Besieged by Patriarchy, Bewildered by Conflicts: Exploring the Plights of Kashmiri Women in Nayeema Mahjoor’s Lost in Terror The prolonged armed conflicts in Kashmir, which have been ongoing since the 1990s, have been affecting the lives of the Kashmiris immensely. Women are the worst sufferers of these brutal conflicts due to their social vulnerability. Stifled… Continue reading 37.2 | Wasim Akram
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37.2 | Elif Kayahan
Echoes of Silence: Listening and Creating Echoes to Break the Archival Violence in Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli In Lost Children Archive (2019), Valeria Luiselli examines how lost, silenced, or forgotten voices can be preserved and understood. This essay argues that, through the stories of refugee children and Native Americans in the Mexico–United States… Continue reading 37.2 | Elif Kayahan
37.2 | Muskaan Katiyar
Tarrying Between Speech and Silence: Deferment and Disruption in Story of a Stammer This article explores the ‘minor’ aesthetics and politics of the stammer that operates through narrative resistance in Gábor Vida’s autofictional bildungsroman Story of a Stammer (2022). Set within Nicolae Ceaușescu’s oppressive Romanian communist regime, the Hungarian protagonist Gábor’s tale recounts his struggles… Continue reading 37.2 | Muskaan Katiyar
37.2 | Antonis Sarris
Varieties of Literary Worlding: The Different Intercultural Visions of Witold Gombrowicz and Julio Cortázar This article compares Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz and Argentine writer Julio Cortazar, focusing on interculturality. Inspecting Gombrowicz’s Pornografia (1960) and Cortazar’s Hopscotch (1963), it applies Shunqing Cao’s Variation Theory (2012) to demonstrate how both authors, shaped by exile, challenge the Eurocentrism-cultural… Continue reading 37.2 | Antonis Sarris
37.2 | Cae Joseph-Masséna and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Hearing Together? A Listening Across the Lines of Tracy Chapman’s Crossroads In this cowritten piece, we draw on the first song of Tracy Chapman’s Crossroads, her eponymous album released in 1989, to situate our reading of Tracy Chapman’s life œuvre as a critical engagement with the concept-as-form that is the crossroads. We demonstrate that her… Continue reading 37.2 | Cae Joseph-Masséna and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
37.2 | Reindert Dhondt
Decolonizing the Future through Archival Museum Fictions: The Case of Untold Microcosms Calls for metropolitan museums to repatriate cultural objects have multiplied in recent years, but they have hit numerous legal roadblocks and political hurdles. Against the backdrop of these obstacles in terms of reparation politics, the short story collection Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers… Continue reading 37.2 | Reindert Dhondt
37.2 | Foreword
Isolde Kors and Nora Westgeest In the foreword to this issue, editors-in-chief Isolde Kors and Nora Westgeest introduce the articles making up this issue.
37.2 Between the Lines
We’re excited to present Between the Lines, our latest issue exploring silence, erasure, and the power of literature to amplify marginalised voices. From music as a crossroads of diverse knowledge traditions to unraveling the silences created by colonial histories, six authors in this issue remind us that true understanding starts when we read between the… Continue reading 37.2 Between the Lines
37.1 | Julia Ferry
Celebrating with the Dead This essay seeks to explore the celebration of the dead, with the dead, as a collaborative way of mourning, drawing from the experience of celebrating the fifth anniversary of my grandfather’sdeath with my Japanese-Brazilian family. I will argue that this approach challenges the modern Western perspective onmourning. I draw on the… Continue reading 37.1 | Julia Ferry
37.1 | Carmijn Gerritsen
(Re)Imagining Black Britishness: Identity Politics, Belonging and Celebration in A Portable Paradise and Assembly Multicultural identities are integral to defining notions of ‘new Britishness,’ yet are rarely acknowledged in the British cultural narrative. This article demonstrates how Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise (2019) and Natasha Brown’s Assembly (2021) represent Black Britishness by employing counter-hegemonic images.… Continue reading 37.1 | Carmijn Gerritsen