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.

Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.

Argues that the role of Buddhism in modern Japanese prose literature has been significantly overlooked.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue’s philosophical argumentation.

Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.

Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.

Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.

Situates a Hasidic master in the context of his time, demonstrating his formative influence on Jewish literary modernity.

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

A study of novelty through analyses of the language of announcement in revolutionary texts.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.

Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.

Revisits a foundational moment in Argentine history to demonstrate how the crisis of modernity opened up new possibilities for imagining kinship otherwise.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Reveals how classic American novels embodied the tensions embedded in American views of the natural world from the Centennial until the end of the Second World War.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.