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  • Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness
  • Review: Robert Collins, Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994
  • Respectability Politics and the Culture of Dissemblance in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown
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Author Tim Jelfs

Tim Jelfs

Tim Jelfs is an Assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Groningen. He specializes in the cultural, literary, environmental and political history of the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. His book, The Argument About Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism, will be published by West Virginia University Press in 2018.

Democracy, and Other Fictions: On the Politics of Robinson’s Non-Fiction

Tim Jelfs
Articles, Issue 6 2017
Since the publication of her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), Marilynne Robinson has built up a large body of non-fiction that sits beside, and in dialogue with, her fiction. Even before her environmentalist p... Read More...
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