Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 1754-1484 - ISSN (Online) 1754-1476 Published by Oxford University Press[419 journals]
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Authors:Al-Sharqi L. Pages: 382 - 401 Abstract: AbstractLailā Al-Johanī’s 2007 novel, Jāhiliyya (Days of Ignorance), is an innovative fictional work that employs the concept of “Jāhiliyya,” a period of ignorance that is thought to have characterized pre-Islamic Arabia. Jāhiliyya expresses Al-Johanī’s critique of the prevailing social and religious practices adapted by some tribal members of her society. These practices, including racial discrimination, negative stereotyping, and marginalization of women, as depicted in Al-Johanī’s text, are detrimental in their effect on the cultural fabric of society. This study uses intersectionality as an analytical framework through which to examine Al-Johanī’s Jāhiliyya. The essay demonstrates the novel’s integration of aspects of gender, race, and religion as interlocking systems of oppression and sites of transgression in the characters’ lives as they attempt to comprehend their subjectivity, while articulating and negotiating their society’s essentialist and reductionist discourse. PubDate: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab040 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Darling O. Pages: 307 - 325 Abstract: AbstractThis article concerns the interrelations of epistemic and physical gendered violence in two award-winning contemporary Irish novels, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (2013) and Milkman (2018) by Eimear McBride and Anna Burns, respectively. It argues that patriarchal naming power which defines women as sexual objects is inextricable from the physical violence featured in both texts. Using theories of violence and naming, it examines how, faced with a climate of constant and submerged sexual threat, “middle sister” (as the narrator is called) and “Girl” (the protagonist of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing) attempt to appropriate dominant patriarchal narratives to retain subjectivity in the face of violence. While “middle sister” comes to recognize and articulate the violence done to her, Girl’s internalization of violence leads to the annihilation of both self and body. PubDate: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab033 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2021)
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Authors:Finberg K. Pages: 326 - 344 Abstract: AbstractThis essay contends that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) invites an overdue conversation between recent scholarship in lyric theory and writing on racial surveillance, including material on bias in artificial intelligence and disciplinary policing strategies. I argue that Citizen manipulates received structures of the lyric as both a racial and a carceral apparatus and compares those structures to contemporary forms of racial surveillance. Through the revelation of similarity in lyric and surveillance structures, Citizen illustrates a method of reading that exploits lyric history and form to suggest a reorientation of surveillance and a way of coping with its effects. I argue that this new American lyric is invested in participating in public life. PubDate: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab037 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2021)
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Authors:Manizza Roszak S. Pages: 345 - 363 Abstract: AbstractGothic depictions of early childhood and its antecedents from conception to childbirth stand to fundamentally shape readers’ understanding of colonialism across the transnational and translinguistic space of the Caribbean. This effect is particularly visible in contemporary novels such as Maryse Condé’s La Migration des coeurs (1995) and Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), which not only have been interpreted as rewritings of Wuthering Heights but also draw on a larger, more multicultural Gothic literary tradition. In their renderings of sexual violence, doomed pregnancies, and motherless infancy, Condé and Kincaid appropriate and edit Gothic conventions, highlighting persisting ramifications of the colonial project for women and children. Gothic youth also functions as a subversive site of resistance with the potential to dismantle imperialist ideologies and systems. PubDate: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab035 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2021)
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Authors:Arnold L. Pages: 364 - 381 Abstract: AbstractThe popular imagination of the 1970s and 1980s was a fertile breeding ground for monstrous children who proliferated within a political climate where austerity was becoming a central concept in Thatcherite thinking. In this article, I argue that, despite their neoliberal positioning as possessing certain modes of capital, children become “monstrous” in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child through their association with precisely the kinds of excess which austerity politics condemns, constituting a corporeal and economic threat. I read these “little monsters” as articulations of the social anxieties about lack and scarcity upon which austerity is based and which it subsequently generates and, more broadly, as inscriptions of the ambivalent position of the child within Thatcherite policy and rhetoric. PubDate: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab038 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2021)
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Authors:Sañudo E. Pages: 402 - 419 Abstract: AbstractItalian American iconic images of cultural and gender identity are analyzed as a performative practice in Louisa Ermelino’s Spring Street Trilogy, which challenges traditional senses of identity by situating masculine and feminine archetypes within wider structures of power. In contrast to the trope of the “mean” streets traditionally associated with men’s urban performances, Ermelino’s three novels interrogate normative gender roles and ethnic affiliations. This representation is generated from the vantage point of the microcosm of a street, which is therefore worth analyzing as a recurring trope of the author’s work. PubDate: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab039 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2021)
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Authors:Whitlock G. Pages: 420 - 422 Abstract: Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing. By BrewsterAnne, and Kossew.Sue2019. Routledge. Print. £120. Hardback. PubDate: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab012 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2021)
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Authors:Riley H. Pages: 422 - 423 Abstract: Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton. By HamessleyLydia. 2020. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL. Print. $19.95. Hardback. PubDate: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab006 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2021)
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Authors:Yi C. Pages: 423 - 424 Abstract: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat. By BrazielJana Evans, and ClitandreNadège T., editors. 2021. Bloomsbury Academic. Print. $175. Hardback. PubDate: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab015 Issue No:Vol. 15, No. 3 (2021)
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