Arts and Humanities Sale: Literary Criticism
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- Black Pulp Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Brooks E. Hefner 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice
- Language, Madness, and Desire On Literature Michel Foucault 2021 Fall
- Insight into the importance of literature for Michel Foucault—published in English for the first time
- Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
- The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall
- Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future
- Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall
- Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
- The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley 2021 Fall
- Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history
- Ambivalent Childhoods Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child Jacob Breslow 2021 Spring
- Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possible
- Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala Emil’ Keme 2021 Spring
- Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration
- The Black Reproductive Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood Sara Clarke Kaplan 2021 Spring
- How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling
- Outward Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes Ed Pavlić 2021 Spring
- The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships
- Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring
- A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
- Clang Jacques Derrida 2020 Fall
- A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
- Contingent Figure Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment Michael D. Snediker 2021 Spring
- A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain
- Black Queer Flesh Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel Alvin J. Henry 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity
- Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall
- Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
- The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
- The Death of Things Ephemera and the American Novel Sarah Wasserman 2020 Fall
- A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century
- Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall
- A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
- Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
- Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall
- Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations
- Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner 2020 Spring
- An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times
- Isherwood in Transit James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors 2020 Spring
- New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer
- An Archive of Taste Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein 2020 Spring
- A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature
- The Shapes of Fancy Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature Christine Varnado 2020 Spring
- Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality
- What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring
- Examining the personal library and the making of self
- Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring
- Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition
- The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring
- Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
- Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring
- A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
- The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring
- A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
- Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall
- The first critical study of writing without language