The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...

This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...

Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction...

Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...

Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...

The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist...

Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...

Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...

Popoff brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus...

Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...

Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and deal with our past and our future?

Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens...

Shringarpure integrates a variety of disciplinary perspectives while also weaving together the encounters and reverberations between the Cold War and decolonization and the post-colonial experience...

Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as gender studies, diaspora studies, history, and media and performance studies...

This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the "folkloresque."

Rea introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh...

When Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos first launch Original Plumbing in 2009, they created a magazine the world desperately needed: a creative and celebratory biannual publication about trans men, by trans men...

This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture...

Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...

Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones...

German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over individual rights...

Stein re-emerges as a major twentieth-century rhetorician, not a spin doctor, as the word might suggest to some, but as someone who follows as sure as she remakes the rules of writing, expression, and language...

Christopher Peacock, with a contribution from Lauran Hartley, masterfully introduces the work of contemporary Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup...

Cremins explores the history of Billy Batson, a boy who met a wizard that allowed him to transform into a superhero. When Billy says, “Shazam!” he becomes Captain Marvel...