Publications
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Unbecoming Language
(2018-11-19)
In Unbecoming Language, Annabel L. Kim examines a corpus of French literature writing against difference. Inaugurated by Nathalie Sarraute and sustained in the work of Monique Wittig and Anne Garréta, this corpus highlights ...
Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS
(2025)
In Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS, Nghana tamu Lewis chronicles the work of five black women creators to demonstrate how hip hop feminism operates as a vital tool for interpreting and building ...
Hip Sublime
(2017-11-01)
In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on ...
Comics and the Body
(2020)
Eszter Szép’s Comics and the Body is the first book to examine the roles of the body in both drawing and reading comics within a single framework. With an explicit emphasis on the ethical dimensions of bodily vulnerability, ...
Diagnosing Desire
(2020)
In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, Alyson K. Spurgas examines the “new science of female sexuality” from a critical, sociological perspective, considering how today’s ...
Beyond the Icon
(2022)
Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.
Black Love, Black Hate
(2018-11-02)
Felice D. Blake’s Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism ...
Migrating Fictions
(2018-01-01)
In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women’s literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turn” of literary studies to analyze ...
Grassroots Activisms
(2024)
What is the nature of grassroots activism? How and why do individuals get involved or attempt to make change for themselves, others, or their own communities? What motivates activists to maintain momentum when their efforts ...
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
(2023)
Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey, Meg Wolitzer, and Dave Eggers influence audience understanding and response.