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Metabibliographic Fiction: Metafiction After the Death of the Book in Steven Hall’s Maxwell’s Demon and Nicola Barker’s I Am Sovereign Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 David Wylot
This essay examines the combination of an aesthetic interest in the book with metafiction’s self-reflexive literary strategies in two recent British fictions, Steven Hall’s Maxwell’s Demon (2021) a...
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The Polyphony of the Border: Genre, Narrative, Collective History Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Eralda L. Lameborshi
Southeastern Europe has been a subject of study from travel accounts to political and historical analyses to anthropological studies. Within these studies, one senses the persistent unease that the...
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’’I’m a Woman. Man, Woman, M–Woman.’’ – Identity, Sexuality, and the Body in the Short Fiction of Malika Moustadraf Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Ikram Ben Talha, Brahim Barhoun
This article reads Malika Moustadraf’s recently translated collection of short stories as an instance of a new generation of Moroccan female writing that subverts conventional expectations of femal...
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Driving While Brown: The American Road Trip in H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Suhaan Kiran Mehta
H.M. Naqvi’s novel Home Boy features three men of Pakistani background who embark on a cab ride from New York City to Westbrook, Connecticut. They wish to check on an elusive character, Mohammed Sh...
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“A Look at the Gaze in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Steven Kielich
The gaze plays a pivotal role in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, steadily generating tension, affecting the characters’ physical and psychical values, and even governing the very way the na...
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Frontier Stories: Burnt Shadows and an Alternative Ethic of Narrativizing Violence Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Debopriya Banerjee
The attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001 and its hyper-visual aftermath has led to a new paradigm in Euro-American collective consciousness. This new paradigm i...
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Motherlands in Europe. Economic Subalternity and Fantasies of Family in Contemporary Romanian Literature of Migration Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Adriana Stan
This paper sets out to analyze fictional and autobiographical Romanian narratives, published between 2010 and 2014, that engage with westward economic migration within Europe, focusing on the conte...
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“It Began with Naming Things”: Mzungus and Other European Colonizers in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Lucy Gasser
To trouble internalist narratives of Europe, it is necessary to consider the “external” vectors that went into its making. This paper reads Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives (2020) as representing a t...
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Most Alive: Vibrant Taxidermy and Art as Futural Practice in Kristen Arnett’s Mostly Dead Things Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Jessi Rae Morton
In her book Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett asks “How would political responses to public problems change were we to take seriously the vitality of (nonhuman) bodies?” In this essay, I consider a narr...
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An Intertextual Approach to the Question of Literary Plagiarism: Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Solar, and My Purple Scented Novel Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 James Stacey Taylor
In 2006 Ian McEwan was accused of plagiarizing sections of his 2001 novel Atonement from Lucille Andrews’ memoir No Time for Romance. This article explores how McEwan develops defenses against this...
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A Pale View or a Cryptic View Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Zengjing Li
Narrative gaps and the ghost motif are frequently discussed in current studies of A Pale View of Hills. The two gaps revolving around Keiko’s suicide and Etsuko’s words-to-deeds discrepancy can be ...
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The Sound of Capitalism: Thomas Pynchon’s Critique of Future Economic Realities through Don Giovanni in Bleeding Edge Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Dorothea Rebecca Schönsee
The topic of fraud in Bleeding Edge extends beyond financial deceit to alternative realities, which are fabricated by alleged time travelers. One such traveler aligns with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Ca...
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Beyond the Novel: Satire in Eastern Europe and Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Mondegreen (2019) Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Natalya Bekhta
This essay’s theoretical goal is to examine the possibilities of conceptualizing literary cultures of Eastern Europe as a world-literary region in its own right. This region, formerly part of the s...
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Articulating the Collective Immigrant Experience in Canada: The Boat People and Shut Up, You’re Pretty Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Sanja Ignjatović
Exploring the ideology behind merit-based immigration policy in Canada, the paper discusses the collective immigrant experience in the works of two contemporary Canadian female authors, Shut up You...
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Come West, Young Woman: Jane Smiley’s Trailing Wives Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Elizabeth Joan Abele
Jane Smiley’s regional novels offer more than the contemplation of an American landscape, enhanced by the labor of settlers and farmers. Instead, her novels critique both the hidden politics of set...
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“Shadowy Objects in Test Tubes”: Gene Fetishism and Racialized Biocapital in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Agnibha Banerjee
This paper engages with the entwined questions of science and ideology through a symptomatic reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), studying how power, racism, and capital intervene in...
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Reading the Graphic Narrative “The Taboo,” from the Anthology This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition: Graphic Narratives from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, As a Microhistory of Partition Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Sohini Bera, Rajni Singh
Early historiography of the South-Asian Partition tended to emphasize on the high politics surrounding the struggles against British imperialism and the transfer of power, focusing on prominent lea...
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A Just Englishman in Russia: The Ethical Self in Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Beginning of Spring Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Guibing Qin
In her historical novel, The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald explores English identity in pre-revolutionary Russia by putting her expatriate hero Frank Reid to the test in ethical situatio...
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What Future for a Europe of the Past? Myth, Memory, and the Map of Time in the Work of Jean Raspail and Georgi Gospodinov Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Corina Stan
This essay engages with two novels about European memory, Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints (1973 in French, English trans. Norman Shapiro, 2011 best-seller after being recommended by Marine le...
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Collapsed Modernities in the Twenty-First-Century Southern European Novel Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Aina Vidal-Pérez, Violeta Ros
With a focus on a contemporary corpus of twenty-first-century Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Greek fiction that questions the peripheralization of these countries in European discourse, this ess...
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Realism, Postmodernism, and Authenticity in the Contemporary Circus Novel Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Helen Stoddart
In the late 20th and early 21st century, European circus has become embroiled in public debates about the inclusion of live animal acts, some of which have recently been replaced with hologram alte...
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Mapping Traumatized Bodies and Territories in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann: An Adventure Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Selin Şencan
Doris Lessing’s novel, Mara and Dann: An Adventure reflects a multi-layered exploration of trauma’s enduring impact on both individuals and their environments. In Lessing’s novel, the shattered wor...
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Memory Writing and Cosmopolitan Identity in Timothy Mo’s Pure Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Shenghao Hu
In his recent novel Pure (2012), Timothy Mo maps the complex interaction between memory and identity in the post-9/11 context. The novel interweaves the memory narratives of four protagonists and m...
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Natural Agency and Community in Paul Harding’s Tinkers Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Guanghui Shang
This article examines Paul Harding’s representation of natural agency in Tinkers as a response to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist perspective on nature, as articulated in his landmark essay...
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‘At the Edge of the Intactile Dark’: Gothic Minimalism in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-23 Oliver Haslam
This article explores how Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (2022) and Stella Maris (2022) cement a reliance on Gothic literary minimalism. Although minimalism and the Gothic are traditionally positi...
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Capitalized Pollution and Inhabitability Critique in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Yuan Yuan
This article delves into the environmental consciousness and criticism present in Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel Klara and the Sun. Ishiguro depicts AI robots reliant on solar energy, with smoke bei...
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Time, Clocks, and Illnesses in Paul Harding’s Tinkers Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Hao Jin
Paul Harding’s Tinkers was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2010. This article examines how the novel employs a unique temporal rhetoric to present a post-Enlightenment worldview. As the c...
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“Why shouldn’t I Be Wanted, Even loved?”: Eugenics, Reproduction, and the Postcolonial in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People and Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Tatiana Konrad
This article focuses on two postcolonial novels, Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People and Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death, and argues that through the novels’ explorations of sex, both narratives reconst...
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Losing “Touch”: The Sense of Belonging in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Hyoung Min Lee
Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half is an unconventional passing narrative in that it not only deals with both racial passing and gender transition but also escapes the tragic passing narrative struc...
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“Faux Apparitions: Angels or Cannibals, Between Coetzee and Defoe” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Kieran Brown
How should the relation between Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) be theorised? Using the paradigm of angels and cann...
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Mr. Ambivalent: Jonathan Franzen and the Masculinization of the Middlebrow Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Sally Robinson
No contemporary author has spent as much time and energy theorizing the literary field than Jonathan Franzen, and no author has generated as much controversy over that theorizing. That controversy ...
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Indigenizing Blankness in the Works of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gerald Vizenor, and Jordan Abel Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 James Mackay, Polina Mackay
The article examines the strategic use of blankness in the literary works of Indigenous authors Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg), Gerald Vizenor (White Earth Nation Anishinaab...
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Infrastructural Closure, Rupture, and Insurgency in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 William Taylor
This essay addresses the problem of how to formally differentiate between oppressive and emancipatory infrastructures. In doing so, it develops an analysis of speculative science-fiction novel The ...
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“Ma semblable, ma soeur”: Negative Capability and Self-Fashioning in “The Quilt Maker” by Angela Carter and Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Dominika Oramus
Reading fiction by Angela Carter and Olga Tokarczuk side by side is a fascinating but eerie experience: the celebrated British fabulist and the Nobel-winning Polish writer-cum-public intellectual s...
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Female (Mis)representation in Moroccan Male-Authored Postcolonial Literature: The Madwoman Trope in Mohamed Mrabet’s The Big Mirror Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Meriem Ait Bbih, Brahim Barhoun
Through a feminist postcolonial theoretical lens, this article puts forth a new reading of Mohamed Mrabet’s novella The Big Mirror. Written by a male Moroccan writer in 1977, a short while after Mo...
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Discard Ecologies and the ‘Hyposubject’ in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007) Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Paromita Patranobish
This article posits the concept of excremental toxicity as a critical lens with which to explore the resistive and subversive ways in which pollution that is dumped onto precarious ecologies is rei...
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Why is this (K)night Different: Passover, Blood, War, and the Conflict Between Jewish and American Identity in Jo Sinclair’s Wasteland and Dara Horn’s All Other Nights Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ohad Reznick
For hundreds of years, non-Jews have accused Jews of dual identity. Living in the diaspora, Jews were often accused of loyalty to their own religion or people, which sometimes collided with allegia...
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Second-Person Narration and Self-Reflectivity: The Effectivity of the Narrative Technique in Empathizing with and Identifying the “Other” in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth (2015-17) Trilogy Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Monika Mishra, Joe Varghese Yeldho
The paper aims to disabuse the critics of their consensus regarding the strangeness and unpredictability of the second-person “you” and subsequently highlight the potential that it possesses. While...
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“This Sense of Otherness”: The Horrors of the Countryside in Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Erin Mercer
In novels The Loney (2014), Devil’s Day (2017) and Starve Acre (2019), contemporary British author Andrew Michael Hurley locates threat in the British countryside where primitive superstition conti...
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“Do You Love Him yet?”: The Aesthetics of Post-Traumatic Recuperation and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Kevin Goddard
This article uses a reading of three works by J. M. Coetzee to argue for a literature of recuperation. Much of trauma theory has debated the “unspeakableness” of trauma, and the near impossibility ...
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Vampire Aesthetics in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Harriet Kramer Linkin
Despite critical attention to the many vampiric texts Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire invokes, Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner has received barely any notice, although it is the one ...
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Wayward Plots: Public Transport and Abolition Narratology in Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ben De Bruyn
This article examines the infrastructural imagination of Namwali Serpell’s grief narrative The Furrows. Building on existing research about public transport, carceral geography, and the infrastruct...
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From the Obstructive “Mountain” to the Free “Water”: Examining the Evolution of Transculturalism in Ling Zhang’s Immigrant Narratives Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Yifan Jin
Ling Zhang, a well-known overseas Chinese author in contemporary Sinophone literary circles, has written extensively about Chinese immigrants in Canada. However, the Anglophone versions of her rema...
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Insignificant Inheritance: Repairing Domestic Interiors Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Lucy Benjamin
Drawing on James Clammer’s novel Insignificance, this paper explores the intersection of inheritance and repair. Marking its difference from 20th century concerns with the historiographical conditi...
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Global Forms in Bolaño’s 2666: Genre, Race, Capital Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Jack Weizhe Cao
Roberto Bolaño’s posthumously published 2666 is a novel split into five parts without a clear logic of organization. I argue that its unity lies in the way each section takes up and then dissolves ...
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Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island: The Climate Crisis and Planetary Environmentalism Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Rakibul Hasan Khan
Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019), in addressing the planetary scale of the climate crisis, gestures to the possibility of, and the imperative for, multispecies as well as multi-ethnic and cross-cul...
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Do It Yourself Dystopia: The Digital Future in Dave Eggers’s The Every Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
The article analyses the nightmarish vision of the near future in Dave Eggers’s 2021 novel The Every as a digital dystopia. Read as a dialogue with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Every i...
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The Carnivalesque in Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Men and Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel: A Bakhtinian Reading Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Jinan F. B. Al-Hajaj, Salma Abdul Hussein Dawood
Two contemporary novels, namely, Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Men (2011) and Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel (2020) are given a Bakhtinian reading in an attempt to trace the presence of carni...
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Reviving from the Archive: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Modern Ghost Stories and Memory Writing Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Anni Shen
The first four works of the Japanese-British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro were all ghost stories, and they are crucial to shaping his signature unreliable narratives and writing of memory. Based on the ...
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Neoliberal Humanism: Never Let Me Go and the Value of the Humanities Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Dale Pattison
This essay addresses the neoliberal turn in the humanities through Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go, which describes a world in which human clones have been created for the purpose of ha...
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Arboreal Obliquity or Trees Doing the Human in Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Berthold Schoene
Tapping into Australian writing on arboreality, with a focus on Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus (1998), this investigation intervenes in Critical Plant Studies by exploring a dendrographic alternative to ...
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World Literature Sickness: Exile and Dissent in Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Call Me Zebra Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Lorna Burns
This article explores “literature sickness”, a term coined by the contemporary Iranian-American writer Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi and developed, I suggest, in her novel Call Me Zebra (2018). In d...
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Rescuing Precarious Bodies: Biopolitics and Haitian Health in Edwidge Danticat’s Diasporic Writing Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Yi Cai
Centering on the precarious bodies that are diseased or faced with health problems in Danticat’s oeuvre, this article from a biopolitical perspective examines how the malfunction of power exacerbat...
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The Urban Essential Solitude of the Hunger Character: A Blanchotian Reading of PAUL Auster’s Moon Palace Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 María Laura Arce Álvarez
The aim of this article is to analyze Paul Auster’s Moon Palace through the lens of philosopher and critic Maurice Blanchot, whose literary theory provides a theoretical frame to study this novel a...
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Guerrilla Gardening: At the Intersection of Birnam Wood and Minneapolis Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Sarah Dimick
To reflect on guerrilla gardening and the narratives sprouting from it, I intersect a literary work – the New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton’s novel Birnam Wood, published in 2023, loosely based on ...
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Eastern Premise: Writing the East of England in the Novels of Graham Swift Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Sam Goodman
This article is a critical exploration of how three of Graham Swift’s novels - Waterland (1983), Last Orders (1996), and Here We Are (2020) – offer a literary representation of the (south) east of ...
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The Possession-Possessor Dichotomy in the Turkish-Museum Novel Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Fidan Cheikosman
This article explores the possession-possessor dichotomy in the Turkish museum-novel. The process of curation presents itself as an aesthetic concept refracted between literary and visual perceptio...
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Yearning for the Plot Enclosure in Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Vladimir Biti
The British Empire’s disintegration drove its many residents into an enclosure of illusions of sovereignty. As McEwan’s works emerged amid such developments, his characters respond to the rising di...
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You Equals Not-I: Avowal, Disavowal, and Second-Person Narration in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Rick de Villiers
This article examines the second-person narrative mode in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat. Its function is explained by situating the novel within that niche known as the “you-text.” But the generic fu...
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Performativity and Performance: Identities and Multi-Dimensional Psychological Passing in Go Tell It on the Mountain Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Longyan Wang
This essay explores how key characters from James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain exhibit psychological passing and performative identity formation in relation to race, religion, and sexuality...