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    • Children under occupation: Conflicts, camps and agential identity in Ghassan Kanafani’s

      https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00133_1
      Available online: 23 August 2025

      This article closely analyses four stories of Ghassan Kanafani from his collection of short stories titled (2000), translated by Barbara Harlow and Karen E. Riley. The chosen short stories narrate the stories of Palestinian children who are subjected to violence, oppression and exile. The article, by analysing the historical events of Palestine and its repercussions on the Palestinian ‘child’, foregrounds the ‘Bare Life’ and the agential identity of children in the crisis, who are forced to take on adult caretaking roles. Kanafani’s stories mourn the generations of child refugees who live a ‘Bare Life’ in the refugee camps, frequently exposed to conflicts, violence and poverty. However, the article argues that the figure of the child becomes an agent for Kanafani to delineate the Palestinian problems, history and political movements and acts as a potential symbol of resistance and change in the liberation struggles.

    • Unearthing Gaia’s fury in Africanfuturist short fictions: ‘Eclipse Our Sins’ and ‘Oduduwa: The Return’

      https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00135_1
      Available online: 16 August 2025

      The article offers an ecocritical analysis of two Africanfuturist short fictions within the framework of apocalypticism, decoloniality and the Gaia hypothesis. While in Tlotlo Tsamaase’s ‘Eclipse Our Sins’ (2019), the Earth teeters on the verge of total societal and ecological collapse, Imade Iyamu’s ‘Oduduwa: The Return’ (2019) presents a post-apocalyptic world where humans are colonized by a superior alien race. Both narratives present an eco-horror manifested through Gaia’s vengeful disposition against ecological injustices. Upholding various African myths on Mother Earth and contextualizing those as opposed to colonialism, racism and otherisation, the article positions Africanfuturism as a decolonial option against Anthropocentric/western epistemes.

    • Walking the city: The New York stories of Peter Stamm

      https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00134_1
      Available online: 13 August 2025

      This article examines the Swiss writer Peter Stamm’s New York stories as a case study of the relation between city space and the short story form. Drawing on the theories of Michel de Certeau, for whom walking and telling stories opens up routes through the city in analogy to the linguistic speech act, it shows how Stamm’s stories open out New York as a kaleidoscope of experienced, imagined and remembered spaces and also offer the basis of an approach more widely applicable to the city-based short story.

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