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- ISBN: 9780198824039 | 0198824033
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/19/2022
Leslie Bow, Dorothy Draheim Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison,Russ Castronovo, Tom Paine Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Leslie Bow is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of the award-winning, 'Partly Colored': Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (2010); Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature (2001); and Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (2022).
Russ Castronovo is the Tom Paine Professor of English at the University of of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held positions as Director of the American Studies Program, English Department Chair, and Director of the Center for the Humanities. Castronovo has published widely on American aesthetics, literature, and politics on topics such as democracy, propaganda, nationalism, citizenship, and security. His books include Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America (2014), Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era (2007), Necro-Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2001), and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (1995).
Introduction Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo
Structures
1. The Book of Love is Long and Boring: Reading Aloud, Care Work, and Children's Literature, Elizabeth Freeman
2. Colonization to Climate Change: American Literature and a Planet on Fire, John Levi Barnard
3. Nuclear poetry: cultural containment and translational leakage in Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead, Simon van Schalkwyk
4. Precarious Forms: Reading Labor in and Beyond the Neoliberal Novel, Joseph Entin
5. Asian Americans in the Novel of Late Capitalism: Samuel R. Delany's The Mad Man and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Cynthia Wu
Movements
6. The Hidden Voice: Indigenous Experience and Authenticity in Twentieth-Century American Literature, Sean Teuton
7. 'Jumpin' with Symphony Sid': Post-1945 American Literature and Radio, Lisa Hollenbach
8. Faulkner at the Speed of History, Mark Goble
9. Twentieth-Century Western Man of Color: Richard Wright, Race, and Rootlessness, Yogita Goyal
10. 'Warm with Tipsy Embraces': Allen Ginsberg, the US-China Writers' Conferences, and the Propagation of Poetry, Harilaos Stecopoulos
Attachments
11. The Last Puritan in Shanghai: The Faded Romance of China Trade Finance and the Queerly Transnational Melancholy of Emily Hahn's Wartime Opium Smoking, Kendall Johnson
12. Modernism's Cares: Reading For and With, Rachel Adams
13. Black Literary History and the Problem of Identification in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, Aida Levy-Hussen
14. Andrea Lee's Europe: Race, Interracial Desire, and Transnationalism, Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus
15. Where Border Meets Narrative, Where Body Meets Word: The Animality of Border Subjectivity, Bernadine Hernández
Imaginaries
16. Of Canons and Cabinets: Indigenous Bodies, Epistemological Spectacle, and an Unusual Indian in the Cupboard, Becca Gercken
17. The Liberal Imagination Revisited: Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and the Crisis of Democracy, Johannes Voelz
18. Constructing Whiteness: Faulkner, Ferber, and the American Racial Imagination, Heidi Kim
19. Portrait of Adrian Piper as Art Object: Conceptualism, Interpretation, and Black Radicalism, Rachel Jane Carroll
20. Cultural Memory Studies and the Beloved Paradigm: From Rememory to Abolition in the Afterlives of Slavery, Michael Rothberg
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