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This issue considers the (textual) implications of dying worlds and dying words. The understanding of the Anthropocene as a geological epoch has highlighted humanity’s ineffable impact on the planet we inhabit, but simultaneously, the Anthropocene continually draws attention to humanity’s inability to act upon that understanding. The cultural apathy that arises in discussions about the… Continue reading 36.1 “Dying Wor(l)ds

The articles in this issue will become open access in the Winter of 2024. Main articles Kelly van der Meulen & Sven Verouden | ForewordAbstract Ben de Bruyn | Bad Vibrations: Tone and Translation in The Animals in that CountryAbstract Gerlov van Engelenhoven | Powerful Silence as a Decolonizing Writing Strategy in Maria Dermoût’s De… Continue reading 35.2 “Sounding Literature”

Main Articles Kelly van der Meulen & Kees Müller | ForewordAbstract Angela Brintlinger | Food and Patriotism in Russia from Domostroi to Viazemsky: The Case of KvasAbstract Psyche Williams-Forson | Chit’lins and Champagne: Food, Class and Secuality in Ann Allen Shockley’s Loving HerAbstract Rita Mookerjee | Trio Marmelade and Hominy Grits: Gullah Traditions and Home… Continue reading 35.1 Literary Perspectives on Food

This issue examines the ways in which literature can represent the mind and its different manifestations in all its complexity. This issue aims to add and democratise understandings of the human psyche. It includes, amongst other topics, articles on comics and life-writing and features a range of case-studies. Kelly van der Meulen & Kees Müller |… Continue reading 34.2 Writing the Mind

Literature crystallizes the actions of those who face the present, those dedicated to reflecting upon the machinations of the status quo and those who have and still are taking action against oppression. It follows that literary and other artistic texts have the power to show to readers both involved and not involved in those processes… Continue reading 34.1 | Literature and Activism

This issue of FRAME, in collaboration with the OSL research group on Law, Literature and Society, will focus on the topic of “War, Literature, and Law.” The articles discuss the dynamics between the fields of literature and law as they intersect in making sense of, or in their impact on, the experience of war. How… Continue reading 33.2 | War, Literature, and Law

In his 2015 text “The Aesthetics of Singularity,” Fredric Jameson finds the ontology of our era expressed in contemporary art installations. (1) Like Stanislaw Lem’s reviews of imaginary books that demonstrate how the idea of a book is just as consumable as the real book itself, art today is generated by a single idea that operates through its combined… Continue reading 33.1 | Perspectives of Urban Studies

One week after the Dutch ‘Week of the Book’, and in the year we celebrate one hundred years of women’s voting rights in the Netherlands, FRAME presents the theme of their new issue: “Feminist Bodies”. The chosen theme of the Week of the Book was The Mother the Woman, intended to coincide with a year of looking back… Continue reading 32.2 | Feminist Bodies

Tensions between religion and secularism underlie many ongoing issues in today’s society. They divide not only the West and the East, or the global North and the global South, but also the urban and the rural, the young and the old. Yet the oppositions do not seem to be absolute: atheist churches have been established… Continue reading 32.1 | Religion and Secularism

The relation between fact and fiction has been a central topic for comparative literary studies ever since its inception. Because of the literary text’s ambiguous ontological status, authors are (nominally) at liberty to write anything without being held accountable for their artistic creation. As Jonathan Culler puts it, the literary text “does not presume a… Continue reading 31.2 | Fact and Fiction