{"title":"Female (Mis)representation in Moroccan Male-Authored Postcolonial Literature: The Madwoman Trope in Mohamed Mrabet’s The Big Mirror","authors":"Meriem Ait Bbih, Brahim Barhoun","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2331154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2331154","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140148148","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":"Discard Ecologies and the ‘Hyposubject’ in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007)","authors":"Paromita Patranobish","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2327421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2327421","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140148106","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":"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","authors":"Ohad Reznick","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2328290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2328290","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140099835","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":"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","authors":"Monika Mishra, Joe Varghese Yeldho","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2325371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2325371","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140071086","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":"“This Sense of Otherness”: The Horrors of the Countryside in Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre","authors":"Erin Mercer","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2317890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2317890","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"690 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139909552","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":"Vampire Aesthetics in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire","authors":"Harriet Kramer Linkin","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2319262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2319262","url":null,"abstract":"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 ...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139909758","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":"“Do You Love Him yet?”: The Aesthetics of Post-Traumatic Recuperation and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee","authors":"Kevin Goddard","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2319272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2319272","url":null,"abstract":"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 ...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139909681","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":"Wayward Plots: Public Transport and Abolition Narratology in Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows","authors":"Ben De Bruyn","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2311746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2311746","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770741","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":"From the Obstructive “Mountain” to the Free “Water”: Examining the Evolution of Transculturalism in Ling Zhang’s Immigrant Narratives","authors":"Yifan Jin","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2316682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2316682","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"142 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770739","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":"Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island: The Climate Crisis and Planetary Environmentalism","authors":"Rakibul Hasan Khan","doi":"10.1080/00111619.2024.2314094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2024.2314094","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":44131,"journal":{"name":"CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770663","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}