Policing Intimacy

By Jenna Grace Sciuto
Categories: Literature

In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual policing of the color line ...

Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

Edited by Meghan Gilbert-Hickey & Miranda A. Green-Barteet
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Edited Book Award

Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, ...

Black to Nature

By Stefanie K. Dunning
Categories: African American Studies

In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage ...

Lost in the Dark

By Brad Weismann
Categories: Film Studies

Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them—The Shape of Water—won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, ...

Flights from Fassberg

By Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret. ), interweaves his story and that of his family with the larger history of World War II and the postwar world through a moving recollection and exploration ...

A de Grummond Primer

Edited by Carolyn J. Brown, Ellen Hunter Ruffin, and Eric L. Tribunella
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Ann Mulloy Ashmore, Rudine Sims Bishop, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Jennifer Brannock, Carolyn J. Brown, Ramona Caponegro, Lorinda Cohoon, Carol Edmonston, Paige Gray, Laura Hakala, Andrew ...

Next Generation Adaptation

Edited by Allen H. Redmon
Categories: Film Studies

Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine Akkülah Doğan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent, Rashmila Maiti, Allen H. Redmon, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard ...

Conversations with Donald Hall

Edited by John Martin-Joy, Allan Cooper, and Richard Rohfritch
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on ...

Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers

Edited by Jean W. Cash & Richard Gaughran
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Destiny O. Birdsong, Jean W. Cash, Kevin Catalano, Amanda Dean Freeman, David Gates, Richard Gaughran, Rebecca Godwin, Joan Wylie Hall, Dixon Hearne, Phillip Howerton, Emily D. Langhorne, ...

Side by Side

By Marilisa Jiménez García
Foreword by Sonia Nieto
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Book Award

During the early colonial encounter, children’s books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing ...