Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics in American Literature and Culture.
From Subjection to Survival: The Artistry of American Women Writers
1st Edition
By Molly J. Freitas
December 23, 2022
From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse multiethnic American women writers of the twentieth century (Kate Chopin, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Wharton, ...
Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry
1st Edition
By Sirène H. Harb
December 13, 2021
Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry maps an interdisciplinary model of critical inquiry to demonstrate the intimate...
In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature
1st Edition
By Monika Gehlawat
December 13, 2021
In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature offers a timely investigation of the value of dialogue in contemporary American culture. Using Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action to read the work of Frank O’Hara, James Baldwin, Grace Paley, and Andy Warhol, In ...
Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge
1st Edition
By Peter Ramos
December 13, 2021
Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge examines the ways in which U.S. and Latin American modernist canons have been in cross-cultural, mutually enabling conversation, especially through the act of literary translation. Examining eighteen U.S. and Latin American poets, my book is one ...
Spectres from the Past: Slavery and the Politics of "History" in West African and African-American Literature
1st Edition
By Portia Owusu
December 13, 2021
Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery from literary narratives. The book explores slavery in ...
Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel
1st Edition
By Joseph Conte
December 13, 2021
Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational politics. While much of the criticism regarding novels of 9/11 tends to approach these works through ...
Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. Doctorow
1st Edition
By María Ferrández San Miguel
December 13, 2021
This project approaches four of E. L. Doctorow’s novels—Welcome to Hard Times (1960), The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1975), and City of God (2000)—from the perspectives of feminist criticism and trauma theory. The study springs from the assumption that Doctorow’s literary project is eminently ...
The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy
1st Edition
By Charul Palmer-Patel
June 30, 2021
The Shape of Fantasy is an in-depth look at Heroic Epic Fantasy. It depicts structural and narrative patterns with models stemming from science and philosophy. Although Fantasy Fiction is generally defined by its impossibility, Fantasy Fiction not an illogical form. It is, in fact, governed by a ...
Wallace and I: Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction
1st Edition
By Jamie Redgate
June 30, 2021
Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that "Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being," what he actually meant by the term "human being" has been quite forgotten. It is a truism in Wallace studies that Wallace was a posthumanist writer, and too theoretically ...
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, Emily Rutter, Darlene Scott
December 13, 2019
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic ...