Journal of Modern Literature articles from June 2007

Journal of Modern Literature archives from June 2007

The spatial imagination and literary form of Conrad's colonial fictions.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... By the late nineteenth century, achievements in cartography and unprecedented advances in transportation and telecommunications had effected a sense of the world as a smaller, more tightly-networked place. Conrad's fiction, this article...

Nazim Hikmet's modernism of development.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... The work of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet revealed the bifurcated world inside the famous national modernization project of Mustafa Kemal. Hikmet's poetic vision in Human Landscapes from My Country was offered in response to the...

"Extraordinarily convenient neighbors": African-American characters in white-authored post-atomic novels.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... This essay explores the role of African-American and ethnic characters in three once-influential post-atomic novels. In each, the white response (both physical and emotional) to the bomb's deleterious effects contrasts with the seeming...

The black flaneuse: Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca".(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... This essay suggests that the speaker of Gwendolyn Brooks's long poem, "In the Mecca," anticipates a specifically urban feminist poetics by narrating the poem from the perspective of a flaneuse. The speaker exhibits many signs of flanerie...

Projections of America: negotiating boundaries of state and self.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Eperjesi, John R. The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University of New England Press, 2005. x, 189 pp. $60.00 cloth; $24.96 paper. Browder, Laura. Slippery Characters:...

Finding Faulkner: Man and Legend.(William Faulkner)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Bauer, Margaret Donovan. William Faulkner's Legacy: "What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark." Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xi, 272 pp. $59.95 cloth. Labatt, Blair. Faulkner the Storyteller. Tuscaloosa: University of...

Slavery and Racism in Joseph Conrad's Eastern world.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Slavery plays an important role in Conrad's Malay fictions, but remains largely invisible to Western eyes because slavery in the Malay Archipelago was not based on racial difference. Usually understood as examples of exotic romance or...

Disorienting modernism: national boundaries and the cosmopolis.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage is often neglected in current studies that emphasize the role of colonialism and empire in experimental modernist novels. Following the work of Simon Gikandi, Bruce Robbins, and Melba Cuddy-Keane, this article...

The sun also rises in queer black Harlem: Hemingway and Mckay's modernist intertext.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... The critical locus of this essay is a consideration of how two interwar texts--Ernest Hemingway's American expatriate novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), and Claude McKay's Harlem Renaissance bestseller, Home to Harlem (1928)--form a...

Surviving the taint of plagiarism: Nella Larsen's "Sanctuary" and Sheila Kaye-Smith's "Mrs. Adis".(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... While at the top of her professional career, Nella Larsen became embroiled in an ugly plagiarism controversy, accused of appropriating the work of British writer, Sheila Kaye-Smith. The case involved Larsen's 1930 short story "Sanctuary" and...