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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

 

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