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Beyond the Nation by Martin Joseph Ponce
Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading
by Martin Joseph PonceNYU Press
Buy the book.Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration,…
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Interracial Encounters by Julia H. Lee
Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
by Julia H. LeeNYU Press
Buy the book.Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters appear in African American…
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Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square by Belinda Kong
Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture
by Belinda KongTemple University Press
Buy the book.An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong’s Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is…
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Treacherous Subjects by Lan P. Duong
Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
by Lan P. DuongTemple University Press
Buy the book.Treacherous Subjects is a provocative and thoughtful examination of Vietnamese films and literature viewed through a feminist lens. Lan Duong investigates the postwar…
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Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke by Bryan Crable
Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide
by Bryan Crable
UVA Press
Buy the book.Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two canonical American writers. The story…
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On Endings by Daniel Grausam
On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War
by Daniel GrausamUVA Press
Buy the book.What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving…
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Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere by Raphael Dalleo
Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial
by Raphael DalleoUVA Press
Buy the book.Bringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean studies, Raphael Dalleo constructs a…
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Disaster Writing by Mark D. Anderson
Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America
by Mark D. AndersonUVA Press
Buy the book.In the aftermath of disaster, literary and other cultural representations of the event can play a role in the…
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Racial Innocence by Robin Bernstein
Racial Innocence: Performing Childhood and Race from Slavery to Civil Rights
by Robin BernsteinNYU Press
Buy the book.Beginning in the mid nineteenth century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocence–a reversal of the previously-dominant Calvinist belief that…