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Michael Gold
(December 2020)
The People's Writer
Patrick Chura - Author
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An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.
Jewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold (1893–1967) was a key progressive author of his generation, yet today his work is too often forgotten. A novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, journalist, and editor, Gold was the leading advocate of leftist, proletaria...(Read More) |
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Racialized Visions
(December 2020)
Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
Vanessa K. Valdés - Editor
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The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
As a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exch...(Read More) |
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South of the Future
(December 2020)
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas
Anindita Banerjee - Editor
Debra A. Castillo - Editor
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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) |
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Teardrops of Time
(December 2020)
Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkhan Kalayanaphong
Arnika Fuhrmann - Author
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Investigates how the Thai poet Angkhan Kalayanaphong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.
Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkhan Kalayanaphong (1926–2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts...(Read More) |
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The Blossom Which We Are
(November 2020)
The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds
Nir Evron - Author
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Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.
The Blossom Which We Are traces the emergence of a distinctly modern form of human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile and time-bound cultural frameworks ...(Read More) |
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Since 1948
(October 2020)
Israeli Literature in the Making
Nancy E. Berg - Editor
Naomi B. Sokoloff - Editor
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A portrait of Israeli literature in its full transnational and multilingual complexity.
Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and sci...(Read More) |
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Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene
(September 2020)
Shawna Ross - Author
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Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.
In this book, Shawna Ross argues that Charlotte Brontë was an attentive witness of the Anthropocene and created one of the first literary ecosystems animated by human-caused environmental change. Brontë combined her personal experiences, scientific knowledge, and narrative skills to...(Read More) |
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Taxation in Utopia
(September 2020)
Required Sacrifice and the General Welfare
Donald Morris - Author
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An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation.
Taxation in Utopia explores utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation. At its core, taxation is an ethical question. It requires people to sacrifice for the benefit of others, whether or not they also benefit themselves. Donald Morris refers to this broader, nonmonetary context as co...(Read More) |
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Changed Forever, Volume II
(August 2020)
American Indian Boarding-School Literature
Arnold Krupat - Author
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The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.
After a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, Changed Forever, Volume II examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools. Considering a wide range of tribal w...(Read More) |
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