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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

McClanahan's book is a masterful exploration of the cultural politics of the financial crisis and a powerful mediation on how to make sense of an era of unrepayable debts...

John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...

For some two hundred years now, Pentateuchal scholarship has been dominated by the Documentary Hypothesis, a paradigm made popular by Julius Wellhausen...

Richardson examines the cultural presence of Indians in the novels, poetry, plays and material culture of the eighteenth-century...

What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence?

Is the New Testament text reliable? What do we do with textual variants? How do I use the Greek New Testament?

Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...

Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...

In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship...