Three stageworthy plays and nine individual scenes that offer an introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.

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

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.

The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.

Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.

Explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in classical and contemporary Buddhist texts.

An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.

Argues that the Divine Comedy dramatizes the risks and rewards of competing narratives, or different ways of reading.

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

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

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

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

Examines themes of loss and mourning in the late work of Derrida.

The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker’s struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.

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.

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

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.

A comprehensive discussion of an important but elusive Lacanian concept within the field of psychoanalysis, as well as its relevance for philosophy, literature, gender, and queer studies.

Cooper’s The Chainbearer presents an exciting narrative that interrogates issues of what it means to own land. The novel examines the claims of ownership of wilderness land among Native Americans, New England squatters, and the old New York families with legal deeds.

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