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Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (2023)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2023). Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot. Modernism/modernity, 30(1), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2023.a902605

This article examines two of Claude McKay’s novels, Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929) with relation to their characters’ complex and sometimes seemingly contradictory attitude to food cultures. McKay’s characters demonstr... Read More about Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot.

May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte. Feminist Modernist Studies, 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2020.1850146

This article surveys May Sinclair’s writing on the Brontë sisters in order to chart her revisionist impulse with relation to their reputation, her anxiety about her own literary reputation, genius in women and intellectual self-sufficiency. I argue t... Read More about May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte.

‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’ (2011)
Journal Article
Bowler, R. (2011). ‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’. Katherine Mansfield Studies, https://doi.org/10.3366/kms.2011.0008

This article examines Katherine Mansfield's aesthetics and attitude to the relation between what she called ‘life’ and work, the visual and the intellectual. It emphasises doubleness both in Mansfield's selves and in her aesthetics, a doubleness whic... Read More about ‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’.