The latest issue of Kritika Kultura is out

The editors of Kritika Kultura are pleased to announce the publication KK 38. Based in the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), KK is an international peer-reviewed journal of literary, language, and cultural studies. Read its 38th issue (February 2022) where KK gathers 27 articles and two works of translation on its website.

The regular section hosts ten essays of varied critical trajectories: Ignacio Ballester Pardo studies Tomás Calvillo Unna’s poetry book Filipinas, textos cercanos using an ecocritical and historical framework; Roghayeh Farsi and Abbas Ali Hallaji  look into Anna Burns’s novel Milkman via cognitive studies; Jeremy De Chavez scrutinizes Jollibee’s 2016 digital marketing campaign through the lens of affect theory and psychoanalysis; Hyunyoung Lee and Jooyoung Kim read Basho’s poetry via mobility studies; Benham Fomeshi compares Walt Whitman with Nima Yushij in view of translating democratic discourse into literary discourse; Sheikh Mehedi Hasan posits that postcoloniality is a global condition that takes after colonial capitalism; Debjani Sarkar and Nirban Manna point out how the novels The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri and Guns on My Red Earth by Swati Sengupta problematize the class and caste system during the Naxalite/Maoist insurgency in India; Jane Qian Liu reads Zhang Chengzhi’s novella Rivers of the North in light of Cultural Revolution; Ryan Ku engages with modernist unfolding of psychic and national trauma in Tony Perez’s collection Cubao-Kalaw Kalaw-Cubao; and Christian Jil R. Benitez revaluates the Tagalog poem “May Bagyo Ma’t May Rilim” towards a folk traumaturgy. These articles were edited by KK managing editors Ma. Gabriela P. Martin and Jocelyn Martin.