011. Xiii + 287 Pp., Adeline Soldin
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Edward J. Hughes. Proust, Class, & Nation. Oxford, New York: Oxford UP, 2011. xiii + 287 pp.
Anticipatory Testimonies: Environmental Disaster In Claudine Jacques's Fictional Prophecies, Julia L. Frengs
Anticipatory Testimonies: Environmental Disaster In Claudine Jacques's Fictional Prophecies, Julia L. Frengs
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In Caledonian author Claudine Jacques's 2002 novel L'Âge du perroquet-banane, Parabole païenne, a tribal elder warns a man "from elsewhere": "in our country, if you remove a taboo bone, you disrupt the sea, if you touch it without respect you invite a cyclone, if you toss the bones of our elders you provoke a...tidal wave" (54). Although this work is set in a futuristic world after an ambiguous "Great Disaster" on an unnamed Oceanic island, the author manages to allegorically recount the history of the environmental atrocities attributed to the earth's human occupants that have transformed the present reality …
Rubén Gallo. Proust’S Latin Americans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Up, 2014. 280 Pp., Eric Touya De Marenne
Rubén Gallo. Proust’S Latin Americans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Up, 2014. 280 Pp., Eric Touya De Marenne
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Rubén Gallo. Proust’s Latin Americans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014. 280 pp.
Leon Sachs. The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy In Twenty-First Century French Literature And Film. Lincoln/London: U Of Nebraska P, 2014. Xi + 227 Pp., Zachary R. Hagins
Leon Sachs. The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy In Twenty-First Century French Literature And Film. Lincoln/London: U Of Nebraska P, 2014. Xi + 227 Pp., Zachary R. Hagins
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Leon Sachs. The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First Century French Literature and Film. Lincoln/London: U of Nebraska P, 2014. xi + 227 pp.
9/11, Hyperreality, And The Global Body Politic: Frédéric Beigbeder’S Windows On The World, Jenn Brandt
9/11, Hyperreality, And The Global Body Politic: Frédéric Beigbeder’S Windows On The World, Jenn Brandt
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay argues that the success of Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World is due to Beigbeder's use of the seemingly contradictory genres of autofiction and hyperrealism in the depiction of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. By positioning himself in the text alongside his fictionalized American counterpoint, Beigbeder configures 9/11 as a lived-body experience that models the ways in which the post-9/11 subject was formed within specific political, cultural, and national conditions. The effect of the novel’s hyperrealism is such that Beigbeder simultaneously posits and deconstructs the notion of national identity within the greater contexts of postmodernism and …
Anna Rocca And Kenneth Reeds, Eds. Women Taking Risks In Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. 232 Pp., Kate Averis
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Anna Rocca and Kenneth Reeds, eds. Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. 232 pp.