Literature

Double Visions, Double Fictions The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature Baryon Tensor Posadas 2018 Spring

A fresh take on the doppelgänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present

The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring

An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project

Arranging Marriage Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Marian Aguiar 2018 Spring

A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child Joe Sutliff Sanders 2017 Fall

A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions

Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall

Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order

Ecology without Culture Aesthetics for a Toxic World Christine L. Marran 2017 Fall

Reconfiguring the intentions and parameters of ecocriticism

Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires

Onigamiising Seasons of an Ojibwe Year Linda LeGarde Grover 2017 Fall

Fifty short essays evoke the four seasons of the year, and of life, for the Ojibwe in northeastern Minnesota

Tales of Wonder Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards Jack Zipes 2017 Fall

A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards throughout the world over two hundred years

Postcolonial Automobility Car Culture in West Africa Lindsey B. Green-Simms 2017 Fall

Globalizing the car’s role in modern culture

Seven Ways to Trick a Troll Lise Lunge-Larsen 2017 Fall

In seven whimsical, entertaining folktales, children discover trolls’ weaknesses, as well as their own strengths

Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall

The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog

Infinite Variety The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati, The Ultimate Edition Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 2017 Fall

The biography of the most dazzling artistic and fashion muse of the twentieth century—in a fully revised and spectacularly illustrated edition

We Know How This Ends Living while Dying Bruce H. Kramer 2017 Fall

Surprising lessons in finding joy and personal growth in the last months of life

Enchantment Lake A Northwoods Mystery Margi Preus 2017 Fall

What’s wild in the northwoods turns out to be mostly human, when seventeen-year-old Francie is drawn into the strange mysteries threatening her great aunts’ Minnesota Up North world

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