A collection of plays by American Indian playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.

Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.

Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.

Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.

The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.

An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.