Examines the political dimensions of Aristophanes’ comic poetry.

Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.

Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Describes several key roles of Canto 18 in the structure of the Commedia.

Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Kristeva's fiction.

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.

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

Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.

Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.

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.

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.

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

Situates Borges at the limit of philosophy and literature.

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.