First English translation of these important works by two of Spain’s most gifted writers and intellectuals.

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

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

Makes the case for a distinctly Sicilian American literature.

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

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

Explores Borges’ infatuation with Jewish history and culture.

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.

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.

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.

Examines how colonial and postcolonial violence is understood and conceptualized through Indigenous storytelling.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.

Offers a psychocritical reading of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past).

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.