Shows how several writers enlarge our understanding of the relationship between individual traumas and the social forces of injustice, oppression, and objectification.

Explores the literary tradition of love between women in Western literature, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories.

Examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present.

Explores how contemporary writers tell stories that shape our perceptions about abortion. She reveals that the struggle to plot these painful, complex narratives of choice, control, guilt, loss, and liberation has preoccupied an astonishing number of our most distinguished novelists, male and female alike.

Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative.

Written by a nonbinary scholar and librarian, this guide includes valuable appendixes that will aid every researcher and writer: a glossary of the rich vocabulary emerging from nonbinary communities; a guide to pronoun usage; a primer on sex, sexuality, and gender; and Library of Congress Classification information.

Charts the evolution of young adult literature featuring characters and themes that resonate with LGBTQ+ readers and their allies.

Offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how--and to what end--U.S. novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and radical forms of economic egalitarianism in the new nation.

Addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States

Focuses on how Spanish Americans in Texas used writing as a means to establish new sources of authority, and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging.

While exploring familiar legacies of personal and collective trauma and violence, these writers push, pull and break the conventional essay structure to overhaul the dominant cultural narrative that romanticize Native lives, yet deny Native emotional response.

Central figures in African American literary and intellectual history--including Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, and W.E.B. Du Bois--leveraged Victorian literature and this history of engagement itself to claim a distinctive voice and construct their own literary tradition.

Examines the evolution of the novel from the 1850s to the present, showing how the concept of black identity has transformed along with the art form, and as well, explores the prominent genres of African American novels, such as neo-slave narratives, detective fiction, and speculative fiction, and considers how each one reflects changing understandings of blackness.

Offers a survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, exploring the variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the development of Asian American literature, covering subjects from immigrant narratives and internment literature to contemporary race studies and the problem of translation.

Offers a broad spectrum of represented disabilities: amputation, autism, blindness, deafness, depression, Huntington's, multiple sclerosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, speech impairment, and spinal injury.

Signifying Bodies shows that at the heart of the memoir phenomenon is our fascination with writing that focuses on what it means to live in, or be, an anomalous body---in other words, what it means to be disabled.

Documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino intellectual culture since the 1960s.

This volume's combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and children's literature studies.

Contributes to scholarship in ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's pressing environmental debates. Includes marginalized texts by African American, Native American, Mexican American, working-class, and non-Protestant women.

Traversing a terrain that stretches from the vernacular and oral traditions to contemporary mysteries and romances, Realism and Naturalism to Modernism, the Black Arts Movement, Postmodernism, Structuralism, and Poststructualism to Americentric tropes of multicultural identity and community.

Examines the history and issues surrounding works banned because they contained language or ideas unacceptable to a religion, state, or moral standard.

Discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century.

The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a dialogue with postcolonial literature, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia.

Probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics and provides an analytical introduction to the literature, showing how generational differences play out in genre and text.

Explores the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why--in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment--is passing still of such literary and cultural interest?

Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications.

Documents the emergence of "macho criticism," and explores how debates about "hard" and "soft" masculinity influenced the class struggles of the1930s, anti-communism in the 1940s and 1950s, and the clash between theOld Left and the New Left in the 1960s.

Offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War.

It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies.

Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.

This volume, situated at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies, addresses questions about the nature of embodiment, the meaning of disability, the impact of public policy on those who have been labeled disabled, and how we define the norms of mental and physical ability.

Contends that what scholars have more traditionally understood through the Romantic ideology of the noble savage, a vessel of antiquity among dying populations, was in fact a palimpsest of still-living indigenous populations whose presence in American literature remains traceable through words.

The place for gender in superhero narratives now represents a sort of battleground, with important changes in the industry at stake. These seismic shifts--both in the creation of superhero media and in their critical and reader reception--need reassessment not only of the role of women in comics, but also of how American society conceives of masculinity.