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Religious liberty has long been considered as a foundational human right in modern liberal democracies. Article 18 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifies that everybody has the ‘freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance’.[1] But […]
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Before Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many Ukrainians didn’t believe it would happen. When it did, Ukraine immediately declared a general mobilization-and a mass of Ukrainians who had been following peaceful occupations quickly got ready to fight. It is sometimes assumed that the ‘civilizing process’ leaves the citizens of modern states unprepared for […]
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What is the American Graphic Novel? Why is it important to study its form, history, and content, and how should one approach this endeavor while opening new ground for the examination of graphic narrative in general? These are some of the key questions addressed in this collection that brings together the best specialists in the […]
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On the cover of Prosthetic Agency is a picture that tells a story. A man in civilian clothes sits at a bar, holding his prosthetic foot. There’s a pint of beer in front of him and over his shoulder looks a cool, collected woman whose superintending gaze suggests a degree of concern. All around the […]
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Women and Medieval Literary Culture from the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century unpacks the complex relationships of women with medieval literary culture across the longue durée, exploring scribes and book production, patronage, authorship, ownership and reception, women’s education, literacy, learning and knowledge, as well as women as readers and women as subjects. The […]
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China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature (Cambridge 2023) unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond by examining the controversial symbol of China in African literature. Each chapter focuses on a genre such as poetry, popular fiction, memoir, and the novel, drawing […]
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Latin American Literature in Transition (1980-2018) looks at literary and cultural phenomena on the hinge of our millennium. It speaks from the receding hyperpolarization of the dictatorships in much of Latin America in the last third of the 20th century, and looks toward this seemingly intractable unrest afflicting us today. The starting date of the […]
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Image credit: “George Bellows, ‘New York,’ 1911, National Gallery of Art, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.” Editing the Cambridge History of American Modernism was a daunting task. There were some imperious predecessors: Walter Kalaidjian’s Cambridge Companion to American Modernism from 2005; and Vince Sherry’s Cambridge History of Modernism (2016). Both were field-defining, hard […]
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