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…
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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.
JNT 50.2 Featured Author: Dr. Stephen Sohn
Dr. Stephen Sohn The journey that this article took to publication was quite long. I wrote the initial draft of what would be published in JNT around 2008, when I was working on my first book, Racial Asymmetries. At that…
JNT 50.2 Featured Author: Dr. Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar
Dr. Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar As of today, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend saga has sold over ten million copies around the world. A global phenomenon, Ferrante has cemented her reputation as one of this century’s most formidable storytellers. This…
JNT 50.2 Featured Author: Dr. Christopher Douglas
Dr. Christopher Douglas I read Natsume Sōseki’s first novel, I am a Cat (1905-06), while teaching in a costal community in Chiba Prefecture as a part of the JET Programme after completing my bachelor’s degree. I tried to use my…
