This year for National Reading Month, we are highlighting our latest and greatest publications in the field of literary studies. (Psst see if you can spot the nod to Dr. Seuss, whose birthday inspired this national holiday and whose work encouraged a love for reading for so many.)
Ain’t I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall
Perceptive and original, Ain’t I an Anthropologist is a long-awaited reassessment of Zora Neale Hurston’s place in American cultural and intellectual life.
For over fifty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Check out our most recent issues to read articles on seminal American authors like Henry James, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Virgin Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation
Emek Ergun
Sophisticated and compelling, Virgin Crossing Borders reveals translation’s vital role in exchanges of feminist theories, stories, and knowledge.
Journal of English and German Philology
Dive into Northern European literature of the Middle Ages with JEGP and read about early Germanic, Celtic, and Latin texts from Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia. Recent issues feature scholarship on Old English poetry, etymology, and more.
Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature
Hannah L. Huber
Sophisticated and compelling, Virgin Crossing Borders reveals translation’s vital role in exchanges of feminist theories, stories, and knowledge.
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
National Reading Month was originally established to celebrate Dr. Suess’s birthday on March 2, 1904. In Vol. 33, Iss. 4 of Dialogue, Patterson satirically questions the authorship Suess’s most famous book, Green Eggs and Ham, to parody scholarship’s tendency towards selective interpretation.
Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America
Tara A. Bynum
A daring assertion of Black people’s humanity, Reading Pleasures reveals how four Black writers experienced positive feelings and analyzes the ways these emotions served creative, political, and racialized ends.
“Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” and “A Couple in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, 1990” by Bernardo Wade
Vol. 5, Iss. 2 of Jazz and Culture, the special “nocoastjazz” issue, features two poems from Bernardo Wade, a writer and artist currently studying at Indiana University.
Julia de Burgos: La creacion de un ícono puertorriqueño
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
Traducido por Isabel Zapata, en colaboracion con la autora
Disponible por primera vez en español, Julia de Burgos cuenta la destacada historia de la poeta y activista puertorriqueña.