We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and
ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedagogy play in the face of such …

Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the
authors engage in a surreal journey into the worlds of feral children, alien reptoids, and faery …

The Indian Independence Act of 1947 granted India freedom from British rule, signaling the
formal end of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This freedom, though, came at a price …

Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon
instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the …

The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in
science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between …

By offering an analysis of the idea of home across the individual, interpersonal, social, and
global scales, Mapping Home aims to show the extent to which self-concept is deeply tied to …

The haunted house of American fiction is an iconic union of setting and theme with an
enduring presence in popular culture that traces its lineage to the early English Gothic …

What haunts the city? Why is there so much pessimism in our urban lives? And how does
this physical and psychological insecurity of relentless competition and a desire to succeed …

Luis Buñuel's arrival in Mexico in 1946 after having spent eight years working in the United
States would herald a new phase in the director's career. This phase was, if not always …

This book is the very first critical monograph devoted solely to American horror fiction that
focuses on ten women and two other people whose output was identified as women's fiction …