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New World Studies

New World Studies publishes interdisciplinary research that seeks to redefine the cultural map of the Americas and to propose particularly stimulating points of departure for an emerging field. Encompassing the Caribbean as well as continental North, Central, and South America, the series books examine cultural processes within the hemisphere, taking into account the economic, demographic, and historical phenomena that shape them. Given the increasing diversity and richness of the linguistic and cultural traditions in the Americas, the need for research that privileges neither the English-speaking United States nor Spanish-speaking Latin America has never been greater. The series is designed to bring the best of this new research into an identifiable forum and to channel its results to the rapidly evolving audience for cultural studies.

Series Editor: Marlene Daut
UVA Editor(s): Beth Colón

Titles in this Series

Forces of Creolization

Glissant and a Decolonial Feminist Aperture

Ruthanne Soohee Kim

Forces of Creolization

Glissant and a Decolonial Feminist Aperture

Ruthanne Soohee Kim

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

Volume 2

The Twentieth Century

Earl E. Fitz

African Musicians in the Atlantic World

African Musicians in the Atlantic World

Legacies of Sound and Slavery

Mary Caton Lingold

Difficult Reading

Difficult Reading

Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction

Jason R. Marley

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

Volume 1

From Their Origins through the Nineteenth Century

Earl E. Fitz

Break and Flow

Break and Flow

Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas

Charlie D. Hankin

Looking for Other Worlds

Looking for Other Worlds

Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

The Epic of Cuba Libre

The Epic of Cuba Libre

The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and Liberation

Éric Morales-Franceschini

The Price of Slavery

The Price of Slavery

Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean

Nick Nesbitt

Rum Histories

Rum Histories

Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture

Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt

The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba

The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba

A Critical Edition

James J. O'Kelly. Edited by Jennifer Brittan

Haitian Revolutionary Fictions

Haitian Revolutionary Fictions

An Anthology

Edited and with translations by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner

Fictions of Whiteness

Fictions of Whiteness

Imagining the Planter Caste in the French Caribbean Novel

Maeve McCusker

Fellow Travelers

Fellow Travelers

How Road Stories Shaped the Idea of the Americas

John Ochoa

Imperial Educación

Imperial Educación

Race and Republican Motherhood in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Thomas Genova

The Quebec Connection

The Quebec Connection

A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures

Julie-Françoise Tolliver

Comrade Sister

Comrade Sister

Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution

Laurie R. Lambert

Cultural Entanglements

Cultural Entanglements

Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature

Shane Graham

Water Graves

Water Graves

The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean

Valérie Loichot

The Sacred Act of Reading

The Sacred Act of Reading

Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature

Anne Margaret Castro

Caribbean Jewish Crossings

Caribbean Jewish Crossings

Literary History and Creative Practice

Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel and Heidi Kaufman

Mapping Hispaniola

Mapping Hispaniola

Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature

Megan Jeanette Myers

Mourning El Dorado

Mourning El Dorado

Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics

Charlotte Rogers

Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat

The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary

Nadège T. Clitandre

Idle Talk, Deadly Talk

Idle Talk, Deadly Talk

The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature

Ana Rodríguez Navas

Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line

Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation

Candace Ward

Staging Creolization

Staging Creolization

Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean

Emily Sahakian

A Cultural History of Underdevelopment

A Cultural History of Underdevelopment

Latin America in the U.S. Imagination

John Patrick Leary

American Imperialism's Undead

American Imperialism's Undead

The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism

Raphael Dalleo

The Specter of Races

The Specter of Races

Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars

Anke Birkenmaier

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature

From Alexis to the Digital Age

Jeannine Murray-Román

Tropical Apocalypse

Tropical Apocalypse

Haiti and the Caribbean End Times

Martin Munro

Market Aesthetics

Market Aesthetics

The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction

Elena Machado Sáez

Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition

Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition

The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual

Maurice St. Pierre

The Pan American Imagination

The Pan American Imagination

Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature

Stephen M. Park

Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas

Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas

Edited by Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth

Locating the Destitute

Locating the Destitute

Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction

Stanka Radovic

Bodies and Bones

Bodies and Bones

Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging

Tanya L. Shields

Sounding the Break

Sounding the Break

African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature

Jason Frydman

The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination

The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination

Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints

Philip James Kaisary

The Cross-Dressed Caribbean

The Cross-Dressed Caribbean

Writing, Politics, Sexualities

Edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Bénédicte Ledent, and Roberto del Valle Alcalá

The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives

The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives

Exploring the Self and the Environment

Christina Kullberg

Disturbers of the Peace

Disturbers of the Peace

Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Kelly Baker Josephs

Race, Romance, and Rebellion

Race, Romance, and Rebellion

Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century

Colleen C. O'Brien

Pathologies of Paradise

Pathologies of Paradise

Caribbean Detours

Supriya M. Nair

Neobaroque in the Americas

Neobaroque in the Americas

Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film

Monika Kaup

Family Matters

Family Matters

Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland

Marisel C. Moreno

Vulnerable States

Vulnerable States

Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction

Guillermina De Ferrari

Consuming Visions

Consuming Visions

Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro

Maite Conde

Disaster Writing

Disaster Writing

The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America

Mark D. Anderson

Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere

Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere

From the Plantation to the Postcolonial

Raphael Dalleo

Sex and the Citizen

Sex and the Citizen

Interrogating the Caribbean

edited by Faith Smith

The Purloined Islands

The Purloined Islands

Caribbean-U.S. Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880–1959

Jeff Karem

Cuba and the Fall

Cuba and the Fall

Christian Text and Queer Narrative in the Fiction of José Lezama Lima and Reinaldo Arenas

Eduardo González

Elusive Origins

Elusive Origins

The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination

Paul B. Miller

Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity

Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity

Returning Medusa's Gaze

Maria Cristina Fumagalli

Exhibiting Slavery

Exhibiting Slavery

The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum

Vivian Nun Halloran

Transatlantic Solidarities

Transatlantic Solidarities

Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics

Michael G. Malouf

Universal Emancipation

Universal Emancipation

The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment

Nick Nesbitt

Signs of Dissent

Signs of Dissent

Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism

Dawn Fulton

Tree of Liberty

Tree of Liberty

Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World

Doris L. Garraway, ed.

Border Fictions

Border Fictions

Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Second Arrivals

Second Arrivals

Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas

Sarah Phillips Casteel

Orphan Narratives

Orphan Narratives

The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse

Valérie Loichot

Just Below South

Just Below South

Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South

Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler, and Cécile Accilien, eds.

Writing Rumba

Writing Rumba

The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry

Miguel Arnedo-Gómez

Guarding Cultural Memory

Guarding Cultural Memory

Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts

Flora González Mandri

Caribbean Literature and the Environment

Caribbean Literature and the Environment

Between Nature and Culture

Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Renée K. Gosson, and George B. Handley, eds.

Cannibal Modernities

Cannibal Modernities

Postcoloniality and the Avant-garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature

Luís Madureira

Reclaiming Difference

Reclaiming Difference

Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism

Carine M. Mardorossian

New World Modernisms

New World Modernisms

T.S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite

Charles W. Pollard

Voicing Memory

Voicing Memory

History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature

Nick Nesbitt

Paradise and Plantation

Paradise and Plantation

Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean

Ian Gregory Strachan

Creole Recitations

Creole Recitations

John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean

Faith Smith

Postslavery Literatures in the Americas

Postslavery Literatures in the Americas

Family Portraits in Black and White

George B. Handley

Juanita

Juanita

A Romance of Real Life in Cuba Fifty Years Ago,

Mary Peabody Mann. Edited and with an Introduction by Patricia M. Ard

Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory

Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory

Strategies of Language and Resistance

Celia Britton

Autobiography and National Identity in the Americas

Autobiography and National Identity in the Americas

Steven V. Hunsaker

Caribbean Romances

Caribbean Romances

The Politics of Regional Representation

Belinda Edmondson, ed.

The Other America

The Other America

Caribbean Literature in a New World Context

J. Michael Dash

Monsters,Tricksters, and Sacred Cows

Monsters,Tricksters, and Sacred Cows

Animal Tales and American Identities

A. James Arnold. Afterword by Derek Walcott

French and West Indian

French and West Indian

Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana Today

Richard D. E. Burton and Fred Reno, eds. Foreword by A. James Arnold

Sugar's Secrets

Sugar's Secrets

Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism

Vera M. Kutzinski