Preview	Issue Date	Title	Author(s)
	2015	Philip K. Dick’s Suburban Jeremiad	Proietti, Salvatore
	2015	Food, Narrative, and Fantasy in David Leavitt’s 'The Body of Jonah Boyd'	Fusco, Serena
	2015	Twilight of the Grrrls: Stephenie Meyer’s Rehash of the Feminine Mystique	Casarini, Alice
	2015	Asian American Transnational Literature and United States American Cold War History	Šesnič, Jelena
	2015	Languages of Freedom in a Coca-Cola Communist Country	Konta, Carla
	2015	The Revolution of Rising Entitlements: Daniel Bell and the Logic of Segregation in the Post-Industrial State	Cento, Michele
	2015	“We may be caught in the trap of a garrison state”:* Harold D. Lasswell, the American Middle Class and the Political Legitimacy of the National Security State	Battistini, Matteo
	2015	The Controversial Concept of Emancipation in the Nation-Building Process: The American Civil War and Italian Unification	Bon, Cristina
	2015	'Schooled by the Inhuman Sea': Maritime Imagination and the Discourses of Emancipation in Herman Melville’s Clarel	Simonetti, Paolo
	2015	Signs Written upon the Water: On Some Representations of the Great Lakes as Inland Seas	Kidder, Richard
	2015	The Real Work: Negotiating the Anthro-Ecocentric Divide	Verdicchio, Pasquale
	2015	'Here, am I, in the midst of this immense forest': Irish Immigrants in the American Wilderness	Nardi, Paola Anna
	2015	Women’s Ways to Nature: Steinbeck’s (Mock) Pastoral Diptych of Gardening (& Childless) Wives in The Long Valley	Loreto, Paola
	2015	Science, Engagement, Estrangement:Remarks on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Californian Ecotopia	Iannuzzi, Giulia
	2015	Dave Dellinger’s Political Legacy to Occupy Wall Street	Scatamacchia, Cristina
	2015	African American Radicals and Revolutionary Cuba from 1959 until the Black Power Years	Benvenuti, Alberto
	2015	The Columbiad: Slavery, Imperialism and the Founding Fathers’ 'State of Fantasy'	Botta, Enrico
	2015	Empathy in the Work of Richard Wright	Giovannucci, Perri
	2015	The 'Land of the Free'? The United States in the Eyes of Italian American Radicals	Luconi, Stefano
	2015	Chronopoetics: Race, Time, and Narrative in Carlos Bulosan’s 'America Is in the Heart'	Wong, Sunn Shelley

Taking inspiration for its title from the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, this book collects essays that examine issues of personal and national liberty, of social, political, and religious expression, and reflect upon the ongoing battle to end discrimination based on race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Retracing the United States’ past, confronting its present, and pondering on its future, Discourse of Emancipation and the Boundaries of Freedom presents a wide array of disciplinary approaches, from such fields as literature, history, linguistics, cultural studies, gender studies, performance studies, political science, law, and psychology. Grouped in sections according to thematic affinity, the essays collected in this volume are representative of many different points of view about, and methodological approaches to, the concepts of emancipation and freedom. They explore the connection between physicality and the quest for freedom; the defense of identity in the face of racial or ethnic discrimination; the legacy of failed attempts to achieve freedom and justice; the great tradition and the current prominence of nature-related writing as a key to the interpretation of the American experience; the problematic aspects of American freedom as an exportable ideology; the ways in which emancipation and freedom figure in popular culture; the many different facets of collective emancipation, personal emancipation, and empowerment.

Leonardo Buonomo received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He teaches American literature at the University of Trieste and is the President of the Italo-American Association of Friuli Venezia Giulia. His main research interests are in nineteenth-century American literature, Italian American literature, and American television series. He is a contributor to the online Literary Encyclopedia and a founding member of the Italian American Studies Network. His most recent book is Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860: Reading the Stranger (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2013) which is scheduled to come out in paperback in September 2015.

Elisabetta Vezzosi teaches United States History and Women’s and Gender History at the University of Trieste, where she also coordinates the Inter-University (Trieste-Udine) Ph.D. program “History of Societies, Institutions and Thought.” She has been president of the Italian Society of Women Historian, vice-president of the Italian Association for North American Studies, and she is currently member of the executive board of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History. Among her most recent publications: “Gender, Generations, Leadership,” Journal of American History, 99.3 (2012) and “The International Strategy of African American Women at the Columbian Exposition and Its Legacy: Pan-Africanism, Decolonization and Human Rights,” Moving Bodies, Displaying Nations: National Cultures, Race and Gender in World Expositions. (Ed. Guido Abbattista, Trieste: EUT, 2014).