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Contemporary Literature is the academic journal of record for criticism about post-1945 Anglophone literature. Coetzee to American readers.

Contemporary Literature publishes scholarly essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field. The journal welcomes articles on multiple genres, including poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media and digital literature, and graphic narrative. CL published the first articles on Thomas Pyncho

n and Susan Howe and the first interviews with Margaret Drabble and Don DeLillo; it also helped to introduce Kazuo Ishiguro, Eavan Boland, and J.M. As a forum for discussing issues animating the range of contemporary literary studies, CL features the full diversity of critical practices. The editors seek articles that frame their analysis of texts within larger literary historical, theoretical or cultural debates.

05/07/2024

Contemporary Literature issue 64.2 is now live! This issue features incisive essays by Stephanie Burt, Henry Ivry, Julia C. Obert, Joshua Pederson, and Molly Slavin. Read here:

04/03/2024

Recent articles on poetry and poetics will be open access during National Poetry Month! Kicking things off is Tobias Huttner's "The Love Elegy and the Land Question: On June Jordan’s Radical Occasions"

> Let me touch your tongue with mine; this is a novel > > about how the hunger got stopped. You reading about > > it. You already knew. You and we and I knew we > > always know how to. Never been the problem. (How to.) > > We found out. We learned at last about you and no > > hungering and so

04/01/2024

Contemporary Literature issue 64.1 is now live, featuring exciting essays by Jeffrey Clapp, Georgina Colby, Toni N Hays, Cynthia Quarrie, and Romy Rajan!

01/17/2024

Get your year started right with the latest issue of Contemporary Literature, featuring articles by Tobias Huttner, Kelly Roberts, Emmett Stinson, and Chih-Ming Wang!

10/23/2023

✨ Contemporary Literature Volume 63, Issue 2 has arrived!✨
Check it out here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

In this issue: ⬇️
- Jordan Burke reviews the contemporary lyric fragment as heuristic in Anne Carson;

- Angelica De Vido on reclaiming the "open road" picaresque from its masculinist conventions in Sara Taylor's The Lauras;

- Madhu Dubey explores imperfect analogies of racialization in Omar El Akkad's American Wars;

- Sam Waterson considers how Salley Rooney's "sapiosexual couples" disrupt circuits of creative production and individualism;

- C.S. Baghya reviews Raita Merivirta's The Emergency and the Indian English Novel: Memory, Culture and Politics (New Delhi: Routledge India, 2019) alongside Sourit Bhattacharya's Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel: On Catastrophic Realism (London: Palgrave, 2020).

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