Southwest Humanities is pleased to announce the imminent publication (in May 2024) of the exciting new collection edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, The Cambridge Companion to the Body in American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2024), for which we recently compiled the index. This latest title in the Cambridge Companions series “tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary representations of Blackness and embodiment. It centers Black thinking about Black embodiment from current, diverse, and intersectional perspectives.” Including contributions from Sherrard-Johnson herself, as well as Sam Plasencia, Julius Fleming, Crystal Donkor, Joshua Bennett, James T. Roane, Anissa Wardi, Yanie Fecu, Rachel Farebrother, Samantha Pinto, Kyle Frisina, Lisa Woolfork, Lisa Mendelman and Octavio Gonzalez, Alexandria Smith, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Anna Hinton, and Julian Glover, this volume “engages past and continuing debates about the nature of embodiment by showcasing how writers from multiple eras and communities defined and challenged the limits of what constitutes a body in relation to human and nonhuman environment.” Please see the publisher’s website here for more information.
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