Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel

134 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel utterance, “Yes, suh” (pp. 81–90). This poignant image of a dis- empowered fat ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 135 thought. By “passing” as white with such apparent ease, Silk both reveals the porous and ...

136 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel mainstream view of ethnicity in American popular and intellectual culture, the ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 137 ethnic identity): a spectacle that demands in the very act of interpre- tation a mental d ...

138 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel demonstrated below) overtly fabricates and embellishes the details of the plot ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 139 Faunia’s dairy farm, in which he became engrossed in observing the two lovers, he refers ...

140 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel to those with whom he is closest. What is more, the social problems that drove ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 141 he hears no response: “Do they exist or are they spooks?” (p. 6). On receiving word of th ...

142 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel is revealed in an earlier exchange with Delphine, whose straitjacketed relativ ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 143 been a partial projection of the inexpiate remorse he feels for evad- ing America’s strug ...

144 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel when we learn of the division that Silk’s “betrayal” produced within his famil ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 145 in negotiating a black identity in the modern era. This perception of ethnicity dovetails ...

146 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel vaguely defined philosophy of the inherent obscurity of the human subject: Wha ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 147 interstices take on more ideological overtones as Roth, albeit subtly, explores the mater ...

148 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel universalism” of Abraham Lincoln, the American political sphere has at least p ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 149 sociopolitical awareness and commitment. However, such critiques have differed in approac ...

150 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel part of the writer. This is an image of the pastoral as an “event” that is pro ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 151 and which involved, as Williams explains, “the clearance of wood- lands, for timber, for ...

152 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel looks, and “all-American” charm (p. 19). This image of Levov pres- ents strong ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 153 of Levinas’s formulations, a more self-reflexive empathy on the read- er’s part, in which ...