Publications
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Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature
(2017)
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature and Culture: Literary and Cultural Essays explores how Spanish literary critics from the U.S. and Spain view and study Chicano literature and culture, and reflects on Chicano ...
Migrating Fictions
(2018-01-01)
In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women’s literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turn” of literary studies to analyze ...
Hip Sublime
(2017-11-01)
In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on ...
Typical Girls
(2021)
In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied ...
Violent Exceptions
(2021)
Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to ...
Diagnosing Desire
(2020)
In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, Alyson K. Spurgas examines the “new science of female sexuality” from a critical, sociological perspective, considering how today’s ...
Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime
(2021)
In Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime, Dana M. Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts—looking specifically ...
Comics and the Body
(2020)
Eszter Szép’s Comics and the Body is the first book to examine the roles of the body in both drawing and reading comics within a single framework. With an explicit emphasis on the ethical dimensions of bodily vulnerability, ...
How Comics Travel
(2022)
Engages with comics as sites of struggle over representation by developing a new methodology of reading for difference in transnational contexts.
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
(2019)
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.