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The peer-reviewed and open-access journal publishing about theory and criticism, comparative literature, and cultural studies. Editor. Brittany Murray

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New CFP: Humor, the Absurd, and the Abject in Middle Eastern and North African Cultural Production. This special issue will be edited by Dr. Yasmine Ramadan and Dr. R. Shareah Taleghani. For more information: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/c…
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Becoming as Suffering: A Genealogy of Female Suffering in Chinese Myth and Literature. Take another look at Peina Zhuang and Jiazhau Lin's piece about the politics of women's suffering in Chinese literature. docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…

Becoming as Suffering: A Genealogy of Female Suffering in Chinese Myth and Literature

In their article “Suffering as Becoming: A Genealogy of Female Suffering in Chinese Myth and Literature,” Peina Zhuang and Jiazhao Lin undertake a comparative study of three Chinese mythical and...

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"Time Decay: Assets, Authoritarianism, and Anxiety about the Future". An article by Jack Davies, developing the rudiments of a different psycho-social theory of authoritarianism. Take a look at it in our newest issue: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…

Time Decay: Assets, Authoritarianism, and Anxiety about the Future

This article identifies a basic formula in the Freudo-Marxist take on twentieth-century authoritarianism. This is the incommensurability of inherited past development with the pace and demands of...

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Check out our new issue: "New Faces of Authoritarianism". Edited by Massimiliano Tomba, with an introduction by Asad Haider of @viewpointmag. docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v… @inthesetimesmag @rphilos @RethinkMarxism @histmat @decoloniselit @NewLeftReview
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"The poem is what lies between a between..." A timely look into Mahmoud Darwish's poetry by Ayelet Even-Nur. docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…

“The Poem Is What Lies Between A Between”: Mahmoud Darwish and the Prosody of Displacement

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish grew up in Israel as an internal refugee living under Israeli military rule, legally classified as a “present-absentee alien.” This article focuses on his 1995 volume...

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We’re calling for papers for our new special issue, “What Does the Algorithm Want? Psychoanalysis and the Critique of Digital Platforms”. Edited by @MattFlisfeder. For more information: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/c…
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Check our new special issue edited by Kang Liu: “The China Question in Western Theory”. We’re excited to be showcasing some current critical work from the Chinese academe in the field of literary and cultural studies. docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…
We're calling for papers for a new special issue, "Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, the Longue Durée, & Contemporary Culture". Check out our site for more information: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/c…
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Excited for our new special issue! It is a symposium on Nicholas Brown's "Autonomy". Including: Fredric Jameson, Elise Archias, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, @TimLanzen, @Christi32715136, Myka Tucker-Abramson, and Marina Vishmidt. Edited by @nilgesm. docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…
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The contemporary scene is crowded with monsters, from alien invaders to the zombie apocalypse. Fear is pervasive and intimately familiar. @RobertTally offers a fantasical Marxist critique in "Topographies of Fear in an Era of Globalization". docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…

Monstrous Accumulation: Topographies of Fear in an Era of Globalization

The predominance of the horror genre, broadly conceived, in recent years attests to the profound sense of anxiety and dread permeating late capitalist societies. As the processes and effects of...

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A flashback to one of our previous issues: check out Andrea Ruthven's take on the work of Kim Fu. "...Fu’s novel represents a potential transgender subjectivity that derives its resilience from its vulnerability as an unrecognizable social other" docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…

Subverting Transnormativity: Rage and Resilience in Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy

This article analyzes the affective politics of rage and resilience in the novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014) by Kim Fu. The novel explores the dis-identification (Muñoz 1999) of gender identity...

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No estamos todas, faltan las presas! Read about "Contemporary Feminist Practices Building Paths toward Prison Abolition". Susana Draper's article in our newest issue: doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.38…

No estamos todas, faltan las presas! Contemporary Feminist Practices Building Paths toward Prison...

This article focuses on a small but crucial aspect of the question of gendered violence and the multiple injustices that feminist mobilizations have once again brought into mainstream discussion: how...

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We're happy to be on new media platforms! See our newest special issue on the "Politics of Social Reproduction": docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…
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