This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
This introductory essay traces a genealogy of the notion of the minor in critical theories of the past four decades to then articulate the notion's aesthetic dimension. Foregrounding that dimension, we argue, offers a powerful analytical tool for fosteri
Selahattin Demirtas's fiction has led to some fierce discussions in the literary world in Turkey. The polemics were a reminder that prison literature, broadly defined, always was a hotly debated genre in the literary sphere of the late Ottoman Empire and
In the first half of the twentieth century there is a marked uptick in Western interest in Chinese literature. This manifests especially in poetry, with many translations, adaptations, and imitations. Well-known examples include Ezra Pound, Victor Segalen
While several collections have been published recently from the perspective of common law focused specifically on jurisprudence and from the perspective of both literary theory and the philosophy of language, a more integrative approach that sharpens the
This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP) in Chile (1970-1973). The Chilean revolutionary process had curricular and pedagogical repercussions, e
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of world literature has coincided with the age of global Anglophone and the virtual minoritization of all no
Internet literature emerged in China in the 1990s and became commercialized in the early 2000s, with readers paying an access fee, which is split between literary platforms and their contracted writers, to access popular novels. While the most popular gen
The article studies the one-sided, simplified description of migration and parents migrating from Poland after 2004 in Polish children's and young adult literature. The author analyzes narrative strategies common for several key novels. She connects the
This article addresses a discursive problem with the study of Palestinian literature alongside Israeli literature: by focusing on the intersections between Hebrew and Arabic literatures, scholars have created a hybrid that precludes comparison between two
Literature and history as objects of study and fields of inquiry have shaped each other in profound if asymmetrical ways. This introduction provides a brief account of how these disciplines intersect in the GAPE and the contemporary era, emphasizing conce
In this article I set about theorising the construction of a gendered didactic of literature, one that accounts for alternative ways of reading and approaching literary texts in school settings. Throughout my article, I intend to trouble literary reading
Introducing a cluster on the prison writings of Kurdish human rights lawyer and politician Selahattin Demirtas, this article explores Demirtas's multifaceted understanding of literature as storytelling (anlati) and fiction (kurgu).
The history of Albanian children's literature spans a long time. Initially, religious texts of medieval literature were used as such literature in Albanian schools, but pure children's literature was born during the period of Albanian Romanticism. At th
What remains of European thought in law and literature's global turn? To address the question, this article reopens Nuruddin Farah's Gifts (1993) alongside modern and contemporary writings on globalization, cosmopolitanism, and their (de)constitutive me