The FlashPoints series is devoted to books that consider literature beyond strictly national and disciplinary frameworks, and that are distinguished both by their historical grounding and by their theoretical and conceptual strength. Our books engage theory without losing touch with history and work historically without falling into uncritical positivism. FlashPoints aims for a broad audience within the humanities and the social sciences concerned with moments of cultural emergence and transformation. In a Benjaminian mode, FlashPoints is interested in how literature contributes to forming new constellations of culture and history and in how such formations function critically and politically in the present. Series titles are available online here.
Series editors: Michelle Clayton, Edward Dimendberg, Nouri Gana, Susan Gillman (Series Coordinator), Richard Terdiman (Founder); Editors emeriti: Ali Behdad, Judith Butler, Catherine Gallagher, Jody Greene
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 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.
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.
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.
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature engages the poetic on its own terms, allowing poetic texts to dictate the search for meaning and significance and to expand our imagination of what Maghrebi literature in French was, is, and might become.
This book delves into the interwar world as it was represented in the poetry, theater, prose, and art of French-speaking avant‑garde writers and artists—creators whose aspirations for a global audience transformed everything about their intellectual movements.
New World Maker reappraises Langston Hughes's political poetry, reading the writer's leftist works in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora.
Preetha Mani examines canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories of the mid-twentieth century to redefine Indian literature as constituted by the irresolvable questions of its multiple languages' relationship to its literatures.
The FlashPoints series is devoted to books that consider literature beyond strictly national and disciplinary frameworks, and that are distinguished both by their historical grounding and by their theoretical and conceptual strength. Our books engage theory without losing touch with history and work historically without falling into uncritical positivism. FlashPoints aims for a broad audience within the humanities and the social sciences concerned with moments of cultural emergence and transformation. In a Benjaminian mode, FlashPoints is interested in how literature contributes to forming new constellations of culture and history and in how such formations function critically and politically in the present. Series titles are available online here.
Series editors: Michelle Clayton, Edward Dimendberg, Nouri Gana, Susan Gillman (Series Coordinator), Richard Terdiman (Founder); Editors emeriti: Ali Behdad, Judith Butler, Catherine Gallagher, Jody Greene 
