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Afterlives of the plantation
Jarvis C. McInnis charts a new account of Black modernity by centering Tuskegee’s vision of agrarian worldmaking.
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Asian american fiction after 1965
Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia.
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Before disability
A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is often told as a recent one, but it is not. In the wake of the American Revolution, many of the differences we now call disabilities could be acc...
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Big american writer
Big American Writer recasts Jack Kerouac as an ethnic, bilingual author, demonstrating that his French Canadian upbringing and background were formative to his breakthrough literary achievements.
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Brutal aspects of migratory esthetics
Offers a critical yet compassionate examination of our culture, which is heavily influenced by borders.
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Classicism and other phobias
A provocative case for why immortalizing Greek and Roman culture as “classical” marginalizes and devalues Black lifeGreek and Roman antiquity has been enshrined in disciplines and curricula at all levels of education, perpetuating what the historian of political thought J.G.A. Pocock has called “...
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Cosmo-modernism and theater in india
Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker develops a new framework for understanding non-Anglophone Indian modernisms, analyzing the writing, staging, and reception of major plays in multiple languages.
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Create dangerously
A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards—now with a new preface by the author"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I'...
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Modernism and the middle passage
This book reveals how modernists turned to the Middle Passage—and, in so doing, upended Western ideas about time and space, race and gender, and the category of the human.
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Overdetermined
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan explores how writers, critics, teachers, and students of Indian English literatures negotiate and resist the categories through which the field is defined: ethnic, postcolonial, and Anglophone.
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Southern imagining
A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudesA northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and southern Africa, among others—seems far away and ignorable. In Souther...
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Static forms
Shir Alon develops a new theory of the emergence of modernist literary forms through a series of parallel readings of Arabic and Hebrew prose.
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The black aerial imagination
Delali Kumavie examines how aviation and flight have shaped Black lives and the global Black cultural imagination, arguing that representations of air travel reveal the structures circumscribing Black existence.
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The broken king
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD“There’s a bridge of beautiful American prose—lyrical, powerful, fearlessly candid—running straight from James Baldwin to Thomas, who is obviously Baldwin’s worthy heir . . . An utterly i...
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The rise of celebrity authorship
Sarah Danielle Allison illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within the anarchic nineteenth-century literary marketplace.
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The rise of pacific literature
Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward identify the local innovations and international networks that spurred Pacific literature’s golden age by reading crucial works against the poetry, prose, and plays on the syllabi of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific.
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