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Women in German Expressionism

Gender, Sexuality, Activism

Edited by Anke Finger & Julie Shoults
Subjects: German Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Literary scholarship questions and challenges the limited and fossilized gender narrative of German Expressionism

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

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

Act Like a Man

Challenging Masculinities in American Drama

By Robert Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Sexuality Studies

Effeminism

The Economy of Colonial Desire

By Revathi Krishnaswamy
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative

Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Boy Heroines and Female Pages

By Michael Shapiro
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies

Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

Edited by Diane Piccitto & Terry F. Robinson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature

Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the 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

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance

By Emily Houlik-Ritchey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

An innovative comparative study of Middle English and medieval Castilian romance

How Dark Is My Flower

Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

By Leith Morton
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle

The Three Treasures

A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe

By Edward Kamens & Ethan Bushelle
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales

Latinx Shakespeares

Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater

By Carla Della Gatta
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures

Investigates more than 140 Latinx-themed productions or adaptations of Shakespeare in the United States

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

Revised Edition

By Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature

Male Love, Intimacy, and Erotics, 1886–2014

Edited by Stephen D. Miller
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Minor Salvage

The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

By Stephen Hong Sohn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

Explores the forgotten archives and life writings of Korean War refugees

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