Focus: Autofiction and Autotheory
Volume 43, Number 2
Summer 2022
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From the Editor
Dark Academe by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Autofiction & Autotheory
Introduction: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Regimes of Visibility by Laura Cernat
Autofiction across Borders: Anglo-Metamorphoses of a French Concept by Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Refugee Writing and the Right to Autofiction by Tom Toremans
Reading Autofiction: The Cognitive Turn by Alison Gibbons
Ben Lerner’s Autofictional Politics of Form by Ioannis Tsitsovits
Queer Intelligibility and Autotheory by Rachel Lallouz
Autofiction, Autotheory, and the Neoliberal Contemporary by Marc Farrant
Essay
A Modest Proposal on Faculty Governance by Paul Allen Miller
Theory
Interventions
Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Reyna Grande
Fiction
Rebecca Cuthbert reviews Flowers of Mold by Ha Seong-nan
Erin H. Davis reviews Tight Little Vocal Cords by Loie Rawding
Edward M. Bury reviews Oslo, Maine: A Novel by Marcia Butler
Voyo Gabrilo reviews House of the Ancients and Other Stories by Clifford Garstang
Diane Goodman reviews Sisterhood of the Infamous by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Erin H. Davis reviews The Trouble with Language by Rebecca Fishow
Kolby Harvey reviews The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova
Daniel Gonzalez reviews What’s on the Menu? by Chase Griffin
E-Feature
The Volunteer Negro by E. Ethelbert Miller
Memoir
Erin H. Davis reviews Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past by Debra Di Blasi
Loie Rawding reviews Dear DeeDee by Kat Meads
Poetry
Richard Jeffrey Newman reviews Contestable Truths, Incontestable Lies by Steven Sher
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews A Map of the Heavens: Selected Poems, 1975–2017 by Janet Hamill
Marta López-Luaces reviews In the Margins/Al margen by Robert Kramer
Margot Farrington reviews Dead Shark on the N Train by Susana H. Case
Amy Homan reviews Tricks of Light: New and Selected Poems by Thaddeus Rutkowski
Eric Plaks reviews Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop ed. by Stephen Cramer
Evan Reynolds reviews Derrida’s In/Voice by Chris Tysh
Josh Williams reviews A Plan in Case of Morning by Phill Provance
Fred Muratori reviews Un- by Laurel Blossom
Sparrow reviews Collaborations by Greg Masters et al
Children’s Books
Ludy Rueda reviews Sleeping with the Light On by David Unger (review)
Printers and Poets
Charles Alexander interviews David Wilk
Scenes
An Interview with Ken Edwards and Brian Marley of Grand Iota
Poetics to Come
Why Poetics, Then? by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
