The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures
Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the futures of Latinx youth are predetermined. While systemic inequities persist, author Cristina Rhodes shows how children's and young adult literature envision futures filled with possibility, resistance, and renewal. In these ......
The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures
Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the futures of Latinx youth are predetermined. While systemic inequities persist, author Cristina Rhodes shows how children's and young adult literature envision futures filled with possibility, resistance, and renewal. In these ......
From the backstreets of Saigon to the sprawl of suburban Texas, Gills gathers stories of longing, estrangement, and quiet transformation. In luminous, sometimes haunting prose, Tuan Phan captures the ways Vietnamese lives ripple outward across oceans and generations, shaped by war, exile, and the stubborn pull of memory. A refugee returns to ......
An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers new directions for serious appraisals of race and racism between yesterday, today, and tomorrow In Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction, Isiah Lavender III takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities ......
Time travel, mysticism, and fairly compaired to The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa and "The Night Face Up" by Julio Cortazar, here is a dramatic story of love, fate, and redemption. Aspiring writer Uriel Romero finds himself mysteriously trapped in the body of Diego, a seventeenth-century Franciscan novice accused of heresy. ......
The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction
Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as "genre bending" ......
The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction
Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as "genre bending" ......
Seven escaped mental patients-including reincarnations of Genghis Khan, Cleopatra, Alexander the Great-trudge across a nameless landscape, pursued by an omnipresent snake and haunted by their past lives' brutal transgressions. Led by a mysterious Emperor who promises deliverance to the Holy Land, these travelers are actually pilgrims of their own ......
When Mister Wilson, the young and terribly inexperienced CEO of GeneConX a start-up DNA ancestry company, learns his technology has identified superhuman traits among four anonymous consumers, he seizes the opportunity to brand America's first superheroes: The Quad. Preparations begin and excitement intensifies -- that is, until Mister and his ......