Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.

A bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South.

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.

Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.

Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.

Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.

Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.

Describes how writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity.

Brilliant study of the effects of colonialism on the physical, mental, and spiritual health of Native Hawaiians, and their efforts to decolonize through healing and remembering.

Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

Groundbreaking essays by Palestinian women scholars on the lives of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

Examines the project of Filipino self-determination in the context of capitalist globalization.

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city. ”

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.