FlashPoints
The FlashPoints series is devoted to books that consider literature beyond strictly national and disciplinary frameworks, and that are distinguished both by their historical grounding and by their theoretical and conceptual strength. Our books engage theory without losing touch with history and work historically without falling into uncritical positivism. FlashPoints aims for a broad audience within the humanities and the social sciences concerned with moments of cultural emergence and transformation. In a Benjaminian mode, FlashPoints is interested in how literature contributes to forming new constellations of culture and history and in how such formations function critically and politically in the present. Series titles are available online here.
Series editors: Michelle Clayton, Edward Dimendberg, Nouri Gana, Susan Gillman (Series Coordinator), Richard Terdiman (Founder); Editors emeriti: Ali Behdad, Judith Butler, Catherine Gallagher, Jody Greene