ABSTRACT:This essay examines animal presence in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude,” demonstrating how the text’s aesthetics of animacy—the way different beings in the story undergo creaturely transformations and brim with an uncontainable vitality—cannot be read in isolation from the settler colonial environment of rural New Zealand. In establishing this connection, the essay argues that the dreamlike world of “Prelude” indicates the makings of an emergent settler territory.
{"title":"Between Land and Settler Subjectivity: The Modernist Animal’s Territory in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude”","authors":"Anushka Sen","doi":"10.7560/tsll64301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64301","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay examines animal presence in Katherine Mansfield’s “Prelude,” demonstrating how the text’s aesthetics of animacy—the way different beings in the story undergo creaturely transformations and brim with an uncontainable vitality—cannot be read in isolation from the settler colonial environment of rural New Zealand. In establishing this connection, the essay argues that the dreamlike world of “Prelude” indicates the makings of an emergent settler territory.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49513478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This essay analyzes Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name in light of theoretical debates on Paul the Apostle between Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben. Badiou argues that with his debate on the Jewish laws Paul tackled the exclusive Jewish identity by creating a radical universality. However, like Agamben, Jacobson emphasizes that Paul’s theology does not resolve the irreducible differences that reside in Jewish identity, along with the Jews’ own right to exist in their own distinctive ways.
{"title":"Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle","authors":"Jaecheol Kim","doi":"10.7560/tsll64304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay analyzes Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name in light of theoretical debates on Paul the Apostle between Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben. Badiou argues that with his debate on the Jewish laws Paul tackled the exclusive Jewish identity by creating a radical universality. However, like Agamben, Jacobson emphasizes that Paul’s theology does not resolve the irreducible differences that reside in Jewish identity, along with the Jews’ own right to exist in their own distinctive ways.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43639711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:In this essay, I claim that The Queen’s Gambit examines the sources of excellence in creative work and describes a practice for organizing a durable selfhood. Following the rise of an orphan (Beth Harmon) in the world of 1960s international chess, the novel suggests, I argue, allegorical correspondences between chess and other forms of artistic and intellectual endeavor. I further contend that in learning to play chess, Beth develops a capacity to live an ethical life in a hostile world.
{"title":"“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit","authors":"P. H. Schmidt","doi":"10.7560/tsll64305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this essay, I claim that The Queen’s Gambit examines the sources of excellence in creative work and describes a practice for organizing a durable selfhood. Following the rise of an orphan (Beth Harmon) in the world of 1960s international chess, the novel suggests, I argue, allegorical correspondences between chess and other forms of artistic and intellectual endeavor. I further contend that in learning to play chess, Beth develops a capacity to live an ethical life in a hostile world.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47241860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Paul Laurence Dunbar’s dialect poems are often read as the negative, stereotype-laden other of his naturalist prose. This article, however, argues that Dunbar’s poetry complements his prose and provides a more holistic picture of Dunbar’s anti-racist naturalism. Whereas Dunbar’s prose diversifies African American stories, his dialect poetry emphasizes the illegibility of Blackness. The poetry’s focus on the process of meaning-making deconstructs stereotypes as expansive sites of paradox.
{"title":"Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Naturalism/Dialect Poetry Divide","authors":"Patricia Chaudron","doi":"10.7560/tsll64303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Paul Laurence Dunbar’s dialect poems are often read as the negative, stereotype-laden other of his naturalist prose. This article, however, argues that Dunbar’s poetry complements his prose and provides a more holistic picture of Dunbar’s anti-racist naturalism. Whereas Dunbar’s prose diversifies African American stories, his dialect poetry emphasizes the illegibility of Blackness. The poetry’s focus on the process of meaning-making deconstructs stereotypes as expansive sites of paradox.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42895954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Daughter’s Paradox: Filial Piety and Rebellion in Three Chinese Mother-Daughter Narratives","authors":"Lan Wang","doi":"10.7560/tsll64302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47145961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This essay reads Herman Melville's Israel Potter by attending to the eponymous character's feeling of loneliness as an exile, which compels an examination of the relationship between individual and community. Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of "inoperative community," which emerges between the dead and the living, I argue that the community proposed in Israel Potter is informed by the belatedness that escapes containment by a political institution.
{"title":"Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter","authors":"Yoshiaki Furui","doi":"10.7560/tsll64202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64202","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay reads Herman Melville's Israel Potter by attending to the eponymous character's feeling of loneliness as an exile, which compels an examination of the relationship between individual and community. Building on Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of \"inoperative community,\" which emerges between the dead and the living, I argue that the community proposed in Israel Potter is informed by the belatedness that escapes containment by a political institution.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44943522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This essay contends that Ellen Wood's East Lynne reveals a surprising spatial relationship that a woman can have with a property outside the legal restrictions outlined by mid-nineteenth-century married women's property law. Isabel Vane, the main character, cultivates a sense of perversity in orienting herself in the object world as a response to the fundamental deprivation of the property in question, East Lynne. Isabel's misunderstanding of the ownership of her paraphernalia, sentimental overvaluation of East Lynne, and intentional propagation of disfigurement all constitute her perverse relation with the object world.
{"title":"Owning a Sense of Perversity in Ellen Wood's East Lynne","authors":"Sun Jai Kim","doi":"10.7560/tsll64204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64204","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay contends that Ellen Wood's East Lynne reveals a surprising spatial relationship that a woman can have with a property outside the legal restrictions outlined by mid-nineteenth-century married women's property law. Isabel Vane, the main character, cultivates a sense of perversity in orienting herself in the object world as a response to the fundamental deprivation of the property in question, East Lynne. Isabel's misunderstanding of the ownership of her paraphernalia, sentimental overvaluation of East Lynne, and intentional propagation of disfigurement all constitute her perverse relation with the object world.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49497233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This article examines how the everyday space of postwar London in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners is reimagined by Caribbean migrants, whose resilience generates comedy and the spirit of the carnival. I argue that Selvon uses his depictions of the city to show his Black Londoners at play as culturally assertive and sexually eccentric types who counter the adversity in the host society. While discussing how the novel's portrayal of the carnivalesque allows for the expression of immigrant agency, I stress the convivial nature of sex and comedy as a central model of their cultural negotiation.
{"title":"Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lonely Londoners","authors":"B. Jeon","doi":"10.7560/tsll64203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64203","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines how the everyday space of postwar London in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners is reimagined by Caribbean migrants, whose resilience generates comedy and the spirit of the carnival. I argue that Selvon uses his depictions of the city to show his Black Londoners at play as culturally assertive and sexually eccentric types who counter the adversity in the host society. While discussing how the novel's portrayal of the carnivalesque allows for the expression of immigrant agency, I stress the convivial nature of sex and comedy as a central model of their cultural negotiation.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47402728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This article explores the understudied formal, experiential, and historical relationships between crosswords and poetry. Using an illuminating coincidence of names (the poet James Merrill and crossword constructor Patrick Merrell) as indicative of a fundamental experience of language—arbitrariness within a communicative code—I reconsider how the creative impulses and pleasure derived from the cultural and intellectual work of crosswords and poetry touch upon a deeper social consciousness.
{"title":"\"The Moon Slides Down the Stair / To See Who's There\": The Poetics of the Crossword and the Cross Words of Poetics","authors":"David Ben-Merre","doi":"10.7560/tsll64201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64201","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article explores the understudied formal, experiential, and historical relationships between crosswords and poetry. Using an illuminating coincidence of names (the poet James Merrill and crossword constructor Patrick Merrell) as indicative of a fundamental experience of language—arbitrariness within a communicative code—I reconsider how the creative impulses and pleasure derived from the cultural and intellectual work of crosswords and poetry touch upon a deeper social consciousness.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48967237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The Trueblood passage in Invisible Man is one of Ellison’s most controversial pieces of writing. Who is Jim Trueblood—an incestuous rapist or a savvy trickster playing on white prejudice for his own advantage? Contextualizing Trueblood in the tradition of African American storytelling and Ellison’s essays on race in America, this article explores the relationship between Trueblood and his audience (both Black and white) to understand the power dynamics at play and how Ellison manipulates them.
{"title":"Jiujitsu of the Spirit: Trueblood, His Audience, and Lyrical Subversion in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man","authors":"Joel B. Peckham","doi":"10.7560/tsll64102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64102","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The Trueblood passage in Invisible Man is one of Ellison’s most controversial pieces of writing. Who is Jim Trueblood—an incestuous rapist or a savvy trickster playing on white prejudice for his own advantage? Contextualizing Trueblood in the tradition of African American storytelling and Ellison’s essays on race in America, this article explores the relationship between Trueblood and his audience (both Black and white) to understand the power dynamics at play and how Ellison manipulates them.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44797543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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