Literature

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

Troubling the Family The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism Habiba Ibrahim 2012 Fall

Discovers the roots of multiracialism in the feminist movement

Trans-Indigenous Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 2012 Fall

Uncovering the wealth of Indigenous self-representation through juxtaposition of genres, cultures, histories, and geographies

Worm Work Recasting Romanticism Janelle A. Schwartz 2012 Fall

The ascent of worms from creepy creatures to a vital Romantic literary trope

Frozen Mary Casanova 2013 Fall

A young woman’s struggle to speak for herself—no matter the risks—from critically acclaimed and award-winning author Mary Casanova

The Disenchanted Budd Schulberg 2012 Fall

A moving, controversial novel that captured both the dazzling spirit and the bitter disenchantment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age

Fool for Love F. Scott Fitzgerald Scott Donaldson 2012 Fall

A remarkable biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, written by one of the nation’s best biographers

Children of the Northlights Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire 2012 Fall

A spellbinding evocation and celebration of Sami people and culture from two Caldecott-honored authors and illustrators

Creole Indigeneity Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson 2012 Fall

How Creoles refashioned the techniques of settler power and used the principle of labor to become the Caribbean’s new “natives”

Inhuman Citizenship Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature Juliana Chang 2012 Fall

Explores the complicated relationships between those who suffer and their tormenters

Thirty Rooms to Hide In Insanity, Addiction, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic Luke Longstreet Sullivan 2014 Spring

The remarkable story of six brothers growing up in the ’50s and ’60s as their father—a highly respected Mayo Clinic surgeon—slowly goes insane

Selected Plays, Volume II August Strindberg 2012 Fall

Six Strindberg plays—written after his “inferno” period in the later part of his life

Selected Plays, Volume I August Strindberg 2012 Fall

A collection of six of Strindberg’s best plays spanning his “pre-inferno” period

South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom Brenna Munro 2012 Spring

Uncovers the story of how the politics of queer sexuality have played out in the struggle for multiracial democracy in South Africa

The Mestizo State Reading Race in Modern Mexico Joshua Lund 2012 Spring

The wide-ranging relations between race and cultural production in modern Mexico

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