Modern Fiction Studies

Robert P. Marzec, Editor

Maren Linett, Associate Editor

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70.4 (Winter 2024)

General Issue

• Articles
  • Greg Deinert, "'Save America From Itself': Steve Erickson's Speculative History of the Future in Shadowbahn"
  • Anwesha Kundu, “Conservative Modernity: The Self-Making of the Modern Colonial Woman in Cornelia Sorabji's India Calling”
  • Gwen Bergner, “Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend”
  • Keyun Tian, “Between Apparition and Disappearance: Queer Penumbrae in Wu He's Ghosts and Fairies”
  • Evan Lower, “'One way of looking at it': Positive Thinking and Precarious Labor in Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods”
  • Timothy K. August, “'Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty”
  • Steven Frye, “'An Unknown Tongue': God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris”
• Reviews
  • John Brooks, "Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert G. O'Meally"
  • Haley Garrelts, "Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by Scott Herring"
  • Jennifer Haytock, "Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present by David F. Eisler"
  • Cara Anne Kinnally, "Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri"
  • Stephen Knadler, "Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk"
  • Rachel Kolb, "Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson"
  • Meredith Lee, "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino"
  • Christopher McGowan, "Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten"
  • Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-first Century Transnational Latinx Literature by Cristina Rodriguez"
  • Robert Volpicelli, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Hannah Freed-Thall"

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