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Impossible Purities

Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture

By: Jennifer DeVere Brody

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Impossible Purities

Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture

By: Jennifer DeVere Brody

Uses work from African-American studies to rethink the status of race in Victorian England.

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Duke University Press

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0822321203

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9780822321200

Punctuation

Art, Politics, and Play

By: Jennifer DeVere Brody

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Punctuation

Art, Politics, and Play

By: Jennifer DeVere Brody

In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots, ellipses, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points by considering them in relation to aesthetics and experimental art. Through her readings of texts and symbols ranging from style guides to digital art, from emoticons to dance pieces, Brody suggests that instead of always clarifying meaning, punctuation can sometimes open up space for interpretation, enabling writers and visual artists to interrogate and reformulate notions of life, death, art, and identity politics. Brody provides a playful, erudite meditation on punctuation’s power to direct discourse and, consequently, to shape human subjectivity. Her analysis ranges from a consideration of typography as a mode for representing black subjectivity in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man to a reflection on hyphenation and identity politics in light of Strunk and White’s prediction that the hyphen would disappear from written English. Ultimately, Brody takes punctuation off the “stage of the page” to examine visual and performance artists’ experimentation with non-grammatical punctuation. She looks at different ways that punctuation performs as gesture in dances choreographed by Bill T. Jones, in the hybrid sculpture of Richard Artschwager, in the multimedia works of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, and in Miranda July’s film Me and You and Everyone We Know. Brody concludes with a reflection on the future of punctuation in the digital era.

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0822389096

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9780822389095

Impossible Purities

Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture

By: Jennifer DeVere Brody

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Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture

By: Jennifer DeVere Brody

Uses work from African-American studies to rethink the status of race in Victorian England.

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Punctuation

Art, Politics, and Play

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Art, Politics, and Play

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Punctuation offers playful interpretations of punctuation in relation to aesthetics, performance, and experimental art.

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0822342359

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The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel

By: Jennifer Yee

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The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel

By: Jennifer Yee

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - The Colonial Comedy reveals that the colonies play a role at a distance even in the most apparently metropolitan texts. In what Edward Said called 'geographical notations' of race and imperialism the presence of the colonies off-stage is apparent as imported objects, colonial merchandise, and individuals whose colonial experience is transformative. Indeed, the realist novel registers the presence of the emerging global world-system through networks of importation, financial speculation, and immigration as well as direct colonial violence and power structures. The literature of the century responds to the last decades of French slavery, and direct colonialism (notably in Algeria), but also economic imperialism and the extension of French influence elsewhere. Far from imperialist triumphalism, in the realist novel exotic objects are portrayed as fake or mass-produced for the growing bourgeois market, while economic imperialism is associated with fraud and manipulation. The deliberate contrast of colonialism and exoticism within the metropolitan novel, and ironic distancing of colonial narratives, reveal the realist mode to be capable of questioning its own epistemological basis. The Colonial Comedy argues for the existence in the nineteenth century of a Critical Orientalism characterized by critique of its own discursive foundations. Using the tools of literary analysis within a materialist approach, The Colonial Comedy opens up the domestic Paris-Provinces axis to signifying chains pointing towards the colonial space.

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Oxford University Press

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0191081930

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