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'Jewish discourse' and the Hebraic subtext in the development of Yiddish literature and culture	(Un)settling suburbia: Asian American suburban narratives in the nineties

1794: American race, republicanism and transnational revolution	A string in the maze: The mythos of Cormac McCarthy

American urban poetics: Linestraffickingimageslikestreets	Authorial fictions: Literary and public personas in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature

Bleeding regions: Performance and politics in the 'backwaters' of the Atlantic (Paul Gilroy, Joseph Roach, Mustapha Matura, England, John Millington Synge, Stewart Parker, Northern Ireland)	Boom: The New York City flaneur in postwar American literature and art

Critical reconstructions of history: Black lesbian literature and film	Dead time: Narrative form and historical knowledge in the era of the Cold War

Epistemology and terror in American literature: Edwards, Poe, Melville	Fingerprinting the nation: Identifying race and disability in America

Fitful character: The ethics of improvisation in modernist writing (Henry James, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot)	Formations of neoslavery: The cultures and politics of the American carceral state (Louisiana, Toni Morrison, Leadbelly, John Lomax)

Imagine the sound: Modalities of resistance and liberation in post-Civil Rights Black literature (Larry Neal, Henry Dumas, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, Assata Shakur)	Ingratitude: A cultural theory of power in Asian American women's literature (Evelyn Lau, Jade Snow Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Catherine Liu)

Literature of the Chicano/a borderlands and the Filipino/a diaspora	Micro modernism: Hosts and parasites in the life of narrative (Ireland, Argentina, Spain)

Modernism beyond the subject: Literature, spontaneity and the social body	Narrating, displaying and spectating the animal: Frank Norris, Jack London, and the urban zoo

Nationalism, narrative, and history: The formal case for Chicana/o literature	Out of the one, many: Republicanism and social unity in American writing of the 1790s

Performing beyond the pale: The Harlem and Irish Renaissances in comparison	Photographic modernism: The pursuit of objectivity

Pragmatism, solidarity, and literature (Richard Rorty, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James)	Remembering bodies: Subject formation in the neo-plantation narrative

Searching for the authentic Red-Black self: Depictions of African-Native subjectivity in literature, visual art, and film	Siding with the other: Collaboration and the emergence of Vietnamese American literature

The aesthetics of failure in Anglo-American modernist literature	The aesthetics of the worst: Remembering and forgetting in French, Yiddish, and architectural Holocaust representations

The anal aesthetic: Regressive narrative strategies in modernism	The erotics of 'White Love'; or queering Philippine-US imperial relations

The world contracted to recognizable images	Transnational lives and texts: Writing and theorizing United States/Central American subjectivities

Unspeakable thoughts, unthinkable acts: Toward a Black feminist libratory politics	Venice and the digressive invention of the modern: Retrospection's futurity (Italy, Henry James, Ezra Pound)

Wonder's collapse: Formations of trans-American sexualities