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The aim of this article is to argue thatboth"minor literature" and "small literature"should be readdressedas Michel Ragon's "secondary zone literature"from three perspectives. Firstly, it will be argued that "minor and small literature" began to lose its theoretical capacitywith the advent of globalization after the new millennium. Secondly, the problems of "minor literature" and "small literature" will be updated. "Minor literature"mainly has two problems: 1) The first feature of "minor literature"runs the risk of not only dismissing all literature written by minorities in "minor languages", but also diminishing the possible meanings of the term, "minority"; and 2) The second and third characteristics of "minor literature"are unable to explain why only non-European artsareperceived to be political and collective. "Small literature"also has two problems: a) it fails to explain why countries thathardly qualify as 'small', face problems similar to those of "small literature" in the international literary context; and b) it does not have the capacity to explain the literature of minority and marginal groups within a nation or country. Thirdly, "minor and small literature" will be reconsidered as "secondary zone literature", not only in an attempt to emphasizecultural dynamics and power relations based on the visibility of various "minor & small" related literary works, but also to demonstrate that literature may beminor or small, but it always has quantitative implications.

Fomeshi, Behnam M. "Green Apples, Red Apples: Politics of Comparative Literature in Iran." Comparative Literature Around the World: Global Practice . Eds. Eugene Eoyang, Gang Zhou, and Jonathan Hart. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 201-218.

Fomeshi, Behnam M. "Green Apples, Red Apples: Politics of Comparative Literature in Iran." Comparative Literature Around the World: Global Practice. Eds. Eugene Eoyang, Gang Zhou, and Jonathan Hart. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 201-218.

"The Literature of Northern Ireland: Spectral Borderlands theorizes how Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. It argues that the rearrangement of the island and creation of multiple states produced two major effects in the North: it incited concomitant fractures within self and society and interrupted experiences of place. In this 'interregnum,' the whole arc of Irish time crystallized, the subject as keenly aware of ancient events as those of today and all while awaiting a more just political future. These conditions are represented in the literature through a self-contradictory poetics that fuses ancient and contemporary literary styles. Age-old Irish tropes are deployed within recognizably postmodern styles in works that rely, particularly, on specter and scrim: haunting, deathly characters and metaphors and perilous, pivotal borders. This spectral borderlands aesthetic captures the peculiar temporality of daily life and takes inspiration, chiefly, from Samuel Beckett. This position is outlined in Chapter One and fully elaborated through sustained analyses of literary writing by Belfast women writers: poet Medbh McGuckian, dramatist and fiction writer Anne Devlin, and novelist Anna Burns. Chapters on each explicate their distinctive deployments of the spectral borderlands: Devlin's self-contradiction, McGuckian's silence, and Burns' doubt"--

Cultural Memory and Literature: Re-Imagining Australia's Past -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Memory and Literature -- Literary Forms and Cultural Memory -- Australian Politics and Literature -- Memory, Testimony, and Trauma -- Stolen-Generations Literature: -My Place and Rabbit-Proof Fence -- Historical Fiction: -The Secret River, The Lieutenant, and Sarah Thornhill -- Naming and Memory Places: -Remembering Babylon -- Intertextuality: -The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow and The Tall Man -- Menippean Satire and Polyphony: -Benang: from the heart and That Deadman Dance -- Carnivalesque: -Carpentaria -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index

A brief account of law and literature -- Literature v. law: institutions, procedures, and justice -- Natural law and fundamental justice -- Property -- Contract and tort -- Sexuality -- Evidence and truth -- On trial -- Vigilantism and extrajudicial action -- Toward law and humanities.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A New Theory of the Sacred -- 1 The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation during the Market Revolution -- 2 The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- 3 The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells -- 4 Mistaking "Shadows for Gods": Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era -- 5 "Christianity Incorporated": Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism -- 6 ­Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 -- 7 "The Blackness of God": Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance -- Works Cited -- Index.

"War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms, celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted; the rhetoric of inexpressibility fights its own battle with the urgent necessity of representation, record and recognition. This is shown to be true even to the present day: whether mimetic or metaphorical, literature that concerns itself overtly or covertly with the real pressures of war continues to speak to issues of pressing significance, and to provide some clues to the intricate entwinement of war with contemporary life. Particular topics addressed include writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred Years War; Shakespeare's treatment of war; Auden's 'Journal of an Airman'; and War and Peace."-- Publisher description