The Road to Socialist World Literature I am very grateful to many friends and scholars who have helped me shape the idea of Socialist World Literature. The central concern of Socialist World Literature is remapping the connection between Socialist Realism…
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JNT 52.2 Featured Authors: Florian Zitzelsberger and Melanie Kreitler
“Making (Narrative) Sense: Introspection and Retrospection in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” When I started watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I did not know what I was in for. People recommended the show to me because of my dissertation project, in which I…
JNT 52.1 Featured Author: Dan Shen
When I first read Kate Chopin’s “A Pair of Silk Stockings” all the way back at the turn of the century, I only took it to be a feminist text. Although I found some textual elements that didn’t fit in…
JNT 51.3 Featured Authors: Mary Burger and Camille Roy
Biting the Narrative: A Conversation Mary Burger and Camille Roy Mary: It’s been almost 20 years since you and I, Gail Scott, and Robert Glück started gathering work for Biting the Error (an anthology of theoretical writings on narrative with…
JNT 51.3 Featured Author: Earl Jackson, Jr.
Glossing the Real and the Fictional Earl Jackson, Jr. I cannot think of any more fitting way to begin this reflection on my essay on New Narrative and Laura Moriarty’s Ultravioleta, than advice Kevin Killian once gave me. I was…
JNT 51.2 Featured Author: Jeffrey Gonzalez
Jeffrey Gonzalez My article’s long backstory begins with a conversation I had while I was pursuing my Ph.D. at Penn State all the way back in late 2007. I met with Eric Hayot, whom I cite in the article, in…
JNT 51.2 Featured Author: Sarah Copland
Sarah Copland Truth and Reconciliation and Narrative Ethics, Form, and Politics In December 2016, my mother told me she was introducing Joseph Boyden’s novella Wenjack to her library book club in January. Her contribution was timely because Wenjack was published that fall as part…
JNT 51.1 Featured Author: Dr. Frederick J. Solinger
In the sections on Burgess, I am careful to avoid in anyway humanizing the likes of Alex and his droogs, and all I say there applies here. But it raises some fundamental questions, about how such ears turned deaf, such minds closed off: What role can we as educators play in a larger information ecology to counter this?
JNT 51.1 Featured Author: Dr. Chen Edelsburg
Love is often thought about as something that cannot be interpreted, something that even resists interpretation (as Freud claims in “Observations on Transference Love”). Therefore, scholars may have felt that Buddy-Salinger’s love for characters blocked their ability to interpret the text, to understand it, and to produce knowledge about it.
JNT 50.3 Featured Author: Dr. Nasia Anam
There were many moments I felt suddenly that I had no right to be there as a traveler, or more so a vacationer, when so many hundreds were dying just to place their feet on the same Mediterranean terra firma where I stood. It is an injustice so vast and cruel that I still cannot fully fathom it, despite having spent nearly a decade studying and writing about postcolonial migration to Europe.
