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Lives beyond Borders
(November 2021)
US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice
Ina C. Seethaler - Author
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Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities.
A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Iran, Lives beyond Borders broadens and deepens critical work on immigrant life w...(Read More) |
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Intersecting Diasporas
(January 2021)
Italian Americans and Allyship in US Fiction
Suzanne Manizza Roszak - Author
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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) |
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With a Diamond in My Shoe
(October 2019)
A Philosopher's Search for Identity in America
Jorge J. E. Gracia - Author
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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) |
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The State of Race
(July 2019)
Asian/American Fiction after World War II
Sze Wei Ang - Author
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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) |
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Animating Black and Brown Liberation
(April 2019)
A Theory of American Literatures
Michael Datcher - Author
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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) |
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Uncoupling American Empire
(January 2014)
Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890-1910
Yu-Fang Cho - Author
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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) |
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Inhabiting La Patria
(December 2013)
Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez
Rebecca L. Harrison - Editor
Emily Hipchen - Editor
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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) |
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Fifties Ethnicities
(November 2013)
The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury
Tracy Floreani - Author
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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) |
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Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
(January 2013)
Narratives Out of Time
Catherine Rottenberg - Editor
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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) |
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