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Contemporary Women's Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins (review) 当代女性后启示录小说苏珊·沃特金斯(书评)

IF 0.3 3区文学

MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2022.0038

J. Wagner-lawlor

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Rooms Not One's Own: C. L. R. James, Jean Rhys, and Caribbean Anticolonialism in 1930s London 不属于自己的房间:c·l·r·詹姆斯、让·里斯和20世纪30年代伦敦的加勒比反殖民主义

IF 0.3 3区文学

MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2022.0011

Kate Perillo

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Better Futures Needed 需要更好的未来

IF 0.3 3区文学

MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2022.0016

Simon J. James

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Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg (review) 《电子文学》作者:Scott Rettberg(评论)

IF 0.3 3区文学

MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2022.0022

Steve Tomasula

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Tragedy and the Modernist Novel by Manya Lempert (review) 悲剧与玛尼娅·伦珀特的现代主义小说(书评)

IF 0.3 3区文学

MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2022.0018

G. Hankins

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Behind Barriers, Living a Man's Life: Imperial Masculinity in Graham Greene's "The Basement Room" and The Fallen Idol 在障碍背后，过着男人的生活:格雷厄姆·格林的《地下室》和《堕落的偶像》中的帝国男子气概

IF 0.3 3区文学

MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2022.0012

Elizabeth Floyd

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Race, Gender, and "Real Brains": Interrogating Unreliability in Nella Larsen's Passing 种族、性别和“真正的大脑”:质问内拉·拉森去世的不可靠性