East West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi
persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why …

Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's
white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to …

The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar
touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim's James Baldwin and the Queer …

Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single
critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or …

A landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they
brought to twentieth-century culture In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents …

The post–Civil Rights era was marked by an explosion of black political thought and
aesthetics. Reflecting a shifting horizon of expectations around race relations, the …

Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and
diverse as WEB Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential …

In the global imagination, Paris is the city's glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents
in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisis such as terrorist attacks or riots. But …

More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure
in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to …

Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta
Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying …