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Scholarly journal of world literature literary criticism, 1900-present. Published quarterly by Indiana University Press, with digital editions on Project Muse. https://iupress.org/journals/jml/

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Aug 19

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On Beckett, On!, Journal of Modern Literature's first book, demonstrates how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett scholarship has become, encompassing philosophy, psychoanalysis, ethics, contemporary history, and literary theory.
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On Beckett, On!

This collection of essays was born from a wish to show to a wider audience how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett scholarship has become, at a time when ...

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Woolf's first fully realized literary experiment
*The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories* by Virginia Woolf
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BOOK NEWS: Woolf's first fully realized literary experiment

The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, by Virginia Woolf Edited by Urmila Seshagiri Princeton UP, 2025 ISBN: 9780691263137 https://press.p...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 2d

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Updated edition of Forster's *A Room with a View*
New release from @broadviewpress.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: Updated edition of Forster's *A Room with a View*

A Room with a View By E.M. Forster Randi Saloman, editor Broadview Press, 2025 ISBN: 9781554814473 https://broadviewpress.com/product/a-ro...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 7d

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Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance
*Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature*
By @matthewscully.bsky.social / published by @fordhampress.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance

Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature By Matthew Scully Fordham UP, 2024 ISBN: 9781531507077 https://fo...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 10d

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Critical reflections on the work of Luis J. Rodríguez
Recent release from @edinburghup.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: Critical reflections on the work of Luis J. Rodríguez

The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run Edited by Josephine Metcalf and Ben Olguin Edinburgh UP, 2025 ISBN: 97...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 18d

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Analyzing contemporary Nahuatl-Spanish poetry
*The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement* from @sunypress.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: Analyzing contemporary Nahuatl-Spanish poetry

The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement By Adam W. Coon SUNY Press, 2024 ISBN: 9781438497785 https://sunypress.e...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 24d

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Engaging critically with Sandra Cisneros's oeuvre
Recent release from @utexaspress.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: Engaging critically with Sandra Cisneros's oeuvre

¡Ay Tú!: Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros Edited by Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Geneva M. Gano U of Texas P, 2024 ISBN: 9...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 29d

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Disrupting racist security regimes
*Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State*
Recent release from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: Disrupting racist security regimes

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State By Roberta Wolfson Ohio State UP, 2024 ISBN: 978-0-8142-8354-7 ...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Examining domestic servants in contemporary South Asian fiction
Recent release from ‪@oxfordacademic.bsky.social‬
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BOOK NEWS: Examining domestic servants in contemporary South Asian fiction

Postcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature By Ambreen Hai Oxford UP, 2024 ISBN: 9780197698006 http...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Aug 26

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A critique of "true feeling" in late-twentieth-century fiction
*The Artifice of Affect* by Nicholas Manning
Recent release from @edinburghup.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: A critique of "true feeling" in late-twentieth-century fiction

The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth By Nicholas Manning Edinburg UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781399508001 https://ed...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Aug 19

On Beckett, On!

This collection of essays was born from a wish to show to a wider audience how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett scholarship has become, at a time when ...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Aug 14

BOOK NEWS
How portrait photos serve as literary motifs in Proust, Kafka, and Woolf
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BOOK NEWS: How portrait photos serve as literary motifs in Proust, Kafka, and Woolf

Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion By Marit Grøtta Edinburgh UP, 2024 ISBN: 9781399526982...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Aug 8

BOOK NEWS
Modern literature and the science of sleep
*Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929*
Recent release from @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: Modern literature and the science of sleep

Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 By Sebastian P. Klinger Johns Hopkins UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781421450803 https://w...

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 30

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Derek Ryan reviews *Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman* by Jeff Wallace
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 29

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Xiaoshan Hou and Fuying Shen discuss Joyce’s use of paralipsis in "Clay" and the protagonist Maria's performativity that make her resemble a puppet.
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 28

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Umar Shehzad demonstrates how Beckett’s work turns the face unrecognizable, evoking prosopagnosia or face-blindness
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 25

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Tiasa Bal and Gurumurthy Neelakantan explore ghosts and spectrality in Joseph Skibell's *A Blessing on the Moon* and how the Shoah's traumas mar even lunar imagery
Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 24

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Mara Reisman shows that in *The Grotesque* Patrick McGrath employs gothic decay and transgression of boundaries between animal, human, and biological to critique class hierarchies
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 23

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Stanka Radović explores Ballard's postmodern mystery *Super-Cannes* in which trafficking north African refugees is merely part of the landscape, and the investigator is also a perpetrator.
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 22

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Trevor Westmoreland shows how in *Exit West*, Hamid's use of fantastical portals sifts the narrative from a dystopian trajectory to a utopian one.
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 21

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Isabelle Wentworth explores the fluid dynamics of queer desire in Ellen van Neerven's "Water" and Lía Chara’s *Agua*
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 18

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Emad Mirmotahari considers how Juan José Saer’s *El entenado/The Witness* subverts "scientific" discourses in its narrative of a European captive of a cannibalistic society in South America
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 17

SPECIAL FEATURE
Mosquito Narrators and the Subaltern Voice: A Closer Look at JML 48.3 by Romy Rajan
His Journal of Modern Literature essay on Serpell's *The Old Drift* is available FREE, linked in the post
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Mosquito narrators and the subaltern voice: A Closer Look at JML 48.3 - Indiana University Press

By Romy Rajan, author of “Subaltern Mosquitoes and Cyborg Histories in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift,” Journal of Modern Literature 48.4 (Spring 2025),

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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 16

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Xiaofan Amy Li finds in Hon’s *Empty Faces* and Tse’s *Owlish* the emergence of a Hong Kong neo-Surrealism that critiques neo-liberalism, security, and surveillance
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 15

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Tracy A. Stephens (@cyclopsdoc.bsky.social) discusses how Stephen Graham Jones’s adaptation of the deer woman trope challenges the settler gaze and notions about indigenous authenticity
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Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · Jul 14

NEW ISSUE!
Journal of Modern Literature 48.3 (Spring 2025) on the theme "Human-Nonhuman Transgressions and the Global Uncanny" is now LIVE on ‪@projectmuse.bsky.social‬ at muse.jhu.edu/issue/55227
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