{"title":"Zora Neale Hurston, Anthropometrist","authors":"Steven Nathaniel","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915960","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Zora Neale Hurston's academic scholarship began in physical anthropology, measuring Black bodies and relating their statistical data to racial type. While Hurston's critics have understood her subsequent work in fiction and folklore as fleeing this troubling research, this essay reconsiders her work in anthropometry as well as the narratives of embodiment that she curated in Mules and Men. Employing what Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks theorizes as \"a slow composition\" (111) of \"self as a body,\" this rereading presents Hurston as an acute critic of eugenic interpretive methods whose writings anticipate the racism built into contemporary facial recognition algorithms.","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"45 4","pages":"644 - 668"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139188843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by Tatyana Gershkovich (review)","authors":"Jacob Emery","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915966","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"7 2","pages":"738 - 740"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139190382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too\": Dildonics and Prosthetic Gender in Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden","authors":"Aaren Pastor","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915962","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay rereads Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden as a dildonic text using Paul Preciado's theorization of dildonics and prosthetic gender. Catherine Bourne's (un)becoming(s) in the published and manuscript versions of the novel are a depiction of a body authoring itself, supplemented by numerous dildos or dildonic operations: fingers, hair, clothes, and visits to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Rereading Hemingway in the aftermath of the nonidentitary grammar of Preciado's dildonics creates another field of play for the Hemingway industry and the Hemingway reader: Hemingway as theorist of prosthetic gender.","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"29 3","pages":"687 - 706"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139188929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (review)","authors":"Stephanie Andrea Allen","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915964","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"60 3","pages":"732 - 734"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139190240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What's the Time, Anna Wulf? Crisis, Temporality and Feminist Untimeliness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook","authors":"Melanie Waters","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915958","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:When Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was first published in 1962, it was instantly lauded as a timely novel. In this essay, I investigate what is timely about The Golden Notebook through an analysis of the novel's complex temporality. Taking the book's phenomenal critical legacy as a signal indication that its timeliness is yet to be exhausted, I explore how Lessing's provocative figurations of time illuminate the ideological and representational structures that confine Lessing and her characters. In doing so, I also gesture, speculatively, toward how these structures might be subverted in the future.","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"40 4","pages":"593 - 613"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139194502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim (review)","authors":"Katherine Funes","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2023.a915967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2023.a915967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509181,"journal":{"name":"MFS Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"14 4","pages":"740 - 743"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139191515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}