FlashPoints publishes books that consider literature beyond strictly national and disciplinary boundaries and that are distinguished by their historical grounding, their openness to multiple genres and media, and their theoretical rigor and conceptual reach. In a Benjaminian mode, the series focuses on instances of literature that wrest tradition from conformism, contributing to the formation of new cultural constellations. Titles in this series engage theory without losing touch with history. They approach topical aesthetic and social concerns that operate critically in the present. They are grounded in comparative analysis—often based on archival research—yet eschew uncritical positivism. FlashPoints aspires to reach an interdisciplinary audience within literary studies, broadly defined, concerned with moments of cultural emergence and transformation and the poetics of cultural forms. Each book is published in print and made available in Open Access through the California Digital Library, reflecting the series’ commitment to simultaneous publication in both forms since the beginning.
Series editors: Michelle Clayton (Coordinator), Edward Dimendberg, Nouri Gana, Susan Gillman, Richard Terdiman (Founder). Editors emeriti: Ali Behdad, Judith Butler, Catherine Gallagher, Jody Greene.
FlashPoints publishes books that consider literature beyond strictly national and disciplinary boundaries and that are distinguished by their historical grounding, their openness to multiple genres and media, and their theoretical rigor and conceptual reach. In a Benjaminian mode, the series focuses on instances of literature that wrest tradition from conformism, contributing to the formation of new cultural constellations. Titles in this series engage theory without losing touch with history. They approach topical aesthetic and social concerns that operate critically in the present. They are grounded in comparative analysis—often based on archival research—yet eschew uncritical positivism. FlashPoints aspires to reach an interdisciplinary audience within literary studies, broadly defined, concerned with moments of cultural emergence and transformation and the poetics of cultural forms. Each book is published in print and made available in Open Access through the California Digital Library, reflecting the series’ commitment to simultaneous publication in both forms since the beginning.
Series editors: Michelle Clayton (Coordinator), Edward Dimendberg, Nouri Gana, Susan Gillman, Richard Terdiman (Founder). Editors emeriti: Ali Behdad, Judith Butler, Catherine Gallagher, Jody Greene. 
