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Exodus Politics
Using the term "exodus politics" to theorise the valorisation of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the …
Close Kin and Distant Relatives
The ""black family"" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, …
Cotton's Queer Relations
Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty 'Jezebels', ""Cotton's Queer Relations"" exposes the queer …
The Power of Negative Thinking
Benjamin Schreier is suspicious of a simple equation of cynicism with quietism, nihilism, selfishness, or false consciousness, and he rejects the notion that modern cynicism …
Interracial Encounters
2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Why do black characters appear so …
Empire’s Proxy
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at …
The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature
In The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature, Geoff Hamilton charts the evolution of the fundamental concept of autonomy in the American imaginary across the span of …
Writing through Jane Crow
In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the …
Acts of Narrative Resistance
This exploration of women's autobiographical writings in the Americas focuses on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation. What …
Unbecoming Blackness
2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, …
Between the Novel and the News
While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also …
Exodus Politics
Using the term ""exodus politics"" to theorise the valorisation of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the …