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American Studies

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Notes on Vermin

By Caroline Hovanec
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

How and why modern literature came to love its pests

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Dialectical Imaginaries

Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

Edited by Marcial Gonzalez & Carlos Gallego
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latinx Studies, American Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Gathers materialist readings that provide productive new insights on Latino/a literature in the neoliberal era

Academic Ableism

Disability and Higher Education

By Jay T. Dolmage
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Education, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone

The Imprint of Another Life

Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility

By Margaret Homans
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Philosophy

How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity

James Baldwin

America and Beyond

By Bill Schwarz & Cora Kaplan
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, African American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields

These Days of Large Things

The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930

By Michael Tavel Clarke
Subjects: Cultural Studies, American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, American Literature

The Unraveling Archive

Essays on Sylvia Plath

Edited by Anita Helle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, American Literature, American Studies

Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets

On SF

By Thomas M. Disch
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature and Science

A last judgment on the genre from science fiction's foremost critic

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