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Blends family history, rhetorical postmemory studies, critical adoption studies, and more to disrupt standard narratives around World War II, Black German experience, race, and adoption.Author:...

Reframes Asian American resistance via the lives of five early Chinese American public figures, tracing the emergence of violently imposed exceptionalism and mapping its reverberations into the...

Examines common monster tropes in Black American horror fiction, arguing that they represent specific ideologies of American anti-Blackness and inspire tactics for combatting real-life anti-Blackness...

Showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity through mimicry and reveals how that masculinity drives US militarism.Author:...

Demonstrates how Black writers negotiated and revised New Deal ideas through their contributions to the Federal Writers' Project, ultimately introducing a more inclusive, pluralist understanding of...

Celebrates and examines the richness of contemporary women's production in French and Francophone comics art while questioning the notion that women have been absent from bande dessin? history...

EROTIC AS RHETORICAL POWER : Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women TeachersAuthor: PAMELA. VANHAITSMAPublisher: Ohio State University PressPublication Date: Oct 04, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Examines literary and historical adoptions and constructions of childhood in Romantic-era England to reveal their influence on later Western adoption systems.Author: Eric C WalkerPublisher: Ohio...

Traces the ways that the United States created its empire through public pedagogies surrounding Indigenous dispossession, gendered state violence, and racialized immigration.Author: Leah...

Analyzes cases in which children and teens push back against public discourse that treats them as symbols rather than as effective organizers, speakers, writers, and demonstrators.Author: Risa...

ME LLAMO MARCELA : My Story as a Heritage SpeakerAuthor: MARCELA T. GARCSPublisher: Ohio State University PressPublication Date: Aug 26, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Draws on current theories of trauma to examine the prehistory of those psychic and somatic responses to trauma now known as PTSD and their influence on Victorian fiction.Author: Gretchen...

Explores the mythical figure of Niobe and her continuing relevance as a bridge between classical and ancient discourses and contemporary political and cultural questions.Author: Mario Tel? Andrew...

Illuminates how writers of color disrupt the racialized policies of the US security state and reimagine risk management through counternarratives of care and community building.Author: ROBERTA...

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life Across the AmericasAuthor: DANIEL GBNB. COLEMANPublisher: Ohio State University PressPublication Date: Apr 02, 2024Number of...

In Rewriting Islam, Hasnul Insani Djohar examines how women writers of the Ummah, or Muslim religious community, portray Muslim women fighting for gender and social justice while living as minorities...

SANCTUARY : Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East BayAuthor: CRUZ. MEDINAPublisher: Ohio State University PressPublication Date: Sep 27, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The first major study to explore the Song of Songs in Victorian culture, including how writers and artists adapted it to challenge the era's romantic, marital, and gender norms.Author: Duc...

Draws on cognitive and rhetorical approaches to narrative to analyze how slowness emerges in a variety of storytelling media.Author: Marco Caracciolo, Ella MingazovaPublisher: Ohio State University...

Challenges the traditional thinking that rhetoric is primarily utilitarian by demonstrating how Derrida's philosophy prioritizes ethical imperatives even as one is trying to persuade.Author: Brooke...

Examines the United Kingdom's antitrafficking agenda through rhetorical-material analysis, revealing how it works in concert with anti-immigrant sentiment to preserve the UK as an Anglo-white space...

TRESPASSING NATURES : Species Migration and the Right to SpaceAuthor: DONNIE JOHNSON. SACKEYPublisher: Ohio State University PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Provides extensions and reconceptions of unnatural narratology, and intervenes in major debates in narratology, critical theory, and narrative analysis.Author: Jan Alber, Brian RichardsonPublisher:...

Focuses on the materiality of hands to show the role that the hand plays in Victorian literature and culture.Author: Peter J Capuano, Sue ZemkaPublisher: Ohio State University PressPublication Date:...

WOMEN AT ODDS : Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian LiteratureAuthor: RIYA. DASPublisher: Ohio State University PressPublication Date: Sep 12, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature, bringing uptake and genre ecology into literary studies.Author: Dara Rossman RegaignonPublisher: Ohio State University...