Antigone's Sisters
(May 2021)
On the Matrix of Love Lenart Škof - Author
Poetics of Breathing
(May 2021)
Modern Literature's Syncope Stefanie Heine - Author
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
(April 2021)
Studies in African Homosexualities Will Roscoe - Editor Stephen O. Murray - Editor Marc Epprecht - Preface
Making the Case
(April 2021)
Feminist and Critical Race Philosophers Engage Case Studies Heidi Grasswick - Editor Nancy Arden McHugh - Editor
Death Rights
(March 2021)
Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism Deanna P. Koretsky - Author
Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.
Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative “genius.” Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literatur...(Read More)
Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.
Feminism can reflect the cultural moment, especially as media appropriate and use feminist messaging and agenda to various ends. Yet media can also push boundaries, exposing audiences to ideas they may not be familiar with and advancing pu...(Read More)
Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.
The college classroom is inevitably influenced by, and in turn influences, the world around it. In the United States, this means the complex topic of race can come into play in ways that are both explicit and implicit. Teaching Race in Perilous Times highlights and confronts t...(Read More)
Screen Love
(February 2021)
Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era Tom Roach - Author
Beyond Gold and Diamonds
(January 2021)
Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel Melissa Free - Author
The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.
Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region’s mineral wealth to the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on fiction by the colonial-born Ol...(Read More)
South of the Future
(December 2020)
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas Anindita Banerjee - Editor Debra A. Castillo - Editor
Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and othe...(Read More)
