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Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Theory of the Counterinsurgent Girl

My name is Jenna Freedman, and I'm the founder and former Director of the Barnard Zine Library and an adjunct lecturer at the Queens College School of Information Studies. I am working on a book chapt...

Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Republishing Postwar Experimental Novels by Women

Geoffrey Sire, Writing Classroom as Factory, Composition Studies, Vol. 36, No. 1, Special Issue: On 1963 (Spring 2008), pp. 29-38

Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945-2001

An Ivy League university’s report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American dream of college.

In the segregated American South, policing was war. Rampant police violence came to the back roads and cattle pastures of America’s rural countryside as i...

Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...

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The question “What is America?” has taken on new urgency. Weak Nationalisms explores the emotional dynamics behind that question by examining how a range...

A companion list for lit studies scholars.

How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history

Douglas Dowland close-reads Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant’s new edited volume, “Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century.”

In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suff...