Modern Fiction Studies

Robert P. Marzec, Editor

Maren Linett, Associate Editor

Frida Beckman, Managing Editor

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71.2 (Summer 2025)

General Issue

• Articles
  • David Morris, “‘The God of Small Comforts:’ Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series”
  • Birgit Neumann, “The Strange Intimacies of Interpretation: Affects, Justice, and Translation in Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies”
  • Judith Popova , “The Western Gaze and the Eastern European Refugee in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights”
  • Romy Rajan, “English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust”
  • Mark Sanders, “Automatic Writing, Automatic Reading: Programming and Labor in Two Novels by J. M. Coetzee”
  • Sushmita Sircar, “Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea as a Global Industrial Novel”
  • Tine Sommer, “Modern Atmospheres: Houses in Alice Adams, The Home-Maker, and The Professor’s House”
  • Ian Tan, “The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega”
• Reviews
• • Alex M. Anderson, “Fascination: Trance, Enchantment & American Modernity by Patrick Kindig” (review)
  • Emma Bond, “Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio” (review)
  • Laura Brueck, “The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani” (review)
  • Jack Crawford, “Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David J. Getsy” (review)
  • Mattia De Luca, “Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters” (review)
  • Levi C. R. Hord, “Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery” (review)
  • Sam Jacob, “Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart” (review)
  • John Limon, “American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature by Rebecca B. Clark” (review)
  • Scott Lyall, “Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow” (review)
  • Chloe Moore & James Dawes, “Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz” (review)
  • Ryan Schneider, “‘Beyond This Narrow Now’: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler” (review)
    

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