new & forthcoming books

• Beard, Laura. Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
  (forthcoming from University of Virginia Press, Fall 2009).
  
  
• Bibler, Michael P. Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968
  (available from University of Virginia Press, Spring 2009).
  
  
• Chang, Yoonmee. Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
  (forthcoming in 2011 from Rutgers University Press).
  
  
• Duquette, Elizabeth. Loyal Subjects, Bonds of Nation, Race, and Alelgiance in Nineteenth-Century America
  (forthcoming in 2010 from Rutgers University Press).
  
  
• Greiman, Jennifer. Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
  (forthcoming from Fordham University Press).
  
  
• Griffiths, Jennifer. Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women's Performance and Literature
  (forthcoming from University of Virginia Press, Spring 2010).
  
  
• Halloran, Vivian Nun. Exhibiting Slavery: The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum.
  (forthcoming from University of Virginia Press, Fall 2009).
  
  
• Harrison-Kahan, Lori. The White Negress: Literature and Minstrelsy in the Black-Jewish Imaginary
  (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press, 2010).
  
  
• Huntington, Julie. Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels
  (forthcoming from Temple University Press, Fall 2009).
  
  
• Keyser, Catherine. Girls Who Wear Glasses: New York Women Magazine Writers and the Culture of Smartness
  (forthcoming in 2010 from Rutgers University Press).
  
  
• Lifshey, Adam. Absence and the Transatlantic in Literatures of America
  (forthcoming from Fordham University Press).
  
  
• Manganelli, Kimberly. The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse: Transatlantic Spectacles of Race
  (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press, 2010).
  
  
• Miller, Paul B. Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Historical Imagination of Modern Caribbean Writers
  (forthcoming from University of Virginia Press, Spring 2010).
  
  
• Parikh, Crystal. An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literature and Culture
  (available from Fordham University Press, 2009).
  
  
• Schreier, Benjamin. The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature
  (available from University of Virginia Press, Spring 2009).
  
  
• Scott, Darieck. Black Bottom: Abjection, Power, and Masculinity in the African American Literary Imagination
  (forthcoming from NYU Press, 2010).
  
  
• Shemak, April. Asylum Speakers: New World Refugees and Testimonial Narrative
  (forthcoming from Fordham University Press).
  
  
• Stalling, Jonathan. Poetics of Emptiness: Transformations of East Asian Philosophy and Poetics in Twentieth-Century American Poetry
  (forthcoming from Fordham University Press).
  
  
• Stringer, Dorothy. "Not Even Past": Race, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten
  (forthcoming from Fordham University Press).
  
  
• Wong, Edlie L. Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
  (forthcoming from NYU Press, 2009).