Provides an incisive account of women’s porn and queer porn of the 1980s and 1990s.

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.

Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.

Makes the case for a distinctly Sicilian American literature.

Deconstructs fiction and nonfiction to further understandings of how aging and old age are created.

A reappraisal of deconstruction from one of its leading commentators, focusing on the themes of force and violence.

Interviews and profiles of spiritual and cultural figures influenced by Buddhism.

Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.

A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.

A collection of Colette's best writings that have never before appeared in English.

Provides encyclopedic coverage of female sexuality in 1940s popular culture.

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality.

Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.

Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.

Reintroduces the concept of “world literature” in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.

Upholds Ann Plato as a noteworthy nineteenth-century writer, while reexamining her life and writing from an American Indian perspective.

Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.

Analyzes theatrical texts and performances while providing political and historical mappings.

Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.

Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.

A biography of one of nineteenth-century America’s foremost poets and public intellectuals.