This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni M…
Presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and …
Chick lit: the new woman's fiction
Ferriss' and Young's exploration of the chick lit phenomenon takes a look at issues, such as race, sexuality, class and gender to reveal the positive and negative reactions this genre has provoked.
This inter-disciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation.
As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. This work examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those moveme…
In this memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996) in New York, CUNY Professor of English Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the queer culture, cheap rents, and virbrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight, replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumer…
The book is divided into two sections. The first entitled "The Nashville Renascence" examines the rebirth of literature in the South. The second section of the book "The Lower South" deals with writers outside the Nashville tradition, including William Faulkner and Tennessee Wil…
