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VOL. 62, No. 3, 2025

ARTICLES

Introduction: Archival Turns, Twists, and New Directions
Cristina Vatulescu

The Bend of Archival Light: On Praxis and Politicality
Ann Laura Stoler

Reimagining the Archive as a Generative Space for Cultural Institutions: A Brooklyn Case Study
Anneke Rautenbach

Chance Encounters and Textual Instabilities: Ry Nikonova’s Archives
Rebekah Smith

An Archival Urn: Notes on White Dust from Mongolia
Vero Chai

INTERVIEWS

“The Archive and and and The Repertoire”: An Interview with Diana Taylor
Cristina Vatulescu

“The Archive is Dormant, Never Dead”: An Interview with Ann Laura Stoler
Cristina Vatulescu

“When You Look at the Archives, You Also See the Shadows and the Grays, the Different Degrees of Grays”: An Interview with Iosif Király
Cristina Vatulescu

From “Big Archives” to “Slow Archives,” and Back: An Interview with Sven Spieker
Cristina Vatulescu

“Re-turning to Archives: ‘There is Always More to Find and It Feels Real’”: An Interview with Terri Francis
Cristina Vatulescu

Ukrainian Archives during the Russian Invasion: An Interview with Andriy Kohut
Cristina Vatulescu

Issues in Representing Archives: AI, Ethics, and Metadata: An Interview with Lia Warner
Polina Belova

 

VOL. 62, No. 2, 2025

SPECIAL ISSUE: African Literatures and the Question of Form

ARTICLES 

Introduction: Reading African Forms Simultaneously
Alexander Fyfe and Rosemary Jolly

Traditional Poetics in a War Novel: Allegory as Form and Theory in Kole Omotoso’s The Combat
Comfort Olajumoke Verissimo

Postcolonial Historical Drama and the Aporias of Tricontinentalism in Angola
Luís Madureira

Otelo Burning: On Revolution, Freedom, and the Temporalities of Betrayal
Rita Barnard

The Technology of Speaking: Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ and the Digital Forms of Yorùbá Modernist Poetics
Gabriel Bámgbóṣé

Fugitive Forms
Grace A. Musila

BOOK REVIEWS

The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kirk B. Sides

The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World
Charne Lavery

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
Estefania Bournot

Contradictory Indianness: Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary
Najnin Islam

Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond
Lindsey Green-Simms

China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature
Gabriel Bámgbóṣé

Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence
Olivia C. Harrison

 

 

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