How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?

Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries...

Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...

Jester and Svich talk to writers from the US, the UK, and countries around the world about what it means to be a playwright today....

Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...

This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...

Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...

Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...

What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?

This book examines what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust...

Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...

Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...

Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading...

Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...

Stainton explores the relationship between 'poetry’ and ‘prayer’ in South Asia through close examination of the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir from the eighth century onwards...

"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...

Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human...

Why do contemporary writers use myths from ancient Greece and Rome, Pharaonic Egypt, the Viking north, Africa's west coast, and Hebrew and Christian traditions?

It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies....

The “Mongol turn” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries forged new political, commercial, and religious circumstances in Eurasia.

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....