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VOL. 61, No. 1, 2024
CLUSTER
WRITING BEHING BARS: SELAHATTİN DEMİRTAŞ AND THE PROMISE OF LITERATURE
Introduction: Literature Beyond Bars
Nergis Ertürk
Exploring the Kurdish Literary Tradition in Selahattin Demirtaş’s Works
Özlem Belçim Galip
From Silvio Pellico to Selahattin Demirtaş: Prison Literature and Literary Polemics in Turkey
Laurent Mignon
Metamorphosis from Behind the Bars: Selahattin Demirtaş’s Leylan
Jale Parla
The Mūthoi of Selahattin Demirtaş
R. A. Judy
ARTICLES
On the Aesthetics and Politics of Neoconservatism in Postwar Japan and America
Brian Hurley
Losing the Center: The Emergent Metaphysics of Positive and Negative Distance in Troubadour and Flamenco Lyric
Ben Meyerson
The Deceived: Lope de Rueda and Improvisation on the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Stage
Alex J. H. Thomas
BOOK REVIEWS
Modernism, Empire, World Literature. By Joe Cleary
Cóilín Parsons
The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China 1861–1906. By Shaoling Ma
Junting Huang
Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. By David S. Roh
Steven S. Lee
VOL. 61, No. 2, 2024
SPECIAL ISSUE: Communist World Poetics
Guest edited by Samuel Hodgkin
Introduction: Communist World Poetics
Samuel Hodgkin
Indigenous Internationalism and the Art of Recognition: A Soviet Trace on a Global Stage
Naomi Caffee
Romanticism, Internationalism, and the National Poet: Genealogies of Second-World Surrogacy
Samuel Hodgkin
Cold War Kreutzer: Tolstoy’s Posthumous Political Career from Venice to Palestine
Margaret Litvin
Forms of Translation, Translation of Forms: From Gorky’s Mother to Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
Sandeep Banerjee
The Brazilian Eisenstein (1961–1981)
Sarah Ann Wells
Raising Malcolm’s Ghost: Black Radicalism, Third World Internationalism, and Counterintelligence in Lauren Wilkinson’s American Spy
Cedric Tolliver
VOL. 61, No. 3, 2024
Survival Politics and Sacrificial Transmediation: Liu Xiaobo and Signature Event Context
Nick Admussen
Reckoning with the Rogue: Calculation, Narration, and the Incomplete Scene of Accountability in J. M. Lee’s The Boy from Paradise
John H. Kim
Relayed Revolutionary Sentiment: Chinese Appropriation of Russian Nihilism in Popular Literature
Xiaolu Ma
Peripheral Modernisms and Parody of the Bildungsroman: A Comparative Case Study on Italo Svevo and A. H. Tanpınar
Özen Nergis Dolcerocca
Nora Helmer and Thora Helmer: Henrik Ibsen at Play with the Vaudeville
Ellen Rees
2023 A. OWEN ALDRIDGE PRIZE WINNER
The Destruction of the Voice
Peter Makhlouf
REVIEW ESSAY
Unsettling Sound Studies
Charlotte Eubanks
VOL. 61, No. 4, 2024
FORUM
Comparative Approaches to Persianate Modernity: Forum on Alexander Jabbari’s The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Nergis Ertürk
How Modern is the Persianate? Aesthetics and Politics of a Scholarly Category
Samuel Hodgkin
Literary Modernism and Literary Modernity in the Middle East
Levi Thompson
On Sexuality and Persianate Modernity
Allison Kanner-Botan
Urdu, Persian, and (Even) English: Triangulating Postcolonial Literary History with The Making of Persianate Modernity
Fatima Burney
From the Persianate World to Multiple Worlds of the Persianate
C. Ceyhun Arslan
Persianate Dialectics
Alexander Jabbari
ARTICLES
The Conundrum of Similarity: Tsubouchi Shōyō and H. M. Posnett on the Meaning of Cross-Textual Resemblance
Scott Mehl
Wen, Literature, and Belles Lettres: Reconfiguring Chinese Literature in Nineteenth-Century English Sinology
Lingjie Ji
Reframing Authorship in Abiayala: Marisol Ceh Moo’s Novelistic Production and Authorial Construction
Jose Carlos Diaz-Zanelli
Jay Wright’s Errant Texts and the Idea of World Literature
‘Gbenga Adeoba
BOOK REVIEWS
Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery
Aditya Bahl
The Savage Detectives Reread
Benjamin Loy
States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century
Sandeep Banerjee
Decolonisations of Literature: Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil After 1945
Lanie Millar