Recent Books
The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967–2023
Vincent Haddad
The Detroit Genre provides the first comprehensive literary and cultural investigation of the representations of Detroit in popular and literary culture and argues that the suburban sitcom, the post-apocalyptic genre, the sci-fi dystopia, crime fiction, the superhero genre, and contemporary horror would not exist in the way they do today without the aesthetic, material, and racial history of Detroit.
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The Hero and the Victim: Narratives of Criminality in Iraq War Fiction
Gregory Brazeal
Two decades after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a canon of American literature about the war has begun to emerge. Gregory Brazeal’s The Hero and the Victim situates Iraq War fiction in war literature’s broader history. Iraq War fiction reflects the troubled emergence of a new narrative in the long history of war fiction: the story of the ordinary soldier as a wrongdoer or even criminal.
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Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic
Stefan Ekman
Urban fantasy, the genre of fantastic literature in which magic and monsters meet modern society, is fairly young but has old roots. Stefan Ekman’s book, Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, examines the genre in depth, including its inherent social commentary, its historical development, and its interplay between modernity and the fantastic.
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Twilight Zone Reflections: An Introduction to the Philosophical Imagination
Saul Traiger
Twilight Zone Reflections is the first book of its kind to explore the entirety of The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) as a series. It acts as both an introduction to the field of philosophy and as a complete guide to the philosophical issues illustrated throughout the original 1959–64 television series.
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