Literature
Eudora Welty and Modern Media
Contributions by Jacob Agner, Stephen M. Fuller, Ebony Lumumba, Pearl McHaney, Donnie McMahand, David McWhirter, Kevin Murphy, Harriet Pollack, Kaitlyn Smith, Matthew D. Sutton, Christin Marie Taylor, ...
Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus: A Literary Life recounts the life of the famed American writer while also providing deep and acute analysis of his stories and novellas often from a biographical perspective. Author Patrick ...
Facing Uncertain Futures
Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the futures of Latinx youth are predetermined. While systemic inequities persist, author ...
Girlhood and Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century Southern Novel
Girlhood and Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century Southern Novel explores six works by contemporary Southern women writers, each featuring a girl protagonist navigating complex personal and cultural ...
Of Women and Water
Too often, when women in literary texts come of age, they die. Instead of entering an adulthood full of possibility, female characters time and again follow the path charted by Ophelia and drown, either ...
The Sons of Neptune
The Sons of Neptune: Tracing the Archetype of the Erotic Sailor explores the evolving image of the sailor as both cultural icon and erotic figure—one that has remained curiously omnipresent and yet critically u ...
Conversations with Michael S. Harper
Conversations with Michael S. Harper brings together thirteen interviews with one of the most innovative and influential voices in contemporary American poetry. A distinguished professor at Brown University ...
Race Literature
Scholarship on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious periodicals, particularly Black publications, remains sparse and often focuses on the theological contributions of male writers. Race Literature: ...
Cuban Slavery from the Inside Out
Cuban Slavery from the Inside Out: Nonfiction Narratives of Cuban Slavery by Cuban and US Writers is a critical exploration of how nineteenth-century nonfiction texts—written by authors from both Cuba a ...
One Time, One Place
Eudora Welty is among the very few authors acclaimed for their work in both literature and photography. In 1971 she surprised her readers with this important book, for in One Time, One Place many of them ...