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Barcelona, City of Comics
(February 2022)
Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain
Benjamin Fraser - Author
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Between Camp and Cursi
(January 2022)
Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative
Brandon P. Bisbey - Author
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Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.
Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería—a form of “bad taste” that expresses a sense of social marginalization—is used to represent key social...(Read More) |
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The Space of the Transnational
(December 2021)
Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian Writing
Shirin E. Edwin - Author
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Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.
This book examines Muslim women’s creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah or community to solve such problems as domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and the violence of heteronormativity. By clo...(Read More) |
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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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Sisterlocking Discoarse
(November 2021)
Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy
Valerie Lee - Author
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Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.
In Sisterlocking Discoarse, hair is a medium for reflecting on how academic leadership looks, performs, and changes when embodied by a Black woman. In these ten essays, Valerie Lee traverses...(Read More) |
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The Tyranny of Common Sense
(November 2021)
Mexico's Post-Neoliberal Conversion
Irmgard Emmelhainz - Author
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Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politi...(Read More) |
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Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
(October 2021)
Ann R. Hawkins - Editor
Erin N. Bistline - Editor
Maura Ives - Editor
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Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.
A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances...(Read More) |
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Avant-Gardes in Crisis
(September 2021)
Art and Politics in the Long 1970s
Jean-Thomas Tremblay - Editor
Andrew Strombeck - Editor
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Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.
Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and social crises and reveals a crisis of confidence regarding resistance’s very possibi...(Read More) |
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