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Volume 52 (2022)

52.1 (Winter)

Dan Shen, “Naturalistic Covert Progression Behind Complicated Plot: Chopin's A Pair of Silk stockings"
Marijana Mikic, “Satirical Afrofuturism, Race, and Emotion in George S. Schuyler’s Black No More”
Mengni Kang, “Disappear into the Material: A Reading of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler through the Lens of Affect"
Arun Kumar Pokhrel, “History as Storytelling and Storytelling as History: The Environmental Materiality and Imagination in Waterland’s Bio-Regional Eco-Poetics”
Don J. Kraemer, “To Each According to Their Needs: Readerly Desire in Rhetorical Poetics and in Jesus’ Son”

Volume 51 (2021)

51.1 (Winter)

Xuan Gong, “Dual Focalization in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels"
Chen Edelsburg, “Restorative and Traumatic Interpellations: The Second-Person Address in Salinger’s Works”
Frederick J. Solinger, “Silencing the Linguistic Other: The Underclass as Noise Pollution in George Lamming’s The Emigrants and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange"
Mike Marais, “Hospitality, Reading, and the Aesthetic of Uncertainty Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
Stephen Weninger, “The Sacred Engine: Myth and Fiction in Snowpiercer”

51.2 (Summer)

Todd Copleand, “Will Ladislaw’s Contextualization: The Function of Epigraphs in George Eliot’s Middlemarch"
Ann Tso, “Feminine Charms and Horrors in J.G. Ballard’s “The Smile” and Iain Sinclair’s Downriver”
Monika Fludernik, “Narrating Otium—A Narratology of Leisure?"
Jeffrey Gonzalez, “Narrative and Cosmopolitan Mobility: Teju Cole’s Open City, Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, and Global Fiction”
Sarah Copland, “Truth and Reconciliation and Narrative Ethics, Form, and Politics”

51.3 (Fall) "New Narrative"

Rob Halpern and Robin Tremblay-McGaw, "Introduction: New Narrative"
Adam Mitts, “Elegiac Citationality in Kevin Killian's 'The Inn of the Red Leaf'”
David Grundy, “New Narratives in Gabrielle Daniels and Ishmael Houston-Jones"
Robin Tremblay-McGaw, “Sounding Out: Nathaniel Mackey's Ontological Archive in Fugitive Run”
Earl Jackson, Jr., “Reading the Writing ‘I’: Intertextual Subjectivity and Textual
Intersubjectivity in Laura Moriarty’s Ultravioleta”
Mary Burger, "'A Failed Saint Turns to Autobiography': Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe”
Camille Roy, "Pleasure and Purpose in Gail Scott's Heroine"
Kay Gabriel, "A Xerox of Feeling: Dennis Cooper's Frisk"
Miranda Mellis, "Equinox"

Volume 50 (2020)

50.1 (Winter)

Paul Bruss, “Introduction: A Short History of JNT”
Julie Park, “Writing with Pen and Dildo: Libertine Techniques of Eighteenth-Century Narrative”
Lori Robison, “Harem, Auction Block, and Stage: Sympathy and the Gaze as Object in A Romance of the Republic”
Ruchi Mundeja, “Rooms Not Quite Their Own: Two Colonial Itinerants, Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys, and Narratives of Roomlessness”
Laurie A. Rodrigues, “The ‘Right-Looking Girl’ in the Raccoon Coat: How to Read a Cliché, Like Franny Glass”

50.2 (Summer)

Erin Amann Holliday-Karre, “Re-imagining Shahrazad: Hanan Al-Shaykh and a Feminism of Difference”
Galia Benziman, “Dickens, Hard Times, and the Erasure of Female Origins”
Christopher C. Douglas, “’Sideways-Written Words’: Appropriation of the Eighteenth-Century British It-Narrative in Natsume Seki’s I Am a Cat”
Stephen Hong Sohn, “Model Minority Terrorist: Post 9/11 Asian American Racial Formation and Brown Peril Narrative Discourse in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar, “Bad Blood: On Culpability and a Metabolic Approach to Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend”

50.3 (Fall) "Refugee Literatures"

Hadji Bakara, “Introduction: Refugee Literatures”
Jana Schmidt, “An Uncertain Movement: Bertolt Brecht’s Refugee Conversations”
Yasmine Shamma, “’Heaven is Green’: The Ecoglobalism of Refugee Desert Gardens”
Ian Foster, “This is how we Refugee: Neoliberalism from Haiti to Palestine and the Economics of Refugee Form”
Ashna Ali, “Ugly Affects: Migritude and Black Mediterranean Counternarratives of Migrant Subjectivity”
Nasia Anam, “Encampment as Colonization: Theorizing the Representation of Refugee Spaces”
Khaled Mattawa, Poems

Volume 49 (2019)

49.1 (Winter)

Katrina Quinn, “Narrratologies of Autodiegetic Undercover Reportage: Albert Deane Richardson’s The Secret Service”
Lauren Kuryloski, “‘Black Wimmin Who Pass, Pass into Damnation’: Race, Gender, and the Passing Tradition in Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life and Douglas Sirk’s Film Adaptation”
Muno Abd-Rabbo, “Overlapping Character Variation in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart”
Molly Clark Hillard, “Never Let Me Go: Cloning, Transplanting, and the Victorian Novel ”

49.2 (Summer)

Sandra M. Leonard, “Borrowed Sins: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Plagiarisms in The Picture of Dorain Gray”
Paula Martín-Salván, “Community, Scapegoating, and Narrative Structure in Joeseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes ”
David Stromberg, “‘A Narrator, But One With Extremely Pressing Personal Needs’: Narrative Drive and Affective Crisis in Salinger’s ‘Seymour; An Introduction'”
Ignatius Chukwumah, “Rethinking Aristotle’s Hamartia: The Igbo Nigerian Tragic Form in Chibua Achebe’s Fiction”
Megan Behrent, “Suburban Captivity Narratives: Feminism, Domesticity, and the Liberation of the American Housewife”

49.3 (Fall) "Bodies, Objects, Agents"

Holly Dugan and Melissa J. Jones, “Introduction: Bodies/Objects/Agents”
Michael Lutz, “Poisoned Sight: Race and the Material Phantasm in Othello ”
Steven Swarbrick, “Object-oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost”
Samantha Pinto, “Objects of Narrative Desire: An Unnatural History of Fossil Collection and Black Women’s Sexuality”
Lucas Kwong, “H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ as Radicalizing Assemblage: An Anglo Materialist Nightmare”
Christine Hume, “Death, Sex, and Nylon”

Volume 48 (2018)

48.1 (Winter)

Todd Comer, “The Politics of Disability in Octavia Butler’s Kindred”
Nora Gilbert, “Sex and the Storyworld: Narrativizing Desirability in the Early Films of Fred Astaire”
Daniel Aureliano Newman, “Nabokov’s Gradual and Dual Blues: Taxonomy, Unreliability, and Ethics in Lolita”
Teresa Prudente, “Livid Time: Time, Tenses, and Temporal Deixis in Ulysses”
Hatice Yurttas, “Masquerade in Fingersmith”

48.2 (Summer)

Sharon Kirsch and Michael Stancliff, “‘How Do You Not Understand a Word?’ Language as Contagion and Cure in Pontypool”
Wan Li, “Ambiguity as an Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe’s Ambitions for the American Short Story”
Tison Pugh, “Nintendo’s Queer Narratology: The Legend of Zelda, Mythic Heroes, and the Genders of Gaming”
Alex Vernon, “Kinetoscope of War: Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried”
Carol Yang, “A Passage from Adam’s Dream to the Cessation of Desire: A Buddhist Reading of John Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’”

48.3 (Fall) “Women’s Experimental Forms”

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, “Introduction: Let Us Combine”
Georgina Colby, “Feminist Solidarity and Experiment in Kathy Acker’s Early Writings”
Ian Davidson, “Times and spaces never dreamed of in Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters”
Eric Keenaghan, “The Political Experiment of ‘Pot-Boylers’: Thinking, Feeling, and Romance in Kay Boyle’s Resistance Thriller Avalanche”
Shelly Eversley, “The Evidence of Things Unseen: Experimental Form as Black Feminist Praxis”
Alexander Dickow, “The Contemporary Hero in Sylvie Kandé’s Epic of Futurity, La Quête infinie de l’autre rive”
Leisha Jones, “‘BEING ALONE WITH YOURSELF IS INCREASINGLY UNPOPULAR’: The Electronic Poetry of Jenny Holzer"

Volume 47 (2017)

47.1 (Winter)

Allison Tharp, “‘There is a secret down here…’: Physical Containment and Social Instruction in Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills'”
Margaret Toth, “Seeing Edith Wharton’s Ghosts: The Alternative Gaze on Page and Screen”
Ryan Siemers, “‘Eternal, Slithery Penance’: Graham Swift’s Waterland and the Secularization of Confession”
Chang-Hee Kim, “The Biopolitical Effect of Cold War Containment in a Coming-of-Age Narrative”
Elif Oztabak Avci, “‘Playing Bad for White Ears’: A Study of the Narratee in Andrea Levy’s The Long Song”
Rahul K. Gairola and Ashna Ali, “Ambivalence and Security in the Anglo-American Empire: A Critical Dialogue with Professor Homi K. Bhabha”

47.2 (Summer)

Scott Stroud and Jaishikha Nautiyal, “Embedded Stories and the Use of Ambiguity in Ancient Indian Narratives: Selfshadowing in the Anugītā”
Ju Young Jin, “Spies in the Third Space: Spy as a Trope for Cultural Emplacement in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker and Kim Young-Ha’s Your Republic is Calling You”
Dale Pattison, “Domestic Violence: The Narrative Architectures of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games”
Alexandra Effe, “Coetzee’s Summertime as a Metaleptic Conversation”
Swaralipi Nandi, “Narrative Ambiguity and the Neoliberal Bildungsroman in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger”

47.3 (Fall) "Dis/enabling Narratives"

Eliza Chandler, “Troubled Walking: Storying the In-Between”
Chris Foss, “‘For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts’: The Affect of Pity in Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’”
Amanda Apgar, “Becoming Narratives: The Entanglement of Ability, Gender, Sexuality, and Time in ‘Special Needs’ Memoir”
Skye Anicca, “Cripping the Mermaid: A Borderlands Approach to Feminist Disability Studies in Valerie Martin’s ‘Sea Lovers’”
Evan Chaloupka, “Intersubjectivity and Narrative Technique in Of Mice and Men and ‘Johnny Bear’”