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The Story's Not Over
Publication Date: May 2025
The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars demonstrate the ways in which Jewish women's graphic narratives reach into the past by way of stories and histories, both individual and collective, that provide a touchstone for the shape of identity.
East End Jews
Publication Date: April 2025
Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection of urban sketches and enrich our understanding of the Jewish East End.
Discourse in Black
Publication Date: January 2025
Through all three of the essential works in this compendium, Gilyard has nourished American literary and rhetorical discourse with a reframing of topics and conversations spanning language, culture, and educational praxis.
Specters of the Marvelous
Publication Date: December 2024
Here, Lau provides a new framework for understanding European fairy tales in the milieux in which they were created, bringing distant and ethereal worlds back to earth.
Matrilineal Dissent
Publication Date: May 2024
Collectively, contributors reframe Jewish American literary history through feminist approaches that have revolutionized the field, from intersectionality and the #MeToo movement to queer theory and disability studies. Examining both canonical and lesser-known texts, this collection asks: what happens to conventional understandings of Jewish American literature when we center women's writing...
Relief After Hardship
Publication Date: February 2024
This fascinating compilation of tales is being presented for the first time to an English language audience along with a comprehensive survey of its history, as well as detailed summaries and extensive comparative annotations to the tales that will be of interest to literature and folklore scholars.
The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature
Publication Date: November 2023
This innovative reframing of early modern Musar texts reveals a new history of Jewish folklore and a new way to read those texts.
Salvage Poetics
Publication Date: October 2023
This book makes a fresh contribution to the fields of American Jewish cultural and literary studies and art history.
Israeli Salvage Poetics
Publication Date: October 2023
Israeli literary representations of eastern European Jewry strive, sometimes successfully, to recuperate eastern European Jewish pre-Holocaust culture for the edification of an audience that might feel responsible for the silencing and extinction of that culture.
Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters
Publication Date: August 2023
Beyond the content of these individual stories, Wang ties these narratives together across time using cognitive literary criticism, especially affective narratology, to shed new light on the adaptation of literary and cultural texts and their sociopolitical contexts.
Memory Spaces
Publication Date: May 2023
Aarons’s insight, close readings, and integration of contemporary scholarship are conveyed clearly and concisely, creating a work that both captivates readers and contributes to scholarly discourse in Jewish studies, women’s literature, memory studies, and identity.
The Enchanted Boot
Publication Date: November 2022
The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.
Fear and Other Stories
Publication Date: May 2022
Students and scholars of history and culture, women’s literature, and translation studies will wonder how they’ve gone this long without reading Blankshteyn’s work.
Cannibalizing Queer
Publication Date: February 2022
Graduate students and scholars of cinema and media studies, queer studies, Brazilian modernism, and Latin American studies will value what one early reader called "a point of departure for all future research on Brazilian queer cinema."
Women Writing Wonder
Publication Date: October 2021
Duggan, and Adrion Dula hope both to foreground women writers' important contributions to the genre and to challenge common assumptions about what a fairy tale is for scholars, students, and general readers.
No Place in Time
Publication Date: September 2021
This volume will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century American literature, American Jewish literature, and literature as it intersects with immigration, religion, or temporality, as well as anyone interested in Jewish studies.
Survivors and Exiles
Publication Date: September 2021
Readers interested in Yiddish studies, Holocaust studies, and modern Jewish studies will find Survivors and Exiles a compelling contribution to these fields.
The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction
Publication Date: May 2021
Students, scholars, and readers of Holocaust studies and literary criticism will appreciate this closer look at a historically taboo topic.
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space
Publication Date: April 2021
Students and scholars of fairy-tale and media studies will welcome this fresh approach.
Inviting Interruptions
Publication Date: February 2021
As we make our way deeper into the twenty-first century, wonder tales—and their critical analyses—will continue to interest and enchant general audiences, students, and scholars.
Archaic Modernism
Publication Date: November 2020
This book is of specific interest to scholars, students, and researchers of film and queer studies.
Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World
Publication Date: October 2020
Intended for scholars, students, and researchers of film and Latin American studies, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World evaluates an active and emergent film movement that has yet to receive sufficient attention in global cinema studies.
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
Publication Date: October 2020
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies—which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students—considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the...
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
Publication Date: September 2020
Readers with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated glimpse into a breadth of work.
"Black People Are My Business"
Publication Date: September 2020
"Black People Are My Businessis a wonderful addition to any reader's list, especially those interested in African American literary and cultural studies.
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale
Publication Date: August 2020
Readers will find inspiration and new directions in the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to fairy tales provided by Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale.
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
Publication Date: August 2020
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.
The Golden Girls
Publication Date: May 2020
Written with both superfans and scholars in mind, the book invites new, diverse ways of thinking about the show to spark future scholarship and conversation about four of the most beloved characters in sitcom history.
Laughter After
Publication Date: April 2020
Laughter After will appeal to a number of audiences—from students and scholars of Jewish and Holocaust studies to academics and general readers with an interest in media and performance studies.
The Comedian as Confidence Man
Publication Date: October 2019
If these social observers are obliged to become, in effect, confidence men, with irony as the satiric weapon that both attacks and diverts, then the implications are great for those social critics who above all wish to be heeded.
The Broken Spell
Publication Date: June 2019
The Broken Spell will appeal to scholars of folklore and fairy-tale studies, comparative literature, South Asian studies, and any reader with an interest in India and Pakistan.
Teaching Fairy Tales
Publication Date: March 2019
Scholars from many different academic areas will use this volume to explore and implement new aspects of the field of fairy-tale studies in their teaching and research.
Staging Fairyland
Publication Date: December 2018
Readers interested in folklore, fairy-tale studies, children's literature, and performance studies will embrace this informative monograph.
I Got to Keep Moving
Publication Date: November 2018
Readers of fiction, especially those interested in short fiction and African American fiction, will find this stunning and unique collection a welcome addition to their libraries.
Things People Say about Detroit
Publication Date: November 2018
Through the awareness of these opinions, and remarks, the story of Detroit, its history, its ingenuity, and its contributions to the world are better understood and appreciated.
Whitechapel Noise
Publication Date: May 2018
It is a must-read for Jewish and Anglo-Jewish historians and those interested in Yiddish, London, and migration studies.
Transforming Harry
Publication Date: May 2018
Beyond the classroom, the Harry Potter series clearly enjoys a large and devoted global fan community, and this collection will be of interest to serious fans.
The Official Report on Human Activity
Publication Date: April 2018
The Official Report on Human Activity is sure to appeal to readers of literary fiction, particularly those interested in postmodernism and social justice.
The Lake Michigan Mermaid
Publication Date: March 2018
As it explores family relationships and generational bonds, this book is an unforgettable experience that aims to connect readers of all ages.
Jewish Poland—Legends of Origin
Publication Date: February 2018
This book will be of interest to scholars in folklore studies as well as to scholars of Judaic history and culture.
Witness Through the Imagination
Publication Date: February 2018
The unifying critical approach is the textual explication of themes and literary method, occasional comparative references to international Holocaust literature, and a discussion of extra-literary Holocaust sources that have influenced the creative writers' treatment of the Holocaust universe.
Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel
Publication Date: February 2018
In contrast to most anthologies of Jewish folktales, the texts in this book were recorded in the natural context of narration and in the language of origin (Judaeo-Arabic), meeting the most vigorous standards of current folklore scholarship.
The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn
Publication Date: February 2018
Poised to face the unfinished marital battle at home, but anxious to engage in the coming struggle for Jewish survival and the future of Western civilization, he set sail, unsure of what lay ahead.
Tradition and Politics
Publication Date: February 2018
He concludes with an analysis of the special significance of the religious parties in the Israeli political system.
The Genocidal Gaze
Publication Date: November 2017
Her transnational analysis provides the groundwork for future studies of links between imperialism and genocide, links among genocides, and the devastating impact of the genocidal gaze.
Reconstructing the Old Country
Publication Date: November 2017
Scholars and students of American Jewish history and literature in particular will appreciate this internationally focused scholarship on the continuing reverberations of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Warriors, Witches, Whores
Publication Date: October 2017
Students and scholars of film, gender, or cultural studies will appreciate this approachable monograph.
The Pleasures of Metamorphosis
Publication Date: June 2017
Few studies have examined Japanese fairy-tale transformations to the extent that Fraser has, presenting fascinating information that will intrigue fairy-tale scholars and those wanting to learn more about the representation of pleasure behind the imaginative and fantastical.
Hölderlin
Publication Date: January 2017
Hölderlin, "the poet of poets,is presented at work and in his works as the instrument of conviviality binding mortal to mortal and mortal to divine.
The Bird-While
Publication Date: January 2017
These well-crafted poems will be easily accessible to any literary audience, with a more particular attraction to readers of contemporary poetry sensitive to the marriage of an Eastern sensibility with contemporary American settings and scenes.
