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Cultural Studies

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Facing It

AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature

Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring

By Sherry Lee Linkon
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities

The Biopolitics of Disability

Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

By David T. Mitchell
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art

Tactics of the Human

Experimental Technics in American Fiction

By Laura Shackelford
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, American Literature, Digital Projects, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human

Narrative Prosthesis

Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

By David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader

Edited by Susan Vaneta Mason
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies

Celebrates the San Francisco Mime Troupe with scripts representative of the troupe's work

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

Imagining the Forest

Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest

By John R. Knott
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Nature/Environment

How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes

Imagining Adoption

Essays on Literature and Culture

Edited by Marianne Novy
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists

Kin of Another Kind

Transracial Adoption in American Literature

By Cynthia Callahan
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies

Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver

The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age

By Amy E. Earhart & Andrew Jewell
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship

Risk Culture

Performance and Danger in Early America

By Joseph Fichtelberg
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, 18th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days

Secret Spaces of Childhood

Edited by Elizabeth N. Goodenough
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Fiction, Literary Studies, American Literature

This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates

Gates of Freedom

Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind

By Eugenia C. DeLamotte
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, American Studies

Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists

The Stamp of Class

Reflections on Poetry and Social Class

By Gary Lenhart
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Cultural Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

Thoughtfully investigates the important yet little-heralded topic of the effect of class on the poet's life and work

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

Reading Adoption

Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama

By Marianne Novy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures

A literary scholar who is an adult adoptee delves into one of the enduring themes of literature—the child raised by other parents

Harlem Calling

The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson

By George Wylie Henderson
Edited by David G. Nicholls
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Cultural Studies

The collected stories of George Wylie Henderson, an Alabama writer of the Harlem Renaissance

Jewish in America

Edited by Sara B. Blair & Jonathan E. Freedman
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Religion, Literary Studies, American Literature

Imagining Wild America

By John R. Knott
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver

Telling Incest

Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire

By Janice Doane & Devon Hodges
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

An exploration of how specific historical contexts, narrative conventions, and cultural politics shape the ways that stories of incest are told and heard

Dripping Dry

Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest

By David Nathan Cassuto
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Explores the convergences of U.S. water policy and the literature of the American West

U.S. Orientalisms

Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890

By Malini Johar Schueller
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies

Uncovers the roots of Americans' construction of the "Orient" by examining the work of nineteenth-century authors

The Cat and the Human Imagination

Feline Images from Bast to Garfield

By Katharine M. Rogers
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, American Literature, European Literature, Cultural Studies

An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art

The Ghost of Meter

Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse

By Annie Ridley Crane Finch
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Cultural Studies, American Literature

A groundbreaking study of the connections among meter, the poetic unconscious, and wider literary and cultural forces

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