Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915960
Steven Nathaniel
Abstract:Zora Neale Hurston's academic scholarship began in physical anthropology, measuring Black bodies and relating their statistical data to racial type. While Hurston's critics have understood her subsequent work in fiction and folklore as fleeing this troubling research, this essay reconsiders her work in anthropometry as well as the narratives of embodiment that she curated in Mules and Men. Employing what Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks theorizes as "a slow composition" (111) of "self as a body," this rereading presents Hurston as an acute critic of eugenic interpretive methods whose writings anticipate the racism built into contemporary facial recognition algorithms.
摘要：佐拉-尼尔-赫斯顿的学术研究始于体质人类学，她测量黑人的身体，并将其统计数据与种族类型联系起来。虽然赫斯顿的批评家们认为她后来的小说和民间传说作品是在逃避这一令人不安的研究，但本文重新审视了她在人体测量学方面的工作，以及她在《骡子和男人》一书中策划的体现叙事。弗朗茨-法农（Frantz Fanon）在《黑皮肤，白面具》（Black Skin, White Masks）一书中将 "自我作为身体 "理论称为 "一种缓慢的构成"（111），本文通过对这一理论的重读，展示了赫斯顿对优生学解释方法的尖锐批评，她的著作预示了当代面部识别算法中的种族主义。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915966
Jacob Emery
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915965
Nick Davis
{"title":"Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (review)","authors":"Nick Davis","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139194543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915962
Aaren Pastor
Abstract:This essay rereads Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden as a dildonic text using Paul Preciado's theorization of dildonics and prosthetic gender. Catherine Bourne's (un)becoming(s) in the published and manuscript versions of the novel are a depiction of a body authoring itself, supplemented by numerous dildos or dildonic operations: fingers, hair, clothes, and visits to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Rereading Hemingway in the aftermath of the nonidentitary grammar of Preciado's dildonics creates another field of play for the Hemingway industry and the Hemingway reader: Hemingway as theorist of prosthetic gender.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915964
Stephanie Andrea Allen
{"title":"Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)","authors":"Stephanie Andrea Allen","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915964","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139190240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915958
Melanie Waters
Abstract:When Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was first published in 1962, it was instantly lauded as a timely novel. In this essay, I investigate what is timely about The Golden Notebook through an analysis of the novel's complex temporality. Taking the book's phenomenal critical legacy as a signal indication that its timeliness is yet to be exhausted, I explore how Lessing's provocative figurations of time illuminate the ideological and representational structures that confine Lessing and her characters. In doing so, I also gesture, speculatively, toward how these structures might be subverted in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a915967
Katherine Funes
{"title":"Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)","authors":"Katherine Funes","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139191515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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