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

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

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

A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who put Albany on the world’s literary map.

Argues that first- and second-generation Jewish American writers had an ambivalent relationship with educational success.

The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.

Rethinks the significance of the son’s relationship to his father for Freud’s psychoanalytic theory.

Analyzes contemporary Maya narratives.

Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century.

Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.

First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.

Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation.

Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.

Brings Kafka’s fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.

Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction.

Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.

Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.

Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery.