Research in Contemporary World Literature

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The Implementation of Social Abjection: Constructing and Contesting Disposability in the Neoliberal World of Never Let Me Go

Early View, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 12 May 2026

10.22059/jor.2025.399947.2706

Saeedeh Esmailzadeh

From Space to Culture: The Sociopoetics of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar’s Court in Jean-Baptiste Feuvrier’s “Three Years at Iran’s Court”

Early View, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 27 June 2026

10.22059/jor.2024.376324.2530

Mohammad Reza Farsian; Fatemeh Ghasemi Arian

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An analysis of contrasts and mythical dimensions in poetry: The image of the onion in Neruda and Szymborska's works through the lens of Claude Lévi-Strauss's theories

Early View, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 30 June 2026

10.22059/jor.2025.386406.2589

Fereshteh Darvishvand; Abbas Farhadnejad

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Disability and Marginalization in Lenin Al-Ramly’s Wijhat Nazar (A Point of View) and Noha Sobhi’s Ihtebas Alasal (The Caged Honey)

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 149-166

10.22059/jor.2025.402846.2736

Mohamad Zayed; ِAshraf Metwalli

“All I Need is Sunlight”: Disability and Resistance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 167-187

10.22059/jor.2025.405027.2758

Mehrgan Rezaeian

The Sound as Object: Object-Oriented Sonicity in Samuel Beckett's Nacht und Träume

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 189-204

10.22059/jor.2026.407205.2780

Shahriyar Mansouri; Sana Ghorbanie

The Digital City and the Fragmented Self in Snow Crash: Urban Form, Networked Subjectivity, and Metaverse Satire

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 205-225

10.22059/jor.2026.409217.2800

Waleed Kareem Abbas Al. Hafadhi; Ali Salami

Literary Remembrance as Resistance: Memory, Gender, and Archive in Oyeyemi's Parasol Against the Axe

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 227-246

10.22059/jor.2025.397138.2663

Sajjad Gheytasi; Eran Rajabi

Colonial/Gendered Violence and Survivance: Decolonial Aesthetics in Too Afraid to Cry by Ali Cobby Eckermann

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 247-266

10.22059/jor.2026.410944.2813

Nisha Sidhique; W. Christopher Rajasekaran

From Literary Genre to Algorithmic Taxonomy: Platform Capitalism in Indonesian Digital Literature

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 267-286

10.22059/jor.2026.415451.2854

Robiatul Adawiyah

Proper English and Postcolonial Power in Americanah and Wizard of the Crow

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 287-305

10.22059/jor.2026.410223.2810

Nisreen Khalid Abbas; Saif Habeeb Hasan

Tracing Cognitive Dissonance as Invisible Disability in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 307-326

10.22059/jor.2025.402931.2735

Amirhossein Mohammadi; Hossein Mohseni

Manufacturing Beginnings: Ritual, Image, and Chronopolitics in Wole Soyinka’s Kongi’s Harvest

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 327-341

10.22059/jor.2026.415233.2851

Qutaiba Fenjan

Ontogenesis, Memory, and Evolutionary Time in Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed

Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 361-343

10.22059/jor.2026.413655.2836

Fatimah Harbi Hamad; Mohammad Hosein Ramezan Kiaee

A Survey of the Symbolic Order and the Eruption of the Real Order in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man: A Žižekian Reading

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 1-12

10.22059/jor.2025.398525.2679

Amir Riahi Nouri

Magical Realism and Palimpsest in The Mysteries of My Homeland

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 15-35

10.22059/jor.2026.405376.2763

Tahereh Rezaei

Will to Death, Erasure, and Survival: A Critical Evolution of the Nietzschean Übermensch in The Blind Owl, Prince Ehtejab, and Gavkhuni

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 37-58

10.22059/jor.2026.407602.2787

Zahra Ansari; Farzad Baloo

Imagology of the East in the Works of Elchin Safarli

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 59-78

10.22059/jor.2025.399513.2698

Zeinab Sadeghi Sahlabad

Revisiting the Discourse of Race and Power in Langston Hughes’s “Theme for English B”: A Critical Race and Bakhtinian Dialogic Perspective

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 99-116

10.22059/jor.2025.395520.2646

Reza Ghanbari Abdolmaleki

Center and Exile in Comparative Literature; An Introduction to the Historical Role of Contemporary Literary Centers of the World in Iranian Literary Developments

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 79-98

10.22059/jor.2025.399190.2690

Ebrahim Mohammadi

Environmental Analysis of War Images in Young Adult Literature Using Ecopoetics: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s The War That Saved My Life and The War I Finally Won

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 99-114

10.22059/jor.2024.374559.2517

Fatemeh Ghassemi; Negar Mazari

A Sociocritical Analysis of the Representation of Islam and Muslims in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission, through the Theory of Claude Duchet

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 115-128

10.22059/jor.2025.394012.2632

Zeinab Rezvantalab

Debt and Control: Indebted Subject in Contemporary American Drama

Volume 31, Issue 1, April 2026, Pages 129-148

10.22059/jor.2024.371319.2494

Hossein Keramatfar; Maryam Beyad

Mnemonic Heterotopia: Beckettian Mental Space in That Time (English)

Volume 30, Issue 2, September 2025, Pages 315-337

10.22059/jor.2025.386353.2640

Shahriyar Mansouri

Necropoetics and the Art of Death in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer [English]

Volume 30, Issue 2, September 2025, Pages 369-395

10.22059/jor.2025.395118.2641

Kotaba Saleh Fenjan

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