Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Eugenic Fantasies
Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920's
Eugenic Fantasies is an innovative work that combines interpretive strategies from the fields of psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary studies to create a new model for… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93738-2 (Routledge)
Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor
A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America
This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93691-0 (Routledge)
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Allegories of Violence
Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th Century novels of… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93637-8 (Routledge)
The Dialectic of Self and Story
Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction
Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s bears the outward signs of… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3759-1 (Routledge)
Making Homes in the West/Indies
Constructions of Subjectivity in the Writings of Michelle Cliff and Jamaica Kincaid
This study focuses on the ways in which two of the most prominent Caribbean women writers residing in the United States, Michelle Cliff and Jamaica… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-4037-9 (Routledge)
Postcolonial Masquerades
Culture and Politics in Literature, Film, Video, and Photography
This book exposes multiple strategies of postcolonial masquerades by offering divergent and varied readings from literature, film, video, and photography. Engaging the work of minority… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3649-5 (Routledge)
Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas
From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson
Unlike 19th century slave narratives, many recent novel-like texts about slavery deploy ironic narrative strategies, innovative structural features, and playful cruelty. This study analyzes the… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3853-6 (Routledge)
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Plain and Ugly Janes
The Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction
This is the first study to define and explore the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature-the Ugly Woman-whose roots can be… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3652-5 (Routledge)
Dissenting Fictions
Identity and Resistance in the Contemporary American Novel
This study elucidates the relationship between identity formation and resistance to racial and sexual oppression in a group of contemporary American novels the author terms… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3653-2 (Routledge)
Performing La Mestiza
Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identites
This study explores the intersections of race/ethnic, gender, and queer identities in writings by contemporary American lesbians of color in order to show how this… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3647-1 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Idioms of Self Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature
By Jill Phillips Ingram
To be published January 1st 2010
Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics
By A. Robert Lee
To be published January 26th 2010