{"title":"Embracing the Incomplete: Speculative Reading in The Curse of Caste, Minnie’s Sacrifice, and the Christian Recorder","authors":"B. Fielder","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0000","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines two novels serialized during the 1860s by embracing the incompleteness of their publication and recovery. This approach views incompleteness not only as a material difficulty for reading these novels but as a methodology for making sense of them. Prioritizing speculative readings that hold open possibilities rather than attempt to fill in the gaps allows us to better understand the complexities and breadth of these texts as well as the generic relations between them.","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0000","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay examines two novels serialized during the 1860s by embracing the incompleteness of their publication and recovery. This approach views incompleteness not only as a material difficulty for reading these novels but as a methodology for making sense of them. Prioritizing speculative readings that hold open possibilities rather than attempt to fill in the gaps allows us to better understand the complexities and breadth of these texts as well as the generic relations between them.
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As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.