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VOL. 59, No. 1, 2022

SPECIAL ISSUE: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies
GUEST EDITORS: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Anne Garland Mahler

Introduction

New Critical Directions in Global South Studies
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Anne Garland Mahler

Articles

A “Reorder of Things” in Black Studies: Sacred Praxis, Phono(geo)graphy, and the Counter-Archive of Diaspora
Jarvis C. McInnis

“A Theatre—or, More Aptly, a Laboratory”: India in the 1940s Egyptian Left as an Antecedent of Bandung Internationalism
Hala Halim

Négritude et Amérique Latine: From the Black South Atlantic to the Third World
Estefanía Bournot

Insurgent Afterlife: Latin America, the Left, and Contemporary U.S. Multiethnic Literature
Sharada Orihuela Balachandran

Rethinking the History of Chinese Empires from the Sinophone South
Shuang Shen

Changing Theory: Thinking Concepts from the Global South
Dilip M. Menon

 

Book Reviews

From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds by Rossen Djagalov (review)
Samuel Hodgkin

Excavating Memory: Bilge Karasu’s Istanbul and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin by Ülker Gökberk (review)
Azade Seyhan

Making and Seeing Modern Texts by Jonathan Locke Hart (review)
Song Ming

Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature by Rebecca Sanchez (review)
Babak Rahimi

Samuel Beckett as World Literature by Thirthankar Chakraborty and Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (review)
Susan Mooney

Ageing in Irish Writing: Strangers to Themselves by Heather Ingman (review)
Yue Jianfeng

 

VOL. 59, No. 2, 2022

Articles

2021 A. Owen Aldridge Prize Winner “A Nonpeaceful Coexistence”: The Plight of 1960s Bilingual Literary Journals in Morocco and Israel
Lital Abazon

World Poetry: Comparing Poetic Worlds in Translation
Bhavya Tiwari

Translating the Lottery: Moral and Political Issues in Pietro Chiari’s La Giuocatrice Di Lotto and Its French and English Translations
Marius Warholm Haugen

Literature, Testimony, and Regimes of Truth
Colin Davis, Hanna Meretoja

Navigating the Space Between Hermeneutics and Aesthetics: Dhvani and Comparative Poetics
Radhika Koul

Translation With the Eye: Yōko Tawada Reads Paul Celan
Paul McQuade

How to Read a Kopla? Comparative Cognitive Analysis of the Basque Kopla Zaharrak and the Moroccan Ayyus
Sarali Gintsburg

Taché’s Voyageur is not Cooper’s Frontiersman: Differences between Canadian and U.S. Concepts of “Frontier”
Annie Rehill

“The Most Unique and Spicy Volume in Existence”: A Picaresque Reappraisal of Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad
Myrial Adel Holbrook

 

Book Reviews

Israel/Palestine: Border Representations in Literature and Film by Drew Paul (review)
Rachel Green

 

VOL. 59, No. 3, 2022

SPECIAL ISSUE: The Cultures of Global Post/Socialisms
GUEST EDITORS: Claudia Sadowski-Smith and Ioana Luca

Introduction

The Cultures of Global Post/Socialisms
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Ioana Luca

Articles

Institutionalizing Afro-Asianism: Lotus and the (Dis)Contents of Soviet-Third World Cultural Politics
Maryam Fatima

The Socialist Leader in Film: Sergiu Nicolaescu’s Hot Days in Romania and Post-Maoist China
Lucian Tion

Cold War Solidarities and Twenty-First Century Frayed Alliances: Romanian-Ghanaian Vantage Points
Monica Popescu

Guest Workers and Non-Aligned Friends: Postsocialist and Postcolonial Solidarity in Želimir Žilnik’s Recent Films About Migration
Nataša Kovačević

Unfinished Business: Visuality, Space, and the State in (Post) Socialist Venezuela
Irina R. Troconis

The Return of Marxist Discourse to Russian-American Fiction: Keith Gessen’s Novel A Terrible Country
Adrian Wanner

Transnationalizing Memories of Post/Socialism: Diasporic Graphic Lives
Ioana Luca

The Rise of the Nostalgic Spy Thriller: Globalizing the Neo-Cold War Narrative of Totalitarian State Socialism in the TV Series Deutschland (2015–2020)
Claudia Sadowski-Smith

New Cold War Nostalgia in Recent U.S. Cultural Productions: Retro and Irony in the Transnational Postsocialist World
Oana Popescu Sandu

 

VOL. 59, No. 4, 2022

Introduction

The Global Minor: A Transnational Space for Decentralizing Literary and Translation History
Diana Roig-Sanz

Articles

Indigenous Linguistic and Cultural Revitalization in Canada: Towards the Demarginalization of Indigenous Narrative Voices and “texts”
Denise Merkle

Seeing the Continental through the Local: Indigenous Literatures, Languages, and Translations in Peruvian Magazines (1926–1930)
Laura Fólica

Elicura Chihuailaf: Oralitura, (Self-) Translation and Cultural Mediation Across Trans-Indigenous Networks
Melisa Stocco

On Pluralism and Relevance in World Literary Transfers: Some reflections on the Mapping of Contemporary Swahili Literary Extranslations into Italian, English, and German
Serena Talento

Genre Communities: Against a National Teleology of Literature
Mushtaq Bilal

Regional Literary Tradition in Modern World Literature: The Allegorization of Democracy in Yano Ryükei’s Beautiful Story of Statesmanship and Its Chinese and Korean Translations
Satoru Hashimoto

Biography Series in Turkish: Blending the “Minor” With “Major”
Ceyda Elgül

Mapping the circulation of a less-translated literature: Georgian books abroad since 1991
Ana Kvirikashvili

The Foreign Action of Peripheries, or the Will to Be Seen: Catalan Cultural Diplomacy in the Interwar Period
Elisabet Carbó-Catalan

“Less-translated” regional languages? Inter- and intra-peripheral translations in Wallonia (1870-1940)
Maud Gonne

From Self-Translator to Cultural Ambassador: The Case of the Avant-Garde Yiddish Poet Debora Vogel
Golda van der Meer

Book Reviews

A Study of Paradigms and Theoretical Key Words of Asian American Literary Criticism By Pu Rouxi, Beijing, China Social Science Press, 2020, 270pp, softcover, ¥ 99.00. (review)
Shaoming Duan

The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature by Robert Eaglestone. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi + 187 pp. $65.00 hardcover (review)
Petar Ramadanovic

Review of Cultivating Peace: The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750, by Melissa Schoenberger.
Timothy Sweet

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