Journal of Modern Literature 49.4 (Summer 2026), "Ecocriticism / Anti-Imperialism," edited by Edited by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo is now live on Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/57714
Content includes:
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
Literature on a Hot Planet: An Introduction to Ecocriticism/Anti-Imperialism
Ecocriticism
David A. Vivian
Reimagining Urban Ecology through Caribbean Science Fiction: Reading the Green Cities of Tobias Buckell and Stephanie Saulter
Jie Chen and Quan Wang
Steaming into a Postcolonial Utopia: Reimagining Energy Futures in N.K. Jemisin’s “The Effluent Engine”
Kuhelika Ghosh
Caribbean Blooms: The Invisible Hands of Tropical Gardens in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Garden (Book)
Huiming Liu
Financial Colonialism and Ecological Echoes in The Waste Land
Hadas Wagner
“Let it Blaze”: Burning Leaves, Recycling, and Reform in Virginia Woolf’s Late Writing
Joe Larios
Escape from Humanity: Subjective Constraint and the Non-Human in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Anti-Imperialism
Leo Kadokura
Amidst the Wreckage: Joseph Conrad’s Epistemology of Englishness and Empire
Holly Eva Allen
One Tangle of Shadows: Ezra Pound’s “Homage to Sextus Propertius,” Harriet Monroe’s Poetry, and a Message Against Nationalism and Traditional Translation
Yiran Xu
Reimagining the Occupation in the 1990s: Postwar Butterfly, Disillusionment, and Historical Legacies in Shimada Masahiko’s Suisei no Jūnin
Reviews
Alyson Favilla
Leave No Trace: A Review of Gina Caison’s Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance
Rory Michael Hutchings
Theorizing Like a Rat
Nataša Tučev
Conrad’s Spatial Narratives
Sarah Dowling
Language Questions and Language Answers
