Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.

Demonstrates how American Jews used culture—art, dance, music, fashion, literature—to win the hearts and minds of postwar Americans to the cause of Israel.

First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

Analyzes theatrical texts and performances while providing political and historical mappings.

Investigates how leaders’ personalities shape important foreign policy shifts.

Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.

Considers the work of nineteenth-century theologian Ibrahim al-Bajuri and contests the notion of intellectual decline in Islamic thought from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries.

An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.

Offers a psychocritical reading of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past).

An abbot’s ghost searches for an intelligent monk to exhume his manuscript from a hellish crypt and learn the truth that monks lack two things: freedom of inquiry and benevolence.

Examines the grassroots activism of an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay organization in Turkey.

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Considers what is known of acclaimed early Sufi master Abū Bakr al-Shiblī and how he was characterized in various times and places.

Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.

Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.

Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey.

A selection of poems by one of Islam’s greatest poetic voices.

Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.

Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.

Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation.

Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Incisive exploration of the work of Cuban-American artist Alberto Rey.