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Early modernization theory?: the Eisenhower administration and the foreign policy of development in Brazil (2010)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2010). Early modernization theory?: the Eisenhower administration and the foreign policy of development in Brazil. English Historical Review, CXXV(517), https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceq345

Existing views of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration’s policies in Latin America have tended to portray its approach as being either fixated upon waging the Cold War, or overly concerned with quelling outbreaks of Latin American economic nationa... Read More about Early modernization theory?: the Eisenhower administration and the foreign policy of development in Brazil.

'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (2003)
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Newman, J. (2003). 'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Modern Language Review, 98(4),

Who owns Zora Neale Hurston? That was the question asked in 1990 by Michele Wallace, in an analysis of the ways in which Hurston has been appropriated by later scholars. Wallace's pungent comparison of later critics to so many 'groupies descending on... Read More about 'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations. (review) (2002)
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Newman, J. (2002). Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations. (review). Modern Language Review, 97(4),

Review of book edited by Ashok Berry and Patricia Murray. Copyright 2002 MHRA, and included in the repository with permission.

'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’ (2000)
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Thompson, G. (2000). 'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’. Journal of American Studies, 34(3), 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875851006449

Although a good deal of recent critical attention to Melville's writing has followed the lead of Robert K. Martin in addressing the issue of sexuality, the predominant themes in discussions of “Bartleby” remain changes in the nature of the workplace... Read More about 'Dead letters! … Dead men?': the rhetoric of the office in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the scrivener’.

From "Rational Utopia" to "Will-to-Utopia". On the "Post-modern" Turn in the Recent Work of Agnes Heller (1998)
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Tormey, S. (1998). From "Rational Utopia" to "Will-to-Utopia". On the "Post-modern" Turn in the Recent Work of Agnes Heller. Daimon, 17,

Agnes Heller recently described her position as 'postmodernist', suggesting a move from a political radical to a politically liberal or 'neoconservative' position. The aim of this paper is to assess the degree to which Heller can still be regarded as... Read More about From "Rational Utopia" to "Will-to-Utopia". On the "Post-modern" Turn in the Recent Work of Agnes Heller.

Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (review) (1998)
Journal Article
Newman, J. (1998). Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (review). Modern Language Review, 93(1),

Review of this text edited by Dennis Barone. This article is copyright the Modern Humanities Research Association 1998, and is included in this repository with permission.

‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career
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Durkin, H. ‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2012.658263

This paper engages with a major paradox in African American tap dancer Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film image – namely, its concurrent adherences to and contestations of dehumanising racial iconography – to reveal the complex and often ambivalent way... Read More about ‘It's all the way you look at it, you know’: reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson's film career.