Our faculty members are among the leading voices in their fields. Their ground-breaking research and creative works have taken many forms, including novels, works of literary criticism, edited anthologies, public lectures, documentary films, and poems. True to the spirit of interdisciplinary, creative, and politically engaged inquiry that has long been central to York University’s mission, these publications have earned plaudits from audiences around the world. Learn more about some of our recent publications by browsing the book covers below.
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Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje
Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps
After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.
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Agnes Whifield
2019
Ethical questions concerning humans’ relationship to nature have so far gained little attention in Translation Studies, whereas an eco-critical shift ...
Allan Weiss
2019
Telescope is a story cycle about Lawrence Teitel, the protagonist of Living Room (Boheme Press, 2001). The collection deals with seeing distances: above ...
Elicia Clements
2019
Arguing that sound is integral to Virginia Woolf's understanding of literature, Elicia Clements highlights how the sonorous enables Woolf to ...
Marcus Boon
2018
The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where ...
Julia Creet
2017
Genealogy is the largest historical enterprise in the world and one of the largest data mining operations, driven by the ...
Robert Zacharias
2016
For decades, the field of Mennonite literature has been dominated by the question of Mennonite identity. After Identity: Mennonite Writing in ...
Tina Choi
2016
Anonymous Connections asks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation. Specifically, Tina Choi ...
David Goldstein
2016
This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought ...
David Goldstein
2016
Eating and drinking—vital to all human beings—were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted ...
David Goldstein
2016
49th Shelf Most Anticipated Fall 2016 Poetry Preview Selection Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is ...
Agnes Whifield
2015
The way in which theoretical discourses travel from one linguistic and cultural context to another, and the transformations they undergo ...
Marcus Boon
2015
Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar ...
Lesley Higgins
2015
This volume, the latest in Oxford's edition of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, presents Hopkins at his most private ...
Julia Creet
2014
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the ...
B.W. Powe
2014
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious ...
Robert Zacharias
2013
Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has ...