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• Communal Imagination and the Problem of Allegory in Tomas Rivera's ... y no se lo trago la tierra.

  Author:Francisco E. RoblesFrom:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 68, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20226,777 words Critical essay In this essay, I would like to reopen and reorient the academic reception of Tomas Rivera's 1971 ... y no se lo trago la tierra (henceforth Tierra), suggesting that the critically prevailing allegorical approach closes...

• The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu's Canon of the Global South.

  Authors:Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth GouldFrom:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 68, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20228,915 words Article In their quest for an indigenous modernism, Iranian critics have tended to underrate the impact of translation in shaping modern Iranian literary consciousness. (1) While a number of Iranian critics have explored the...

• The Homoerotics of "Negrotarian" Patronage in Langston Hughes's "The Blues I'm Playing".

  Author:Nancy KangFrom:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 68, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 202210,403 words Critical essay My life ain't done yet. Naw. My song ain't through. --Sherley Ann Williams (1975) If, as Audre Lorde defines it, Black poetry offers "a revelatory distillation of experience" (SOEP 37) quite distinct from the...

• Representing the Poor: Interwar Documentary Film, Mass Observation, and Victor Gollancz Ltd.

  Author:Luke Lewin DaviesFrom:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 68, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20229,489 words Essay In his recent exhaustive study of incognito social investigation literature--perhaps the first full critical history of the subject--Luke Seaber (2017: 1) explores the nineteenth-century tradition of "disguising oneself...