Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

Com base em uma incursão crítica por debates sobre literatura e cinema mundial, em que busco interrogar o conceito de mundo, este artigo elabora um argumento duplo, no qual está em jogo a questão da mundação, isto é, da configuração de mundos como partilhas do comum. Por um lado, trata-se de um argumento fundamentalmente teórico. Literatur…[Read more]

Es un aforismo que esta dirigido a la huminidad para que sea mejor.

Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

This article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”

Book review of Zia Haider Rahman’s novel In the Light of What We Know

This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion as representatives of European artistic, cultural, and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study treats the Parisienne model as a symbolic marker of elegance driven by French, namely Parisian, aesthetic philosophies, and technical prowess. In this sense, Romanian women f…[Read more]

This piece explores connections between science fiction and lyric poetry.

In “Generation Hwabyung Telepathy” and “A Resume of Traumas,” the Korean American lyric speaker struggles with the pain of generational trauma that she has inherited from her father and from the grandfather she has never met.

“Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized ‘수능’” experiments with design fiction to disrupt overly rehearsed ways of thinking about Korea’s past(s), present(s), and future(s).

Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]