{"title":"Metabibliographic Fiction: Metafiction After the Death of the Book in Steven Hall’s Maxwell’s Demon and Nicola Barker’s I Am Sovereign","authors":"David Wylot","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2386099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2386099","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"’’I’m a Woman. Man, Woman, M–Woman.’’ – Identity, Sexuality, and the Body in the Short Fiction of Malika Moustadraf","authors":"Ikram Ben Talha, Brahim Barhoun","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2391371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2391371","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142194749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Driving While Brown: The American Road Trip in H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy","authors":"Suhaan Kiran Mehta","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2386103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2386103","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141942238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Look at the Gaze in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”","authors":"Steven Kielich","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2388011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2388011","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141942233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontier Stories: Burnt Shadows and an Alternative Ethic of Narrativizing Violence","authors":"Debopriya Banerjee","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2386101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2386101","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141942234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motherlands in Europe. Economic Subalternity and Fantasies of Family in Contemporary Romanian Literature of Migration","authors":"Adriana Stan","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2382461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2382461","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It Began with Naming Things”: Mzungus and Other European Colonizers in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives","authors":"Lucy Gasser","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2382457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2382457","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Intertextual Approach to the Question of Literary Plagiarism: Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Solar, and My Purple Scented Novel","authors":"James Stacey Taylor","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2378107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2378107","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141744170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Realism, Postmodernism, and Authenticity in the Contemporary Circus Novel","authors":"Helen Stoddart","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2371960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2371960","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141717735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping Traumatized Bodies and Territories in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann: An Adventure","authors":"Selin Şencan","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2370253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2370253","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141717736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}