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.

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.

Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights.

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

Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.

Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.

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

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

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.

Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.

Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.

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

Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.

An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.

Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.

A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.

The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.