Literature
Fetishizing Tradition
Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.
The Heart and the Island
Makes the case for a distinctly Sicilian American literature.
Age Becomes Us
Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.
Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence
A reappraisal of deconstruction from one of its leading commentators, focusing on the themes of force and violence.
New World Dharma
Interviews and profiles of spiritual and cultural figures influenced by Buddhism.
Borges, the Jew
Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.
Dead Reckoning
A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.
Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island
A collection of Colette's best writings that have never before appeared in English.
Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies
Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.
Imagining the Postcolonial
A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.
Minima Cuba
Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.
Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian
Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.
From Comparison to World Literature
Reintroduces the concept of “world literature” in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.
Hartford's Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity
Upholds Ann Plato as a noteworthy nineteenth-century writer, while reexamining her life and writing from an American Indian perspective.
Talking to the Gods
Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Bricktop's Paris
Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.
Reality Crumbs
First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.
Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts
Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.
The Aesthetics of the Ephemeral
Analyzes theatrical texts and performances while providing political and historical mappings.
In the Life and in the Spirit
Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.
Sufism and American Literary Masters
Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.
William Cullen Bryant
A biography of one of nineteenth-century America’s foremost poets and public intellectuals.
Forgotten Borough
Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City’s biggest underdog, the “forgotten borough” of Queens.
The Avowal of Difference
Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.
The Testimonial Uncanny
Examines how colonial and postcolonial violence is understood and conceptualized through Indigenous storytelling.