The first book-length study of the beloved British girls’ comic

Collected interviews with the celebrated author of southern and Appalachian literature, who has written more than thirty volumes of poetry, short fiction, history, biography, and novels

A comprehensive introduction to five Caribbean writers and their confrontation with trauma

A study of the distinctive manner in which comics portray trauma and war

Published at long last, a great film historian’s biography of the director who invented Hollywood

The first exploration of three hundred years of intertwined Native American and African American cultural practices in New Orleans

An artful, insider’s tour of the mightiest mansion in Mississippi

A critical study of the perceptions of two similar but separate genres in young adult literature

The first dual biography of two Hollywood icons

How children have used story and play to navigate problems and delineate ethnic boundaries

A definitive study on how urban places are reflected in comics

A career-spanning collection of interviews with the multimedia phenomenon who has directed groundbreaking films like Diary of a Mad Black Woman that feature mostly African American actors and tell stories about adversity, faith, family, and redemption

How the Man of Steel leapt from panels and storyboards into folklore and myth

The first book-length study of how animal studies and digital culture change what it means to be “us”

A photographic tour of a quintessential staple of the Mississippi blues

A vivid exploration of the key role played by multiracial women in visualizing and performing Cuban identity

The quintessential book about one of the twentieth century’s most iconic albums

An inclusive survey from Frederick Douglass to the voices of Black Lives Matter

A career-spanning volume of essays from the renowned American author, poet, and screenwriter

How complex connections involved in memorializing slavery create events that wed the past to the present