"This work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler's once scandalous - now increasingly accepted - judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and …
Doppiare il capo: saggi e interviste
by Splendore, Paola, Coetzee, J. M., Baiocchi, Maria
The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe. The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of aparthe…
Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign peoples and foreign foods from across the globe. Gitanjali Shahani reimagines the contact zone between Western Europe and the global…
"Examines the colonial histories of everyday foods like sugar, spices, and coffee, arguing that that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference"--