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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explores Yalom’s profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature.

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

A beautifully rendered, brutally realistic Native American gang novel.

The first book-length study of Bersani’s work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.

A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno’s writings on art and literature.

The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.