Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism shows how the early Soviet proliferation of interartistic modernist experiments and the emergence of new media technologies made poetry visible as a medium in its own right.
Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism examines how contemporary Afro-German authors and artists use Afrofuturist tropes and concepts to critique German racism and colonial history, Eurocentrism, and binary thinking about race, culture, and gender identity.
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.
Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy analyzes Kojève’s role in a transnational exchange of ideas between Eastern and Western European intellectuals in the twentieth century, as well as its legacy in the twenty-first.
The first English-language translation of the 1968 Théâtre de l’Aquarium activist play about two students from different backgrounds as they prepare for an exam, The Inheritor speaks forcefully as ever on education access and inequality.
Contributions by Alejandro Cerda-Rueda, Mladen Dolar, Samo Tomšic, Andrea Zevnik, Amanda Holmes, Richard Boothby, Patricia Gherovici, Silvio Carneiro, Vladimir Safatle and Alenka Zupancic
This collection brings together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis from around the world to interrogate Lacan's notion of extimité (extimacy).
Traveling Freely, the debut essay collection from poet Roberto Carlos Garcia, explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, and socioeconomic inequality from a uniquely Black Dominican American view.
In this profoundly felt and humorous collection, Michelle Mirsky follows the first year in the wake of the loss of her three-year-old son, tackling extreme loss as well as divorce, friendship, dating, sex, and comedy.
The Mee-Ow Show at 50 presents the history of Northwestern’s Mee-Ow Show, now the longest-running original student sketch comedy and improv show in the country, and its considerable impact on contemporary comedy.
