2026 Reading Challenge

FlashPoints Series

12 primary works • 12 total works
University of California Press
On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant (FlashPoints)
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3.70 · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 4 editions
On Pain of Speech tracks the literary rant, an exp…

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    Moses and Multiculturalism (FlashPoints)
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    2.50     · 4 Ratings · published 2010 · 6 editions
    Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigm…

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    The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature (FlashPoints)
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2010 · 3 editions
    Combining original historical research with litera…

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    Poetry in Pieces: César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity (FlashPoints)
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2011 · 3 editions
    Set against the cultural and political backdrop of…

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    Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt
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    4.00     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    In a book that radically challenges conventional u…

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    Wings for Our Courage: Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought (FlashPoints)
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2009 · 8 editions
    On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici murdered …

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    The Cultural Return (FlashPoints)
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    3.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2011 · 5 editions
    This insightful book tracks the concept of culture…

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    English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India (FlashPoints)
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    3.87     · 15 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s po…

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    Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers (FlashPoints)
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    1.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2012 · 5 editions
    Polymorphous Domesticities maps out the play of ge…

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    The Cylinder: Kinematics of the Nineteenth Century
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2012 · 4 editions
    The Cylinder investigates the surprising prolifera…

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    Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular (FlashPoints)
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    3.64     · 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks…

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    The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas (FlashPoints)
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · published 2012 · 7 editions
    The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary…

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