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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

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Living Labor

Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

By Joseph B. Entin
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labor

Staged Readings

Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75

By Michael D'Alessandro
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America

Winged Words

The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.

By Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Gender Studies

A fresh look at the life and work of modernist poet H.D.

Collecting Lives

Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures

By Elizabeth Rodrigues
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Digital Culture Books

How a group of modernist writers used their training as empiricists to create a data-driven aesthetic

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Women's Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

Fashion Nation

Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

By Sandra Tomc
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

A colorful look at the relationship between ethnic nationalism and gaudy dress in the early 19th-century United States

Clothed in Meaning

Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

By Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton

Rhymes in the Flow

How Rappers Flip the Beat

By Macklin Smith & Aurko Joshi
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies, Music, Popular Music, African American Studies

Reveals the deep roots, poetic structures, and uncommon artistry of rap poetry and performance

Nuyorican Feminist Performance

From the Café to Hip Hop Theater

By Patricia Herrera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies

Recovers and celebrates the contributions of women artists to the history of this iconic performance venue

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Who Killed American Poetry?

From National Obsession to Elite Possession

By Karen L. Kilcup
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies

19th-century American magazine reviewers helped establish—and subsequently destroy—poetry’s place as a powerful national literature

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

Acts of Poetry

American Poets' Theater and the Politics of Performance

By Heidi R. Bean
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies

The first book-length exploration of a cross-genre art form that combines poetry and theater

HandiLand

The Crippest Place on Earth

By Elizabeth A. Wheeler
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Spotlights the heroes and heroines with disabilities in young people’s literature as it also imagines an ideal society for youngsters with disabilities

Vitality Politics

Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

By Stephen Knadler
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Traces the post-Reconstruction roots of the slow violence enacted on black people in the U.S. through the politicization of biological health

Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By Ann Mattis
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

What representations of domestic service in literature reveal about various Progressive Era cultural narratives

Provocative Eloquence

Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

By Laura L. Mielke
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies

Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance

Provocative Eloquence

Theater, Violence, and Anti-Slavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

By Laura L. Mielke
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies

Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance

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

Freak Performances

Dissidence in Latin American Theater

By Analola Santana
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Studies, Latinx Studies

Explores how theater artists challenge the legacy of colonialism in Latin America through performance

Robert Hayden in Verse

New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era

By Derik Smith
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Religion, American Studies

Remaps Robert Hayden’s proper place within African American poetry, and traces his legacy

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