Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives
Edited by Victoria Aarons
Interviewee Leela Corman
Price: $32.99
ISBN: 9780814349113
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2025
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
376 Pages
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.
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.
Voices of the Self, Let's Flip the Script, and Liberation Memories
by Keith Gilyard
Series edited by Melba Joyce Boyd
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9780814351925
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: January 2025
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
512 Pages
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.
Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale
by Kimberly J. Lau
Series edited by Anne E. Duggan
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814341346
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: December 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
242 Pages
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.
Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History
Edited by Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan and Ashley Walters
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780814349854
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
404 Pages
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 and acknowledge women as dominant players in Jewish cultural production?
The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days
by Ulrich Marzolph
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9780814351154
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
162 Pages
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.
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.
Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy
by Cathy Yue Wang
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814348628
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
248 Pages
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.
Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives
by Victoria Aarons
Price: $38.99
ISBN: 9780814349144
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
300 Pages
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 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.
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.
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."
An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales
Edited by Julie L.. J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne Wagner, Anne E. Duggan and Adrion Dula
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814345016
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: October 2021
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
400 Pages
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.
The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by Sharon B. Oster
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814348802
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: September 2021
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
232 Pages
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.
Readers interested in Yiddish studies, Holocaust studies, and modern Jewish studies will find Survivors and Exiles a compelling contribution to these fields.
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.
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—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 environment.
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 Businessis a wonderful addition to any reader's list, especially those interested in African American literary and cultural studies.
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 is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.
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.
Edited by David Slucki, Avinoam Patt and Gabriel N. Finder
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814344781
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: April 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
240 Pages
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.
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.
Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu
by Pasha M. Khan
Price: $32.99
ISBN: 9780814345993
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 2019
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
320 Pages
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
Edited by John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller
Price: $27.99
ISBN: 9780814342862
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
208 Pages
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 is sure to appeal to readers of literary fiction, particularly those interested in postmodernism and social justice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"
by Lucy Fraser
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814342442
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 2017
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
816 Pages
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.
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.
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