Spring 2022 Catalog

Fordham University Press SPRING 2022

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The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem.

Africans in Harlem

An Untold New York Story B O U KARY SAWADOGO 224 pages, 18 b/w illustrations 9780823299126, Hardback, $34.95, £26.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions J UNE African Studies | Immigration & Migration | New York City & Regional

From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellectual and cultural center of the Black world. The Harlem Renaissance movement brought together Black writers, artists, and musicians from different backgrounds who helped rethink the place of Black people in American society at a time of segregation and lack of recognition of their civil rights. But where is the story of African immigrants in Harlem’s most recent renaissance? Africans in Harlem examines the intellectual, artistic, and creative exchanges between Africa and New York dating back to the 1910s, a story that has not been fully told until now.

From Little Senegal, along 116th Street between Lenox Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, to the African street vendors on 125th Street, to African stores, restaurants, and businesses throughout the neighborhood, the African presence in Harlem has never been more active and visible than it is today. In Africans in Harlem, author, scholar, writer, and filmmaker Boukary Sawadogo explores Harlem’s African presence and influence from his own perspective as an African-born immigrant. Sawadogo captures the experiences, challenges, and problems African émigrés have faced in Harlem since the 1980s, notably work, interaction, diversity, identity, religion, and education. With a keen focus on the history of Africans through the lens of media, theater, the arts, and politics, this historical overview features compelling characterdriven narratives and interviews of longtime residents as well as community and religious leaders.

A blend of self-examination as an immigrant member in Harlem and research on diasporic community-building in New York City, Africans in Harlem reveals how African immigrants have transformed Harlem economically and culturally as they too have been transformed. It is also a story about New York City and its self-renewal by the contributions of new human capital, creative energies, dreams nurtured and fulfilled, and good neighbors by drawing parallels between the history of the African presence in Harlem with those of other ethnic immigrants in the most storied neighborhood in America.

BOUKARY SAWADOGO is an Associate Professor of cinema studies and black studies at City College and received his Ph.D. in Francophone studies (African cinema) from the University of Louisiana in 2012. He is the author of West African Screen: Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization; African Film Studies: An Introduction; and Les Cinémas francophones ouest-africains, 1990–2005.

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How a prolific yet little-known architect changed the face of education in New York City

From Factories to Palaces

Architect Charles B. J. Snyder and the New York City Public Schools J E A N AR R INGTON W I TH C YNT HIA S. LAVALLE FOR EWO RD BY PEG BREEN 272 pages, 110 b/w illustrations 9780823299164, Hardback, $39.95, £32.95 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions M AY Architecture | Education | History

As Superintendent of School Buildings from 1891 to 1922, architect Charles B. J. Snyder elevated the standards of school architecture. Unprecedented immigration and Progressive Era changes in educational philosophy led to his fresh approach to design and architecture, which forever altered the look and feel of twentieth-century classrooms and school buildings. Students rich or poor, immigrant or native New Yorker, went from learning in factory-like schools to attending classes in schools with architectural designs and enhancements that to many made them seem like palaces. Spanning three decades, From Factories to Palaces provides a thoughtprovoking narrative of Charles Snyder and shows how he integrated his personal experiences and innovative design skills with Progressive Era school reform to improve students’ educational experience in New York City and, by extension, across the nation.

During his thirty-one years of service, Snyder oversaw the construction of more than 400 New York City public schools and additions, of which more than half remain in use today.

Instead of blending in with the surrounding buildings as earlier schools had, Snyder’s were grand and imposing. “He does that which no other architect before his time ever did or tried: He builds them beautiful,” wrote Jacob Riis. Working with the Building Bureau, Snyder addressed the school situation on three fronts: appearance, construction, and function. He re-designed schools for greater light and air, improved their sanitary facilities, and incorporated quality-oflife features such as heated cloakrooms and water fountains.

Author and educator Dr. Jean Arrington chronicles how Snyder worked alongside a group of like-minded, hardworking individuals—Building Bureau draftsmen, builders, engineers, school administrators, teachers, and custodians—to accomplish this feat.

This revelatory book offers fascinating glimpses into the nascent world of modern education, from the development of specialty areas, such as the school gymnasium, auditorium, and lunchroom, to the emergence of school desks with backs as opposed to uncomfortable benches, all housed in some of the first fireproofed schools in the nation. Thanks to Snyder, development was always done with the students’ safety, well-being, and learning in mind. Lively historical drawings, architectural layouts, and photographs of school building exteriors and interiors enhance the engaging story.

Funding for this book was provided by: Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund

After twenty-four years as an English professor at Peace College and raising three daughters in Raleigh, North Carolina, JEAN ARRINGTON (1946–2022) relocated to New York City in 2005, where she taught at BMCC until 2017. During her New York City stint, she was fascinated

by Snyder and his beautiful schools. To showcase this remarkable man and his amazing accomplishments, Jean gave walking tours highlighting various Snyder schools, gave lectures for architectural and historical organizations, and wrote articles for local newspapers.

CYNTHIA S. LAVALLE , originally from Babylon, New York, and a great-granddaughter of

Snyder’s, has worn a few hats throughout life—always in the healthcare field -- registered nurse, computer programmer, project manager, and management consultant. In 2019, when Jean, with health concerns, could use some assistance, Cindy managed the project and team that brought this book to the finish line. is president of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, one of the oldest and largest preservation organizations in the country.

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“A stunningly original, politically complex, and masterful book of poems. Why the Assembly Disbanded, in its deep syntactical meditations and ever-surprising use of powerful yet subtle language and evocative forms, cuts out of the fear and pathos of the day as it arrests and reminds us of the need for invention and wonder at this precarious moment.”

—RONALD O V. W ILSO N, U NIV E RSITY O F C ALIFORNIA , SANTA CRUZ

Pushing the boundaries of Latinx literature and what constitutes a borderlands poetics.

Why the Assembly Disbanded R OBERTO T EJADA

88 pages, 5 x 8, 8 color and 8 b/w photos 9780823299256, Paperback, $16.95, £12.99 (TP) Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H Poetry | Latinx Studies | Art & Visual Culture

Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated critic has explored themes of Latinx culture, politics, history, language, and ecologies. In his latest collection, Why the Assembly Disbanded, he presents a unique contribution to Latinx letters that reflects on the relations between the United States and Latin America, especially their real and symbolic borderlands.

Immersive, postmodern, and philosophical, Why the Assembly Disbanded provides an associative, critical Latinx aesthetic connecting the Mexico–United States borderlands to Latin America’s neo-baroque heritage. Migrants, settlers, tourists, and exiles moving across various hemispheric landscapes are featured in these exuberant, capacious, and self-reflexive poems.

Tejada relates the ravages of white supremacy in our culture that, together with immigrant precarity, turn home into a place of foreboding and impending eviction, even as a dreamweather makes room at last for scenes of possibility and attainment in the account of human history.

The sweeping futuristic vista open on to narratives of colonial extraction, human displacement, abuses of capitalism, mass media spectacle, the antagonism of language and technical images in the sensorium of urban and digital life-worlds, and the relations of desire encouraged by pictures and words in the economy of attention. Los Angeles and Mexico City figure prominently in poems committed to voicing modes of formation and community in an intersectional reckoning of personhoods prompted in work by artists Betye Saar, Amiri Baraka, Connie Samaras, and Rubén Ortiz Torres.

With language given to pageantry, tonal precision, and a hopeful lyric radiance that can accommodate ecstasy and justice, Roberto Tejada’s carnivalesque, borderland imagery pushes the boundaries of Latinx literature. World-building by way of reverie, speculation, and retrofuturist tableaux, and with vivid, sometimes violent particularity, his poems enact hallucinatory realities of the hemisphere: an imagination that triangulates history, lyricism, and art as social practice.

ROBERTO TEJADA is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches in the Departments of English, Creative Writing, and Art History. He has published numerous volumes of poetry as well as several works of Art and Media History.

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GENERAL INTEREST “Just as one tiny speck of glitter lights up an entire face, each of these radiant tiny prayers sparkles with huge hope. They are jewels of honest introspection, poetic gifts born of a year of turmoil, collected as a trail of glitter crumbs, lighting up our way back home to the soul.”

—RABBI AMIC HAI LAU -LAV IE, FO U ND ING SPIRITUAL LE AD E R OF LAB/ SHUL

“Prayer changes things; this was central to my childhood faith training. And the older I get, the more the world turns in ways that cause me deep concern, the more I believe it to be true. These tiny prayers from Micah Bucey’s big heart add up to something far larger than first meets the eye. In the midst of fear, grief, and continuing injustices, these are sincere expressions of the desire to dream God’s dream, with the power to center us, comfort us, ground us, and galvanize us for the sacred work we must be doing in order to heal our souls and the world.

This collection is a very specific record of a very specific year, but the sense of yearning and hope will inspire lives of love and justice for years to come.”

—THE RE V. D R. JACQ U I LE W IS, SE NIO R MINISTE R, MID D LE COLLEGIATE C HU RC H; AU THOR, FI ERCE LOV E: A BOL D PATH TO FEROCI O US COURAGE AND RU L E-BREA K I N G K I N D N ESS TH AT CA N H EA L TH E WORL D

Bearing witness to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Book of Tiny Prayer Daily Meditations from the Plague Year M I CA H BUC EY FOR EWO RD BY PÁDRA IG Ó TUA M A 312 pages, 41⁄4 x 7 9780823299225, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) Simultaneous electronic edition available AVA ILA B LE Religion | Politics | Poetry

When New York City went into lockdown in March 2020, spiritual leader Micah Bucey found the world and himself in desperate need of prayer. While social distancing created disconnect, Bucey began a daily practice of writing a “Tiny Prayer” each morning and posting it on social media, each offering a reflection on what was going on in his own heart and in the wider world.

Soon, a solitary practice became a communal one, with others engaging and sharing the prayers that touched them most, suggesting issues and topics for future prayers, and creating connection across a digital divide.

Over the course of a year filled with fear and faith, protest and possibility, Bucey composed prayers for frontline workers and activists, those lost to illness and wins for democracy, for civic leaders, celebrities, and everyday emotions. While overwhelm threatened to engulf us all, these short meditations invited a combination of attention and intention in bite-sized form that aided the reader in focusing on one issue at a time, from the rise of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, to police violence, social-justice uprisings, immigrant detentions, catastrophic climate events, mass shootings, and violent right-wing insurrections.

Now, all 366 “Tiny Prayers” are collected here, together forming a chronicle of a specific moment in time and modeling a form for everyone to compose their own tiny prayers to engage the everyday around them. The Book of Tiny Prayer recalls a very particular year, but its spirit is universal, inviting all to quiet themselves, name the pain and the joy around them, and recommit to the change required for collective liberation, during the worst times and far beyond.

MICAH BUCEY serves as Minister at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, a congregation committed to curiously seeking the intersections between expansive spirituality, radical social justice, and uncensored creative expression. Bucey has also served as Multifaith Coordinator for the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City and is a regular contributor to Spirituality & Practice. In his time at Judson, Bucey developed and continues to oversee “Judson Arts,” which has commissioned, presented, produced, and promoted the creative output of hundreds of poets, actors, playwrights, composers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, painters, photographers, sculptors, and many others, upholding the belief that artists have the potential to serve as society’s modern-day prophets. Learn more at micahbucey.com.

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“Reading Shakespeare Reading Me is a triumphant vindication of critical selfabsorption. This remarkable, exuberantly written book proves what many would scarcely think possible: that details unique to one individual (and a highly unusual one at that) can lead to fresh insights into some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, and at the same time that a sustained reflection on plays written 400 years ago can lead to intimate and absorbing self-revelations.”

—STE PHE N GRE E NBLATT, AU THO R O F WI L L I N TH E WORL D : HOW SHAKE SPE ARE BEC A ME SH A K ESPEA RE

“The humanity, candor, humility of this book are disarming and remind us that nothing exalts us more than to hear our most personal difficulties echoed by the great Bard himself.”

—AND RÉ AC IMAN, AU THOR O F C A L L ME BY YOU R N A ME

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways.

Reading Shakespeare Reading Me L EO NAR D BA R KAN 256 pages, 5 color and 6 b/w illustrations 9780823299195, Hardback, $29.95, £22.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available A P R IL Literary Studies | Renaissance Studies | LGBTQ Studies

Bookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may be doing, they are reading about themselves.

Read Shakespeare, and you become Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience the plays as if you are in a small room alone with them, and they are speaking to your life, your sensibility.

Drawing on fifty years as a Shakespearean, Leonard Barkan has produced a captivating book that asks us to reconsider what it means to read. Barkan violates the rule of distance he was taught and has always taught his students. He asks: Where does this brilliantly contrived fiction actually touch me? Where is Shakespeare in effect telling the story of my life?

King Lear, for Barkan, raises unanswerable questions about what exactly a father does after planting the seed. Mothers from Gertrude to Lady Macbeth are reconsidered in the light of the author’s experience as a son of a former flapper. The sonnets and comedies are seen through the eyes of a gay man who nevertheless weeps with joy when all the heterosexual couples are united at the end. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is interpreted through the author’s joyous experience of performing the role of Bottom and finding his aesthetic faith in the pantheon of antiquity. And the exquisitely poetical history play Richard II intersects with, of all things, Ru Paul’s Drag Race.

Full of engrossing stories, from family secrets to the world of the theater, and written with humor and genuine excitement about literary experiences worthy of our attention and our love, Reading Shakespeare Reading Me makes Shakespeare’s plays come alive in new ways.

LEONARD BARKAN is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton, where he teaches comparative literature, art history, English, and classics. His many books include The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and the Culture of Europe from Rome to the Renaissance; Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion; Michelangelo: A Life on Paper; Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome; and Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture, which won prizes from the Modern Language Association, the College Art Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, Architectural Digest, and Phi Beta Kappa.

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GENERAL INTEREST “Hudson has found a way to strike together all the various facets of our rapidly changing climate future, sparking stories that are by turns, and often all at once, ingenious, energetic, provocative, and soulful. He is the face of this new movement in science fiction, and we’re lucky to have him.”

—KIM STANLE Y RO BINSON

“. . . fans of William Gibson and Kim Stanley Robinson will savor this thoughtful, rigorous exploration of climate action.”

—PU BLISHE RS W E E KLY

“Hudson’s innovative and exciting publication is, simultaneously, a consideration of the relationship between climate fiction and climate policy, a highly readable and teachable set of climate stories, and a critical intervention in what climate fiction is capable of achieving in the ‘real’ world.”

—AD E LINE J OHNS -PU TRA , PROFE SSO R O F LITE RATU RE, XI’AN JIAOTONG– LIV E RPOO L U NIV E RSITY, C HINA

“Our Shared Storm is a fascinating thought-experiment in imagining worlds to come. Through a set of common characters kaleidoscopically revealed, readers are granted perspectival narrative access to a skein of political, cultural, and philosophical views that, along with their attendant actions, will shape the planet for worse—or, perhaps, better.”

—C HRISTO PHE R SC HABE RG, AU THO R O F SEA RC H I N G FOR THE ANTHROPOCE NE

Through speculative fiction, five interlocking novelettes explore the possible realities of our climate future.

Our Shared Storm A Novel of Five Climate Futures A N D R EW DA NA HUDS ON 224 pages, 5 x 8, 2 b/w illustrations 9780823299546, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) 9780823299539, Hardback, $70.00, £56.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available A P R IL Fiction | Environment | Public Policy

What is the future of our climate? Given that our summers now regularly feature Arctic heat waves and wildfire blood skies, polar vortex winters that reach all the way down to Texas, and “100-year” storms that hit every few months, it may seem that catastrophe is a done deal. As grim as things are, however, we still have options. Combining fiction and nonfiction and employing speculative tools for scholarly purposes, Our Shared Storm explores not just one potential climate future but five possible outcomes dependent upon our actions today.

Written by speculative-fiction writer and sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson, Our Shared Storm features five overlapping fictions to employ a futurist technique called “scenarios thinking.” Rather than try to predict how history will unfold—picking one out of many unpredictable and contingent branching paths—it instead creates a set of futures that represent major trends or counterposed possibilities, based on a set of climate-modeling scenarios known as the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs).

The setting is the year 2054, during the Conference of the Parties global climate negotiations (a.k.a., The COP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each story features a common cast of characters, but with events unfolding differently for them—and human society—in each alternate universe. These five scenarios highlight the political, economic, and cultural possibilities of futures where investments in climate adaptation and mitigation promised today have been successfully completed, kicked down the road, or abandoned altogether. From harrowing to hopeful, these stories highlight the choices we must make to stabilize the planet.

Our Shared Storm is an experiment in deploying practice-based research methods to explore the opportunities and challenges of using climate fiction to engage scientific and academic frameworks. is a speculative-fiction writer, sustainability researcher, and narrative strategist. His stories have appeared in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and more, as well as in various books and anthologies.

His nonfiction writing has appeared in Slate, among others.

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“Language in Cixous’s hands is molten, constantly opening onto fresh possibilities.

Her Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem is an act of imagination, investigation, sojourn, and witness driven by terrible necessity and marbled with fierce, incomparable beauty.”

—MAGGIE NE LSO N, AU THO R O F ON FREED OM: FOU R SON G S OF CARE AND CON STRA I N T

“A deeply felt and deeply affecting book, permeated by a sense of love and loss, and of the desire to enter and understand—insofar as possible—a tragic and complex past. Peggy Kamuf’s translation wonderfully captures the tonal spectrum of Cixous’s writing.”

—E VA HOFFMAN, FRO M THE FORE WO RD

An inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation

Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem H É L ÈNE C IXO US

TR ANSLATED BY PEGGY KA M U F FOR EWO RD BY EVA H OF F M AN 144 pages, 5 x 8, 13 b/w illustrations 9780823299102, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) [Hardback edition available: 9780823287628] J UNE Literature | Jewish Studies | Literary Studies

For about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Saxony. After the war, Osnabrück counted not a single Jew. Most had been deported and murdered in the camps, others emigrated if they could and if they managed to overcome their own inertia. It is this inertia and failure to escape that Hélène Cixous seeks to account for in Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem.

Vicious anti-Semitism hounded all of Osnabrück’s Jews long before the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933. So why did people wait to leave when the threat was so patent, so in-their-faces? Drawn from the stories told to Cixous by her mother, Ève, and grandmother Rosalie (Rosi), this literary work re-imagines fragments of Ève’s and Rosi’s stories, including the death of Ève’s uncle, Onkel André. Piecing together the story of Andreas Jonas from what she was told and from what she envisages, Cixous recounts the tragedy of the one she calls the King Lear of Osnabrück, who followed his daughter to Jerusalem only to be sent away by her and to return to Osnabrück in time to be deported to a death camp.

Cixous wanders the streets of the city she had heard about all her life in her mother’s and grandmother’s stories, digs into its archives, meets city officials, all the while wondering if she should have come. These hesitations and reflections in the present, often voiced in dialogues staged with her own son or daughter, are woven with scenes from her childhood in Algeria and the half-remembered, half-invented stories of the Jonas family, making Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem one of the author’s most intensely engaging books.

HÉLÈNE CIXOUS is the founder of the first Women’s Studies program in France, at the University of Paris VIII. Since 1967, she has published more than fifty “fictions,” as well as numerous works of criticism on literature and many essays on the visual arts. Her many books include “Coming to Writing” and Other Essays and The Portable Cixous.

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GENERAL INTEREST A rare and evocative memoir of a respected constitutional scholar, dedicated public servant, political reformer, and facilitator of peace in the land of his ancestors.

“We live in a dark time, and we all need heroes. John Feerick is my hero. If you read this book, he will be yours.”

—W ILLIAM M. TRE ANO R, N EW YORK L AW JOU RN A L

“This is an exceptionally well-written book and a compelling story of one IrishAmerican lawyer who loves his Irish heritage, his family, his Church, and the law.

It took Feerick eighteen years to write the book, and it was certainly worth the effort.”

—STE V E FE ARO N, I RI SH A MERI C A

“The name of John Feerick is renowned here in New York, and rightly so. Those of us who so admire him wonder, ‘Where did he get this faith, wit, wisdom, and love?’

With this fine read, now we know!”

—TIMOTHY C ARD INAL D OLAN, ARC HBISHO P O F NE W YO RK

‘Feerick’s life epitomizes the American story. . . . What is most striking about That Further Shore is that, for a memoir of a New York lawyer, it strikes one as a rapturous love tale. It is a love that is more than just passion; it is a love that is cognizant of the care and concern for other people. It is a love stemming from family, faith, and tradition. . . . For an extraordinary tale about an extraordinary man, Feerick’s most striking trait is the humility present in these pages born from love of other people.”

—NIC HOLAS D. SAW IC KI, A MERI C A MAGAZINE

That Further Shore

A Memoir of Irish Roots and American Promise J OH N D. F EER ICK FOR EWO RD BY THO MA S J. S H ELLEY 456 pages, 25 b/w illustrations 9780823299119, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) [Hardback edition available: 9780823287352] Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H Biography | History | Political Science

“Take heart! That Further Shore proves that a great man can be a good man. While living a life of the highest achievement on the world stage— and even changing history a time or two—Dean John Feerick stays rooted in his family, faith, Irish heritage, and his commitment to social justice. Inspiring!”

—MARY PAT KE LLY, PHD, AU THO R O F THE BE STSE LLING G A LWAY BAY , OF IRISH BLOOD, AND I RI SH A BOV E A L L

“This book is about how one man with ethics and integrity can impact the public good. In a real sense, John Feerick’s journey is the story of America, its immigrant roots, and the opportunity we each have to make a difference.”

—THE HO NO RABLE J O NATHAN LIPPMAN, FO RME R C HIE F J U DGE OF THE STATE OF NE W YO RK

“When John Feerick received the ABA Medal, he thanked his parents for assuring that he and his siblings received a good education. His touching and inspiring book appropriately begins with his family’s story. John’s early years assured he would have an indefatigable quest for learning and teaching. This book takes the reader through a career that unbelievably was accomplished by only one person. Each chapter is an exciting journey filled with fascinating stories. I could not put it down!”

—LINDA KLE IN, PAST PRE SID E NT O F THE AME RIC AN BAR ASSOCIATION

is Professor of Law at Fordham Law School and the holder of the Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law in Public Service. He teaches and writes in areas of the U.S. Constitution, legal ethics, and conflict resolution. His books include the third edition of The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications and From Failing Hands: The Story of Presidential Succession, which was helpful to the framers of the Constitution’s Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

JOHN D. FEERICK

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“You don’t have to be Irish or Irish-American to love this book. Whoever you are, you are in it. This is the kind of book you will want to bestow on anyone with, or without, a hyphen in their history.”

—FRANK MCCO U RT

“An exceptionally thoughtful and interesting inquiry into Irish America.”

—TH E WA SH I N GTON POST

“A sweeping tale of disaster, survival, and triumph.”

Looking for Jimmy

A Search for Irish America PETER Q UINN 320 pages 9780823299478, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) Simultaneous electronic edition available New York ReLit MA RC H Immigration & Migration | History | Urban Studies

—SA N FRA N CI SCO C H RON I C L E

“A wonderful addition to the story of the Irish in America . . . teem[ing] with deep, surprising insights.”

—PETE H A MI L L

“Charming. . . . A timely reminder that controversy over immigration exists as very much part of a continuum.”

—TH E N EW YORK TI MES

“The Irish American story—a 150-year saga—is a fascinating one, and Quinn tells it superbly. A charming, informative, and memorable book.”

—A MERI CA MAGAZINE

In this stunning work chronicling the author’s exploration of his own past—and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who struggled alongside his own ancestors—Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose evolving culture and values continue to play such a central role in all of our identities as Americans. In Quinn’s hands, the Irish stereotype of “Paddy” gives way to an image of “Jimmy”— an archetypal Irish-American. From Irish immigration to modern politics, Quinn vibrantly weaves together the story of a remarkable people and their immeasurable contribution to American history and culture. is a novelist, political historian, and foremost chronicler of New York City. He is the author of Banished Children of Eve and a trilogy of historical detective novels—Hour of the Cat, The Man Who Never Returned, and Dry Bones.

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Banished Children of Eve

“Exceptional . . . . The author’s pungent style, refusal to romanticize, and affinity for historical details all blend to make Banished Children of Eve an achingly vibrant panorama of ethnic feuds and struggles.”

— Los Angeles Times

BA N ISH ED CH I L DR EN OF EV E A Novel of Civil War New York

Banished Children of Eve A Novel of Civil War New York

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624 pages 9780823294084, Paperback, $17.95, £13.99 (TP) eBook Available

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Hour of the Cat PETER Q UINN

400 pages 9780823297955, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) eBook Available

“Historical fiction as well made and whole as this is not common…. Convincing and intriguing… Hardly a page of this book is without some revelation.”

—T H E N EW YORK TI MES BOOK REV I EW

The Man Who Never Returned PETE R QU INN

333 pages 9780823297979, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) eBook Available

Dry Bones P ET E R QU INN

352 pages 9780823297931, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) eBook Available

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“There’s no moving away from this wrenching, beautifully told story.”

—LOS A N G EL ES TI MES

“Controlled and brilliant . . . elegantly written. The elaborate plot machinery . . . is seamless.”

—TH E WA L L STREET JOU RN A L

“Plenty of . . . mordant humor, but none of it masks or trivializes the awful losses . . . . Affecting.”

—TH E WA SH I N GTON POST BOOK WORL D

The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket J OH N W EIR

276 pages, 5 1⁄2 x 81⁄2 9780823299430, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) Simultaneous electronic edition available New York ReLit M AY Fiction | LGBTQ Studies | New York City & Regional

“Dramatically beautiful . . . a poignant, sobering—and often hilarious—view of New York gay life in the age of AIDS.” —H OU STON POST

Before the onset of his irreversible decline, Eddie Socket always suspected he was on the verge of something. Now that “something” has arrived in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older gentleman of impeccable taste in everything from sweaters to his numerous sexual conquests. That Merrit happens to be the lover of Eddie’s agitated boss, Saul, hardly fazes the smitten Eddie; that the elusive Merrit loses interest in Eddie with dizzying speed hardly dims his ardor. While Eddie continues his futile chase, he finds solace in his roommate, Polly, involved in her own implausible affair with a self-involved banker. Both Eddie and Polly eventually conclude that solitude is their best option. But even that is not possible as Eddie finds his life taking an unexpected turn—a turn that that serves as the catalyst for Eddie, love-ravaged Polly, and the indomitable Saul to reclaim their lives.

First published in 1989 and winner of the 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Debut Novel, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket is one of the first novels to respond to the global AIDS crisis. A comedy of absurdist horror, it weaponizes the comic as a way of intensifying the tragic aspects of AIDS, which were especially acute in the early 1980s, and the scars of which are still visible today. is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College, CUNY. He is the author of not only this book but also What I Did Wrong, both available from New York ReLit, an imprint of Fordham University Press. Weir’s short-story collection, Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, is the winner of the 2020 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.

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“A wry memoir of the AIDS era that is not so much elegy as ode to a hopeful and even lyric future.”

—TH E BA LTI MORE SU N

“Extraordinary . . . among other things one of the best books about how ordinary folks live in New York now.”

—E D MU ND W HITE, TH E V I L L AG E VOI CE

What I Did Wrong J OH N W EIR

240 pages, 5 1⁄2 x 81⁄2 9780823299454, Paperback, $15.95, £11.99 (TP) Simultaneous electronic edition available New York ReLit M AY Fiction | LGBTQ Studies | New York City & Regional

“Weir’s prose has humor and grace to spare.”

—PU BL I SH ERS WEEK LY

“A lovely, wrenching, funny, erudite novel, heavy with history and loss and beauty.”

—DAV ID RAKOFF

Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, What I Did Wrong is a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-yearold English professor, haunted by the death of his best friend, Zack, who died theatrically and calamitously of AIDS. Tom himself slouches gingerly and precariously into middle age questioning every certainty he had about himself as a gay man while negotiating the field of his college classes, populated as they are with guys whose cocky bravado can’t quite compensate for their own confused masculinity. Tom tries to balance his awkwardly developing friendships with them. In the process, he begins to find common ground with these proud young men and, surprisingly, a way to claim his own place in the world, and in history.

A powerfully moving—and often disarmingly funny—book about loss, character, and sexuality in the wake of AIDS, What I Did Wrong is a survivor’s tale in an age when all certainties have lost their logic and focus. It is a romance that embraces its objects from the traumas of toxic masculinity to the aftermath of catastrophic loss amidst the enduring allure of New York City in all its manic and heartbreaking grandeur. is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College, CUNY. He is the author of not only this book but also The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, both available from New York ReLit, an imprint of Fordham University Press. Weir’s short-story collection, Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, is the winner of the 2020 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.

JOHN WEIR

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THE ROADS TO HILLBROW

This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place.

RON NERIO AND JEAN HALLEY

The Roads to Hillbrow

Making Life in South Africa’s Community of Migrants R ON NER IO AND JE AN HALLEY 320 pages, 30 b/w illustrations 9780823299409, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (AC) 9780823299393, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies J UNE Urban Studies | Immigration & Migration | Sociology

Since it was founded in 1894, amidst Johannesburg’s transformation from a mining town into the largest city in southern Africa, Hillbrow has been a community of migrants. As the “city of gold” accumulated wealth on the backs of migrant laborers from southern Africa, Jewish Eastern Europeans who had fled pogroms joined other Europeans and white South Africans in this emerging suburb. After World War II, Hillbrow became a landscape of high-rises that lured western and southern Europeans seeking prosperity in South Africa’s booming economy. By the 1980s, Hillbrow housed some of the most vibrant and visible queer spaces on the continent while also attracting thousands of Indian and Black South Africans who defied apartheid laws to live near the city center. Filling the void for a book about migration within the Global South, The Roads to Hillbrow explores how one South African neighborhood transformed from a white suburb under apartheid into a “grey zone” during the 1970s and 1980s to become a “port of entry” for people from at least twenty-five African countries.

The Roads to Hillbrow explores the diverse experiences of domestic and transnational migrants who have made their way to this South African community following war, economic dislocation, and the social trauma of apartheid. Authors Ron Nerio and Jean Halley weave sociology, history, memoir, and queer studies with stories drawn from more than 100 interviews.

Topics cover the search for employment, options for housing, support for unaccompanied minors, possibilities for queer expression, the creation of safe parks for children, and the challenges of living without documents. Current residents of Hillbrow also discuss how they cope with inequality, xenophobia, high levels of crime, and the harsh economic impacts of COVID-19.

Many of the book’s interviewees arrived in Hillbrow seeking not only to gain better futures for themselves but also to support family members in rural parts of South Africa or in their countries of origin. Some immerse themselves in justice work, while others develop LGBTQ+ support networks, join religious and community groups, or engage in artistic expression. By emphasizing the disparate voices of migrants and people who work with migrants, this book shows how the people of Hillbrow form connections and adapt to adversity.

RON NERIO is a Research Programs Director at the City University of New York (CUNY) and an adjunct lecturer at Fordham University.

is Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island CUNY. She is the author of five books, including the recently published Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses.

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The diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.

NBC Goes to War The Diary of Radio Correspondent James Cassidy from London to the Bulge JA M E S CASSIDY E DITED WITH AN INT RODUCTION

BY M ICHAEL S. SWEEN EY 192 pages, 4 b/w illustrations 9780823299324, Hardback, $24.95, £18.99 (AC) Simultaneous electronic edition available World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension MA RC H History | Journalism | Memoir

James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944, and the war’s end. Radio was relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during that period is that many potential primary documents—their live broadcasts—were not recorded. In NBC Goes to War, Cassidy’s censored scripts alongside his personal diary capture a front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter.

James Cassidy was ambitious and young, and his coverage of World War II for the NBC radio network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a live Jewish religious service from inside Nazi Germany while incoming mortar and artillery shells fell 200 yards away. His diary describes how he gathered news, how it was censored, and how it was sent from the battle zone to the United States. As radio had no pictures, reporters quickly developed a descriptive visual style to augment dry facts. All of Cassidy’s stories, from the panic he felt while being targeted by German planes to his shock at the deaths of colleagues, he told with grace and a reporter’s lean and engaging prose.

Providing valuable eyewitness material not previously available to historians, NBC Goes to War tells a “bottom-up” narrative that provides insight into war as fought and chronicled by ordinary men and women. Cassidy skillfully placed listeners alongside him in the ruins of Aachen, on icy back roads crawling with spies, and in a Belgian bar where a little girl wailed “Les Américains partent!” when Allied troops retreated to safety, leaving the town open to German re-occupation. With a journalistic eye for detail, NBC Goes to War unforgettably portrays life in the press corps. This newly uncovered perspective also helps balance the CBS-heavy radio scholarship about the war, which has always focused heavily on Edward R. Murrow and his “Murrow’s Boys.” was a war correspondent for NBC News during World War II. He reported from London, Belgium, France, and the front line during the Battle of the Bulge. Among his accomplishments, he secretly transported a rabbi and more than 50 soldiers into the German combat zone and broadcast the first Jewish service on German soil. After the war, Cassidy followed a career in corporate public relations in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1981, he and his wife, Rita, retired to Connecticut. He died in 2003.

JAMES CASSIDY

MICHAEL S. SWEENEY (1958–2022) was Emeritus Professor in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. His research focused on the history of combat correspondence, and on censorship in particular. His most recent book, which he co-wrote with Natascha Toft Roelsgaard, is Journalism and the Russo-Japanese War: The End of the Golden Age of Combat Correspondence.

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“Jon Bialecki’s Machines for Making Gods is a major work of scholarship—truly impressive in its scope, range, and depth. There’s simply no other book like it, so creative is its composition and canvas. It will force us to reconsider a lot of literature in anthropology and well beyond—on Christianity, on secularity, on media, on matter, and, perhaps above all, on the very boundaries of life.”

—MATTHE W E NGE LKE, AU THO R O F H OW TO TH I N K L I K E A N ANTHROPOLOGIST

“Bialecki takes readers through a fascinating world in a thrilling ethnographic investigation of how and why the Mormon Transhumanist Association flourishes. A brilliant tracing of the complicated kinship between religion and transhumanism, this book is more than a dive into one subgroup but rather a sophisticated theoretical analysis of conditions that make such a group possible.”

—TAY LOR PE TRE Y, AU THO R O F TA BERN AC L ES OF CL AY: SEXUALITY AND G EN D ER I N MOD ERN MORMON I SM

An engrossing account of the way religion and the technological imagination come together in the world’s largest religious transhumanist organization.

Machines for Making Gods

Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End J ON BIALEC K I 368 pages 9780823299362, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (AC) 9780823299355, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H Religion | Anthropology | Technology & Engineering

The Mormon faith may seem so different from aspirations to transcend the human through technological means that it is hard to imagine how these two concerns could even exist alongside each other, let alone serve together as the joint impetus for a social movement.

Machines for Making Gods investigates the tensions between science and religion through which an imaginative group of young Mormons and ex-Mormons have found new ways of understanding the world.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) believes that God intended humanity to achieve Mormonism’s promise of theosis through imminent technological advances. Drawing on a nineteenth-century Mormon tradition of religious speculation to re-imagine Mormon eschatological hopes as near-future technological possibilities, they envision such current and possible advances as cryonic preservation, computer simulation, and quantum archaeology as paving the way for the resurrection of the dead, the creation of worlds without end, and the promise of undergoing theosis—of becoming a god. Addressing the role of speculation in the anthropology of religion, Machines for Making Gods undoes debates about secular transhumanism’s relation to religion by highlighting the differences an explicitly religious transhumanism makes.

Charting the conflicts and resonances between secular transhumanism and Mormonism, Bialecki shows how religious speculation has opened up imaginative horizons to give birth to new forms of Mormonism, including a particular progressive branch of the faith and even such formations as queer polygamy. The book also reveals how the MTA’s speculative account of God and technology together has helped to forestall some of the social pressure that comes with apostasy in much of the Mormon Intermountain West.

A fascinating ethnography of a group with much to say about crucial junctures of modern culture, Machines for Making Gods illustrates how the scientific imagination can be better understood when viewed through anthropological accounts of myth. is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement, which won the Sharon Stephens Prize and was a finalist for the Clifford Geertz Prize.

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ACADEMIC TRADE “In this engrossing and revelatory study of what she calls ‘Reactive Orthodoxy,’ Sarah Riccardi-Swartz finds in a rural West Virginia community of Christian converts to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) a key to the emerging shape of contemporary transnational far-right political religion.

Her interlocutors say the United States is on the eve of destruction, broken by secularism, the betrayal of whiteness, and LGBTQ rights. They look to pre-1917 tsarist Russia for a model of Christian government and to post-Soviet Russia and Vladimir Putin for protection and hope. Between Heaven and Russia establishes itself immediately as essential reading for understanding religion and politics in the twenty-first century. It is also a model for studying religion beyond the protective screen of good religion/bad religion.”

—ROBE RT ORSI, AU THO R O F H I STORY A N D PRESEN C E

“Between Heaven and Russia, remarkably, takes us to rural West Virginia, inside a small patriarchal community of American converts to Russian Orthodoxy who yearn for a restoration of tsarist Russia and whose admiration of Vladimir Putin is exceeded only by their reverence for Nicholas II. Lest you assume this is a straightforward ethnography of a peculiar Appalachian outpost, think again. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz has crafted a gripping narrative of the American radical right’s growing fixation with the fascist ideologues of Eurasia and their interconnectedness with a global movement that poses a dire threat to secular democracy around the world.”

—SARAH POSNE R, AU THO R O F U N H OLY: H OW WH I TE C H RI STIAN NATIONALISTS POWERED TH E TRU MP PRESI D EN CY, A N D TH E D EVA STATI N G LEGACY THE Y L EFT BEH I N D

Between Heaven and Russia

Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia SA RA H R IC CAR DI- SWARTZ 288 pages, 9 b/w illustrations 9780823299508, Paperback, $29.95, £22.99 (AC) 9780823299492, Hardback, $105.00, £84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought A P R IL Religion | Anthropology | Politics

How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans who look to Russian religion and politics for answers to Western secularism and the loss of traditional family values in the face of accelerating progressivism.

This ethnography highlights an intentional community of converts who are exemplary of much broader networks of Russian Orthodox converts in the United States. These converts sought and found a conservatism more authentic than Christian American Republicanism and a nationalism unburdened by the broken promises of American exceptionalism. Ultimately, both converts and the Church that welcomes them deploy the subversive act of adopting the ideals and faith of a foreign power for larger, transnational political ends.

Offering insights into this rarely considered religious world, including its far-right political roots that nourish the embrace of Putin’s Russia, this ethnography shows how religious conversion is tied to larger issues of social politics, allegiance, (anti)democracy, and citizenship. These conversions offer us a window onto both global politics and foreign affairs, while also allowing us to see how particular U.S. communities are grappling with social transformations in the twenty-first century.

With broad implications for our understanding of both conservative Christianity and right-wing politics, as well as contemporary Russian–American relations, this book provides insight in the growing constellations of far-right conservatism. While Russian Orthodox converts are more likely to form the moral minority rather than the moral majority, they are an important gauge for understanding the powerful philosophical shifts occurring in the current political climate in the United States and what they might mean for the future of American values, ideals, and democracy.

SARAH RICCARDI-SWARTZ is a postdoctoral fellow in the Luce-funded Recovering Truth: Religion, Journalism, and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era project at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.

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“In this fascinating book, Barbara Stiegler revisits the famous controversy between Dewey and Lippmann and offers a refreshing perspective on our political, social, and economic future. As Stiegler convincingly demonstrates, the fight between democracy and neoliberalism is not over: It is only beginning. A must-read.”

—THOMAS PIKE TTY, AU THO R O F C A PI TA L I N TH E TWEN TY-FIRST CE NTURY

Winner, French Voices Award This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment.

Adapt!

On a New Political Imperative BA RBAR A ST IEGLE R TR ANSLATED BY ADA M H OC KER 208 pages 9780823299294, Paperback, $29.95, £22.99 (AC) 9780823299287, Hardback, $110.00, £88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available M AY Philosophy & Theory | History | Politics

“We must adapt!” These words can be heard almost everywhere and in every aspect of our lives.

Where does this widespread sense that we have fallen behind come from? How can we explain this progressive colonization of the economic, social, and political fields by this biological vocabulary of evolution? Offering a lucid account of sophisticated material, Barbara Stiegler uncovers the prehistories of today’s ubiquitous rhetoric in Darwinism and American liberalism, while at the same time recovering powerful resistances to the rhetoric of adaptation across the twentieth century.

Walter Lippmann, an American theorist of this new liberalism, believed democracy was not adapted to the needs of globalization. Only a government of experts could force society to evolve, he argued. Lippmann thus found himself confronted with John Dewey, the great figure of American Pragmatism. Both Lippmann and Dewey labored under the impression that the world had changed and society needed to adapt. However, Lippmann did not trust society to adapt on its own and insisted on the need for experts who would force the necessary adaptation.

Dewey, by contrast, believed the necessary adaptation could come only “from below” and should proceed in a democratic fashion.

Focusing on readings of Michel Foucault, Walter Lippmann, and John Dewey, Adapt! paves the way for renewed insights into neoliberalism’s history, essence, characteristic forces, and impacts, as well as biopolitical theory. Stiegler presents an intriguing new genealogy for the development of neoliberalism, examining whether humans are by nature lagging and require biopolitical and disciplinary management to enforce adaptation. Stiegler also re-orients Foucault’s genealogy of neoliberalism by emphasizing the Darwinian rhetoric of adaptation, as it arose in the Lippmann–Dewey debate, and deftly handles the question of human nature in a way that re-enlivens this traditional concept.

As the industrialization of our ways of life never stops destroying the environment and the health of organisms (climate disruption, the destruction of biodiversity, the growth of chronic diseases, the return of large pandemics), how can we think of a democratic government of life and the living? This is the question that Stiegler’s work helps us to confront.

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is Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France.

Represents some of the best, cutting-edge thinking available on multiple forms of social upheaval and related grassroots movements.

Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval M ATT H EW T. EGGE ME IE R, PETER J O SEPH FRITZ, A N D KA R EN V. GUTH, E DI TORS 208 pages 9780823299751, Paperback, $25.00, £18.99 (SDT) 9780823299768, Hardback, $90.00, £72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available JU LY Religion | Politics | Sociology

From the January 2017 Women’s March to the August 2017 events in Charlottesville and the 2020 protests for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, social upheaval and protest have loomed large in the United States in recent years. The varied, sometimes conflicting role of religious believers, communities, and institutions in such events and movements calls for scholarly analysis. Arising from a conference held at the College of the Holy Cross in November 2017, Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval gathers contributions from ten scholars in religious studies, theology and ethics, and gender studies—from seasoned experts to emerging voices—to illuminate this tumultuous era of history and the complex landscape of social action for economic, racial, political, and sexual and gender justice.

The contributors consider the history of resistance to racial capitalist imperialism from W. E. B. Du Bois to today; the theological genealogy of the capitalist economic order, and Catholic theology’s growing concern with climate change; affect theory and the rise of white nationalism, theological aesthetics, and solidarity with migrants; differing U.S. Christian churches’ responses to the “revolutionary aesthetics” of the Black Lives Matter movement; Muslim migration and the postsecular character of Muslim labor organizing in the United States; shifts in moral reasoning and religiosity among U.S. women’s movements from the 1960s to today; and the intersection of heresy discourse and struggles for LGBTQ+ equality among Korean and Korean-American Protestants. With this pluralistic approach, Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval offers a snapshot of scholarly religious responses to the crises and promises of the late 2010s and early 2020s. Representing the diverse coalitions of the religious left, it provides groundbreaking analysis, charts trajectories for further study and action, and offers visions for a more hopeful future.

MATTHEW T. EGGEMEIER is Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of A Sacramental-Prophetic Vision: Christian Spirituality in a Suffering World and Against Empire: Ekklesial Resistance and the Politics of Radical Democracy.

PETER JOSEPH FRITZ is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. He is author of Karl Rahner’s Theological Aesthetics and Freedom Made Manifest: Rahner’s Fundamental Option and Theological Aesthetics.

KAREN V. GUTH is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

She is the author of The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts and Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and Theologies of Public Life.

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“A rich meditation on how events prompt memories that open up new ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and being. The book is also the story—often poignant, sometimes funny—of a working-class kid from Flint, Michigan, who became one of the most restlessly creative political theorists in America. Resounding Events takes us on a riveting journey from the cruelties of late-modern capitalism to a spiritually generous account of what pluralism really means and bids us to become.”

—MIC HAE L J. SAND E L, AU THO R O F TH E TYRA N N Y OF MERI T: CAN WE FIND THE COMMON G OOD?

“Drawing on memory as ‘a series of echo chambers within which thinking vibrates,’ William Connolly elegantly weaves working-class legacies and family affections into his half-century exploration of critical political theory and radical politics. Connolly's characteristic voice—urgent, galloping sentences; long, staccato lists; and wry, understated humor—invites us in.”

—KATHY FE RGU SON, U NIV E RSITY O F HAWAI' I

Resounding Events

Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class W I L L IAM E. C O N NOLLY 208 pages 9781531500238, Paperback, $28.00, £20.99 (SDT) 9781531500221, Hardback, $95.00, £76.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H Political Science | American Studies | Philosophy & Theory

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In Resounding Events, one of the world’s preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. From youthful experiences of McCarthyism to the resurgence of white evangelicalism, to the advent of aspirational fascism and the acceleration of the Anthropocene, Connolly traces a career spent passionately engaged in making a more just, diverse, and equitable world. He surveys the shifting ground upon which politics can be pursued, and he discloses how to be an intellectual in universities that today do not encourage that practice.

Far more than a memoir, Resounding Events probes the concerns that have animated Connolly’s work across more than a dozen books by tracing the bumpy imbrications of event, memory, and thinking in intellectual life. Connolly experiments with ways to capture various voices that mark a self at any time. An event, as he elaborates it, is what disturbs or inspires thinking as it activates layered sheets of memory. A memory sheet itself assembles recollections, dispositions organized from the past, and vague remains that carry efficacies.

Resounding Events shows how resonances between event and memory can help forge new concepts better adjusted to an emergent situation. Addressing tensions between workingclass experience and norms of the academy, his father’s coma, anti-war protests, the growing disaffection of the white working class, the neoliberalization of the university, climate denialism, and his sister’s experience with workers’ shifting to Trump, Connolly shows how engaged intellectuals become worthy of the events they encounter. is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches political theory. His books include Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth; Aspirational Fascism; Facing the Planetary; Capitalism and Christianity, American Style; Why I Am Not a Secularist; The Ethos of Pluralization; and The Terms of Political Discourse. In a poll of American political theorists published in 2010, he was named the fourth most influential political theorist in America over the past twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault.

WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY

“This is an extraordinary piece of work, at once a political manifesto, a philosophy of politics and history, and an impressive re-reading of some major texts that sheds new light on them and their utility for thinking about our present. In turning to Black intellectuals on the same terms as white European intellectuals, Wilder rethinks the canon of what counts as Left thought. Wilder’s readings are eloquent and clear, yet nuanced and complex, and are brought together with a careful and concrete analysis of social movements. One thinks differently having read and absorbed what Wilder writes.”

—J OAN WALLAC H SCOTT, INSTITU TE FOR ADVANC E D STU DY

“A bold, ambitious critique of Left political theory, Concrete Utopianism refuses the stale antinomies of pessimism and optimism, the traps of ‘realism,’ progress, even historical time, and instead resuscitates a radical imagination that embraces solidarity and understands the future not as a roadmap but an orientation; not as hope but horizon. Gary Wilder calls on us to think and struggle in the world, with the world, and toward the ‘impossible’ world we desperately need if we are to secure a possible future . . . together.”

—ROBIN D. G. KE LLE Y, AU THO R O F FREED OM D REA MS: TH E BLACK RADICAL I MAG I N ATI ON

Concrete Utopianism

The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity G A RY W ILD ER 352 pages 9780823299874, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823299881, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available M AY History | Race & Ethnic Studies | Postcolonial Studies

Never before has it been more important for Left thinking to champion expansive visions for societal transformation. Yet influential currents of critical theory have lost sight of this political imperative. Provincial notions of places, periods, and subjects obstruct our capacity to invent new alignments and envision a world we wish to see. Pessimism is mistaken for radicalism, and political fatalism risks winning the day.

In this book, Gary Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism, Left culturalism, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism. These traditions offer precious resources to relate cultural singularity and translocal solidarity, political autonomy, and worldwide interdependence. They develop modes of immanent critique and forms of poetic knowledge to envision alternative futures that may already dwell within our world: traces of past ways of being, charged residues of an earlier generation’s unrealized struggles, dialectical reversals embedded in the contradictory tendencies of the given order.

Concrete Utopianism makes a bold case for embracing what Wilder calls a politics of the possible-impossible. The book invites Left thinkers to see beyond inherited distinctions between here and there, now and then, us and them. Guided by the spirit of Marx’s call for revolutionaries to draw their poetry from a future they cannot fathom yet must nevertheless invent, Wilder calls for practices of anticipation that envision and enact seemingly impossible ways of being together. He elaborates a critical orientation that emphasizes the dialectical relations between aesthetics and politics, imagination and practice, past dreams and possible worlds. Eschewing realism, Wilder shows, can render the world subversively uncanny and untimely, clearing pathways for the critical internationalism and concrete utopianism that Left politics cannot afford to ignore.

GARY WILDER is Professor of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars. He is co-editor of The Postcolonial Contemporary (Fordham, 2018) and The Fernando Coronil Reader.

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“Ambitious yet concise, Obscene Gestures provides a compelling reading of various cases of so-called obscenity and their changing relationship to definitional political and legal struggles in the twentieth century. Offering a groundbreaking discussion of race and sexuality and how obscenity is treated in relationship to both, Lawrence intervenes in discourse of avant-garde genius and transgression that is too often coded as white.”

—C HRISTO PHE R BRE U, AU THOR O F I N SI STEN C E OF TH E MATE RIAL: LITE RATURE I N TH E AG E OF BI OPOL I TI C S

Obscene Gestures Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century PAT RIC K S. LAWRE NCE 240 pages, 3 b/w illustrations 9781531500092, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9781531500085, Hardback, $105.00, £84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available J UNE American Studies | Literary Studies

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices.

Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities.

Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight.

Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture.

PATRICK S. LAWRENCE

Carolina, Lancaster.

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“In this book, all parts speak to the others: Labor is inextricable from history and migration is moored to identity and performance is linked to gender and language is inseparable from empire and affect is related to labor and on down the chain. Repetitions boomerang and wake us. Connections rule. In the gaps lie some salvations.”

—GINA APOSTO L, FRO M THE AFTE RWO RD

Filipinx American Studies Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation

R I CK B O NUS AN D A N TO NIO T. T IONGS ON JR., ED I TO R S 304 pages 9780823299577, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823299584, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available A P R IL Asian American Studies

This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajectories of global capitalism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity. It encompasses an interrogation of the foundational status of empire in the interdiscipline; modes of labor analysis and other forms of knowledge production; meaning-making in relation to language, identities, time, and space; the critical contours of Filipinx American schooling and political activism; the indispensability of relational thinking in Filipinx American studies; and the disruptive possibilities of Filipinx American formations. A catalogue of key resources and a selected list of scholarship are also provided.

Filipinx American Studies constitutes a coming-to-terms with not only the potentials and possibilities but also the disavowals, silences, and omissions that mark Filipinx American studies.

It provides a reflective and critical space for thinking through the ways Filipinx American studies is uniquely and especially suited to the interrogation of the ongoing legacies of U.S. imperialism and the urgencies of the current period.

Contributors: Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Angelica J. Allen, Gina Apostol, Nerissa S. Balce, Joi Barrios-Leblanc, Victor Bascara, Jody Blanco, Alana Bock, Sony Coráñez Bolton, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Richard T. Chu, Gary A. Colemnar, Kim Compoc, Denise Cruz, Reuben B. Deleon, Josen Masangkay Diaz, Robert Diaz, Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Theodore S. Gonzalves, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Anna Romina Guevara, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Dina C. Maramba, Cynthia Marasigan, Edward Nadurata, JoAnna Poblete, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez, Dylan Rodríguez, Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Michael SchulzeOechtering, Sarita Echavez See, Roy B. Taggueg Jr. is Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author, most recently, of The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University.

RICK BONUS

is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. He is the author of Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation.

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This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II.

Breaking Point

The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II R E BEC CA S C H WARTZ GRE E N E FOR EWO RD BY NOAH TS IKA 368 pages, 15 b/w illustrations 9781531500269, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9781531500122, Hardback, $105.00, £84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension AUG U S T World War II | Psychology | History

Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, and the author’s personal interviews and correspondence over years with key psychiatric and military policymakers, it begins with Franklin Roosevelt’s endorsement of a universal Selective Service psychiatric examination followed by Army and Navy pre- and post-induction examinations. Ultimately, 2.5 million men and women were rejected or discharged from military service on neuropsychiatric grounds. Never before or since has the United States engaged in such a program.

In designing Selective Service Medical Circular No. 1, psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan assumed psychiatrists could predict who might break down or falter in military service or even in civilian life thereafter. While many American and European psychiatrists questioned this belief, and huge numbers of American psychiatric casualties soon raised questions about screening’s validity, psychiatric and military leaders persisted in 1942 and 1943 in endorsing ever tougher screening and little else. Soon, families complained of fathers and teens being drafted instead of being identified as psychiatric 4Fs, and Blacks and Native Americans, among others, complained of bias. A frustrated General George S. Patton famously slapped two “malingering” neuropsychiatric patients in Sicily (a sentiment shared by Marshall and Eisenhower, though they favored a tamer style). Yet psychiatric rejections, evacuations, and discharges mounted.

While psychiatrist Roy Grinker and a few others treated soldiers close to the front in Tunisia in early 1943, this was the exception. But as demand for manpower soared and psychiatrists finally went to the field and saw that combat itself, not “predisposition,” precipitated breakdown, leading military psychiatrists switched their emphasis from screening to prevention and treatment. But this switch was too little too late and slowed by a year-long series of Inspector General investigations even while numbers of psychiatric casualties soared.

Ironically, despite and even partly because of psychiatrists’ wartime performance, plus the emotional toll of war, postwar America soon witnessed a dramatic growth in numbers, popularity, and influence of the profession, culminating in the National Mental Health Act (1946). But veterans with “PTSD,” not recognized until 1980, were largely neglected.

REBECCA SCHWARTZ GREENE is Visiting Scholar at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. She is a historian who specializes in American social history, history of medicine, and modern American history.

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“What do a video of a burning American flag, an MRI of the brain, and Raphael’s Madonna have in common? With stunning breadth and erudition, Weigel concretizes what Derrida only suspected, completes what Benjamin was unable to finish, and clarifies what mystified Warburg—revealing the powerful forces hidden at the singular point of culture that turn cyphers into images, from the banal to the most sacred.”

—J IME NA C ANALE S, AU THO R O F BED EV I L ED : A SH A D OW H I STORY OF DE M ONS I N SC I EN CE

Grammatology of Images A History of the A-Visible SI G R ID W EIG EL TR ANSLATED BY CHADW IC K TRU S C OT T S M ITH 320 pages, 71 b/w illustrations 9781531500276, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9781531500153, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Commonalities M AY Art & Visual Culture | Philosophy & Theory | Literary Studies

“Sigrid Weigel has provided a masterful overview of the infinite variety of image-practices, from the most primitive forms of mark-making, to effigies and monuments, to the dematerialized images of ghosts, angels, and memories, to screen culture and cultural icons. This authoritative volume will be essential to students of iconology, art history, and visual culture, who will enjoy its wide range and original insights.”

—W. J. T. MITC HE LL, AU THOR O F WH AT D O PI CTU RES WA N T ?

Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging.

Weigel re-interprets Derrida’s and Freud’s concepts of the trace as that which must be thought before something exists. In doing so, she illuminates the threshold between traces and iconic images, between something immaterial and its pictorial representation. Chapters alternate between general accounts of the line, the index, the effigy, and the cult-image and case studies from the history of science, art, politics, and religion, involving faces as indicators of emotion, caricatures as effigies of defamation, and angels as embodiments of transcendental ideas.

Weigel’s approach to images illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between pre-modern and contemporary image-practices, between the history of religion and the modern sciences, and between things that are and are not understood as art.

SIGRID WEIGEL is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy.

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“In this unique collection, Orthodox-identified authors expand Orthodox approaches to sexuality with sources and methods distinctive to Orthodox theology. Both where same-sex marriage is legal, and where homophobia reigns, Orthodox readers need this book.”

—E U GE NE F. RO GE RS J R., AU THO R O F SEXUA L I TY A N D TH E CHRISTIAN BODY

“I am deeply grateful to the scholars who contributed to this volume for providing us with new information and enlightening perspectives on Christianity and sexuality. It is refreshing to find so many chapters agreeing that all committed and faithful sexual partnerships among humankind may show authentic spiritual value. In a loving relationship—whether gay or straight—the presence of God may reside, as several chapters in this volume attest, as long as it opens up to the saving work of theosis.”

—ME TROPO LITAN AMBROSIU S, HE LSINKI, FRO M THE FORE WORD

Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality T H O MA S A R ENTZE N, A S H LEY M. PURPU RA, AN D A RI STOT LE PA PANI KOLAOU, ED I TO R S

FOR EWO RD BY M ETR O P O LITAN AMB ROS I U S, H ELS INKI 352 pages 9780823299676, Paperback, $40.00, £32.00 (SDT) 9780823299683, Hardback, $140.00, £111.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought J ULY Gender & Sexuality | Religion

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Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and the historical circumstances of the Orthodox Church differ radically from those of other Christian denominations that have already developed robust and creative reflections on sexuality and sexual diversity. Within its unique history, theology, and tradition, Orthodox Christianity holds rich resources for engaging challenging questions of sexuality in new and responsive ways. What is at stake in questions of sexuality in the Orthodox tradition?

What sources and theological convictions can uniquely shape Orthodox understandings of sexuality? This volume aims to create an agora for discussing sex, and not least the sexualities that are often thought of as untraditional in Orthodox contexts.

Through fifteen distinct chapters, written by leading scholars and theologians, this book offers a developed treatment of sexuality in the Orthodox Christian world by approaching the subject from scriptural, patristic, theological, historical, and sociological perspectives.

Chapters devoted to practical and pastoral insights, as well as reflections on specific cultural contexts, engage the human realities of sexual diversity and Christian life. From re-thinking scripture to developing theologies of sex, from eschatological views of eros to re-evaluations of the Orthodox responses to science, this book offers new thinking on pressing, present-day issues and initiates conversations about homosexuality and sexual diversity within Orthodox Christianity. is Reader in Church History and works as Researcher at Uppsala University and Senior Lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies at St Ignatios College, Stockholm School of Theology.

THOMAS ARENTZEN

is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University.

ASHLEY M. PURPURA

is Professor of Theology, the Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Orthodox Theology and Culture, and the co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University.

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Praise for the Future of the Religious Past series: “A decisive step has been taken toward what we will need to understand concerning the future of religion.”

—W IM VAN D E D O NK, TILBU RG U NIV E RSITY

Gestures

The Study of Religion as Practice M A RT IN VA N BRU INE SSE N, A N N E - M AR IE KORTE , AN D M I C H I EL LEEZE N B E RG, E DI TORS 688 pages, 7 x 10, 18 b/w illustrations 9780823299621, Paperback, $40.00, £32.00 (SDT) 9780823299614, Hardback, $140.00, £111.00 (SDT) The Future of the Religious Past AU G US T Religion

“An inspired guide for understanding the comeback of religion in a world that appeared to be secularizing. This seminal mix of texts on different parts of the world critically addresses both the often all-too-easy suppositions that made ever further secularization seem inevitable and the dangers of equally simplistic analysis of the revival of religion as an effect of changing power relations.”

—PE TE R GE SC HIE RE, U NIV E RSITY OF AMSTE RDAM

This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts but as lived experience.

Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism.

Contributors: Umut Azak, Christoph Baumgartner, Rajeev Bhargava, John R. Bowen, Judith Butler, Rokus de Groot, Martijn de Koning, Sanne Derks, Wendy Doniger, Willy Jansen, Yolande Jansen, Mariwan Kanie, Webb Keane, Anne-Marie Korte, Michael Lambek, Bruno Latour, Michiel Leezenberg, Annelies Moors, Catrien Notermans, S. Brent Plate, Samuli Schielke, Regina M. Schwartz, Yvonne Sherwood, Thomas A. Tweed, Sander van Maas, Ali Hassan Zaidi MARTIN VAN BRUINESSEN is a professor at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

ANNE-MARIE KORTE

is Professor of Religion and Gender, Utrecht University.

MICHIEL LEEZENBERG

Amsterdam.

is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

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Spirit Power

Politics and Religion in Korea’s American Century H E O NIK KWO N AN D J U N HWAN PA RK 240 pages, 8 b/w illustrations 9780823299911, Paperback, $32.00, £24.99 (SDT) 9780823299928, Hardback, $110.00, £88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere J ULY Anthropology | Religion | Asian Studies

Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century and the long political struggles against the country’s indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea’s shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialogue with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea’s enduring shamanism tradition.

HEONIK KWON is Senior Research Fellow of Social Anthropology at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and a member of the Mega-Asia research group at Seoul National University Asia Center. He is the author of After the Korean War: An Intimate History; The Other Cold War; Ghosts of War in Vietnam (winner, George Kahin Prize); and After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (winner, Clifford Geertz Prize).

is an expert on Hwanghae shamanism. He has published widely on the symbolism of luck and the morality of money in Korea’s shamanic rituals.

JUN HWAN PARK

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“Taking us into the vast and wild realms that lie beyond our immediately given everyday existence, this courageous collection offers new and original perspectives on processes of aging. Exploring shadowy worlds of dreams and memories, of ghosts and specters, of pasts that refuse to let people go, the book is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of imagistic scholarship.”

—TINE M. GAMME LTOFT, U NIV E RSITY O F CO PE NHAGE N

Imagistic Care

Growing Old in a Precarious World C H E RYL M AT T INGLY A N D LO NE G R Ø N, E DI TORS FOR EWO RD BY LISA STEV ENS ON AFTERWO RD BY RO BE RT DESJARLA IS 272 pages, 16 b/w illustrations 9780823299638, Paperback, $32.00, £24.99 (SDT) 9780823299645, Hardback, $110.00, £88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere JU LY Anthropology | Art & Visual Culture | Health & Medicine

“The essays in this book present sensitive, thoughtfully rendered comparative ethnographies of care in late life. These ethnographies span a remarkable geographic and contextual range, from a dementia ward in Denmark, to homes of older African Americans in Los Angeles, to apartments in Kyrgyzstan, to villages in Uganda. Together, they comprise a stunningly varied array of experiences of care in later life ‘in contexts where aging is marked by profound bodily or social precarity.’ With societies around the world growing proportionally older, these careful ethnographically grounded analyses of care in late life are of utmost importance both to anthropology and to society.”

—J E SSIC A RO BBINS, WAY NE STATE U NIV E RSITY

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how the images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers, and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging, and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic inquiries offer grounds for critique?

Cutting between ethnography, phenomenology, and art, this volume offers a powerful contribution to understandings of growing old. The images created in words and drawings are used to complicate rather than simplify the world. The authors advance an understanding of care, and of aging itself, marked by alterity, spectral presences, and uncertainty.

CHERYL MATTINGLY is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy at Aarhus University.

LONE GRØN

is Professor (WSR) at VIVE Danish Center for Social Science Research.

Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Grøn, Maria Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle S. Wentzer, Susan Reynolds Whyte

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“With depth and clarity, Prescriptions for Virtuosity examines how Chinese medicine in China re-imagined itself in response to the West. As a participantobserver, Karchmer combines five years of Chinese medicine education with ethnographic and archival methodologies to trace how Chinese medicine succeeded in finding a prominent and unmistakable, if somewhat precarious, role in Chinese health care. This book is a critical read for anthropologists and historians and indispensable for Chinese medicine practitioners in both the West and the Far East. Anyone interested in how ‘old’ knowledge survives into modernity and how the present re-creates the past will benefit from reading it.”

—TE D J. KAPTC HU K, HARVARD U NIV E RSITY

Prescriptions for Virtuosity The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine ER I C I. KAR C HME R 272 pages, 21 b/w illustrations 9780823299836, Paperback, $30.00, £22.99 (SDT) 9780823299843, Hardback, $115.00, £92.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available J ULY Anthropology | Asian Studies | Health & Medicine

Although Chinese medicine is assumed to be a timeless healing tradition, the encounter with modern biomedicine threatened its very existence and led to many radical changes.

Prescriptions for Virtuosity tells the story of how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to the global dominance of biomedicine and developed new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.

Based on extensive ethnographic and historical research, the book documents the strategies of Chinese-medicine doctors to navigate postcolonial power inequalities. Doctors have followed two seemingly contradictory courses of action. First, they have emphasized the unique “Chinese” characteristics of their practice, defining them against the perceived strengths of biomedicine and producing an ontological divide between the two medical systems. These oppositions have inadvertently marginalized Chinese medicine, making it seem appropriate for clinical use only when biomedical solutions are lacking. Second, doctors have found points of convergence to facilitate the blending of the two medical practices, producing innovative solutions to difficult clinical problems.

Prescriptions for Virtuosity examines how the postcolonial condition can generate not only domination but also hybridity. Karchmer shows, for example, how the clinical methodology of “pattern discrimination and treatment determination” bianzheng lunzhi, which is today celebrated as the quintessential characteristic of Chinese medicine, is a twentieth-century invention. When subjected to the institutional standardizations of hospital practice, bianzheng lunzhi can lead to an impoverished form of medicine. But in the hands of virtuoso physicians, it becomes a dynamic tool for moving between biomedicine and Chinese medicine to create innovative new therapies.

ERIC I. KARCHMER

Taiwan.

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is Visiting Assistant Professor at China Medical University in Taichung,

The Politics of the Near On the Edges of Protest in South Africa J É R ÔME TO UR NADRE TR ANSLATED BY AND REW B ROW N 320 pages, 26 b/w illustrations 9780823299959, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823299966, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere M AY Anthropology | African Studies | Urban Studies

“Tournadre’s compelling development of a ‘politics of the near’ contributes significantly to debates in political sociology, anthropology, and political science.

The book’s close attention to activists’ quotidian lives and their embeddedness in dense social networks offers a compelling argument that politics is located not only in institutions and organizations but also in the everyday worlds that shape people’s dispositions, actions, and histories.”

—FIONA C . ROSS, U NIV E RSITY OF C APE TOW N

The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa.

Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography of a poor people’s movement traces individual commitments and the mainsprings of mobilization in the ordinary social and intimate life of activists, their relatives, and other township residents.

Tournadre’s approach picks up on aspects of activists’ lives that are often neglected in the study of social movements that help us better understand the dynamics of protest and the attachment of activists to their organization and its cause. What Tournadre calls a “politics of the near” takes shape, through sometimes innocuous actions and beyond the separation between public and domestic spheres.

By mapping the daily life of Black and low-income neighborhoods and the intimate domain where expectations and disappointments surface, The Politics of the Near offers a different perspective on the “rainbow nation”—a perspective more sensitive to the fact that, three decades after the end of apartheid, poverty and race are still as tightly interwoven as ever. is a Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is the author of A Turbulent South Africa: Post-Apartheid Social Protest.

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“Look Round for Poetry is an essential contribution to the conversation about literary theory ‘after’ theory. McGrath’s book is learned but written with a light touch, engaging but sincere, and it does a particularly nice job of linking Romantic poems to contemporary crises in a way that avoids opportunism while providing genuinely topical insight.”

—ANAHID NE RSE SSIAN, AU THOR O F K EATS’ S OD ES: A LOV ER’S DISCOURSE

Look Round for Poetry Untimely Romanticisms BR I A N M C G R ATH 192 pages 9780823299799, Paperback, $28.00, £20.99 (SDT) 9780823299805, Hardback, $95.00, £76.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Lit Z M AY Literary Studies | Cinema & Media Studies | Digital Culture

“McGrath offers powerful reflections on recent debates about the nature of Romanticism and its legacy, as well as an eloquent defense of poetry—as thinking, as source of figures that structure our world.”

—J ONATHAN C U LLE R, AU THOR O F TH EORY OF TH E LYRI C

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. Look Round for Poetry transforms Wordsworth’s idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry’s untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically.

Once one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly.

For poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us.

BRIAN MCGRATH is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy.

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“The story of Babel—a tale of all the world’s languages fallen into mutual unintelligibility—reminds us of meaning’s precarity and the manifold obstacles to linguistic transparency that exist within a plurality of tongues. If Babel Had a Form takes theories of untranslatability into new territory. Unpacking epistemologies of value, equivalence, and abstraction in transpacific contexts, it debunks binary paradigms of East–West linguistic and cultural difference even as it elucidates the complex and sometimes violent processes of social differentiation. Translation as a poetic praxis of ‘concrete abstraction’ is fully in play. A go-to book for comparatists of every stripe.”

—E MILY APTE R, AU THOR O F AG A I N ST WORL D L I TERATU RE: O N THE POLITIC S OF U N TRA N SL ATA BI L I TY

“If Babel Had a Form is lucid, yet theoretically sophisticated. Its attention to granular details yields a degree of abstraction lying in the heartbeat of the transpacific.”

—Y U NTE HUANG, AU THO R O F TRA N SPACI FI C I MAG I N ATI ON S

If Babel Had a Form

Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific TZ E -YIN T EO 256 pages 9781531500191, Paperback, $32.00, £24.99 (SDT) 9781531500184, Hardback, $110.00, £88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available A P R IL Literary Studies | Asian Studies | Philosophy & Theory

“The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences,” writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, “renders translation from one to the other exceptionally easy.” If Babel Had a Form asks not if this claim may be true but what its phantasmic surprise may yet do. In twentieth-century intersections of China and Asia with the United States, translations did more than communicate meaning across politicized and racializing differences of language and nation. Transpacific translation breached the regulative protocols that created those very differences of human value and cultural meaning. The result, Tze-Yin Teo argues, saw translators cleaving to the sounds and shapes of poetry to imagine a translingual “likeness of form” but not of meaning or kind.

At stake in this form without meaning is a startling new task of equivalence. As a concept, equivalence has been rejected for its colonizing epistemology of value, naming a broken promise of translation and false premise of comparison. Yet the writers studied in this book veered from those ways of knowing to theorize a poetic equivalence: Negating the colonial foundations of the concept, they ignited aporias of meaning into flashpoints for a radical literary translation. The book’s transpacific readings glean those forms of equivalence from the writing of Fenollosa, the vernacular experiments of Boxer scholar Hu Shi, the trilingual musings of Shanghai-born Los Angeles novelist Eileen Chang, the minor work of the Bay Area Korean American transmedial artist Theresa Cha, and a post-Tiananmen elegy by the exiled dissident Yang Lian. The Conclusion returns to the deconstructive genealogy of recent debates on translation and untranslatability, displacing the axiom of radical alterity for a no-less-radical equivalence that remains—pace Fenollosa—far from easy or exceptional.

Ultimately, If Babel Had a Form illuminates the demanding force of even the slightest sameness entangled in the translator’s work of remaking our differences. is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Oregon.

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The Beauty of the Trinity

A Reading of the Summa Halensis J U STIN SHAUN COYLE FOR EWO RD BY PHILIPP W. ROS EM ANN 224 pages 9781531500030, Hardback, $50.00, £40.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies AUG U S T Philosophy & Theory | Theology | Medieval Studies

“Scholars have come to be used to the notion that academic writing has to be on the dull side, as though a flat style guaranteed the objectivity of scholarly discourse. But what if the point of theological writing were not merely to state the ‘facts’ about the teachings of some (frequently obscure) author but to employ a discussion of these teachings to draw the reader in—in to the beauty of the Christian faith? This goal would call for a different style. Its dynamism would signal thinking rather than settled thought. Its choice of words would steer clear of the well-worn phrases and clichés that stifle curiosity; sometimes the vocabulary might even surprise. It would be pleasantly fresh, an invitation to participate in an intellectual and spiritual journey. Such is Dr. Coyle’s style in this book.”

—PHILIPP W. ROSE MANN, FRO M THE FORE WORD

In this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten Summa Halensis, an early-thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris.

Many scholars vaunt the Summa Halensis—conceived but not drafted entirely by Alexander of Hales (d. 1245)—for its teaching on beauty and its influence on giants of the high scholastic idiom. But few read the text’s teaching theologically—as a teaching about God. The Beauty of the Trinity: A Reading of the Summa Halensis proposes an interpretation of the Summa’s beauty—teaching as deeply and inexorably theological, even trinitarian.

The book takes as its keystone a passage in which the Summa Halensis identifies beauty with the “sacred order of the divine persons.” If beauty names a trinitarian structure rather than a divine attribute, then the text teaches beauty where it teaches trinity. So The Beauty of the Trinity trawls the massive Summa Halensis for beauty across passages largely ignored by the literature. Taking seriously the Summa’s own definition of beauty rather than imposing onto the text modernity’s narrow aesthetic categories allows Coyle to identity beauty nearly everywhere across the text’s pages: in its teaching on the transcendental determinations of being, on the trinity proper, on creation, on psychology, on grace. A medieval text must teach beauty that appreciates beauty theologically beyond the constricted and anachronistic boundaries that often limit study of medieval aesthetics. Readers of medieval theology and theological aesthetics both will find in The Beauty of the Trinity a depiction of how an early scholastic summa thinks beauty according to the mystery of the trinity.

(PhD, Boston College) is Assistant Professor of Theology at Mount Angel Abbey in St Benedict, Oregon.

JUSTIN SHAUN COYLE

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“Ambitious and deeply considered, The Political Logic of Experience dives head-first into some of the most intractable puzzles of phenomenology. The book is significant and welcome in its promise to link strains of thought and scholarship—the sociopolitical and the transcendental—that are too often cordoned off into separate realms.”

—GAY LE SALAMO N, AU THO R O F TH E L I FE A N D D EATH OF L AT ISHA KING: A CRI TI C A L PH EN OMEN OLOGY OF TRA N SPH OBI A

The Political Logic of Experience

Expression in Phenomenology NEAL DEROO 240 pages 9781531500054, Paperback, $32.00, £24.99 (SDT) 9781531500047, Hardback, $110.00, £88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy JU NE Philosophy & Theory | Political Science

The Political Logic of Experience argues that experience and phenomenology are essentially political, with profound implications for our understanding of subjectivity, epistemology, experience, the phenomenological method, and politics.

Drawing on work from across the phenomenological tradition, it develops an account of expression as the internal relationship uniting knowing, being, and doing with both transcendental conditions and empirical phenomena. This expressive unification generates subjectivity as an expression of particular communities and subjects as an expression of subjectivity. Subjectivity and experience are therefore both revealed to be inherently political prior to their expression in particular subjects.

In clarifying the political nature of experience and the constitution of subjectivity, the book puts the work of critical phenomenology in dialogue with transcendental phenomenology to reveal the need for a phenomenological politics: a field tasked with explaining the expressive, co-constitutive, and necessarily political relationships between subjects and their communities.

It is only through such a phenomenological politics that we can properly make sense of the epistemological, ontological, and practical significance of issues like racism and sexism, problems that concern our very experience of the world. The book reveals phenomenology to be both essentially political and politically essential, as it emerges within particular communities and shapes and transforms how individuals within those communities experience the world.

Touching on issues of transcendental phenomenology, political strategy, historical interpretation, and interdisciplinary phenomenological method, the book argues for foundational claims pertaining to phenomenology, politics, and social criticism that will be of interest to those working in philosophy, gender studies, race, queer theory, transcendental and applied phenomenology, and beyond.

NEAL D E ROO is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion at the King’s University, Edmonton. He is the author of Futurity in Phenomenology: Promise and Method in Husserl, Levinas, and Derrida.

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Promotes the understanding of Italian Americans and Greek Americans through the study of their interactions and juxtapositions.

Redirecting Ethnic Singularity Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation

Y I O R GO S ANAGNOSTOU, Y I O R GO S KA LOGE RAS, AN D T H EO D O R A PATRONA, E DITORS 336 pages 9780823299713, Paperback, $35.00, £26.99 (SDT) 9780823299720, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Critical Studies in Italian America M AY Italian American Studies | Race & Ethnic Studies | History

Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation contributes to U.S. ethnic and immigration studies by bringing into conversation scholars working in the fields of Italian American and Greek American studies in the United States, Europe, and Australia. The work moves beyond the “single group” approach—an approach that privileges the study of ethnic singularity––to explore instead two ethnic groups in relation to each other in the broader context of the United States. The chapters bring into focus transcultural interfaces and inquire comparatively about similarities and differences in cultural representations associated with these two groups.

This co-edited volume contributes to the fields of transcultural and comparative studies.

The book is multi-disciplinary. It features scholarship from the perspectives of architecture, ethnomusicology, education, history, cultural and literary studies, and film studies, as well as whiteness studies. It examines the production of ethnicity in the context of American political culture as well as that of popular culture, including visual representations (documentary, film, TV series) and “low brow” crime fiction. It includes analysis of literature. It involves comparative work on religious architecture, transoceanic circulation of racialized categories, translocal interconnections in the formation of pan-Mediterranean identities, and the making of the immigrant past in documentaries from Italian and Greek filmmakers. This volume is the first of its kind in initiating a multidisciplinary transcultural and comparative study across European Americans.

YIORGOS ANAGNOSTOU is Professor and the Director of the Modern Greek Program at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America.

is Professor Emeritus of American ethnic and minority literature.

He taught until his retirement (2018) at the Department of English Aristotle at University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books.

YIORGOS KALOGERAS

THEODORA PATRONA is affiliated with the School of English of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, as Special Teaching Fellow (EDIP). She is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature.

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Remember the Hand Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia CATH E R INE BR OWN 368 pages, 44 color and 22 b/w illustrations 9780823298914, Hardback, $65.00, £52.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Fordham Series in Medieval Studies AU G US T Medieval Studies | Literary Studies | Art & Visual Culture

“Remember the Hand is a unique scholarly achievement: at once erudite, theoretically daring, and a scholarly labor of love. It is sure to be read avidly in the many fields in which manuscript culture and the ethical and haptic nature of texts are of vital present concern: not only in medieval European art history and literary studies and in the study of non-Western manuscript traditions but also in fields such as history of religion, anthropology, architecture, and media studies.”

—J OHN DAGE NAIS, U NIV E RSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , LOS ANGE LES

Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing but also in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text out of words.

By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes’ understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between many parties—authors and their text, scribes and their pen, patrons and their art-object, readers and the words and images before their eyes—all mediated by the material object known as the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribe reaches out to us across time with a simple but profound directive: Remember the hand.

CATHERINE BROWN

Michigan.

is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of F O R D H A M P R E S S .C O M

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