scholarly journals “The journalistic criminal novel” “In Cold Blood” by Truman Garcia Capote in the context of “new journalism” problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-201
Author(s):  
Tatyana Alexandrovna Khitarova ◽  
Yelena Georgievna Khitarova
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New Journalism ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Cold Blood ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
New Form ◽  
American Society ◽  
In Cold Blood

The success of the ‟new journalism” in the United States in the 60s of the last century had an impact on the literary process. Truman Garcia Capote's novel ‟In Cold Blood” is an attempt to create a new form of fiction and nonfiction novel, which combines the features of nonfiction and journalism. So there is a genre of ‟criminal journalistic novel”. The author is involved in the investigation of a criminal case. The analysis reveals common typological features of a crime novel. Capote's approaches to the text are investigated, which are similar to journalistic professional methods – interview, reportage, essay. A comparison with previously published works was accomplished, which localises this novel in a different epoch at a new artistic level. The study also identifies the points of contacts and variances in the evaluation of the novel in Western and Russian criticism. The article offers conclusions. Capote's novel ‟In Cold Blood” allows to be focused not only on real criminal events, but also on the moral state of American society in the proposed time frame. The novel differs from the journalistic reportage, there is a special form of a work of art-a journalistic novel-investigation. The synthesis of literature and journalism also proved fruitful for Norman Kingsley Mailer 's nonfiction novels.

Reinventing the Self in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Radha Devi Sharma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
American Society

Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine is a story of a young Punjabi woman named Jasmine whose life takes her from India to the United States, where she goes through many different destinies with her effort to reinvent her coherent self. Searching for and defining a new identity is a central question for immigrants living in a foreign land. The confusion of identity and cultural conflict pushes the immigrants into an identity crisis. The novel exposes how Jasmine, the female protagonist, as an outsider, strives to shape her identity to fit in the mainstream American society. Fortunately, she encounters confirmations of her shifting identity in different stages of her life. Instead of rejecting these identities and names in various phases, she seeks to create a harmonious relationship with those identities. In this context, this paper tries to explore on how she struggles throughout her life to reinvent the coherent self by her constant effort to assimilate to the alien culture and setting.Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.4(1) 2016: 29-38

The Relation between Criminal and Social Justice

1967 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
David L. Bazelon
Keyword(s):  
White Collar Crime ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Crimes Of Passion ◽  
Cold Blood ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
In Cold Blood

Crime has become a major focus of public attention in the United States. Not white collar crime like embezzlement or tax fraud, nor crimes of passion, nor even the organized crime of professional gangsters. The public is gripped by newspaper accounts of crimes which endanger the physical safety of the population: robbery, housebreaking, assault, rape, and murder. Preoccupation with crime pervades every level of discussion; indeed, when Senator Goldwater made “crime in the streets” a major issue in his ill-fated campaign for the Presidency in 1964, he touched upon a nerve that is very raw in many Americans. Today, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, a remarkable account of an apparently senseless robbery and murder, is storming the best-seller lists in our book stores.After my sixteen years on the bench, it seems to me that it is usually not difficult to identify the class from which perpetrators of urban crimes of violence come. Almost all of the persons accused of this category of crime come from the bottom of society's barrel. They are the ignorant, the ill-educated, the unemployed, and often the unemployable. In a society which prides itself on opportunity and wealth, they have been brought up in terrible poverty. Few of them have had the advantage of what we call a moral upbringing. Because they lack education and skills, they are virtually excluded from the advantages of our economic and cultural life. Many of them are subjected to the grinding humiliation of racial discrimination. In the big cities, they no longer share the roots and traditions which may make rural poverty bearable. On every side, society holds out promises which, for them, are never kept; symbols of success which, for them, cannot be obtained.

scholarly journals RACHEL MORSE’S NEGOTIATING AS THE EFFECT OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS IN DURROW’S THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Lia Indri Hapsari
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Biracial Identity ◽  
Identity Problem ◽  
White Mother ◽  
African American Father ◽  
American Society

Racism towards African-American brings many impacts to African-American people’s life, especially who have ever experienced it. One ofsome psychological effects that experienced by African-American is doubleconsciousness experience that could be explored in Durrow’s The Girl Who Fellfrom the Sky. Double consciousness phenomenon is found in the main characterof the novel named Rachel Morse, a daughter of white mother and African-American father, who has identity problem in her new society. This study aimsto attend the identity negotiation of Rachel as the result of double consciousnessshe experienced using double consciousness theory by W.E.B. Du Bois. Thisstudy reveals that Rachel Morse who experience double consciousness has tonegotiate her biracial identity in American society who still believe in ‘one-drop’rule so that she could fit in the society. The practice of racism and stereotypeforms need to be reduced to make a better living for African-American andbiracial people in the United States.

scholarly journals Patricia Highsmith's Queer Disruption: Subverting Gay Tragedy in the 1950s

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Charlotte Findlay
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Lesbian Couple ◽  
Gay Literature ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
American Society

<p>Published in a time when tragedy was pervasive in gay literature, Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt, published later as Carol, was the first lesbian novel with a happy ending. It was unusual for depicting lesbians as sympathetic, ordinary women, whose sexuality did not consign them to a life of misery. The novel criticises how 1950s American society worked to suppress lesbianism and women’s agency. It also refuses to let that suppression succeed by giving its lesbian couple a future together. My thesis assesses the extent to which the novel broke the conventions of gay literature, and how Highsmith was able to publish such a radical text in the conservative 1950s.  The Talented Mr Ripley, a crime novel published in 1955, is more representative of both Highsmith’s work and 1950s homophobia. Tom Ripley is coded as gay through a number of often pejorative stereotypes, though the novel never confirms his sexuality. This makes it appear far more conventional than The Price of Salt. And yet, it treats Tom sympathetically and gives him a happy ending. Underneath the surface level homophobia is a story of gay survival and success, and once again Highsmith subverts the tradition of gay tragedy. However, because homophobic tropes are central to its narrative, it remains difficult to call Ripley a radical text.  In placing the two novels side by side, my thesis draws out the complexity of Highsmith’s relationship with the gay canon. I find commonalities in the novels based on Highsmith’s interest in disrupting conventional morality. She achieves this disruption by humanising outsiders such as gays and lesbians, and constructing narratives in which they are able to find the freedom and happiness that the literature of the period usually denied them.</p>

scholarly journals Patricia Highsmith's Queer Disruption: Subverting Gay Tragedy in the 1950s

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Charlotte Findlay
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Lesbian Couple ◽  
Gay Literature ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
American Society

<p>Published in a time when tragedy was pervasive in gay literature, Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt, published later as Carol, was the first lesbian novel with a happy ending. It was unusual for depicting lesbians as sympathetic, ordinary women, whose sexuality did not consign them to a life of misery. The novel criticises how 1950s American society worked to suppress lesbianism and women’s agency. It also refuses to let that suppression succeed by giving its lesbian couple a future together. My thesis assesses the extent to which the novel broke the conventions of gay literature, and how Highsmith was able to publish such a radical text in the conservative 1950s.  The Talented Mr Ripley, a crime novel published in 1955, is more representative of both Highsmith’s work and 1950s homophobia. Tom Ripley is coded as gay through a number of often pejorative stereotypes, though the novel never confirms his sexuality. This makes it appear far more conventional than The Price of Salt. And yet, it treats Tom sympathetically and gives him a happy ending. Underneath the surface level homophobia is a story of gay survival and success, and once again Highsmith subverts the tradition of gay tragedy. However, because homophobic tropes are central to its narrative, it remains difficult to call Ripley a radical text.  In placing the two novels side by side, my thesis draws out the complexity of Highsmith’s relationship with the gay canon. I find commonalities in the novels based on Highsmith’s interest in disrupting conventional morality. She achieves this disruption by humanising outsiders such as gays and lesbians, and constructing narratives in which they are able to find the freedom and happiness that the literature of the period usually denied them.</p>

Expressive Features of Author Subjectivity in the Literary Ego-Text (Roman Senchin’s What Do You Want?)

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Olga Yu. Shum ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Family Chronicle ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All

The modern literary process indicates the presence of a large number of fiction with documentary subcurrent: facts from the author’s biography are a very slight hyperbolization. An example of such work would be the novel What Do You Want? (2013) by a contemporary Russian writer Roman Senchin, which became the subject of consideration in this article. The synthesis of auto-documentary and literary principles in the story organizes self-narration with unsteady boundaries between the real (“factual”) and the fictional (“fictitious”). The specificity of the correlation of the factual and the fictitious is examined in this work using the method of literary criticism and contextual analysis. The immediate aim of the article is to identify the specificity of expressing the implicit method of author subjectivity in non-fiction. In the author’s opinion, the implicit way of expressing the reflective type of author subjectivity fits more harmoniously into the literary fabric of the work, enriching it with subtexts and hidden meanings. In the course of the study it has been determined that although the center of the story revolves around the everyday life of an ordinary Moscow family, Senchin’s work is not a slice-of-life novel, but a political commentary. The theme of What Do You Want?” is sociopolitical, the problematics are sociocultural. The narration of the novel undergoes an intense analyzing and coming to terms with the sociopolitical events that are highlighted in almost all of the scenes. The text implies that the writer comprehends his own political position and interprets its cause-effect relationships. In order to distance himself as much as possible from his own identity, Senchin uses the technique of “externalizing” and “assigns” the role of the narrator to a teenage girl Dasha, the prototype of which he himself cannot be. Dasha, being a narrator-observer, asks questions, including the one from the title, to herself and other characters, including the father “Roman Senchin”. The time frame for the narration is precisely established: 18 December 2011 – 26 February 2012; each part of the text is a certain day, there are six in total. However, it is not clear who marked the specific days – the real author of the story or, as he conceived, the narrator Dasha. The autofiction method of “externalizing” in combination with the factual plot allows considering What Do You Want? as an ego-text, which in its genre form is something between an excerpt from a family chronicle and a diary. Autofiction in the form of an ego-text allows the writer to implicate his reflection, organizing a space for discussion of the unquestioning “Roman Senchin” (his alter ego) and the doubting Dasha within a kind of a “mental diary” – a space of consciousness in which the author-subject and the narrator are united. “Bringing to light” this “mental” diary, the writer redirects it to a wide range of readers and thus shifts the story from the field of “literature without fiction” to the sphere of art

Madness, Entropy, Paradox: The Legacy of Political Violence in Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
JENNIFER KRAUSE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Society ◽  
Dominican American

This article adds to the conversation surrounding what it means to be Latino/a within the United States by considering Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home. By focussing on the plight of Marina within the novel, one can begin to look at this Dominican-American as not just a madwoman and victim of diaspora, machismo, and class; instead, she is a character who questions archetypal iterations of Latino/a identity even as she reinforces national and transnational stereotypes. Such a close reading of Pérez's novel allows us to reconfigure ideas of race, displacement, and hyphenation in American society.

scholarly journals Evolution of the Novel in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Egnal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Key Words ◽  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
American Society ◽  
Modern Era

This article examines the evolution of the novel in the United States using a remarkable new source, the Ngram database. This database, which spans several centuries, draws on the 15 million books that Google has scanned. It allows researchers to look at year-to-year fluctuations in the use of particular words. Using one of the available filters, the article is based on English-language books published in the United States between 1800 and 2008. But making sense of these data requires a framework. That framework is provided by the four periods that emerge from much recent writing on the novel. Four epochs—the sentimental era (1789–1860), the genteel era (1860–1915), the modern era (1915–60), and the postmodern era (1960–)—define the evolution of the novel and, more broadly, changes in American society and values. The article argues that a study of key words drawn from the Ngram database confirms the existence of these periods and deepens our understanding of them.

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