Literature: history & criticism books

This 10-year anniversary edition of Bernice L. McFadden's NAACP Image Award-winning classic explores the Holocaust...  Read More >>

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Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

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Zen poems of everyday awakening. A fresh translation of short poems by the Japanese Zen poet Ryokan that reads...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic exploration of ancient Chinese literary criticism, spanning from the pre-Qin period...  Read More >>

This book offers a rich exploration of how cancer is experienced, narrated, and understood through creative literature....  Read More >>

Collected literary and film criticism and more-now revised and updated with new material-from an award-winning,...  Read More >>

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A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora...  Read More >>

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This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

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Poetry that seeks kinship and hopeful futures amid traumas of colonialism, displacement, and climate disaster. The...  Read More >>

A Togolese novel that delivers a rich, intimate portrait of a scholar whose life is inextricably bound to Africa....  Read More >>

A dreamlike novel from Palestine that traces a restless soul's journey through landscapes of memory, longing, alienation,...  Read More >>

A humorous and deeply human short story collection that celebrates outsiders, dreamers, and the queer. The award-winning...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph detailing the connections between H. P. Lovecraft's weird fiction and posthumanism....  Read More >>

History has shown that antisemitism reactivates and rises like a latent viral infection at the slightest crisis...  Read More >>