Issue 21.5 (September 2019)
Special Issue: Suffering, Endurance, Understanding
Ed. Simon Estok, Douglas Berman, and Frank Stevenson
Thematic Cluster
Introduction to Suffering, Endurance, Understanding: New Discourses Within Philosophy and Literature
Douglas S. Berman
Recovering the Archive and Finding Forgiveness in Park’s The Truth Commissioner
Aleksandra Hajduczek
Mediating Suffering: Buddhist Detachment and Tantric Responsibility in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Justin M. Hewitson
Shelley’s Frankenstein as a Book of Love and Despair
Shun-liang Chao
Eating and Suffering in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Won-Chung Kim
The Punctum in History: Representing the M(other)’s Death in Peter Handke’s A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Hivren Demir Atay
Suffering and climate change narratives
Simon C. Estok
Becoming as Suffering: A Genealogy of Female Suffering in Chinese Myth and Literature
Peina Zhuang and Jiazhao Lin
Domestic Trauma and Imperial Pessimism: The Crisis at Home in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son
Katherine E. Ostdiek
The Suffering Joker and the Cruel Joke: Nabokov's and Bellow's Dark Laughter
Gerald David Naughton and Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton
Bibliography
Bibliography on Suffering
Simon C. Estok