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Midnight at the Barrelhouse The Johnny Otis Story George Lipsitz 2013 Spring

The first biography of music legend and civil rights activist Johnny Otis

These Granite Islands A Novel Sarah Stonich 2013 Spring

An engrossing, suspenseful novel about hidden love—set on the Iron Range

The Tropics Bite Back Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature Valérie Loichot 2013 Spring

The surprising relationships between food and starvation and the practice of literary cannibalism

We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter Rachael Hanel 2013 Spring

Growing up among cemeteries and finding faith and resilience amid sorrowful loss

Vacationland Sarah Stonich 2013 Spring

From the best-selling author of These Granite Islands, a novel of stories intersecting at a broken-down fishing resort in the north woods of Minnesota

Each Hour Redeem Time and Justice in African American Literature Daylanne K. English 2013 Spring

A major reinterpretation of African American literature through its tropes of time

Middlebrow Queer Christopher Isherwood in America Jaime Harker 2013 Spring

How Christopher Isherwood reinvented himself as an American writer through gay print culture of the postwar United States

On Writing with Photography Karen Beckman and Liliane Weissberg, Editors 2013 Spring

An exploration of the relationship between photography and text, from the age of early photography to the contemporary graphic novel

Capital Fictions The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age Ericka Beckman 2012 Fall

How literature interpreted Latin America’s first major period of capitalist expansion

At the Borders of Sleep On Liminal Literature Peter Schwenger 2012 Fall

Exploring the fertile connections between creativity and the edges of sleep

The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage An Enlightenment Problematic Tony C. Brown 2012 Fall

How the exotic constitutes Enlightenment aesthetic theory

Twelve Views from the Distance Mutsuo Takahashi 2012 Fall

An incandescent memoir of a boy’s coming of age in wartime Japan

Poems of a Penisist Mutsuo Takahashi 2012 Fall

A collection of homoerotic poetry by one of Japan’s most prominent poets

Antebellum at Sea Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America Jason Berger 2012 Fall

How the intersection of antebellum imagination and contemporary theories of fantasy challenges American literary history

The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 2012 Fall

Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing

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