We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings has been published.
This issue of the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings showcases five articles selected through an open call, as well as an interview with Brussels-based Eritrean-Ethiopian-British author Sulaiman Addonia. Collected together, these contributions highlight the journal’s focus on various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and spaces across diverse time periods and subject matters. Engaging with and illustrating some of the core themes of the journal, each of the articles and interview explore literary, critical and intermedial phenomena from different methodological angles, employing and discussing a wide range of approaches including autofiction, queer, intermedial, visual, film and genre studies. While the first two articles (Cominetti and Edmeades) have in common a focus on autofiction in novel and essay form, the latter three articles branch out to non-textual media, including photography (Zelnick and Engelskircher), music (Engelskircher) and film (Friedman). The closing interview with Addonia delves into the crossing of cultural, geographical and genre-related borders and boundaries in a discussion of the author’s writing process and his thoughts on the classification of fiction.
This issue includes:
Janine Hauthal, Mathias Meert, Ann Peeters and Hannah Van Hove, "Introduction"
Lynley Edmeades, "Supposing (Un)Certainty: Maggie Nelson’s Bluets and the Queer Essay"
Sharon Zelnick, "Aleksandar Hemon’s Photography-embedded Migrant Literature"