Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
University of Toronto Press Performing Autobiography
Book SynopsisStephenson explores the autobiographical form by analysing seven works by Canadian playwrights written and performed between 1999 and 2009, including Judith Thompson's Perfect Pie, Daniel MacIvor's In On It, and Timothy Findley's Shadows.Trade Review'Performing Autobiography is a fascinating and important contribution to theatre and drama studies...Jenn Stephenson delivers incredibly in-depth analyses and discussions with a lucidity which is only rarely found.' -- Michael Heinze Journal of Contemporary Drama in English vol 2:2:2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgements * Introduction * Narrative Failure and the Loss of an Autobiographical Self: Perfect Pie and The Drawer Boy * Performative Witnessing to Autobiographies of Trauma: Goodness * Setting Free Silenced Autobiographical Voices: Eternal Hydra and Shadows * The Autobiographical Body as a Site of Utopian Performativity: Billy Twinkle * Self-Authoring Characters in Recursive Autothanatography: In On It Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Toronto Press The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Book SynopsisThe L.M. Montgomery Reader traces the author's enduring legacy as a Canadian icon and as a literary celebrity both during and beyond her lifetime.Trade Review"Now that it is complete, The L.M. Montgomery Reader is sure to be the authoritative source on Montgomery's critical and popular reception as a bestselling author. Benjamin Lefebvre has devoted many years to the Reader, and one cannot imagine anyone better suited for the work." -- Janice Fiamengo, Department of English, University of Ottawa "Lefebvre has uncovered a cache of new, important material in an already impressive and crowded field of Montgomery scholarship." -- Laurie Glenn Norris Saint John Telegraph-Journal 'Lefebvre's overall achievement in this Reader series is a masterful compilation of archival adeptness and exquisite editing that addresses, through collation, crucial source materials for specialists in Canadian literature and history.' -- Aoife Assumpta Hart Canadian Literature issue number 226 "Lefebvre has thoroughly mined earlier scholars' bibliographies and online newspaper archives to find reviews in periodicals from eight different countries, including the Bookman (London), the Globe (Toronto) and Vogue (New York)... Collectively, these reviews ... represent a superb barometer of [Montgomery's] fluctuating cultural value as a writer." -- Irene Gammel The Times Literary Supplement 'Lefebvre's archival research is thorough and often brilliant, making the Reader an invaluable trove not only for Montgomery scholars but also for those working with the reception history of Canadian writers.' -- Anne Furlong University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Legacy in Review Benjamin Lefebvre A Note on the Text 1. Anne of Green Gables (1908) 2. Anne of Avonlea (1909) 3. Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910) 4. The Story Girl (1911) 5. Chronicles of Avonlea (1912) 6. The Golden Road (1913) 7. Anne of the Island (1915) 8. The Watchman and Other Poems (1916) 9. Anne's House of Dreams (1917) 10. Rainbow Valley (1919) 11. Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920) 12. Rilla of Ingleside (1921) 13. Emily of New Moon (1923) 14. Emily Climbs (1925) 15. The Blue Castle: A Novel (1926) 16. Emily's Quest (1927) 17. Magic for Marigold (1929) 18. A Tangled Web/Aunt Becky Began It (1931) 19. Pat of Silver Bush (1933) 20. Courageous Women (1934) (with Marian Keith and Mabel Burns Mckinley) 21. Mistress Pat: A Novel of Silver Bush (1935) 22. Anne of Windy Poplars/Anne of Windy Willows (1936) 23. Jane of Lantern Hill (1937) 24. Anne of Ingleside (1939) Epilogue: Posthumous Titles, 1960-2013 Benjamin Lefebvre Sources Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Drama of the Assimilated Jew
Book SynopsisGiorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His personal experience of this period and its aftermath was fundamental to the creation of his masterwork, the Romanzo di Ferrara (Romance of Ferrara).In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani’s personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers. Kroha’s close, intertextual reading of Bassani’s novels and short stories reveals Bassani’s focus on the issue of Jewish masculinity and his profound engagement with the work of Freud, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann, whose ideas he appropriated and re-cast to construct the fictional story of his own personal struggle.Trade Review'The Drama of the Assimilated Jew offers a comprehensive and highly integrated analysis of Bassani's major works, and will be an invaluable tool for scholars of Italian Judaism, modern Jewish Literature in Europe, and the sociology and psychology of Jewish masculinity.' -- Jonathan Druker Italian Culture vol 34:01:2016 'A wide ranging, thought-provoking and intelligent reading of the work of Giorgio Bassani... Kroha's book makes an important contribution to Bassani studies as well as to Jewish studies and gender studies.' -- JoAnn Cannon Journal of Modern Italian Studies vol 20:02:2015 'There is much to praise in this monograph... With her subtle and compelling argument, Kroha has given us more elements to better evaluate the place of Bassani in Italian and European Jewish and non-Jewish literary culture.' -- Emiliano Perra Annali d'Italianistica vol 33:2015 'There is much to praise in this monograph... With her subtle and compelling argument, Kroha has given us more elements to better evaluate the place of Bassani in Italian and European Jewish and non-Jewish literary culture.' -- Emiliano Perra Annali d'Italianistica Vol 33:2015Table of ContentsPreface and Note on Translations Introduction Chapter 1 Jews and Gender Chapter 2 Dentro le mura: Men of Resentment Chapter 3 Gli occhiali d'oro: Jews and Homosexuals Revisited Chapter 4 Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini: A Jewish Family Romance Chapter 5 Dietro la porta: The Body in History Chapter 6 L'airone: A Case of Mistaken Identity Chapter 7 L'odore del fieno: On Becoming What One Is Conclusion Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Italian Women Writers
Book SynopsisPost-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to education and professions for women, particularly in urban areas. Although there was still widespread illiteracy, especially among women in both rural and urban areas, there emerged a generation of women writers whose domestic fiction and journalism addressed a growing female readership. This study looks at the work of three of the most significant women writers of the period: La Marchesa Colombi, Neera, and Matilde Serao. These writers, whose works had been largely forgotten for much of the last century, only to be rediscovered by the Italian feminist movement of the 1970s, were widely read and received considerable critical acclaim in their day. In their realist fiction and journalism, these professional women writers documented and brought to light the ways in which women participated in everyday life in the newly independent Italy, and Trade Review'Mitchell's book remains a valuable addition to the scholarship on Italian women writers for the issues raised and their well-articulated discussion.' -- Ioana Raluca Larco English Studies in Canada vol 41:03:2015 'Mitchell's study is a scholarly work of undoubted value... This volume will not only appeal to scholars of Italian studies but also of women's writing and women's studies in general.' -- Tristana Rorandelli SHARP News August 21, 2016 'In this groundbreaking study, Mitchell analyzes some domestic fiction and some non-fiction pieces - especially journalism and essays - of three middleclass Italian women who were professionally active between 1870 and 1910.' -- C. De Santi Choice Magazine, vol 52:02:2015 Katharine Mitchell offers an invaluable, comprehensive assessment of three pivotal nineteenth-century writers whose works were largely unstudied until the 1970s: La Marchesa Colombi Neera, and Matilde Serao.' -- Monica Streifer Modern Language Review vol 111:04:2016Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction: Culture, gender, and the everyday in the new Italy Chapter One: Italian Domestic Fiction, its Readers, and Writers Chapter Two: Journalism, Essays, Conduct Books Chapter Three: Gendering Private and Public Spheres Chapter Four: Freeing Negative Emotions Chapter Five: Female Friendships, Sibling Relationships, Mother-Daughter Bonds Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Lorca in Tune with Falla
Book SynopsisFederico García Lorca (1889-1936) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century; Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) is Spain’s most performed composer of the same period. The two were very different – Lorca was gay, liberal, and a member of the avant garde, while Falla was a devout Catholic – yet they had a profound mutual influence. The two developed an intimate friendship, which ended when Lorca was shot by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.Lorca in Tune with Falla is the first book to trace Lorca’s impact on Falla’s music, and Falla’s influence on Lorca’s writings. Nelson R. Orringer explores the music underlying Poem of Deep Song, Gypsy Ballads, and Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, bringing out the analogous sounds and ideas that emerge in the active, ongoing connection between the artworks of both creators. The book Trade Review'Orringer's study is essential reading for anyone interested in Falla, Lorca, and the period that brought forth these two icons of twentieth-century Spanish culture.' -- Samuel Llano Modern Language Review vol 112:01:2017 'This book would undoubtedly be of interest to musicians, writers and historians alike...Orringer offers a unique approach to the understanding of the creative processes of these two Spanish artists.' -- Beatriz Pom s Jim nez Context vol 39:2014 'Only a scholar specially equipped with the necessary analytical tools in both literature and music could write such a book as this, fortunately for us, Orringer is such a writer.' -- Walter Aaron Clark Hispanic Review vol 84:02:2016 'This meticulously researched endeavor transcends its temporal and topographic confines. A fascinating book. Highly recommended.' -- F. Colecchia Choice Magazine vol 52:01:2014 'Orringer's clearly organized and well written study is a fascinating and in-depth look at Lorca's and Falla's work alongside one another... This book is highly recommended for students and scholars of Lorca and Falla alike, as well as those interested in European cultural production of the twentieth-century.' -- David F. Richter University of Toronto Quarterly vol 85:03:2016 'Lorca in Tune with Falla is the deepest and most complete study that has been published to-date on the personal and artistic relations between both Andalusian, universal creative authors... Those of us interested in Spanish music and poetry should feel very content and grateful.' -- Gerardo Pina-Rosales Hispania vol 98:02:2015 'This rewarding book will surely lead to further study of Lorca, Falla, and the fruitful relationship between Spanish music and poetry.' -- Christopher Maurer Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos vol 38:02:2014 'Orringer's extraordinary book should be greeted as celestial music... To say something new about Lorca is a risky and titanic enterprise for the stature of the post and the mastery of the bibliography that it supposes. Nelson N. Orringer has accepted the challenge, has taken on the effort and has culminated the undertaking with brilliance.' -- Javier San Jos Lera RILCE vol 32:01:2016Table of ContentsIllustrations and Musical Examples Preface Acknowledgements Musical Glossary Introduction: The Intersection of Two Artist's Lives Ch. 1. Music in Lorca's Letters before Meeting Falla Ch. 2. Falla's Fantasy Baetica [Andalusian Fantasy] and Lorca's "Baladilla de los tres rios" [Little Ballad of the Three Rivers]: Two Searches for Andalusian Wellsprings Ch. 3. "Poema de la siguiriya gitana" [Poem of the Gypsy Siguiriya]: Return to the Sources of Deep Song Ch. 4. "Poema de la solea" [Poem of the Solea]: Consciousness-Raising of Pain Ch. 5. "Poema de la saeta" [Poem of the Saeta]: The Oblation of Pain in Seville Ch. 6. "Grafico de la Petenera" [Graph of the Petenera] and Falla's Guitar Elegy to Debussy Ch. 7. Openness to Death in Flamenco Artists and in Southern Cities Ch. 8. "Seis caprichos" [Six Caprices] or Virtuosity and Art at a Distance Ch. 9. Falla on Deep Song and Lorca's Romancero gitano [Gypsy Ballads] Ch. 10. Andalusia's Cultural Spirit in Two Trios of Romancero gitano Ch. 11. Lorca's Artistic Tributes to Falla Postlude and Coda Works Consulted Index
£59.50
University of Toronto Press Power and Legitimacy
Book SynopsisExamining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family within the modern Gothic novel, Anne Quéma shows how the forms and effects of political power transform as one shifts from discourse to discourse.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Symbolic Power and Legitimacy 2. Social Poiesis and Symbolic Power 3. Law's Symbolic Power to Legitimize 4. Symbolic Violence and Illegitimacy: The Political Uncanny 5. The Symbolic Power and Violence of Legal Utterances 6. The Legitimacy of the Family: Family Law and Gothic Fiction 7. The Political Uncanny of the Family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and The Civil Partnership Act 2004 8. Legitimizing the Subject of Domestic Violence: Lesley Glaister's Honour Thy Father and Laws of the Household 9. Resistance and Legitimacy 10. Making the Law
£48.45
University of Toronto Press Fictions of Youth
Book SynopsisFictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli’s book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and imagined, shaped Pasolini’s poetics and critical positions and shows how Pasolini’s works became the basis for representations of contemporary young people, particularly Italians. From Pasolini’s own coming of age under Fascism in the 1940s to the consumer capitalism of the 1970s, youth stood for innocence, vitality, and rebellion. Pasolini’s representations of youth reflected and shaped those ideas.Offering a systematic treatment of youth and adolescence within Pasolini’s eclectic body of work, Fictions of Youth provides both a broad overview of the changing nature of youth within Italian modernity and an in-depth study of Pasolini’s significant contribution to thatTrade Review‘Bondavalli is to be congratulated for providing such a comprehensive, meticulously researched, and incisive contextual analysis of the treatment and significance of the category of youth in Pasolini’s oeuvre.’ -- Fabio Vighi * Modern Language Review vol 112:03:2017 *
£54.00
University of Toronto Press Reading Vaclav Havel
Book SynopsisIn Reading Václav Havel, David S. Danaher approaches Havel's remarkable body of work holistically, focusing on the language, images, and ideas which appear and reappear in the many genres in which Havel wrote.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Approaches to Reading Havel 1. The "Restlessness of Transcendence": Havel's Genres 2. Explaining and Understanding: The "Weirdness" of Havel's Plays 3. Understanding East and West: The World in Existential Crisis 4. "Metaphysical Reconstruction": Translating Havel's Key Words Conclusion: Havel's Legacy as Appeal
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University of Toronto Press E.J. Pratt Letters
Book SynopsisThis edition of E.J. Pratt's letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. The letters take us into his workshop, illuminating the research behind his distinctive documentary long poems and the social nature of his creative production.Trade Review"Elizabeth Popham and David G. Pitt provide an invaluable resource to scholars of Canadian modernist poetry with E.J. Pratt: Letters, the last instalment of the Collected Works series… the collection that the editors present is vast – and wholly indispensable for scholars in the field and those with an interest in Pratt’s poetry … Popham and Pitt’s detailed effort is undeniable, serving any interest reader beyond expectation … This resource is one for the shelves of any researcher in the field, and will no doubt be cited regularly. " -- David Johnstone * Canadian Literature Reviews, 234 Autumn 2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Editorial procedures Acknowledgments Biographical chronology Letters I Peregrinations: 1903-25 II A Taste of National Acclaim: 1925-32 III Prospect and Promotion: 1932-39 IV Historical Fact and Epic Construction: 1939-44 V Steering between Extremes: 1944-48 VI Knockings at the Door: 1948-53 VII Accepting the Years: 1953-55 VIII As Good as Any Old Horse My Age: 1955-64 Appendix : Some Letters by Viola Pratt Abbreviations Textual notes Index
£93.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma. Trade Review"Offers strong and accessible scholarship on major playwrights and aspects of theatrical history and historiography, and usefully reflects on its own practices and agendas, and will be extremely useful to students and theatre scholars." Cercles "A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 1880-2005 is a much needed intervention in the field, with its substantial coverage of Irish drama and significant essays on the work of women playwrights, as well as solid coverage of the usual suspects. It is profitably innovative in terms of both structure and content. Many volumes with such a coverage remit fail to ever go much beyond the standard canonical playwrights and texts...a ‘must buy’ for all University libraries...this is a volume which will have currency for years to come." New Theatre Quarterly "Luckhurst argues for a reassessment of 'Englishness,' and, accordingly, this companion emphasizes postcolonial and feminist agendas and questions the dominance of urban locales and certain theatrical institutions...combined, the essays provide a necessary reassessment of British and Irish drama." Choice “There is so much valuable material in the book that it is sure to be frequently read and consulted.” Donald Hawes, Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements xi List of Illustrations xii Notes on Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Mary Luckhurst Part I Contexts 5 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre 7 Victor Merriman 2 Reinventing England 22 Declan Kiberd 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siecle 35 Katherine Newey 4 New Woman Drama 48 Sally Ledger Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900–1939 61 5 Shaw among the Artists 63 Jan McDonald 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists 75 Cary M. Mazer 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre 87 Mary Trotter 8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment 99 Susan Carlson 9 Unlocking Synge Today 110 Christopher Murray 10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks 125 Jean Chothia 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties 138 Robin Grove Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939–1990 151 12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy 153 Mary Brewer 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland 164 Stephen Lacey 14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s 175 Susan Bennett 15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura 188 D. Keith Peacock 16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock 198 Gabriele Griffin Part IV Comedy 211 17 Wilde's Comedies 213 Richard Allen Cave 18 Always Acting: Noel Coward and the Performing Self 225 Frances Gray 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy 237 Katharine Worth 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan 247 John Brannigan 21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity 258 David Higgins 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy 269 Alexander Leggatt 23 'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy 279 Paul Delaney 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors 289 Anthony Roche Part V War and Terror 299 25 AWounded Stage: Drama and World War I 301 Mary Luckhurst 26 Staging 'the Holocaust' in England 316 John Lennard 27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama 329 Helen Lojek 28 On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience 341 Dawn Fowler and John Lennard 29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter 358 Mary Luckhurst 30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma 371 Steve Waters Part VI Theatre since 1968 383 31 Theatre since 1968 385 David Pattie 32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front 398 John Deeney 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths 409 Michael Patterson 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre 419 Maria DiCenzo 35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way 429 John Deeney 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political Theatre 441 John Bull 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern 454 Jan McDonald 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland 466 Shaun Richards 39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global 476 Elin Diamond 40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe 488 Chris Megson 41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel 499 Lionel Pilkington 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape 509 Cathy Leeney 43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison's Stagings of the Past 519 Richard Rowland 44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams 530 D. Keith Peacock 45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language 541 David Ian Rabey 46 Theatre and Technology 551 Andy Lavender Index 563
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987 2007
Book SynopsisReading the Contemporary Irish Novel 19872007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of Ireland's most eminent writers. This is the first text-focused critical survey of the Irish novel from 1987 to 2007, providing detailed readings of 11 seminal Irish novels A timely and much needed text in a largely uncharted critical field Provides detailed interpretations of individual novels by some of the country's most critically celebrated writers, including Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Patrick McCabe, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien and Colm Tóibín Investigates the ways in which Irish novels have sought to deal with and reflect a changing Ireland The fruit of many years reading, teaching and research on the subject by a leading and highly respected academic in Trade Review“In addition to developing intellectually bold arguments, Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel is also enjoyable to read – an enviable achievement for any academic book. There is an ease to Harte’s style and a lightness of touch in the way he deals with an expansive range of socio-historical contexts that makes this book deserving of a broad readership beyond the walls of the university.” (Irish Studies Review, 18 March 2015) “It offers an excellent primer in each chapter that I can easily imagine being of great use not only to students of literature, but also to those of us engaged in the work of teaching and studying such works.” (New Madrid, 1 October 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction: Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987–2007 1 1 In the FamilyWay: Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy (1987–1991) 23 2 House Arrest: John McGahern’s Amongst Women (1990) 51 3 Malignant Shame: Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992) 75 4 Uncertain Terms, Unstable Sands: Colm T´ oib´ýn’s The Heather Blazing (1992) 105 5 Unbearable Proximities:William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey (1994) 127 6 History’s Hostages: Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation (1994) 151 7 Shadows in the Air: Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark (1996) 173 8 The Politics of Pity: Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way (2005) 197 9 Mourning Remains Unresolved: Anne Enright’s The Gathering (2007) 217 Bibliography 243 Index 259
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U.N.C. Department of Romance Studies Desde Un Camino Olvidado Des Todos
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£999.99
University of Texas Press Public Pages
Book SynopsisThe first broad survey of contemporary print culture in Latin America, this study demonstrates how public reading programs invite civic participation and promote social integration as the region becomes increasingly democratic.Trade ReviewRich in details and examples, exhaustively researched and engagingly narrated, Public Pages is an example of cultural studies at its most rewarding….This is clearly the work of a mature scholar who has dedicated years of research to a project that is driven by both intellectual, professional and personal concerns. Schwartz’ book succeeds in making visible a transnational push toward the valuing of literature as a key to civic participation and social change. It reveals the big picture of literature in Latin America today in its most tangible—and necessary—form. * Latin American Literary Review *This study will be of great interest to scholars of contemporary reading, education, and cultural production in Latin America, as well as to anyone with a stake in the question of how local organizing and the printed book might continue to serve as a focal point for imagination and politics in an increasingly digital world. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *[Public Pages] is surely [Schwartz's] magnum opus...Combining a celebratory tone with a cautious, critical edge, Schwartz’s book is a stellar contribution to research on print culture, urban studies and literary and cultural studies in Latin American and transnational contexts. As befits a book that champions public reading, Public Pages is clearly written and highly engaging, making it accessible for researchers and the general public alike. * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *[Public Pages] makes a strong case for cultural production in general, and particularly literary reading, to be an essential element in the binding of the diverse communities that inhabit today’s urban centres. * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Schwartz offers us a book-length example of approaches to the public humanities and demonstrates ways to put them into practice, as well as to analyze what the outcomes of these interventions might be...Schwartz does not speculate about possible roles for the humanities, but documents a series of hands-on projects in which literature is key to creating community. * Chasqui *[Schwartz's] study models a patient form of reading that points to important avenues of inquiry within the study of contemporary Latin American literary culture...In both analytic detail and methodological rigor, Public Pages is an inspiring contribution to contemporary literary studies. * Revista de Esudios Hispánicos *The chapters [in Public Pages] on the cartoneras and the commemorative activities organised in the libraries of banned books in Argentina are inspiring. However, they are most of all convincing examples on how activities related to literature in the public space can contribute to community organising and the creation of political awareness about a specific topic like recycling or human rights. * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: City Reading: Public Space and Cultural Citizenship in Latin America 1. Campaigning for the Capital: Bogotá and Buenos Aires as UNESCO World Book Capitals 2. Reading on Wheels: Stories of Convivencia in Bogotá and Santiago 3. Cacerolazos y bibliotecas: Solidarity, Reading, and Public Space after the Argentine Economic Crisis (2001–2002) 4. Recycled Reading and the Cartonera Collectives: Publishing from the Ground Up 5. Books That Bite: Libraries of Banned Books in Argentina Conclusion: Stories at the Intersection Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Texas Press The Vanishing Frame
Book Synopsis In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—especially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader by eliminating the division between art and life. The Vanishing Frame argues against this conception of freedom, demonstrating how it is based on a politics of human rights complicit with economic injustices. Presenting a provocative counternarrative, Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano examines literary, visual, and interdisciplinary artists who insist on the autonomy of the work of art in order to think beyond the politics of human rights and neoliberalism in Latin American theory and culture. Di Stefano demonstrates that while artists such as Diamela Eltit, Ariel Dorfman, and Albertina Carri develop a concept of justice premised on recognizing victims’ experiencesTrade Review[The Vanishing Frame's] main novelty lies in the fact that the theoretical argumentation is founded on an anticapitalistic perspective in contradiction with what the author labels as the human rights Left…I recommend in the strongest possible terms that this essay be included as required reading for any graduate course on Latin American History or Literature dealing with the topics of human rights, dictatorships, and artistic/literary representations. * Hispania *One of the most important merits of...The Vanishing Frame [is] its force to make visible an old discussion between ethics and aesthetics, between representation of catastrophe and horizons of justice. * Revista de Esudios Hispánicos * An ambitious work that weaves together a wide array of disciplinary discourses and approaches...valuable for its ambition to perform interdisciplinary criticism in literary studies, art history, political theory, and cultural criticism...I would suggest this book to scholars who are interested in the interaction of affect, aesthetics, and politics in Latin American dictatorial and postdictatorial literature and visual art since the late 1970s. On the other hand, the book speaks not only to scholars of Latin American culture and literature but also to students and scholars interested in the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and theory more broadly. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *There is no doubt in my mind that The Vanishing Frame is one of the most important theoretical works of criticism to be published in the field of Latin American literature in the last few years. Not only because it is successful in its critique of the connection between human rights politics and the emergence of a neoliberal period in South America, but also because, in the process, it gives us a reading of the evolution of Latin Americanism since the end of the last century. * Nonsite *An ambitious entry into debates on postdictatorial literature and neoliberal aesthetics...The Vanishing Frame’s thought-provoking approach to thinking through identity politics and human rights discourse will no doubt initiate rigorous and much-needed debate about the future of the Left in literary and cultural studies. This book will be of interest to scholars of Latin American literary studies, human rights, trauma and memory studies, neoliberalism and aesthetics, and affect theory. * Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Freedom at the End of the Postdictatorial Era Part 1. Postdictatorial Aesthetics Chapter 1. From Revolution to Human Rights Chapter 2. Disability and Redemocratization Chapter 3. Making Neoliberal History Part 2. Toward a Politics of the Frame Chapter 4. The Reappearance of the Frame Chapter 5. Anti-intentionalism and the Neoliberal Left Chapter 6. Literary Form Now Coda: The Victim, the Frame Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Texas Press The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
Book SynopsisWhen Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams’s quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring audience in America and especially in Europe. The New York Times called Stoner “a perfect novel,” and a host of writers and critics, including Colum McCann, Julian Barnes, Bret Easton Ellis, Ian McEwan, Emma Straub, Ruth Rendell, C. P. Snow, and Irving Howe, praised its artistry. The New Yorker deemed it “a masterly portrait of a truly virtuous and dedicated man.”The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel traces the life of Stoner’s author, John Williams. Acclaimed biographer Charles J. Shields follows the whole arc of Williams’s life, which in many ways paralleled that of his titular character, from their Trade Review[An] engrossing short biography. * The New Yorker *An excellent biography. * Wall Street Journal *Shields…hoovers up the available evidence and shapes it into an episodic narrative without giving much sense of what he makes of his subject…Shields's book is a handy corrective for anyone who's nostalgic for the days when American writers and publishers routinely ran up large bar tabs. * London Review of Books *A fine biography of Williams by Charles J. Shields, published by University of Texas Press * Texas Monthly *This rich biography gives new insight into the enigmatic man behind Stoner, a novel quickly forgotten after its 1963 publication but more recently recognized as a midcentury American classic. * Publishers Weekly, “The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018” *The Williams that emerges is not unlike Stoner himself: self-obsessed, given to petty feuds, and insecure about his abilities...It is to Shields’s credit that by the end of this finely crafted biography readers will feel they have some insight into this talented, troubled enigma of a man. * Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review *Despite obvious parallels with his fictional university protagonist, John Williams is both different and interesting enough to merit a book of his own, Charles J. Shields's The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. It certainly helps that, like Williams, Shields know how to tell a good story, one that will appeal especially to those interested in the ins and outs of the publishing industry and the ups and downs of a writer's life. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Charles Shields has done us all a service by pointing up and pointing out the novelist's unyielding ambition and rigor. * New York Journal of Books *[An] exemplary biography, the first devoted to the life of one of America's most unusual writers. * Financial Times *[A] sharp-eyed biography. * Booklist *Through exhaustive research and sharp prose, Shields has composed a portrait of the complicated author and the particular darknesses that drove Williams to write, to overcompensate, to philander, to mansplain. * The Millions *Brief but compelling...The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel is a welcome reminder that even in the rarefied world of literature, good sometimes prevails. * Waterbury Republican-American *Shields' writing is captivating and reveals much about the wounded psyches of the GI Bill generation of American (male) authors. * Shepherd Express *Shields describes Williams's development and motivations and explains persuasively why a writer hungry for fame didn't go in for the postmodernist experiments of his time. * New Criterion *Shields accomplishes an admirable feat of objectivity in a biography published during our riven age of identity and tribal politics. * American Book Review *[John Williams's Stoner] has in recent decades become the sort of book that people adore, give to their friends, fiercely identify with, and dub 'the perfect novel.' And full credit to Charles Shields for going behind the scenes to fill in the picture of Williams's own—somewhat similarly miserable—life…Stoner's rediscovery reflects well on the artisanship of John Williams, a novelist whose accomplishments and foibles Charles Shields has brought ably into view. * Western American Literature *Charles Shields's biography of John Williams invites us to enrich our understanding of Stoner—and Williams's other writings as well—in The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. Through his accessible style, his scrupulous attention to detail, and his use of source material and interviews, Shields provides us with a balanced study of a writer whose work has the power to transform the unremarkable into the astonishing. * Journal of American Culture *Charles J. Shields' subtitle accurately captures the scope, purpose, and content of the book. It's a biography of John Williams. It's a description of how Williams's major work came to be, and it's a reflection on the writing life, as lived by John Williams. I found Shields to be fair in his approach to all three. * Concho River Review *Table of Contents Introduction Part I. Nothing But the Night Chapter One: He Comes from Texas Chapter Two: “Ho, Ho! Wasn’t I the Character Then?” Chapter Three: Rough Draft Chapter Four: Key West Chapter Five: Alan Swallow Chapter Six: Love Part II. Butcher’s Crossing Chapter Seven: The Winters Circle Chapter Eight: “Natural Liars Are the Best Writers” Chapter Nine: Butcher’s Crossing Chapter Ten: Fiasco Part III. Stoner Chapter Eleven: “It Was That Kind of World” Chapter Twelve: “The Williams Affair” Chapter Thirteen: Stoner Part IV. Augustus Chapter Fourteen: Bread Loaf and “Up on the Hill” Chapter Fifteen: The Good Guys Chapter Sixteen: “Long Life to the Emperor!” Part V. The Sleep of Reason Poem: “An Old Actor to His Audience” Chapter Seventeen: “How Can Such a Son of a Bitch Have Such Talent?” Chapter Eighteen: In Extremis Epilogue. John Williams Redux Acknowledgments Notes Works Consulted A John Williams Bibliography Index
£22.79
University of Texas Press Violence and Naming
Book SynopsisReclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array of literary artifacts, from works by journalists such as Elena Poniatowska and Sergio González Rodríguez to the Zapatista communiqués to Roberto Bolaño''s The Savage Detectives and 2666, this examination demonstrates that Mexican culture takes place as a struggle over naming—with severe implications for the rights and lives of women and indigenous persons.Through rereadings of the Conquest of Mexico, the northern Mexican feminicide, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the disappearance of the forty-three students at Iguala in 2014, and the 1999 abortion-rights scandal centering on “Paulina,” which revealed theTrade ReviewAmbitious, complex, and subtly argued…The commentary is rich, broad reaching, and significant. * CHOICE *Violence and Naming offers multiple paths to account for and rethink the intersections of literature, philosophy, and politics…The book is an insightful and provocative cluster of explorations and analyses that summons readers to evaluate, participate, and produce their own critical perspectives. * MLN *[Violence and Naming is] a truly valuable monograph. Johnson's application of fiction as an active philosophy is impressive and illuminating. The book's bringing into dialogue of lives shattered by violence with longstanding cultural narratives and contemporary, global socio-politics is daring and necessary. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Violence and Naming offers a panoramic account of language and violence in Mexico...Violence and Naming is remarkable for its theoretical depth and clarity of exposition. It is a challenging read, but will prove highly rewarding to readers who are familiar with Mexican culture, with Derrida and deconstruction, or with both. * Chasqui *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Accounting for the Name Chapter 1. Dar(se) cuenta: The Logic of the Secret Chapter 2. Murder and Symbol: Feminicide’s Remains Chapter 3. As If . . . Literature before the World Chapter 4. Killing Time: Jet Lag, or the Anachronism of Life Chapter 5. Suspending Sur/render: Accounting for the Other Postscript: Fear of Democracy Notes References Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Latin American Comics in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisHow twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers. Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of twenty-first-century Latin American comics, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century documents how these works move beyond national boundaries and explores new aspects of the form, its subjects, and its creators. Latin American comics production is arguably more interconnected and more networked across national borders than ever before. Analyzing works from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, James Scorer organizes his study around forms of “transgression,” such as transnationalism, border crossings, transfeminisms, punk bodies, and encounters in the neoliberal city. Scorer examines the feminist c
£31.50
MU - University of Texas Press Invisibility and Influence
Book SynopsisA rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.Invisibility and Influence demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in the United States shaped life writing, including memoir, collective autobiography, and other formats, through depictions of a wide range of “Afro-Latinidades.” Using a woman-of-color feminist approach, Regina Marie Mills examines the work of writers and creators often excluded from Latinx literary criticism. She explores the tensions writers experienced in being viewed by others as only either Latinx or Black, rather than as part of their own distinctive communities. Beginning with Arturo (Arthur) Schomburg, who contributed to wider conversations about autobiographical technique, Invisibility and Influenceexamines a breadth of writers, including Jesús Colón; members of the Young Lo
£25.19
Duke University Press Queers Read This LGBTQ Literature Now
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£13.29
Duke University Press Marxism Colonialism and Cricket
Book SynopsisMore than fifty years after the publication of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate its production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and Caribbean and English identity.Trade Review"Impressively, the authors are respectful of James’ pivotal contribution to the Marxist analysis of sport but also explore aspects of his thought that fall short of a fully comprehensive materialist approach." -- Sean Ledwith * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket will likely be most appealing to specialists in British Caribbean cultural studies, and will also contribute to scholarly explorations of sport. Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals." -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"A fine and comprehensive attempt to reflect on the work of James . . . Represents the fluency of much of James’s writing and oratory as a charismatic speaker and public intellectual who sought to place himself at the forefront of public discussion. . . . Many will glean much pleasure and stimulation from a study of this text." -- Russell Holden * Nordic Sports Forum *"The most outstanding sports book of 2019, to date. . . . What the editors David Featherstone, Chistopher Gair, Christian Høgsberg and Andrew Smith have achieved is truly special mixing James’ personal and political lifestory, the context of cricket in the West Indies, the past, present and future of cricket writing. Superb, just the read whilst that old imperial encounter, The Ashes, seeks to nudge the Premier League’s off season from the back pages this sporting summer." -- Mark Perryman * Philosophy Football *“The collection takes us well beyond the boundaries of sport, of history, of politics, and of the auto/biographical self. . . . The collection is a vital contribution to and extension of our studies of, readings of, and deployment of [C.L.R.] James in sport and beyond. It is essential in grasping the limits and potentials of what remains a key text in the historical, cultural, and sociological analyses of sport.” -- Malcolm MacLean * Journal of Sport History *“Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket is a major literary and intellectual accomplishment. It is a must read, and a timely reminder that the problem of the twentieth century has returned with a vengeance as the problem of the twenty-first century.” -- Leslie R. James * CLR James Journal *“I enjoyed this book immensely. I have indulged in reading it cover to cover; revisiting certain chapters and ideas, seeking clarity as my mind became cloudy. … Putting Beyond a Boundary at the core, this book epitomises the interdisciplinary application of James to fields as diverse as sport, sociology, cultural studies, history, literature and the arts.” -- Thomas Fletcher * Cultural Sociology *"This fine collection of essays and reflections makes a significant contribution to the existing literature on Beyond a Boundary and C.L.R. James more generally." -- Neil Lazarus * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsForeword. Opening Up / David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith vii Introduction. Beyond a Boundary at Fifty / David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith 1 Part I: Cricket, Empire, and the Caribbean 1. C. L. R. James: Plumbing His Caribbean Roots / Selwyn R. Cudjoe 35 2. C. L. R. James's "British Civilization"? Exploring the "Dark Unfathomed Caves" of Beyond a Boundary / Christian Høgsbjerg 51 3. The Boundaries of Publication: The Making of Beyond a Boundary / Roy McCree 72 4. "West Indian Through and Through, and Very British": C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary, Coloniality, and Theorizing Caribbean Independence / Minkah Makalani 88 5. Looking Beyond the Boundary, or Bondmen without the Bat: Modernism and Culture in the Worldview of C. L. R. James / David Austin 103 Part II. The Politics of Representation in Beyond a Boundary 6. "Periodically I Pondered over It": Reading he Absence/Presence of Women in Beyond a Boundary / Anima Adjepong 123 7. C. L. R. James, W. G. Grace, and the Representative Claim / Neil Washbourne 137 8. Shannonism: Learie Constantine and the Origins of C. L. R. James's Worrell Captaincy Campaign of 1959–60: A Preliminary Assessment / Clem Seecharan 153 Part III: Art, History, and Culture in C. L. R. James 9. C. L. R. James and the Arts of Beyond a Boundary: Literary Lessons, Cricketing Aesthetics, and World-Historical Heroes / Claire Westall 173 10. The Very Stuff of Human Life: C. L. R. James on Cricket, History, and Human Nature / Andrew Smith 191 11. C. L. R. James: Beyond the Boundaries of Culture / Paget Henry 204 Part IV: Reflections 12. Socrates and C. L. R. James / Michael Brearley 223 13. My Journey to James: Cricket, Caribbean Identity, and Cricket Writing / Hilary McD. Beckles 240 14. Confronting Imperial Boundaries / Selma James 254 Appendix. What Do They Know of England? / C. L. R. James 263 References 276 Contributors 283 Index 287
£80.10
Duke University Press The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
Book SynopsisIn The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive body, biocapitalism is dependent upon what Weinbaum calls the slave episteme—the racial logic that drove four centuries of slave breeding in the Americas and Caribbean. Weinbaum outlines how the slave episteme shapes the practice of reproduction today, especially through use of biotechnology and surrogacy. Engaging with a broad set of texts, from Toni Morrison''s Beloved and Octavia Butler''s dystopian speculative fictionto black Marxism, histories of slavery, and legal cases involving surrogacy, Weinbaum shows how black feminist contributions from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s constitute a powerful philosophy of history—one that provides the means throughTrade Review"Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars—particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen—who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.… Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination." -- Jennifer C. Nash * Modern Language Quarterly *"Ultimately, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery does not disappoint. It does the job of demonstrating the complex connections between the gendered and racialised reproductive exploitation and extraction during the historical Atlantic slave trade period and today exceedingly well." -- Gina Marie Longo * Feminist Encounters *"The book offers much-needed critical perspectives on the racializing processes at the center of reproductive labor and commodification. . . . Ulitmately, Weinbaum's analysis shows the importance of thinking historically and offers insights into the ways in which gendered, racialized, and sexualized forms of oppression that have roots in slavery continue to motivate biocapitalism today." -- Daisy Deomampo * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme 1 1. The Surrogacy/Slavery Nexus 29 2. Black Feminism as a Philosophy of History 61 3. Violent Insurgency, or "Power to the Ice Pick" 88 4. The Problem of Reproductive Freedom in Neoliberalism 111 5. A Slave Narrative for Postracial Times 147 Epilogue. The End of Men and the Black Womb of the World 177 Notes 187 Bibliography 243 Index 275
£25.19
Duke University Press The News at the Ends of the Earth
Book SynopsisHester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century polar explorers, showing how ship newspapers and other writing shows how explores wrestled with questions of time, space, and community while providing them with habits to survive the extreme polar climate.Trade Review"The News at the Ends of the Earth is a fine-grained register of the ebb and flow of a printophilic century, from Ross to Shackleton. While mindful of the minor variations over the decades, Blum marvelously conveys that fantastic, phantasmatically preserved shipbound conversation, a dilated and heterogeneous house party." -- John Plotz * Public Books *"An intricately layered, richly illustrated examination of shipboard newspapers (printed and handwritten), playbills, and other media produced by expeditions to the Antarctic and Arctic regions between 1818 and 1914. . . . The book speaks to the human imperative to communicate, even under extremely hostile conditions. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- J. Bekken * Choice *"Superb. . . . As the Anthropocene continues to develop, Blum’s concern with the media and narratives we might use to represent the planet’s predicament is of interest not only to scholars of printing and the polar regions, but also to a general reader." -- Nancy Campbell * TLS *"Blum’s book is a lively and enjoyable account of a fascinating historical period and its practices—but it is also vitally relevant for our current moment." -- Carie Lyn Schneider * Edge Effects *"[Blum] offers a fascinating history of onboard polar publication and provides a detailed analysis of the various textual materials produced during voyages of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. It also strives to unpick the intriguing motivations that lay behind their production. ... An invaluable contribution to several branches of scholarship, and readers interested in polar exploration, literary studies, and histories of printing culture will gain much from reading this interesting and insightful book." -- Peter R. Martin * Nineteenth Century Studies *"The News at the Ends of the Earth makes a significant contribution to the growing push to incorporate the polar regions into world histories. It would be of immense value to historians with an interest in oceanic spaces, the polar regions, histories of printed media, or histories of ephemera, and would be a useful starting point for scholars looking to think about how the Arctic and Antarctic fit into the scope of world history." -- Rohan Howitt * Journal of World History *"The News at the Ends of the Earth is exciting, both for what it definitively argues and for the questions it incites." -- Devin M. Garofalo * Journal of American Studies *"The News at the Ends of the Earth offers a fascinating, finely textured portrait of life aboard ship in the most extreme environments of the world." -- Michael Robinson * Journal of American History *“The News at the Ends of the Earth succeeds in its assertion that the practices of historical polar expeditions are important in comprehending the current climate crisis. The reader is left with an overwhelming sense of how crucial the enterprise of creating these collective outlets of communication was, and still is, in understanding one’s place in the environment and the necessity of self-expression in climatic extremes.” -- Eavan O’Dochartaigh * Journal for Maritime Research *“Hester Blum’s The News at the Ends of the Earth is deeply detailed and richly illustrated in order to create a book that is at once informative and culturally important.” -- Emily Ennis * Victoriographies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Chronology xi Preface: Books on Ice xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Polar Ecomedia 1 1. Extreme Printing 43 2. Arctic News 91 3. Antarctic Imprints 138 4. Dead Letter Reckoning 177 5. Inuit Knowledge and Charles Francis Hall 209 Conclusion. Matters of Life and Death 231 Notes 237 Bibliography 273 Index 291
£98.60
Duke University Press The Novel and Neoliberalism
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£11.39
Duke University Press Black Madness Mad Blackness
Book SynopsisIn Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler''s Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson''s Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due''s African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigTrade Review"This book presents a valuable contribution to several disciplines. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. N. Allen * Choice *"Black Madness :: Mad Blackness is what happens when you get to take the road less traveled with a professional driver or go deep into the weeds with an expert botanist. You may feel out of your depth, but you’re assured by the fact that your traveling companion is extremely knowledgeable. . . . Pickens has called us all outside to play, to think deeply and without eventuality, to consider Blackness and madness – dare I say –irreverently, and we are all the better for it." -- Moya Bailey * Black Perspectives *“Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness invites the reader to think about race and disability in Black American literature.... [It] invite[s] us to enter into what Pickens calls a ‘politics of curiosity,’ one that moves beyond dominant forms of mythmaking or the living nightmares of the carceral state, and to see the constellation of Black life, the impulse to rectify freedom and break the confines of mass incarceration.” -- Edna Bonhomme * Public Books *"A timely reimagination of how we read the intersection of Blackness and disability, opening up further possibilities for anti-ableist and anti-racist futures." -- Rhya Moffitt Brooke * MELUS *Table of ContentsPreface or About Face, Giving Face ix Introduction. What's Good? 1 Conversation 1. Making Black Madness 23 Conversation 2. A Mad Black Thang 50 Conversation 3. Abandoning the Human? 74 Conversation 4. Not Making Meaning, Not Making Since (The End of Time) 95 Notes 115 Bibliography 135 Index 149
£67.15
Duke University Press The News at the Ends of the Earth
Book SynopsisHester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century polar explorers, showing how ship newspapers and other writing shows how explores wrestled with questions of time, space, and community while providing them with habits to survive the extreme polar climate.Trade Review"The News at the Ends of the Earth is a fine-grained register of the ebb and flow of a printophilic century, from Ross to Shackleton. While mindful of the minor variations over the decades, Blum marvelously conveys that fantastic, phantasmatically preserved shipbound conversation, a dilated and heterogeneous house party." -- John Plotz * Public Books *"An intricately layered, richly illustrated examination of shipboard newspapers (printed and handwritten), playbills, and other media produced by expeditions to the Antarctic and Arctic regions between 1818 and 1914. . . . The book speaks to the human imperative to communicate, even under extremely hostile conditions. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- J. Bekken * Choice *"Superb. . . . As the Anthropocene continues to develop, Blum’s concern with the media and narratives we might use to represent the planet’s predicament is of interest not only to scholars of printing and the polar regions, but also to a general reader." -- Nancy Campbell * TLS *"Blum’s book is a lively and enjoyable account of a fascinating historical period and its practices—but it is also vitally relevant for our current moment." -- Carie Lyn Schneider * Edge Effects *"[Blum] offers a fascinating history of onboard polar publication and provides a detailed analysis of the various textual materials produced during voyages of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. It also strives to unpick the intriguing motivations that lay behind their production. ... An invaluable contribution to several branches of scholarship, and readers interested in polar exploration, literary studies, and histories of printing culture will gain much from reading this interesting and insightful book." -- Peter R. Martin * Nineteenth Century Studies *"The News at the Ends of the Earth makes a significant contribution to the growing push to incorporate the polar regions into world histories. It would be of immense value to historians with an interest in oceanic spaces, the polar regions, histories of printed media, or histories of ephemera, and would be a useful starting point for scholars looking to think about how the Arctic and Antarctic fit into the scope of world history." -- Rohan Howitt * Journal of World History *"The News at the Ends of the Earth is exciting, both for what it definitively argues and for the questions it incites." -- Devin M. Garofalo * Journal of American Studies *"The News at the Ends of the Earth offers a fascinating, finely textured portrait of life aboard ship in the most extreme environments of the world." -- Michael Robinson * Journal of American History *“The News at the Ends of the Earth succeeds in its assertion that the practices of historical polar expeditions are important in comprehending the current climate crisis. The reader is left with an overwhelming sense of how crucial the enterprise of creating these collective outlets of communication was, and still is, in understanding one’s place in the environment and the necessity of self-expression in climatic extremes.” -- Eavan O’Dochartaigh * Journal for Maritime Research *“Hester Blum’s The News at the Ends of the Earth is deeply detailed and richly illustrated in order to create a book that is at once informative and culturally important.” -- Emily Ennis * Victoriographies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Chronology xi Preface: Books on Ice xv Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Polar Ecomedia 1 1. Extreme Printing 43 2. Arctic News 91 3. Antarctic Imprints 138 4. Dead Letter Reckoning 177 5. Inuit Knowledge and Charles Francis Hall 209 Conclusion. Matters of Life and Death 231 Notes 237 Bibliography 273 Index 291
£25.19
Duke University Press Black Madness Mad Blackness
Book SynopsisTherí Alyce Pickens examines the speculative and science fiction of Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due to rethink the relationship between race and disability, thereby unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive.Trade Review"This book presents a valuable contribution to several disciplines. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- T. N. Allen * Choice *"Black Madness :: Mad Blackness is what happens when you get to take the road less traveled with a professional driver or go deep into the weeds with an expert botanist. You may feel out of your depth, but you’re assured by the fact that your traveling companion is extremely knowledgeable. . . . Pickens has called us all outside to play, to think deeply and without eventuality, to consider Blackness and madness – dare I say –irreverently, and we are all the better for it." -- Moya Bailey * Black Perspectives *“Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness invites the reader to think about race and disability in Black American literature.... [It] invite[s] us to enter into what Pickens calls a ‘politics of curiosity,’ one that moves beyond dominant forms of mythmaking or the living nightmares of the carceral state, and to see the constellation of Black life, the impulse to rectify freedom and break the confines of mass incarceration.” -- Edna Bonhomme * Public Books *"A timely reimagination of how we read the intersection of Blackness and disability, opening up further possibilities for anti-ableist and anti-racist futures." -- Rhya Moffitt Brooke * MELUS *
£17.99
Duke University Press The Visceral Logics of Decolonization
Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s, Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by showing how embodied and affective responses to colonial subjugation provide the catalyst for developing revolutionary consciousness.Trade Review“In this fascinating study of complex psychosomatic responses in modernist Indian literature, Neetu Khanna shows how the attempt on the part of Marxist writers associated with the Progressive Writers' Association to ‘think with the visceral’ repeatedly brought them to questions of time. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization makes a striking and original contribution to the study of affect and anticolonial politics, deepening our understanding of ‘corporeal aesthetics.’” -- Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago“Neetu Khanna's turn to the visceral aesthetics of anticolonial struggles is timely in its call for a renewed attention to the affective logics of revolutionary writings. Such a calibration directly confronts critical disavowal of multiple visceral archives that are so central to the Marxist consciousness of colonial and postcolonial thinkers. Khanna's introduction of ‘colonial affect’ in this provocative book makes an important contribution to affect studies.” -- Anjali Arondekar, author of * For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India *"Visceral Logics challenges scholars of African and African-American literatures to carry out similar investigations. . . . Students of postcolonialism will find the book exceptionally rewarding." -- Fouad Mami * Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies *“Visceral Logics is a rich contribution to the fields of affect, performance, postcolonial and feminist theory. It is, too, a beautiful book, pulsing with the revolutionary spirit it traces. . . . Khanna reminds of the radical stakes of everyday feeling, embodied performance, and in turn, of literary study, as a political praxis of close reading.” -- Sadie Barker * Women & Performance *“[The Visceral Logics of Decolonization] possesses political and theoretical implications that deserve to reach a wide audience in postcolonial studies, affect studies, and literary studies more generally.” -- Christopher Lee * Science & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization 1 1. Agitation 35 2. Irritation 60 3. Compulsion 85 4. Evisceration 109 Coda. Explosion 132 Notes 151 Bibliography 161 Index 175
£74.70
Duke University Press The Visceral Logics of Decolonization
Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s, Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by showing how embodied and affective responses to colonial subjugation provide the catalyst for developing revolutionary consciousness.Trade Review“In this fascinating study of complex psychosomatic responses in modernist Indian literature, Neetu Khanna shows how the attempt on the part of Marxist writers associated with the Progressive Writers' Association to ‘think with the visceral’ repeatedly brought them to questions of time. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization makes a striking and original contribution to the study of affect and anticolonial politics, deepening our understanding of ‘corporeal aesthetics.’” -- Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago“Neetu Khanna's turn to the visceral aesthetics of anticolonial struggles is timely in its call for a renewed attention to the affective logics of revolutionary writings. Such a calibration directly confronts critical disavowal of multiple visceral archives that are so central to the Marxist consciousness of colonial and postcolonial thinkers. Khanna's introduction of ‘colonial affect’ in this provocative book makes an important contribution to affect studies.” -- Anjali Arondekar, author of * For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India *"Visceral Logics challenges scholars of African and African-American literatures to carry out similar investigations. . . . Students of postcolonialism will find the book exceptionally rewarding." -- Fouad Mami * Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies *“Visceral Logics is a rich contribution to the fields of affect, performance, postcolonial and feminist theory. It is, too, a beautiful book, pulsing with the revolutionary spirit it traces. . . . Khanna reminds of the radical stakes of everyday feeling, embodied performance, and in turn, of literary study, as a political praxis of close reading.” -- Sadie Barker * Women & Performance *“[The Visceral Logics of Decolonization] possesses political and theoretical implications that deserve to reach a wide audience in postcolonial studies, affect studies, and literary studies more generally.” -- Christopher Lee * Science & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization 1 1. Agitation 35 2. Irritation 60 3. Compulsion 85 4. Evisceration 109 Coda. Explosion 132 Notes 151 Bibliography 161 Index 175
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Duke University Press At Penpoint
Book SynopsisMonica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century, showing how the United States and the Soviet Union's efforts to further their geopolitical and ideological goals influenced literary practices and knowledge production on the African continent.Trade Review“African nations regained their independence from Western colonialism against the background of the Cold War. Monica Popescu's book is a comprehensive study of the impact of the war on the culture, literature, and intellectual production of the postcolonial world. It is a great addition to the body of scholarship on African literature and postcolonial studies.” -- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine“This ingenious account offers sharp new insight to the history of African Literary Studies and decolonization by framing them in light of the Cold War, not just in terms of subjection by the West, as stressed by postcolonial perspectives, but also by the colonial outreach of the USSR. As Monica Popescu makes stunningly clear, African and Afro-Caribbean writers of the period—Aimé Césaire, Youssef El-Sebai, and Ezekiel Mphahlele—brought to our understanding of twentieth-century imperialism a comprehensiveness unrivaled before or since.” -- Jean Comaroff, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American studies and of Anthropology, Harvard University“Popescu’s book is a steadfast engagement with the cultural Cold War’s impact on African literary studies.... At Penpoint...shows how a range of cross-disciplinary and hybrid methodologies are required if we are to build and establish this scholarship.” -- Bhakti Shringarpure * Johannesburg Review of Books *"At Penpoint speaks to a variety of disciplines and historiographies. . . . Popescu writes in accessible language that will make graduates and undergrads appreciate and trace the transnational networks involving African writers, diasporic African intellectuals, and various Cold War actors and the impact they had on Africa, especially in the area of African literature." -- Emmanuella Amoh * E3W Review of Books *". . . At Penpoint is an engrossing and provocative book that illuminates an important archive and challenges humanities scholars of all midcentury regions to reconfigure their fields." -- Laura Chrisman * Modern Language Quarterly *"Popescu’s biggest contribution here is historiographical: not only does she historicize African literary production during the Cold War, she also reveals the lasting effects of the Cold War on today’s intellectual concepts and commitments. . . . By rehabilitating the idea of the writer as engaged, even committed, At Penpoint reveals a scholar undertaking not only study of the era of decolonization, but also the slow process of decolonizing literary study itself by wresting the Cold War away from the superpowers who waged it." -- Emily Hyde * Contemporary Literature *"At Penpoint accomplishes what the best scholarship does by illuminating what has been right before our eyes but obscured by our own blinders, ideological or otherwise. Her account resituates Africa at the center of postcolonial studies and reveals the Cold War to be, among other things, a struggle of competing imperialisms." -- Cedric Tolliver * The Journal of African History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Genres of Cold War Theory: Postcolonial Studies and African Literary Criticism Part I. African Literary History and the Cold War 1. Pens and Guns: Literary Autonomy, Artistic Commitment, and Secret Sponsorships 2. Aesthetic World-Systems: Mythologies of Modernism and Realism Part II. Reading through a Cold War Lens 3. Creating Futures, Producing Theory: Strike, Revolution, and the Morning After 4. The Hot Cold War: Rethinking the Global Conflict through Southern Africa Conclusion. From Postcolonial to World Literature Studies: The Continued Relevance of the Cold War Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press At Penpoint
Book SynopsisIn At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong''o, Ousmane Sembène, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment ofTrade Review“African nations regained their independence from Western colonialism against the background of the Cold War. Monica Popescu's book is a comprehensive study of the impact of the war on the culture, literature, and intellectual production of the postcolonial world. It is a great addition to the body of scholarship on African literature and postcolonial studies.” -- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine“This ingenious account offers sharp new insight to the history of African Literary Studies and decolonization by framing them in light of the Cold War, not just in terms of subjection by the West, as stressed by postcolonial perspectives, but also by the colonial outreach of the USSR. As Monica Popescu makes stunningly clear, African and Afro-Caribbean writers of the period—Aimé Césaire, Youssef El-Sebai, and Ezekiel Mphahlele—brought to our understanding of twentieth-century imperialism a comprehensiveness unrivaled before or since.” -- Jean Comaroff, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American studies and of Anthropology, Harvard University“Popescu’s book is a steadfast engagement with the cultural Cold War’s impact on African literary studies.... At Penpoint...shows how a range of cross-disciplinary and hybrid methodologies are required if we are to build and establish this scholarship.” -- Bhakti Shringarpure * Johannesburg Review of Books *"At Penpoint speaks to a variety of disciplines and historiographies. . . . Popescu writes in accessible language that will make graduates and undergrads appreciate and trace the transnational networks involving African writers, diasporic African intellectuals, and various Cold War actors and the impact they had on Africa, especially in the area of African literature." -- Emmanuella Amoh * E3W Review of Books *". . . At Penpoint is an engrossing and provocative book that illuminates an important archive and challenges humanities scholars of all midcentury regions to reconfigure their fields." -- Laura Chrisman * Modern Language Quarterly *"Popescu’s biggest contribution here is historiographical: not only does she historicize African literary production during the Cold War, she also reveals the lasting effects of the Cold War on today’s intellectual concepts and commitments. . . . By rehabilitating the idea of the writer as engaged, even committed, At Penpoint reveals a scholar undertaking not only study of the era of decolonization, but also the slow process of decolonizing literary study itself by wresting the Cold War away from the superpowers who waged it." -- Emily Hyde * Contemporary Literature *"At Penpoint accomplishes what the best scholarship does by illuminating what has been right before our eyes but obscured by our own blinders, ideological or otherwise. Her account resituates Africa at the center of postcolonial studies and reveals the Cold War to be, among other things, a struggle of competing imperialisms." -- Cedric Tolliver * The Journal of African History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Genres of Cold War Theory: Postcolonial Studies and African Literary Criticism Part I. African Literary History and the Cold War 1. Pens and Guns: Literary Autonomy, Artistic Commitment, and Secret Sponsorships 2. Aesthetic World-Systems: Mythologies of Modernism and Realism Part II. Reading through a Cold War Lens 3. Creating Futures, Producing Theory: Strike, Revolution, and the Morning After 4. The Hot Cold War: Rethinking the Global Conflict through Southern Africa Conclusion. From Postcolonial to World Literature Studies: The Continued Relevance of the Cold War Notes Bibliography Index
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New York University Press Racial Asymmetries
Book SynopsisEmploys an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the unbounded nature of fictional worlds.Trade ReviewStephenSohnsRacial Asymmetriesprovides rich, nuanced readings of the performance, permutations, and persistence of race in 21st-century Asian American literature. In calling attention to the interplay between diverse Asian American texts and their conditions of emergence as such,Sohns analyses appreciate the cultural politics of difference that Asian American fictional worlds continue to critically express. -- Victor Bascara,University of California, Los AngelesAmbitious, innovative, and rigorously researched,Racial Asymmetrieslicenses Asian American writers to exercise their fictive imaginations, releasing them from the burdens of racial representation, while calling on Asian Americanists to expansively reimagine their field. -- Martin Joseph Ponce,author of Beyond the NationAn incisive guide to reading Asian American writing in a & post-race era,Racial Asymmetriescompels us to rethink our assumptions about ethnic literatures. Sohndemonstrates that the unmooring of narrative perspective from authorial background should be understood not as an emptying out of politics, but rather as a profusion of political critique as well as cultural creativity. -- Juliana Chang,author of Inhuman CitizenshipStephen Hong Song has written one of the smartest, analytical books on literature in the past year with Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds.Sohn isn't just a scholar, but an excavator, an archaeologist, an explorer, and a poet, traversing racial narratives. * Entropy Magazine *Sohn's project unsettles the boundary between the fictional world and its cultural context, revealing how refractive and elliptical the relation between the two can be--a move that deflects our gaze from Elaine H. Kim's foundational view of Asian American literature 'as both social document and a mirror of memory.' After reading Racial Asymmetries, one cannot help but look differently at what constitutes Asian American studies, as well as the storytelling practices that define Asian American literatures. * Journal of American Studies *With the proliferation of works by Asian Americans who are transnational/first-generation or multiracial and who publish in genres not normally associated with Asian American literature, the current challenge of criticism is to expand & social-context methodologies. In doing so, Sohn argues that we will move & beyond the limits of cultural nationalist models in order to foreground a & deconstructive critical methodology.Racial Asymmetries is at its best when staking out new ground for Asian Americanist critique, especially in helping redefine the kinds of narratives we should seek out and work to understand the relation to the political dimensions of difference. . . . Sohns ambitious work asks fundamental questions of the Asian Americanist critical enterprise by examining and challenging old loyalties and gesturing toward more productive ways of selecting and interpreting literary texts that fall outside of normal expectations. * MELUS *SohnsRacial Asymmetriesargues that considering novels by Asian American writers that feature non-Asian American narrators both widens the usual scope of literary criticism and remains true to the fields activist origins. [] Telling these and other stories from unexpected points of view challenges our sometimes limited view of Asian Americans and adds complexity to our understanding of their relations with white and ethnic others. * American Literature *What constitutes Asian American literature? Who can claim to be an Asian American author? Sohn builds a theory of categorization that places him in a distinguished genealogy of field-defining critics, including Elaine Kim, Yen Le Espiritu, Viet Nguyen, and Min Song. * ALH Online Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Many Storytellers of Asian American Fiction 1 White Flight, White Narration: Suburban Deviancies in Chang-rae Lee's Aloft 2 When the Minor Becomes Major: Asian American Literary California, Chicano Narration, and Sesshu Foster's Atomik Aztex 3 The Incomplete Biography in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Narrating Imagined Lives in Sigrid Nunez's Fictions 4 Comparative Colonial Narration: Conquest and Consumption in Sabina Murray's Fictions 5 Impossible Narration: Racial Analogies and Asian American Speculative Fictions Coda: Fiction Unbound Notes Works Cited IndexAbout the Author
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New York University Press Contemporary ArabAmerican Literature
Book SynopsisTakes in the sweep of literary and cultural texts by Arab-American writers in order to understand the ways in which their depictions of Arab homelands, whether actual or imagined, play a crucial role in shaping cultural articulations of US citizenship and belonging.Trade Review"Engaging a stunning array of Arab American writers, Fadda-Conrey offers an original analysis of the ways in which Arab American literature articulates new forms of citizenship, forms that are transnational in scope and that reconfigure notions of geography and belonging. This will be the go-to book on Arab American literature." -- Evelyn Alsultany,author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media"Fadda-Conrey's work is sure to make a lasting impact on the way we think about not only Arab American artistic and cultural production but also the relationship between ethnic identity, American citizenship, and transnational belonging." * MELUS *"This book can be read as an introduction to Arab-American literature or as a reference to enrich ones understanding of this relatively new and exciting field. Fadda-Conrey writes with passion and analytical precision about a topic in which she is obviously well versed and deeply involved." * Jordan Times *"[Fadda-Conreys] preference for the term & transnational enactments allows for such variances as physical mobility and imaginative attachment and favors & larger structures of belonging." * American Literary Scholarship *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Transnational Arab-American Belonging 1 Reimagining the Ancestral Arab Homeland 2 To the Arab Homeland and Back: Narratives of Returns and Rearrivals 3 Translocal Connections between the US and the Arab World 4 Representing Arabs and Muslims in the US after 9/11: Gender, Religion, and Citizenship Conclusion: Transnational Solidarity and the Arab UprisingsNotes Works Cited Index About the Author
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New York University Press Racial Immanence
Book SynopsisWinner, 2021 NACCS Book Award, given by the National Association for Chicano and Chicana StudiesExplores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation artRacial Immanence attempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the study of race and discourse: it seeks to loosen the constraints that the politics of racial representation put on interpretive methods and on our understanding of race itself. Marissa K. Lopez argues that reading Chicanx literary and cultural texts primarily for the ways they represent Chicanxness only reinscribes the very racial logic that such texts ostensibly set out to undo. Racial Immanence proposes to read differently; instead of focusing on representation, it asks what Chicanx texts do, what they produce in the world, and specifically how they produce access to the ineffable but material experience of race. Intrigued by the attention to diTrade Review"López staunchly debunks the idea that Chicanx identity can be thoroughly known or interpreted. Rather, she demonstrates why literature for and by people of color matters: they eschew the neoliberal argument for multicultural representation, instead questioning structural violence, shared precarity, and human imbrication within the more-than-human world. This is a bold, refreshing book that demonstrates the urgency and importance of Chicanx literature while simultaneously challenging the reasons why we read it." -- Julie A. Minich, author of Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico "Racial Immanence sets out to tackle a seemingly intractable problem for the study of race and literature: the constraints that racial representation puts on both interpretive methods and our understanding of race itself . In expanding our horizon of Chicanx cultural production beyond literary works to such objects as the Aztec “sun stone,” contemporary art photography, and Latinx punk music , López proposes a new way to read this body of work, asking what Chicanx texts do, what they produce in the world, and how they access the ineffable yet material experience of race. An urgent and necessary book." -- John Alba Cutler, author of Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature"López advocates for reconsidering space and time through reading and writing in order to reimagine the social and to create a place of radical hope." * Choice *
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New York University Press Millennial Jewish Stars
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New York University Press Suffer the Little Children
Book SynopsisExamines classic and contemporary Jewish and African American children's literatureThrough close readings of selected titles published since 1945, Jodi Eichler-Levine analyzes what is at stake in portraying religious history for young people, particularly when the histories in question are traumatic ones. In the wake of the Holocaust and lynchings, of the Middle Passage and flight from Eastern Europe''s pogroms, children's literature provides diverse and complicated responses to the challenge of representing difficultcollective pasts.In reading the work of various prominent authors, including Maurice Sendak, Julius Lester, Jane Yolen, Sydney Taylor, and Virginia Hamilton, Eichler-Levine changes our understanding of North American religions. She illuminates how narratives of both suffering and nostalgia graft future citizens into ideals of American liberal democracy, and into religious communities that can be understood according to recognizable notions of reTrade ReviewExhibits an impressive command of multiple disciplines to offer a compelling of reading of Jewish and African American childrens literatures. . . . Eichler-Levine's close readings of youth literatures and reader responses are always clear and often delightful as she deftly works at the crossroads, providing new signposts for navigating vexing questions at the intersections of religion, citizenship, trauma, and redemption. -- Liora Gubkin,author of You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory in American Passover RitualJodi Eichler-Levines insightful book illuminates the importance of fear and suffering in shaping African American and Jewish childrens literature. Her book gives a cogent understanding of how each community's difficult historical narratives coupled with their religious and social lives have helped to prepare children to engage an American civic life that has been hostile at times to their ethnic groups. -- Anthea Butler,University of PennsylvaniaThis rich and rewarding study invites fresh thought about the political religiosity of stories for children and the potential of contemporary children's literature to help forge a new politics of American childhood. -- Amy Fish * Children's Literature *Whats so exciting about Suffer the Little Children is that it brings a deeply grounded religious studies perspective to bear on contemporary American childrens literature in ways that enrich both the study of literature and our understanding of childhoods role in U.S. Judeo-Christian cultures. By focusing on American childrens books by and about Jews and African Americans and the core tropes that interweave through these textsfrom the idea of 'chosenness' to the haunting spectre of genocideEichler-Levine gives new meaning to the idea of the `sacralized child. Suffer the Little Children sheds new light on the relationships between race, religion, citizenship, and childhood. It also reminds us once more of why childrens literature provides such a revealing lens for analyzing American culture. -- Julia Mickenberg * Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the U.S. *In this startling analysis of children's literature written by African Americans, Jews, and African American Jews, Eichler-Levine (religion/Jewish studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh) claims that 'redemptive' stories about victimization are a necessary part of these works in order to gain acceptance. * Choice *Eichler-Levine exhibits mastery of this genre in a scholarly, comprehensive book that brings a literate, impassioned, interrogative analytical lens to familiar and lesser known children's books. * Catholic Library World *Jodi Eichler-Levine sets out to make the connections between African American and Jewish childrens literature, a potentially fruitful area of study because of the two groups shared inheritance of similar Biblical stories. * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *Eichler-Levine's appreciation for the art and transcendent possibility of children's books will inspire other scholars of religion, American history, and literature to pick up childhood favorites. In so doing,Suffer the Little Childrenpromises to spark a broader investigation of the wide-ranging contributions Jewish writers have made to this understudied literary tradition. * American Jewish History *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction: Wild Things and Chosen Children A Word about Language 1 Remembering the Way into Membership Part I: Crossing and Dwelling:After lives of Moses and Miriam 2 The Unbearable Lightness of Exodus 3 Dwelling in Chosen Nostalgia Part II: Binding and Unbinding:Hauntings of Isaac and Jephthah's Daughter4 Bound to Violence: Lynching, the Holocaust, and the Limits of Representation 5 Unbound in Fantasy: Reading Monstrosity and the Supernatural Conclusion: The Abrahamic Bargain Appendix: Children's Books Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press For Pleasure
Book SynopsisArgues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racistdominationFor Pleasure proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United Statesby creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure isfundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study ofexperimental work by authors and artists of color.For Pleasure offers methods for reading experimental literature and art produced by racially minoritizedauthors and artists working in and around the US, including Isaac Julien, Nella Larsen, Yoko Ono, JackWhitten, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Zora Neale Hurston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Cici Wu. Along theway, we learn what a racist joke has to do with the history of monochrome painting, if beauty has a partto play in social change, and whether whimTrade ReviewIn a world where the category of race too easily conjures up the ugliest aspects of social inequality, xenophobia, and racial violence, Rachel Carroll’s exquisite new book reminds us that racial difference can also be a site of extraordinary beauty, imagination, and communion. Through a meticulous and generous reading of twentieth-century experimental cultural forms, For Pleasure recovers a tradition of Black and Asian American artists refiguring race as an open invitation to ceaselessly play with and recombine the various facets of phenotypical difference. The artists Carroll assembles ultimately aim to wholly disorganize our sense of what counts as beautiful, opening up the field of pleasure to continual revision. -- Ramzi Fawaz, author of Queer FormsThrilling and inventive at every turn. Carroll seeks to recover aesthetic and erotic pleasure in literary, visual, and performative art, and she does so in unexpected ways and places. In arguing that aesthetic pleasure and innovation can undo the unfreedom of racism in which we find ourselves, this well-argued and stylistically sophisticated book reveals experimental art to be an undeniable vehicle of social theory. -- GerShun Avilez, University of Maryland
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New York University Press For Pleasure
Book SynopsisArgues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racistdominationFor Pleasure proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United Statesby creating transformative scenes of pleasure. Rachel Jane Carroll explains how aesthetic pleasure isfundamental to the production and circulation of racial meaning in the United States through a study ofexperimental work by authors and artists of color.For Pleasure offers methods for reading experimental literature and art produced by racially minoritizedauthors and artists working in and around the US, including Isaac Julien, Nella Larsen, Yoko Ono, JackWhitten, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Zora Neale Hurston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Cici Wu. Along theway, we learn what a racist joke has to do with the history of monochrome painting, if beauty has a partto play in social change, and whether whimTrade ReviewIn a world where the category of race too easily conjures up the ugliest aspects of social inequality, xenophobia, and racial violence, Rachel Carroll’s exquisite new book reminds us that racial difference can also be a site of extraordinary beauty, imagination, and communion. Through a meticulous and generous reading of twentieth-century experimental cultural forms, For Pleasure recovers a tradition of Black and Asian American artists refiguring race as an open invitation to ceaselessly play with and recombine the various facets of phenotypical difference. The artists Carroll assembles ultimately aim to wholly disorganize our sense of what counts as beautiful, opening up the field of pleasure to continual revision. -- Ramzi Fawaz, author of Queer FormsThrilling and inventive at every turn. Carroll seeks to recover aesthetic and erotic pleasure in literary, visual, and performative art, and she does so in unexpected ways and places. In arguing that aesthetic pleasure and innovation can undo the unfreedom of racism in which we find ourselves, this well-argued and stylistically sophisticated book reveals experimental art to be an undeniable vehicle of social theory. -- GerShun Avilez, University of Maryland
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New York University Press Contemporary ArabAmerican Literature
Book SynopsisSpanning the 1990s to the present, the author takes in the sweep of literary and cultural texts by Arab-American writers in order to understand the ways in which their depictions of Arab homelands, whether actual or imagined, play a crucial role in shaping cultural articulations of US citizenship and belonging.Trade Review"Engaging a stunning array of Arab American writers, Fadda-Conrey offers an original analysis of the ways in which Arab American literature articulates new forms of citizenship, forms that are transnational in scope and that reconfigure notions of geography and belonging. This will be the go-to book on Arab American literature." -- Evelyn Alsultany,author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media"Fadda-Conrey's work is sure to make a lasting impact on the way we think about not only Arab American artistic and cultural production but also the relationship between ethnic identity, American citizenship, and transnational belonging." * MELUS *"This book can be read as an introduction to Arab-American literature or as a reference to enrich ones understanding of this relatively new and exciting field. Fadda-Conrey writes with passion and analytical precision about a topic in which she is obviously well versed and deeply involved." * Jordan Times *"[Fadda-Conreys] preference for the term & transnational enactments allows for such variances as physical mobility and imaginative attachment and favors & larger structures of belonging." * American Literary Scholarship *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Transnational Arab-American Belonging 1 Reimagining the Ancestral Arab Homeland 2 To the Arab Homeland and Back: Narratives of Returns and Rearrivals 3 Translocal Connections between the US and the Arab World 4 Representing Arabs and Muslims in the US after 9/11: Gender, Religion, and Citizenship Conclusion: Transnational Solidarity and the Arab UprisingsNotes Works Cited Index About the Author
£52.70
New York University Press Bottoms Up
Book SynopsisProposes a queer way to be in the world and with othersInvoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sexnamely, bottomingfunction as allegorical paradigms, revealing the assemblages of violence that have constituted the social, cultural, and political shifts of Mexico and US Latinx culture from 1950 to the present.With playful, theoretically nuanced prose, Cervantes-Gómez builds upon queer of color theory and continental philosophy to present the bottom as a form of relational performance, which she terms pasivo ethics. The argument develops through a series of compelling case studies, including a series of novels by Octavio Paz and Luis Zapata that trace the position of the bottom in Mexican nationalist literature; the forms of exposure, risk, and proximity in the performance work of artist Lechedevirgen Trimeg
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New York University Press Diversion
Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, presented by the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association Winner, 2018 Robert K. Martin Book Prize, presented by the Canadian American Studies AssociationHonorable Mention, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Latina/o Studies Section of the Latin American Studies AssociationA re-examination of the Cuban diaspora through the lens of popular culture. In an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book updates the conversation about Cuban America by showing how this community has changed over the past 25 years. No longer a conservative Republican voting bloc, the majority of Cubans today want more engagement with the island instead of less. Laguna investigates the generational shifts and tensions in a Cuban America where the majority is now made up of immigrants who arrived since the 1990s and those born in the US. To probe these changes, Laguna examines the aesthetic and social logTrade ReviewA must-read. Students of Latina/o and Latin America alike will find themselves thinking hard while laughing along. -- New West Indian GuideA highly original and vital contribution to the cultural and scholarly activity of the contemporary Cuban diaspora in the U.S., Lagunas urgent study takes up what is always deferred: Cuban America in the here-and-now, the wondrous difficulty of Miami, and an ongoing sense of Cuban migration that refuses to stay put. This book is a critical pause button on expedient narratives about Cubas transition. It insists on the complicated comedy, the cynical edges, and the aerating necessity of laughter by the actual people that live and move between the island and elsewhere. -- Alexandra T. Vazquez,author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban MusicAlbert Lagunas book walks into an MLA cash bar, and the bartender says, Your arguments a joke.In this field-defining work, Laguna shows that laughter, joshing, and punch lines (in short, our indefatigablejodedera) constitute Cuban culture in its movements around the U.S. and even on return trips to the island. Stand-up, radio shows, festivals, and social media cut across the classic Cuban exile in the art and performance of post-1990s Cuban migrants. Laguna dazzles us with such an inventory to deliver a singular notion: Even in dislocation, creativity cant help but crack you up. -- Antonio López,author of Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
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New York University Press Golem
Book Synopsis2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and LinguisticsHonorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by AAJRA monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapesIn the 1910s and 1920s, a golem cult swept across Europe and the U.S., later surfacing in Israel. Why did this story of a powerful clay monster molded and animated by a rabbi to protect his community become so popular and pervasive? The golem has appeared in a remarkable range of popular media: from the Yiddish theater to American comic books, from German silent film to Quentin Tarantino movies. This book showcases how the golem was remolded, throughout the war-torn twentieth century, as a muscular protector, injured combatant, and even murderous avenger. This evolution of the golem narrative is made comprehensible by, and also helps us to better understand, one of the defining aspects of the last one hundred years: mass warfare and its ancillary technologies. In the twentiTrade ReviewBarzilai makes a bold even brilliant connection between . . . the golem and . . . the soldier. * Times Literary Supplement *[Barzilai] wisely decides to focus on . . . golem representations in response to war and other mass violence. Barzilais extensive research and clear, interesting style make this a fine work. * Publishers Weekly *The multiple strands ofGolemare what constitute its great strength, presented not just chronologically but within themes that cross eras and borders Barzilai painstakingly analyses films, books and comics to reveal the Golems enduring cultural presence and influence. And the violence of this appealing creature, especially the idea of Jewish violence, is what makes it simultaneously so threatening. * Jewish Chronicle *A thorough and suggestive review . . .with a wide array of 20th-century sources, including films and cartoon literature. It will be a useful resource for those interested in modern history and culture. * Choice *Barzilai offers a fascinating analysis of how a legendary monster was appropriated in the last century as a way of understanding the baffling reality of war. . . . A creative and thoughtful approach, this book raises the deeper and unresolved questions of when, if ever, an act of violence justifies a violent response. Although Barzilai does not attempt to answer this question, she raises it as one of the unavoidable issues faced by an oppressed people who, in their fiction, have access to a protective monster. * Reading Religion *Fascinating and well argued, Golemexamines the modern incarnations of the old Jewish myth, tracking its many meanings as it crosses between generations and cultures, from the muddy trenches of WWI to the killing fields of science fiction. An indispensable text for anyone looking to understand our ongoing fascination with the golem figure, in all its malleable forms. -- Helene Wecker,author of The Golem & the JinniIn her wide-ranging Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters, Maya Barzilai argues that the myth of the golem tells us something about humanity more generally. It teaches us about what she calls 'the golem condition,' inwhich 'the fantasies of expanding our capacities and transgressing our natural boundaries are always curbed by the inborn limitations of human existence.' * Jewish Review of Books *This tracking of the adaptations of the Golem myth from World War I to the present becomes a probing cultural history of the past hundred years. Maya Barzilai moves with assurance from fiction, theater, and film to comic books and graphic novels, perceptively commenting on their formal aspects while preserving a lucid sense of the relevant historical contexts. This is a splendid piece of critical reflection. -- Robert Alter,University of California, BerkeleyBarzilai certainly puts her finger on a central paradox of European and Jewish culture coming out of the Great War: how can death and technological creativity coexist? The golem myth is a clever and successful way to probe that question. . . . Fascinating and intellectually venturesome. -- Alan Mintz,Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature, The Jewish Theological SeminarySavior, soldier, demon, oafa golem is all these and more, and Barzilai guides us a fascinating tour of its supple mythology through shifting cultural and historical contexts. -- Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman,authors of The Golem of ParisGolem: Modern Wars and their Monstersis highly recommended to those with an interest in the intersection between Jewish tradition and pop culture, as well as anyone with a focus on monster and twentieth century cultural studies. * The Journal of Religion and Culture *As Barzilai notes that future wars will likely be characterized by growing dependence on golem-like entities—whether drones or cyborgs or robots equipped with artificial intelligence—her book provides a timely meditation on the human effects of remote and automated violence. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *
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New York University Press Whiteness on the Border
Book SynopsisThe many lenses of racism through which the white imagination sees Mexicans and Chicanos Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back to the early nineteenth century when Anglo-American settlers first came into regular contact with Mexico and Mexicans. The images of the Mexican Other as lawless, exotic, or non-industrious continue to circulate today within US popular and political culture. Through keen analysis of music, film, literature, and US politics, Whiteness on the Border demonstrates how contemporary representations of Mexicans and Chicano/as are pushed further to foster the idea of whiteness as Americanness. Illustrating how the ideologies, stories, and images of racial hierarchy align with and support those of fervent US nationalism, Lee Bebout maps the relationship between whiteness and American exceptionalism. He examines how renderings of the Mexican Other haTrade ReviewBebout draws together the insights of critical whiteness studies and Chicana/o studies to show how whiteness has been made and remade through the construction and policing of a material and imagined brown/white racial border. * Critical Inquiry *Bebout makesWhiteness on the Bordera compelling read by weaving his own experiences as a white person into his analysis; his anecdotes remind us that even in nonborder spaces like Chicago in the 1970s, ideas about Mexicanness circulate, reverberate, and solidify ideas about whiteness. * ALH Online Review *Bebouts book forms an impressive contribution to scholarship in this field. * U.S. Studies Online *Balancing between personal reflections, an impressive grasp of diverse cultural theory, and at times mellifluent prose, Whiteness on the Border is essential reading for anti-racism activists and critical race scholars. Bebout’s clear use and definition of complicated terms and social practices makes this book accessible to an advanced undergraduate and graduate audience; I plan on assigning it in my US Racial Theory class in the fall. -- Journal of American Ethnic HistoryWhiteness on the Borderexplores the vexed ways in which white identity in the U.S. has historically been forged in opposition to a Mexican & other. Displaying mastery of the intellectual traditions of critical whiteness studies and Chicana/o studies, LeeBeboutdraws deftly on complicated concepts to show that while there is always racism, there is never only a singular homogenous racism, but instead many differentiated and tactically deployed racisms. Brimming with exceptional critical acumen,Whiteness on the Borderwill be a book of significant impact and influence. -- George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes PlaceWith wit, passion, rigor,Whiteness on the Borderbreaks down the logic of white supremacy. Innovative and dynamic, Lee Bebouts critical study drops onto the world at a key moment. We are living through a backlash against multiculturalism and against the civil rights movement. Something has changed; something has turned, and Bebouts timely study helps us to chart the depth of this bracing cultural metastasis. -- William Anthony Nericcio,author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of “Mexicans” in America
£22.79
New York University Press Whiteness on the Border
Book SynopsisThe many lenses of racism through which the white imagination sees Mexicans and Chicanos Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back to the early nineteenth century when Anglo-American settlers first came into regular contact with Mexico and Mexicans. The images of the Mexican Other as lawless, exotic, or non-industrious continue to circulate today within US popular and political culture. Through keen analysis of music, film, literature, and US politics, Whiteness on the Border demonstrates how contemporary representations of Mexicans and Chicano/as are pushed further to foster the idea of whiteness as Americanness. Illustrating how the ideologies, stories, and images of racial hierarchy align with and support those of fervent US nationalism, Lee Bebout maps the relationship between whiteness and American exceptionalism. He examines how renderings of the Mexican Other haTrade ReviewBebout draws together the insights of critical whiteness studies and Chicana/o studies to show how whiteness has been made and remade through the construction and policing of a material and imagined brown/white racial border. * Critical Inquiry *Bebout makesWhiteness on the Bordera compelling read by weaving his own experiences as a white person into his analysis; his anecdotes remind us that even in nonborder spaces like Chicago in the 1970s, ideas about Mexicanness circulate, reverberate, and solidify ideas about whiteness. * ALH Online Review *Bebouts book forms an impressive contribution to scholarship in this field. * U.S. Studies Online *Balancing between personal reflections, an impressive grasp of diverse cultural theory, and at times mellifluent prose, Whiteness on the Border is essential reading for anti-racism activists and critical race scholars. Bebout’s clear use and definition of complicated terms and social practices makes this book accessible to an advanced undergraduate and graduate audience; I plan on assigning it in my US Racial Theory class in the fall. -- Journal of American Ethnic HistoryWhiteness on the Borderexplores the vexed ways in which white identity in the U.S. has historically been forged in opposition to a Mexican & other. Displaying mastery of the intellectual traditions of critical whiteness studies and Chicana/o studies, LeeBeboutdraws deftly on complicated concepts to show that while there is always racism, there is never only a singular homogenous racism, but instead many differentiated and tactically deployed racisms. Brimming with exceptional critical acumen,Whiteness on the Borderwill be a book of significant impact and influence. -- George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes PlaceWith wit, passion, rigor,Whiteness on the Borderbreaks down the logic of white supremacy. Innovative and dynamic, Lee Bebouts critical study drops onto the world at a key moment. We are living through a backlash against multiculturalism and against the civil rights movement. Something has changed; something has turned, and Bebouts timely study helps us to chart the depth of this bracing cultural metastasis. -- William Anthony Nericcio,author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of “Mexicans” in America
£66.60
New York University Press Golem
Book Synopsis2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and LinguisticsHonorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by AAJRA monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapesIn the 1910s and 1920s, a golem cult swept across Europe and the U.S., later surfacing in Israel. Why did this story of a powerful clay monster molded and animated by a rabbi to protect his community become so popular and pervasive? The golem has appeared in a remarkable range of popular media: from the Yiddish theater to American comic books, from German silent film to Quentin Tarantino movies. This book showcases how the golem was remolded, throughout the war-torn twentieth century, as a muscular protector, injured combatant, and even murderous avenger. This evolution of the golem narrative is made comprehensible by, and also helps us to better understand, one of the defining aspects of the last one hundred years: mass warfare and its ancillary technologies. In the twentiTrade Review"Barzilai makes a bold even brilliant connection between . . . the golem and . . . the soldier." * Times Literary Supplement *"[Barzilai] wisely decides to focus on . . . golem representations in response to war and other mass violence. Barzilais extensive research and clear, interesting style make this a fine work." * Publishers Weekly *"The multiple strands ofGolemare what constitute its great strength, presented not just chronologically but within themes that cross eras and borders Barzilai painstakingly analyses films, books and comics to reveal the Golems enduring cultural presence and influence. And the violence of this appealing creature, especially the idea of Jewish violence, is what makes it simultaneously so threatening." * Jewish Chronicle *"A thorough and suggestive review . . .with a wide array of 20th-century sources, including films and cartoon literature. It will be a useful resource for those interested in modern history and culture." * Choice *"Barzilai offers a fascinating analysis of how a legendary monster was appropriated in the last century as a way of understanding the baffling reality of war. . . . A creative and thoughtful approach, this book raises the deeper and unresolved questions of when, if ever, an act of violence justifies a violent response. Although Barzilai does not attempt to answer this question, she raises it as one of the unavoidable issues faced by an oppressed people who, in their fiction, have access to a protective monster." * Reading Religion *"Fascinating and well argued, Golemexamines the modern incarnations of the old Jewish myth, tracking its many meanings as it crosses between generations and cultures, from the muddy trenches of WWI to the killing fields of science fiction. An indispensable text for anyone looking to understand our ongoing fascination with the golem figure, in all its malleable forms." -- Helene Wecker,author of The Golem & the Jinni"In her wide-ranging Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters, Maya Barzilai argues that the myth of the golem tells us something about humanity more generally. It teaches us about what she calls 'the golem condition,' inwhich 'the fantasies of expanding our capacities and transgressing our natural boundaries are always curbed by the inborn limitations of human existence.'" * Jewish Review of Books *"This tracking of the adaptations of the Golem myth from World War I to the present becomes a probing cultural history of the past hundred years. Maya Barzilai moves with assurance from fiction, theater, and film to comic books and graphic novels, perceptively commenting on their formal aspects while preserving a lucid sense of the relevant historical contexts. This is a splendid piece of critical reflection." -- Robert Alter,University of California, Berkeley"Barzilai certainly puts her finger on a central paradox of European and Jewish culture coming out of the Great War: how can death and technological creativity coexist? The golem myth is a clever and successful way to probe that question. . . . Fascinating and intellectually venturesome." -- Alan Mintz,Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature, The Jewish Theological Seminary"Savior, soldier, demon, oafa golem is all these and more, and Barzilai guides us a fascinating tour of its supple mythology through shifting cultural and historical contexts." -- Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman,authors of The Golem of Paris"Golem: Modern Wars and their Monstersis highly recommended to those with an interest in the intersection between Jewish tradition and pop culture, as well as anyone with a focus on monster and twentieth century cultural studies." * The Journal of Religion and Culture *"As Barzilai notes that future wars will likely be characterized by growing dependence on golem-like entities—whether drones or cyborgs or robots equipped with artificial intelligence—her book provides a timely meditation on the human effects of remote and automated violence." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *
£58.90
University of Toronto Press Spaniards in Mauthausen
Book SynopsisSpaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theatre, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government’s relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust.Trade Review"A painstaking and definitive book." -- Ariel Dorfman * The New York Review of Books *"Brenneis has crafted a cohesive and thought-provoking study on the experiences of Spaniards in Mauthausen, which is underpinned by meticulous research, and engagingly written. A strength of the book is its multidisciplinary approach, combining theories of narrative and memory with Holocaust Studies and historiography. Spaniards in Mauthausen is a valuable contribution not only to Spanish cultural history, but also to Holocaust Studies, and likely to stimulate important critical debate." -- Andrea Hepworth, Victoria University of Wellington * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Spaniards in Mauthausen advances historical memory discourse by contributing new voices to the conversation as it brings forth representations of Spaniards from concentration camps to form a part of the historiography of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship." -- Wendy Perla Kurtz * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies *"Brenneis’ work critically analyzes an unfamiliar topic from a cultural perspective. The book immerses us in a complex history, which is only now slowly being revealed to Spanish society." -- Santiago López Rodríguez * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *"Sara Brenneis' terrific monograph...makes a timely and important contribution to memory studies both in Spain and across a wider transnational field." -- Maria Delgado * Times Higher Education *"[A]n evocatively written reflection on Mauthausen today – as a physical and imagined space – that reads like a compelling piece of long-form reporting." -- Sebastiaan Faber * Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanos *"The book is thorough and informative. The bibliography is abundant and pertinent. It is a good source of information about the representation of the Spaniards in Mauthausen." -- Silvia Ribelles de la Vega * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsThe View from Inside: Clandestine Representations and Testimony of Mauthausen (1940-46) Postwar Impressions: The First Published Representations of the Camp (1945-1963) Transitions: Early Accounts of Mauthausen (1970s) Memories Unleashed: Mauthausen after Franco (1980-2015) Mauthausen Today
£62.05
University of Toronto Press Recalling Recitation in the Americas
Book SynopsisRecalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and Her "Dear Dead Longfellow" Chapter 2 Langston Hughes’s Rhythmic Literacy Chapter 3 Miss Lou Pedagogy and Mimic Women Chapter 4 Recitation Legacies in Dub and Indigenous Poetics Notes Permissions Works Cited
£42.30
University of Toronto Press Trilingual Joyce
Book SynopsisTrilingual Joyce is a detailed comparative study of James Joyce's personal involvement in both French and Italian translations of his iconic 1928 text Anna Livia Plurabelle, which later became the eighth chapter of Finnegans Wake.Trade Review"Trilingual Joyce is a book that steers straight ahead from the beginning with an added attention to details. Because of his linguistic and translational mastery, O’Neill carefully and steadily guides the way for readers who are interested in Joycean translation studies. The book is a must." -- Ceren Kusdemir Ozbilek, Yasar University * James Joyce Quarterly *"With his ability to discuss Finnegans Wake acutely, clearly, and intelligently, […] O’Neill offers true comparative studies of the original, […] its various translations, and also of those translations in relation to each other." -- Michael Groden, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. All about Anna 2. The Old Cheb 3. Steeping and Stuping 4. Animal Sendai 5. Duke Alien 6. Phenician Rover 7. Nearly as Badher 8. Simps and Signs 9. Gammer and Gaffer 10. Night Now Conclusion Appendix: Chronological ALP Bibliography
£38.70
University of Toronto Press The Reception of Northrop Frye
Book SynopsisThe Reception of Northrup Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye's diminishing status as an important critical voice.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Books Devoted to Frye in Their Entirety and Reviews of Those Books 2. Essays, Articles, and Parts of Books 3. Obituaries, Memorials, Tributes 4. News and Feature Stories and Miscellaneous Items 5. Biographical Notices and Articles 6. Reviews of Frye’s Books 7. Reviews of the Volumes in the Collected Works 8. Dissertations and Theses Appendix Frye’s Books: Editions and Translations Index
£88.40
