Editorial
“Thank you for your country”
PETER BARRY

Much Ado about Black Naturalism: Don John, Blood, and Caged Birds
CHRISTAL HARRIS 4

Quioxotism, Federalism, and the Question of American National Identity in Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive
DRAGOŞ IVANA 29

Kitchen and Other Tables to Thik With:
The Case of To the Lighthouse, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and In the Mood for Love
ESTELLA ANTOANETA CIOBANU 47

Ellen Glasgow’s In This Our Life:
“The Betrayals of Life” in the Crumbling Aristocratic South
IULIA ANDREEA MILICĂ 69

Suspect Survival:
Matrophobia in Postmemory Generational Writing
ELIZABETH KELLA 89

The Uses of Formulaic Language in Graham Swift’s
England and Other Stories
BOZENA KUCALA 118

Forgetting to Re-member: Politics of Amnesia and the Reconstruction of Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything is Illuminated and Memento
MURAT GOC 135

Icebound Modernity. The Shipwreck as Metaphor in Dan Simmons’ The Terror
ADAM LOVASZ 151

Political Theatre in the Age of Brexit: The State of Nation in Monologues
BANU ÖGÜNC 171

“In the desert, we are all illegal aliens”: Border Confluences and Border Wars in Luis Alberto Urrea´s The Devil´s Highway
RALUCA ANDREESCU 189

How the Booker Prize Won the Prize
MERRITT MOSELEY 206

Reviews

Paul Lopes. Art Rebels: Race, Class and Gender in the Art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese
ADRIANA-CECILIA NEAGU 222

Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing
GABRIEL C. GHERASIM 225

Late Pynchon Theorized: A Review of Diana Benea,
The Political Imagination of Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels and Sean Carswell, Pccupy Pynchon: Politics Alter
Gravity’s Rainbow
ALY CHETWYND 233

 

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