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":"64 1","pages":"257 - 283"},"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":"1 1","pages":""},"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":"64 1","pages":"144 - 162"},"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":"64 1","pages":"184 - 206"},"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 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":"64 1","pages":"115 - 143"},"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: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":"64 1","pages":"163 - 183"},"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: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":"64 1","pages":"25 - 45"},"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}
abstract:I argue that Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth shares with the work of cultural critics Saidiya Hartman and Christina Sharpe an awareness of how the terms of slavery continue to shape our contemporary political reality and our individual identities. Ware challenges readers to recognize signs of slavery’s afterlife in a comics narrative about four generations of white men. This essay charts the complex pathways by which slavery and its violence continue to circulate in the novel’s contemporary landscape, indelibly marking both its white and its Black characters.
{"title":"Reading Post-slavery Subjectivities in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth","authors":"T. Feroli","doi":"10.7560/tsll64104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64104","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:I argue that Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth shares with the work of cultural critics Saidiya Hartman and Christina Sharpe an awareness of how the terms of slavery continue to shape our contemporary political reality and our individual identities. Ware challenges readers to recognize signs of slavery’s afterlife in a comics narrative about four generations of white men. This essay charts the complex pathways by which slavery and its violence continue to circulate in the novel’s contemporary landscape, indelibly marking both its white and its Black characters.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"63 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43138755","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:Though the Romantics celebrated the idea of the author as an individual genius, the great success of Bertram in the London theatrical world of the 1810s was due to a collaborative effort. This study examines the collaborators’ roles in this success: writers Scott and Byron, who saw the potential in Bertram; actor Kean, who realized the role of Bertram; and publisher Murray, who saw the potential for the play’s success in print. All of them together made the success of Bertram possible.
{"title":"The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray","authors":"Jaekwon Park","doi":"10.7560/tsll64101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64101","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Though the Romantics celebrated the idea of the author as an individual genius, the great success of Bertram in the London theatrical world of the 1810s was due to a collaborative effort. This study examines the collaborators’ roles in this success: writers Scott and Byron, who saw the potential in Bertram; actor Kean, who realized the role of Bertram; and publisher Murray, who saw the potential for the play’s success in print. All of them together made the success of Bertram possible.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48353840","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 introduce and conceptualize the term “reading closet” to describe one’s voluntarily exiling oneself from the corporeal world and hiding in a mental space that reading affords. The reading closet connotes a safe, psychological space in which one can silently explore both the contents of texts and those of one’s own desires that are triggered by one’s reading acts. This essay is an attempt to articulate, through its original term, the ways in which we look for an opportunity to be alone with any book available at the moment—for the silent moment of reading that no one could interrupt or penetrate.
{"title":"The Reading Closet","authors":"Sunggyung Jo","doi":"10.7560/tsll64103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64103","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this essay, I introduce and conceptualize the term “reading closet” to describe one’s voluntarily exiling oneself from the corporeal world and hiding in a mental space that reading affords. The reading closet connotes a safe, psychological space in which one can silently explore both the contents of texts and those of one’s own desires that are triggered by one’s reading acts. This essay is an attempt to articulate, through its original term, the ways in which we look for an opportunity to be alone with any book available at the moment—for the silent moment of reading that no one could interrupt or penetrate.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"46 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45353089","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}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：