Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Michael Roy reconstructs... Læs mere
By exploring the particularities of South-South solidarity, this volume begins new conversations about what makes these movements unique, how they shaped political identities, and their lasting influence.
Explores the relationship between literature and film, what is involved in adaptation, and how best to judge films based on celebrated books. Robert Calder offers... Læs mere
Examines how book history and digital humanities practices are integrated through approach, access, and assessment. Contributors consider and... Læs mere
A story of courage, resilience, and love, Unswerving challenges readers’ preconceived notions of disability, of limitations, and of the inevitability of fate.
Boldly strides across a landscape of smoldering fires, unmarked boxes, and pictures of senators in airplane bathrooms as a way of asking: In the face of incessant... Læs mere
In raw, lyrical poems, Host explores parasitic relationships - between men and women, sons and mothers, and humans and the Earth - and considers their consequences. Throughout this collection, flukes abound, both chance occurrences and flatworms changing their hosts’ behaviour.
The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes.
Hart Island has served as a potter’s field for more than a century, holding over a million indigent, unclaimed, or unknown New Yorkers’ bodies - and yet it is little-known even among locals.... Læs mere
Written in vignettes and accompanied by photographs and family interviews, Year of Plenty provides a poignant and unflinching account of how death separates us not only from the people we love but from places and memories too.
Investigates how nation building works on the ground through close studies of three of Russia’s ethnic republics: Karelia,... Læs mere
In fourteen essays that speak to the full breadth of George L. Mosse’s intellectual horizons and scholarly legacy, Masses and Man explores radical nationalism, fascism, and Jewish modernity in twentieth-century Europe.