2023 Columbia University Press Literary Studies Catalog

LITERARY STUDIES

Letter from the Editors:

We are very excited to share our new catalog in literary studies, which includes a wide range of books in a variety of areas.

Imani Owens’s Turn the World Upside Down, is one of the first books in the recently launched Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future, a cross-disciplinary series in partnership with Howard University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. Drawing on a transnational and multilingual archive—from Harlem to Havana, from the Panama Canal Zone to Port-au-Prince— Owens considers how Black writers and performers reimagined folk forms through the lens of the unruly to challenge empire.

Our other notable series also have a slew of significant new books out. In the Literature Now series, John Brooks’s The Racial Unfamiliar examines abstractionist and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists while Timothy Bewes’s already much-discussed and debated Free Indirect asks what kind of thought remains for the novel in the twenty-first century. From the Modernist Latitudes series we have Hannah Freed-Thall’s Modernism at the Beach, which reads works by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, and Rachel Carson, among others, to explore the modernist beach as a queer refuge and a visionary threshold at the end of the world. The ever-popular Rereadings series offers up Freedom Reread, in which L. Gibson investigates his love-hate relationship with Jonathan Franzen.

From our list in critical theory, What World Is This? by Judith Butler challenges us to reconsider the sense of the world in the wake of COVID-19. Alain Badiou returns with Images of the Present Time, and Enzo Traverso’s Singular Pasts scrutinizes first-person history as written by novelists and historians.

One of the more exciting developments at the end of 2022 was the extraordinary critical reception of The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang, by Perhat Tursun and by Darren Byler and Anonymous. Widely reviewed and earning the plaudits of J. M. Coetzee, Elif Bautman, and others, The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. The book joins our other innovative works of Asian fiction and literary studies found in this catalog.

These are just some of the highlights, and we look forward to these books making their way out into the world. Thank you for your interest.

Philip Leventhal Executive editor

Philip Leventhal, Executive editor for literary and film studies. @PhilipLeventhal Christine Dunbar, editor for Asian humanities and literature in translation. @cad_pub Wendy Lochner, publisher for philosophy and religion. @raspeditor

New and Forthcoming 3

Asian Literary Studies.........................................18

Literature in Translation.....................................20

Literary Studies ..................................................22

Film and Media Studies .....................................23

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Wendy Lochner (wl2003@columbia.edu), publisher for philosophy and religion.

For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our website: cup.columbia.edu.

Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press.

Titles published by the Transcript Publishing, ibidem Press, Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press are available from Columbia only in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the orld, please contact each press directly.

Free Indirect The Novel in a Postfictional Age

Timothy Bewes

This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls “free indirect,” in which the novel’s refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19297-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19160-9

2022 336 pages

LITERATURE NOW

Turn the World Upside Down

Empire and the Unruly Forms of Black Culture in the U.S. and the Caribbean Imani D. Owens

In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. In Turn the World Upside Down , Imani D. Owens explores how Black writers and performers reimagined folk culture—and Blackness itself—as a site of disruption, ambiguity, and flux. Their works reveal how Black people contribute to the stirrings of modernity while being excluded from its promises.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20889-5 $130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20888-8

June 2023 256 pages

BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE

Freedom Reread L. Gibson

In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of coming to terms with Jonathan Franzen. Wide-ranging and stylistically ambitious, Freedom Reread delivers an assured, artful inquiry into Franzen’s novelistic technique and public persona.

$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18893-7

$80.00 /£62.00 cloth 978-0-231-18892-0

February 2023 144 pages REREADINGS

The Savage Detectives Reread

David Kurnick

David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Roberto Bolaño’s life and work have obscured his achievements—and that The Savage Detectives is underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. He explores the novel as an epic of social structure and its decomposition.

$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19411-2

$80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19410-5

The Last Samurai

Reread

Lee Konstantinou

Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt’s fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt’s work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a potent social critique.

$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18583-7

$60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-18582-0 2022 144 pages REREADINGS

Storythinking

The New Science of Narrative Intelligence Angus Fletcher

Drawing on new research in neuroscience and narrative theory, Angus Fletcher explores the nature of imagination, innovation, and creativity. He provides answers to such questions as: How does storythinking work? Why did it evolve? How can it misfire? And what problems can it solve?

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20693-8

$100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20692-1 June 2023 192

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Aging Moderns

Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life Scott Herring

Modernism at the Beach

Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons Hannah Freed-Thall

What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20545-0

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20544-3

2022 288 pages

The American Poet Laureate

A History of U.S. Poetry and the State Amy Paeth

Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall reveals the beach as a surprisingly generative setting for literature and art. Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Modernism at the Beach offers new ways of understanding twentieth-century literature.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19709-0

$130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19708-3

March 2023 296 pages

MODERNIST LATITUDES

Claude McKay

The Making of a Black Bolshevik Winston James

Amy Paeth examines the work of American Poet laureates such as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Billy Collins and the development of what became a national poetic voice that emphasized the expressive agency of the individual citizen. She shows how a certain idealized practice of poetry served the aims of midcentury Cold War nationalism and the later project of multicultural, neoliberal identity formation.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19709-0

$145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-19438-9 May 2023 320 pages

One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. Winston James offers a revelatory account of McKay’s political and intellectual trajectory from his upbringing in Jamaica through the early years of his literary career and radical activism.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-13593-1

$135.00 / £104.00 cloth 978-0-231-13592-4

2022 384 pages

On Ovid's Metamorphoses

Gareth Williams

On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The First of a New Genus Susan J. Wolfson

Drawing on many years of teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself.

$14.95 / £11.99 paper 978-0-231-20071-4

$60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-20070-7

January 2023 192 pages 3 illus.

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Death of a Discipline Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Drawing on extensive experience teaching and writing about Wollstonecraft, Susan J. Wolfson provides fresh perspectives for both first-time readers and those seeking a nuanced appreciation of her achievements.

$14.95 / £11.99 paper 978-0-231-20625-9

$60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-20624-2

April 2023 128 pages

CORE KNOWLEDGE

What Is Sexual Difference?

Thinking with Irigaray

Edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares

In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of world literature in translation are being undertaken in the United States, how can we protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak demonstrates how critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers new interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

$20.00 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-207232

$85.00 / £66.00 cloth 978-0-231-20722-5

April 2003 136 pages

THE WELLEK LIBRARY LECTURES

This book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20273-2

$140.00/ £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20272-5

July 2023 464 pages 14 illus.

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Worlds

Woven

Together

Essays on Poetry and Poetics

Vidyan Ravinthiran

The critic, poet, and scholar Vidyan Ravinthiran searches for alternatives to the standard models of writing about poetry, pursuing close, imaginative readings of a variety of authors from South Asia and the West. Ravinthiran's essays are unabashedly passionate and subjective yet keenly analytical and investigative.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20275-6

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20274-9

Literature in Motion Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas Ellen Jones Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential. She examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20303-6

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20302-9

The Racial Unfamiliar Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture

John Brooks

John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received ideas about race and difference.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20503-0

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20502-3

2022 312 pages

LITERATURE NOW

Poetics of Liveliness Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds Ada Smailbegović

Ada Smailbegović shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers have intermingled scientific methodologies with poetic form to reveal unfolding processes of change. Poetics of Liveliness moves across scales to explore the work of Gertrude Stein, Christian BÖk, Jen Bervin, Lisa Robertson, and other poets.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19827-1

$95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19826-4

2021 360 pages

Images of the Present Time

Alain Badiou

Translated by Susan Spitzer

Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of “the present.”

$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-176064

December 2022 472 pages

THE SEMINARS OF ALAIN BADIOU

What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology Judith Butler

Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—have challenged us to reconsider the sense of the world that such disasters bring about. Criticizing notions of unlimited personal liberty and the killing forces of racism, sexism, and classism, this book suggests that the pandemic illuminates the potential of shared vulnerabilities as well as the injustice of pervasive inequalities.

$17.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20829-1

$80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20828-4

2022 144 pages

Young Foucault

The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955 Elisabetta Basso Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough.

Recently discovered manuscripts from the mid1950s, when Michel Foucault was a lecturer at the University of Lille, testify to the significance of the philosopher’s early work. Elisabetta Basso offers a groundbreaking and in-depth analysis of Foucault’s Lille manuscripts that sheds new light on the origins of his philosophical project.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20585-6

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20584-9

2022 352 pages

Taste

A Book of Small Bites Jehanne Dubrow

Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses. Structured as a series of “small bites,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world. Through flavorful explorations of the sweet, the sour, the salty, the bitter, and umami, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20175-9

$80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20174-2

2022 152 pages

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The

#MeToo Effect What Happens When We Believe Women

Leigh Gilmore

Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. She reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.

$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-19420-4

April 2023 256 pages 2 illus.

GENDER AND CULTURE SERIES

Singular Pasts The "I" in Historiography Enzo Traverso Translated by Adam

Schoene

Singular Pasts offers a critical account of the emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing, scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians who reveal their emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a literary flavor. They’re also memoirists and creators of literature, not only historians.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20399-9

$110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-20398-2 2022 216 pages

Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication

Siegfried Kracauer

Edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch, and John Abromeit

This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-15897-8

$115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-15896-1 2022 480 pages

Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet Ted Striphas

Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how culture and computation came to be entangled. From Cambridge, England to Cambridge, Massachusetts by way of medieval Baghdad, this book pinpoints the critical junctures at which algorithmic culture began to coalesce in language long before it materialized in the technological wizardry of Silicon Valley

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-15897-8

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20668-6

May 2023 336 pages 11 illus.

Accidental Agents Ecological Politics Beyond the Human Martin Crowley

Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ongoing debates in posthumanism, political ecology, and political theory, Accidental Agents reshapes our understanding of political agency in and for a more-than-human world.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20403-3

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20402-6

2022 296 pages

INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE

Critique of Bored Reason

On the Confinement of the Modern Condition Dmitri Nikulin

Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept’s genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such thinkers as Descartes, Pascal, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kracauer, Heidegger, and Benjamin, Critique of Bored Reason places boredom on center stage in the philosophical critique of modernity.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18907-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18906-4

2022 328 pages

The

Italian Invert A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola

Edited by Michael Rosenfeld with William A. Peniston

Translated by Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston

In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: in a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men. This is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20489-7

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20488-0

2022 256 pages

Barbary Captives

An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa

Edited by Mario Klarer

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17525-8

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-17524-1

2022 416 pages

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Perplexing Plots

Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder David Bordwell

David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how popular culture has evolved over the past century.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20659-4

$130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20658-7

January 2023 512 pages 93 illus.

FILM AND CULTURE SERIES

Antagonistic Cooperation

Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture

Robert O'Meally

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18919-4

$120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-18918-7 2021 256 pages

LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF LECTURES

A Revolution in Three Acts

The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge

David Hajdu and John Carey

Foreword by Michele Wallace

Bert Williams—a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay—an entertainer with the signature song “I Don’t Care” who flouted the rules of propriety to redefine womanhood for the modern age. Julian Eltinge—a female impersonator who entranced and unnerved audiences by embodying the feminine ideal Tanguay rejected. A Revolution in Three Acts explores how these vaudeville stars changed how their audiences thought about what it meant to be American, to be Black, to be a woman or a man.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19183-8

2023 176 pages

Hard Rain

Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History

Alessandro Portelli

Bob Dylan’s iconic 1962 song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores the power and resonance of the song, considering the meanings of history and memory in folk cultures and in Dylan’s work.

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20593-1

$110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-20592-4

2022 184 pages

THE COLUMBIA ORAL HISTORY SERIES

Entanglements

Envisioning World Literature from the Global South

Edited by Andrea Gremels, Maren Scheurer, Frank Schulze-Engler, and Jarula M. I. Wegner

This book challenges established ideas of world literature by rethinking the concept along the notion of “entanglements”: as a field of crisscrossing relations of literary activity beyond the confines of literary canons, cultural containers, or national borders.

$42.00 paper 978-3-8382-1593-8

2022 240 pages 1 illus.

IBIDEM PRESS

Powerful Prose How Textual Features Impact Readers

Edited by R. L. Victoria Pöhls and Mariane Utudji

What makes a reading experience “powerful”? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to theorize this widely used notion, providing new insights into the mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection investigates a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5880-4

2021 264 pages 6 illus.

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Popular Literature Texts, Contexts, Contestations

Edited by Rupayan Mukherjee and Jaydip Sarkar

This volume offers a selection of critical essays on texts that can be broadly categorized as popular literature. In addition to critical readings of popular texts such as The Jungle Book and The Hound of the Baskervilles, the book considers populist tendencies in literary classics like Jane Eyre and Frankenstein.

$48.00 paper 978-3-8382-1666-9

2022 300 pages

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Writing Facts

Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity Susanne Knaller

The book shows why and how “facts” are a result of knowledge, rules, and norms as well as of description, argumentation, and narration. This approach allows new perspectives on “fact” and its impact on modernity.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-6271-9

January 2023 320 pages 15 illus.

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Imaging the Scenes of War

Aesthetic Crossovers in American Visual Culture

Christof Decker

In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its consequences.

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6202-3

2022 160 pages

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Global Curriculum Development

How to Redesign U.S. Higher Education for the 21st Century Linn Friedrichs

How can higher education empower students as agents of the social transformations that our societies need so urgently? Linn Friedrichs connects John Dewey’s education theory, current research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum-design approaches to propose a new educational model for our age of complexity, crisis, and innovation.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6023-4

2022 260 pages

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Beyond Narrative Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work

Edited by Sebastian M. Herrmann, Katja Kanzler, and Stefan Schubert

An investigation of the borderlands of narrativity — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6130-9

2022 270 pages

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The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms

Katja Schulze

Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come into view.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6260-3

2022 300 pages

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Black Travel Writing

Putting Age in its Place

Contemporary

Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors

Isabel

Kalous

Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical travel narratives by African American and Black British authors published from the 1990s to 2010s. She outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of transnational Black travel writing. Authors discussed include Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5953-5

2022 274 pages

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Culture²

Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1

Edited by Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre

This essay collection is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, exploring the interdisciplinary traffic of theories, methods, and ideas.

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5787-6

2022 300 pages 4 illus.

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Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction Ulla Kriebernegg

Through close readings of works by Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Oscar Casares, John Mighton, and several others, Ulla Kriebernegg explores how the setting at the nexus of home, hospital, hotel, and prison functions in the newly emerging genre of the care-home novel.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6412-6

May 2023 310 pages 5 illus.

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Comparative Practices

Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century

Edited

by Nadine BöhmSchnitker and Marcus Hartner

The contributors to this volume investigate the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation and considers how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5799-9

2022 220 pages

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Beckett and the Irish Protestant Imagination Feargal Whelan

Detailed analysis of works drawn from all genres and from all periods of Beckett’s oeuvre trace his engagement with Ireland and the impact of the country, its culture, and its landscape on his writing, from the direct social commentaries of the early prose to the haunted persistence of its memories in the later work.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1123-7

2022 302 pages 2 illus.

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Ezra Pound's Atlas Essays on Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Textuality in The Cantos Mark Byron

Foreword by Ira B. Nadel

These essays engage with recent developments in such fields as early medieval studies, modernism studies, Chinese and Japanese studies, textual criticism, literature and music, and digital scholarly editing to shed new light on Pound's sources, his scholarly and poetic techniques, and his relevance to contemporary thinking about poetry, editorial methods, and global intellectual history.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1081-0

2022 310 pages

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Transdisciplinary Beckett

Visual

Arts, Music, and the Creative Process

Lucy Jeffery

This is the first book to analyze Beckett’s use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett’s complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process.

$70.00 paper 978-3-8382-1584-6

2022 340 pages 24 illus.

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Joseph Conrad and Ethics

Edited by Amar Acheraïou and Laëtitia Crémona

Joseph Conrad’s ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet it has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is fully devoted to ethics in Conrad’s fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrad’s ethical reflection that challenges and extends current discussions.

$60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-83-227-9457-9

2022 329 pages

MARIA CURIE-SKLODOWSKA UNIVERSITY PRESS

London, Queer Spaces, and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst Júlia Braga Neves

Júlia Braga Neves shows how queer spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots are articulated through and within London’s sexual geographies. She reflects on queer historiography and the relationship between subject and urban space.

$75.00 paper 978-3-8376-5734-0

2022 300 pages

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Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination

Edited by Šárka Bubíková and Olga Roebuck

Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination ventures into the realms of genre literature to explore its rendering of locations and spaces. It brings a varied theoretical framework to the exploration of genres such as crime fiction, the spy novel, the academic mystery, crime comics, and crime film.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-83-233-4980-8

2022 118 pages

JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Comparing Literatures Aspects, Method, and Orientation

Edited by Alison Boulanger and Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian

During periods of globalization and encounters as well as clashes between cultures, the place of literature within society is often questioned. From the reception studies of the 1970s and 1980s to the stress laid on intermedial and intercultural relations, this question opens up a wide field of research.

$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1428-3

2022 160 pages 6 illus.

IBIDEM PRESS

Reading Between the Lines

Reflections on Discarded Books and Sociopolitical Transformations in (Post-) Yugoslavia

Dora Komnenović

When postcommunist libraries discarded a large number of books, was it a “bibliocide”—as it was labeled by some media in Croatia? This book offers an innovative and original interpretation of postsocialist transition and post-Yugoslav memory.

$42.00 paper 978-3-8382-1643-0

2022 220 pages 13 illus.

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How to Read Chinese Drama

A Guided Anthology

Edited by Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas

This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their historical contexts.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18649-0

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-186490

2022 480 pages 13 illus.

HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE

How to Read Chinese Prose

A Guided Anthology

Edited by Zong-qi Cai

This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of traditional Chinese prose.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20365-4

$160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20364-7

2022 440 pages

HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE

How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese A Language Companion

Guo Yingde, Wenbo Chang, Patricia Sieber, and Xiaohui Zhang

This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. A companion to How to Read Chinese Drama designed for Chinese-language learners, it provides a versatile introduction to traditional Chinese plays for readers who want to experience Chinese drama in the original language.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20957-1

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-209564

March 2023 208 pages

HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE

How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese

A Course in Classical Chinese Jie Cui, Liu Yucai, and Zong-qi Cai

This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20293-0

$160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20292-3

2022 416 pages

HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE

Malaysian Crossings Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature Cheow Thia Chan

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that Mahua authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20339-5

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20338-8

2022 320 pages 7 iilus.

GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE

Imagining India in Modern China

Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962

Gal Gvili

Gal Gvili examines how Chinese writers’ image of India shaped the making of a new literature and spurred efforts to achieve literary decolonization. She argues that multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections empowered Chinese literary figures to resist Western imperialism and its legacies through novel forms and genres.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20571-9

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20570-2

2022 264 pages 6 illus.

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States of Disconnect The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century Adhira Mangalagiri

States of Disconnect examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to pairing ideas of China and India. Adhira Mangalagiri proposes the concept of “disconnect”: a crisis of transnationalism perceptible in moments when a connection is severed, interrupted, or disavowed.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20569-6

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20568-9

January 2023 296 pages 8 illus.

The Culture of Language in Ming China Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge Nathan Vedal

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20075-2

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20074-5

2022 320 pages 19 illus.

The Substance of Fiction

Literary Objects in China, 1550–1775 Sophie Volpp

Made in Censorship

The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film Thomas Chen

Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are often signs of fictionality, calling attention to the nature of the relationship between literature and materiality.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19965-0

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19964-3

2022 256 pages 23 illus.

PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS

Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen examines the surprisingly rich corpus of Tiananmen literature and film produced in mainland China since 1989, contending that censorship does not simply forbid—it also shapes what is created.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20401-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20400-2

2022 240 pages 11 iilus.

The Promise and Peril of Things

Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China Wai-yee Li

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions—people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found—to tease out the ambiguities of material culture.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20103-2

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20102-5

2022 360 pages

Words from India in the West A Critical Approach to Select Writings by the Diasporic Indian Litterateurs

Edited by Pinaki Roy Foreword by Ashis Sengupta and introduction by Bashabi Fraser

This edited volume critically assesses different aspects of five literary genres—novels, poetry, short-stories, drama, and nonfictional prose— contributed to by the Indian diasporic writers settled principally in North America and Europe.

$40.00 paper 978-3-8382-1718-5

2022 330 pages

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TITLES.

The Backstreets A Novel from Xinjiang Perhat Tursun

Translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous

A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On

Dung Kai-cheung

Translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson

The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. Perhat Tursun follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the capital of Xinjiang. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection.

$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20291-6

$80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20290-9 2022 208 pages

The Membranes A Novel Chi Ta-wei

Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich

Dung Kai-cheung’s A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of latenineties Hong Kong. It comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. A major work from one of Hong Kong’s most gifted and original writers, Dung’s archaeology of the end of the twentieth century speaks to perennial questions about consumerism, nostalgia, and identity.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20543-6

$115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20542-9

2022 400 pages

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Longing and Other Stories

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

Translated by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy

First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes—heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies—into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for self-understanding.

$17.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-19571-3

$65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19570-6

FROM TAIWAN

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go on to explore.

$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20215-2

$80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-120214-5

The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales

Vasily Eroshenko

Translated by Adam Kuplowsky. Foreward by Jack Zipes.

The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales presents a selection of Eroshenko’s stories, translated from Japanese and Esperanto, to English readers for the first time. These fables tell the stories of a religiously disillusioned fish, a jealous paper lantern, a scholarly young mouse, a captive tiger who seeks to liberate his fellow animals, and many more.

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20769-0

$100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20768-3

March 2023 304 pages

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Samak the Ayyar A Tale of Ancient Persia

Translated by Freydoon Rassouli

Adapted by Jordan Mechner

The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia’s thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved in Iran. Translated from the original Persian by Freydoon Rassouli and adapted by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, this timeless masterwork can now be enjoyed by Englishspeaking readers.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19879-0

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19878-3 2021 464 pages

The Poet and Existence Text Contents and the Interaction of Reality, Myths, and Symbols in Hatif Janabi’s Poetry Yousef Sh’hadeh

This book presents a critical study of five poetry collections by the Iraqi poet Hātif Janābī published between 1998 and 2017. This study seeks to address essential aspects of Janābī’s poetry related to its ideational and philosophical contents, focusing on the major milestones of the poet’s imaginative world.

$50.00 / £40.00 paper 978-83-233-5008-8

February 2023 224 pages

JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Contemporary Arab World

Literary and Linguistic Issues

Edited by Barbara Michalak-Pikulska

This book is a collection of six papers on selected issues in teaching Arabic as a foreign language and the many methodological challenges connected with the specificity and complexity of the sociolinguistic situation in the Arab world.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-83-233-4933-4

February 2023 158 pages

JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Crooked, but Never Common

The Films of Preston Sturges Stuart Klawans

Lars von Trier Beyond Depression Contexts and Collaborations Linda Badley

In Crooked, but Never Common, Stuart Klawans combines a critic’s insight and a fan’s enthusiasm to offer deeper ways to think about and enjoy Preston Sturges’s work. He provides an in-depth appreciation of all ten of the writer-director’s major movies.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20729-4

$110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-20728-7

January 2023 376 pages 40 illus.

The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson American Apocrypha Ethan Warren

Foreword by Lindsay Zoladz.

Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013–14), and The House That Jack Built (2018) and the contexts that produced them. She draws on numerous interviews with the director and his collaborators as well as inside access to archival materials.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19153-1

$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-19152-4 2022 288 pages 28 illus.

WALLFLOWER PRESS

Horror Film and Otherness

This book provides the most complete account of Paul Thomas Anderson’s career to date, encompassing his evolution from a self-anointed auteur to one of his generation’s most distinctive voices. It is at once an unconventional primer on Anderson’s films and a provocative reframing of what makes his work so essential.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20459-0

$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20458-3

April 2023 256 pages 24 illus.

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WALLFLOWER PRESS

Adam Lowenstein offers a new account of horror and why it matters for understanding social otherness. He argues that horror films reveal how the category of the other is not fixed. Instead, the genre captures ongoing metamorphoses across “normal” self and “monstrous” other.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20577-1

$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20576-4

2022 288 pages

FILM AND CULTURE SERIES

Adam Lowenstein

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