Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico
Julie Avril Minich
How disability provides a new perspective on our understanding of the nation and the citizen
240 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
Inside Stories
Marianne Novy
Forthcoming Spring 2024
Bringing together birthmothers’, adoptees’, and adoptive parents’ portrayals of their experiences in memoirs
262 pages
| 6 x 9
A Literary Approach
Werner Sollors
Essays that honor the achievement of African American writers from the Enlightenment to the present
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 color photos, 1 line drawing, 8 halftones
American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
Paul Gagliardi
How comic plays of the Federal Theatre Project challenged work norms promoted by the federal government during the Great Depression
216 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 halftones
The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire
Marguerite Nguyen
Understanding the literary history of Vietnamese-American encounters and how it shapes our perceptions of war, race, and empire
250 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 halftones, 1 map
An Annotated Edition
Yone Noguchi, Laura E. Franey, and Edward Marx
A ground-breaking work of Asian-American fiction in a brand new edition
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 figure, 11 halftones
Outrage in Order
Kate Eichhorn
A window into the preservation of contemporary feminist documents and artifacts, and how this archival activism has advanced intergenerational political alliance
208 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
| 1 figure, 4 halftones
Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art
Audrey Wu Clark
Examining early Asian American writers and artists as modernists
248 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 figures
An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
Elaine H. Kim
Focuses on the experience of Asians in America from the immigrants of the 1840s to the present
363 pages
Edited by Josephine Lee, Don Eitel, and R.A. Shiomi
Asian American plays from the heartland
336 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 halftones
Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
Pamela Thoma
How Asian American women writers mobilize popular genres of literature to imagine new forms of citizenship in a neoliberal society
236 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 halftones
African American Writers between the Nation and the World
Eve Dunbar
Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation
232 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora
edited by Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II and Gus Edwards
An insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history
432 pages
| 7 x 10
| 1 table
A Tradition Within a Tradition
Joanne M. Braxton
Argues for a corrective to both black and feminist literary criticism
240 pages
| 5 x 8
The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
Stelamaris Coser
Now Available as an ebook!
A powerful argument for extending the boundaries of what is categorized as American literature
240 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 1 figs.