Spring 2024 - Literature
Resonances against Fascism
Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.
Folklore Matters
Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition
The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.
Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations
A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.
Tracking Capital
Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.
Awakening a Living World on a Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage
Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.
The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics
Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.
The Serpent's Plumes
Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.
Through a Nuclear Lens
Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.
The Recursive Frontier
Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.
Soundings in Context
Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.
Myth and the Making of History
Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.
Empire of Culture
Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.
The Philosophical Animal
Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.
The Dybbuk
A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.