Intersecting Diasporas
(January 2021)
Italian Americans and Allyship in US Fiction Suzanne Manizza Roszak - Author
Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.
Intersecting Diasporas examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction. Rewriting the Anglo-American genre of the “Italian novel,” authors like James Ba...(Read More)
With a Diamond in My Shoe
(October 2019)
A Philosopher's Search for Identity in America Jorge J. E. Gracia - Author
The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.
In 1961, at the age of nineteen, Jorge J. E. Gracia escaped from the island of Cuba by passing himself off as a Catholic seminarian. He arrived in the United States with just a few spare belongings and his mother’s diamond ring secured in a hole in one of his shoes. With a Diamond in My Shoe tells the story of Gracia&rsquo...(Read More)
The State of Race
(July 2019)
Asian/American Fiction after World War II Sze Wei Ang - Author
An innovative comparative study of the role racial stereotypes play in expressing state power under globalization.
Contemporary ideas about race are often assumed to be products of specific locales and histories, yet we find versions of the same ideas about race across countries and cultures. How can we account for this paradox? In The State of Race, Sze Wei Ang argues that globalization has led to new ways of using raci...(Read More)
Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.
Animating Black and Brown Liberation introduces a vital new tool for reading American literatures. Rooted in both ancient Egyptian ideas about life and cutting-edge theories of animacy, or levels of aliveness, this tool—ankhing—e...(Read More)
Uncoupling American Empire
(January 2014)
Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890-1910 Yu-Fang Cho - Author
A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.
A radical revision of the politics of race and sexuality within racial capitalism, Uncoupling American Empire provides an original cultural genealogy of how the institutionalization of marriage shaped imagined relationships among working people who were seen as sexually devia...(Read More)
Inhabiting La Patria
(December 2013)
Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez Rebecca L. Harrison - Editor Emily Hipchen - Editor
Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.
This is the first collection of critical essays on the works of Dominican American author Julia Alvarez. A prolific writer of nearly two dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, Alvarez has garnered numerous international accolades, including the impressive F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievemen...(Read More)
Fifties Ethnicities
(November 2013)
The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury Tracy Floreani - Author
Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.
Fifties Ethnicities brings together a variety of texts to explore what it meant to be American in the middle of “America’s Century.” In a series of comparative readings that draws on novels, television programs, movie magazines, and films, Tracy Floreani crosses generi...(Read More)
Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.
Harlem and the Lower East Side are two neighborhoods that evoke not only a rich if contested history, but also a particular “racial” narrative. Indeed, these spaces—one downtown and one uptown on Manhattan Island—have become almost s...(Read More)
