Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.

Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.

A major new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the oeuvre of Denis Diderot.

Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how its figuration is transforming and offering new possibilities.

A selection of poems by one of Islam’s greatest poetic voices.

Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.

Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.

Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.

Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.

All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works.

A literary anthology exploring contemporary Catholic women’s experiences.

Examines the preservation of the integrity of humanity through literature in the hells described by Dante in his Inferno and by Primo Levi in Survival in Auschwitz.

Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors.

In these idiosyncratic, subtly rhymed and occasionally violent lyrics, Frost runs her tongue along the edge of the knife dividing wit from rage.

Analyzes the literary representations of women in Salvadoran and US-Salvadoran narratives since 1980.

Reexamines the writings of early indigenous authors in the northeastern United States.

Situates Borges at the limit of philosophy and literature.

Translations of the forewords and afterwords by original fairy tale authors and commentaries by their contemporaries, material that has not been widely published in English.

Traces the emergence of creative texts focusing on the nineteenth-century slave trade to make sense of the radicalized effects of global capitalism.

Describes how writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity.

Examines the theory and practice of nonfiction narrative literature in twentieth-century Mexico.

Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis.