By Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji When I first began working on A Proximate Remove, my goal was to write the …
Read More >By Martha Feldman and Nicholas Mathew, editors of Representations’s special issue, “Music and Sound at the Edges of History” Most people use music and sound to understand their worlds without needing professional …
Read More >As National Poetry Month comes to an end and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month begins, UC Press is spotlighting Asian American poetry titles and Chinese American Voices, which includes primary documents and …
Read More >Poetry can be powerful because it succinctly puts a voice to innermost feelings and can provide a dialogue for our experience. People tend to write poetry when in the midst of powerful emotions, using it to process questions, anxieties, grief, anger, and optimism, so this National Poetry Month we’re turning to poetry for uncertain times.
Read More >Excerpted from Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell The main activity of the Harlem Renaissance took place in the years immediately before and after James Baldwin’s …
Read More >We’re extending our free content offers for #MLA2021 through the end of January. Click on the journal covers below for limited-time, free content and be sure to explore any earlier MLA2021 posts …
Read More >Of the many cross-disciplinary and topical strands that have emerged from nearly forty years of Representations in print, one stands out: a kind of research that perhaps originated in the journal’s pages …
Read More >If you want a grasp of why and how the nineteenth-century novel matters now, indulge yourself in four brilliant essays on Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit, brought to you by Nineteenth-Century Literature. Nineteenth-Century …
Read More >by Robert C. Bartlett, author of Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy, New Translations of the Acharnians and the Knights It’s …
Read More >by Sean W. Anthony, author of Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam What can modern historians know about the historical figure of the prophet Muhammad? …
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