Volume 10 (2026)
Volume 9 (2025)
Volume 8 (2024)
Volume 7 (2023)
Volume 6 (2022)
Volume 5 (2021)
Volume 4 (2020)
Volume 3 (2019)
Volume 2 (2018)
Volume 1 (2017)
Main Subjects = Sociopolitical Analysis of Literature
Number of Articles: 8
The Impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement on Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give: A Critical Race Theory Analysis
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 13 January 2026
Abstract
The chronic problem of police brutality against Black communities prompted the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Rising protests revealed that the killings of African Americans were ... Read More
Silencing Trauma: Depoliticization and the Concealment of the Political in American Veterans’ Fictional Narratives of the Korean and Vietnam Wars
Volume 9, Issue 3 , July 2025, , Pages 433-475
Abstract
Trauma studies mainly focus on the psychological mechanisms of trauma and the various ways witnesses and victims represent it. But recent approaches in the field emphasize that despite ... Read More
Fighting the Monster: Nadia Murad’s Account of Resistance in The Last Girl
Volume 8, Issue 1 , January 2024, , Pages 117-146
Abstract
In the present paper, Murad’s memoir, The Last Girl, is scrutinized through the lens of Resistance Literature theories. First introduced by Kanafani (1966) and adapted by scholars ... Read More
Reflections on Cultural Imperialism: Iran’s Discourse of Misery (badbaxti)
Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2023, , Pages 713-740
Abstract
This article examines the theme of cultural imperialism through a case-study of change in nineteenth-century intellectual discourse. It analyzes an Iranian intellectual discourse, which ... Read More
The Fourth World and Politics of Social Identity in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
Volume 3, Issue 4 , October 2019, , Pages 731-761
Abstract
With the advent of the 21st century, the way characters and identities interact under the influence of dominant powers has brought a new world into existence, a world dubbed ... Read More
Fiction and Politics of Islamophobia: A Case Study of Greg Hrbek’s Not on Fire, but Burning
Volume 3, Issue 3 , July 2019, , Pages 483-516
Abstract
Islamophobia is defined as a closed-minded hatred, fear or prejudice toward Islam and Muslims that result in discrimination, marginalization, and oppression. This phenomenon was strengthened ... Read More
An Investigation of World-System Theory and Globalization in the Rama Novels by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
Volume 3, Issue 3 , July 2019, , Pages 579-604
Abstract
Noam Chomsky argues that only a meager percentage of the world, consisting of mainly large corporations and developed nations, prosper from globalization. As stated in Immanuel Wallerstein’s ... Read More
Sociological Critique of Baha Tāher’s East of the Palms
Volume 1, Issue 2 , October 2017, , Pages 315-337