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Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated living authors. Her work, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Literatu......more
The topic of Latino/a Literature is not as easily identifiable as it may seem. The definition itself of Latino can chang......more
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This book explores the ways that figures of Black children and writing for them articulate complex and contested notions......more
This book explores the ways in which Latin American poets, novelists, journalists, public intellectuals, and a vast numb......more
Cutting-edge and insightful discussions of Latin American literature and culture In the newly revised second edition of ......more
Written for an audience that has witnessed the election of Barack Obama, the debt anxieties of the Great Recession, and ......more
Ralph Ellison and Cinema reveals the crucial role of cinema throughout Ellison’s career. In his most famous work, Invisi......more
By analyzing the citation flows that shape the current geopolitics of knowledge, this book offers to map the production ......more
On June 13, 1753 the Irene set sail from London to New York. One of her passengers was Christian Wedsted, a Moravian mis......more
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The second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture ......more
This accessible biography of Maya Angelou provides readers an ideal introduction to the life and times of one of America......more
Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in w......more
Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, this guide identifies both the essen......more
Translation is commonly understood as the rendering of a text from one language to another - a border-crossing activity,......more
In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change between the American Founding and the Civil War, Americans confr......more
In the medieval and early modern periods, dreams were seen as having the potential to grant a glimpse of what was unknow......more
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A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic How to Be Disabled in a Pan......more
A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic How to Be Disabled in a Pan......more
With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehe......more
When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as......more
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Romancing History?: Wayne Johnston and "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" closely re-examines how Wayne Johnston’s semina......more
Discover the essential people, works, movements, and themes in American Indian literature. American Indian literature is......more
Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study that offers a fresh reading of African-American literar......more
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The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains......more
Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joo......more
This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of......more
A group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a gro......more
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The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. From its origins, the lib......more
A series of conversations held at Princeton University between the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and Rubén Gallo. Pr......more
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Stanley Cavell, undoubtedly one of the most singular and influential voices in contemporary philosophy, has written exte......more
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There has been a cohesive cultural response from Japan to the atomic bomb and its radiological consequences: cultural ic......more
A study of the incommensurable, often discordant elements that define major works of American literature. In Sharon Came......more
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This volume deals critically with the insertion of university life in contemporary United States of America. The time fr......more
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Between 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year pe......more
Between 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year pe......more
With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radi......more
Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates h......more
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exh......more
The first book to explore Herman Melville as a Gothic writer. In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an......more
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The first scholarly assessment of Steinbeck’s bestselling travelogue Travels with Charley, published in 1962, a narrativ......more
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The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social ......more
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The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens expre......more
The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens expre......more
Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and ’things’ in a range of predominantly Western archaeological f......more
In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers......more
In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers......more
Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when "urban" and "rural" indicate tas......more
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary write......more
Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarcti......more
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Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from......more
A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present ......more
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Despite being a major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles (1949-2008) has received relatively little schol......more
Now available in paperback! One hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and e......more