Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a899924
Erin G. Carlston
Abstract:This essay argues that the linguistic and historical connections Joyce draws between Ireland and Great Britain’s other conquests tend to position Ireland at the center of a network, primus inter pares in a coalition of the subaltern. Looking especially closely at Joycean references to the Antipodes in Finnegans Wake, this essay asks how the text’s assimilation of Māori and other Indigenous people/languages with the Irish people and language instates a complexly defined Irishness as the ur-condition of all colonized people.
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Abstract:This essay analyzes Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying to reconsider the vexed history of US militarism on the island of Hispaniola. Danticat's work demonstrates that literature has the potential to provocatively examine the lived experiences of multiple histories at once. Countering the rhetoric US administrations have long used to justify intervention, Danticat's literature reclaims the telling of history for those who have lived and felt its consequences. Narrating racialized state violence in hemispheric, transnational, and transtemporal domains, Danticat's work surfaces collective histories of resistance and demands for justice by Haitian and Haitian diasporic communities.
{"title":"Reclaiming History: A Century of Intervention in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying","authors":"Alaina Kaus","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay analyzes Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Brother, I'm Dying to reconsider the vexed history of US militarism on the island of Hispaniola. Danticat's work demonstrates that literature has the potential to provocatively examine the lived experiences of multiple histories at once. Countering the rhetoric US administrations have long used to justify intervention, Danticat's literature reclaims the telling of history for those who have lived and felt its consequences. Narrating racialized state violence in hemispheric, transnational, and transtemporal domains, Danticat's work surfaces collective histories of resistance and demands for justice by Haitian and Haitian diasporic communities.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74667891","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":"1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern by Al Filreis","authors":"Abigail Moreshead","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86266677","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 Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello together to interrogate the extraordinary degree of narrative authority usually attributed to the latter work. My analysis highlights the texts' shared denial of closure to implicated subject narrators in settler colonial contexts. I contend that in a world of always already implicated subjects and speakers, Coetzee situates the authority of writing in the body. Reading this authority through the lens of Black feminist theories of embodiment, I attend to how both texts represent the movement away from self-justification in the confessional mode to the grace of embodied mutual witnessing.
{"title":"A Strange Kind of Grace: From Narrative to Embodied Authority in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello","authors":"Iva Ančić","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay analyzes Age of Iron and Elizabeth Costello together to interrogate the extraordinary degree of narrative authority usually attributed to the latter work. My analysis highlights the texts' shared denial of closure to implicated subject narrators in settler colonial contexts. I contend that in a world of always already implicated subjects and speakers, Coetzee situates the authority of writing in the body. Reading this authority through the lens of Black feminist theories of embodiment, I attend to how both texts represent the movement away from self-justification in the confessional mode to the grace of embodied mutual witnessing.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85566986","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":"Counterlife: Slavery After Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg (review)","authors":"Jade M. Becker","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74190586","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":"Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts (review)","authors":"Kelli D. Zaytoun","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79297427","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":"Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner","authors":"Justin Gifford","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75301076","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 rereads Ha Jin's two novels, Waiting and A Free Life, in a transpacific context. I designate this transpacific context to include both the movement of US economic and military expansionism in the Asia Pacific and the possibility of deploying an alternative epistemology and ontology from that geopolitical region as both a response and negotiation. Within this context, I argue that Jin's novels do not simply challenge human rights abuse in China as presumed by critics but rather raise broader historical and cultural questions about different perceptions and understandings of these rights in what Gayatri Spivak theorizes as "responsibility-based" ("Righting Wrongs" 549) and "rights-based" (536) societies.
{"title":"Rereading Ha Jin's Novels in a Transpacific Context: Human Rights and Human Wrongs","authors":"Y. Shu","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay rereads Ha Jin's two novels, Waiting and A Free Life, in a transpacific context. I designate this transpacific context to include both the movement of US economic and military expansionism in the Asia Pacific and the possibility of deploying an alternative epistemology and ontology from that geopolitical region as both a response and negotiation. Within this context, I argue that Jin's novels do not simply challenge human rights abuse in China as presumed by critics but rather raise broader historical and cultural questions about different perceptions and understandings of these rights in what Gayatri Spivak theorizes as \"responsibility-based\" (\"Righting Wrongs\" 549) and \"rights-based\" (536) societies.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79805749","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}
so-called preparation materials because Thomas uses this general term to describe them, and because some of these works overlap with established genres, such as video games. Thoroughly exploring the nuances of genre would have further solidified Thomas’s intriguing argument that these works should be considered part of our contemporary literary history. Nevertheless, literary scholars writing on issues of national security will find Training for Catastrophe a valuable text, as it adds complexity to our understanding of representations of catastrophe in the twenty first century.
{"title":"Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel by Astrid Bracke (review)","authors":"Tod Hoffman","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"so-called preparation materials because Thomas uses this general term to describe them, and because some of these works overlap with established genres, such as video games. Thoroughly exploring the nuances of genre would have further solidified Thomas’s intriguing argument that these works should be considered part of our contemporary literary history. Nevertheless, literary scholars writing on issues of national security will find Training for Catastrophe a valuable text, as it adds complexity to our understanding of representations of catastrophe in the twenty first century.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81526001","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":"Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 by Lindsay Thomas","authors":"Emily M. Hall","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77153881","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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