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MFS publishes scholarly essays that analyze the important aesthetic, cultural, political, and environmental developments currently shaping today’s academic and public conversations. A leading international literature and humanities journal, MFS focuses on the various modalities and uses of fiction in the broadest sense of the term—publishing material designed to speak to a wide audience of scholars, public intellectuals, and cultural practitioners working across diverse fields, regions, and venues. Now in its sixty-eighth year, MFS is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and is available online at Project MUSE.
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Volume 71, Number 1, Spring 2025Table of Contents
pp. 27-50
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View The Business Case for Diversity: Hari Kunzru's Transmission as Commentary on Racialized Literary Promotions
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pp. 51-73
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View "I Still Consider Myself a Lucky Person": Unreliability, Intersectional Privilege, and Irish Society in The Wych Elm and Bad Day in Blackrock
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pp. 74-95
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View The Gift of Time and the Underground Relationality: Do Not Say We Have Nothing's Worlding of China
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pp. 96-119
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View The Circle and the Cross: Image-Schematic Structure and Moral Narrative in Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and Zadie Smith's NW
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pp. 120-138
pp. 156-159
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View Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought by Brian Hurley (review)
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pp. 160-162
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View Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (review)
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pp. 163-166
pp. 166-169
pp. 169-171
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View Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction: Transforming Reproductive Agency by Caitlin E. Stobie (review)
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pp. 172-175
pp. 175-178
pp. 178-181
pp. 181-184
pp. 184-187
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View The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang (review)
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| ISSN | 1080-658X |
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| Print ISSN | 0026-7724 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2025-04-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
