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Abstract
In “Whose War?,” published in Harper’s Magazine in 2002, John Edgar Wideman emphatically distanced himself from the nationalism then being stoked in support of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the first military salvo in the War on Terror. Wishing he “could be the best kind of American,”
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Contemporary Literature publishes scholarly essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field. The journal welcomes articles on multiple genres, including poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media and digital literature, and graphic narrative. CL published the first articles on Thomas Pynchon and Susan Howe and the first interviews with Margaret Drabble and Don DeLillo; we also helped to introduce Kazuo Ishiguro, Eavan Boland, and J.M. Coetzee to American readers. As a forum for discussing issues animating the range of contemporary literary studies, CL features the full diversity of critical practices.