Kritika Kultura is an open-access peer-reviewed international electronic journal of literary, language, and cultural studies, published three times a year by the Literary and Cultural Studies Program of Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.
Current Issue: No. 49 (2026)
Front Matter
Front Matter
Kritika Kultura
Editor's Introduction
Introduction
Vincenz Serrano
Regular Section
The Ghost of Empire: Asian Horror and Postcolonial Pastiche in the Filipino Visual Novel The Letter (2017)
Christoffer Mitch C. Cerda
Frontier Crossings of a 19th Century French Missionary Foundress of British Malaya: Mathilde Raclot
Anne Vanessa Vincent, Shanthini Pillai, and Suziana Mat Saad
From Journey to the West to Black Myth: Wukong: The Haunted Ghost and Gaming Politics in China
Kaihui Bi and Tianyu Yu
Forum Kritika On Homo Connectus And Fandom Activism: Fansumers As Cultural Transmitters
Introduction: Homo Connectus and Fandom Activism: Fansumers as Cultural Transmitters
Soongbeum Ahn and Ratan Kumar Roy
The Practices of Hallyu Fandom as a Digital Neo-Tribe: Trans-Bricolage and Post-Coding
Soongbeum Ahn and Taeryong Kim
Practices of the Global Hallyu Fandom as a “Post-Creator”
Taehyun Baek and Jiyoung Joo
Co-creating Korean Culture in Europe through Digital Media: The Rise of Transculturator
Éva Judit Gajzágó and Mária Keresztes
Too Much Love Will Kill Everything: K-pop Fandom’s Shift from Prosumer to Market Distorter
Hyungjong Lee and Jimmyn Parc
How Does Fandom Contribute to Content IP Value Formation?: Proposal for Fandom Asset Model
Sungmin Lee and Kyuchan Kim
From Affective Placemaking to Fandom Activism: A Reinterpretation of Contents Tourism in the Context of K-Drama Fandom
Hanki Jo and Areum Choi
Fandom in Conflict: How Japanese K-pop Fans Countered Anti-Korean Sentiment in the 2010s
Joho Yamamoto
Beyond Romance: Feminist Imagination of Intimacy in Female-Centered Mengnü (Dream Girl) Fan-fiction on Chinese Social Media
Gemma Yantao Sun
Forum Kritika on Waves of Emotion: Theorizing Archipelagic Affects
Introduction: Waves of Emotion: Theorizing Archipelagic Affects
Jeremy De Chavez
Post-anthropocentric Relations Unbound: Affirmative Ethics of Loneliness in Children’s Robinsonades
Chengcheng You
An Island Adrift
Jinhyoung Lee
“We Malaysian” or “We Chinese”?: Navigating Archipelagic Negative Affects in Jason Leong’s Anglophone Stand-up Comedy
Harry Shi and Sophie Xu
Landlocked: The Igorot Ili in the Cordillera Regional Autonomy Pageants
Jose Kervin Calabias
Review Essay
Transmission Pathways and Critical Practices of Ethical Literary Criticism in Malaysia: A Case Study of Florence Kuek’s An Ethical Literary Criticism of Han Suyin’s Autobiography: Braving Irrationality
Hongxia Zheng and Liangqiao Zhang
Literary Section
Footnote to Disappearance
James Gabrillo
Four Reconstructions of Early Vertical Aspirations
Edgar Calabia Samar
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