Volume 57 (2024)
Volume 56 (2023)
Volume 55 (2022)
Volume 54 (2021)
Volume 53 (2020)
Volume 52 (2019)
Volume 51 (2018)
Volume 50 (2017)
Volume 49 (2016)
Volume 48 (2015)
Volume 47 (2014)
English Language and Literature
The Relation between Dirt Discourse and Biopolitics in Malamud’s Stories

Zahra Taheri

Volume 56, Issue 3 , October 2023, , Pages 103-134

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2023.82050.1190

Abstract
  This article focuses on notions of ‘dirt’ and diaspora to discuss their relation with biopolitical discourse in Malamud’s The Jewbird and The Mourners from the perspective of left thinkers. Deploying Douglas’s and Bauman’s views, the writer discusses how biopolitics has ...  Read More

A Study of the Emergence of Rhizomsphere in Winslow’s In West Mills

Zahra Taheri

Volume 56, Issue 1 , June 2023, , Pages 81-110

https://doi.org/10.22067/lts.2022.75617.1116

Abstract
  This article focuses on the ‘rhizosphere’ in Charles Winslow’s (2019) In West Mills. Deploying Deleuze and Guattari’s views as well as Foucault’s, this study discusses how the notions of ‘schizoid’, ‘nomad’, ‘deterritorialization’ and ...  Read More

Bare Life, Violence, and Derealization in The Nickel Boys

Zahra Taheri

Volume 55, Issue 4 , February 2023, , Pages 65-92

https://doi.org/10.22067/jlts.2021.72891.1077

Abstract
  This article focuses on the notions of ‘derealization’ and ‘violence’ to discuss the status of the racial ‘other’ in The Nickel Boys (2019), the acclaimed work of African-American writer, Colson Whitehead, from the perspective of new left thinkers and critics. Drawing ...  Read More