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Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology cover

Contemporary Feminist Fiction and a Case for Expanding Rhetorical Narratology

Katherine J. Weese

Forthcoming

Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism cover

Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism

Jess Shollenberger

Forthcoming

Afrofuturism and World Order cover

Afrofuturism and World Order

Reynaldo Anderson

Forthcoming

Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre cover

Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre

Joy Sanchez-Taylor

Forthcoming

Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow cover

Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow

Mollie Godfrey

2025

Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability and Nineteenth-Century Literature cover

Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Riley McGuire

2025

Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature cover

Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature

Lesley Larkin

2025

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States cover

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

Asha Jeffers

2025

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction cover

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction

Cassandra L. Jones

2024

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition cover

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition

Laura Elizabeth Vrana

2024

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett cover

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Ashley Lawson

2024

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century cover

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century

Audrey Wu Clark

2024

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature cover

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature

Hasnul Insani Djohar

2024

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State cover

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State

Roberta Wolfson

2024

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction cover

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins

2024

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing cover

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Esra Mirze Santesso

2023

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War cover

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

Audrey Wu Clark

2023

City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures cover

City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures

Edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma

2023

Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V. cover

Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.

Luc Herman and John M. Krafft

2023

Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging cover

Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging

Vivian Nun Halloran

2023

The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel cover

The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel

Paul Dawson

2023

Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures cover

Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures

Jose O. Fernandez

2022

Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature cover

Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature

Mitchum Huehls

2022

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland cover

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland

Ewa Stańczyk

2022

Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States cover

Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States

Sara Austin

2022

Narrative in the Anthropocene cover

Narrative in the Anthropocene

Erin James

2022

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance cover

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance

Alison Rose Reed

2022

Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative cover

Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative

Torsa Ghosal

2021

Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project cover

Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project

J. J. Butts

2021

Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color cover

Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color

Joy Sanchez-Taylor

2021

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips cover

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Susan E. Kirtley

2021

Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka cover

Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka

Edited by Jean-Philippe Marcoux

2021

Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation cover

Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation

John Murillo III

2021

Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability cover

Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability

Eszter Szép

2020

The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions cover

The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions

Colleen G. Eils

2020

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century cover

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek

2020

American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent cover

American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern Discontent

Jordan Carson

2020

We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction cover

We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction

Natalya Bekhta

2020

Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel cover

Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel

Mazen Naous

2020

The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction cover

The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo

2020

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology cover

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology

Edited by Erin James and Eric Morel

2020

A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives cover

A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives

Brian Richardson

2019

Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement cover

Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

Isiah Lavender III

2019

Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction cover

Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction

Elizabeth Alsop

2019

Staging Black Fugitivity cover

Staging Black Fugitivity

Stacie Selmon McCormick

2019

The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction cover

The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins

2019

Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel cover

Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel

Mark Knight

2019

Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present cover

Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present

Kyle Garton-Gundling

2019

Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology cover

Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology

Irving Massey

2018

A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature cover

A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature

2018

Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature cover

Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature

Felice D. Blake

2018

Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature cover

Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature

Stephanie Fetta

2018

William S. Burroughs'

William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution

Edited by Geoffrey D. Smith & John M. Bennett with an afterword by V. Vale

2018

Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature cover

Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Stacie Cassarino

2018

Novelization: From Film to Novel cover

Novelization: From Film to Novel

Jan Baetens

2018

Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence cover

Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence

Jessica Hooten Wilson

2017

Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature cover

Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature

Christopher González

2017

Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics cover

Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics

Kate Polak

2017

Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States cover

Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States

Edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ann Ho, and Shaun Morgan

2017

Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative cover

Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative

James Phelan

2017

Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays cover

Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays

Edited by Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca

2017

Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture cover

Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Keridiana W. Chez

2017

Thurberville cover

Thurberville

Bob Hunter

2017

Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives cover

Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives

Edited by Debra A. Moddelmog and Martin Joseph Ponce

2017

Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film cover

Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film

George Butte

2017

Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority cover

Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority

Susanna Lee

2016

Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction cover

Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction

Albert H. Tricomi

2016

Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism cover

Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

Bryce Traister

2016

Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante cover

Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante

William Franke

2015

Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature cover

Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature

John Funchion

2015

Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self cover

Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self

Lynne W. Hinojosa

2015

Dickinson’s Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities cover

Dickinson’s Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities

Paul Crumbley

2014

Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction cover

Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction

Beth Widmaier Capo

2007

Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920–1933 cover

Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920–1933

Kathleen Drowne

2005