Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry.

Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.

Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.

Examines the metaphors of the “primitive” and the “industrial” in the rhetoric and imagery of anticapitalist American radical and revolutionary movements.

Brings ecocriticism into conversation with critical American studies approaches to literary canon formation.

Examines the relationship of lynching to black and white citizenship in the 19th and 20th century U. S. through a focus on historical, visual, cultural, and literary texts.

Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.

Examines the increasingly prevalent assumption that postmodernism is over and that literature and film are once again engaging sincerely with issues of ethics and politics.

Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.

Shows how Ozick’s characters attempt to mediate a complex Jewish identity, one that bridges the differences between traditional Judaism and secular American culture.

Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.

A has-been American filmmaker encounters love, cruelty, and death in Italy.

Thirteen short plays by women that were originally produced by the Provincetown Players.

Looks at the connections between Thoreau’s Walden and the work that influenced it, the Bhagavad-Gita.

Argues that Herman Melville’s later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U. S.-led global “war on terror. ”

Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

Looks at the role of Jewish American fiction in the larger context of American culture.

Explores the role of the literary protest essay in addressing social divisions in the United States.

Examines Sukenick's role in reshaping the American literary tradition.

Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time.

Explores and critiques the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment as a convention in twentieth-century American fiction, from the standpoint of postmodernism.

Examines the tendency of post-World War II writers to rewrite earlier narratives by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and others.

Collected essays by noted scholars covering the breadth and influence of Kurt Vonnegut's literature.

Explores the way chaos theory is incorporated in the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Don DeLillo, and Michael Crichton.

Reexamines the notion of the "hyphenate writer," and offers a specific reading strategy that we may consider the Italian/American writer in the age of semiotics, poststructuralism, and the like.