The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature EDITED BY BENJAMIN KAHAN Cambridge UP, 2024 ISBN: 9781108918725 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/the-cambridge-history-of-queer-american-literature/6DBC1DA60D5B4AC05431401C40AA680D Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature fro ..read more

Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres EDITED BY ELIZABETH ENGLISH, JANA FUNKE, AND SARAH PARKER Edinburgh UP, 2023 ISBN: 9781474486057 https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-interrogating-lesbian-modernism.html Makiko Minow coined the phrase ‘lesbian modernism’ in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and expand the modernist canon. At the same time, there has been ongoing critical debate about what constitutes a lesbian modernist text, who counts as a lesbian modernist author, and how lesbian modernism relates to quee ..read more

  Journal of Modern Literature Call for Papers Caribbean Literatures and the Environment Topics addressed may include oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction. JML publishes essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century global literature. Submissions should conform to MLA 8th edition style for documentation and manuscript formatting and should include a 100-150-word abstract and 3-5 keywords. 9,000-word limit, inclusive of abstract, notes, and works cited. No simultaneous submissi ..read more

Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in Appalachia By Allison E. Carey SUNY Press, 2024 ISBN: 9781438493565 https://sunypress.edu/Books/D/Doubly-Erased The first book of its kind, Doubly Erased is a comprehensive study of the rich tradition of LGBTQ themes and characters in Appalachian novels, memoirs, poetry, drama, and film. Appalachia has long been seen as homogenous and tradition-bound. Allison E. Carey helps to remedy this misunderstanding, arguing that it has led to LGBTQ Appalachian authors being doubly erased—routinely overlooked both within United States literature because they are App ..read more

Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human BY DAVID HERD Oxford UP, 2023 ISBN: 9780192872258 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/writing-against-expulsion-in-the-post-war-world-9780192872258 Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment. The book's starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical non-personhood in which detention results. As a matter of urgency, the book argues, we need to unders ..read more

City Scripts: Narrative of Postindustrial Urban Futures  EDITED BY BARBARA BUCHENAU, JENS MARTIN GURR, AND MARIA SULIMMA Ohio State UP, 2023 ISBN: 978-0-8142-1552-4 https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215524.html Storytelling shapes how we view our cities, legitimizing histories, future plans, and understandings of the urban. City Scripts responds to calls by literary theorists to engage a new kind of narrative analysis that recalibrates close reading and interpretation to the multiple ways in which narratives “do things”—how they intervene in the world and take action in e ..read more

Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture EDITED BY ALEX GOODY AND SASKIA MCCRACKEN Edinburgh UP, 2023  ISBN: 9781474498029 https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-beastly-modernisms.html A contemporary collection of scholarly essays exploring the vibrant intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studies Presents the diverse range of intersections between modernist and critical animal studies Includes cutting-edge research contributions from a heterogenous and interdisciplinary range of modernist scholars Offers a key research res ..read more

Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics: Pragmatist Stories of Progress BY ULF SCHULENBERG Bloomsbury, 2023 ISBN: 9798765102435 https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/humanism-antiauthoritarianism-and-literary-aesthetics-9798765102435/ Presenting pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism, this book sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism. BOOK NEWS is an online-only feature announcing new publications in modernist and contemporary literary studies. These announcements do NOT constitute an endorsement by the ..read more

Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America BY STEPHANIE LI University of Minnesota Press, 2023 ISBN 978-1-5179-1574-2 https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/ugly-white-people Ugly White People explores representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white American authors (Dave Eggers, Sarah Smarsh, J. D. Vance, Claire Messud, Ben Lerner, and others) as they grapple with whiteness as its own construct rather than a wrongly assumed norm. Revealing white recognition of the ugly forms whiteness can take, Stephanie Li examines the tension between acknowledging ..read more

Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches EDITED BY BRETT ASHLEY KAPLAN Bloomsbury, 2023 ISBN: 9781350230118 https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/9781350230118/ Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of this wide-ranging field. Contributors explore race-ing memory; environmental studies and memory; digital memory; monuments, memorials, and museums; and memory and trauma. BOOK NEWS is an online-only feature announcing new publications in mo ..read more