This transdisciplinary collection investigates relations of "living and learning with" as compelling forms of encounter,......more
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Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attraction......more
Severo Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representativ......more
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A rediscovery of Thoreau’s interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate H......more
The contemporary literary movement of Maya writers of Chiapas and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (or EZLN) in......more
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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
Mari Sandoz’s The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the m......more
What in terms of Alice Munro’s creative artistry and creative power allowed her to become the first and only short story......more
A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of ......more
A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré life A rare glimpse into the history of th......more
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In his introduction to the foundational 1925 text The New Negro, Alain Locke described the "Old Negro" as "a creature of......more
A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros....more
A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros....more
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The years 1989-2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly ......more
The years 1989-2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly ......more
Can form be political? Do specific aesthetic and literary forms necessarily point us toward a progressive or reactionary......more
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What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century’s most significant write......more
Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the co......more
Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the ......more
Digital Memory Agents in Canada explores memory performances and representations with different cultural and spatial rel......more
This comprehensive guide places Modernist literature in its cultural and historical contexts while offering several alte......more
Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and p......more
Henry David Thoreau’s interest in Native Americans is widely known and a recurring topic of scholarly attention, yet it ......more
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Henry David Thoreau’s interest in Native Americans is widely known and a recurring topic of scholarly attention, yet it ......more
Addressing the history, impacts, and legacies of the Indian Residential School system, the Canadian Truth and Reconcilia......more
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Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought......more
The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains......more
"In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjecti......more
Citizenship is at the forefront of popular imagination as political movements and state governments around the world tra......more
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In this iconoclastic and sure to be contentious re-casting by a renowned critic, the great American novel Moby Dick is p......more
Canadian literary great Guy Vanderhaeghe’s eclectic and wryly insightful collection of nonfiction pieces spans his forty......more
Larry Brown (1951-2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of......more
Molecular Cathedral is the first ever selection of the extraordinary poems of John Lent, renowned Okanagen-based writing......more
In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Ty......more
In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Ty......more
The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculin......more
The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across ......more
A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-invest......more
Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior dec......more
Geographies of Relation demonstrates how examining texts created throughout the Americas about diaspora and borderlands ......more
Geographies of Relation demonstrates how examining texts created throughout the Americas about diaspora and borderlands ......more
Examines the way the corporation - a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal traditi......more
During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers......more
The new modernist studies have recognised a range of writers, many of whom are now receiving new attention in criticism ......more
The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of th......more
From Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of......more
What do we mean when call something a lyric poem? How many kinds of lyric are there? Are there fewer now than there were......more
How are long-term residential care and the construction of late-life identities connected in North American film and fic......more
Examining representations of the female body in postrevolutionary genre literature In this volume, Sara Potter uses the ......more
Examining representations of the female body in postrevolutionary genre literature In this volume, Sara Potter uses the ......more
Spirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights crisis sparked in 2013 when the Dominica......more
In light of accumulating significant debts, Arthur Shelby, a farmer from Kentucky, finds himself on the verge of losing ......more
The Roots of Cane proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer......more
Over a dozen new volumes of T. S. Eliot’s poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade. This collec......more
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods is the first comprehensive comparison of two of the greatest epics of the Indigeno......more
Uncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples Most p......more
Uncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples Most p......more
With a foreword by John N. Maclean, son of Norman Maclean The Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy pro......more
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The present book examines Williams’s negotiation with cultural modes and systems of Chinese landscape tradition in his l......more
In The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, Johanna X. K. Garvey examines the works of contemporary write......more
John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac’s life they we......more
In The Sides of the Sea: Caribbean Women Writing Diaspora, Johanna X. K. Garvey examines the works of contemporary write......more
In Petrochemical Fantasies, Daniel Worden reveals the entwined history of comics and fossil fuels in the United States. ......more
In Petrochemical Fantasies, Daniel Worden reveals the entwined history of comics and fossil fuels in the United States. ......more
Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab wo......more
The Geographies of David Foster Wallace’s Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallace’s novels through the lens of......more
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"A queer way to be in the world and with others"--...more
"A queer way to be in the world and with others"--...more
Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samata......more