An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature examines literary challenges to Israel’s national narratives. Many prominent Israeli fiction writers use the prism of suicide to confront the centrality of the army, the mythology of the “new Jew,” the vision of Tel Aviv as the first Israeli city, and the very process by which a nation’s history is constructed.
This book examines the interaction of literature and radical social movement, exploring how to address the limitations of contemporary anarchist politics through attentive engagement with Native women’s literatures. The author argues that anarchists must shift the paradigm that another world is possible to one that sees other worlds here.
Word Play focuses on the intertwined fates of children’s literature and underground poetry throughout the Soviet period. Five case studies feature experimental poets whose unpublished work was not written for children but featured a childlike lyric speaker, diction, form, and humor.
This book examines works by authors like Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Charles Yu, and Colson Whitehead to show that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the temporality that governs our contemporary world.
Queer Tidalectics investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics.
At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter examines the fear of materiality in German-language realist and postrealist literature.
This is the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era. The text explores Pelevin’s sustained reflections on the subversion of freedom.
Silence and the Rest argues that throughout its entire history, Russian poetry can be read as an argument for “verbal skepticism,” positing a long-running dialogue between poets, philosophers, and theorists central to the antiverbal strain of Russian culture.
This book reconstructs a wide-ranging dialogue between Walter Benjamin’s major essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities and Theodor Adorno’s meditation on the Odyssey in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Dornbach leverages the concept of caesura to identify utopian moments in a variety of works.
Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone theorizes print internationalism, which creates new terms within the worldwide hegemony of the English language to encourage alternate geographies and collectivities.
