...Madhu Krishnan Abstract In June 2020, a group of more than one hundred African writers published a statement of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter uprisings that emerged around the world in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In this statement are a number of claims around the extension...

... of Novel: A Forum on Fiction offers a contemporary take on the relationship between Black politics and the novel, our journal's privileged cultural object, by considering the global reach of Black Lives Matter (BLM). The contributors to the issue treat BLM as a fresh opportunity to engage the question...

... ambitious book The Outward Mind , Benjamin Morgan asks us to rethink both the nature of Mansel's critique and the singularity of sensation novels. A lifelong idealist invested in metaphysics, Mansel bewailed specific features of these “morbid” fictions: their melodramatic subject matter, their emphasis...

...Tyson Stolte This article reads Dickens's fascination with rotting bodily matter in Bleak House as a response to mid-Victorian psychological debates about the nature of mind and the possibility of immortality. Critics have tended to treat the novel's fixation on such matter as primarily a product...

... : U of Chicago P , 1998 . Matter, Mind, and Agency in the Long Eighteenth Century JONATHAN KRAMNICK, Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2010), pp. 307, paper, $24.95. How do we know that other people have minds? It is arguable...

...ROBYN R. WARHOL PHILLIP BARRISH, American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 213 + x, $54.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Matters of Taste PHILLP...

... . The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003 . "AGreat Talker upon Little Matters ": Trivializing the Everyday in Emma MARY HONG In Jorge Luis Borges's short story "Funes, His Memory," the title...

... . Berkeley : U of California P , 1959 . Woloch Alex . The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003 . When Experience Matters: Tom Jones and ‘‘Virtue Rewarded’’ STEPHANIE...

...Kinohi Nishikawa Abstract The Black Lives Matter movement experienced a groundswell of support in the summer of 2020. The scale of mobilization was staggering, with marches and rallies held in every corner of the country. Since then, support for the movement has dropped, and some see...

...Grace A. Musila Abstract While the Black Lives Matter movement is widely recognized and supported in Africa, its framing prioritizes experiences of anti‐Blackness in the United States and the Black diaspora. This is partly owing to the movement's genesis as a direct response to domestic forms...

..., this article shows how 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests indicate the contours of what we might think of as a “post‐global” politics: that is, a movement that reflects a globally informed analysis but nonetheless draws only implicitly on ideas of global commonality. National movements affirm the unity...

..., vis‐à‐vis her pregnancy, and the endless possibilities her future self and her future child can take. By using a narrative form—autofiction—that embodies the relational, fluid self of a queer, diasporic, Black subject, Wenzel's novel best captures Black Lives Matter's desire to center those folx who...

.... This skepticism is rooted in Emma 's conservative economic and political vision. Its conservatism paradoxically gestures to a point that is important to some of today's progressive thought: that our valorization of preferential choice—of the idea that choices should be a matter of individual desire for one option...

... the dark climax of that modernity, with democracy still very much alive; the 1936 Essence of the National Polity , a book-length propaganda essay produced by a committee of literary scholars and political hacks in the linguistic vacuum of fascist Japan; and Oe Kenzaburo's 1964 A Personal Matter...

... narratives of political reform. The novel “relocates” the conventions of these two genres, transplanting the formal, thematic, and rhetorical conventions of each genre to the plotlines and subject matter of the other. Such relocation undermines normative expectations about both genres and opens possibilities...

...—Burney posits an ethics of the novel that treats matters of chance and modes of depleted agency as central aspects of the human condition rather than as markers of moral or aesthetic failure. Setting Burney's texts within ascendant modes of economy and finance in the eighteenth century, the article...

... of the imagination, literary critics sought to emphasize the palimpsestic nature of text by pointing to the unsayable and the indeterminate, and they devalued that which appeared mimetic, no matter what the text itself looked like. I explore the question of genre or narrative mode with special attention to realism...

... metempsychosis that scholars have largely ignored: even though Lee's character undergoes radical change each time he enters a new body, aspects of original character always persist despite his new physical circumstances. Through these incongruities between Lee's spirit and matter, the novel explores...