20th Century Literature

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Agony for Others

On Literature and Pain

By Jessica Colangelo
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Pain as a political force

Across Continents

Writing Goans, Making Worlds

By R. Benedito Ferrão
Subjects: African Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia, Diaspora Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

A dialogue between postcolonial literature and Afro-Asiatic studies through an analysis of Goan characters

What Clever Friends

The Selected Letters of Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison

Edited by Chad Wriglesworth
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing

Writing between two women writers

Supernatural Japan

Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic

By Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Izumi Kyōka’s influence on modern literature of the fantastic

Legal Stories

Narrative-Based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era

By Gregory Steirer
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature

How copyright law and the practice of narrative-based property development influenced each other before 1978

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change

Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

By Ousseina D. Alidou
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society

Winged Words

The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.

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

Spectral Characters

Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage

By Sarah Balkin
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, Modern Literature

Reimagines modern drama by shining light on the ghostly presences within it

Everyone’s Theater

Literature and Daily Life in England, 1860–1914

By Michael Meeuwis
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature

Connects the practices of the professional Victorian stage to the world of the amateur theatricals across England and its empire

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

Nimrod

Selected Writings

By Frieda Ekotto
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Race and Ethnicity
Series: African Perspectives

The first English translations of key essays, stories, and poems by Nimrod, a major figure in contemporary African letters

The Rise of the African Novel

Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition

The Gourmet Club

A Sextet

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Anthony Chambers & Paul McCarthy
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Six short stories by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), capturing the breadth of his literary oeuvre

Red Roofs and Other Stories

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Paul McCarthy & Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Four short stories by master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, newly translated into English

Strangers in Berlin

Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919–1933

By Rachel Elana Seelig
Subjects: Jewish Studies, German Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

Insightful look at the interactions between German and migrant Jewish writers and the creative spectrum of Jewish identity

Poetry Los Angeles

Reading the Essential Poems of the City

By Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, 20th Century Literature, American Studies

A look at the poetry of one of America’s most populous and fascinating cities, with poems spanning from 1942 to 2012

The Textuality of Soulwork

Jack Kerouac's Quest for Spontaneous Prose

By Timothy Hunt
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

A new critical perspective on Kerouac's work and his textual practices.

The Metanarrative of Blindness

A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing

By David Bolt
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on literary representations of blindness from a disability studies perspective

Conquering Demons

The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature

By Jan C. Leuchtenberger
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the origins and influence of three popular anti-Kirishitan (anti-Christian) works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Architecture and Modern Literature

By David Anton Spurr
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, European Studies

Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era

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

Thomas Mann's World

Empire, Race, and the Jewish Question

By Todd Kontje
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, European Literature

A comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann

The Female as Subject

Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan

Edited by P.F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, Gaye Rowley, and G. Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century

A Critic's Journey

By Ilan Stavans
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, Jewish Studies
Series: Writers on Writing

One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work

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