{"title":"Fracture Feminism: The Politics of Impossible Time in British Romanticism by David Sigler (review)","authors":"H. Linkin","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47603991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Picturesque, the Sublime, the Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) by Valerie Derbyshire (review)","authors":"Rachael Isom","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45575810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemporary Black British Women's Writing: Experiments in Literary Form","authors":"Elisabeth Bekers, Helen Cousins","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41509664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives by Amy K. King (review)","authors":"Tanya L. Shields","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48906699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Form Can Be Liberating Too","authors":"Victoria Adukwei Bulley","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44031489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-Genre Explorations in Black British Narratives of Slavery and Freedom: Bernardine Evaristo and Andrea Levy","authors":"Sofía Muñoz-Valdivieso","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article considers Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots (2008) and Andrea Levy's The Long Song (2010) as innovative works of fiction that experiment with the form of the slave narrative to produce new visions of Atlantic slavery. The authors maintain the genre's original political intent to bear witness to unspeakable realities, but they also channel their ethical commitment into fictions that flout the expectations of restraint and seriousness and deploy humor as a complex mechanism that both involves and distances readers. Evaristo and Levy grant their narrators humorous voices and weave in elements from disparate literary genres at odds with the slave narrative, such as speculative fiction and Augustan satire in Evaristo's text and the intrusive narrator and other conventions of comic, self-reflective eighteenth-century fiction in Levy's case. Blonde Roots and The Long Song repurpose these writing traditions to critically intervene in the dominant narratives of the British nation and the role of slavery in it. The essay argues that humor can have a distancing effect that is not necessarily alienating but that can work to connect readers with the enslaved lives presented while revealing the impossibility of full identification with and understanding of these experiences. The aesthetic innovations in the novels are thus linked to their ethical commitment to remember the past of slavery and make it relevant to not only Black history but British history.","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42173341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intermedial Acts of Worldmaking: Zadie Smith's Swing Time","authors":"E. Pirker","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This reading of Zadie Smith's novel Swing Time centers on Smith's ambivalent, or indeed self-conscious, strategy of approaching and creating worlds through writing. In their portrayal of a wide range of contemporary characters, their lifeworlds, and their predicaments, Smith's works appear to be paradigmatic acts of literary worldmaking. This article explores the ways in which Smith simultaneously intervenes in such worldmaking. To this end, it examines Smith's staging of an overtly contingent narrative situation as well as her multi-layered intermedial engagement with other artistic forms of expression, specifically dance. By describing camp practices on the diegetic level and employing them on the level of narration, Smith's novel points us to the limitations of literary worldmaking rather than providing possibilities of undisturbed immersion and identification.","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42315973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Change of Perspective: Sharon Dodua Otoo's Playful Rule-Breaking","authors":"Jesse van Amelsvoort","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article reads Sharon Dodua Otoo's fictional oeuvre as a creative and playful encounter with issues of belonging, inclusion, and the limitations of our partial perspectives. In her novellas—from the English-language the things i am thinking while smiling politely (2012) and Synchronicity (2015) to the German-language Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin (2020)—Otoo interrogates how we see, understand, and make sense of the world around us. The article examines Otoo's use of humor and play to subtly tease and mock notions of Germanness and German identity. Humor offers a reprieve from stringent identity constructions but is never toothless; Otoo's playfulness explores serious ethical, political, and epistemological questions.","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42454899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Disability and Diasporic Haunting in Diana Evans's The Wonder","authors":"Pilar Cuder-Domínguez","doi":"10.1353/tsw.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay draws from current insights in postcolonial and disability studies to explore the representation of Black mental disability in Diana Evans's The Wonder as a way to access diasporic experiences of loss, suffering, trauma, and unrooting. It analyzes Evans's innovative approach to describing three generations of a Black family through the joint lens of disability and diasporic haunting. Tracing the connection between mental imbalance and creativity in Antoney Matheus and examining representations of living with loss that are gender-aligned in each generation, the essay argues that Antoney's ghost performs both an aesthetic and a narrative function, insofar as his disability signposts larger, ongoing erasures of Black art from the national imaginary. The essay explicates how haunting is not only a vehicle of transformative recognition for Antoney's son but also deeply connected to current social processes of exclusion/inclusion that result in similar processes of remembering/forgetting at the wider level of cultural memory.","PeriodicalId":43417,"journal":{"name":"TULSA STUDIES IN WOMENS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44067379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}