“We wove a web in childhood” Angria Revisited: A. S. Byatt’s The Game by Jane Silvey

“…She explores how that imagination can become an overwhelming and ultimately destructive force in the lives of reading and brooding female selves. A work of extraordinary intelligence as well as of emotional intensity, its literary illusions play a vital part in the novel’s rich density of implication.…”
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Tedium and Terror: Dreading Narration in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One by Mark Pedretti

“…Critics of Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One (2011) have treated its post-zombie-apocalypse setting as a futural standpoint for critiquing the present. …”
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Le triomphe de l’histoire et la ré-invention de la mémoire dans la fiction romanesque de Jean Divassa Nyama by Noël-Bertrand Boundzanga

“…By returning to the colonial history, the historical novel establishes another memory, a living memory capable of giving to the Gabonese people the meaning of their lives. …”
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Pandemic as Pretext: The Implications of Global Cataclysms in Don DeLillo’s The Silence and Slavoj Žižek’s Writings on Covid-19 by Alicja Piechucka

“…The article focuses on Don DeLillo’s latest novel, The Silence, which is analyzed and interpreted in light of Slavoj Žižek’s writings collected in Pandemic!…”
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Portrayal of Men in Damilare Kuku Nearly all Men in Lagos. by Arineitwe, Bridget

“…It was guided by the following study objectives; to examine the portrayal of men in the novel including their characters, actions, and how they are seen in the society in Nearly All Men in Lagos Are Mad, to analyze the dominant masculine norms and stereotypes presented in the novel Nearly All Men in Lagos Are Mad and to explore how the novel represents men's relationship with women in families or outside families in Lagos. …”
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Translating Transgressions in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: by Joutha Monisha

“…It follows aging eccentric Janina Duszejko as a series of murders take place in the plateau where she lives. Under the parable-esque, whodunit nature of the novel, Tokarczuk explores the theme of transgressions in the light of animal rights activism. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…The significance for Gaines is that what happened a hundred years ago is part of his present-day lived life.The nineteenth-century novel was possessed by history, and white nineteenth-century novelists found their great subject in the war of European nations that was fought between 1799 and 1815. …”
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Development, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative clinical trial operations training program for Africa (ClinOps) by Dawit Asmamaw Ejigu, Abebaw Fekadu, Jeremy Whitty, Tsegahun Manyazewal, Pamela Nebeta, Almari Conradie, Brenda Okech, Alice Neequaye, Sinéad Whitty, Jennifer Lehrman, Renee Holt, Rahel Birhane, Mahnaz Vahedi, Helen Demarest, Eyasu Makonnen

“…Methods We developed ClinOps, a novel 10-week clinical trial operations training program for study coordinators in Africa to enhance their expertise in four fundamental areas: designing, conducting, managing, and reporting clinical trials. …”
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Od kulturowego pojmowania przestrzeni ku rozważaniom o wieczności. Dyskurs przestrzenny w powieści Brisbane Jewgienija Wodołazkina by Monika Sidor

“…Space perceived in the way modified by culture is a certain frame in which both the hero of Vodolazkin lives and a receiver reads the novel. It is also an important component of the work’s internal structure, the factor responsible for certain genre associations that determine the direction of the reading process. …”
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Zadie Smith’s NW or the art of line-crossing by Vanessa GUIGNERY

“…The purpose of this paper is to examine NW, Zadie Smith’s fourth novel, through the notion of crossings, which can be viewed as ethical connections between characters but also as geographical journeys across London, movements along the social scale, multicultural encounters, weavings of various literary traditions and lineages, as well as intertwining of high and popular culture. …”
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A Geocritical Reading of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders by Dilek İnan

“…This study analyzes the rich spatial and platial references in Daniel Defoe’s picaresque novel Moll Flanders (1722) by using the prospect provided by the figure of the flâneur and geocritical criticism. …”
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Dead Collections by Mary Snyder Broussard

“… Isaac Fellman’s Dead Collections: A Novel (2022) portrays a fictional archivist Sol, who experiences chronic illness in the form of vampirism. …”
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The Example of Herta Müller, A Nobel Literature Prize Author, in The Relationship of Tourism and Literature by Yüksel Gürsoy

“…This article deals with the literal spaces and areas, where the scenes in the novels of Herta Müller, 2009 Nobel Literature Prize winner, Romania origin German citizen, take place. …”
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Du roman à la propagande. La Grande Guerre dans la littérature de jeunesse italienne de l’entre-deux-guerres by Mariella Colin

“…In the first years after the end of the war, this perception was closely related to the mourning and to the sufferings lived by the people. The best novel of this period, La zingarella e la principessina (1920) by Olga Visentini, adopts a feminine point of view and stands out against all other war novels of the same time. …”
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FOOD, MODERNITY AND IDENTITY: ROOTED COSMOPOLITANISM IN ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH by Syarif Hidayat

“…This paper discusses the tug-of-war between cosmopolitanism and localism within the persona of Ifemelu, the main character in Americanah, specifically in what food she eats and how the food is eaten and its influence on her identity. Americanah is a novel that tells the story of a Nigerian immigrant living in the United States who decided to return to Nigeria. …”
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Extreme Environment Streptomyces: Potential Sources for New Antibacterial and Anticancer Drug Leads? by Periyasamy Sivalingam, Kui Hong, John Pote, Kandasamy Prabakar

“…In this context, deep-sea, desert, cryo, and volcanic environments have proven to be a unique habitat of more extreme, and of their adaptation to extreme living, environments attribute to novel antibiotics. …”
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Flora Nwapa’nın Kadınlar Farklıdır Romanında Kadın Konusu by Fatma Kalpaklı

“…Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the gender patterns in Nigerian society with reference to Flora Nwapa’s novel, namely Women are Different. In this novel, Flora Nwapa narrates how the Nigerian women begin to gain consciousness about their rights such as having access to education . …”
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“[A]ll comes alive and starts to dance”: The 29th Chapter of Gabriel Josipovici’s Goldberg: Variations by Günther Jarfe

“…My thesis is that chapter 29 retells the beginning of the novel in such a remarkably different way in order to convey the certainty of and the delight in a happy outcome of Goldberg’s visit. …”
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From the Other Shore: Exploring Home and Spatial Duality in Leïla Sebbar’s Le silence des rives (Silence on the Shores) by Nassima Amirouche

“…The present article examines how spatial duality and the here-there dichotomy serve as the main device for the exploration of the lives of the novel’s characters. This article also highlights the argument that the notions of “home” and “belonging” are not merely physical, but also emotional and psychological. …”
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Reprises textuelles dans The Dew Breaker d’Edwidge Danticat by Corinne Duboin

“…In her recent novel, The Dew Breaker (2004), Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves together the lives of her bruised Haitian characters and their torturer, a former Tonton Macoute, all gone into exile in the US. …”
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