LITERARY NONFICTION Virginie Despentes KING KONG THEORY 978-1-55861-657-8, $15.95, paper, 160 pp.
music that every tea drinker will want in their collection”—Bruce Richardson, Fresh Cup Magazine.
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The Edu-factory Collective TOWARD A GLOBAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY: COGNITIVE LABOR, THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXODUS FROM THE FACTORY 978-1-57027-204-2, $14.95, paper, 196 pp.
Literary Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. Translated from the French by Stephanie Benson. With humor, rage, and confessional detail, Virginie Despentes—in her own words, “more King Kong than Kate Moss”—delivers a highly charged account of women’s lives today. She explodes common attitudes about sex and gender, and shows how modern beauty myths are ripe for rebelling against. Using her own experiences of rape, prostitution, and working in the porn industry as a jumping-off point, she creates a new space for all those who can’t or won’t obey the rules. W. S. Di Piero WHEN CAN I SEE YOU AGAIN: NEW ART WRITINGS 978-0-9824100-6-6, $17.50, paper, 300 pp. PRESSED WAFER 2010
Literary Nonfiction. Art. WHEN CAN I SEE YOU AGAIN is a collection of the poet and essayist’s recent short art writings on subjects ranging from Morandi to Rembrandt to Pre-Columbian marine animal amulets. Di Piero has great zest for looking and a prose style equal to what he sees. Sharon Doubiago MY FATHER’S LOVE: PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS A YOUNG GIRL, VOLUME 1 978-0-9841304-0-5, $20, paper, 480 pp. WILD OCEAN PRESS 2009
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In this first volume of her two-volume memoir, prize-winning poet Sharon Doubiago writes an extraordinary memoir of growing up in the 1940s and 50s in South Central Los Angeles and the desert mountain town of Ramona. MY FATHER’S LOVE addresses the current controversies of memory and memoir and sets new standards for the genre by adhering to historical records, letters, diaries, interviews, and a drive to know the unfabricated truth, while weaving these, in stunning language and imagery with remembering and reliving. This book attempts to understand her family rooted deep in the history of America, in both its Southern aristocracy and its victims. It looks at the world through the eyes of a child who knows what love is, a girl labeled beautiful, a victim of rape, incest and psychological terrorism, depicting the genesis of an American epic poet. It will change your perspective of the world forever. Joel Douek and Eric Czar MUSIC OF TEA: MUSIC FROM THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK THE MEANING OF TEA 978-0-615-20443-7, $19.95, CD, 51 min. TEA DRAGON FILMS 2009
Music. CD. MUSIC OF TEA is a compilation of tea-inspired and soothing instrumental world music. It includes the song “Marco Polo,” written and performed by Loreena McKennitt. Listening to this CD brings you on a mystical journey through India, Japan, Taiwan, Morocco, England, France, Ireland and Tea, South Dakota. All 16 instrumental tracks by Joel Douek and Eric Czar were composed to upraise and complement indigenous music in tea-influenced countries. Featured instruments include the alto flute, cello, pipa, accordian, ehru, electric violin, piano, and guitar. From charming and cheerful to mellow and transcendental, each track embodies a different musical mood designed to enhance the most meditative moments. MUSIC OF TEA, offering hints of natural sounds, is not only the original soundtrack for THE MEANING OF TEA documentary film and book, but it’s also the perfect soundtrack for any contemplative pursuit. “MUSIC OF TEA is a mesmerizing mix of world
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Nonfiction. Education. Criticism and Theory. What was once the factory is now the university. We started off with this apparently straightforward affirmation, not in order to assume it but to question it; to open it, radically rethinking it, towards theoretical and political research. The Edu-factory project took off from here.... Edu-factory is, above all, a partisan standpoint on the crisis of the university.... The state university is in ruins, the mass university is in ruins, and the university as a privileged place of national culture—just like the concept of national culture itself—is in ruins. We’re not suffering from nostalgia. Quite the contrary, we vindicate the university’s destruction. In fact, the crisis of the university was determined by social movements in the first place. This is what makes us not merely immune to tears for the past but enemies of such a nostalgic disposition. University corporatization and the rise of a global university...are not unilateral impositions or developments completely contained by capitalist rationality. Rather they are the result—absolutely temporary and thus reversible—of a formidable cycle of struggles. The problem is to transform the field of tension delineated by the processes analyzed in this book into specific forms of resistance and the organization of escape routes. This is Edu-factory’s starting point and objective, its style and its method. Thalia Field and Abigail Lang A PRANK OF GEORGES 978-0-9791189-6-8, $16.95, paper, 140 pp. ESSAY PRESS 2010
Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. Essay. “For William Carlos Williams a poem is a small or large machine made out of words. Thalia Field and Abigail Lang have taken this proposition seriously, yet playfully. Their luminous pas de deux ludically conjures Gertrude Stein to construct a textual game that leaps linguistic and cultural rifts to find the commonalities of ‘various sorts of talk’ through which ‘the name is spread from link to link as if by a chain.’ Together these poets return us to the primal force of language: naming”—Susan Howe. Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby, Editors AMERICAN INDIAN PERFORMING ARTS: CRITICAL DIRECTIONS 978-0-935626-62-9, $25, paper, 293 pp. UCLA AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES CENTER 2009
Performing Arts. Native American Studies. With an introduction by Jace Weaver, this collection of essays analyzes Native theater, dance, and music performances through indigenous critical lenses. Contributors to this volume include both recent and established scholars who offer provocative studies of the ways in which Native performing artists “re-present” American Indian history, culture, art forms, spiritual traditions, and/or contemporary issues in their works. Jacqueline Shea Murphy writes, “The scope is exciting, both in what the essays focus on—contemporary Native plays, an early 20th century Sun Dance opera, punk rock band musicians, turn-of-the-century jazz bands, contemporary modern dance—and also in the issues the authors raise and consider.... The result is a vibrant, insightful, wide-ranging, and crucial contribution to the growing discussion about this important field.”
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