FORTHCOMING TITLES
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Transnational Women: Neocolonialism and Feminine Identity in the
​21st-Century American Novel

In their forthcoming book, authors Bornaki and Salami undertake a socio-cultural study of transnational American women as mirrored in female-penned novels during the first decade of the 21st century. The authors explore feminine identity; experiences of cultural, social, moral, and political disaporas; and the behavior of transnational women in a post-9/11 globalized world. They suggest that such traumas as 9/11 are used necolonially to revive the colonial notion of drawing borders around other nations and races. ​

​Feminine identity is constructed in novels by Anne Tyler, Lorrie Moore, Ann Patchett, and Claire Messud in such a way as to represent agonistic tolerance of identities despite consideration of other nations or races as probable threats. The political implications of these post-9/11 American novels are revealed as the construction of identities serve the neocolonial schemes of othering. The authors bring together Sally Haslanger’s concept of socially constructed transnational female identities and Carol Gilligan’s ethics of care as well as the political democratic matrix found in Chantal Mouffe’s theory of agonistic pluralism.  Bornaki and Salami's concept of "neocolonial agonistic feminine identity" provides a framework through which to understand the sociopolitical construction of women's identity and, more broadly, the age of neocolonialism under the guise of democracy.

Release date: Summer 2019
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Reliving the Crash: Recession Narratives in Film and Television

Anthology of cutting edge research into the phenomenon of post-global financial recession cinema and television that explores the collective social trauma around the 2008-2009 global financial recession as well as historical perspectives on cinematic and televisual representations of the Great Depression, other recessions, and socioeconomic inequality, particularly as it intersects with race and gender. 

​Release date: Fall 2019