Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

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

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.

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

Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.

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 the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.

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

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

Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

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.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

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

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

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

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.