(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
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36.2 | Anna Ziering
“I Want Them To Feel Everything”: A Conversation with SfSx Creator Tina Horn Sex is omnipresent in Tina Horn’s graphic novel series SfSx. Investigating consent and coercion, sex work and censorship, the demonization of female sexuality and the exercise of radical, gender-inclusive queer pleasure, SfSx de-sensationalizes kink without reducing its eroticism. Along the way, it… Continue reading 36.2 | Anna Ziering
36.2 | Constanza Contreras Ruiz
Relating Otherwise: Erotic Power, Indigenous Relationality, and More-Than-Human Entanglements in Natalia Diaz’s “The First Water is the Body” This essay analyzes human and more-than-human entanglementsin Natalie Diaz’s poem “The First Water is the Body,” seeing the poem as a space where such relations proliferate, and drawing attention to the poet’s explicit refusal to label them… Continue reading 36.2 | Constanza Contreras Ruiz
35.1 | Angela Brintlinger
Food and Patriotism in Russia from Domostroi to Viazemsky: The Case of Kvas This essay explores how one of the most ordinary Russian beverages, kvas, came to function in the Russian literary imagination. Looking at poets over the course of almost a hundred years—Kantemir, Trediakovsky, Derzhavin, and Viazemsky, from 1729-1827—I show that Russian attitudes toward… Continue reading 35.1 | Angela Brintlinger