Gerald David Naughton- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor (Associate) at University of Sharjah
Gerald David Naughton
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor (Associate) at University of Sharjah
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In his 1996 novel The Story of the Night, Irish writer Colm Tóibín addressed the issue of homosexuality for the first time in his fiction. The novel weaves a manifold
tale of nationality, identity and sexuality – and displaces that tale, as Tóibín himself acknowledged, onto “another country”,
avoiding the “personal or polemical” in favour of the di...
This article discusses the contemporary British Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips and the twentieth-century African-American writer James Baldwin within a comparative framework that speaks to the expanding issue of international (and transnational) American literary influence. Baldwin has frequently been cited by Phillips as a major literary source,...
At a climactic moment of Saul Bellow's 1964 novel, Herzog, we find the titular hero finally moved to dramatic action. Moses Herzog, the cuckolded and abandoned husband, who has spent the largest part of the novel in an increasingly solipsistic spiral of epistolary narrative, finally feels ready to apply violence to the logic of his narrative. He st...
This article examines James McBride’s National Book Award–winning novel The Good Lord Bird (2013) as an example of both posthistorical fiction and postracial passing. These twin ambiguities, the article argues, structure McBride’s neo-slave narrative, pointing toward the inherent ironies of racial, gender, and historical construction, both in the e...
This paper analyses Paul Beatty’s Booker Prize winning comic novel, The Sellout (2015), as it relates to theories of black posthumanism, as outlined in the work of Alexander Weheliye and Hortense Spillers. In the novel, the protagonist – identified by his second name, “Me” – goes on trial at the Supreme Court for violating the thirteenth and fourte...
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Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction
In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades...
This article examines the framing of travel in Alex Garland's novel The Beach ([1996] 1997. London: Penguin), and explores Bill Brown's Thing Theory as a means of conceptualizing Garland's engagement with fragile futures. The argument is that the novel's embeddedness in the so-called X Generation colours its futile presentation of futures, which is...
In titling their ambitious new volume James Baldwin: America and Beyond, editors Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz make a bold claim of inclusivity. As they state in their Introduction to the collection, “the salient point resides in the conjunction” (4): the key to understanding Baldwin in a global era is in analyzing how this extraordinary writer mana...
At the start of the 1850s, as African American writing begins to blur theboundaries between fiction and non−fiction, two texts appeared which attemptedto novelize the African American narrative voice. William Wells Brown’s novel
Clotel
and Frederick Douglass’s novella “The Heroic Slave” were both publishedin the same year (1853) and both addressed...
