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Book Synopsis Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O''Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.Table of Contents Acknowledgments (Anna Wing-bo Tso) Foreword (Andrew Parkin) Preface Part I Short Stories: Genre and Literary Criticism 1. A Brief History of the Short Story as a Literary Genre 2. Practical Literary Criticism Part II Close Reading for Short Stories 3. Religion and Redemption in ­O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 4. Consumerism, Alienation and Digital Dystopia in Bradbury's "The Veldt" 5. Masculinity and Sexuality in Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" 6. Fantasy and Fan Fiction in Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan" Part III Literary and Comparative Analyses of Short Stories 7. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" 8. Irony and Paralysis in Joyce's "Grace" and Trevor's "Of the Cloth"  9. Civil Rights and Prejudice in Walker's "Everyday Use" and Smith's "The Embassy of Cambodia" 10. Femininity and Social Pressures in Lessing's "To Room Nineteen" and Gilman's "The Yellow ­Wall-Paper" Afterword Index

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Book Synopsis Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of the New Italian Epic, as it has been coined by some of its proponents, can be found in the widespread backlash against the Mafia-sponsored murders of Sicilian magistrates which culminated with the assassinations of Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992. Though beginning in the Italian language, this prolific, popular movement has more recently found its way into the English language and hence it has found a much wider international audience. Following a brief, yet detailed, history of the cultural and economic development of Sicily, this book provides a multilayered look into the evolution of the New Italian Epic genre. The works of ten prominent contemporary writers, including Andrea Camilleri, Michael Dibdin, Elena Ferrante, and Massimo Carlotto, are examined against the backdrop of various historical periods. TTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viIntroduction 11: Ancient Origins 132: Roberto Saviano (b. 1979) 223: Norman-Arab Feudal Code 314: Wu Ming (b. 1970?) 415: Spanish Black Legend 506: Gianrico Carofiglio (b. 1961) 587: Risorgimento Roots 668: Maurizio de Giovanni (b. 1958) 749: Little Hell 8310: Massimo Carlotto (b. 1956) 9111: Saint Valentine's Day Massacre 9912: Giancarlo de Cataldo (b. 1956) 10713: Unlikely Allies 11614: Elena Ferrante (b. 1953?) 12415: Cosa Nostra Resurgence 13216: Michele Giuttari (b. 1950) 14117: Falcone and Borsellino 14918: Michael Dibdin (1947–2007) 15719: Sicilian Backlash 16620: Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) 173Summary 183Chapter Notes 189Selected Reading (English Language) 217Index 221

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Book SynopsisWinner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020 A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America’s civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic novels and graphic memoirs present an opportunity to push against the consensus and create a more complete history. Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement showcases five vivid examples of this:Ho Che Anderson''s King (2005), which complicates the standard biography of Martin Luther King Jr.; Congressman John Lewis''s three-volume memoir, March (2013–2016); Darkroom (2012), by Lila Quintero Weaver, in which the author recalls her Argentinian father’s participation in the movement and her childhood as an immigrant in the South; the bestseller The Silence of Our Friends, by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Trade ReviewAn important and thoughtful work which has far-reaching impacts beyond the world of comics studies...Santos looks at five graphic novels and considers the X-Men series in an effort to look at how collective memory is constructed and the ways that comics can be particularly useful in retelling and re-contextualizing history. * Smash Pages *[Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement] refashions how the Civil Rights Movement can (and should) be remembered more accurately and completely through graphic novels…This is essential reading for comics teachers and also serves as a historical method 'refresher' for historians. * CHOICE *Graphic Memories not only brings attention to gaps and problems within the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement but contributes to the shifting perception of the role of comics in the reevaluation of historical discourse. Santos’s reading of the graphic novels is frank and rigorous and does not shy away from providing criticism. His book, which elicits essential questions beyond the field of comics studies, is a timely contribution to answering pressing matters on racial and minority justice in the U.S. * International Journal of Comic Art *[A] well-researched literary and cultural study...This study should interest literary and historical scholars of civil rights narrative pasts in the United States as well as students of graphic novel forms generally. In particular, Graphic Memories helps explain the evolution of the graphic historical narrative form and the ways such narratives can help advance the popular study of U.S. civil rights generally. * Labour / Le Travail *A delight to read...In Graphic Memories, Santos offers careful, critical analyses. He builds mountains of evidence for each claim...The pages of the book are full of rich details and thought-provoking insights that bleed off the page and have stayed with me after reading it. Santos shows why we should consider comic books as a site of interaction at which history is co-produced and why we should take history writing in graphic novel form and the analysis of it seriously. * Visual Studies *Through an expansion of the visual and textual narratives that underpin consensus memories of the civil rights movement, Graphic Memories demonstrates how comics can be fruitful in reenvisioning the history of civil rights in various ways...Graphic Memories is an intensely readable and accessible text, with clear explication of both comics theory and civil rights history alike...Graphic Memories is an important contribution to both comics scholarship and civil rights history. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *[Santos] is a careful observer with much to say. Particularly notable is his analysis of authorial and artist perspectives, encompassing the views of the comics’ protagonists and of the artist’s visual techniques...[Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement is] a volume with much intense observation. * Journal of American History *Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement is an important text for anyone working to understand the construction and political use of historical narratives, whether comics and graphic narrative were initially on your radar or not. For those of us that do work with comics, Santos has offered a crucial insight of the power of subjectivity and multiple coexisting temporalities that help us expand the/our archive...incredibly important for those of us who see comics as a site of radical potential for anticolonial storytelling. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Graphic Memories in “Black and White” Chapter 1. The Icon of the Once and Future King Chapter 2. Bleeding Histories on the March Chapter 3. On Photo-Graphic Narrative: “To Look—Really Look” into the Darkroom Chapter 4. The Silence of Our Friends and Memories of Houston’s Civil Rights History Chapter 5. Tropes, Transfer, Trauma: The Lynching Imagery of Stuck Rubber Baby Epilogue. Cyclops Was Right: X-Lives Matter! Appendix. A Conversation with Ho Che Anderson, Author-Artist of King Notes Works Cited Index

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Book Synopsis “We each have Skype accounts and use them to discuss [Moby-Dick] face to face. Once a week, we spread the worded whale out in front of us; we dissect its head, eyes, and bones, careful not to hurt or kill it. The Professor and I are not whale hunters. We are not letting the whale die. We are shaping it, letting it swim through the Web with a new and polished look.”—Tito Mukhopadhyay Since the 1940s researchers have been repeating claims about autistic people''s limited ability to understand language, to partake in imaginative play, and to generate the complex theory of mind necessary to appreciate literature. In See It Feelingly Ralph James Savarese, an English professor whose son is one of the first nonspeaking autistics to graduate from college, challenges this view. Discussing fictional works over a period of years with readers from across the autism spectrum, Savarese was stunned by the readers'' ability to expand Trade Review"Impassioned and persuasive. . . . A fresh and absorbing examination of autism." * Kirkus Reviews *"This idealistic argument for the social value of literature and for the diversity of autism as a condition is a rewarding endeavor. . . ." * Publishers Weekly *"This is a powerful book — one that really must be experienced. It is a book that unlocks doors to the many rooms of autism and is likely to surprise the thinking of anyone who steps into them. It carries within it the possibilities of new perspectives on literary work, a greater understanding of autistic neurology, and the chance to meet some remarkable individuals. Read it." -- Michael Northen * Wordgathering *"Savarese has produced a masterpiece, simultaneously dense and accessible. His voice moves freely—alternating among lyrical, narrative, and instructive—never losing the flow, never dipping into pedantry, never soaring too far toward the abstract for the reader to follow. Not only is this collection of essays brimming with the most important information and ideas about autism, it is a collaboration of rare beauty." -- Maxfield Sparrow * Thinking Person's Guide to Autism *"Savarese shows that literature—with its imagery, inclusivity, and rich detail—is a natural tent pole for a truly neurodiverse community, one populated by autists and neurotypicals alike. . . . The radical possibility this book ultimately offers is that the gap that has for so long existed between nonverbal autists and neurotypicals can be bridged through literature. Literature is, as Whitman said of himself, large, and contains multitudes." -- Ittai Orr * Synapsis *"Readers will find this book to be a work of art as Ralph Savarese not only exhibits an understanding of the beauty of teaching but also of the language of the autistic mind. Savarese’s literary creation demystifies the limits of the autistic mind by following five autistic adults through their interpretation of and response to classic literature. . . . Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above; professionals and general readers." -- D. Pellegrino * Choice *"The sense of critical self-reflection is crucial to this enterprise, and is evident throughout the book. Thankfully, this never veers into self-indulgence; as such, [Savarese's] ethnographic work in this area is an exemplar to all those who study ‘others,’ as outsiders with situated knowledge." -- Alison Wilde * Disability & Society *"To imagine an autistic rhetoric or an autistic literature is to struggle, audaciously, against a legacy of neurotypical people failing to imagine autism as anything other than lack. That struggle is joined . . . by Ralph [James] Savarese, whose See It Feelingly gives us five extraordinary examples of autistic readers’ responses to literature. It’s like Norman Holland’s classic work of reader-response criticism, 5 Readers Reading . . . except with autism." -- Michael Bérubé * Public Books *"Powered by his enthusiasm for connecting with autistics and for representing the fullness of their humanity, See It Feelingly is that rare book in English studies that succeeds as creative nonfiction: a memoir of teaching non-traditional learners that makes a provocative claim for the primacy of the senses in reading literature." -- Dawn Coleman * Leviathan *"Savarese incorporates storytelling, memoir, and poetry into See It Feelingly, which you will read feelingly, from the opening line." -- Deborah Jenson * American Literature *"... See it Feelingly is a wonderful addition to contemporary work being done in critical autism studies and accessible education." -- Jennifer Marchisotto * Disabilities Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword / Stephen Kuusisto xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Prologue: River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies 15 1. From a World as Fluid as the Sea 23 2. The Heavens of the Brain 57 3. Andys and Auties 86 4. Finding Her Feet 122 5. Take for Grandin 155 Epilogue 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 247 Index 261

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Book SynopsisIn Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw materials for thinking beyond empire's political and epistemological boundaries. In works by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris and filmmaker Jean Rouch, Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba, Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, and others, anthropology no longer functions on behalf of imperialism as a way to understand and administer colonized peoples; its relationship with imperialism gives writers and artists the opportunity for textual experimentation and political provocation. It also, Izzo contends, helps readers to better make sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.Trade Review"Experiments with Empire deserves an audience beyond the academic. Izzo makes some perceptive points about how seeing the connections between ethnography and fiction can help us reimagine the world." -- Emilie de Brigard * The Arts Fuse *“The book’s scope is bold and impressive…. Izzo’s study is an important contribution to research on the French Atlantic and on speculative forms in general, and it offers a fresh look at the crossings between ethnography and fiction that go beyond questions of truth and veracity, mimicry and resistance.” -- Christina Kullberg * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Ethnographic Fictions in the French Atlantic 1 1. Ethnographic Didacticism and Africanist Melancholy: Leiris, Hampăté Bă, and the Epistemology of Style 17 2. The Director of Modern Life: Jean Rouch's Ethnofiction 55 3. Folkore, Fiction, and Ethnographic Nation Building: Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferrière 98 4. Creole Novels and the Ethnographic Production of Literary History: Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant 134 5. Speculative Cityscapes and Premillennial Policing: Ethnographies of the Present in Jean-Claude Izzo's Crime Trilogy 169 Conclusion: Empire, Democracy, and Nonsovereign Knowledges 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 257 Index 273

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Book SynopsisIn Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, and ethnographies that combine fictive elements and anthropological methods and modes of thought, Izzo shows how empire gives ethnographic fictions the raw materials for thinking beyond empire's political and epistemological boundaries. In works by French surrealist writer Michel Leiris and filmmaker Jean Rouch, Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba, Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, and others, anthropology no longer functions on behalf of imperialism as a way to understand and administer colonized peoples; its relationship with imperialism gives writers and artists the opportunity for textual experimentation and political provocation. It also, Izzo contends, helps readers to better make sense of the complicated legacy of imperialism and to imagine new democratic futures.Trade Review"Experiments with Empire deserves an audience beyond the academic. Izzo makes some perceptive points about how seeing the connections between ethnography and fiction can help us reimagine the world." -- Emilie de Brigard * The Arts Fuse *“The book’s scope is bold and impressive…. Izzo’s study is an important contribution to research on the French Atlantic and on speculative forms in general, and it offers a fresh look at the crossings between ethnography and fiction that go beyond questions of truth and veracity, mimicry and resistance.” -- Christina Kullberg * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Ethnographic Fictions in the French Atlantic 1 1. Ethnographic Didacticism and Africanist Melancholy: Leiris, Hampăté Bă, and the Epistemology of Style 17 2. The Director of Modern Life: Jean Rouch's Ethnofiction 55 3. Folkore, Fiction, and Ethnographic Nation Building: Price-Mars, Alexis, Depestre, Laferrière 98 4. Creole Novels and the Ethnographic Production of Literary History: Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant 134 5. Speculative Cityscapes and Premillennial Policing: Ethnographies of the Present in Jean-Claude Izzo's Crime Trilogy 169 Conclusion: Empire, Democracy, and Nonsovereign Knowledges 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 257 Index 273

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Book SynopsisWeaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée.Trade Review“Notable for its recognition of the crucial, but often ignored, dialectical relationship between political economy and literary production, Inter-imperiality provides powerful examples of how a scholar can engage with one problematic across disciplines, using literary texts as an anchor. This big, bold book is a major intervention in continuing debates on the emergence of literature in relation to a world defined by the phenomenon of empires of time and space.” -- Simon Gikandi, author of * Slavery and the Culture of Taste *“[Inter-imperiality] offers a transhistorical, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and decolonial analysis of the fundamentally relational processes that constitute imperial powers and individual lives. Polities and persons alike are enmeshed in shifting entanglements that enable coercion and violence as well as care and community. Aiming to ‘honor the struggles and the sustaining practices’ that are elided when this existential interdependence is disavowed, Doyle chronicles a longue durée of dialectical state and identity (co)formation that spans the eleventh to the twentieth centuries.” * American Literature *“Inter-imperiality might be described as an attempt to reiterate the ontological insights of Hegel regarding the dialectical truth of our lived identity, extended and expanded through the longue durée of Braudel, but couched crucially in the terminology of feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thought. It is a paean, among other things, to the untold history of female, non-Western labor. . . . There is a fervor and a seriousness to Doyle’s desire to expand and decenter contemporary global historiography, which is inspiring to read.” -- Ian Almond * Comparative Literature *“How did European colonialism happen? Why is racism still permeating many quarters of life? How can we prevent the existence of colonialism and racism? Inter-imperiality innovatively engages these questions. . . . Doyle’s call for a return to the avowal of the materialist dialectic and for ‘care, and cure’ presents inspiring new ways for thinking about the future of decolonial studies.” -- Lidan Lin * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Theoretical Introduction. Between States 1 Part I. Co-Constituted Worlds 1. Dialectics in the Longue Durée 35 2. Refusing Labor's (Re)production in The Thousand and One Nights 68 Part II. Convergence and Revolt 3. Remapping Orientalism among Eurasian Empires 95 4. Global Revolts and Gothic Interventions 121 5. Infrastructure, Activism, and Literary Dialectics in the Early Twentieth Century 156 Part III. Persisting Temporalities 6. Rape, Revolution, and Queer Male Longing in Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World 195 7. Inter-imperially Neocolonial: The Queer Returns of Writing in Powell's The Pagoda 227 Conclusion. A River Between 251 Notes 255 Bibliography 331 Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing a range of Chicano/a and Native American novels, films, short stories and other cultural artifacts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the US Southwest.Trade Review“In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita present a brilliant critical history of the enclosure of land, water, and other resources while making a powerful argument for the significance of literature as a window into everyday contexts of enclosure. Partly focused on what literature makes visible, the authors also illuminate its powers of invisibility and its elision of the historical and material conditions of enclosure. Sánchez and Pita thus make a field-transforming intervention, suggesting Chicanx literature's origins in the repression of Indigenous people's responses to dispossession.” -- Curtis Marez, author of * University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus *“Ushering in a timely and fully formed paradigm for the study of spatial and discursive violence, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita teach readers a valuable and sustained lesson in the all important nuances and responsibilities of applied theory. This is the book Chicana/o literary history has been waiting for.” -- Angie Chabram, editor of * The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader *"Sánchez and Pita give us tools for understanding the long history of contemporary conflicts, and push us to think more deeply about what liberatory futures may look like." -- William Orchard * American Studies *"Sanchez and Pita uplift the importance of cultural production, especially literature, to enable new imaginaries that incite transformation." -- John Jairo Valencia * E3W Review of Books *"This book sets in motion innovative incursions into the national and the global from a southwestern standpoint." -- Roberto Cantu * World Literature Today *"Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest is both accessible and comprehensive. . . . Sánchez and Pita’s newest book will be ideal for a graduate seminar or even an advanced undergraduate class because of the depth and breadth with which it recounts foundational history and literature in Chicana/o/x Studies. It is innovative yet approachable for a nonspecialist. In addition, their analysis of the commons points to new modes of enclosure and resistance in the twenty-first century and the potential for new regional and transnational linkages for future scholars." -- Erin Murrah-Mandril * American Literary History *"This text provides historians with an opportunity to see literary analysis as a tool for historical understanding and demonstrates why colonialism must be examined critically. . . . Sánchez and Pita remind readers that the past is never truly settled and that legacies of settler colonialism are not just alive but a part of our daily discourse." -- Doris Morgan Rueda * Western Historical Quarterly *"The authors’ ultimate achievement is to show the historical and discursive processes that have led to Chicano/a and Tejano/as having displaced Indians as a denigrated caste in the contemporary United States. This is in itself a worthy exposition to have accomplished." -- Leighton C. Peterson * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Collectively, the authors offer an important intervention for the field of Latinx studies and add to the developing framework of critical Latinx indigeneities scholarship as it challenges us to confront the unsteady relationship between Latinx history and Indigeneity." -- Michelle Vasquez Ruiz * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest 1 1. Spatial Violence and Modalities of Colonialism: Enclosure 26 2. Indigenous Spatial Sovereignty and Governmentality: Rights and Wrongs in Oklahoma 43 3. Enclosures in New Mexico: Land of Disenchantment 92 4. Texas Narratives of Dispossession: When the Land Became Real Estate 148 Conclusion. Spatial Moorings and Dislocation 202 Notes 213 Bibliography 241 Index 253

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Book SynopsisWeaving together feminist, decolonial, and dialectical theory, Laura Doyle theorizes the co-emergence of empires, institutions, language regimes, stratified economies, and literary cultures over the longue durée.Trade Review“Notable for its recognition of the crucial, but often ignored, dialectical relationship between political economy and literary production, Inter-imperiality provides powerful examples of how a scholar can engage with one problematic across disciplines, using literary texts as an anchor. This big, bold book is a major intervention in continuing debates on the emergence of literature in relation to a world defined by the phenomenon of empires of time and space.” -- Simon Gikandi, author of * Slavery and the Culture of Taste *“[Inter-imperiality] offers a transhistorical, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and decolonial analysis of the fundamentally relational processes that constitute imperial powers and individual lives. Polities and persons alike are enmeshed in shifting entanglements that enable coercion and violence as well as care and community. Aiming to ‘honor the struggles and the sustaining practices’ that are elided when this existential interdependence is disavowed, Doyle chronicles a longue durée of dialectical state and identity (co)formation that spans the eleventh to the twentieth centuries.” * American Literature *“Inter-imperiality might be described as an attempt to reiterate the ontological insights of Hegel regarding the dialectical truth of our lived identity, extended and expanded through the longue durée of Braudel, but couched crucially in the terminology of feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thought. It is a paean, among other things, to the untold history of female, non-Western labor. . . . There is a fervor and a seriousness to Doyle’s desire to expand and decenter contemporary global historiography, which is inspiring to read.” -- Ian Almond * Comparative Literature *“How did European colonialism happen? Why is racism still permeating many quarters of life? How can we prevent the existence of colonialism and racism? Inter-imperiality innovatively engages these questions. . . . Doyle’s call for a return to the avowal of the materialist dialectic and for ‘care, and cure’ presents inspiring new ways for thinking about the future of decolonial studies.” -- Lidan Lin * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Theoretical Introduction. Between States 1 Part I. Co-Constituted Worlds 1. Dialectics in the Longue Durée 35 2. Refusing Labor's (Re)production in The Thousand and One Nights 68 Part II. Convergence and Revolt 3. Remapping Orientalism among Eurasian Empires 95 4. Global Revolts and Gothic Interventions 121 5. Infrastructure, Activism, and Literary Dialectics in the Early Twentieth Century 156 Part III. Persisting Temporalities 6. Rape, Revolution, and Queer Male Longing in Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World 195 7. Inter-imperially Neocolonial: The Queer Returns of Writing in Powell's The Pagoda 227 Conclusion. A River Between 251 Notes 255 Bibliography 331 Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing a range of Chicano/a and Native American novels, films, short stories and other cultural artifacts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the US Southwest.Trade Review“In Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita present a brilliant critical history of the enclosure of land, water, and other resources while making a powerful argument for the significance of literature as a window into everyday contexts of enclosure. Partly focused on what literature makes visible, the authors also illuminate its powers of invisibility and its elision of the historical and material conditions of enclosure. Sánchez and Pita thus make a field-transforming intervention, suggesting Chicanx literature's origins in the repression of Indigenous people's responses to dispossession.” -- Curtis Marez, author of * University Babylon: Film and Race Politics on Campus *“Ushering in a timely and fully formed paradigm for the study of spatial and discursive violence, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita teach readers a valuable and sustained lesson in the all important nuances and responsibilities of applied theory. This is the book Chicana/o literary history has been waiting for.” -- Angie Chabram, editor of * The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader *"Sánchez and Pita give us tools for understanding the long history of contemporary conflicts, and push us to think more deeply about what liberatory futures may look like." -- William Orchard * American Studies *"Sanchez and Pita uplift the importance of cultural production, especially literature, to enable new imaginaries that incite transformation." -- John Jairo Valencia * E3W Review of Books *"This book sets in motion innovative incursions into the national and the global from a southwestern standpoint." -- Roberto Cantu * World Literature Today *"Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest is both accessible and comprehensive. . . . Sánchez and Pita’s newest book will be ideal for a graduate seminar or even an advanced undergraduate class because of the depth and breadth with which it recounts foundational history and literature in Chicana/o/x Studies. It is innovative yet approachable for a nonspecialist. In addition, their analysis of the commons points to new modes of enclosure and resistance in the twenty-first century and the potential for new regional and transnational linkages for future scholars." -- Erin Murrah-Mandril * American Literary History *"This text provides historians with an opportunity to see literary analysis as a tool for historical understanding and demonstrates why colonialism must be examined critically. . . . Sánchez and Pita remind readers that the past is never truly settled and that legacies of settler colonialism are not just alive but a part of our daily discourse." -- Doris Morgan Rueda * Western Historical Quarterly *"The authors’ ultimate achievement is to show the historical and discursive processes that have led to Chicano/a and Tejano/as having displaced Indians as a denigrated caste in the contemporary United States. This is in itself a worthy exposition to have accomplished." -- Leighton C. Peterson * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Collectively, the authors offer an important intervention for the field of Latinx studies and add to the developing framework of critical Latinx indigeneities scholarship as it challenges us to confront the unsteady relationship between Latinx history and Indigeneity." -- Michelle Vasquez Ruiz * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest 1 1. Spatial Violence and Modalities of Colonialism: Enclosure 26 2. Indigenous Spatial Sovereignty and Governmentality: Rights and Wrongs in Oklahoma 43 3. Enclosures in New Mexico: Land of Disenchantment 92 4. Texas Narratives of Dispossession: When the Land Became Real Estate 148 Conclusion. Spatial Moorings and Dislocation 202 Notes 213 Bibliography 241 Index 253

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Book SynopsisIn At the Pivot of East and West, Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking and literature from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture, and aesthetics. Women novelists—Lydia Kwa, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Sandi Tan, Jing Jing Lee, and Danielle Lim—renarrate Southeast Asian generational and political worlds as gendered psychodramas, while filmmakers Tan Pin Pin and Daniel Hui use film to probe into what can better be seen beyond textual worlds. Other writers like Daren Goh, Kevin Martens Wong, and Nuraliah Norasid reinvent the detective story for the age of artificial intelligence, use monsters to reimagine the Southeast Asian archipelago, and critique racism and the erasure of ethnic cultural histories. Continuing his project of applying anthropological thinking to the creative arts, Fischer exemplifies how art and fiction trace the ways in which taken-for-granted common sense changes over time, speak to the transTrade Review“Michael M. J. Fischer’s pathbreaking use of literature and documentary films to construct Asian ethnographies that splinter binaries and identities makes Asia, and Singapore in particular, far more fractal and dense with images and possibilities than it normally appears in social science literature. For those who know or thought they knew Singapore, this book will be a surprise. For those who don’t, Fischer introduces Singapore as having a mature, edgy, and politically engaged art scene as vibrant as any in Asia.” -- Gregory Clancey, author of * Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 *“Michael M. J. Fischer’s extraordinary writing demonstrates how much of the inner life of a society becomes manifest by placing novels and films within the domain of ethnographic investigation. Providing access to powerful, often haunting dimensions of both individual lives and societies that are simply not available in such rich form elsewhere, this book has the potential to transform ethnographic practice.” -- Byron J. Good, author of * Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Reader’s Guide and Manifesto 1 1. Oiled Hinges: Sounds and Silences in Documentary Films of Social Change 47 2. Filmic Stutter, Taped Counter-Truths, and Musical Sutures: Knots of Recovery 76 3. White Ink, Family Systems, Forests of Illusion, and Aging: Knots of Passion 111 4. Miniatures: Small Kindnesses across Poisonous Knowledges 141 5. Blue Widow with Green Stripes: Pivots in Widening Horizons 155 6. Filmic Obsessive Repetitions, Dissociations, and Power Relations 194 7. Meritocracy Blues, Chimeras, and Analytic Monsters 212 Afterword. Portals to the Future: MRT Stations, Universities, and the Peopling of Technologies 243 Exergue. Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Historical Hinge in Australia 257 Notes 269 References 313 Index 337

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Book SynopsisIn At the Pivot of East and West, Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking and literature from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture, and aesthetics. Women novelists—Lydia Kwa, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Sandi Tan, Jing Jing Lee, and Danielle Lim—renarrate Southeast Asian generational and political worlds as gendered psychodramas, while filmmakers Tan Pin Pin and Daniel Hui use film to probe into what can better be seen beyond textual worlds. Other writers like Daren Goh, Kevin Martens Wong, and Nuraliah Norasid reinvent the detective story for the age of artificial intelligence, use monsters to reimagine the Southeast Asian archipelago, and critique racism and the erasure of ethnic cultural histories. Continuing his project of applying anthropological thinking to the creative arts, Fischer exemplifies how art and fiction trace the ways in which taken-for-granted common sense changes over time, speak to the transTrade Review“Michael M. J. Fischer’s pathbreaking use of literature and documentary films to construct Asian ethnographies that splinter binaries and identities makes Asia, and Singapore in particular, far more fractal and dense with images and possibilities than it normally appears in social science literature. For those who know or thought they knew Singapore, this book will be a surprise. For those who don’t, Fischer introduces Singapore as having a mature, edgy, and politically engaged art scene as vibrant as any in Asia.” -- Gregory Clancey, author of * Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 *“Michael M. J. Fischer’s extraordinary writing demonstrates how much of the inner life of a society becomes manifest by placing novels and films within the domain of ethnographic investigation. Providing access to powerful, often haunting dimensions of both individual lives and societies that are simply not available in such rich form elsewhere, this book has the potential to transform ethnographic practice.” -- Byron J. Good, author of * Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Reader’s Guide and Manifesto 1 1. Oiled Hinges: Sounds and Silences in Documentary Films of Social Change 47 2. Filmic Stutter, Taped Counter-Truths, and Musical Sutures: Knots of Recovery 76 3. White Ink, Family Systems, Forests of Illusion, and Aging: Knots of Passion 111 4. Miniatures: Small Kindnesses across Poisonous Knowledges 141 5. Blue Widow with Green Stripes: Pivots in Widening Horizons 155 6. Filmic Obsessive Repetitions, Dissociations, and Power Relations 194 7. Meritocracy Blues, Chimeras, and Analytic Monsters 212 Afterword. Portals to the Future: MRT Stations, Universities, and the Peopling of Technologies 243 Exergue. Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Historical Hinge in Australia 257 Notes 269 References 313 Index 337

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Book SynopsisBombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fire, Anaïs Maurer analyzes the Pacific literature that incriminates the environmental racism behind radioactive skies and rising seas. Maurer identifies strategies of resistance uniting the region by analyzing an extensive multilingual archive of decolonial Pacific art in French, Spanish, English, Tahitian, and Uvean, ranging from literature to songs and paintings. She shows how Pacific nuclear survivors’ stories reveal an alternative vision of the apocalypse: instead of promoting individualism and survivalism, they advocate mutual assistance, cultural resilience, South-South transnational solidarities, and Indigenous women&r

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Book SynopsisA new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhoodLike Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that white men's power at the top of humanism's order has depended on those at the bottom. As Owens shows, it was childhood's modern arcfrom ignorance and dependence to reason and rightsthat structured white men's power in early America: by claiming that black adults were like children, whites naturalized black subjection within the American family order. Demonstrating how Americans sharpened the child into a powerful white supremacist weapon, Owens nevertheless troubles the notion that either the child or the human have been figures of unadulterated whiteness or possess stable boundaries.Like Children recenters the history of American childhood around black children and rewrites the story of the human th

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Book SynopsisAfter years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this volume examines not only the past and present position of the Philippines and its people, but also advances new frameworks for re-conceptualizing this growing field. Written by a prestigious lineup of international scholars grappling with the legacies of colonialism and imperial power, the essays examine both the genealogy of the Philippines' hyphenated identity as well as the future trajectory of the field. Hailing from multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors revisit and contest traditional renditions of PhilTrade ReviewThe book will primarily interest scholars and students but may also appeal to general readers with connections to the Philippines. * Choice Connect *Edited byMartin Manalansan IV and Augusto F. Espiritu, pioneers of FilipinoX studies, it is an unapologetic introduction to the interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational,palimpsestic nature of the work many FilipinoX scholars in the Diaspora have engaged over the last two decades. * Pacific Historical Review *This exciting and crucial anthology marks a major historiographical intervention into the fields of Asian American and Filipino/American studies. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars,Filipino Studiesrepresents not only a moment of stock-taking, but also a clarion call to future scholars to take up the fields politically committed aspirations. -- Theodore S. Gonzalves,author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language AssociationUncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular textsPutting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of history and tradition suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamyfrom Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeareto show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberatioTrade ReviewA smart, vital synthesis of religious studies and queer theory that reinforces the deep affinity between both realms over time. Sanchez refuses the easy celebration of queer as a counterpoint to normal, promiscuity to commitment. Through sublime readings of major early modern thinkers, Queer Faith offers us a capacious genealogy of promiscuity that accounts for its failures, fragments, philologies, and Christian theology, and all the ways our attachments undo us. -- Michael Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious ViolenceBy placing Christian theologians in conversation with queer theorists, Sanchez illuminates what is lost when the two are put in opposition: Sanchez shows that theology provides crucial terms for registering the inherent promiscuity of human attachments, whether we understand those attachments as devotional, interpersonal, or communal. Queer Faith takes up race, religion, eroticism, and ethics in ways that bridge the gap between early modernists and scholars focused on our own contemporary moment, forging a vibrantly original argument at the intersection of diverse and influential voices. -- Kathryn Schwarz, author of What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social SpaceFrom erotic accountability to procreation and orgasms, Queer Faith is an incisive exploration of human sexuality’s many manifestations. . . . Sanchez engages her subject with humor. Queer Faith is an enjoyable and outstanding piece of scholarship. * Foreword Reviews *Clearly written and extensively researched, this book is far more engaging than most academic texts, supported by detailed notes and an extensive index that simplify search. * Choice *...its achievements are difficult, challenging, and utterly exhilarating. Sanchez builds rich analytic frames and then compellingly reads texts toward them. -- Joseph Loewenstein * Recent Studies in the English Renaissance *Promiscuously traversing between theology, queer theory, and early modern poetry, Melissa Sanchez compellingly questions the academic opposition between a secularized queerness and religious normativity. * Sixteenth Century Journal *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice MagazineA new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston HughesLangston's Salvation offers a fascinating exploration into the religious thought of Langston Hughes. Known for his poetry, plays, and social activism, the importance of religion in Hughes' work has historically been ignored or dismissed. This book puts this aspect of Hughes work front and center, placing it into the wider context of twentieth-century American and African American religious cultures. Best brings to life the religious orientation of Hughes work, illuminating how this powerful figure helped to expand the definition of African American religion during this time. Best argues that contrary to popular perception, Hughes was neither an avowed atheist nor unconcerned with religious matters. He demonstrates that Hughes' relTrade Review"As Wallace Best portrays him in this stunning, brilliantly argued and written work, Langston Hughes is a poet and prophet who spoke to the deepest dilemmas of African American Christianity in the uncompromising language of religious and artistic modernism. The road to Langstons salvation was not straight, and as he charts its course over time, Best enlarges the field of American religious history and the meaning of modern 'religion' itself." -- Robert A. Orsi,Professor of Religious Studies and History, Northwestern"Inspired by his expert knowledge both of African American (and American) religion in general and Langston Hughes in particular, Wallace D. Best offers us here a bold, novel, complex, and yet highly persuasive reassessment of this marvelous writer's mind and art. Professor Best's book is the product of exhaustive research and scrupulous reasoning. The result is probably the most exciting study of Hughesand of the modern, essentially urban interplay between religion and literature epitomized in Hughess workthat we have seen in many a year." -- Arnold Rampersad,Stanford University, author of The Life of Langston Hughes"Taking its point of departure from young Langston Hughess conversion experience in Kansas that he later described as one of three key moments in his life, Langstons Salvation gives the reader a full and cogent analysis of the central importance of religion in Hughess œuvre, extending from the spiritual themes in his early poems to the 'gospel years' surrounding Tambourines of Glory, and including even Hughess most controversial poem, 'Goodbye Christ.' Based on much archival research and a full examination of the vast secondary literature going back to Benjamin Mays and Jean Wagner, Wallace Best offers a reconsideration of Hughess often prescient thinking about religion and shows compellingly that Hughess work was, at the very least, 'not anti-religious,' as Hughes himself put it." -- Werner Sollors,Henry B. and Anne M. Research Professor of English, Harvard University"With close readings of Langston Hughes's poetry and with finely tuned arguments about the place of religion during the early twentieth century, Wallace Best provides what none has offered before: he shows the beautiful mind of Langston Hughes as a 'thinker about religion.'Langston's Salvation heralds a new day, perhaps even a renaissance, not only in the study Hughes and his poetry, but also of liberal religion in the United States. It is impossible to read Langston's Salvation and fail to wonder what other great writers of the past have to offer if we follow Best's lead and approach them as thinkers about religion. This book is like Hughes's poetry: an invitation to see more than what's on the surface." -- Edward J. Blum,author of W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet"Meticulously researched from an interdisciplinary perspective, with attention to the frameworks of religious studies, history, literary criticism, and African American studies,Langston's Salvationis an indispensable guide to Hughes and religion." * Choice *"[A] meticulous account of Hughess religious provocations in his literary work...Offering astounding historical and literary analysis to some of his widely popular and some of his lesser -known works such as The Negro Speaks of Rivers andTambourines to Gloryrespectively, Best explicates Hughess works to explore the religious orientation in his writings." * Black Perspectives *"Best weaves together the varied and often controversial strands of Hughes's lifean unsuccessful religious conversion, progressive politics, and an intriguing but doomed trip to Russia to create a filmin order to paint a more complete picture of a nonconformist and his modern relationship with religion. . . a well-researched argument that offers a vivid perspective on a literary giant." * Publishers Weekly *"Langstons Salvation provides thorough details of Hughess transition from a young poet to one who used his message of change and enlightenment in written and spoken form. Best gives an intense perspective of his championing of race issues and quest for religious understanding. Its a great book for delving more deeply into the meaning of his works." * Reading Religion *"Best’s scrupulously researched, clearly written, and well-argued book is an important contribution to the field of African American religious history." * Journal of African American History *"Best offers a theologically informed reading of Hughes, making the book useful for general audiences and scholars of religion who hope to explore the under-analyzed religious themes in Hughes’s work." * Religious Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisTajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of a text by ''Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as The Sword of Ambition. In this work addressed to the Ayyubid sultan, al-Nabulusi argues against employing Coptic and Jewish officials, leaving no rhetorical stone unturned as he pours his deep knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work.An Arabic edition with English scholarly apparatus.

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language AssociationUncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular textsPutting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of history and tradition suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamyfrom Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeareto show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberatioTrade ReviewA smart, vital synthesis of religious studies and queer theory that reinforces the deep affinity between both realms over time. Sanchez refuses the easy celebration of queer as a counterpoint to normal, promiscuity to commitment. Through sublime readings of major early modern thinkers, Queer Faith offers us a capacious genealogy of promiscuity that accounts for its failures, fragments, philologies, and Christian theology, and all the ways our attachments undo us. -- Michael Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious ViolenceBy placing Christian theologians in conversation with queer theorists, Sanchez illuminates what is lost when the two are put in opposition: Sanchez shows that theology provides crucial terms for registering the inherent promiscuity of human attachments, whether we understand those attachments as devotional, interpersonal, or communal. Queer Faith takes up race, religion, eroticism, and ethics in ways that bridge the gap between early modernists and scholars focused on our own contemporary moment, forging a vibrantly original argument at the intersection of diverse and influential voices. -- Kathryn Schwarz, author of What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social SpaceFrom erotic accountability to procreation and orgasms, Queer Faith is an incisive exploration of human sexuality’s many manifestations. . . . Sanchez engages her subject with humor. Queer Faith is an enjoyable and outstanding piece of scholarship. * Foreword Reviews *Clearly written and extensively researched, this book is far more engaging than most academic texts, supported by detailed notes and an extensive index that simplify search. * Choice *...its achievements are difficult, challenging, and utterly exhilarating. Sanchez builds rich analytic frames and then compellingly reads texts toward them. -- Joseph Loewenstein * Recent Studies in the English Renaissance *Promiscuously traversing between theology, queer theory, and early modern poetry, Melissa Sanchez compellingly questions the academic opposition between a secularized queerness and religious normativity. * Sixteenth Century Journal *

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Book SynopsisExamining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968, this book compares and historicizes what might be characterized as the minority literatures within US minority literature.Trade Review"[] Patells brief assessment of each author or text provides a useful stepping stone for other scholars who can build on his work, so the book concludes by opening up the debate and paving the way for others to join in." * The Review of English Studies *"Emergent U.S. Literatureswill be anessentialtext for understanding the historical forces at work in the ways in which we define American literature today. An ambitious piece of scholarship, Cyrus Patell draws from an impressive knowledge of major works in emergent literatures, showing us not only how these literatures have developed in conversation with each other but also pushing us to think about the cosmopolitan nature of creative expression." -- Min Hyoung Song,author of The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American"InEmergent U.S. LiteraturesCyrus R.K. Patell makes a key distinction between the previously preferred term multiculturaland newly favored wordcosmopolitanwhen describing what he calls & emergent literatures." * American Literary Scholarship *"Patells close reading of a wide array of writersJessica Hagedorn, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Monette, and N. Scott Momaday, among othersis skillful and sensitive." * American Literature *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Theorizing the Emergent 1 1 From Marginal to Emergent 19 2 Nineteenth-Century Roots 47 3 The Politics of Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literary History 89 4 Liberation Movements 115 5 Multiculturalism and Beyond 187 Conclusion: Emergent Literatures and Cosmopolitan 235 Conversation Notes 241 Index 271 About the Author 285

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Book SynopsisAfter years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this volume examines not only the past and present position of the Philippines and its people, but also advances new frameworks for re-conceptualizing this growing field. Written by a prestigious lineup of international scholars grappling with the legacies of colonialism and imperial power, the essays examine both the genealogy of the Philippines' hyphenated identity as well as the future trajectory of the field. Hailing from multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors revisit and contest traditional renditions of PhilTrade ReviewThe book will primarily interest scholars and students but may also appeal to general readers with connections to the Philippines. * Choice Connect *Edited byMartin Manalansan IV and Augusto F. Espiritu, pioneers of FilipinoX studies, it is an unapologetic introduction to the interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational,palimpsestic nature of the work many FilipinoX scholars in the Diaspora have engaged over the last two decades. * Pacific Historical Review *This exciting and crucial anthology marks a major historiographical intervention into the fields of Asian American and Filipino/American studies. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars,Filipino Studiesrepresents not only a moment of stock-taking, but also a clarion call to future scholars to take up the fields politically committed aspirations. -- Theodore S. Gonzalves,author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora

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Book SynopsisThe Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned, the book's author, an unemployed Egyptian scholar and former bureaucrat named ''Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (d. 660/1262), poured his deep knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work. Now edited in full and translated for the first time, The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto the fascinating culture of elite rivalry in the late-medieval Islamic Middle East. It contains a wealth of little-known historical anecdotes, unusual religious opinions, obscure and witty poetry, and humorous cultural satire. Above all, it reveals that much of the inter-communal animosity of the era was conditioned by fierce competition for scarce resources that were increasinTrade ReviewLuke Yarbrough is to be congratulated for a very fine piece of philological scholarship combining [a] first-class edition with a wonderful translation. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *Avery reader-friendly modern English version of this mediaeval Arabic text . . .Yarbrough's informative introduction usefully situates the book both in its own time and in terms of the later uses that have been made of it. . .Yarbrough's fine translation allows the contemporary English-speaking reader to hear the full range of its author's wheedling, monomaniacal voice. * al-Ahram *An amazing narrative that combines erudition, poetry, belles lettres, history, law, and anecdotal accounts into a compelling work. * Islamic Sciences *[An] elegant and well-edited bilingual edition. * Times Literary Supplement *Luke Yarbrough has done the field of medieval Middle Eastern history a service... [An] excellent edition and exemplary translation. -- Journal of the American Oriental Society

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Book SynopsisExamining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968, the author compares and historicizes what might be characterized as the minority literatures within US minority literature.Trade Review"[] Patells brief assessment of each author or text provides a useful stepping stone for other scholars who can build on his work, so the book concludes by opening up the debate and paving the way for others to join in." * The Review of English Studies *"Emergent U.S. Literatureswill be anessentialtext for understanding the historical forces at work in the ways in which we define American literature today. An ambitious piece of scholarship, Cyrus Patell draws from an impressive knowledge of major works in emergent literatures, showing us not only how these literatures have developed in conversation with each other but also pushing us to think about the cosmopolitan nature of creative expression." -- Min Hyoung Song,author of The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American"InEmergent U.S. LiteraturesCyrus R.K. Patell makes a key distinction between the previously preferred term multiculturaland newly favored wordcosmopolitanwhen describing what he calls & emergent literatures." * American Literary Scholarship *"Patells close reading of a wide array of writersJessica Hagedorn, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Monette, and N. Scott Momaday, among othersis skillful and sensitive." * American Literature *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Theorizing the Emergent 1 1 From Marginal to Emergent 19 2 Nineteenth-Century Roots 47 3 The Politics of Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literary History 89 4 Liberation Movements 115 5 Multiculturalism and Beyond 187 Conclusion: Emergent Literatures and Cosmopolitan 235 Conversation Notes 241 Index 271 About the Author 285

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Book SynopsisOffers a fresh perspective into the book of Job by reading it alongside the fiction of Cormac McCarthy. While some critics have previously identified Joban overtones in McCarthy's work, Philip Thomas argues for something far stronger: a recurrent Joban resonance throughout McCarthy's works.Table of Contents Introduction: True Words in Literature 1 Of Darkness and Definition: Not the Why but the How 2 The Fruitlessness of Philosophical Theodicy: An Untamable God 3 The Decentering of the Human Subject: Anthropocentric Impotence 4 The Looming Threat of Chaos: An Unpredictable Creation 5 The Possibility of Hope: Between the Idealized and the Real 6 Of Theodicy and Transformation: McCarthy as Theologian

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Book SynopsisDavid Jasper has compiled forty years of his writings on the relationship between the Bible, literature, and art. While acknowledging the Bible as a sacred text in more than one religious tradition, these writings recognise the Bible as literature in conversations with other literary works and traditions as well as the visual arts.Table of Contents Introduction 1. Literature and the Power of the Old Testament 2. On Reading the Scriptures as Literature 3. Settling Hoti's Business: The Impossible Necessity of Biblical Translation 4. "Down through All Christian Minstrelsy": Genesis, James Joyce, and Contemporary Vocabularies of Creation Stories 5. "In the Sermon Which I Have Just Completed, whenever I Said Aristotle, I Meant St. Paul" (Attrib. Revd. William A. Spooner) 6. Evil and Betrayal at the Heart of the Sacred Community 7. Jim Crace: Inventor of Worlds 8. J. M. W. Turner: Interpreter of the Bible 9. The Desert in Biblical Art: William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat 10. The Bible, Christianity, and War in English Literature 11. Teaching the Bible and Literature Afterword Selected Reading List

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Book SynopsisCovering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set the terms for gender, agency, and power in early modern Italy. By revealing the literary motifs in men’s and women’s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch’s writing transmitted gendered ideas of power and reflected a growing anxiety about women as public figures. This work includes nuanced analyses of poetry, linguistic treatises, debates on imitation, representations of gender and epistolary correspondence in Latin and Italian. Writing Beloveds is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writeTrade Review"In this deeply researched, carefully analyzed, and engagingly written book, Aileen A. Feng explores Petrach’s influence upon Latin humanist prose in Italy’s early Renaissance and upon vernacular poetry and prose in its later Renaissance. " -- William J. Kennedy * Renaissance Quarterly *"Deeply researched, tightly argued, and elegantly written, Feng’s book makes an intriguing and compelling argument for revising the conventional chronology of Renaissance Petrarchism. This version is bound to exert influence over the field of Renaissance studies." -- Danila Sokolov, University of Iceland * Early Modern Women *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Intellectual Masculinity and the Female Intellect in Humanist Petrarchism Chapter 1 - Women of Stone: Gender and Politics in the Petrarchan World Chapter 2 - In Laura's Shadow: Gendered Dialogues and Humanist Petrarchis in the Fifteenth Century Chapter 3 - Laura Speaks: Sisterhood, Amicitia, and Marital Love in the Female Latin Petrarchist Writings of the Fifteenth Century PART II: Pietro Bembo and the Legacy of Humanist Petrarchism Chapter 4 - Theorizing Gender: Nation Building and Female Mythology in the Ciceronian Quarrels Chapter 5 - Politicizing Gender: Bembo's Private and Public Petrarchism Afterword Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMedieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre's fictional worlds.Trade Review"James and Peggy Knapp’s latest joint scholarly endeavor, Medieval Romance: The Aesthetics of Possibility, is a significant and original contribution to the study of medieval romance, for it brings forth and examines the philosophical underpinnings of a number of well-known and extensively studied romances." -- Kimberly K. Bell, Sam Houston State University * Modern Philology, vol 117, no 1 *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Speculative Fiction of Marie de France 2. Perception and Possible Worlds in Sir Orfeo 3. Capturing Beauty: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 4. Melusine's Aventure among the Humans 5. Romance by Other Means: The Canterbury Tales 6. The Immense Subtlety of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight References Index

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Book SynopsisProviding the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Structure of the Bibliographical Entries Bibliography: Sources of Information Consulted Abbreviations: Sources of Bibliographical Information Translations from Italian, 1929–2016 1929–1939 1940–1949 1950–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2016 Author Index Title Index Translator Index Editor Index Artist and Illustrator Index Publisher Index Periodical Index Series Index

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