Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu is the author of Mythologies: A Political Economy of U.S. Literature in the Long Nineteenth-Century and The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth. He is currently finishing his book project titled “Simply to Be Americans? Literary Radicalism and Early U.S. Monopoly Capitalism.”

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu

Culture

A new book examines global radicalism in the era of the Mexican Revolution
July 7, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Heatherton’s Arise! provides a groundbreaking analysis of the Mexican Revolution and its profound impact on the emergence of global radicalism.
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Culture

New book studies why Black women turned to the Communist Party in 1930s
June 14, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Historian Melissa Ford’s research explores Black women’s radical activism during the Great Depression.
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Culture

‘Never-Ending Youth’: Urariano Mota’s novel-memoir of resistance to Brazilian fascism
June 2, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Based on real people or composites of real people, Mota’s work offers snapshots of 1970s Brazil’s radical youth movement.
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Culture

‘Novel’ and ‘news’ have the same root: ‘A Time Outside This Time’ reviewed
May 30, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu
This new book centers on a man writing a novel about the truth in the time of Trumpism. It unfolds through a journalistic prose style that conveys more fact than fiction.
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Culture

Sacrifices for capital: The millions who vanish into the abyss of mass incarceration
May 8, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu
New book shows how the disappearance of millions of people deemed obstacles to capital accumulation enables the intensification of exploitation.
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Culture

‘Until Tomorrow, Comrades’: Manuel Tiago asks us to examine ‘the woman question’
April 18, 2023 By Joel Wendland-Liu
This masterpiece of modern Portuguese literature is the final installment in International Publishers' translations of the works of Manuel Tiago.
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Culture

‘Maelstrom Over the Killing Fields’: Dire underdevelopment and the Filipino national idea
August 9, 2022 By Joel Wendland-Liu
It explores another primary focus of San Juan’s work: the literary struggle to develop a national popular Filipino consciousness under the duress of U.S. neocolonialism.
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News

Public school privatization privileges profits over learning
June 23, 2022 By Joel Wendland-Liu And Brandon Chew
Structurally segregated by race and driven by economic inequalities, the U.S. education system is designed to limit the technical and cultural development of the working class.
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