Abstract:This essay examines the political and aesthetic aspects of labor in Chinese socialist literature and argues that beyond its purpose of economic development, the glorification of labor also aimed to build an egalitarian society that would put an end to the alienation of labor. However, the disastrous consequences of the Great Leap Forward have shown that the advocation of selfless labor needs boundaries. Labor has been depoliticized and commodified since the post-Mao reforms. Migrant workers' literature acts as a form of cultural resistance to the alienation of labor in postsocialist China under global capitalism.
{"title":"Writing Against Peripheralization: Glorifying Labor in Chinese Socialist Literature","authors":"Xian Wang","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the political and aesthetic aspects of labor in Chinese socialist literature and argues that beyond its purpose of economic development, the glorification of labor also aimed to build an egalitarian society that would put an end to the alienation of labor. However, the disastrous consequences of the Great Leap Forward have shown that the advocation of selfless labor needs boundaries. Labor has been depoliticized and commodified since the post-Mao reforms. Migrant workers' literature acts as a form of cultural resistance to the alienation of labor in postsocialist China under global capitalism.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79071921","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 introduction argues for rethinking the problem of historical transition under capitalism from the vantage point of peripheral literatures. The understanding of the relationships between such transition and literary form, and the periodizing schemas employed to make sense of them, has largely been limited to heartlands of accumulation in Western Europe and North America. Much less has been written about how literatures from the rest of the world have expressed transitions to and within this global, if internally variegated and uneven, system. This introduction asks how literature from the world's peripheries and semiperipheries have written the history of capitalism.
{"title":"Peripheral Literatures and the History of Capitalism: An Introduction","authors":"Ericka Beckman, O. Nir, Emilio Sauri","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The introduction argues for rethinking the problem of historical transition under capitalism from the vantage point of peripheral literatures. The understanding of the relationships between such transition and literary form, and the periodizing schemas employed to make sense of them, has largely been limited to heartlands of accumulation in Western Europe and North America. Much less has been written about how literatures from the rest of the world have expressed transitions to and within this global, if internally variegated and uneven, system. This introduction asks how literature from the world's peripheries and semiperipheries have written the history of capitalism.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81475941","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:Although the work of Mozambican authors has routinely been overlooked within the Anglophone academy, due in part to its use of a semiperipheral colonial language and a lack of availability in translation, the study of Mozambican texts from the period of the long 1980s can nevertheless offer valuable insight into both the literary coordinates of neoliberal world-culture as well as the more general strategies used by peripheral writers to mediate moments of economic transition. This essay seeks to remedy this disconnect through a series of comparative readings of texts by Mia Couto, Suleiman Cassamo, and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa.
摘要:尽管莫桑比克作家的作品经常被英语学院所忽视，部分原因是其使用的是半边缘殖民地语言，并且缺乏翻译，但对20世纪80年代莫桑比克文本的研究仍然可以为新自由主义世界文化的文学坐标以及边缘作家调解经济转型时刻的更一般策略提供有价值的见解。本文试图通过对Mia Couto, Suleiman Cassamo和Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa的一系列文本的比较阅读来弥补这种脱节。
{"title":"Mozambican Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Long 1980s","authors":"T. Waller","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although the work of Mozambican authors has routinely been overlooked within the Anglophone academy, due in part to its use of a semiperipheral colonial language and a lack of availability in translation, the study of Mozambican texts from the period of the long 1980s can nevertheless offer valuable insight into both the literary coordinates of neoliberal world-culture as well as the more general strategies used by peripheral writers to mediate moments of economic transition. This essay seeks to remedy this disconnect through a series of comparative readings of texts by Mia Couto, Suleiman Cassamo, and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88225427","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":"Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction by Robin E. Field (review)","authors":"Mary K. Holland","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2021.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2021.0046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90771113","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:Often associated with literary retrospectives on the Cold War, Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld is rarely viewed as an expression of the Anthropocene: the proposed geological period in which human activity has a significant impact on earth systems. Underworld integrates its complex narrative structure with an experimental spatial perspective that shifts from horizontal to vertical, thereby effectively destabilizing humanity’s position within history and revealing its entanglement with the planet. DeLillo adopts this perspectival approach from land art, specifically the work of Robert Smithson. The novel’s own visual artist, Klara Sax, embodies this aesthetics.
{"title":"“Science Fiction and Prehistory”: Don DeLillo’s Underworld and the Novel of the Anthropocene","authors":"P. Whitmarsh","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Often associated with literary retrospectives on the Cold War, Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld is rarely viewed as an expression of the Anthropocene: the proposed geological period in which human activity has a significant impact on earth systems. Underworld integrates its complex narrative structure with an experimental spatial perspective that shifts from horizontal to vertical, thereby effectively destabilizing humanity’s position within history and revealing its entanglement with the planet. DeLillo adopts this perspectival approach from land art, specifically the work of Robert Smithson. The novel’s own visual artist, Klara Sax, embodies this aesthetics.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90495119","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":"Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America by Jordan J. Dominy (review)","authors":"Greg Barnhisel","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2021.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2021.0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89675143","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:Drawing on advances in studies of airmindedness and aerial warfare by Peter Adey and Thomas Hippler, this essay traces Graham Greene’s preoccupation with flight and aerial perspective. In a writing career that stretched over half a century, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Greene addressed and articulated in fiction and journalism how flight altered and disrupted experiences and perceptions of time and space, both for those borne aloft and for those who remained grounded. In Greene’s works, the aeroplane emerges as a vehicle with the power to unsettle historiographical and geographical norms.
{"title":"Graham Greene Takes Flight","authors":"G. Woodward","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing on advances in studies of airmindedness and aerial warfare by Peter Adey and Thomas Hippler, this essay traces Graham Greene’s preoccupation with flight and aerial perspective. In a writing career that stretched over half a century, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Greene addressed and articulated in fiction and journalism how flight altered and disrupted experiences and perceptions of time and space, both for those borne aloft and for those who remained grounded. In Greene’s works, the aeroplane emerges as a vehicle with the power to unsettle historiographical and geographical norms.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85419491","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":"Allegories of the Anthropocene by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey (review)","authors":"John M. Elmore","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2021.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2021.0045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82437936","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:Albert Camus’s L’Etranger and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace are two of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century. In each text, a white male protagonist engages in a violent encounter with an individual identified as Other. In different ways, the protagonists are put on trial, yet neither expresses remorse. Why are these novels, with their provocative characters, so fascinating for twentieth and twenty-first-century readers? Meursault and Lurie initially arouse discomfort by appearing to divest others of their alterity, but they come to recognize and ultimately preserve the otherness of the characters with whom they are involved.
{"title":"The Provocative Strangeness of Camus’s L’Etranger and Coetzee’s Disgrace","authors":"Phyllis van Slyck","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Albert Camus’s L’Etranger and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace are two of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century. In each text, a white male protagonist engages in a violent encounter with an individual identified as Other. In different ways, the protagonists are put on trial, yet neither expresses remorse. Why are these novels, with their provocative characters, so fascinating for twentieth and twenty-first-century readers? Meursault and Lurie initially arouse discomfort by appearing to divest others of their alterity, but they come to recognize and ultimately preserve the otherness of the characters with whom they are involved.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86477726","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:North American comics have seen tremendous growth in artisan production, a process that has gone hand in hand with the elevation of comics creators to the status of auteurs. Combining computational analysis with cultural sociology, this essay aims to better understand the rise of the graphic novel as an emergent literary genre and offers an alternative to the close readings that dominate comics scholarship. Rather than privileging individual case studies, this essay examines the strategies that have allowed artists to elevate the cultural prestige of graphic narratives and emphasizes the form’s generic and stylistic diversity.
{"title":"How We Read Comics Now: Literary Studies, Computational Criticism, and the Rise of the Graphic Novel","authors":"Alexander Dunst","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2021.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2021.0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:North American comics have seen tremendous growth in artisan production, a process that has gone hand in hand with the elevation of comics creators to the status of auteurs. Combining computational analysis with cultural sociology, this essay aims to better understand the rise of the graphic novel as an emergent literary genre and offers an alternative to the close readings that dominate comics scholarship. Rather than privileging individual case studies, this essay examines the strategies that have allowed artists to elevate the cultural prestige of graphic narratives and emphasizes the form’s generic and stylistic diversity.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72404159","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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