Alisa Zhulina shows how canonical fin-de-siècle playwrights interrogated the meaning of capitalism, staging economic questions as moral and political concerns and challenging contemporary socioeconomic theories within the boundaries of bourgeois theater.
This is a study of the archival formations, theoretical debates, and geopolitical frameworks that constructed an idea of China in Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present.
This study offers new insights into notoriously difficult texts from Latin America and calls attention to a previously unrecognized transnational community of thinkers and writers united by a critical regionalist ethos.
Combining close readings of key texts and previously unexamined ephemera, Laura Hughes traces critical connections between Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida across their overlapping archives.
Written for scholars, poets, students, and general readers alike, Schultz’s book outlines Rankine’s poetic career in all its major facets, including an analysis of Rankine’s seminal book, Citizen.
An in-depth study of exiled Russian poet Joseph Brodsky’s translations of his own Russian poems into “new originals” in English offers a radical reappraisal of these works and of the project of translation itself.
Entranced Earth looks at audiovisual, literary, performative, and testimonial sources to examine the impact of neocolonial extractivist industries on the natural environment in the Western Hemisphere.
This bold comparative study demonstrates the creative potential for translations that embrace reciprocity and resist assimilation. Isabel C. Gómez analyzes the creative translation practices of canonical Latin American writers such as Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, Clarice Lispector, and Octavio Paz.
Sex Work, Text Work explores how prostitutes depicted by Émile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Adolphe Tabarant, and Charles-Louis Philippe confounded civil and literary efforts to contain them in space and in narrative.
Traces of the Unseen situates photography's role in documenting the destruction wrought by infrastructure development and extractive capitalist expansion in the Amazon and outside the Brazilian metropole at the turn of the twentieth century.
