Modern Language Association 2021: January 7–10
New and Notable in Literary and Cultural Studies
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Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements
Abigail G. H. Manzella
Honorable Mention, MLA Prize for Independent Scholars
Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, Eds.
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020
Like Love
Michele Morano
Longlisted, 2021 PEN America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
Finalist, 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction
Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture
Amanda Nell Edgar
Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Critical/Cultural Studies Division, NCA
Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
David K. Coley
Winner, 2020 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists
Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid
Christina Meyer
Nominee, 2020 Eisner Awards, Best Scholarly Work
Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
Barbara Black
Winner, 2020 Victorian Society in America Award
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
John Pier, Ed.
Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology
Erin James and Eric Morel, Eds.
Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges
Jan Alber and Brian Richardson, Eds.
Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Sympathetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative
Matthew Clark and James Phelan
Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Alexandra Valint
Forthcoming Jan. 2021
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies
Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka, Eds.
Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Winter Jade Werner
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
Lissette Lopez Szwydky
Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie, Eds.
New in Paperback
Russian Grotesque Realism: The Great Reforms and the Gentry Decline
Ani Kokobobo
New in Paperback
Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Alexandra Valint
Forthcoming Jan. 2021
Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
Dara Rossman Regaignon
Forthcoming Apr. 2021
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek, Eds.
The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Stacie Cassarino
New in Paperback
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Ed.
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Michelle Zerba
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia
Lorena Cuya Gavilano
Forthcoming Mar. 2021
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek, Eds.
Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror
Dawn Keetley, Ed.
Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, Eds.
The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Ed.
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Michelle Zerba
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia
Lorena Cuya Gavilano
Forthcoming Mar. 2021
Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror
Dawn Keetley, Ed.
Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
Lissette Lopez Szwydky
Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, Eds.
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia
Lorena Cuya Gavilano
Forthcoming Mar. 2021
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Susan E. Kirtley
Forthcoming May 2021
Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
Mario Teló
The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida’s Rhetorical Legacies
Brooke Rollins
Albertus Magnus, On Animals (Vol. 1)
Translated & Annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. & Irven Michael Resnick
New in Paperback
Albertus Magnus, On Animals (Vol. 2)
Translated & Annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. & Irven Michael Resnick
New in Paperback
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Michelle Zerba
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England
Marisa Libbon
Forthcoming Apr. 2021
Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland
Katherine H. Terrell
Forthcoming Apr. 2021
Where’s the Rhetoric? Imagining a Unified Field
S. Scott Graham
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field
Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John A. Lynch, and Cynthia Ryan, Eds.
The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida’s Rhetorical Legacies
Brooke Rollins
Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood
Allison Rowland
Vaccine Rhetorics
Heidi Lawrence
Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
Dara Rossman Regaignon
Forthcoming Apr. 2021
Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics
Wendy S. Hesford
Forthcoming Apr. 2021
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Susan E. Kirtley
Forthcoming May 2021
Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie, Eds.
Albertus Magnus, On Animals (Vol. 1)
Translated & Annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. & Irven Michael Resnick
Albertus Magnus, On Animals (Vol. 2)
Translated & Annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. & Irven Michael Resnick
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
Finalist, 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction
Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop
M. I. Devine
Winner of the Gournay Prize
Don’t Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn’t Seen
Kristen Iversen and David Lazar, Eds.
Like Love
Michele Morano
Longlisted, 2021 PEN America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Sign Here If You Exist and Other Essays
Jill Sisson Quinn
Winner of the Journal Non/Fiction Prize
The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie
Frederick Luis Aldama and Chris Escobar
Praying Naked
Katie Condon
Winner of the Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize
My Private Lennon: Explorations from a Fan Who Never Screamed
Sibbie O’Sullivan
Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing
Julie Marie Wade
a more perfect Union
Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Winner of the Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here
Susanne Paola Antonetta
Forthcoming Feb. 2021
The United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel
Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren
Forthcoming Mar. 2021
Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography through Other Lives
Whitney Otto
Forthcoming Mar. 2021
The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Autobiography through Other Lives
Megan Culhane Galbraith
Forthcoming May 2021
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Adoption and Culture
Emily Hipchen, Ed.
American Periodicals
Sarah Salter and Jean Roggenkamp, Eds.
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Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
Quiana Whitted, Ed.
Narrative
James Phelan, Ed.
North American Journal of Celtic Studies
Joseph Eska, Ed.
Victorians
Deborah Logan, Ed.