Evanira Mendes

By Eric A. Galm
Categories: Biography And Memoir

This compilation of Evanira Mendes’s biography and translated publications offers for the first time in English an opportunity to revisit the music and culture of 1950s Brazil. Examining the trajectory o ...

Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction

By Sean P. Connors & Roberta Seelinger Trites
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

In the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to maximize their talents in the service of responding to ...

Us According to Them

By Ligia T. Domenech
Categories: Caribbean Studies

The acquisition of Puerto Rico as a colony in 1898 prompted the interest of many in the United States—the military, correspondents, investors, missionaries, politicians, scientists, and tourists. Wanting t ...

Atravesados

Edited by Trevor Boffone & Cristina Herrera
Afterword by Frederick Luis Aldama
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Trevor Boffone, T. Jackie Cuevas, Cristina Herrera, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Joseph Isaac Miranda, Jesus Montaño, Domino Renee ...

Deep Roots, Broken Branches

By Victoria Bynum
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Best known for her award-winning book The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, historian Victoria Bynum turns now to her own history in this multigenerational American saga spanning from ...

Voices and Visions

Edited by Nancy Dixon & Leslie Petty
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir, Leslie Petty, Heidi Podlasi-Labrenz, Tierney S. Powell, ...

Comics Art in Korea

By John A. Lent
Categories: Comics Studies

In Comics Art in Korea, comics scholar John A. Lent embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the vibrant world of Korean comics, cartoons, comic strips, graphic novels, webcomics, and animation. This ...

On the Very Edge

By Ian Kinane
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946–2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional c ...

Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books

Edited by Jennifer Miller & Sara Austin
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Sara Austin, Rob Bittner, J. Bradley Blankenship, Gabriel Duckels, Caitlin Howlett, Isabel Millán, Jennifer Miller, Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Tim Morris, Dana Rudolph, j wallace skelton, ...

The Child Gaze

By Amanda M. Greenwell
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature theorizes the child gaze as a narrative strategy for social critique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature for children and adults. ...