{"title":"The Roots and Routes of Black Emancipation in Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio","authors":"C. Hill","doi":"10.7560/tsll65205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65205","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Using James Clifford's theorization of roots and routes and Rinaldo Walcott's conception of future-oriented Black expressivity, I show how Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio (1899) discursively creates a space that is both real and imagined wherein Black life and conceptions of freedom and citizenship in the South are re-visioned. I show that this re-visioning renders Texas as what Edward Soja would term a \"Thirdspace,\" distinct from the North and the South, where Black survival and flourishing are imaginable.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47274628","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":"\"Understanding Each Other Perfectly\": The Desire for Unmediated Communion in Katherine Mansfield's \"Bliss\"","authors":"N. Clausson","doi":"10.7560/tsll65104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65104","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article offers an alternative to the dominant reading of Katherine Mansfield's \"Bliss\" as a story about Bertha Young's repressed homosexuality, arguing that it can also be read as a story about her unfulfilled desire for communion with Pearl Fulton unmediated by language. In this reading, which pays close attention to the story's language, the pear tree that has been central to the story's interpretation for decades becomes a nonverbal icon as well as a symbol of Bertha's sexuality.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45536714","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}
Roland Corthell, N. Clausson, Reto Winckler, Shawn Smith
{"title":"Irony, Recusancy, and Repentance in Robert Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint","authors":"Roland Corthell, N. Clausson, Reto Winckler, Shawn Smith","doi":"10.7560/tsll65103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65103","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Robert Southwell's Saint Peter's Complaint has been studied chiefly for its alignment with Catholic or Protestant homiletics and devotional practices rather than its literary qualities. But Southwell's aims were poetical as well as pastoral. His baroque portrayal of Saint Peter's anguish over betraying Christ ironically incorporates both the ideology of Catholic recusancy, which Southwell supported as a Jesuit missionary, and the devotional discourse of the tears of repentance shared by Catholics and Protestants.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43464208","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":"\"Observance of Civility\": Jewish Identity and Anxiety in Seinfeld and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice","authors":"Reto Winckler","doi":"10.7560/tsll65101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65101","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article argues that a satirically distorted quotation from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, \"If we pick, do we not bleed?,\" in the Seinfeld episode \"The Pick\" reveals a subtext of Jewish anxiety in the sitcom. This anxiety about the limits of mainstream acceptance and the persistence of anti- Semitism in late twentieth- century America revolves around maintaining civility, a notion already evident in The Merchant's portrayal of Jewish and Christian acts, attitudes, and values.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46801069","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":"Samuel Beckett's Allusions to John Donne","authors":"Shawn Smith","doi":"10.7560/tsll65102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll65102","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Samuel Beckett's allusions to John Donne reflect Beckett's interest in paradox as a mode of thinking that is prone to confusion and failure. The paradoxical tensions between the sacred and the profane in Donne's love poems, in particular, provide Beckett with a framework for shaping his own characters' ambivalent attitudes toward erotic and romantic desire in a way that formulates a critique of the conventions of Petrarchan love poetry and of the theme of love in literature in general.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43606515","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":"The Unfinishedness & Untimeliness of A Raisin in the Sun","authors":"Benjamin Schwartz","doi":"10.7560/tsll64403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Building on recent studies by Imani Perry and Soyica Diggs Colbert, as well as new work by Julius Fleming, this article argues that the various editions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun are invested in a politics of untimeliness and unfinishedness that complicates common understandings of the play's meaning. By attending to the dialogue among the various versions of Raisin, readers are able to recognize the importance of untimeliness and unfinishedness to Raisin's \"radical vision.\"","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46103655","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":"Stevie as Revolutionary in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent","authors":"Show-Ling Jang, John G. Peters","doi":"10.7560/tsll64405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64405","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Critics almost universally considered Stevie in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent as an unwitting victim of the Greenwich explosion. But we argue that because Conrad provides so little access to Stevie's mind there is much ambiguity concerning his role that has previously gone unremarked. Stevie may be an unwitting victim, but there are also a number of suggestions that he knows what he is doing when he places the bomb. Stevie, unlike the nominal revolutionaries in the novel, is the one character who actually performs a revolutionary act. In this contrast between possible unwitting victim / possible witting actor and witting nonactor, Conrad considers the question of who is a revolutionary.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42861549","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":"Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior","authors":"M. Abraham","doi":"10.7560/tsll64401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64401","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The domestic sphere was of great importance to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Indeed, their home in Paris was a social epicenter of expatriate modernism. This article reads Stein's experimental literature of 1908 to 1920 to understand the identificatory and relational processes that the affordances of the domestic space make possible. It situates the queer in Stein as a domestic phenomenon, arguing that queer bonding and identity formation happen, for her, most meaningfully in the home.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47931455","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":"The South/Western Gothic: White Capitalist Zombies in Katherine Anne Porter's Noon Wine","authors":"B. Moorhead","doi":"10.7560/tsll64402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64402","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Set from 1896 to 1905 in South Texas, Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short novel Noon Wine chronicles the arrival of a strange man named Olaf Helton whose labor transforms the Thompson family's failing farm into a thriving enterprise. Pointed mentions of vanished Black workers replaced by this conspicuously \"foreign\" white man provide an uncanny reading of the role of racialized labor, illuminating methods through which the United States has built its regions and nation upon related forms of exploitation.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41470201","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":"The Other James: James Joyce, Henry James, and Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark","authors":"M. Richtarik","doi":"10.7560/tsll64404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64404","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Most critics who have analyzed Seamus Deane's novel Reading in the Dark have examined it in the context of his influential scholarly publications. But this approach does not account adequately for the book's form, which reflects Deane's own uncertainty regarding his autobiographical subject. I argue that critics to date have overemphasized James Joyce's influence on Deane's text and underestimated that of Henry James, especially his famously ambiguous novella The Turn of the Screw.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48047552","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}