Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.

Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.

Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.

Explores Elie Wiesel’s portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.

A close study of one of the most prolific commentary writers in Islamic history.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

Examines the ideas of justice in Euripidean tragedy, which reveals the human experience of justice to be paradoxical, and reminds us of the need for humility in our unceasing quest for a just world.

Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.

Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance.

Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.

Building on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of love this book takes up the “question of the Other” and argues that through the interpretive activities of the amorous imagination lovers come to experience one another as the Beloved.

Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.

Explores the full extent of Hegel’s interest in tragedy and comedy throughout his works and extends from more literary and dramatic issues to questions about the role these genres play in the history of society and religion.

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre.

Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.

A fascinating fusion of New York history and local folklore sure to send shivers up your spine!

Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.