Criticism, Volume 66, Number 2, Spring 2024

Criticism provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.

Criticism Volume 66, Number 2, Spring 2024

“Colors Are Repeated Throughout”: Gloria Naylor’s Structural Poetics
Zachary McLeod Hutchins

“The Fleshly Tabernacle with Which Nature Had Endowed Her”: Redemption, Regeneration, and Ruination in Tess of the D’urbervilles
Junjie Qi

Auto/Theory and the Black Maternal
Andrew S. Kaplan, Kevin Pyon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Heritage: Reading the Miniature in Edmund De Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes and Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”
Daniel McKay

Book Reviews

On Monstrous Work And Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation
Courtney Thorsson

On Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction
Aisha Matthews

On The Violence Of The Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing
Piers Kelly