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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 2, Summer 2025Table of Contents
pp. 193-215
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View “The God of Small Comforts:” : Self-care as Secular Queer Futurity in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series
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pp. 216-237
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View The Strange Intimacies of Interpretation: Affects, Justice, and Translation in Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies
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pp. 238-261
pp. 262-284
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View English, Kiswahili, and Silence: Abject Origins and Unspeakable History in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust
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pp. 285-310
pp. 311-334
pp. 335-358
pp. 359-380
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View The Modalities of a Post-Image Future: Metaphysical Crisis and Philosophical Cinematics in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega
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pp. 382-384
pp. 385-387
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View Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Glenda R. Carpio (review)
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pp. 388-390
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View The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method by Preetha Mani (review)
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pp. 391-393
pp. 394-397
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View Silence, Space and Absence in Conrad’s Works: Western and Non-Western Worlds by John G. Peters (review)
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pp. 397-400
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View Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (review)
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pp. 400-403
pp. 403-406
pp. 406-409
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View Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Alan Barlow (review)
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pp. 410-412
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View Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz (review)
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pp. 412-415
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View “Beyond This Narrow Now”: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)
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| ISSN | 1080-658X |
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| Print ISSN | 0026-7724 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2025-06-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
