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Volume 51 - 2005


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Editor: John N. Duvall
Associate Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
Pearl James History and Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise 1-33
Jesse Wolfe The Sane Woman in the Attic: Sexuality and Self-Authorship in Mrs. Dalloway 34-59
Stephanie L. Hawkins The Science of Superstition: Gertrude Stein, William James, and the Formation of Belief 60-87
Will Slocombe "This is not for you": Nihilism and the House that Jacques Built 88-109
Juliana Chang Melancholic Remains: Domestic and National Secrets in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone 110-133
A. M. Regier Revolutionary Enunciatory Spaces: Ghost Dancing, Transatlantic Travel, and Modernist Arson in Gardens in the Dunes 134-157
Ken Cooper Flight of Ideas: Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the New economy 158-182
Jeffory A. Clymer Review Essay: Naturalism's Histories 183-193
  Book Reviews 194-246

 

Issue 2

Guest Editor: Maren Linett
Special Issue: Modernism's Jews / Jewish Modernisms

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
Maren Linett Introduction: Modernism's Jews/Jewish Modernisms 249-257
Sara Blair Whose Modernism Is It? Abraham Cahan, Fictions of Yiddish, and the Contest of Modernity 258-284
L. Scott Lerner The Subversive Obedience of Proust and Freud 285-310
Lara Trubowitz In Search of "the Jew" in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: Jewishness, Antisemitism, Structure, and Style 311-334
Amy Feinstein Goy Interrupted: Mina Loy's Unfinished Novel and Mongrel Jewish Fiction 335-353
Katja Garloff Femininity and Assimilatory Desire in Joseph Roth 354-373
Meredith Goldsmith The Year of the Rose: Jewish Masculinity in The House of Mirth 374-392
Warren Hoffman The Rise (and fall) of David Levinsky: Performing Jewish American Heterosexuality 393-415
Lori Harrison-Kahan "Drunk with the fiery rhythms of jazz": Anzia Yezierska, Hybridity, and the Harlem Renaissance 416-436
Barbara Will Gertrude Stein and Zionism 437-455
Marilyn Reizbaum Yiddish Modernisms: Red Emma Goldman 456-481

 

Issue 3

Editor: John N. Duvall
Associate Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
Thomas Heise "Going Blood-Simple Like the Natives": Contagious Urban Spaces and Modern Power in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest 485-512
Wyatt Bonikowski The Return of the Soldier Brings Death Home 513-535
Pallavi Rastogi From South Asia to South Africa: Locating Other Post-colonial Diasporas 536-560
Monika Kaup The Unsustainable Hacienda: The Rhetoric of Progress in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh's Caballero 561-591
Hamilton Carroll Traumatic Patriarchy: Reading Gendered Nationalisms in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life 592-616
Christopher Z. Hobson Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth, and African American Prophecy 617-647
Matthew J. Packer "At the Dead Center of Things" in Don DeLillo's White Noise: Mimesis, Violence and Religious Awe 648-666
  Book Reviews 667-727
  Contributors 728

Issue 4

Guest Editors: Jonathan P. Eburne and Jeremy Braddock
Special Issue: Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
Jonathan P. Eburne and
Jeremy Braddock
Introduction: Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic 731-740
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of History: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle 741-774
Mark Whalan "The Only Real White Democracy" and the Language of Liberation: The Great Wary, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s 775-800
Jennifer Wilks Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire 801-823
Terri Francis Embodies Fiction, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity 824-845
Kevin Bell Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes 846-872
Jeffrey Atteberry Entering the Politics of the Outside: Richard Wright's Critique of Marxism and Existentialism 873-895
Richard Gibson Richard Wright's "Island of Hallucination" and the "Gibson Affair" 896-920
Michel Fabre René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism 921-935
Marc Caplan Nos Ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and the Paradoxes of Islamic Negritude 936-957
Pius Adesanmi Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction 958-975
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Afterword: Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia in the Making of the Modernism 976-978

 

 

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