Fellow Travelers

John Ochoa

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Road trips loom large in the American imagination, and stories from the road have been central to crafting national identities across North and South ... Lees meer

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature

Jeannine Murray-Román

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Ro... Lees meer

Crossing the Line

Candace Ward

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their... Lees meer

Quebec Connection

Julie-Françoise Tolliver

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world. In The Quebec Connection , Julie-Fran... Lees meer

Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows

A James Arnold

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• The 1992 Quincentennial of the encounter between the New World and the Old resulted in a veritable culture war- an extreme polarization of hardened id... Lees meer

American Imperialism's Undead

Raphael Dalleo

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• As modern Caribbean politics and literature emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti, as the region's first independent state, stood ... Lees meer

Neobaroque in the Americas

Monika Kaup

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth... Lees meer

Neobaroque in the Americas

Monika Kaup

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth... Lees meer

Signs of Dissent

Dawn Fulton

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• Maryse Condé is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemp... Lees meer

The Sacred Act of Reading

Anne Margaret Castro

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritu... Lees meer

The Purloined Islands

Frederick J Karem

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• The Purloined Islands offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during t... Lees meer

Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity

Maria Cristina Fumagalli

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• Taking up the challenge of redefining modernity from a Caribbean perspective instead of assuming that the North Atlantic view of modernity is universa... Lees meer

Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition

Maurice St Pierre

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• A leader in the social movement that achieved Trinidad and Tobago's independence from Britain in 1962, Eric Williams (1911-1981) served as its first p... Lees meer

Break and Flow

Charlie D Hankin

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Hip hop is a global form of creative expr... Lees meer

Idle Talk, Deadly Talk

Ana Rodriguez Navas

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Chaucer called it "spiritual manslaughter"; Barthes and Benjamin deemed it dangerous linguistic nihilism. But gossip-long derided and dismissed by wri... Lees meer

Exhibiting Slavery

Vivian Nun Halloran

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Exhibiting Slavery examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as... Lees meer

Reclaiming Difference

Carine M Mardorossian

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• In Reclaiming Difference, Carine Mardorossian examines the novels of four women writers--Jean Rhys (Dominica/UK), Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe/USA), Edwid... Lees meer

Cuba and the Fall

Eduardo González

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• The literature of Cuba, argues Eduardo González in this new book, takes on quite different features depending on whether one is looking at it from "th... Lees meer

Cannibal Modernities

Luis Madureira

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• Unique in its inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, Cannibal Modernities is the fi... Lees meer

Exhibiting Slavery

Vivian Nun Halloran

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• Exhibiting Slavery examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as... Lees meer

Border Fictions

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders both ... Lees meer

Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays sug... Lees meer

Fictions of Whiteness

Maeve McCusker

• Hardcover | Engels | New World Studies
• The Antilles remain a society preoccupied with gradations of skin color and with the social hierarchies that largely reflect, or are determined by, ra... Lees meer

Pathologies of Paradise

Supriya M Nair

• Paperback | Engels | New World Studies
• Pathologies of Paradise presents the rich complexity of anglophone Caribbean literature from pluralistic perspectives that contest the reduction of th... Lees meer