To mark the festive occasion of our anniversary, we have devoted our latest issue to the issue of celebration: the many forms, rituals, and emotions of celebrating and commemorating. How do literary texts (de)construct or reinforce what we deem celebratory? What perspectives do we perpetuate with the traditions and rituals we uphold and write about?
Within this issue, five authors examine how practices of celebration portrayed in literature, how literary texts can act as critical vehicles that examine what it means to celebrate one thing over another, and how art and literature circulate within specific celebratory social contexts.
The content of this issue will become open access in July 2026.
Main section
Nienke Veenstra and Isolde Kors | Foreword
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Luka Hattuma, Isolde Kors, Nienke Veenstra | Between Odes and Silences: An Interview with Dr. Kila van der Starre
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Masterclass
Dr. Andries Hiskes | This Is Only Delay: The Celebratory Epideictic and the Act-Like in Mary Szybist’s Annunciations
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Dewi Kopp | Celebrating Curaçaoan Creoleness in Buladó
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Carmijn Gerritsen | (Re)Imagining Black Britishness: Identity Politics, Belonging and Celebration in A Portable Paradise and Assembly
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Miscellaneous
Julia Ferry | Celebrating with the Dead
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