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...Vera Bühlmann; Felicity Colman; Iris van der Tuin Vera Bühlmann, Felicity Colman, and Iris van der Tuin Introduction to New Materialist Genealogies New Materialisms, Novel Mentalities, Quantum Literacy Like the new materialist turn, feminist new materialist scholarship (Haraway 1988...

... . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1987 . John Miller Death, Display, and Companionship in Animal Studies (on Donna J. Haraway’s When Species Meet [Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2008]; Kurt Koenigsberger’s The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire [Columbus...

...Madigan Haley The novel has become a crucial interpretive site for global literary studies owing to its status as arguably the first, and most persistent, world genre. This essay marks a critical turn that coalesces around the problem of how to imagine the novel at the world scale. Recent...

...Yumna Siddiqi; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair In his novels Cockroach and Carnival , Rawi Hage explores the varied experiences of postcolonial migrants to the northern city. His protagonists are antiheroes, hustlers who reject the demands of good immigrant citizenship. Theorists...

...Nicole M. Merola This essay considers Jeanette Winterson’s speculative novel The Stone Gods for the literary, formal, and tonal strategies it employs to diagnose and illuminate the material burdens of producing and living in the Anthropocene. Using the geologic tool of stratigraphy in concert...

... migration, identity, language, translation, and geography, both rooted in France and routed along treacherous seaways. Shumona Sinha’s novel Assommons les pauvres also focuses on the experiences of the privileged immigrant narrator whose story is a core part of the novel. Sinha has the privilege to narrate...

... of Beirut in 1982. Palestinian modernist novels emerge in this context both to mark the end of Arab and Palestinian praxis and to resist its revolutionary recoil. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Abdelrahman Munif's coauthored novel World without Maps (1982) and Jabra's The Other Rooms (1986) are discussed...

...Calina Ciobanu This article argues that Margaret Atwood’s postapocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy, composed of the novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood , and MaddAddam , imagines how humankind might come to reconstitute itself at the end of the Anthropocene—that is, once it has decimated...

... by narrative literature. Focusing on Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow , I analyze the ways in which worldly faith and parochial secularity unravel the religious/cosmopolitan agon. As Pamuk's novel underscores, because the most prominent boundaries of the modern world system are not territorial or political...

..., Not Barriers! ) (2017), Diome takes up the many threads of the migritude tapestry so fully depicted in her novels and reweaves them into a portrait of an ideal new multicultural French identity. Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 Fatou Diome migritude assimilationism Marianne Works Cited...

... for such worldings is to be found in the concept of shared, quotidian affliction, following the work—including the work of both living and dying—of Simone Weil. The entry point into a nonhuman reading of Weil is Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel, I Love Dick , which here becomes a story at the threshold of the human-animal...

...Hayley Singer Abstract In Agustina Bazterrica's novel Tender Is the Flesh (2020), a virus has ripped through every animal on the planet. All animals are massacred. No more dogs, cows, pigs, or birds. Some people refused to send their companions to the killing squads. Still, they died. At first...

..., analyses, and examples presented by the essays in this collection, with a focus on conceptions of relationality, the subjects of justice, not-knowing but learning, and practices of world-building. It also offers brief interpretations of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's novel Noopiming in relation to concepts...

... Anthropocene concept, to filter out a heuristic for the analysis of literary texts. In the second part, this perspective is applied comparatively to two German-language novels that address geologic eras. Through the two examples, by Max Frisch and Ilija Trojanow, I want to argue that although environmental...

... of Daniel (1971) and Marge Piercy’s eponymous heroine in her novel Vida (1979). Fictional characters loosely based on such activist-fugitives as Bernardine Dohrn abound in more recent works as well. Meredith “Merry” Levov, in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (1997), is no doubt the best known, but radical...

... or lineage but on residency. In explaining her views, Stevens also discusses narrative, Michel Foucault’s political activism, and her work with the Deportation Research Clinic that she directs at Northwestern. She is currently working on a book about how conquistador narratives and chivalry romance novels...

... of the Anthropocene to the wider discourse of posthumanism and also touches upon the importance of speculative realism as well as genres like the science-fiction novel to help us conceptualize our new condition. A brief summary of each of the ten essays in the focus section follows. Tobias Boes and Kate Marshall...

... being hallucination and the other being paranoia. Based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s argumentation, this essay studies four sorts of paranoiac characters in Mo Yan’s novels: innocent fools, tricksters, rogues, and cranks. It is through these masked fools that Mo Yan is able to apply “hallucinatory realism...

... of Higher Education . 75 ( 2004 ): 161 - 77 . Leuschner 137 Eric Leuschner Academic Memoir (on Elaine Showalter, Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents [Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005]) Elaine...

... Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 [Durham: Duke UP, 2008]) James Thomson’s “Rule Britannia” (1740) claimed that the origin of the British nation as an imperial power was in the Briton’s natural-born liberty. The poem predicted...