Literature

The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2019 Fall

A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions

How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall

From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts

Resisting Dialogue Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent Juan Meneses 2019 Fall

A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent

Re-Enchanted The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire 2019 Fall

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world

Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall

For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works

South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2019 Fall

The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America

Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall

Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945

Black Bourgeois Class and Sex in the Flesh Candice M. Jenkins 2019 Fall

Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives

What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall

Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss

Swede Hollow A Novel Ola Larsmo 2019 Fall

An award-winning and best-selling epic family history and gritty depiction of the darker side of Swedish immigrant life in America

Jack and the Ghost Chan Poling 2019 Fall

A gothic, lyrical evocation of a shipwreck, ghosts, and lost—and found—love in a North Shore town

The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe 2019 Fall

A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture

Laurentian Divide A Novel Sarah Stonich 2019 Fall

Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country—now in paper

Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring

A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness