Literature

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

Johnny’s Pheasant Cheryl Minnema 2019 Fall

An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma

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

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

The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant Édouard Glissant Jeff Humphries, Editor 2019 Spring

The complete poems of the finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature—now in paper

Clearing Out A Novel Helene Uri 2019 Spring

In a masterful blend of fiction and autobiography, a Norwegian novelist sends her character to the far north to learn what she can about their Sami ancestry