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More than four decades after its founding, the Journal of Modern Literature remains a leading scholarly journal in the field of modern and contemporary literature and is widely recognized as such. It emphasizes scholarly studies of literature in all languages, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present. International in its scope, its contributors include scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceana, and South America.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

A Closer Look at JML 42.3 (Spring 2019): Whence Waste?



Now on the press's blog, author Alexander Adkins discusses the role of disgust in postcolonial fiction explored in his essay, "Neoliberal Disgust in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger." He asks: what purpose did scatology serve in the aftermath of decolonization? What might its recent iterations tell us about the role of satire today?

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