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.

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

Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.

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

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

Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.

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

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

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.

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

Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as "gerundive" time.

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

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

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

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.

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

A systematic study of testimony rooted in contemporary continental philosophy and drawing on literary case studies.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.