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

Transnational Women uses recent Western feminist theory to read a selection of novels by four American women writers that have been published since 9/11. The overall socio-historical context within which the book locates these literary texts is the terror and trauma of 9/11 and the effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward non-white Americans whether born in America or overseas.  Bornaki and Salami bring Sally Haslanger’s concept of socially constructed transnational female identities, Carol Gilligan’s “ethics of care," and the political democratic matrix found in Chantal Mouffe’s theory of “agonistic pluralism.” They argue that Carol Gilligan’s ethics of care proposes that women innately care for each other. They seek to investigate whether this understanding of a particular form of feminine subjectivity is able to bridge the gap between what Spivak terms "Third World Women" and "First World Feminism."

In practice, this work is concerned with the relations between white Americans and women in the U.S. who are racially or ethnically “other.”  The novelists in question present their women characters as invoking an ethics of care in the face of the intensified fracturing of American society which is heightening issues of ethnicity and race in the US. This ethics of care attempts to paper over the underlying issues transforming antagonistic relations into agonistic relations while keeping underlying white power intact.
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Authors:
Fatemeh Bornaki, Ph.D.
Literary critic and Assistant Professor and head of the English Department
(Islamic Azad University - Karaj Branch, Iran)
Ali Salami, Ph.D.
​Shakespearean scholar, lexicographer, Assistant Professor (University of Tehran),
​and current research scholar at the Folger Shakespeare Institute in Washington, D.C.

Release date: Spring 2020
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Reliving the Crash
Global Recession Narratives in Film and Television

A new anthology of cutting edge research into the phenomenon of post-Great Recession film and television explores the collective social trauma around the 2008-2009 global financial recession. This collection has an inclusive focus on global perspectives, exploring issues of recession anxiety, capitalism, gender and the workplace, housing insecurity, origins of the financial crisis, and more. This anthology makes an innovative contribution to the study of screen-based narratives, serving as a pedagogical tool for teaching how film and television depict and explore social change.

Editor:
Lauren J. DeCarvalho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies, University of Denver)

​Release date:  April 2020