Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a905754
Robin Murray
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a905750
Scott Thomas Gibson
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a905752
Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe
of institutions, the withering of permanent faculty positions, and the crushing debt brought upon students” (173). In this respect, Hines stays true to the understanding of race as a set of material institutional practices, an understanding developed by the authors and educators in Outside Literary Studies. The Black left critiques of the university that Hines identifies in different economic and administrative moments nonetheless resonate with crises in adjunctification, student debt, and administrative bloat, which Hines argues must necessarily be understood as both a function of political economy and “assumptions about the appropriate subjects and objects of knowledge” (175). If anything, recent attacks on tenure and the shuttering of humanities and social science departments across the US suggest that Hines’s call for organizing, not just arguing methodology, is even more critical now than the book’s epilogue lays out. Hines’s contributions to theorizing the politics of New Criticism and the literary expressions of racial liberalism should prove useful to scholars of midcentury literature in general, while his theory of tactical criticism and exploration of African American poetic modernism’s politics offer meaningful contributions to African American literary studies and poetics. The book is an active intervention in expanding the meaning of how—and where—literary study might be practiced. Outside Literary Studies should certainly make its way into academic debates in disciplinary history, literary theory, and African American literature, but I share Hines’s hope that it might have a life outside the university as well.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a905753
Leah A Milne
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a905747
Ben Clarke
Abstract:This essay demonstrates the continued critical value of Marx and Engels's idea of the lumpenproletariat for contemporary analyses of growing populations excluded from the recognized economy. Focusing on Irvine Welsh's work, I argue that the lumpenproletariat exposes the ideological continuities between marginalized groups and dominant classes. This relation is central to Welsh's fiction, which challenges the simple identification of the outsider and the radical. Welsh's insistence on the agency of the dispossessed extends existing models of the lumpenproletariat, enabling new, more inclusive forms of radical theory and practice.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899926
Andrew Bishop
Abstract:Through an analysis of three wooden things found in As I Lay Dying—Darl’s cedar bucket, Cash’s casket, and a river-log—this essay explores how Faulkner refuses to represent wooden objects as simply objects of human use or exchange. Rather, Faulkner invests objects with what new materialists have called “thing-power.” This thing-power complicates faith in human powers of quantification and control—faith that is exhibited by Cash and that was exhibited by Progressive-Era proponents of scientific forestry. Ultimately, the investigation suggests that Faulkner’s environmentalism is more akin to recent new materialisms than to conventional nature appreciation.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899929
Eric Aronoff
Abstract:This essay argues that Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles participates in the interdisciplinary debates over culture and form that emerge in the 1920s through the 1940s, as anthropologists and artists deploy new conceptions of culture as relative, plural systems of meaning—debates played out through ethnographies of Southwest Native American peoples, in desert landscapes such as Bradbury’s Mars. With Martians in the role occupied by Native Americans in anthropological discourse, Bradbury’s text engages the complex interplay between pluralist difference and universalist assimilation/antiessentialism central to early Cold War conceptions of (Native) American culture.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899925
John G. Peters
Abstract:Much has been written on Joseph Conrad’s use of his character Marlow to narrate Heart of Darkness. These commentaries have made valuable contributions to the study of the novella, but this essay investigates what happens when Marlow does not narrate—when he is instead silent. In Marlow’s silences, in the gaps between what is said and what is unsaid, meaning can be found. In short, in the absence of narration important moments of narration can occur, the reader discovers truths that cannot be found within the narrator’s narrative itself.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899934
Andrew Koenig
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