FlashPoints Series

29 primary works • 29 total works
The FlashPoints series is devoted to books that consider literature beyond strictly national and disciplinary frameworks, and that are distinguished both by their historical grounding and by their theoretical and conceptual strength. Our books engage theory without losing touch with history and work historically without falling into uncritical posi…
Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Volume 13)
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3.50 · 4 Ratings · published 2013 · 3 editions
Winner, 2015 LAJSA Best Book in Latin American Jew…

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    Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (Volume 14)
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    3.33     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions
    Mariano Siskind's groundbreaking debut book redefi…

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    Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative (Volume 16)
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    3.57     · 7 Ratings · published 2014 · 1 edition
    For a half century, the American intellectual Fred…

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    Fiction Beyond Secularism (Volume 15)
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2014 · 2 editions
    Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive sec…

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    The Practical Past
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    3.62     · 37 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2014 · 9 editions
    Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical P…

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    The Powers of the False: Reading, Writing, Thinking beyond Truth and Fiction (Volume 18)
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    1.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2014 · 2 editions
    Can literature make it possible to represent histo…

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    The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain, 1868–1968 (Volume 19)
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2014 · 5 editions
    The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study…

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    Epic and Exile: Novels of the German Popular Front, 1933-1945 (Volume 20)
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2015 · 2 editions
    The antifascist exile beginning in 1933 led to a c…

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    An Innocent Abroad: Lectures in China (Volume 21)
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2015 · 9 editions
    Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China…

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    Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 2 editions
    Form and Eastern Europe, Literature, and Post-Impe…

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    Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture (Volume 23)
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    3.78     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2016 · 3 editions
    Anjali Nerlekar's Bombay Modern is a close reading…

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    Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel (Volume 24)
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    Intimate Relations remaps the discussion on gender…

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    Media Laboratories: Late Modernist Authorship in South America (Volume 25)
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 edition
    Winner, LASA Best Book Published in 2017, Southern…

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    Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas (Volume 26)
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · 2 editions
    Acoustic Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhoo…

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    The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory (Volume 27)
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    4.42     · 31 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2017 · 3 editions
    The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, a…

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    Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Volume 28)
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    Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanit…

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    Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism (Volume 29)
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition
    Taking cues from Walter Benjamin’s fragmentary wri…

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    Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European Culture (Volume 30)
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    Globalizing Race explores how intersections betwee…

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    Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens (Volume 31)
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · 3 editions
    Domestications traces a genealogy of American glob…

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    Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings (Volume 32)
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · 3 editions
    As animals recede from our world, what tale is bei…

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    Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 3 editions
    In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyon…

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    Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty
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    Capital Letters sheds new light on how literature …

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    Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 2 editions
    Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Tra…

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    Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone (Volume 36)
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 3 editions
    A century ago, activists confronting racism and co…

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    Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America (Volume 37)
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 2 editions
    Finalist, 2022 ASLE Ecocritical Book Award

    Fictiona…

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    How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present (Volume 38)
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    In How to Read a Moment , Mathias Nilges shows tha…

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    Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation (Volume 39)
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · 2 editions
    This transcultural study of cultural production br…

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    New World Maker: Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes (Volume 40)
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · 2 editions
    In an ambitious reappraisal of Langston Hughes’s w…

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    The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method (Volume 41)
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or lite…

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