Call for Book Reviews

Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies welcomes critical reviews of recently published academic works in the fields of literary theory, literary history, comparative literature, and Turkish literary studies. In addition to special issues that focus on the historical and theoretical problems of literature, each issue includes analytical book reviews that critically engage with a work’s main arguments, originality, and its place within the relevant scholarly literature.

Below is a list of suggested titles for review. However, this list is by no means exhaustive; reviews of other high-quality works on related subjects are also warmly welcomed:

• Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans, 2025.
• William Stroebel, Literature’s Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape, 2025.
• Mehmet Fatih Uslu, Çok Uzak Çok Yakın: Osmanlı’dan Türkiye’ye Modern Ermenice Edebiyat, 2025.
• Ceyhun Arslan, The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures, 2024.
• Müstakim Arıcı ve Sami Arslan, eds., Sebeb-i Telif: Osmanlı Literatüründe Açık ve Örtük Yazma Nedenleri, 2024.
• Nergis Ertürk, Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union, 2024.
• Nir Shafir, The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire, 2024.
• Atiye Gülfer Gündoğdu ve Servet Gündoğdu, Gömülü Metinler Neden Döner: Edebi Mülksüzleşme Bağlamında Harabat Mukaddimesi, Tahrib-i Harabat ve Ta’kib, 2023.
• Lars Marcus Petrisson, Writing as Re-enchantment: The Arabic and Turkish Novel’s Neo-Sufi Response to Secular Modernity, 2023.
• Nil Tekgül, Emotions in the Ottoman Empire: Politics, Society, and Family in the Early Modern Era, 2023.
• Şima İmşir, Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey: Bodies of Exception, 2023.
• Zeynep Uysal ve Didem Havlioğlu (eds), Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature, 2023.
• Fredric Jameson, Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory, 2024.
• Nidesh Lawtoo. Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation, 2022.
• Servet Gündoğdu. Mimesis, İfade ve Gösterge: Şiirin Özgünlüğü Bağlamında Poetika Sorunu, 2021.
  

  Submission and Review Process:

  Length: Between 600 and 2000 words. In exceptional cases, the upper limit may be extended to 3000 words with editorial approval.

  Style Guide: Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition – Notes and Bibliography system.

  Deadlines:
  March 1 for the April issue
  September 1 for the October issue

  Editorial Contact: Reviews will be evaluated by our book review editor, Elif Sezer-Aydınlı. Please send your review proposals and completed texts to:
  editor@nesirdergisi.com and elif.sezer@sabanciuniv.edu

  We strongly encourage contributors to contact the editor regarding the book they intend to review before submitting their work.

  We look forward to your contributions.