Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature shows how museum practices shed new light on literary form itself—how stories are created, shaped, and communicated—while making sense of the lives, and afterlives, of things today.
Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from the advent of literary and filmic modernism to the present day.
Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures studies new categories of fiction—including migrant forms, township tales, weekend stories, and digital diaries—to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged southern Africa's changing literary and political terrains.
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.
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.
Edited by Kelly M. Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto and Susan Zieger
This volume uses literary methods to interpret infrastructure, showing that its aesthetic and sensorial experience cannot be understood apart from its histories of production and political economies.
Offering a transnational account of anti-Blackness and white supremacy that pushes against the dominant emphasis on change that pervades current racial theory, Marzia Milazzo demonstrates that colorblindness is neither new nor a subtype of racist ideology, but a constitutive technology of racism.
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.
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments.
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.
