Spring 2024 Catalog

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS SPRING 2024

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“Davida Siwisa James’ exploration of northern Manhattan across the centuries reveals the writer/artist in her. Strings of sentences sing so poetically. A reader, especially one who’s a lover of old New York, will daydream about the stories in each chapter. But Davida’s uncovering of topics and personalities from the past also reveals her other side, the self-made historian. Just as significant as Davida’s unveilings of Hamilton’s life are her assessments of topics like race, culture, politics—and real estate. The intricacies of that last subject have assumed more intensity over the past thirty years. Beautiful book! Will endure.”

—RON HOWELL, AUTHOR OF BOSS OF BLACK BROOKLYN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BERTRAM L. BAKER

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West Harlem

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill

Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries DAV I DA S I WI SA JAMES 432 pages, 128 b/w illustrations 9781531506148, Hardback,34.95 (HC), £29.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available A P R IL History | New York City & Regional | Race & Ethnic Studies

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It was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, a young Norman Rockwell discovered he liked to draw, and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. Through words and pictures, Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill traces the transition of this picturesque section of Harlem from lush farmland in the early 1600s to its modern-day growth as a unique Manhattan neighborhood highlighted by stunning architecture, Harlem Renaissance gatherings, and the famous residents who called it home.

Stretching from approximately 135th Street and Edgecombe Avenue to around 165th, all the way to the Hudson River, this small section in the Heights of West Harlem is home to so many significant events, so many extraordinary people, and so much of New York’s most stunning architecture, it’s hard to believe one place could contain all that majesty. Author Davida Siwisa James brings to compelling literary life the unique residents and dwelling places of this Harlem neighborhood that stands at the heart of the country’s founding. Here she uncovers the long-lost history of the transitions to Hamilton Grange in the aftermath of Alexander Hamilton’s death and the building boom from about 1885 to 1930 that made it one of Manhattan’s most historic and architecturally desirable neighborhoods, now and a century ago. The book also shares the story of the La Guardia High School of Music & Art, one of the first in the nation to focus on arts and music. The author chronicles the history of the Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan’s oldest surviving residence and famously known as George Washington’s headquarters at the start of the American Revolution.

By telling the history of its vibrant people and the beautiful architecture of this lovely, wellmaintained historic landmark neighborhood, James also dispels the misconception that Harlem was primarily a ghetto wasteland. The book also touches upon The Great Migration of Blacks leaving the South who landed in Harlem, helping it become the mecca for African Americans, including such Harlem Renaissance artists and luminaries as Thurgood Marshall, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Paul Robeson, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

DAV IDA SIWISA JAMES lived in Morningside Heights as a child and Sugar Hill as a young woman. She has a BA in English from UCLA and attended Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She has been a university public relations director, a freelance journalist for the twice Pulitzer Prize-winning Virgin Islands Daily News, and has a twenty-year management career in performing arts finance and marketing. She has published nonfiction books, essays, poems, a play, and an award-winning short story, “The Commute.”

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PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITION

“With hundreds of photos spanning the years before, during and after the site’s construction, the book lends context to the reclaimed urban space that has become one of the city’s most popular attractions.”

—WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Fascinating. . . . A must for anyone who plans to visit the High Line.”

—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Engrossing. . . . Bursting with insights on history, botany, geography, architecture, and the arts, LaFarge takes readers on a tour of the park from the ‘Slow Stairs’ at the southern end to the Tenth Avenue Spur. Gorgeous. . .photographs enhance the view on nearly every page. A marvelous guidebook for visitors and readers interested in New York City history or urban planning.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Reading this revised edition of the 2012 guide will make the casual tourist, and perhaps even an oblivious Manhattanite, seek out a section of the park (or maybe even the entire route) for a stroll. . . . The prize goes to the volume’s photographs. . . . Recommended for those living in or planning to visit New York City.”

—LIBRARY JOURNAL

The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and acclaimed guide to the High Line by the leading expert on the history of the park—now in a fully revised edition

On the High Line The Definitive Guide

T H I R D ED I T I ON, F U L LY R EV I S ED & U PDATED A N NI K L A FA RGE FO R EWOR D BY RICK DARKE 224 pages, 110 b/w illustrations 9781531506117, Paperback, $24.95 (TP), £21.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions M AY Photography | New York City & Regional | Urban Studies

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Built atop a former freight railroad, the “park in the sky” is regularly cited as one of the premiere examples of adaptive reuse and quickly became one of New York’s most popular destinations, attracting more than 8 million visitors a year. This updated Third Edition of On the High Line— published to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of the park’s opening—remains the definitive guide to the park that transformed an entire neighborhood and became an inspiration to cities around the globe.

In short entries organized by roughly two city block sections, the guide provides rich details about everything in view on both sides of the park. Illustrated with more than 110 black & white photographs, it covers historic and modern architecture; plants and horticulture; and important industries and technological innovations that developed in the neighborhoods the park traverses, from book publishing and food distribution to the introduction of cold storage and the development of radar, the elevator, and talking movies. Updated to include newly opened sections of the park, this edition also features a new conversation pertaining to the more controversial side of the High Line’s story and how it became a poster child for the most grievous manifestations of gentrification and inequity in public spaces. Author Annik LaFarge provides a frank discussion on how the park’s leadership created a platform for discussing these issues and for advising other projects on how to work more inclusively and from a social justice and equity perspective.

On the High Line serves as an educated travel companion, someone invisibly perched on a visitor’s shoulder who can answer every question, including what was here before, moving back in time through the early 20th century, the Industrial Revolution, and the colonial and pre-European times when this stretch of what we call Manhattan was home to the Lenape people and much of it was covered by the waters of the Hudson River. A companion website with more than 650 photos—historic, contemporary, rooftop and aerial—can be viewed at HighLineBook.com.

ANNIK LAFARGE has been writing about the High Line since 2009, beginning with the blog

LivinTheHighLine.com, selected by the Columbia University Libraries Web Resources Collection Program for inclusion in the Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning web archive.

LaFarge is a Trustee and Chair for the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and author of Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions.

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“An Honest Living is a disabused view of the academic career as seen from the front of a school bus, the driver being a Palestinian-American ex-academic who came to the world of public transport after falling victim to modern McCarthyism. Who knew that someone with legendary grounds for bitterness against the university and the mainstream media would make such good small talk with kindergarteners or have the talents of a stand-up comedian? In an era of quit lit, Salaita tells a unique story with a unique sensibility. He comes across as a man of unflinching principle who has never stopped enjoying himself or entertaining those around him.”

—BRUCE ROBBINS, OLD DOMINION FOUNDATION PROFESSOR IN THE HUMANITIES, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND DIRECTOR OF THE DOCUMENTARY SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE ZIONISTS

“With beauty and fierce intelligence, An Honest Living demonstrates Salaita’s powers as a compelling storyteller with a highly original, bold, and always interesting mind and unshakeable integrity. At times providing sharply satirical accounts of the corporate, settler colonial university, at other times, sharing intimate and moving meditations on fatherhood, exile, education, and freedom, this is a book with staying power, one that will continue to teach its readers how we might live honorably in the world.”

—CYNTHIA FRANKLIN, AUTHOR OF NARRATING HUMANITY: LIFE WRITING AND MOVEMENT POLITICS FROM PALESTINE TO MAUNA KEA

An exiled professor’s journey from inside and beyond academe

An Honest Living A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries STEV EN SA LA I TA 178 pages 9781531506353, Hardback, $24.95 (HC), £21.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H Memoir | Education | American Studies

In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. A year later, he landed a job in Lebanon, but that, too, ended badly. With no other recourse, Salaita found himself trading his successful academic career for an hourly salaried job. Told primarily from behind the wheel of a school bus—a vantage point from which Salaita explores social anxiety, suburban architecture, political alienation, racial oppression, working-class solidarity, professional malfeasance, and the joy of chauffeuring children to and from school—An Honest Living describes the author’s decade of turbulent post-professorial life and his recent return to the lectern.

Steven Salaita was practically born to a life in academia. His father taught physics at an HBCU in southern West Virginia and his earliest memories are of life on campus and the cinder walls of the classroom. It was no surprise that he ended up in the classroom straight after graduate school.

Yet three of his university jobs—Virginia Tech, the University of Illinois, and the American University of Beirut [AUB] —ended in public controversy. Shaken by his sudden notoriety and false claims of antisemitism, Salaita found himself driving a school bus to make ends meet. While some considered this just punishment for his anti-Zionist beliefs, Steven found that driving a bus provided him with not just a means to pay the bills but a path toward freedom of thought.

Now ten years later, with a job at American University at Cairo, Salaita reconciles his past with his future. His restlessness has found a home, yet his return to academe is met with the same condition of fugitivity from whence he was expelled: an occasion for defiance, not conciliation. An Honest Living presents an intimate personal narrative of the author’s decade of professional joys and travails.

STEVEN SALAITA received his PhD from the University of Oklahoma. He is currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. Salaita is also the author of eight books, including Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine, Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom, and Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader’s Guide.

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“Philip Berrigan’s Christian ministry and prophetic witness sparkle in this courageous and visionary book! Brad Wolf has given us a magnificent gift that keeps alive the great legacy of one of the greatest spirits of light in our dark and dim times!”

—CORNEL WEST, UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

“A Ministry of Risk is an apt title for the compiled writings on peace, war and social justice by my friend Phil Berrigan. I hope this book will be read far and wide and inspire new generations to act for peace and disarmament.”

—MARTIN SHEEN, ACTOR AND ACTIVIST

“This superb collection of essays by Phil Berrigan, by turns provocative, challenging and inspiring, marks the return of one of the greatest voices for peace, nonviolence and reconciliation of our time.”

A Ministry of Risk

Writings on Peace and Nonviolence PH I L I P BERR I GAN E D I TED A N D WITH AN INT RO D UCT I ON BY BRAD WOL F PR E FAC E BY F RIDA BE RRIGAN FO R EWORD BY B ILL WY LI E-KELL ERMAN A F TE RWORD BY JO HN DEAR , SJ 272 pages, 18 color illustrations 9781531506285, Paperback, $24.95 (TP), £21.99 9781531506278, Hardback, $95.00 (SDT), £85.00 Simultaneous electronic book available A P R IL Theology | Biography | History

—JAMES MARTIN, SJ, AUTHOR OF JESUS: A PILGRIMAGE

Experience the powerful legacy of Philip Berrigan’s nonviolent resistance to war and empire From the battlefields of World War II to the front lines of peace activism, Philip Berrigan evolved from soldier to scholar, priest to political prisoner. Confronting the fundamental nature of America’s military-focused culture, Berrigan took an unyielding stance against societal evils—war, systemic racism, unchecked materialism, and the baleful presence of nuclear weapons. Imprisoned by his government and ostracized by his Church, Berrigan’s life is a courageous example of nonviolent resistance and liberation in the face of overwhelming odds.

A Ministry of Risk is the definitive collection of Philip Berrigan’s writings. Authorized by the Berrigan family and arranged chronologically, these writings depict the transformation of one revolutionary soul while also providing a firsthand account of a nation grappling with its martial obsessions.

Threading the vibrant fabric of history with autobiographical insights, introspective theology, and a clarion call to activism, A Ministry of Risk offers both a living manifesto of nonviolent resistance and a journal of spiritual reflection by one of the 20th century’s most prophetic voices.

PHILIP BERRIGAN , an American peace activist and Catholic priest, spent 11 years in prison advocating nonviolent resistance to war. Notably part of the Baltimore Four and Catonsville Nine, he protested wars from Vietnam to Iraq. The author of numerous books, he was a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

BRAD WOLF , former prosecutor and professor, co-founded Peace Action Network of Lancaster, PA. He coordinated the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal and writes for numerous publications.

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“Just City provides a deep and thoroughly contextualized understanding of subsidized housing for the middle- and lower-class in postwar Manhattan: the goals that brought politicians to create it; its actual development on the streets of New York; its rise and fall in popularity; and the broader state of mind that made such widespread urban policies possible. The book is a fascinating combination of memoir and urban studies.”

—JENNIFER A. LOW, PROFESSOR EMERITA AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY AND AUTHOR OF DRAMATIC SPACES: SCENOGRAPHY AND SPECTATORIAL PERCEPTIONS

A captivating memoir of New York’s Historic Upper West Side at a time when community and unity defined the neighborhood

Just City

Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right J E N NI F ER BAUM 272 pages, 37 b/w illustrations 9781531506216, Hardback, $29.95 (HC), £25.99 A P R IL Urban Studies | New York City & Regional | Memoir

Step into the world of Just City and embark on a poignant journey to a time when ideals were woven into the very fabric of a neighborhood. Jennifer Baum’s evocative storytelling brings to life an era in New York City’s history where affordable housing wasn’t just a concept, but a reality that defined the essence of community.

Within the pages of this captivating memoir, you’ll find yourself transported to the historic Upper West Side—a place where diversity flourished and a shared belief in the importance of a home for all bound the residents together. Through personal anecdotes and heartfelt accounts, Baum illuminates her own upbringing alongside the stories of those who shared her neighborhood. She describes how as an adult, she came to appreciate that being raised in an integrated collective was a unique and exceptional experience. As she moves around the world for school, a husband, and work, she tells the story of her search for a home that would embody the values and community she grew up with.

Just City goes beyond the physicality of housing; it unveils the emotional tapestry of housing for an entire generation. As you immerse yourself in the stories of rallies, grassroots efforts, and the sense of kinship that defined this era, you’ll witness a generation that stood united for justice and fairness. The book captures not just moments, but the ethos of a time when the city was a testament to the power of community.

Celebrate the legacy of an era when a city was truly a home, when principles of social responsibility thrived. Just City isn’t just a memoir—it’s an invitation to revive the spirit of unity and create a city where everyone belongs. So open its pages and let its words rekindle the flame of a just and inclusive city once more.

JENNIFER BAUM is a filmmaker turned writer. Her writing has been published in New York Daily

News, Guernica, Jacobin, The Village Voice, The Phoenix Jewish News, Canadian Jewish Outlook, The Jewish Observer Los Angeles, MUTHA, Hip Mama, and Newfound, which nominated her essay “A Different Set of Rules” for a Pushcart award. Baum teaches composition at Montclair State University and occasionally works as a freelance editor, most recently for a series of reports for the World Bank on poverty in Ghana.

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“Startlingly intimate” —ARTFORUM

“‘I was no longer in me’: Nancy’s stunningly simple formula from The Intruder states a truth that threatens every border with a knowledge of its illusory rigidity, and the falsely imagined homogeneity of what it would protect. Ultimately, Nancy tells us with unsettling lucidity, everybody—every body—is an intruder of itself.”

—JEFF FORT, FROM THE INTRODUCTION

The most famous—and most personal—book by a major thinker, and the source of an acclaimed film by Claire Denis

The Intruder

J E A N - LUC NA N CY FO R EWORD BY CLAIRE DENIS 96 pages, 5 x 8, 3 b/w illustrations 9781531506186, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 9781531506179, Hardback, $70.00 (SDT), £63.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available M AY Philosophy & Theory | Cinema & Media Studies | Health & Medicine

In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy’s heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger’s heart was grafted into his body. Numerous complications followed, including more surgeries and lymphatic cancer. The procedure and illnesses he endured revealed to him, in a more visceral way than most of us ever experience, the strangeness of bodily existence itself and surviving the stranger within him.

During this same period, Europe began closing its borders to those seeking refuge from war and poverty. Having been asked to write something on the question of the foreigner who arrives, Nancy was inevitably drawn to a highly intimate form of strangeness with which he had been living for years. The Intruder compares the intrusion into his body to the intrusion across a border and how the welcoming of strangers is not antithetical to a sense of identity but constitutive of it.

In 2004, Claire Denis adapted (or, as Nancy later put it, adopted) The Intruder into a film that a poll of international critics has named one of the greatest two-hundred fifty films of all time.

This edition of Nancy’s text includes comments on the adaptation of a philosophical reflection into a feature film by both Denis and Nancy, as well as the text of a further cinematic collaboration between the two of them. Together, the collaborations between Nancy and Denis insist on the imperative to welcome strangers and push us to recognize that to truly welcome strangers means a constant struggle against impulses of exoticism, enforced assimilation, and confidence in our own self-identity.

JEAN-LUC NANCY (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universite

Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence.

CLAIRE DENIS is the director of fifteen films, including Beau Travail, Chocolat, 35 Shots of Rum, White Material, and High Life. Her most recent film, Stars at Noon, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

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GENERAL INTEREST “Mortimer and the Witches is a gripping mix of the history of discrimination, and our continued failure to focus on the true villains. It’s such a fascinating look at a relatively unexamined back-alley struggle for survival, I ate it up.”

—STACY HORN, AUTHOR OF DAMNATION ISLAND: POOR, SICK, MAD & CRIMINAL IN 19TH-CENTURY NEW YORK

“Mortimer and the Witches explores, in fascinating detail, the magical, occasionally criminal, underworld that simmers beneath the surface of so many cities around the world. But Marie Carter’s tale of 19th century New York is also an insightful, don’t-miss examination of the prevailing suspicion and prejudice against women operating at the margins of society.”

—DEBORAH BLUM, PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF GHOST HUNTERS: WILLIAM JAMES AND THE SEARCH FOR SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH

“Every turn of the page of Mortimer and the Witches brings on that same anticipation of revealing a tarot card and wondering what the storyteller will say. Not only does it fill a gap in our historical understanding of 19th-century sexism and classism, but it’s chockfull of facts I could never have predicted. I feel fortunate to have made the acquaintance of Mortimer and these hard-working women of Old New York.”

—PEGGY GAVAN, AUTHOR OF THE CAT MEN OF GOTHAM: TALES OF FELINE FRIENDSHIPS OF OLD NEW YORK

The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned workingclass fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them

Mortimer and the Witches

A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers M A R IE CA RT ER 208 pages, 25 b/w illustrations 9781531506247, Hardback, $29.95 (HC), £25.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H New York City & Regional | History | Gender & Sexuality

Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York City’s tenements and slums.

When his articles were published in book form in 1858, they catalyzed a series of arrests that both scandalized and delighted the public. But Mortimer was guarding some secrets of his own, and in many ways, his own life paralleled the lives of the women he both visited and vilified. In Mortimer and the Witches, author Marie Carter examines the lives of these marginalized fortune tellers while also detailing Mortimer Thomson’s peculiar and complicated biography.

Living primarily in the poor section of the Lower East Side, nineteenth-century fortune tellers offered their clients answers to all questions in astrology, love, and law matters. They promised to cure ailments. They spoke of loved ones from beyond the grave. Yet Doesticks saw them as the worst of the worst evil-doers. His investigative reporting aimed to stop unsuspecting young women from seeking the corrupt soothsaying advice of these so-called clairvoyants and to expose the absurd and woefully inaccurate predictions of these “witches.”

Marie Carter views these stories of working-class, immigrant women with more depth than Doesticks’s mocking articles would allow. In her analysis and discussion, she presents them as threedimensional figures rather than the caricatures Doesticks made them out to be. What other professions at that time allowed women the kind of autonomy afforded by fortune-telling? Their eager customers, many of whom were newly arrived immigrants trying to navigate life in a new country, weren’t as naive and gullible as Doesticks made them out to be. They were often in need of guidance, seeking out the advice of someone who had life experience to offer or simply enjoying the entertainment and attention.

Mortimer and the Witches offers new insight into the neglected histories of working-class fortune tellers and the creative ways that they tried to make a living when options were limited for them.

MARIE CARTER is a Scottish-born writer, tour guide, researcher, and developer with Boroughs of the Dead, a walking tour company specializing in strange, macabre, and ghostly walking tours of New York City. She is the author of The Trapeze Diaries and Holly’s Hurricane. She has been a guest speaker on NPR, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, and featured in The New York Times, Huffington Post, and other media outlets.

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Devil’s Mile

The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery A LI CE S PA R B ERG AL EXIOU FO R EWORD BY PETE R QU INN 304 pages, 25 b/w illustrations 9781531507268, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available JU LY New York City & Regional | History | Urban Studies

“This anecdote-laden urban history of New York City’s Bowery by Alexiou makes for addictive reading. The chapters on the city’s tumultuous early days are top-rate urban history, yet Alexiou hits her stride in describing the 19th century, when the Bowery was ‘America’s center of sin.’ Astutely written and smartly researched, this is a fascinating micro-take on New York’s cycle of boom and bust.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers nicknamed it “Satan’s Highway,” “The Mile of Hell,” and “The Street of Forgotten Men.” For years the little businesses along the Bowery—stationers, dry goods sellers, jewelers, hatters—periodically asked the city to change the street’s name. To have a Bowery address, they claimed, was hurting them; people did not want to venture there.

But when New York exploded into real estate frenzy in the 1990s, developers discovered the Bowery. They rushed in and began tearing down. Today, Whole Foods, hipster night spots, and expensive lofts have replaced the old flophouses and dive bars, and the bad old Bowery no longer exists.

In Devil’s Mile, Alice Sparberg Alexiou tells the story of the Bowery, starting with its origins, when forests covered the surrounding area, and through the pre–Civil War years, when country estates of wealthy New Yorkers lined this thoroughfare. She then describes the Bowery’s deterioration in stunning detail, starting in the post-bellum years. She ends her historical exploration of this famed street in the present, bearing witness as the old Bowery buildings, and the memories associated with them, are disappearing.

ALICE SPARBERG ALEXIOU is the author of Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary and The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Extraordinary City That Arose with It. She is a recent contributor to the New England Review and a contributing editor at Lilith Magazine.

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GENERAL INTEREST Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new light “Steve Mentz takes Moby-Dick apart and puts it back together again. Moby distilled, fractured, and reformed, sent to the moon, pathologized. We’re in the territory with him, with Mentz, with I., with the dog, with the ocean and the sky, and there’s no getting out of it till the end and the beginning again. I’ve never been so excited to read on. There are all our Moby-Dicks in here. Like Ishmael we have no idea where we’re going, and the voyage is intense—it’s the getting there that’s the point and the joy. No one since W. H. Auden, or perhaps Charles Olston, has got under the ocean’s skin and Melville’s obsessional brilliance like this. It’s not so much a collection of poems as a sensurround sound of water, whales, ecstasy, violence, desire, and glorious noise. Like Moby-Dick itself, circa 2024 AD.” —PHILIP HOARE, AUTHOR OF THE WHALE

“Sailing without Ahab is a rendering of Moby-Dick. The novel is boiled down from the whale’s fatty flesh, melted into transparent and pure oil. The rendered poems imagine new ways of being in the world.”

—SUZANNE CONKLIN AKBARI, FROM THE FOREWORD

“An innovative and poetic imagining of the Pequod’s journey without Ahab as well as its representations of the wild oceanic currents, spaces and depths, Steve Mentz contributes to our understanding of ecopoetry, the blue humanities, and even Melville studies in an original and stimulating manner.”

—CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ, AUTHOR OF NAVIGATING CHAMORU POETRY: INDIGENEITY, AESTHETICS, AND DECOLONIZATION

Sailing without Ahab Ecopoetic Travels

STEV E MEN TZ FO R EWOR D BY SUZA N N E C ON KL IN AKBARI 144 pages, 51⁄2 x 81⁄2, 1 map, 2 b/w illustrations 9781531506322, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 9781531506315, Hardback, $70.00 (SDT), £63.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available A P R IL Poetry | Environment | American Studies

Come sail with I. We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality—multiracial, visionary, queer, conflicted, polyphonic, playful, violent. But on this voyage something is different. Today we sail headless without any Captain. Instead of binding ourselves to the dismasted tyrant’s rage, the ship’s crew seeks only what we will find: currents teeming with life, a blue-watered alien globe, toothy cetacean smiles from vasty deeps. Treasures await those who sail without.

This cycle of one hundred thirty-eight poems—one for each chapter in Moby-Dick, plus the Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue—launches into oceanic chaos without the stabilizing mad focus of the Nantucket captain. Guided by waywardness and curiosity, these poems seek an alien ecopoetics of marine depths, the refraction of light, the taste of salt on skin. Directionless, these poems reach out to touch oceanic expanse and depth. It’s not an easy voyage, and not a certain one. It lures you forward. It has fixed its barbed hook in I. Sailing without means relinquishing goals, sleeping at the masthead, forgetting obsessions. I welcome you to trace wayward ways through these poems. Read them any way you can—back to front, at random, sideways, following the obscure promptings of your heart. It’s the turning that matters. It’s a blue wonder world that beckons.

STEV E MENTZ is Professor of English at St. John’s University and author of An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023), Ocean (2020) and a poetry chapbook, “Swim Poems” (2022). He also writes and curates The Bookfish Blog at www.stevementz.com.

SUZANNE CONKLIN AKBARI is professor of Medieval Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and co-host of the literature podcast The Spouter-Inn.

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GENERAL INTEREST “The return to print of Elizabeth Cullinan’s Yellow Roses is a great gift to those of us who love the short story form. Place these eloquent, melancholy tales with their fraught humor and their tangled families, their complex emotional wisdom, beside the best of Anton Chekov or Frank O’Connor or Alice Munro and they will more than hold their own.

Cullinan reminds us of how the writer’s art can illuminate the ordinary moment, pierce the heart of the unspoken, transform dailiness into the stuff of revelation and grace.”

—ALICE MCDERMOTT

“Elizabeth Cullinan is a master of a style both vivid and austere, a vision that is decidedly female, searching always for large ideas, large meanings. She opened the door to an understanding of a cohort under represented in American literature: the Irish Catholic woman torn between her hungers and her sense of duty, finally unable to grasp what she desires.”

—MARY GORDON

“The reissue of Elizabeth Cullinan’s short-story collection, Yellow Roses, marks her longoverdue return to the first rank of American writers. Her complex, richly drawn characters—aspiring writers, doomed lovers, ambivalent Jesuits—straddle the outer-borough world of ethno-religious certainties and the tumultuous possibilities of a culture and city caught up in revolutionary changes. The timeless quality of Cullinan’s writing—its immediacy and authenticity—elevates her storytelling into literature. Her honest, unsparing observations of her East Bronx, Irish-Catholic upbringing echo James Joyce’s achievement in the Dubliners. Yellow Roses is a cause for celebration.”

—PETER QUINN

“Involuted yet acute speculations, dialogue with cliches like welding studs, and a prose of sinuous ease—not to be missed.”

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

Yellow Roses

STO R I ES BY ELIZABETH CU L L INAN FO R EWORD BY A N G E LA A LA I M O O ’D ONNE L L 208 pages 9781531507350, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H Fiction | Literature | New York City & Regional

A captivating collection unveiling the intricacies of love, life, and legacy These twelve stories, told from the viewpoint of young women in life’s mid-passage, explore the splendors and miseries of love, both carnal and spiritual, and cast back through sickness and health to the engraving experiences of childhood and forward to the rituals and release of death and its occasion for recall.

They tell us of a dutiful but not guiltless daughter faced with the wreckage a father has made of his life, of the pain of trying to steer steadily through a doomed affair with a dearly loved married man, and of the ironies attending the funeral of a priest uncle and the birthday of an aged mother.

From the outwardly unremarkable frame of a single day—on Fire Island or in New York—an entire life and an encompassment of humanity are movingly conveyed. Then, with inverted telescope, the most subjective of inner realms is explored—through a hospital stay, a sudden name change, or the surprising end of all those dreaded piano lessons.

Taken together, these stories are a far greater whole than the sum of their remarkable parts, an unforgettable exploration of the paradoxical toughness and vulnerability that define the mortal condition.

ELIZABETH CULLINAN (June 7, 1933–January 26, 2020) was an Irish–American writer who started her career as a typist at The New Yorker magazine, which published her stories from 1960 to 1981. She produced two short story collections, The Time of Adam and Yellow Roses, and two novels, House of Gold and A Change of Scene.

ANGELA ALAIMO O’ DONNELL is a professor, writer, and poet at Fordham University and

the Associate Director of Fordham’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Among her recent books are Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith and Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O’Connor.

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“Astonishing. . . . Hilarious. . . . The mixture of analysis and memoir works because the author participates fully in the action of reading. . . . Everyone will wish they could have studied with the man they have come to know through his writing.”

—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Reading Shakespeare Reading Me is a triumphant vindication of critical self-absorption.

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 four hundred years ago can lead to intimate and absorbing self-revelations.”

—STEPHEN GREENBLATT, AUTHOR OF WILL IN THE WORLD: HOW SHAKESPEARE BECAME SHAKESPEARE

“Those looking for a gay man’s account of coming of age (and aging) while pondering some of the most resonant moments in Shakespeare—as presented by a leading Renaissance scholar—will find much to love in Reading Shakespeare Reading Me.” —GAY AND LESBIAN REVIEW

Reading Shakespeare Reading Me LEO NA RD BA RKAN 256 pages, 5 color and 6 b/w illustrations 9781531507312, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 [Hardcover available: 9780823299195] eBook available A P R IL Literary Studies | Renaissance Studies | LGBTQ Studies

“Barkan’s luminous prose, his prodigious humor, and his generous readings of the plays and sonnets are a real joy. This brings tons of fun to the Bard’s oeuvre.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW

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

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 University, 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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“Jonathan Alexander’s Stroke Book is a fascinating auto-theoretical essay on illness and queer sexuality through the prism of his own health crisis that occurred after he had a minor stroke, causing visual impairment and anxiety about his own mortality.

Alexander’s aphoristic style combines bits and pieces of phenomenological reflection with social and cultural analysis, creating a kaleidoscopic portal into the experience of stroke and its aftermath.”

—LISA DIEDRICH, AUTHOR OF INDIRECT ACTION: SCHIZOPHRENIA, EPILEPSY, AIDS, AND THE COURSE OF HEALTH ACTIVISM

Stroke Book

The Diary of a Blindspot J O NAT H A N A LEXANDER 208 pages, 5 x 8, 8 b/w illustrations 9781531507305, Paperback, $15.95 (TP), £13.99 [Hardback available: 9780823297665] eBook available M AY LGBTQ Studies | Biography | Health & Medicine

“Jonathan Alexander has given us an unexpected gift: an intimate performance of phenomenological writing that refuses the drive to process and package a life-altering experience of illness, embracing instead the daily imbrication of undependable vision, uncertain prognosis, and robust, resilient desire. Like the survival of its author in the wake of a sudden stroke, this book is a minor miracle.”

—PATRICK ANDERSON, AUTHOR OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DISEASE AND SO MUCH WASTED: HUNGER, PERFORMANCE, AND THE MORBIDITY OF RESISTANCE

An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body In 2019, Jonathan Alexander experienced an “eye stroke,” leaving a blindspot in his right eye. In Stroke Book, he delves into the aftermath of this health scare, paralleling it with the challenges of being a queer individual in the medical world. Queer individuals often face unique pressures, sometimes feeling responsible for their illnesses or experiencing added stresses that affect overall health.

Alexander weaves his story through poetic prose, detailing his journey post-stroke. This account reflects on the effects of past homophobic encounters on his wellbeing. Stroke Book transcends the traditional memoir, offering a deeper exploration into health, identity, and society. It stands as an exploration of the queer experience in relation to health, identity, and society, and situates itself within the broader queer tradition of writing about the body in various stages of life and death.

JONATHAN ALEXANDER is a writer living in Southern California, where he is also professor of

English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of twenty-two books. His nonfiction has been widely published, especially in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and his critical memoir trilogy (Creep, Bullied, and Dear Queer Self) has won several awards.

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“In this colorful and at times humorous chronicle of the life and exploits of black activist Al Sharpton, veteran journalist Ron Howell reveals how the Reverend Al used a combination of pluck, brains, ambition and resilience to overcome the journalists who portrayed him as a buffoon and a hustler and emerged as a power broker and a journalist.”

—SHERYL MCCARTHY, HOST OF “ONE TO ONE,” AND FORMER NEW YORK NEWSDAY COLUMNIST

King Al

How Sharpton Took the Throne RO N HOWELL 178 pages 9781531507299, Paperback, $19.95 (TP), £16.99 [Hardback available: 9780823298877] eBook Available Empire State Editions MA RC H New York City & Regional | Politics | Race & Ethnic Studies

“Ron Howell has written a much-needed work on the Reverend Al Sharpton. This book provides readers a fair and balanced examination of the most visible and talked about civil rights leader of the past 20 years. We learn from Howell about Sharpton’s rise to prominence as a civil rights and media figure; his relationships with black and white journalists; and his skillful use of the media and Sharpton’s politically influential National Action Network. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the role of journalism in the city, New York politics, and the Rev. Al Sharpton.”

—CLARENCE TAYLOR, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY, BARUCH COLLEGE AND THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY, AND AUTHOR OF FIGHT THE POWER: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE LONG HISTORY OF POLICE BRUTALITY IN NEW YORK CITY

The incredible story of the man and legend who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks in the United States King Al chronicles the extraordinary journey of Reverend Al Sharpton, a man who symbolizes the ongoing quest for racial justice in the U.S. Initially depicted by the 1980s press as a controversial figure, Sharpton defied expectations, evolving from a boy preacher to a revered Black American activist, minister, and TV host. The book explores his controversial past, including his involvement with the FBI and the Tawana Brawley case, and his rise to prominence, shaped in part by the very media that once criticized him. Now a respected figure hosting MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, Sharpton’s story reflects the resilience and transformation deeply rooted in Black American history. Ron Howell’s account offers an insightful look into New York City’s late-twentieth-century political and racial landscape, as well as Sharpton’s enduring influence and complexity.

RON HOWELL is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, a journalist, and the author of Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker and One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City. He has written thousands of articles over many decades for numerous journals, books, magazines, and newspapers.

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“In this affectionate and detailed profile of the work of the Little Sisters of the Assumption in East Harlem, Fordham professors Carey Kasten and Brenna Moore deeply explore the concept of mutuality. Centering on profiles of immigrant mothers from the Mixteca region of Mexico who found their way to the Little Sisters’ East Harlem home, this book is a powerful tribute to flourishing, care and sociality, and the human capacity to generate community even in the most challenging circumstances. The mothers’ determination, combined with the Little Sisters’ stalwart solidarity and generosity, are a powerful recipe for cooperation and empowerment built over time. This book is an inspiring roadmap to a better world.”

—ALYSHIA GÁLVEZ IS PROFESSOR OF LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES AT LEHMAN COLLEGE, AND OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER.

The stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York’s deeply-rooted organizations

Mutuality in El Barrio

Stories of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service CAREY KASTEN AND BRENNA MOORE FOREWORD BY NORMA BENÍTEZ SÁNCHEZ 192 pages 9781531506438, Paperback, $24.95 (AC), £21.99 9781531506421, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £81.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available M AY Immigration & Migration | New York City & Regional | Sociology

On any given weekday, people stream in and out of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service’s bright, airy building on 115th Street. They are mostly mothers who find their way to LSA, sometimes only weeks after crossing the border from Mexico, having heard of the support that las hermanitas (“the little sisters”) offer. Opening a window into the world of New York’s Spanishspeaking newcomers, Mutuality in El Barrio combines oral histories with archival research of the history, spirituality, and ministry of LSA to present how this well-established organization serves vulnerable populations with a unique approach they call “mutuality.”

LSA is part of a network of East Harlem’s powerful grassroots organizations that draws from the remarkable strengths of local families in its community. It is a place of healing and empowerment focused on the overall holistic health of resident families. Long-term relationships are cultivated here rather than quick fixes, and it is a place that nurtures people’s full potential as leaders, parents, and advocates for themselves. In Mutuality in El Barrio, eighteen mothers share how, through the help of LSA, they managed to navigate a strange city and an unfamiliar language in a neighborhood that has long been a site of incredible challenges and extraordinary strength, creativity, and cultural vitality.

These personal accounts of mothers, long-time LSA staff, and nuns reveal how these women found solidarity, accompaniment, care, neighborhood transformation, and binding connections through mutuality that helped them grow and connect in East Harlem. Their stories shine a light on an organization that began as a small community of vowed nuns who, like these mothers, also trace their origins abroad.

CAREY KASTEN is an Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Fordham Uni-

versity. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater: Representing the Auto Sacramental. In 2021, she curated Hostile Terrain 94, an art installation that depicts the loss of migrant life in the Sonoran Desert, at Fordham University’s Lipani Gallery.

BRENNA MOORE is a Professor of Theology at Fordham University. She is a specialist in the area of modern Christianity, with a focus on Catholic intellectual and cultural history in twentiethcentury Europe. She is the author of Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism and a longtime volunteer at the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health service.

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“The question of what kinds of activism actually work has never been more urgent. This book delves elegantly and brilliantly into a rich set of issues surrounding how art and activism impact social change. While many have speculated and made assumptions about this topic, this is the first in-depth study to systematically examine all the factors that go into understanding how activist art affects people and effects the political arena. Drawing upon over 100 interviews with actual practitioners of the arts of protest, the book offers a range of perspectives that will prove useful to many different kinds of readers, from social movement scholars to art historians to activist artists to all concerned citizens.

Everyone interested in furthering social change, and everyone interested in the role of the arts in social life should read this important book.”

—T. V. REED, AUTHOR OF THE ART OF PROTEST AND CURATOR OF CULTURALPOLITICS.NET

“The word ‘assessment’ makes my skin crawl, but we need to know if what we are doing works and there’s no one I trust more to help us figure this out than Stephen Duncombe.”

—ANDY BICHLBAUM, THE YES MEN

The first book to seriously identify how artistic activism works and how to make it work better

Æffect

The Affect and Effect of Artistic Activism STE P HEN D UN CO MBE 256 pages, 25 pieces of art and graphics 9781531506513, Paperback, $29.95 (AC), £25.99 9781531506506, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £94.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available A P R IL Art & Visual Culture | Politics

The past decade has seen an explosion in the hybrid practice of “artistic activism,” as artists have turned toward activism to make their work more socially impactful and activists have adopted techniques and perspectives from the arts to make their interventions more creative. Yet questions haunt the practice: Does artistic activism work aesthetically? Does it work politically? And what does “working” even mean when one combines art and activism? In Æffect, author Stephen Duncombe sets out to address these questions at the heart of the field of artistic activism.

Written by the co-founder and current Research Director of the internationally recognized Center for Artistic Activism, Æffect draws on Duncombe’s more than twenty-five years of experience in the field and one hundred in-depth interviews with artistic activists worldwide. More than a mere academic exercise, the theory, research, and tools in this book lay the groundwork for artistic activists to evaluate and strengthen their practice and to create better projects. The exploration of good artistic activism is grounded in three sets of concerns. 1) Change: Upon what theories of change is artistic activism based? 2) Intention: What do we hope and expect artistic activism to do, and how does it do this? 3) Evaluation: What actually happens as the result of an artistic activist intervention? Can it be measured? Æffect is rich with examples that demonstrate successful artistic activism, including Undocubus, an old bus painted “No Fear” across its side that was driven cross-country by a group of undocumented immigrant activists; Journal Rappé, a video show created by Senegalese rappers who created long-form investigative reports by rapping the current news in French and Wolof; and War on Smog, a staged a public performance piece by artistic activists in the city of Chongqing in Southwest China. Scannable QR codes are included to provide tools that help readers assess the æffect of their artistic activism.

S T E P H E N DU N CO M B E is a Professor of Media and Culture at NYU and co-founder and Research Director of the Center for Artistic Activism. He is the author, co-author, editor, and co-editor of eight books on the intersection of culture and politics.

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“This powerful book asks why women have been so underrepresented in public memorials and how distortion and debasement have played a part in how women have been remembered. Breaking the Bronze Ceiling makes a strong case for how cultural memory—and its mismanagement—have been controlling factors in the treatment of women in public art. The range of approaches makes the chapters lively and thought-provoking.”

—SUSAN G. SOLOMON

A revealing exploration into the forgotten women of our memorials and public art

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

Women, Memory, and Public Space VA LE NT I NA ROZAS- KRAUSE AND A N D R EW M . S HANKEN, E DITO R S 272 pages, 71 b/w illustrations 9781531506391, Paperback, $29.95 (AC), £25.99 9781531506384, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £94.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Berkeley Forum in the Humanities M AY Art & Visual Culture | Gender & Sexuality | History

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women’s memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this book stands at the forefront of contemporary discussion.

The book’s thought-provoking essays artfully traverse the complex terrains of gender portrayal, urban tales, ancestral practices, and grassroots activism—all anchored in the bedrock of cultural remembrance. Rich in the range of cases discussed, the book sifts through multifaceted representations of women, from Marians to Liberties, and handmaidens.

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling offers a panoramic view of worldwide memorials, critically analyzing grandiose tributes while also honoring subtle gestures—be it evocative plaques, inspiring namesakes, or dynamic demonstrations. The book will be of interest to historians of art and architecture, as well as to activists, governmental bodies, urban planners, and NGOs committed to regional history and memory.

More than a mere compilation, Breaking the Bronze Ceiling epitomizes a movement. The book comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.

CO N T R I B U TO R S : Carolina Aguilera, Manuela Badilla, Daniel E. Coslett, Erika Doss, Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, Daniel Herwitz, Katherine Hite, Lauren Kroiz, Ana María León, Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral, Pía Montealegre, Sierra Rooney, Daniela Sandler, Kirk Savage, Susan Slyomovics, Marita Sturken, Amanda Su, Dell Upton, Nathaniel Robert Walker, and Mechtild Widrich VALENTINA ROZAS -KRAUSE is Assistant Professor in Design and Architecture at Universidad

Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile.

ANDREW M. SHANKEN is Professor of Architectural History and the Director of American

Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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“A daughter fractured by the lies of a dying mother; a scholar drawn to the literary history of death; a mother in debt to stories that won’t die: Alice Dailey’s lush and haunting memoir immerses readers in the lessons and limits of knowing grief. Brilliantly experimental in form, Mother of Stories pierces the divide between storytelling and philosophy, fiction and life.”

—ROBYN WIEGMAN, DUKE UNIVERSITY

“An elegant meditation on the fiction of everyday living.”

—WILLIAM GERMANO, AUTHOR OF ON REVISION

“A profoundly moving and creative book.”

Mother of Stories An Elegy

A LI CE DA I LEY 160 pages, 51⁄2 x 81⁄2, 95 color figures 9781531506476, Paperback, $24.95 (AC), £21.99 9781531506469, Hardback, $95.00 (SDT), £85.00 Simultaneeous electronic edition available J ULY Memoir | Literary Studies | Gender & Sexuality

—JONATHAN ALEXANDER, AUTHOR OF WRITING AND DESIRE: QUEER WAYS OF COMPOSING

A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss In a breathtaking blend of lyrical memoir, photographs, and textual artifacts, Mother of Stories examines the complex legacy of a mother who was a gifted teacher, a passionate reader, and a pathological liar.

While Alice Dailey was immersed in an academic study of death in Shakespeare’s history plays, her mother died from toxic exposure to mold. Composed in a fugue of grief, Mother of Stories is Dailey’s uncompromising account of the months before and after her mother’s death. Through varied forms of episodic and visual recreation, Mother of Stories confronts what it means to inherit violent family narratives and, in their wake, to have to reconceive the borders between lived, imaginary, and literary experience.

A hybrid, richly imaginative work that synthesizes past and present, counterfeit and real, Mother of Stories oscillates between the inescapable weight of history and the cathartic liberation of art and storytelling. In constructing a poetic assemblage reminiscent at once of medieval miscellanies and contemporary experimental autotheory, Dailey’s acts of rehearsing, cutting, and folding history generate forms of radical critique that puncture and reconstitute the limits of literary nonfiction.

A L I C E DA I L E Y is Professor of English at Villanova University, where she specializes in late

medieval and early modern literature, with a particular focus on drama and death studies. She is the author of The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution and How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol.

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Utopia and Skepticism in the Antebellum Era

Kimberly A. Orcutt

The American Art-Union Utopia and Skepticism in the Antebellum Era

K I M B ERLY A . ORCU TT 368 pages, 9 x 9, 87 color illustrations 9781531506988, Hardback, $140.00 (SDT), £125.00 9781531506995, Paperback, $39.95 (AC), £36.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available JU LY Art & Visual Culture | History | New York City & Regional

“Orcutt’s comprehensive, lucid and fair-minded history of the American Art-Union, the most important art patron of the nineteenth century, defends it as a utopian enterprise that failed when the idealism embedded in its institutional structure had unintended consequences. This book is likely to become a standard reference on the Art-Union and its widespread impact.”

—WENDY KATZ, PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY & DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Union’s remarkable rise and fall For over a decade, the New York–based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members from almost every state, its meteoric rise and its sudden and spectacular collapse still raise a crucial question: Why did such a successful and influential institution fail? The American Art-Union reveals a sprawling and fascinating account of the country’s first nationwide artistic phenomenon, creating a shared experience of visual culture, art news and criticism, and a direct experience with original works.

For an annual fee of five dollars, members of the American Art-Union received an engraving after a painting by a notable US artist and the annual publication Transactions (1839–49) and later the monthly Bulletin (1848–53). Most importantly, members’ names were entered in a drawing for hundreds of original paintings and sculptures by most of the era’s best-known artists. Those artworks were displayed in its immensely popular Free Gallery. Unfortunately, the experiment was short-lived. Opposition grew, and a cascade of events led to an 1852 court case that proved to be the Art-Union’s downfall. Illuminating the workings of the American art market, this study fills a gaping lacuna in the history of nineteenth-century US art. Kimberly A. Orcutt draws from the American Art-Union’s records as well as in-depth contextual research to track the organization’s decisive impact that set the direction of the country’s paintings, sculpture, and engravings for well over a decade.

Forged in cultural crosscurrents of utopianism and skepticism, the American Art-Union’s demise can be traced to its nature as an attempt to create and control the complex system that the early nineteenth-century art world represented. This study breaks the organization’s activities into their major components to offer a structural rather than chronological narrative that follows mounting tensions to their inevitable end. The institution was undone not by dramatic outward events or the character of its leadership but by the character of its utopianist plan.

K I M B E R LY A . O RC U T T is Executive Editor of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. She has served as curator of American art at the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Historical Society, and Harvard Art Museums. She is the author of Power and Posterity: American Art at Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition.

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The War In-Between proposes an entirely fresh approach to the endless wars of the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing for a feminist analysis of images of the ‘banal,’ ‘quotidian,’ and ‘unspectacular’ in the service of alternative visualities of survival in the brutal context of political violence.”

—CAREN KAPLAN, AUTHOR OF AERIAL AFTERMATHS: WARTIME FROM ABOVE

The War InBetween

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Explores the ambiguities and contradictions that disrupt the assumed boundaries of battle zones Against the fabric of suffering that unfolds around more spectacular injuries and deaths, The War In-Between studies visual depictions of banal, routine, or inscrutable aspects of militarized violence.

Spaces of the in-between are both broader and much less visible than battlefields, even though struggles for survival arise out of the same conditions of structural violence. Visual artifacts including photographs, video, data visualizations, fabric art, and craft projects provide different vantage points on the quotidian impacts of militarism, whether it is the banality of everyday violence for non-combatants or the daily struggles of soldiers living with physical and emotional trauma.

Three interrelated concepts frame the book’s attempt to “stay” in the moment of looking at visual cultures of survival. First, the concept of the war in-between captures those interstitial spaces of war where violence and survival persist side-by-side. Second, this book expands the concept of indexicality to consider how images of the in-between rely on a range of indexical traces to produce alternative visualities about survival and endurance. Third, the book introduces an asymptotic analysis to explore the value in getting close to the diverse experiences that comprise the war in-between, even if the horizon line of experience is always just out of reach.

Exploring the capaciousness of survival reveals that there is more to feel and engage in war images than just mangled bodies, collapsing buildings, and industrialized death. The War In-Between, Kozol argues, offers not a better truth about war but an accounting of visualities that arise at the otherwise unthinkable junction of conflict and survival.

W E N DY KOZO L is Professor Emerita of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College.

She is the author of Distant Wars Visible: The Ambivalence of Witnessing and editor (with Wendy Hesford) of Just Advocacy: Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Representation.

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“The Planning Moment provides a much-needed revision to the notion of a homogenous modernity and to top-down accounts of state planning. In recognizing the contested and often multiple futures that emerged from the disjuncture between plan and action, the book charts fresh directions past impasses that mark contemporary technophilia and technophobia.”

—ORIT HALPERN, AUTHOR OF THE SMARTNESS MANDATE

“This deeply interdisciplinary and transregional book emerges from anthropology, history, Science and Technology Studies, museum studies, and sociology, with essays spanning every continent. While each essay tells a highly localized story, together they help us reimagine imperial designs, postcolonial responses, and Cold War exigencies.”

—JINI KIM WATSON, AUTHOR OF COLD WAR RECKONINGS: AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE GENRES OF DECOLONIZATION

Exploring colonialism together with the technological and administrative apparatuses that underlie it

The Planning Moment

Colonial and Postcolonial Histories SAR AH B LAC KER , E M ILY B ROWN EL L , ANINDITA NAG, M A RT I NA S C H LÜNDE R , H E L E N VERR A N, AND SAR AH VA N BEURDE N, EDITOR S FO R EWORD BY DAGMAR SCHÄFE R 336 pages, 8 b/w illustrations 9781531506636, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £27.99 9781531506629, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £99.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H Postcolonial Studies | History | Science Studies

Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently under-emphasized in the history of science and its corollary fields.

The Planning Moment explores the myriad ways plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book is built around twenty-seven brief case studies that explore the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts, through a range of disciplines: the history of science, science and technology studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, urban studies, and the history of knowledge.

If colonialism made certain landscapes, populations, and institutions legible while obscuring others, The Planning Moment reveals the frequently disruptive and violent processes of erasure in imperial planning by examining how “common sense” was produced and how the intransigence of planning persists long after decolonization. In recognizing the resistance and subversion that often met colonial plans, the book makes visible a range of strategies and techniques by which planning was modified and reappropriated, and by which decolonial futures might be imagined.

CONTRIBUTORS: Itty Abraham, Benjamin Allen, Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Lino Camprubí, John DiMoia, Mona Fawaz, Lilly Irani, Chihyung Jeon, Robert Kett, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Karen McAllister, Laura Mitchell, Gregg Mitman, Aaron Moore (†), Nada Moumtaz, Tahani Nadim, Anindita Nag, Raúl Necochea López, Tamar Novick, Benjamin Peters, Juno Salazar Parreñas, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, Helen Verran, Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes, Alexandra Widmer, and Alden Young SARAH BLACKER is Sessional Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University. EMILY BROWNELL is Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at the University of Edinburgh. ANINDITA NAG is Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, Jindal Global University. MARTINA SCHLÜNDER is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. HELEN VERRAN is University Professorial Fellow in the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University. SARAH VAN BEURDEN is Associate Professor of History and African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University. DAG M A R SC HÄ FE R is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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“Thoroughly researched, and beautifully written, this book offers a convincing argument that Latinx revolutionary horizons work in counterintuitive, non-sequential, and nonlinear ways across time and space. This is a powerful and thoughtful intervention into the field of Latinx Studies.”

—DAVID J. VÁZQUEZ, AUTHOR OF TRIANGULATIONS: NARRATIVE STRATEGIES FOR NAVIGATING LATINO IDENTITY

“Richly textured with evocative and eloquent analyses, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons mobilizes an innovative and wide-ranging temporal and geographic archive to expand how we understand and imagine revolution in Latinx America and beyond.”

—JENNIFER HARFORD VARGAS, AUTHOR OF FORMS OF DICTATORSHIP: POWER, NARRATIVE, AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE LATINA/O NOVEL

“By reading contemporary Latinx literature with key 19th century texts of Latin American literature, Hudson demonstrates Latinx literature is continental in form as well as content, the consequence of layered conquests, racial ideologies, and imperialisms.

The slave narrative, the testimonio, the dictator novel, guerilla conversion novels, all made significant contributions to the field of Latinx letters. Hudson moves beyond a New Historicism towards a theory of hemispheric aesthetics that are revolutionary precisely because they are place-based, and fractured by the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual realities the Spanish and British encountered upon their arrival in the ‘new world.’”

—MARÍA JOSEFINA SALDAÑA-PORTILLO, AUTHOR OF INDIAN GIVEN: RACIAL GEOGRAPHIES ACROSS MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES

Latinx Revolutionary Horizons

Form and Futurity in the Americas R E N EE H UDS ON 288 pages, 3 b/w illustrations 9781531507190, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £25.99 9781531507183, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £94.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available M AY Latinx Studies | Literary Studies

A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, she argues for an expansive, historicized sense of the term that illuminates its political potential.

Claiming the “x” in Latinx as marking the suspension and tension between how Latin American descended people identify and the future politics the “x” points us toward, Hudson contends that latinidad can signal a politics grounded in shared struggles and histories rather than merely a mode of identification. In this way, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons reads against current calls for cancelling latinidad based on its presumed anti-Black and anti-Indigenous framework. Instead, she examines the not-yet-here of latinidad to investigate the connection between the revolutionary history of the Americas and the creation of new genres in the hemisphere, from conversion narratives and dictator novels to neoslave narratives and testimonios.

By comparing colonialisms, she charts a revolutionary genealogy across a range of movements such as the Mexican Revolution, the Filipino People Power Revolution, resistance to Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and the Cuban Revolution. In pairing nineteenth-century authors alongside contemporary Latinx ones, Hudson examines a longer genealogy of Latinx resistance while expanding its literary canon, from the works of José Rizal and Martin Delany to those of Julia Alvarez, Jessica Hagedorn, and Leslie Marmon Silko. In imagining a truly transnational latinidad, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons thus rewrites our understanding of the nationalist formations that continue to characterize Latinx Studies.

RENEE HUDSON is Assistant Professor of English at Chapman University.

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Beyond Despair

The Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the Eyes of Children

“Beyond Despair is shattering. The book constitutes a restrained, low-pitched, and controlled exposition. Dumas’s restraint comes from profound empathy and understanding of an event that is unbearable to contemplate. The story—of human evil—bursts out from these children’s lives and overwhelms us. I can’t recall a reading a book in ten or twenty years that has affected me so deeply.”

—JAN T. GROSS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Hélène Dumas

“It is a testament to Hélène Dumas’s integrity as a historian that she does not instrumentalize, and thereby distort, the children’s accounts on behalf of her own grand take-away.

Instead she fills in the elements of the scenes that the children leave out, and explains the common themes, so that the full force of the children’s experiences hits readers all the harder, and more directly.”

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Catherine Porter FOREWORD BY

Louisa Lombard

Beyond Despair

The Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the Eyes of Children H É L È NE D UMAS T R ANS LAT ED BY CAT H ER I N E PORTER FO R EWORD BY L O U ISA L OMBARD 272 pages, 6 b/w illustrations 9781531506087, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £27.99 9781531506070, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £99.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere JU NE Human Rights | Anthropology | African Studies

—LOUISA LOMBARD, FROM THE FOREWORD

Winner, Prix Pierre Lafue.

Winner, Prix lycéen du livre d’histoire des Rendez-vous de l’histoire de Blois In the archives of the main institution in charge of the history and memory of the genocide in Rwanda, several bundles of fragile little school notebooks contain, in the silence of accumulated dust, the stories of around a hundred surviving children. Written in 2006 at the initiative of a Rwandan survivors’ association, as a testimonial and psychological catharsis, these accounts by children who have since become young men and women tell the story of their experience of the genocide, as well as of “life before” and “life after.”

The words of these children, the cruel realism of the scenes they describe, the power of the emotions they express, provide the historian with an unparalleled insight into the subjectivities of the survivors, and also enable us to take on board the murderous discourse and gestures of those who eradicated their world of childhood forever. Far from abstract postulates on the “unspeakable,” Beyond Despair offers a reflection on the conditions that make audible such an experience of dereliction in the twilight of the twentieth century.

This work received support for excellence in publication and translation from Albertine Translation, a program created by Villa Albertine and funded by FACE Foundation HÉLÈNE DUMAS is a research fellow in history at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Raymond Aron Center for sociological and political studies at the EHESS, Paris. She is the author of Le Génocide au village: Le massacre des Tutsi au Rwanda.

CATHERINE PORTER is Professor of French Emerita at the State University of New York at Cortland and former president of the Modern Language Association. She has translated more than fifty books, including Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth and Elisabeth Roudinesco’s The Sovereign Self.

LOUISA LOMBARD is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. She is the author of State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic.

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EMBRACING EMANCIPATION A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840–1865

“Ian Delahanty has provided an important corrective to the oversimplification of our understanding of the Irish American position on slavery, antislavery, and race. He shows that Irish opinion changed over time in response to the evolving situation on both sides of the Atlantic. And he also emphasizes the way that the attitudes were far from homogenous within the Irish American community. His research, grounded in the rhetoric in Irish American and other newspapers, is solid, and in addition to the sophisticated analysis of that rhetoric, he provides pithy bits of narrative that engage the reader and illustrate his points.”

—ANGELA F. MURPHY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY

IAN DELAHANTY

Embracing Emancipation

A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840–1865 I AN DELA HA N TY 384 pages 9781531506872, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £29.99 9781531506865, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £112.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Reconstructing America J UNE Civil War | History | Race & Ethnic Studies

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans’ unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to have been oppressed in Ireland, so vehemently opposed the antislavery movement in the United States? Challenging conventional answers to this question that focus on the cultural, political, and economic circumstances of the Irish in America, Embracing Emancipation locates the origins of Irish American opposition to antislavery in famine-era Ireland.

There, a distinctively Irish critique of abolitionism emerged during the 1840s, one that was adopted and adapted by Irish Americans during the sectional crisis. The Irish critique of abolitionism meshed with Irish Americans’ belief that the American Union would uplift Irish people on both sides of the Atlantic—if only it could be saved from the forces of disunion.

Whereas conventional accounts of the Civil War itself emphasize Irish immigrants’ involvement in the New York City draft riots as a brutal coda to their unflinching opposition to emancipation, Delahanty uncovers a history of Irish Americans who embraced emancipation. Irish American soldiers realized that aiding Black southerners’ attempts at self-liberation would help to subdue the Confederate rebellion. Wartime developments in the United States and Ireland affirmed Irish American Unionists’ belief that the perpetuity of their adopted country was vital to the economic and political prospects of current and future immigrants and to their hopes for Ireland’s independence. Even as some Irish immigrants evinced their disdain for emancipation by lashing out against Union authorities and African Americans in northern cities, many others argued that their transatlantic interests in restoring the Union now aligned with slavery’s demise. While myriad Irish Americans ultimately abandoned their hostility to antislavery, their backgrounds in and continuously renewed connections with Ireland remained consistent influences on how the Irish in America took part in debate over the future of American slavery.

IAN DELAHANTY is an associate professor of history at Springfield College where he teaches classes in American history, the Civil War era, American immigration history, and public history.

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The History of Vatican Radio from Its Origins to World War II

Raffaella Perin

The Popes on Air

The History of Vatican Radio from Its Origins to World War II

“Perin’s book sheds important new light on how the controversial Pope Pius XII and the Vatican dealt with the challenges posed by the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Vatican radio was a potentially precious source of news in Axis-occupied Europe, and a potent public platform for the pope, yet he worried about broadcasts that might antagonize the Nazis and Fascists. The Popes on Air, for the first time, shows exactly how the Vatican made its way amidst these challenges.”

—DAVID KERTZER, PULITZER-PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE POPE AND MUSSOLINI

The story of the origin of Vatican Radio provides a unique look at the history of World War II

R AF FAELLA PERIN 288 pages 9781531507152, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £25.99 9781531507145, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £94.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension A P R IL World War II | History | Religion

The book offers the first wide-ranging study on the history of Vatican Radio from its origins (1931) to the end of Pius XII’s pontificate (1958) based on unpublished sources. The opening of the Secret Vatican Archives on the records regarding Pius XII will shed light on the most controversial pontificate of the 20th century. Moreover, the recent rearrangement of the Vatican media provided the creation of a multimedia archive that is still in Fieri.

This research is an original point of view on the most relevant questions concerning these decades: the relation of the Catholic Church with the Fascist regimes and Western democracies; the attitude toward anti-Semitism and the Shoah in Europe, and in general toward the total war; the relationship of the Holy See with the new media in the mass society; the questions arisen in the after-war period such as the Christian Democratic Party in Italy; the new role of women; and anti-communism and the competition for the consensus in the social and moral order in a secularized society.

RAFFAELLA PERIN is Associate Professor of History of Christianity at the Catholic University

of Milan.

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“A remarkable achievement. The voices of the enslaved and contemporary captives routinely elide pundits. Politics in Captivity provocatively bucks this tendency. Working at the intersections of Black political thought, African American intellectual history, carceral political theory, and, however surprising, the ideas of Hannah Arendt, Lena Zuckerwise boldly unsettles the destructive/productive binary to lay claim to Afromodern visions of worldlessness and world-building that view the materialization of freedom in generative acts of destruction.”

—NEIL ROBERTS, WILLIAMS COLLEGE

Politics in Captivity Plantations, Prisons, and World-Building LE NA ZUC KERWISE 288 pages 9781531507039, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £27.99 9781531507022, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £99.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Just Ideas J UNE Political Science | American Studies | African American Studies

Exploring Black resistance in captivity through a new lens From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline exercised by prisoners in solitary confinement, Black Americans have, through time, resisted racial regimes in extraordinary and everyday ways.

Though these acts of large and small-scale resistance to slavery and incarceration are radical and transformative, they have often gone unnoticed. This book is about Black rebellion in captivity and the ways that many of the conventional well-worn constructs of academic political theory render its political dimensions obscure and indiscernible. While Hannah Arendt is an unlikely theorist to figure prominently in any discussion of Black politics, her concepts of world and worldlessness offer an indispensable framework for articulating a theory of resistance to chattel and carceral captivity.

Politics in Captivity begins by taking seriously the ways in which slavery and incarceration share important commonalities, including historical continuity. In Zuckerwise’s account of this commonality, the point of connection between enslaved and incarcerated people is not exploited labor, but rather resistance. The relations between the rebellions of both groups appear in the writings of Muhammed Ahmad, Angela Davis, George Jackson, Ruchell Magee, and Assata Shakur, a genre Zuckerwise calls Black carceral political thought. The insights of these thinkers and activists figure into Zuckerwise’s analyses of largescale uprisings and quotidian practices of resistance, which she conceives as acts of world-building, against conditions of forced worldlessness. In a moment when a collective racial reckoning is underway; when Critical Race Theory is a target of the Right; when prison abolition has become more prominent in mainstream political discourse, it is now more important than ever to look to historical and contemporary practices of resistance to white domination.

LENA ZUCKERWISE is Associate Professor of Political Science at Simmons University.

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“Drawing on the work of Jacques Rancière in particular, Democratic Anarchy offers a compelling theory of democracy and an incisive critique of consensus politics in the United States. Its sharp rhetorical readings of diverse examples of US literature draw out a vision of radical equality beyond the limits of representation.”

—CHRISTIAN P. HAINES, AUTHOR OF A DESIRE CALLED AMERICA: BIOPOLITICS, UTOPIA, AND THE LITERARY COMMONS

A dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of democracy

Democratic Anarchy

Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature M AT T H EW S C ULLY 256 pages, 5 b/w illustrations 9781531507077, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £29.99 9781531507060, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £112.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available JU LY American Studies | Literary Studies | Philosophy & Theory

Democratic Anarchy grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion. Yet in Democratic Anarchy, Matthew Scully asks, how can “the people” be represented in a way that acknowledges what remains unrepresentable? What would it mean to face up to the constitutive exclusions that haunt U.S. democracy and its anxious fantasies of equality?

Synthesizing a broad range of theoretical traditions and interlocutors—including Lacan, Rancière, Edelman, and Hartman—Democratic Anarchy polemically declares that there has never been, nor can there ever be, a realized democracy in the U.S. because democracy always depends on the hierarchical institution of a formal order by one part of the population over another. Engaging with an expansive corpus of American literature and art (Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louis Zukofsky, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Nari Ward, Ocean Vuong, and Safiya Sinclair), Democratic Anarchy argues that many liberal concepts and institutions are in fact structurally opposed to democratic equality because they depend on regulating what can appear and in what form.

By focusing on works that disrupt this regulatory impulse, Scully shows how rhetorical strategies of interruption, excess, and disorder figure the anarchic equality that inegalitarian fantasies of democracy disavow. Democratic Anarchy develops a rigorous theory of equality that refuses to repeat the inequalities against which it positions itself, and it does so by turning to moments of resistance—both aesthetic and political—inaugurated by the equality that inheres in and antagonizes the order of things.

MATTHEW SCULLY is Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Lausanne.

His work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of Modern Literature, Diacritics, African American Review, American Literature, Critical Inquiry, and Postmodern Culture.

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“Reading the Impossible is a real feminist breath of fresh air. At a time when devastating social disorientation and absolute subjective certainties go hand in hand and exist as two sides of the same neoliberal coin, Weed finds a way to successfully crack open this monolithic multiplicity. By reviving the conceptual and political significance of the impossible, she succeeds in presenting the latter as an affirmative and productive cause of critique rather than its limit. Not only does she argue that critique is still necessary, perhaps more so than ever, she also accomplishes a veritable coup of critique herself.

Written in a wonderfully clear, engaging, and accessible style, Reading the Impossible proves to be an exciting, rewarding and stimulating book.”

Reading the Impossible

Sexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History E L I ZA B ET H WEE D 176 pages, 5 x 8 9781531506797, Paperback, $25.00 (SDT), £21.99 9781531506780, Hardback, $90.00 (SDT), £81.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available M AY Gender & Sexuality | Philosophy & Theory | Psychoanalysis

—ALENKA ZUPANČIČ, AUTHOR OF LET THEM ROT: ANTIGONE’S PARADOX

Unraveling neoliberal narratives with feminist insight and critical acumen Reading the impossible has never seemed less possible. A few decades ago, critical readings could view the collapse of foundationalism optimistically. With meaning no longer soldered onto being, there was hope for all those beings whose meaning had been forever ordained by Nature or the Divine. Critical reading thus became a way of exploring the devious workings of knowledge and power. But as non-foundational systems of meaning have proven to be so perfectly suited to the transactional logics of the market, reading for the impasses of meaning has come to be seen as quixotic, impractical, and dated.

To concur with that view, Elizabeth Weed argues, is to embrace the fantasy told by the neoliberal order. To read the impossible is to disrupt that fantasy, with its return to stable categories of marketable identity, in order to contest the inexorable workings of misogyny and racism. This book seeks to disturb the positivity of identity in the hope of retrieving the impossibility of sexual difference, an impossibility that has its effects in the Real of misogyny.

A return to the famous debate between Derrida and Lacan on the impossibility of sexual difference yields two different readings of the impossible. In reconsidering these questions, Weed shows how the practice of reading can powerfully stage the wiles of language and the unconscious.

In returning to that earlier moment in the context of current debates on the role of reading and interpretation, Weed offers a fresh perspective on what is at stake for critical reading in the neoliberal university.

ELIZABETH WEED is Director Emerita of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University and editor of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.

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“Every institution is, or can be imagined to be ‘defective,’ entailing its own abolition in an anarchic inversion of its constitutive tautology. This is where Jacques Lezra brings us through a series of unexpected readings. It will be hard not to follow where the deadly possibility of happiness awaits us. Republicanism and risk are the twin faces of freedom. Do we not agree?”

—ETIENNE BALIBAR, AUTHOR OF CITIZEN SUBJECT

“Lezra’s scope and range of references, nuance, and sophistication are extraordinary. No one else thinks or writes quite like him. Defective Institutions is exhilarating to read.”

—ELISSA MARDER, EMORY UNIVERSITY

Reimagining institutions for today’s Left

Defective Institutions

A Protocol for the Republic JAC Q UES LEZ RA 288 pages, 6 b/w illustrations 9781531506919, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £27.99 9781531506902, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £99.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory MA RC H Philosophy & Theory | Political Science | Literary Studies

Defective Institutions overturns the basis of institutionalism. Faith in classic institutions—exposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of governance under neoliberalism—does not result in greater democracy, greater horizontality, or more equitable living. Nor does trust in the standing of decisions, in the authority of antecedent cases, in the coherence, strength, continuity, or solidity of the institutions that frame and render legitimate these decisions and the rules they buttress. To the contrary: The classically-imagined institution and our faith in it lie at the heart of neoliberal unfreedom and racialized violence.

Working at the point of contact and conflict between socialist and anarcho-philosophical traditions, Defective Institutions offers an alternative, which is also an alternative to the figures of governance associated with the liberal conception of the state: an aberrant republicanism comprised of defective institutions, run through with the necessity of their abolition. Lezra’s book moves from the primitive scenes of Western political institution—the city; the family; the university; the first person; “race”—through recent work in the philosophy of translation, decolonial studies, abolitionism, Afropessimism and its critiques, psychoanalysis, and musicology.

At a time when some call for strengthening institutions and for defending liberties ostensibly protected by such institutions, and others long for the destruction of institutions that have long been oppressive, Lezra’s book offers today’s Left a new framework for confronting institutions’ necessity and their necessary abolition.

JACQUES LEZRA is Distinguished Professor of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of

California, Riverside. His books include On the Nature of Marx’s Things: Translation as Necrophilology, Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought, Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic, and Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe. He is coeditor, with Emily Apter and Michael Wood, of Barbara Cassin’s Dictionary of Untranslatables, and, with Liza Blake, of Lucretius and Modernity, and he has translated books

by Paul de Man, Etienne Balibar, and Alain Badiou.

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“Sometimes silence is a clearer statement than many words. Sometimes prayer is a clearer witness than political activism. In this important collection of essays spanning two decades, George Pattison demonstrates his mastery of listening to silence and the voices of those who give silence a meaning without which human life is impossible. His philosophy of prayer is an impressive continuation of his groundbreaking phenomenology of the devout life in conversation with 19th and 20th century thinkers. Anyone who wants to engage with prayer and praying in our secular world can only learn from the wealth of observations, insights and ideas in these studies. This important contribution to the philosophy of prayer will leave its mark.”

—INGOLF DALFERTH, DANFORTH PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AT CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY

Exploring the silence of prayer in Post-Kantian philosophy and traditional spirituality

A Philosophy of Prayer

Nothingness, Language, and Hope G EO RGE PAT T I SON 192 pages 9781531506834, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £25.99 9781531506827, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £94.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy J ULY Philosophy & Theory | Theology | Religion

A Philosophy of Prayer explores prayer within the perspective of post-Kantian philosophy. Against a background of traditional sources, including Augustine, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the seventeenth-century French school of spirituality, the book uses Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Berdyaev, Tillich, Marcel, Simone Weil, Emmanuel Levinas, and JeanLouis Chrétien to provide an interpretation of what is meant by the passivity and self-annihilation of the praying self, suggesting an “apophatics of the personality.”

Pattison pays particular attention to the question of language and the implications of the role given to silence in traditional texts, arguing that language remains a defining element of the human–God relationship and that silence is not to be construed as the negation of language but as the revelation of the depth of language itself. The basic structure of prayer is shown to be implicitly eschatological, oriented toward a coming kingdom of justice and peace while, at the same time, expressing a deep desire for ontological homecoming, a tension manifest in, respectively, Levinas and Heidegger. On Pattison’s reading, prayer calls for and develops a particular orientation of the self toward existence, corresponding to the virtue of humility, long understood as the basic Christian virtue. This is shown to be in tension with modernity’s commitment to strong versions of autonomy. However, the choice of humility is not presented as the reinstatement of religious heteronomy but as a free choice of the praying self.

GEORGE PATTISON is a retired Anglican priest and scholar. He has held posts in Cambridge, Aarhus, Oxford, and Glasgow universities and has published extensively on existential philosophy, especially Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Tillich, and Russian religious philosophy. His previous books include A Metaphysics of Love: A Philosophy of Christian Life, Part III, A Rhetorics of the Word: A Philosophy of Christian Life, Part II, and A Phenomenology of the Devout Life: A Philosophy of Christian Life, Part I.

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ASSEMBLING FUTURES Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion

“This fine volume of essays addresses the interweaving of ecological, political and economic crises. Exhibiting interdisciplinary assemblage as a model methodology for studies in religion and theology, it addresses the constitutive dynamics of social life, including religion, by grasping matters in relation, beyond the blinkered perspective of disciplinary silos. These rich and rewarding essays find new ways of thinking and doing political theology.”

—PHILIP GOODCHILD, PROFESSOR OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

Transdisciplinary insights at the intersection of religion, democracy, ecology, and economy JENNIFER QUIGLEY

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Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion J E N NI F ER QUI GL EY AND CAT H ER I N E KEL L ER , E DITO R S 240 pages 9781531506551, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £29.99 9781531506544, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £112.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia AU G US T Theology | Religion | Philosophy & Theory

What is the relationship of religion to economy, ecology, and democracy? In our fraught moment, what critical questions of religion may help to assembly democratic processes, ecosystems, and economic structures differently? What possible futures might emerge from transdisciplinary work across these traditionally siloed scholarly areas of interest?

The essays in Assembling Futures reflect scholarly conversations among historians, political scientists, theologians, biblical studies scholars, and scholars of religion that transgress disciplinary boundaries to consider urgent matters expressive of the values, practices, and questions that shape human existence. Each essay recognizes urgent imbrications of the global economy, multinational politics, and the materiality of ecological entanglements in assembling still possible futures for the earth. Precisely in their diversity of disciplinary starting points and ethical styles, the essays that follow enact their intersectional forcefield even more vibrantly.

CONTRIBUTORS: Gary Dorrien, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Marion Grau, Eunchul Jung, Catherine

Keller, Hilary McKane, Marcia Pally, Jennifer Quigley, Joerg Rieger, Daniel A. Siedell, Devin Singh

JENNIFER QUIGLEY is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt University Divinity

School. Her research lies at the intersections of theology and economics in New Testament and early Christian texts. She has interests in archaeology and material culture, and her research and teaching are influenced by feminist and materialist approaches to the study of religion. She is the author of Divine Accounting: Theo-economics in Early Christianity.

CATHERINE KELLER is professor of constructive theology at the Theological School of Drew

University. In her teaching, lecturing, and writing, she develops the relational potential of a theology of becoming. Her books reconfigure ancient symbols of divinity for the sake of a planetary conviviality—a life together, across vast webs of difference. Thriving in the interplay of ecological and gender politics, process cosmology, poststructuralist philosophy, and religious pluralism, her work is both deconstructive and constructive in strategy. She is the author and editor of many publications including, Cloud of the Impossible and Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances.

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Recovering Their Stories US Catholic Women in the Twentieth Century

SANDRA YOCUM and NICHOLAS RADEMACHER editors

“Laywomen—with the exception of Dorothy Day—are usually invisible in studies focusing on U.S. Catholicism. This excellent collection of essays takes a very necessary step in rectifying this situation by demonstrating the extraordinary variety of ways in which laywomen, even when ignored and mistreated, have contributed to their church. Readers of this volume will come away with a clear sense of how Catholic laywomen have both practiced their faith and played an essential role in the life and work of the church.”

—MARGARET M. MCGUINNESS, PROFESSOR EMERITA, LA SALLE UNIVERSITY, AND AUTHOR OF KATHARINE DREXEL AND THE SISTERS WHO SHARED HER VISION AND CALLED TO SERVE: A HISTORY OF NUNS IN AMERICA

Celebrating the diverse contributions of Catholic lay women in 20th century America

Recovering Their Stories US Catholic Women in the Twentieth Century

SAN DRA YO C UM AND N IC H OLAS R A DEMACHER , E D I TOR S 288 pages, 12 b/w illustrations 9781531506599, Paperback, $40.00 (SDT), £36.00 9781531506582, Hardback, $140.00 (SDT), £125.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Catholic Practice in the Americas J UNE Catholic Studies | Religion | History

Recovering Their Stories focuses on the many contributions made by Catholic lay women in the 20th century in their faith communities across different regions of the United States. Each essay explores the lives and contributions of Catholic lay women across diverse racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds, addressing themes related to these women’s creative agency in their spirituality and devotional practices, their commitment to racial and economic justice, and their leadership and authority in sacred and public spaces Taken together, this volume brings together scholars working in what otherwise may be discreet areas of academic study to look for patterns, areas of convergence and areas of divergence, in order to present in one place the depth and breadth of Catholic lay women’s experience and contributions to church, culture, and society in the United States. Telling these stories together provides a valuable resource for scholars in a number of disciplines, including American Catholic Studies, American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Feminist Studies, and US History. Additionally, scholars in the areas of Latinx studies, Black Studies, Liturgical Studies, and application of Catholic social teaching will find the book to be a valuable resource with respect to articles on specific topics.

CONTRIBUTORS: Vaughn A. Booker, Brian Clites, Damian Costello, Neomi De Anda, Katherine

Dugan, Katharine E. Harmon, Annie Huey, Maureen O’Connell, Catherine R. Osborne, Nicholas K. Rademacher, Marian Ronan, Sandra Yocum

SANDRA YOCUM is University Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Dayton. Her publications have addressed a wide range of topics in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-firstcentury US Catholicism including papal authority, clergy sexual abuse, intellectual life, theological education, historiography, and spirituality.

NICHOLAS RADEMACHER is professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton. He is co-editor of the journal American Catholic Studies and author of Paul Hanly Furfey: Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer (2017).

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Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan

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Katheryn Krotzer Laborde

“Laborde does some great sleuthing on O’Connor’s relationship to Manhattan and the many Manhattanites with which she corresponded throughout her life. Though I have seen some of these ‘little books’ in the Emory Archives, and though I had an accurate but cursory sense of O’Connor’s time living in Manhattan already, I was unaware of some of the correspondents she had over the years.”

—MARK BOSCO, SJ, VICE PRESIDENT FOR MISSION & MINISTRY, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

This book offers a unique twist to the Who’s Who of midcentury writers, editors, and artists

Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan

KAT H ERY N KROTZER LAB ORDE 208 pages, 11 b/w illustrations 9781531506957, Paperback, $30.00 (SDT), £25.99 9781531506940, Hardback, $105.00 (SDT), £94.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O’Connor Trust Series AU G US T Literary Studies | History | Catholic Studies

Much is made of Flannery O’Connor’s life on the Georgia dairy farm, Andalusia—a rural setting that clearly influenced her writing. But before she lived on that farm, before she showed signs of having lupus, before she became dependent on her mother and then succumbed to the disease at thirty-nine, O’Connor lived in the northeast. She stayed at the artists’ colony Yaddo in 1948 and early 1949 and lived in Connecticut with good friends from fall of 1949 through all of 1950. But in between those experiences, and perhaps more importantly, O’Connor lived in Manhattan.

In her biographies, little is said of her time in Gotham; in some sources, this period gets no more than one sentence. But little is said because little has been known. In Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan, the author’s goal is to explore New York City from O’Connor’s point of view. To do this, the author consults not just letters (both unpublished and published) and biography, but five personal address books housed in Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and, Rare Book Library. The result is a book of interest to both the O’Connor fan and the O’Connor scholar, not to mention those interested in midcentury Manhattan.

Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan is part guide to the who-was-who and who-lived-where of New York from roughly 1948 to 1964, at least those as they mattered to O’Connor. It also acts as a window to the writer’s experiences in the city, whether she was coming into town for a series of meetings or strolling down Broadway on her way to lunch. In the end, it is the combination of the who-she-knew and the what-she-did that formed O’Connor’s personal view of what is arguably the most famous of American cities.

KATHERYN KROTZER LABORDE is a writer of prose and a Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. She is the author of Do Not Open: The Discarded Refrigerators of PostKatrina New Orleans and The Story behind the Painting: Frederick J. Brown’s The Assumption of Mary at Xavier University.

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“Naas’s book accompanies and enlightens Derrida’s seminar with a particularly hospitable form of commentary whose relaxed ease is a real achievement.”

—PENELOPE DEUTSCHER, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

“This is the fullest treatment of Derridean hospitality to date and the only one that builds upon the recently published versions of his Hospitality seminar. It is also a pedagogical tour de force, enabling engagements on different levels: with Derrida as a teacher and humorist, as a public intellectual, and as a champion of the undocumented.”

—DIANE RUBENSTEIN, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Reexamining the question of hospitality in Derrida and beyond

Threshold Phenomena

Derrida and the Question of Hospitality M I CH A EL NAAS 272 pages 9781531507114, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £27.99 9781531507107, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £99.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available AUG U S T Philosophy & Theory | Immigration & Migration

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Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida’s thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida’s rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, Kant’s Perpetual Peace, Levinas’s Totality and Infinity) and his attempt to rethink questions surrounding not only private but also public hospitality in the form of immigration law, the contemporary treatment of migrants or stateless peoples, and the establishment of cities of asylum.

Naas develops many of the central themes of Derrida’s seminar—the relationship between hospitality and teletechnology (telephone, internet, cyberspace, etc.), the role of fatherlands and mother tongues in hospitality, questions of purity, immunity, and xenophobia, and the possibility of extending hospitality beyond the human—to animals, plants, gods, and clones. Reframing Derrida’s approach to ethics, Naas reconsiders the relationship between hospitality and deconstruction, concluding that hospitality is not merely a theme to be treated by deconstruction but one of the best ways of describing its work.

Naas’s book turns around a figure that Derrida himself returns to several times throughout the seminar: the threshold—a figure of hospitality par excellence, but also, in his seminars, another name for what Derrida in the 1960s began calling différance. Threshold Phenomena concludes that Derrida’s seminar on hospitality is one of the best introductions we have to Derrida’s work in general and one of the surest signs of its continuing relevance, a seminar that is at once fascinating and engaging in its own right and necessary for analyzing today’s increasingly nationalistic and xenophobic political climate.

M I C H A E L N A A S is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage, Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America, Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband, Plato and the Invention of Life, The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida’s Final Seminar, Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media, Derrida From Now On, Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction, and Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy. He is co-translator of a number of books

by Jacques Derrida, including Life Death, and is a member of the Derrida Seminars Editorial Team.

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“This stunning book reveals the tradition of ‘sentimental empiricism’ in postwar French theory, which makes reading practices and perceptual experiences central to politics.

Davide Panagia expertly examines work by Beauvoir, Deleuze, Foucault, and others to show how they challenge mimetic processes of state-sanctioned knowledge with dynamic analyses of difference, domination, and colonial power. Sentimental Empiricism offers nothing less than a new history and interpretation of French political thought.”

—ELISABETH R. ANKER, AUTHOR OF UGLY FREEDOMS

Reevaluating French theory’s intellectual origins

Sentimental Empiricism

Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France DAV I DE PA NAGIA 288 pages, 8 b/w illustrations 9781531506711, Paperback, $32.00 (SDT), £27.99 9781531506704, Hardback, $110.00 (SDT), £99.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available JU NE Political Science | Philosophy & Theory

Sentimental Empiricism reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century radical empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of “French theory.” Panagia’s book first shows what was missed in the reception this literature in the Anglophone academy by attending to how France’s pedagogical milieu plays out church and state relations in the form of educational debates around reading practices, the aesthetics of mimesis, French imperialism, and republican universalism. Panagia then shows how such thinkers as Jean Wahl, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault develop a sentimental empiricist critical philosophy that distances itself from dialectical critique and challenges the metaphysical premise of inherent relations, especially as it had been articulated in the tradition of Aristotelian scholasticism.

Panagia develops the long disputed political legacy of French theory through an exploration of how these thinkers came to understand an aesthetic of mimesis as a credentialing standard for selection to political participation. Since, in France, the ability to imitate well is a state qualification necessary to access offices of elite power, the political, aesthetic, and philosophical critique of mimesis became one of the defining features of sentimental empiricist thought. By exploring the historical, intellectual, cultural, and philosophical complexities of this political aesthetic, Panagia shows how and why postwar French thinkers turned to a tradition of sentimental empiricism in order to develop a new form of criticism attentive to the dispositional powers of domination.

This book is available from the publisher on an open access basis.

DAV IDE PANAGIA is Professor and Chair of Political Science at UCLA. His books include The Poetics of Political Thinking, Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics and Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience.

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“This is a marvelous piece of work: fervently argued, written with great energy and with a propulsive argument that will attract much discussion both on Heidegger and on the metaphysical conditions of political life.”

—ANNE O’BYRNE, AUTHOR OF THE GENOCIDE PARADOX: DEMOCRACY AND GENERATIONAL TIME

“This book offers a genuine contribution to the study of Heidegger as well as of materialist philosophy. It not only offers an illuminating and compelling treatment of Heidegger’s lack of a satisfying account of human action, but its basic thesis, that Heidegger presents a certain monistic ontology and should be viewed in light of that tradition, provides an intriguing new platform for fundamental ethical, practical, epistemological, and ontological questions in continental philosophy.”

—SEAN KIRKLAND, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

The Ruse of Techne

Heidegger’s Magical Materialism D IM I TRI S VA RD O U LAKIS 288 pages 9781531506759, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £29.99 9781531506742, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £112.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy AUG U S T Philosophy & Theory | Political Science

A fresh perspective on Heidegger’s philosophy, emphasizing instrumentalism and its impact on ethics and politics The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities like authenticity, poetry, and thinking—in short, the ineffectual—are critical for Heidegger as they offer the only path to the truth of being throughout his work.

By unearthing the source of the conception of non-instrumental action in Heidegger’s reading of Aristotle, Vardoulakis elaborates how it forms part of Heidegger’s response to an old problem, namely, how to account for difference after positing a single and unified being that is not amenable to change. He further demonstrates that an action without ends and effects leads to an ethics and politics rife with difficulties and contradictions that only become starker when compared to other responses to the same problem that we find in the philosophical tradition and which rely on instrumentality.

Heidegger’s conception of an action without ends or effects forgets the role of instrumentality in the tradition that posits a single, unified being. And yet, the ineffectual has had a profound influence in how continental philosophy determines the ethical and the political since World War II. The critique of the ineffectual in Heidegger is thus effectively a critique of the conception of praxis in continental philosophy. Vardoulakis proposes that it is urgent to undo the forgetting of instrumentality if we are to conceive of a democratic politics and an ethics fit to respond to the challenges of high capitalism.

DIMITRIS VARDOULAKIS is Professor of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is the author of Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism, Stasis Before the State: Nine Thesis on Agonistic Democracy, Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka’s Laughter, Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence, and The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy.

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“An admirable work of scholarship. Agents without Empire offers a multidimensional account of the construction of race in early modern France by addressing how French authors navigate the boundaries of the human.”

—REBECCA ZORACH, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

“Szabari’s book will be a welcome addition to early modern studies and will help scholars of race, nation, gender, and early modernity reconsider the very concept of agency.”

—TODD REESER, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Exploring the link between race and international intrigue in Renaissance France

Agents without Empire Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France A N TÓ NI A SZA BARI 288 pages, 23 b/w illustrations 9781531506674, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £29.99 9781531506667, Hardback, $125.00 (SDT), £112.00 Simultaneous electronic edition available MA RC H Literary Studies | Renaissance Studies | Race & Ethnic Studies

It is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empowerment? Canonical French authors like Rabelais and Montaigne have been celebrated for their flexible worldviews and interest in the difference of non-French cultures both inside and outside of Europe. As a result, this period in French cultural history has come to be valued as an exceptional era of cultural opening toward others. Agents without Empire shows that such a celebration is, at the very least, problematic.

Szabari argues that before the rise of the French colonial empire, medieval categories of race based on the redemption story were recast through accounts of the Ottoman Empire that were made accessible, in a sudden and unprecedented manner, to agents of the French crown. Spying performed by Frenchmen in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century permeated French culture in large part because those who spied also worked as knowledge producers, propagandists, and artists. The practice changed what it meant to be cultured and elite by creating new avenues of race- and gender-specific consumption for French and European men that affected all areas of sophisticated culture including literature, politics, prints, dressing, personal hygiene, and leisure.

Agents without Empire explores race-making in this period of European history in the context of diplomatic reposts, travel accounts, natural history, propaganda, religious literature, poetry, theater, fiction, and cheap print. It intervenes in conversations in whiteness studies, race theory, theories of agency and matter, and the history of diplomacy and spying to offer a new account of race-making in early modern Europe.

A N TÓ N I A SZ A B A R I is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the

University of Southern California. She is co-author, with Natania Meeker, of Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction and author of Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in SixteenthCentury France.

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SCHOLARLY “Listening to Christian spirituality carefully and liberatingly for the present is neither simple nor necessarily welcome in pluralistic and secular contexts. This series, intended for respectful existential, secular and pluralistic engagement, promotes a deep conversation about how Christian spiritual heritage matters today. Readers are invited into the art of interpretation with—and beyond—these influential texts and authors, into difficult and urgent questions about how we live well together in a world where no one single vision prevails, but where we help each other clarify what matters most, making a world with room for all spiritual paths promising justice. For the everyday quest to live well together in a world we must equally share, Christian tradition offers spiritual wisdom—and this series offers able guides in recovering that wisdom and suggesting how it can be practiced today.”

—TOM BEAUDOIN ON THE PAST LIGHT ON PRESENT LIFE: THEOLOGY, ETHICS, AND SPIRITUALITY SERIES

“Past Light on Present Life is a brilliantly dynamic series. It weaves together theological frameworks, ethical implications and spiritual mindsets in interpreting texts of numerous great personages in the history of Christian Spirituality. Importantly, in doing so it responds to searing questions of our current age. The genius of the series lies in the precise choices of the original texts at the heart of each concise volume, which provide the key for such pertinent interpretation. These volumes provide much needed fresh insight for experts in the field, as they also will prove invaluable for undergraduate teachers, graduate students, religious seekers and spiritual directors.”

—JULIA D. E. PRINZ ON THE PAST LIGHT ON PRESENT LIFE: THEOLOGY, ETHICS, AND SPIRITUALITY SERIES

Enlightened Spirituality

Immanuel Kant, Paul Tillich, and Reinhold Neibuhr E D I TED A N D WITH COMME NTARY

BY RO GER HA I G HT, SJ, A LF R ED PAC H III, AND A M A N DA AVI LA KAMINSKI 160 pages, 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄2 9781531505738, Paperback, $9.95 (SDT), £8.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality 1

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This volume presents reflections on the nature of Christian spirituality in the light of Immanuel Kant’s work Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. It also contains two short comments on Kant’s work: Paul Tillich directly engages Kant’s moral philosophy, and Reinhold Niebuhr indirectly addresses him with his reflections on the role of conscience in religious experience. The whole volume rests on the constituent role that morality, and hence ethics, plays in a comprehensive understanding of Christian spirituality. Kant adds to that discussion by introducing the voice of the Enlightenment into the conversation. His work serves as a bridge between the spirituality displayed in the Medieval and Reformation periods and what may be called modern Western culture. Christians who are socialized into twenty-first century Western intellectual culture may be relatively unfamiliar with the cultures that spawned the characteristic accents of the spiritual languages that are learned in the churches today. When they move into the world of higher education, they will learn a whole series of ideas from science and critical modern thought that directly challenge the ordinary spiritual conceptions of church traditions. The critical discussion between intellectual culture and Christianity during the period of the Enlightenment was deep and serious, and it helps to explain how the churches in the West relate to present-day intellectual culture. Kant’s text on the metaphysics of morals presents in an exemplary way the deep questions that Christian spirituality faces today with almost laboratory precision. The two commentators neatly draw the conversation into contexts that are closer to life in the world of our time.

ROGER HAIGHT is a Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has written several books in the area of fundamental theology. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

ALFRED PACH III is an Associate Professor of Medical Sciences and Global Health at the Hack-

ensack Meridian School of Medicine. He has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an MDiv in Psychology and Religion from Union Theological Seminary.

AMANDA AVILA KAMINSKI is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Texas Lutheran University,

where she also serves as Director of the program in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship.

She has written extensively in the area of Christian spirituality.

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Finding God in a World Come of Age Karl Rahner and Johann Baptist Metz

Edited and with Commentary by

Roger Haight, S.J., Alfred Pach III, and Amanda Avila Kaminski

Finding God in a World Come of Age Karl Rahner and Johann Baptist Metz

E D I TED A N D WITH COMME NTARY

BY RO GER HA I G HT, SJ, A LF R ED PAC H I II, AND A M A N DA AVI LA KAMINSKI 160 pages, 51⁄2 x 81⁄2 9781531505776, Paperback, $9.95 (SDT), £8.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality MA RC H Religion | Theology | History

“Listening to Christian spirituality carefully and liberatingly for the present is neither simple nor necessarily welcome in pluralistic and secular contexts. This series, intended for respectful existential, secular and pluralistic engagement, promotes a deep conversation about how Christian spiritual heritage matters today. Readers are invited into the art of interpretation with—and beyond—these influential texts and authors, into difficult and urgent questions about how we live well together in a world where no one single vision prevails, but where we help each other clarify what matters most, making a world with room for all spiritual paths promising justice. For the everyday quest to live well together in a world we must equally share, Christian tradition offers spiritual wisdom—and this series offers able guides in recovering that wisdom and suggesting how it can be practiced today.”

—TOM BEAUDOIN ON THE PAST LIGHT ON PRESENT LIFE: THEOLOGY, ETHICS, AND SPIRITUALITY SERIES

“Past Light on Present Life is a brilliantly dynamic series. It weaves together theological frameworks, ethical implications and spiritual mindsets in interpreting texts of numerous great personages in the history of Christian Spirituality. Importantly, in doing so it responds to searing questions of our current age. The genius of the series lies in the precise choices of the original texts at the heart of each concise volume, which provide the key for such pertinent interpretation. These volumes provide much needed fresh insight for experts in the field, as they also will prove invaluable for undergraduate teachers, graduate students, religious seekers and spiritual directors.”

—JULIA D. E. PRINZ ON THE PAST LIGHT ON PRESENT LIFE: THEOLOGY, ETHICS, AND SPIRITUALITY SERIES

During his days in prison in Berlin, Dietrich Bonhoeffer had time to read and reflect on the Enlightenment and to ask the question of how Christians might live in a world come of age. One can interpret Karl Rahner’s theological and pastoral writing as addressing that question. Born in 1904, he lived through both World Wars to a ripe age of 80 and wrote 1651 published works. Although his writing had a unique historical genesis and intellectual setting, along with a technical vocabulary, he consistently wrote out of pastoral concern in an effort to make Christian faith and belief credible in his Western European culture and the new post–WWII context. Probably his most important student was Johann Baptist Metz who was born in Germany 1928, conscripted into the army as a teenager, and after it, turned to the seminary and to theology. He studied with Rahner in Innsbruck and received his doctorate in theology in 1961 and taught at the University of Münster for thirty years. As Dorothee Soelle converted Bultmann’s existential analysis into social commitments, so did Metz give new social meaning to Rahner’s “transcendental” theology in a time of social cataclysm.

Thus, together, Rahner and Metz, not in competition but as complementary, offer a distinctive response to the spiritual question of finding God in the present-day secular world.

ROGER HAIGHT is a Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He has written several books in the area of fundamental theology. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

ALFRED PACH III is an Associate Professor of Medical Sciences and Global Health at the Hack-

ensack Meridian School of Medicine. He has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an MDiv in Psychology and Religion from Union Theological Seminary.

AMANDA AVILA KAMINSKI is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Texas Lutheran University,

where she also serves as Director of the program in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship.

She has written extensively in the area of Christian spirituality.

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WELCOMING THE STRANGER Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications

“This timely book offers theoretical and practical reflections on ‘welcoming the stranger.’

From the theological analysis of Abraham to the legal and political discussion of immigration and refugees, the volume explores how hospitality—welcoming the ‘other’ into our tents—leads to peace and improving the world.”

—MEHNAZ AFRIDI, DIRECTOR, HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE & INTERFAITH EDUCATION CENTER AND PROFESSOR, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, MANHATTAN COLLEGE

Ori Z Soltes and Rachel Stern FOREWORD BY ENDY MORAES

Welcoming the Stranger

Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications O R I Z S OLT ES AND RACHEL STE RN FO R EWOR D BY ENDY MORAES Published by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art and the Fordham University Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work 224 pages, 30 color illustrations 9781531507329, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £29.99 Simultaneous electronic edition available Distributed by Fordham University Press MA RC H Religion | Immigration & Migration | Human Rights

Embracing hospitality and inclusion in Abrahamic traditions One of the signal moments in the narrative of the biblical Abraham is his insistent and enthusiastic reception of three strangers, a starting point of inspiration for all three Abrahamic traditions as they evolve and develop the details of their respective teachings. On the one hand, welcoming the stranger by remembering “that you were strangers in the land of Egypt” is enjoined upon the ancient Israelites, and on the other, oppressing the stranger is condemned by their prophets throughout the Hebrew Bible.

These sentiments are repeated in the New Testament and the Qur’an and elaborated in the interpretive literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Such notions resonate obliquely within the history of India and its Dharmic traditions. On the other hand, they have been seriously challenged throughout history. In the 1830s, America’s “Nativists” sought to emphatically reduce immigration to these shores. A century later, the Holocaust began by the decision of the Nazi German government to turn specific groups of German citizens into strangers. Deliberate marginalization leading to genocide flourished in the next half century from Bosnia and Cambodia to Rwanda. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the United States renewed a decisive twist toward closing the door on those seeking refuge, ushering in an era where marginalized religious and ethnic groups around the globe are deemed unwelcome and unwanted.

The essays in Welcoming the Stranger explore these issues from historical, theoretical, theological, and practical perspectives, offering an enlightening and compelling discussion of what the Abrahamic traditions teach us regarding welcoming people we don’t know.

O R I Z SO LT E S teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from art his-

tory and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum.

RACHEL STERN is the founding and executive director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York.

ENDY MORAES is the Director of the Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work at Fordham

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H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham David J. Goodwin

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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

South Bronx Rising

A Falling-Off Place

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

The Transformation of Lower Manhattan

608 pages, 48 b/w illustrations 9781531501211, Paperback, $34.95 (TP), £29.99 Empire State Editions

116 pages, 10 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄4, 94 b/w illustrations 9781531504397, Hardback, $39.95 (HC), £36.00 Empire State Editions

Global Queens

Queer Callings

In Praise of Risk

Joseph Heathcott

Mark D. Jordan

Hilary Green and Andrew L. Slap, Editors, Foreword by Andre E. Johnson

208 pages 9781531505004, Paperback, $25.00 (SDT), £21.99 Reconstructing America

An Urban Mosaic

208 pages, 10 x 10, 284 color illustrations 9781531504519, Hardback, $34.95 (HC), £29.99 Empire State Editions

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition

Alexander Jefferson, with Lewis H. Carlson

192 pages, 8 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2, 92 color illustrations 9780823274383, Hardback, $33.00 (HC), £27.99 World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension

Jill Jonnes, Foreword by Nilka Martell

Untimely Notes on Names and Desires

176 pages, 5 x 8 9781531504533, Hardback, $27.95 (AC), £23.99

Hell on Color, Sweet on Song

Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park

Francis R. Kowsky, with Lucille Gordon

304 pages, 120 color and b/w illustrations 9781531502577, Hardback, $39.95 (HC), £36.00 Empire State Editions

Flesh and Spirit

Confessions of a Young Lord Felipe Luciano

352 pages, 25 b/w illustrations 9781531504489, Hardback, $34.95 (HC), £29.99 Empire State Editions

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Barbara G. Mensch Foreword by Dan Barry

Anne Dufourmantelle Translated, with an Introduction,

by Steven Miller

240 pages 9780823285440, Paperback, $35.00 (SDT), £29.99

In Gorgeous Display: Poems Ugochukwu Damian Okpara

76 pages, 5 x 8 9781531504601, Paperback, $16.95 (TP), £14.99

Group Works

Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence Ethan Philbrick

192 pages, 5 x 8, 23 b/w illustrations 9781531502706, Paperback, $25.00 (AC), £21.99

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Cross Bronx

A Writing Life

Peter Quinn Foreword by Dan Barry, reporter and columnist for The New York Times

256 pages, 25 b/w illustrations 9781531500948, Hardback, $29.95 (HC), £25.99 Empire State Editions

Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art Danielle Taschereau Mamers

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Best Minds

The Routes Not Taken

How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness

Joseph B. Raskin

304 pages, 37 b/w illustrations 9781531502669, Hardback, $34.95 (HC), £29.99

A Trip Through New York City’s Unbuilt Subway System 336 pages, 7 x 10, 100 b/w illustrations 9780823267408, Paperback, $21.95 (TP), £18.99 Empire State Editions

Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery: Poems

Stevan M. Weine

Casablanca’s Conscience Robert Weldon Whalen

160 pages 9781531504809, Paperback, $25.00 (AC), £21.99

Pamela Sneed

80 pages, 6.14 x 9.21 9781531504847, Paperback, $16.95 (TP), £14.99 New York ReLit

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