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Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality in France
(December 2018)
From Rousseau to Art Deco
Heidi Brevik-Zender - Editor
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An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
This anthology explores connections between dress and modernity through interdisciplinary French humanities scholarship. It brings to life the reciprocal relationships between fashion and a range of primary source materials, including literary fiction, paintings, social commentaries, decorative ar...(Read More) |
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Jane Austen's Women
(December 2018)
An Introduction
Kathleen Anderson - Author
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An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.
Why does Jane Austen “mania” continue unabated in a postmodern world? How does the brilliant Regency novelist speak so personally to today’s women that they view her as their best friend? Jane Austen’s Women answers these questions by exploring Austen’s affirming yet challenging vision of both who her dynamic...(Read More) |
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Queer Expectations
(December 2018)
A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry
Zohar Weiman-Kelman - Author
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Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.
Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing “queer expectancy&rdq...(Read More) |
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Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2
(December 2018)
Contemporary Maya Narratives
Arturo Arias - Author
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Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical conflict impacting Indigenous communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular and Chiapanecan Maya narratives. He examines the works of Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete,...(Read More) |
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Bootlegger of the Soul
(October 2018)
The Literary Legacy of William Kennedy
Suzanne Lance - Editor
Paul Grondahl - Editor
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A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who put Albany on the world’s literary map.
The award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world’s literary map alongside James Joyce’s Dublin, Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo, and William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul...(Read More) |
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Signatures of Struggle
(October 2018)
The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction
Oded Nir - Author
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A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.
Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir moves beyond the dominant interpretive horizon of Israeli literary criticism: the relation of literature to national ideology. Rather th...(Read More) |
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Storytelling
(October 2018)
The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust
Rodolphe Gasché - Author
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An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.
In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasché reexamines the muteness of Holocaust survivors, that is, their inability to tell their stories. This phenomenon has not been explained up to now without reducing the violence of the events to which survivors were subjected, on the one hand, and diminishing the specif...(Read More) |
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Troubled Memories
(October 2018)
Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation
Oswaldo Estrada - Author
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Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.
In Troubled Memories, Oswaldo Estrada traces the literary and cultural representations of several iconic Mexican women produced in the midst of neoliberalism, gender debates, and the widespread commodification of cultural memory. He examines recent fictionaliz...(Read More) |
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Fire and Snow
(August 2018)
Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones
Marc DiPaolo - Author
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A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid’s Tale and Game of Thrones.
Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis may have belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the mid-twentieth-century’s triple threats of fascism, utilitariani...(Read More) |
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The Infrahuman
(August 2018)
Animality in Modern Jewish Literature
Noam Pines - Author
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Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.
The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from the period preceding World War II, in which Jewish writers in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish employed figures of animals in pejorative depictions of Jews and Jewish identity. Such depictions are disturbing because they sometimes rival...(Read More) |
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