Literary Criticism and Theory

Jewish identity, memory, and place deftly revealed through the lens of Jewish women's graphic narratives.

An exploration of the temporal function that "the Jew" plays in literature.

Examines textual representations of the consciousness of men responsible for committing Holocaust crimes.

Exploration of Bambara’s practices of liberation that encourage resistance to oppression and solidarity.

A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.

A critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction to determine its capacity to render the prelude, progress, and aftermath of the Holocaust.

Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure.

Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French and provide a fresh take on heroines and heroes that have become household names in North America.

Analyzes women's activist writings to shed light on contemporary struggles for substantive citizenship in India.