Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men by James Peacock

“…Keith Gessen’s debut novel is not a “post-9/11” text in the manner of Falling Man or Terrorist. …”
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The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner by Sulaiman, Suraiya

“…This article explores the idea of homeland, “imaginary homeland” and wounded memory in Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel, The Kite Runner (2003). The idea of homeland, which includes the illustration of a person’s nostalgia towards homeland, is a significant topic of discussion among scholars of diaspora studies. …”
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‘Da Brixton a Ghirriland’. Intervista con Geoff Dyer by Silvia Albertazzi

“…Almost thirty years separate the two volumes, which at first sight seem to offer two utterly different images of their author. Whilst his debut novel is a lyrical representation of youthful life in Brixton during the Thatcher era, in the essays of White Sands, Dyer appears as a restless and somewhat snobbish traveller around sixty, who recommends Adorno, listens to free jazz and, notwithstanding his being a health fanatic, suffered a light stroke at the age of fifty-five. …”
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Une représentation littéraire de la pauvreté au féminin : Call Your Daughter Home et sa traduction en français by Virginie Buhl

“…This study is dedicated to the textual representation of female poverty in a contemporary work of fiction, Call Your Daughter Home, a debut novel by American author Deb Spera, and in its French translation, Le Chant de nos filles. …”
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Scrivere il corpo, ferire il testo: la rappresentazione della violenza nel romanzo La sangre de la aurora (2013) by Luca Breusa

“…In this sense Claudia Salazar’s debut novel exceeds from what is considered the canon of the internal conflict narrative.…”
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(Re)drawing the limits of marginality by Gibson Ncube, Asante Lucy Mtenje

“… Petina Gappah’s debut novel, The Book of Memory (2015), centres on the lives of two ‘white’ characters in post-independent Zimbabwe: Memory, the protagonist-narrator and a woman with albinism, and Lloyd, Memory’s adoptive father and a white, closeted gay man. …”
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Miamiando: Performing Cubanness in the Time of Elián in Jennine Capó’s Make Your Home Among Strangers by Marisela Fleites-Lear

“…This essay scrutinizes the 2015 debut novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, written by Cuban American writer Jennine Capó Crucet. …”
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Reversal of Pakistani Norms: Homoeroticism and Gender - Formations in The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi by Malik, Haroon Afzal, Low Abdullah, Nurul Farhana

“…This paper aims at analyzing the same sex desire and its dynamics from a queer perspective in Kureishi’s debut novel, The Buddha of Suburbia. The most glaring omission which became a sole reason for this research is the politics of sexuality in Hanif Kureishi. …”
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Justly Forgotten or Unjustly Overlooked? Reconsidering Howard Jacobson’s Coming from Behind by Petr Anténe

“…Devoting close attention to the portrayal of British Jewish identity, intertextuality, and the use of comic and satirical elements, this article seeks to answer the question to what degree Jacobson’s debut novel laid foundations for his later fiction. …”
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―SHADOW AND BONE‖: NEGATIVE SPACES OF MEAN-ING by A. A. Gobinskaya

“…The debut novel Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo promises the magical journey through the world of fictional country Ravka, which was inspired by the Russian Empire of the 1800s. …”
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The Image of a Nation in Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give (2017) by Ljubica Matek, Jasna Poljak Rehlicki

“…The paper offers an imagological analysis of Thomas’s debut novel The Hate U Give (2017) with the aim of showing that the cultural image of the Black race is a firmly rooted construct in the United States. …”
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Lugubrious Victorians, Ludicrous Narratives: The Function of the Comic in Jane Harris’ The Observations by Nurdan Balci

“…As a successful representative of the latter, Jane Harris’ debut novel, The Observations (2006) narrates the dolorous life of an Irish girl, Bessy Buckley who is taken on as a maid in a Scottish manor and is asked to perform strange duties assigned to her by the mistress of the house. …”
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(RE)CONSTRUCTING THE SELF IN WOMEN’S AUTOFICTION: THE CASE OF SAȘA ZARE’S DEZRĂDĂCINARE by Alisa Ștefania TITE

“…This paper aims to examine the (re)construction of the female subject in contemporary autobiographical fiction by looking into Sașa Zare’s debut novel, Dezrădăcinare. Drawing on feminist and postfeminist theory as well as research on self-writing centred on women’s inscription of personhood in their works, this study attempts to investigate the relationship between the narrator and the narrated self, focusing on the negotiated distance between the two fictional constructs. …”
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Merging Historical Feminist Fiction-Based Research With the Craft of Fiction Writing: Engaging Readers in Complex Academic Topics Through Story by Nancy Taber

“… Drawing from the literature and the historical fiction-based feminist antimilitarist research I conducted in writing my debut novel, A Sea of Spectres, this article discusses the what and why of fiction-based research. …”
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Violence as Surrealist Play in Angela Carter's Shadow Dance by Anna Fruchart Watz

“…Honeybuzzard, one of the main characters of Angela Carter’s début novel Shadow Dance (1966), has been described by one critic as playing like a big cat, tirelessly and cruelly; “anything and anyone is fair game” (Sage 11). …”
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Monsters like us by Sandig, UA

“…This is what acclaimed poet and sound artist Ulrike Almut Sandig shows us in her debut novel, through the story of old friends Ruth and Viktor in the last days of Communist East Germany. …”

Ralph Ellison Travels to Denmark: Invisible Man/Usynlig Mand and the World Location of American Literature by Johs Rasmussen

“… This essay argues that the Danish translation of Invisible Man (1952), Ralph Ellison’s prize-winning debut novel, offers a set of spatiotemporal coordinates with which the world location of postwar American literature can be mapped. …”
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"Bort med husmanskosten! Skall bli mitt valspråk" by Peter Forsgren

“…The critical aspect dominates her debut novel, The Norrtull Gang, where the configuration of food serves as a symbol of the harsh economic conditions under which women live, and the lack of freedom for a new type of working and economically-independent woman. …”
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Digitalised Responses: Understanding the Digital Literary Spaces in the Light of Keshava Guha’s Accidental Magic by Sapphire Mahmood Ahmed, K. Rizwana Sultana

“…However, it became evident that the literary world had embraced online platforms to produce and consume literature. Keshava Guha’s debut novel Accidental Magic (2019) captures this transformation from print to the digital world in the early 2000s. …”
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Vilifying apartheid perpetrators through narrative devices by Dzunisani Sibuyi

“…Mandla Langa’s debut novel, Tenderness of Blood, received no critical review compared with his later works of fiction. …”
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