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5 ways to (un)teach the canon
Read more: 5 ways to (un)teach the canonAnnelies Van Assche explores five innovative ways to challenge the dance canon and expand beyond Eurocentric narratives.
John Kinsella’s ‘The Fever Chart’, out now in CounterText 6:1
Issue 6:1 of CounterText features ‘The Fever Chart’, a new and extraordinarily timely novella by John Kinsella. Begun in late 2019 as the author was emerging from a prolonged bout of feverish ‘flu, and finished in the first few weeks…
CounterText is five years old
CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary is five years old! To celebrate the occasion, Edinburgh University Press and the journal’s editorial team (based at the Department of English at the University of Malta) have put together a…
The CounterText Interview: Judith Butler
CounterText Volume 3.2 (August 2017) is a special issue entitled The Poetic, and contains a contains a wide-ranging interview with Judith Butler conducted by Aaron Aquilina (Lancaster) and Kurt Borg (Staffordshire). The following remarks, taken from near the end of…
Electronic Literature, Again – CounterText 2.2
By Mario Aquilina What is happening to ‘literature’ in the digital age? Is it surviving, changing, under threat? How are we to think of works that are ‘born digital’ and hence shaped by modalities and affordances that are either absent…
An extract from ‘The CounterText interview: Tom McCarthy’
An interview between 2015 Man Booker Prize finalist Tom McCarthy and the editors of CounterText: Ivan Callus and James Corby. Ivan Callus: … this brings us to the idea of ‘anthropology of the present’, something that Satin Island is very…
Spotlight on CounterText: ‘Toward Countertextuality’
The second issue of CounterText, ‘Toward Countertextuality’, is out later this month. CounterText was launched this year with the stated aim of exploring ‘the charged evolutions and radical transformations of the literary today’. It asks questions about perceptions of a…
Postcolonial Springs – a special issue of CounterText
“In its breadth of contributions by scholars and writers with a distinguished background in their respective fields, Postcolonial Springs will serve as an informed platform for debate across scholarly, political, cultural, and activist fronts. These urgencies – foremost amongst them the realities…