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Transoceanic Blackface
A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
Sex Work, Text Work
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.
Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form
Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature
Lessons and Legacies XV
A collection of new research in Holocaust studies from the fields of history, literature, and memory studies
The War on the Social Factory
Annie Paradise examines the expanding carceral processes of enclosure, criminalization, dispossession, expropriation, and disposability that mark the neoliberal "security” regime across the Silicon Valley and counterinsurgent strategies of mutual aid and co-generative, dynamic resistance to those forces.
The Necessary Past
Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future
Loss, A Love Story
Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage.
Genre, Race, and the Production of Subjectivity in German Romanticism
Exposes German Romanticism’s entanglements of aesthetic philosophy with racialized models of humanity
The Unwritten Enlightenment
Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature
The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture
Myths are a central part of our reality. But merely debunking them lets us forget why they are created in the first place and why we need them. André Fischer draws on key examples from German postwar...
Transoceanic Blackface
A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century
Sex Work, Text Work
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.
Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form
Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature
Lessons and Legacies XV
A collection of new research in Holocaust studies from the fields of history, literature, and memory studies
The War on the Social Factory
Annie Paradise examines the expanding carceral processes of enclosure, criminalization, dispossession, expropriation, and disposability that mark the neoliberal "security” regime across the Silicon Valley and counterinsurgent strategies of mutual aid and co-generative, dynamic resistance to those forces.
The Necessary Past
Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future
Loss, A Love Story
Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage.
Genre, Race, and the Production of Subjectivity in German Romanticism
Exposes German Romanticism’s entanglements of aesthetic philosophy with racialized models of humanity
The Unwritten Enlightenment
Unveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature
The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture
Myths are a central part of our reality. But merely debunking them lets us forget why they are created in the first place and why we need them. André Fischer draws on key examples from German postwar...