There has been a cohesive cultural response from Japan to the atomic bomb and its radiological consequences: cultural ic......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
Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated living authors. Her work, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Literatu......more
Jack Kerouac was one of America’s great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characteri......more
The second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture ......more
The topic of Latino/a Literature is not as easily identifiable as it may seem. The definition itself of Latino can chang......more
The topic of Latino/a Literature is not as easily identifiable as it may seem. The definition itself of Latino can chang......more
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
Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study that offers a fresh reading of African-American literar......more
Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study that offers a fresh reading of African-American literar......more
Black Hauntologies is the second volume of a three-volume study that offers a fresh reading of African-American literary......more
This volume deals critically with the insertion of university life in contemporary United States of America. The time fr......more
How are long-term residential care and the construction of late-life identities connected in North American film and fic......more
Cutting-edge and insightful discussions of Latin American literature and culture In the newly revised second edition of ......more
In the medieval and early modern periods, dreams were seen as having the potential to grant a glimpse of what was unknow......more
Written for an audience that has witnessed the election of Barack Obama, the debt anxieties of the Great Recession, and ......more
Broad in its scope and forward-thinking in its approach, this book offers a wide-ranging thematic exploration of key deb......more
Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this book examines ......more
This accessible biography of Maya Angelou provides readers an ideal introduction to the life and times of one of America......more
Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world o......more
The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth......more
What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossi......more
Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thor......more
Seeing to See focuses on two American authors who are notoriously hard to classify: Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thor......more
The ecological dimensions of Ernest Hemingway’s work are often overlooked in much of the criticism on him. This book con......more
Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, the daughters of Lidian Jackson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, grew up in the h......more
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Engaging a diverse range of contemporary anglophone literature from authors of the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean d......more
"Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates......more
From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city’s Bl......more
From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city’s Bl......more
Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by aut......more
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Ralph Ellison and Cinema reveals the crucial role of cinema throughout Ellison’s career. In his most famous work, Invisi......more
Challenging the notion that Central American literature is a marginal space within Latin American literary and world lit......more
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exh......more
The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003, gathers hundreds of never-before-seen letter......more
Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they have usu......more
An annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction John Mc......more
The political and cultural fantasy of home as a retreat from the pressures of the world first emerged in the U.S. alongs......more
The political and cultural fantasy of home as a retreat from the pressures of the world first emerged in the U.S. alongs......more
By analyzing the citation flows that shape the current geopolitics of knowledge, this book offers to map the production ......more
Stanley Cavell, undoubtedly one of the most singular and influential voices in contemporary philosophy, has written exte......more
In Alice Munro and the Art of Time, Laura K. Davis demonstrates how one of the world’s greatest writers of short stories......more
Discover the essential people, works, movements, and themes in American Indian literature. American Indian literature is......more
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Focusing on Alice Munro’s last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest ......more
Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academic......more
Contributions by Katrin Althans, Jayson Althofer, Naomi Simone Borwein, Persephone Braham, Krista Collier-Jarvis, Shane ......more
Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academic......more
Contributions by Katrin Althans, Jayson Althofer, Naomi Simone Borwein, Persephone Braham, Krista Collier-Jarvis, Shane ......more
The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Ad......more
A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyon......more
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal ......more
A poet’s creative process comes to light in this latest book by National Book Award recipient Arthur Sze. Sze has assemb......more
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An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close rela......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
"Challenges and contextualizes the standard language used in translation theory and comparative literature within the un......more
In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change between the American Founding and the Civil War, Americans confr......more
The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fic......more
In Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing, author Anna LaQuawn Hinton examines how contemporary ......more
William Faulkner in Holly Springs describes places and people in this small Mississippi town and defines how these newly......more
William Faulkner in Holly Springs describes places and people in this small Mississippi town and defines how these newly......more
In Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing, author Anna LaQuawn Hinton examines how contemporary ......more
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Specters of War explores mourning practices in postwar Central America, particularly in El Salvador and Guatemala. Ignac......more
Specters of War explores mourning practices in postwar Central America, particularly in El Salvador and Guatemala. Ignac......more
In this book, editor Ben Berman Ghan has worked to curate a collection of essays and interviews that capture the differe......more
What is wrong with ’literary modernism’ as a paradigm? One answer is that it is over-written, a kind of ’winner’s histor......more
Despite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cult......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
A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic How to be Disabled in a Pan......more
This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers a......more
With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehe......more
Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of......more
When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as......more
When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as......more
This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international......more
This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international......more
Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico investigates how Nahuas conceptualized their futu......more
Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico investigates how Nahuas conceptualized their futu......more
Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, T. Jackie Cuevas, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Jose......more
In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, Conversations with Ted Kooser chronicles the Nebraska writer’s ......more
Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, T. Jackie Cuevas, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Jose......more
In twenty-one interviews spanning nearly half a century, Conversations with Ted Kooser chronicles the Nebraska writer’s ......more
The acquisition of Puerto Rico as a colony in 1898 prompted the interest of many in the United States--the military, cor......more
The acquisition of Puerto Rico as a colony in 1898 prompted the interest of many in the United States--the military, cor......more
In Absorption Narratives, Stephanie M. Pridgeon explores cultural depictions of Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity w......more
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
Romancing History?: Wayne Johnston and "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" closely re-examines how Wayne Johnston’s semina......more
This collection recognizes prominent Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s impact as a highly political writer whose literar......more