Spring 2025
My Oceans Essays of Water, Whales, and Women
Christina Rivera
An urgent exploration of caring and mothering on a planet in crisis
In a swell of sea-linked essays, Christina Rivera explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’s blue womb. Rivera’s investigative questions begin with the toxic burden of her body and spiral out-to a grieving orca, a hunted manta ray, a pregnant sea turtle, a spawning salmon, an “endling” porpoise, and the “mother culture” of sperm whales-as she redefines what it means to mother and defend a collective future.
Braiding memoir with embodied climate science, Rivera challenges that it’s not anthropomorphism to feel deep connection to nonhuman species and proposes that gathering in collective grief is essential amid the sixth mass extinction. For ecofeminists, fans of Rachel Carson and Terry Tempest Williams-and for anyone who feels themself disintegrate in the presence of the sea-My Oceans offers a timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.
CHRISTINA RIVERA is a Pushcart Prize-winning essayist from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of Pacific Ocean. She is a winner of the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award and a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. Her writing has appeared in Orion, Terrain.org, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
MARCH
272 PAGES, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4837-6 $24.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4838-3 $24.00
“This collection is threaded with wonder, history, and heartache. In My Oceans, motherhood is not sentimentalized but shown as a transformative political power. Masterfully constructed and beautifully written, this book dwells in the depths—not only of oceans but of mourning, awe, anger, and action.” Beth Piatote, author of The Beadworkers: Stories
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Here, Now
Michelle Suzanne Mirsky
PAPER
978-0-8101-4784-3
$22.00
Curbstone
The Third Coast America’s Great Lakes Shoreline
David Zurick
A full-color photographic journey around the Great Lakes
Locals affectionately call the Great Lakes the “third coast”—though at 4,500 miles, this beloved freshwater shoreline is the nation’s longest, covering more distance than the country’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts combined.
Divided into four galleries by lake and season, David Zurick’s award-winning photographs spotlight the distinct personality of each coastline and the people who call its shores home. We visit windswept Lake Superior in winter, Lake Michigan bursting into spring, Lakes Erie and Ontario under the summer sun, and Lake Huron in the changing palette of autumn, with an additional gallery devoted to the straits and rivers that connect them. An evocative foreword from award-winning nature writer Jerry Dennis sets the stage for this sweeping visual tour.
In Zurick’s photographs, lifelong lovers of the Great Lakes will find the familiar shorelines of coastal hometowns, summer refuges, and secret fishing spots—as well as images that reawaken us to the majesty and mystery of North America’s “freshwater seas.”
DAVID ZURICK was born and raised in a small town on Lake Huron. His books profile places ranging from the Himalaya to Polynesia, and have won numerous awards, including a National Outdoor Book Award and a Nautilus Award.
JULY
144 PAGES, 10 X 8 1/2 INCHES
124 COLOR HALFTONES
WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4867-3 $30.00
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Lee Bey PAPER 978-0-8101-4098-1
$30.00
Southern Exposure
JUNE
144 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4865-9 $20.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4866-6 $20.00
“How do we reckon with the places where love and violence brush past? How do we free ourselves from the histories inside which we’re trapped? Pony is a play like a riddle, a play like a dare. Built from a theatrical language of longing and family, shape-shifting and queerness, Pony is a play about the stories we inhabit, the ones we become, and the urgency of unraveling those stories before they bury us. It has haunted me ever since I saw its earliest incarnation onstage in Chicago, and reencountering it now brings the keen pleasure of a mystery that only deepens with time.” —Jen Silverman, playwright, novelist and screenwriter
Pony A Play
Sylvan Oswald
A seminal work of trans theater brought to the page for the first time
When Pony, a formerly incarcerated trans guy, moves to a small rural town to start a new life, he quickly becomes entangled with its isolated community. He starts to fall for a waitress who is obsessed with a local murder; he must comply with a butch social worker who doesn’t understand him; and he is pursued by a young trans man who thinks Pony could be the father he always wanted. Amid this whirlwind of fear and desire, Pony must find the strength to confront the stories he’s been told about masculinity, violence, and self-worth. With a new preface by the author on searching for queer and trans community in the theater, and an afterword by critic Miriam Felton-Dansky contextualizing its place in contemporary theater, Pony is a seminal work of trans theater exploring questions of generational difference, class, and gender on an epic scale.
SYLVAN OSWALD writes formally inventive plays and performance texts that explore queer and trans life. His work has been performed throughout the US and in London; his honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a professor of playwriting at UCLA.
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Hir Taylor Mac PAPER
978-0-8101-3358-7
$15.00
Toward a Feminist Theater Selected Plays
Kate Hamill and Kristin Leahey
The first-ever anthology from celebrated playwright Kate Hamill
Bringing together seven critically acclaimed feminist adaptations of literary classics and one delightfully original new work, this collection demonstrates why Kate Hamill is one of the most electrifying and widely produced playwrights working today. Whether probing the power of toxic leaders (The Piper), revitalizing Jane Austen for the stage (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma), “cheerfully desecrating” Arthur Conan Doyle through a post-pandemic lens (Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson—Apt. 2B), reexamining an American classic’s gender roles (Little Women), or dramatizing the nineteenth-century classic of puritanical New England through the lens of an ostracized mother and daughter (The Scarlet Letter), Hamill’s work has transformed the theatrical landscape over the past decade.
An introduction from editor Kristin Leahey and an interview with Hamill frame this landmark anthology, with reflections on the current state of American drama, Hamill’s unique dramaturgical practice, and how the art form may move further and faster toward a feminist theater.
KATE HAMILL is an actor and playwright. She was named 2017’s Playwright of the Year by the Wall Street Journal and has been one of the ten most-produced playwrights in the country from 2017 to 2023. She was co-named most produced playwright in the United States in the 2024–25 season. Her accolades include Drama League nominations, the 2023 Einhorn Mentorship Award, and Helen Hayes and Off-Broadway Alliance Awards.
KRISTIN LEAHEY is an assistant professor of dramatic literature and dramaturgy at Boston University and the associate artistic director of the Women’s Project Theater. She has been a dramaturg with theaters across the United States and internationally.
JULY
656 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4891-8 $28.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4892-5 $28.00
“Hamill has proven deft at finding and expressing novels and their nuances in a way that makes them seem like they always belonged on stage.” The Star Ledger
Seven Black Plays
Chuck Smith PAPER
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“Rachel Feder crafts a thoughtful, witty, and deeply compelling modern twist on a classic. Daisy, with new voice and agency, is now at the center of the narrative, and Feder, through her careful attention and vision, makes it feel like she’s always belonged there. Gatsby’s ‘green light’ is now hers, is now ours, is now a guide glowing brilliantly beneath each poem, waiting for a young girl to return—to herself.”
—Shayla Lawz, author of speculation, n
Triquarterly Books
Daisy Poems
Rachel Feder
A narrative-poetic retelling of The Great Gatsby from the perspective of a 1990s teen poet
Daisy: Poems is a captivating and imaginative take on The Great Gatsby that puts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic in the hands of a messy, ambitious, and possibly devious teen poet. From her privileged yet precarious perch in the roaring 1990s, Daisy navigates the expectations of her parents, boyfriend, and lover, alongside her own artistic ambitions, as she explores whether freedom is what she truly desires—and wonders if it’s even possible. Rachel Feder puts a new spin on beloved characters: Jay, longtime and secret lover; Nick, somewhat mysterious and always meddling cousin; and Jordyn, best friend and companion in doomed relationships. A meditation on juvenilia, constructions of femininity, the purity myth, and canonical literary silences, Daisy is told in sparse, evocative verse that pulsates with youthful passion and offers a new elegy for our lost American dreams.
RACHEL FEDER is an associate professor of English and literary arts at the University of Denver. Her poetry collections include Birth Chart and the chapbook Words with Friends. Feder edited the Norton Library edition of Dracula and is also the author of Harvester of Hearts (Northwestern University Press, 2018) and The Darcy Myth. She is the coauthor of AstroLit with McCormick Templeman and Taylor Swift by the Book with Tiffany Tatreau.
978-0-8101-4793-5
$18.00
Cosmic Tantrum
Sarah L. Rogers PAPER
A Preponderance of Starry Beings
Stories
Samantha Edmonds
Genre-bending stories of the cosmos and the worlds within our own skin
Blending fairy tale and science fiction with the otherworldliness of adolescence, A Preponderance of Starry Beings is a collection for anyone preoccupied with looking skyward. These stories probe the experience of coming of age on the outskirts of the universe, whether that be a small Midwestern town or a distant galaxy, and of weighing earthly obligations against the vast promises of space.
In a sleepy Ohio neighborhood, two girls seek refuge from their homophobic schoolmates in an antiques shop filled with Star Trek memorabilia. On a generation spaceship, children revolt against their parents’ plans to colonize a distant world. Deep in the Florida Everglades, seven sisters must protect their otherworldly mythology when two men arrive to fix the family automobile.
A Preponderance of Starry Beings invites us into a mundane and whimsical world of night islands, small towns, and faith lost and found, where a safe landing matters less than taking the leap.
SAMANTHA EDMONDS is the author of the chapbooks The Space Poet and Pretty to Think So. Her work appears in the New York Times, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Mississippi Review, and The Rumpus, among others. She is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Berry College and lives in Rome, Georgia.
JUNE
216 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4868-0 $24.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4869-7 $24.00
“Edmonds masterfully combines the magic of space, science, mystery, wonder, and the weirdness of youth, all colliding into an incredible collection of stories. Evocative and ethereal, this book is anchored in the stars.” —Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges
Small Apocalypse
Laura Chow Reeve
MARCH
96 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4833-8 $18.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4834-5 $18.00
“Mud in Our Mouths elegiacally renders a queer experience of small-town America with care for her subjects, attention to the socioeconomic and sociocultural factors at work, and a precision of language and lineation. The poems consider the ephemeral: places and people once known, the people one used to be.” —Emilia Phillips, author of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise
Mud in Our Mouths Poems
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
An award-winning poet writing through violence, solace, and hope
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s Mud in Our Mouths illuminates how we are all enmeshed in a web of violence and love. As the speaker of the collection drives cross-country to visit her family of origin in Tennessee, she reckons with the tensions between her current and past selves and the many ways violence—interpersonal, societal, and environmental—has shaped her life. She struggles to find meaning, questioning the ethics of locating faith in a natural world she is unintentionally destroying, and grapples with her complicity in systems of power and oppression as a white Southern woman. Ultimately, she rejects the idea of genetic family as a place of solace; instead, she cleaves to the liberation and joy of connections forged outside those strictures, where intimacy is freely chosen rather than preordained.
LUIZA FLYNN-GOODLETT is the author of Look Alive, which was awarded the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, as well as numerous chapbooks, most recently Familiar. Her poetry can be found in Fugue, Five Points, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She serves as assistant poetry editor for the Whiting Award–winning LGBTQIA2S+ literary journal and press Foglifter.
Find Me When You’re Ready Perry Janes PAPER
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Curbstone Books
Transanything Essays
Ever Jones
A debut essay collection that upends our notions of loneliness, wilderness, and liberation
Transanything reveals a world in metamorphosis. A hermit crab retires its shell, lovers drift apart, and seasons churn, all amid Ever Jones’s own narrative of midlife gender transition.
Jones takes up a tradition of writing—about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West—long intertwined with colonialism and heteropatriarchy, and makes it wholly their own. A self-proclaimed “nature essay” misbehaves, wandering away from the hummingbird outside Jones’s window. In their chronicle of a week in Yellowstone, Jones navigates trails frequented by grizzlies and a campground where their identity is regarded as equally dangerous. Elk, bison, and bark spiders roam this book’s pages, but it is the gray wolf—the embattled apex predator of the American West, narrow survivor of settler colonial violence, and vessel for American myths of independence—who emerges as Jones’s shapeshifting coprotagonist.
Taking on a global web of colonial systems that seek to divide us, Jones disrupts loneliness and forges space for queerness and transness to be aliveness—to be transanything.
EVER JONES is a professor of creative writing at the University of Washington Tacoma. Their poetry books include nightsong and Wilderness Lessons
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128 PAGES, 5 X 7 INCHES
WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4870-3 $22.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4871-0 $22.00
“Transanything uses collage, fragment, nonce, and hermit crab forms to invoke an ‘unbetweeness’ that serves to undermine anything resembling a central, institutional authority. The aliveness of this book has an ethic, a power, inspired by love. As a queer reader, I am filled with relief, with gratitude, with a sense of my own presence, and release.” — Miah Jeffra, author of American Gospel
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Perfect Bastard
Quinn Carver Johnson
Curbstone Books
JUNE
120 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
4 B&W HALFTONES
WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4841-3 $20.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4842-0 $20.00
“A moving extended meditation on how we attempt to understand our relationship to the historical past. Arterian offers the reader an echo of the explorations that have come before, the complexities, paradoxes, and inadequacies of ‘making do’ with the history we have.” —Mary-Kim Arnold, author of The Fish & The Dove
Agrippina the Younger Poems
Diana Arterian
A poetic journey through the past of the Roman Empress Agrippina looks toward the future
Agrippina the Younger follows one woman’s study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter in a golden political family, destined for greatness—but she hungered for more power than women were allowed. Exhausted by the misogyny of the present, Diana Arterian reaches into the past to try to understand the patriarchal systems of today. In lyric verse and prose poems, she traces Agrippina’s rise, interrogating a life studded with intrigue, sex, murder, and manipulation. Arterian eagerly pursues Agrippina through texts, ruins, and films, exhuming the hidden details of the ancient noblewoman’s life. These poems consider the valences of patriarchy, power, and the archive to try to answer the question: How do we recover a woman erased by history?
DIANA ARTERIAN is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Georgia Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. A poetry editor for Noemi Press, Arterian writes “The Annotated Nightstand” column at Lit Hub. She lives in Los Angeles.
978-0-8101-4646-4 $18.00
Quiet Armor Stevie Edwards PAPER
Curbstone Books
and when the light comes it will be so fantastic
poems
Kristin TranslatedBerget
by Kathleen Maris Paltrineri
A new and singular translation of an award-winning author and poet
Norwegian poet Kristin Berget’s 2017 Brage Prize–nominated poetry collection and when the light comes it will be so fantastic weaves together themes of ecological and linguistic loss, memory and deep time, and motherhood and grief. Berget’s poetics point to landscapes used as sites of extraction, where exhausted phosphorus, starving clay layers, and forest machines are encountered. The poems in this collection traverse forests, deserts, and seas—their poetic matter separated by fields of caesuras, visual absences suggestive of Earth’s ongoing extinctions. As jurors of the Brage Prize commented, within these pages is a universe where humans can seldom be separated from one another or from the nature they live in and among. Berget’s first book translated into English is an innovative exploration of the climate crises we are living with today and the complex emotions that ebb and flow along with it.
KRISTIN BERGET made her poetry debut in 2007 with loosing louise. The author of seven poetry collections in Norwegian, as well as the novel Sonja Sacre Cœur, she has been nominated for numerous literary awards, including the Brage Prize in 2017.
KATHLEEN MARIS PALTRINERI is a poet-translator from Iowa and the recipient of a 2021–22 Fulbright fellowship to Norway for translation research. For her own poetry, Paltrineri has received scholarships and residencies from USF Verftet, Arctic Circle Residency, and more. Paltrineri’s poems have recently appeared in Bone Bouquet, Bennington Review, CALYX, and jubilat.
JULY
80 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4846-8 $18.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4847-5 $18.00
“Aesthetically and philosophically compelling, this poetry is stimulating, sonically rich, and semantically complex... Heart wrenching and yet unstinting, this book offers a good example of what Ray Brassier calls ‘the annihilating positivity of reason’ in the face of life’s inevitable extinction. Kathleen Maris Paltrinieri’s remarkable translation is as inventive, harrowing, and uplifting as the original.” —Gabriel Gudding, author of Literature for Nonhumans
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Colonies of Paradise Matthias Göritz PAPER
Curbstone Books
192 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4839-0 $22.00 E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4840-6 $22.00
“Returning to My Father’s Kitchen is about what is left behind—the ghosts, apparitions, and hauntings of people. This book is bold and sharply observed, giving voice to those lost in the margins of literature. Intimate and candid, any reader would feel solace in Macansantos’s company.” —Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers: A Memoir
Returning to My Father’s Kitchen Essays
Monica Macansantos
Books
A young Filipino writer’s odyssey toward home, in the wake of the loss of her poet father
Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos decides to return to the Philippines to regain her bearings. But with her father gone and her adult life rooted in the United States and New Zealand, can the land of her birth still serve as a place of healing?
In fifteen richly felt essays, Macansantos considers her family’s history in the Philippines, her own experiences as an exile, and the man parent who was the heart of her family’s kitchen, whether standing at the stove to prepare dinner or sitting at the table to scribble in his notebook. Macansantos finds herself remaking her father’s chicken adobo, but also closely rereading his poems. As she reckons with his identity as an artist, she also comes into her own as a writer, and she invites us to consider whether it is possible to carry our homes with us wherever we go.
MONICA MACANSANTOS is the author of the story collection Love and Other Rituals, and her work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, and Lit Hub, among others. She is a 2024–2025 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute.
Traveling Freely Roberto C Garcia PAPER
Curbstone
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal Snapshots from the East of Ukraine
Oleksandr Mykhed
Translated by Tanya Savchynska, and David Mossop
Exploring the post-Soviet landscape of the Ukrainian east in a complex journey of loss, hope, and history
In 2014, the Russian army, with support from local militants, occupied parts of Ukraine’s two easternmost regions—once the beating industrial heart of the Soviet Union—where coal extraction has since exhausted both the human population and the natural resources. In late 2016, Oleksandr Mykhed set out on a research trip to explore the deep history and contested present of the area from the perspective of a fellow countryman who’d never been there.
Mykhed brings us on a painful yet hopeful journey across the Ukrainian east, sharing conversations with locals, snippets from archival documents, and the complicated perspectives of prominent cultural figures, such as writer Serhiy Zhadan, historian Olena Stiazhkina, and philosopher Ihor Kozlovsky, who was imprisoned and tortured for nearly two years.
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal invites us to meet generations of coal miners. To learn about the Belgian and British investors who founded the east’s industrial cities. To remember the harrowing events of the First and Second World Wars and the incalculable brutality of Soviet history. To see the activists who are even now working to improve the country. To hear sweet memories of a lost utopia that never existed. Mykhed provides a unique portrait of life in the east during the war, before the full-scale invasion that would change everything.
OLEKSANDR MYKHED is the author of ten books and a member of PEN Ukraine. He has written for publications including The Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and The Guardian Mykhed is currently serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
TANYA SAVCHYNSKA is a literary translator whose writing and translations have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Apofenie, and elsewhere.
DAVID MOSSOP is a professor of linguistics who translates from several Slavic languages into English. He was awarded an outstanding achievement award by the Bulgarian Translators’ Union in 2022.
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256 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4854-3 $28.00
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Stranger Next Door
Richard Swartz
We Are Civic Media
Edited by Sangita Shresthova, Dan Sinker, Pratik Nyaupane, Sophie Madej, and Colin Maclay
A discipline-crossing introduction to civic media via accounts from grassroots practitioners
“Civic media” is the use of contemporary technologies to connect communities, inspire action, build civic capacity, and sustain social change efforts. Written by artists, creators, storytellers, organizers, and others working at the intersections of technology, social justice, and culture, this book summons civic media through the lived experiences of its contributors.
Latoya Peterson delves into the therapeutic power of gaming; Akilah Hughes discusses identity and community through the lens of her campaign to change her high school’s racist mascot; and Tyree Boyd-Pates emphasizes the potential power of museum curation to challenge power dynamics and bridge digital and physical realms. Through the experiences of these grassroots practitioners and many others, We Are Civic Media offers accessible insights for those interested in understanding, respecting, and practicing civic media.
SANGITA SHRESTHOVA is the director of research and programs and a principal investigator for the Civic Paths group at the University of Southern California. She is the coauthor of Practicing Futures: A Civic Imagination Action Handbook and a coeditor of Transformative Media Pedagogies and Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change.
DAN SINKER is the founder of the influential magazine Punk Planet and served as director of journalism nonprofit OpenNews. He cohosts the current events podcast Says Who and has contributed to Esquire, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.
PRATIK NYAUPANE is a doctoral student at USC Annenberg, where he explores the intersection between society, technology, culture, and politics.
SOPHIE MADEJ is the program administrator at USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. She has helped to implement and manage the Civic Media Fellowships from their inception.
COLIN MACLAY is a research professor of communication and the executive director of USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. He works on innovation and change at the intersections of media, technology, and culture in support of human and planetary well-being.
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192 PAGES, 7 X 10 INCHES
28 FULL-COLOR HALFTONES
WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-4906-9 $35.00 E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4907-6 $35.00
Wall of Respect Abdul Alkalimat PAPER
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E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4857-4 $22.00
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184 PAGES, 5 x 7 INCHES
WORLDWIDE, NEW EDITION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4858-1 $22.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4859-8 $22.00
Bruja A Dreamoir
Wendy C. Ortiz
The dreamscape of a haunted and hopeful woman, back in print
Dubbed a “dreamoir,” Bruja is a bold and harrowing journey through the dream worlds of Wendy C. Ortiz. Sister memoir to Hollywood Notebook, it catalogs the happenings of the night: strange visions of the past warped by present-day inklings; animals running loose, never where they should be; familiar nature and architecture made malleable and new. Ortiz’s subconscious is bared in full on these pages as the author interrogates her histories. We bravely adventure into new literary form, walking the parallel plane of Ortiz’s waking life alongside her. Where the self is anchored in the deepest recesses of the mind, Ortiz invites us to push the boundaries of the subconscious and enter into the dreamoir.
Hollywood Notebook Essays
Wendy C. Ortiz
A cartography of Hollywood and transformational wanderings, back in print
A daylight traipse through early-aughts Los Angeles, Hollywood Notebook encapsulates the powerful feelings and hopeful futures of twentysomething Wendy C. Ortiz. In this boundary-defying sister memoir to Bruja, Ortiz navigates internal maps as she traverses external palm-treed streets, moving through her youthful twenties and into the pensiveness of her thirties. Peering at what lies ahead while dipping her toes into the past, Ortiz shows us that there is no place like Hollywood to unearth the joys of success and the blows of mistakes—both realized and denied. An innovative and bold examination of the daytime roaming mind, Hollywood Notebook is a cartography of love, loss, and transformation in the face of a brilliant psyche in a vibrant city.
Excavation
A Memoir
Wendy C. Ortiz
The acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir from Wendy C. Ortiz
A darkly vibrant and daring memoir, Wendy C. Ortiz’s Excavation challenged the standard telling of abuse narratives when first published in 2014; over a decade later, it remains deeply prescient. Set in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley in the late 1980s, the narrative follows the spiraling entanglement between Wendy and her eighth-grade English teacher as she becomes both victim to and participant in a simultaneously predatorial and impassioned relationship. Baited by initial praise and a false sense of control, Wendy tumbles into a dangerous dynamic that spans the duration of her teens. Artfully constructed from her own journals and decades of personal excavation, the story of this secret relationship has imprinted on Wendy and readers alike. A stunningly honest look at memory, agency, and power, Excavation will claim your whole heart.
WENDY C. ORTIZ is a writer of creative nonfiction who works in hybrid forms, essays, and memoir. She is the author of three books, all published by Northwestern University Press. Her writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine online, Joyland, The New York Times, Pleiades, Fence, and many other journals. Ortiz is a therapist in private practice in Los Angeles.
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“The time has finally arrived when women are telling the truth—the hard truths, the messy, glorious, loud, tender, screeching corporeal truths—about their lives as they live them and not lived as we are asked to live them. Wendy C. Ortiz’s writing will rearrange your DNA. Permanently, beautifully…” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
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Once I Was Cool Megan Stielstra PAPER
JUNE
256 PAGES, 6 x 9 INCHES
WORLDWIDE, NEW EDITION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4887-1 $24.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4888-8 $24.00
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
Stories
Manuel Muñoz Foreword by Cherríe Moraga
The luminous second collection that cemented Muñoz as a key voice of and for California’s Central Valley
From the divergent paths of triplet brothers to a grieving father confronting his mistreatment of his son, these stories interweave a recurring cast of neighborhood characters, many of them in search of escape or release. Lauded for its empathetic portrayals of communities often ignored, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue won a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award; it was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award as one of the best collections published in English worldwide. A new foreword by author and activist Cherríe Moraga gives testament to Muñoz’s status as “the cartographer of a people.”
Zigzagger
Stories
Manuel Muñoz Foreword by Helena María Viramontes
Muñoz’s breakthrough collection, reissued with a new foreword by author Helena María Viramontes
JUNE
184 PAGES, 6 x 9 INCHES
WORLDWIDE, NEW EDITION
PAPER 978-0-8101-4895-6 $20.00
E-BOOK 978-0-8101-4896-3 $20.00
Manuel Muñoz’s first collection of stories goes beyond the traditional family myths of Mexican American literature and the image of California’s Central Valley as a lush world of rural tranquility, instead exploring the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings. A teenage boy learns the consequences of succumbing to the lure of a town outsider; a young farm worker attempts to hide his supervision of a group of children from the town police; a father must expose his own secrets after his son is found murdered in a highway motel. Experiencing conflicts of family and sexuality and the pain of loss and memory, the characters in Zigzagger seek to reconcile themselves with the rural towns of their upbringing—places that, by nature, are bordered by loneliness.
What You See in the Dark A Novel
Manuel Muñoz
Foreword by Charles Taylor
A doomed love story unfolds alongside the production of Psycho in 1950s Bakersfield, California
Muñoz’s debut novel tells the story of Teresa, an aspiring singer too far away from Los Angeles to share the city’s glamour. In Dan Watson, the most desirable man in town, she believes she has found someone to help her realize those dreams. But when a famous actress arrives from Hollywood with a legendary director in tow, local gossip about Teresa and Dan turns to speculation about the celebrity visitors there to work on what will become an iconic, groundbreaking film of madness and murder at a roadside motel: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Framed by a foreword from film critic Charles Taylor, Muñoz’s haunting tale reflects “the slow winding down of everything that once seemed certain.”
MANUEL MUÑOZ is celebrated as one of the foremost literary chroniclers of California’s Central Valley. Northwestern University Press published his debut story collection, Zigzagger, in 2003, and are delighted to announce that reprints of his second story collection and his novel will be joining the acclaimed TriQuarterly imprint. Each reissue includes a foreword that celebrates the enduring, empathic power of Muñoz’s fiction.
Muñoz has been recognized with a Whiting Award, three O. Henry Awards, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, two selections in Best American Short Stories and, most recently, a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship. His frequently anthologized work has appeared in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, ZYZZYVA, and Freeman’s. A native of Dinuba, California, he lives in Tucson.
Triquarterly Books
JUNE
272 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, NEW EDITION PAPER 978-0-8101-4889-5 $26.00
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“This atmospheric tale of twisted minds and smalltown murder would’ve put a demented gleam in The Master’s eye.” —NPR
APRIL
200 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
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Theatrical Consciousness
The Actor’s Mind in Russian Modernism
Alisa Ballard Lin
Investigating late imperial Russian and early Soviet modernism’s reinvention of the actor
In this wide-ranging study, Alisa Ballard Lin argues that Russian theatrical theory and practice contributed to a broad preand postrevolutionary discourse about the mind, profoundly reshaping concepts of consciousness, perception, identity, and the constitution of the subject. Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor’s Mind in Russian Modernism examines efforts in Russian theater—from around the turn of the century through the mid-1930s—to stimulate, train, imagine, and ultimately understand the actor’s, as well as the spectator’s, mind. Discussing key figures of the period, including Nikolai Evreinov, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Alexander Tairov, Lin identifies an underappreciated dimension of humanism within Russian modernism: a humanism that resisted the pressures of an increasingly technologized, industrialized, and politicized modernity that challenged the place of the human within it.
ALISA BALLARD LIN is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She is the translator and editor of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater.
“With a clear, eloquent tone and keen instinct for accessible storytelling, Alisa Ballard Lin connects incisive analyses of epoch-making Russian and Soviet theatrical innovations with essential, burning questions of psychology, philosophy, and concepts of the self.” —Dassia N. Posner, Northwestern University ALSO OF
Director’s Prism
Dassia N Posner
The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève
Marco Filoni Translated by David Broder
A fresh and vivid reappraisal of one of the most influential intellects of the modern era
Alexandre Kojève is one of the twentieth century’s most seductive and intriguing figures. A product of the Russian merchant bourgeoisie, he became, depending on one’s point of view, either an overzealous bureaucrat or a secret agent who infiltrated the upper echelons of French state bureaucracy, spending the last twenty years of his life working in international diplomacy and high finance. Marco Filoni describes each facet of Kojève’s different lives in crystalline detail: the cultural circles of his youth, his studies, his philosophical passions, his fundamental theoretical choices, and his intellectual network, as well as the students who would become part of the intellectual elite, including Lacan, Bataille, and Merleau-Ponty. Drawing on rich archival material, unpublished texts, correspondence, and written and oral testimonies, The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève is a major benchmark for scholars of Kojève and of twentieth-century intellectual and political history. Filoni paints a vibrant portrait of one of the most influential intellectuals of the modern era, deftly composing Kojève’s personal, political, and philosophical lives.
MARCO FILONI is an associate professor of political philosophy at Link Campus University, Rome.
DAVID BRODER is a historian of French and Italian communism, as well as a writer and translator.
JULY
280 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
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“For decades, Alexandre Kojève has entranced and mystified intellectuals of the Left and the Right. In this towering biography, Marco Filoni sets the discussion of Kojève on entirely new ground, making radiant sense of his complex life, thought, and influence.” —Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
ALSO OF INTEREST
Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy
Trevor Wilson PAPER
MAY
176 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
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PAPER 978-0-8101-4862-8 $34.00
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“What is adventure? It is not knowing where you belong, where you are going, whom you are dealing with—and this provocative little book suggests that for Bakhtin, such an attitude is ethical and freedom-bearing, both toward oneself and toward others. Against our compulsion to plot people and things, Paloff gathers Bakhtin’s scattered parts into an exhilarating, newly scary whole.” —Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Bakhtin’s Adventure
An Essay on Life without Meaning
Benjamin Paloff
A bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s groundbreaking theories
A century after Mikhail Bakhtin first began formulating his now-canonical reflections on freedom and literary representation, we often seem as confused as ever about the relationship between narrative form and what it means to live ethically. Focusing on the throughline of adventure in Bakhtin’s thought, we find a peculiar, yet no less ethically urgent challenge: not to imagine the literary hero as if they were a real person but to recognize how we are always imagining real people as if they were literary characters. This is a provocation with far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves, each other, and our situatedness in space and time. In Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning, Benjamin Paloff argues that the major aesthetic, ethical, and sociological threads of Bakhtin’s thought intersect in his concept of adventure. Reading across a wide variety of media, from classic literature to contemporary film, Paloff demonstrates how, for Bakhtin and his interlocutors, the test of human freedom is whether narrative means nothing beyond its own adventure. Reframed in this light, Bakhtin’s most influential ideas (eventness, chronotope, heteroglossia, polyphony, carnival) form a cohesive model for how to maintain ethical relations in a world where we can never really know each other the way we know ourselves.
BENJAMIN PALOFF is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Lost in the Shadow of the Word Benjamin Paloff PAPER 978-0-8101-3413-3 $34.95
The Graphomaniac A
Literary-Historical Discussion of Dmitry Khvostov
Ilya Vinitsky
Translated by James H. McGavran III
On the unexpected pleasures and provocations of bad poetry
The only Russian Count of Sardinia, Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (1757–1835) didn’t achieve fame in his lifetime—he achieved infamy. Pathologically prolific and delusionally dedicated to a craft for which he had no talent, the count was renowned for his compulsive output, driven by a passion for poetry that was as strong as his abilities were weak. Only the country that gave the world Pushkin, however, could produce Khvostov, in whom we find a distorted yet illuminating reflection of his poetic epoch, with all its numerous cultural manifestations and hidden impulses, its desires and prejudices.
As he leads us on a playful journey across Russia’s Golden Age and beyond, from neoclassical salon to faculty lounge, Ilya Vinitsky reflects on the challenges and necessities of literary critique and on the unexpected rewards of bad art as a subject of study, not just ridicule. Mischievous but erudite, sensitive but never self-serious, The Graphomaniac is an intellectual biography of the anti-hero, a cultural figure whose paradoxes yield new insights into his era.
ILYA VINITSKY is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. He is the author of Vasily Zhukovsky’s Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia (Northwestern University Press).
JAMES H. MCGAVRAN III is an associate professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Kenyon College. He is the translator of Selected Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky (Northwestern University Press).
JULY
372 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
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“McGavran’s translation of The Graphomaniac captures both the scholarly rigor of Vinitsky’s original and its fun, discursive, and exceptionally witty manner. This is a faithful and necessary translation of an important work.” —Joe Peschio, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
ALSO OF INTEREST
978-0-8101-3185-9
$39.95
Vasily Zhukovsky’s Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia
Ilya Vinitsky PAPER
APRIL
320 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
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“Córdova’s philosophical call for a disinterested aesthetic response to nature, one not linked purely to human pleasure or utility, is elegant and compelling. Consequently, his book prepares us to encounter the world in a manner that distances us from our human-centered endeavors. This work navigates deftly between abstract ideas and concrete examples, not privileging one or the other but destabilizing any certitude we might have about our own worldviews.”
—Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University
Rethinking the Early Modern
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism
Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France
Chad Córdova
Drawing on early modern French thought to free nature and aesthetics from metaphysical humanism
What good is aesthetics in an age of ecological crisis? Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France draws on deconstructive, ecological, and biopolitical theories to interrogate the potentiality that philosophical aesthetics contains for challenging the ontological capture of “nature” by the human subject. Chad Córdova uncovers in aesthetics something irreducible to the subject: an account of how beings emerge and are interrelated, responsive, and even response-able without reason. Constructing multitemporal constellations of texts that bring forth the untimely relevance of pre-1800 modes of writing, science, and art, Córdova charts a new, premodern trajectory of posthumanism. This anarchic and atelic ontology, recovered from Kant, becomes the guiding thread for a new trajectory of posthumanist thought. This capacious study traces this trajectory from Aristotle to Heidegger and on to contemporary plant-thinking, circling back through Montaigne, Pascal, Diderot, Rousseau, and others along the way. This is a defense and an illustration of the importance of rereading early modern texts as a means of rethinking nature, art, and humanity in a time when these concepts are in flux and more contentious than ever.
CHAD CÓRDOVA is an assistant professor of French at Cornell University.
ALSO OF INTEREST
Written World Jeffrey N. Peters
Black Studies in Europe An Anthology of Soil and Seeds
Edited by Nicole Grégoire, Sarah Fila-Bakabadio, and Jacinthe Mazzocchetti
Reflecting on contemporary epistemologies of European Blackness
Long absent from research in the humanities and social sciences, Black people in continental Europe have become the focus of a growing body of literature in the past two decades that addresses their unique history and social positioning. Black Studies in Europe: An Anthology of Soil and Seeds brings together essays and case studies by a collective of scholars, writers, and activists to offer a critical overview of the emerging field of Black European studies and a vital reflection on contemporary epistemologies of European Blackness. This collection addresses key questions: What is Blackness from a European standpoint? Which epistemologies and theoretical tools have been used to offer a better understanding of Black experiences in Europe? How is this knowledge being produced and by whom? Can we define a common European conceptual framework for Black studies? Related to this work is an even more urgent enterprise: forging an epistemological distinction between the study of Black people and “Black studies” as an emancipatory project.
NICOLE GRÉGOIRE is a research affiliate with the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
SARAH FILA-BAKABADIO is an associate professor in the Faculté des Études Internationales et Interculturelles at CY Cergy Paris Université.
JACINTHE MAZZOCCHETTI is a professor of political anthropology in the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Prospective at Université Catholique de Louvain.
AUGUST
256 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
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“Black Studies in Europe is a much awaited and needed volume that dismantles the epistemological violence of institutionalized paradigms, policies, and practices that have long omitted, silenced, invisibilized, and thereby disfigured Black life in Europe and European academies.” —Trica Keaton, Dartmouth College
ALSO OF INTEREST
Critical Insurgencies
AfroSwedish Places of Belonging Nana Osei-Kofi
JUNE
272 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
25 B&W HALFTONES
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PAPER 978-0-8101-4848-2 $36.00
CLOTH 978-0-8101-4849-9 $120.00
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“Excellently researched, well written, and timely, this is an important contribution to theater and performance history and Latin American cultural history, containing an important analysis of political theory within performance culture. I commend Jennifer Joan Thompson on the dexterity of her analysis and comprehensiveness; I am deeply impressed by her work.” —Patricia Ybarra, Brown University
Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile
Cultural Policy and the Making of Political
Dramaturgies
Jennifer Joan Thompson
Offering a nuanced understanding of the performing arts’ relationship to politics
Through careful readings of key political performances in Chile’s transition from military dictatorship to neoliberal democracy, Jennifer Joan Thompson examines how the production and aesthetics of theater are intertwined in processes of democratization, enactments of citizenship, and the development of cultural policy. Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile: Cultural Policy and the Making of Political Dramaturgies reveals how artists performed changing models of democratic citizenship. Thompson traces the ways artists confronted and resisted the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, how they then reimagined the body politic during the early transitional period and challenged official constructions of history and memory as the transition to democracy progressed, how they critiqued Chile’s neoliberal economic model and its violence, and, finally, how they have made claims for feminist and Indigenous citizen subjectivities throughout Chile’s current social crisis. Incorporating archival and ethnographic research alongside readings of theatrical and political performances, this study offers a nuanced understanding of the performing arts’ relationship to politics, one that accounts for the ways artists and the state collaborate in the production of the political imagination.
JENNIFER JOAN THOMPSON is an assistant professor of theater studies at Southern Methodist University.
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater Paola Hernández
Reclaiming Time
Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture
Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Showing how twenty-first-century Black theater and media arts challenge dominant conceptualizations of time
Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture examines works by contemporary Black artists in multiple media—drama, film, performance art, and photography—that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative configurations of time in relation to race in the twenty-first century. Isaiah Matthew Wooden explores the ways in which an intentional and sometimes ludic engagement with time and temporality has enabled these artists to probe urgent questions and themes concerning the conditions of contemporary Black life.
Wooden surveys a diverse array of performance-based and visual texts to explore the rich practices of contemporary Black expressive culture: dramatic works by playwrights Eisa Davis, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Robert O’Hara; performance art and photography by visual artists Jefferson Pinder and LaToya Ruby Frazier; and feature-length cinema by director-producer Tanya Hamilton. These works expose normative time as specious and evidence the transformative potential in honing practices of Black temporal experimentation and intervention. By putting this cross-disciplinary set of texts in conversation with each other, Wooden sheds new light on the shrewd ways that they each reflect an investment in unbinding time from the exigencies of normativity and teleology, as well as on their shared commitments to reclaiming time to reimagine and represent Blackness in all its multiplicities.
ISAIAH MATTHEW WOODEN is an assistant professor of theater at Swarthmore College. He is a coeditor of Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance, and Collaboration (Northwestern University Press).
MARCH
216 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
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“Reclaiming Time will join a growing body of work on Black artistic production and the notion of time. A meticulously researched and compellingly argued book, Wooden thoughtfully and thoroughly argues that contemporary Black expressive culture continues to tell us something about the way Black people enact agency over their lives by resisting dominant categories and uses of time.” —E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University ALSO OF INTEREST
Black Theater, City Life Macelle Mahala PAPER
MAY
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“Abdelkébir Khatibi counts among the most original and suggestive writers and thinkers of the twentieth century in any language. The Wound of the Name, an ambitious and sensitive translation of his Blessure du nom propre, one of the most significant works in decolonial epistemology, is no less than a gift of thought and method to the Anglophone world.” — Nasrin Qadar, Northwestern University
The Wound of the Name
Abdelkébir Khatibi Trans. by Matt Reeck
Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize
Abdelkébir Khatibi’s The Wound of the Name (1974) is a classic work of North African critical theory that seeks to decolonize French ways of looking at and writing about Maghreb cultures. Writing at the height of French semiotics’ popularity and prestige, Khatibi proposes intersemiotics as a study of signs that pass through related but different cultural geographies, times, and expressions. Proverbs, tattoos, the rhetoric of lovemaking, calligraphy, and oral storytelling show a circulation of cultural signifiers over, across, and against borders. Signs are not stagnant; meaning is not fixed. Khatibi’s intent is in keeping with his emergent double critique, which aims to redefine not only European understanding of North African culture but also North African self-understanding, by freeing it from the anthropological mandates of the modern colonial era as well as from the retrenched theocratic models that were characteristic of North African postcolonial states.
ABDELKÉBIR KHATIBI (1938–2009) was a Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist.
MATT REECK is a translator, scholar, and poet. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in translation in 2022.
ALSO OF INTEREST
PAPER
978-0-8101-4776-8
$38.00
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature Thomas C. Connolly
First Contact
Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the
Americas
Zac Zimmer
Examining the power of speculative fiction to reimagine historical accounts of the conquest of the Americas
The historical conquest of the Americas resides at the core of all first-contact narratives, which stage colonization and resistance in the generic guise of speculative fiction. Starting from this axiom, First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas moves through a corpus of Mexican novels, Andean visual arts practices, and other cultural artifacts that have dramatized counterfactual narratives. Reimagining the early colonial period’s historiography from a south-to-north directionality while inventing parallel realities, these texts, which are concerned with limit cases, alterities, and alternative temporalities, refuse any reliance on the imperial ontologies of European expansion. Zac Zimmer examines these works to explore the slippage that exists between science fiction as the exemplary genre of the modern, colonial reality and literary speculation as an aesthetic tool that can be used to imagine other possible worlds. First Contact thus poses a foundational question: Can we understand the conquest as an originary world-historical event without eclipsing the other cosmologies that existed, and continue to exist, within the contact zone? Can we decolonize the speculative imagination itself?
ZAC ZIMMER is an associate professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
MARCH
272 PAGES, 6 X 9 INCHES
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“Extremely well researched, First Contact makes a significant contribution to the fields of Latin American studies and science fiction studies and will have lasting merit for scholars and students alike.” —Rachel Haywood, Iowa State University
Flashpoints
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978-0-8101-4541-2 $36.00
Traces of the Unseen Carolina Sá Carvalho PAPER
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Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University
978-0-8101-4684-6
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Here Is a Figure
978-0-8101-4790-4
$34.00
978-0-8101-4664-8
$35.00
978-0-8101-4707-2
$36.00
978-0-8101-4676-1
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The
Willy Thayer
Sarah Dowling
Nightmare Remains
Ege Selin Islekel
The War on the Social Factory
Annie Paradise
Transoceanic Blackface
Kellen Hoxworth
The Unwritten Enlightenment
Nathan Gorelick
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Curating Worlds
Emma Bond
978-0-8101-4795-9
$36.00
Negative Life
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay
978-0-8101-4719-5
$28.00
Race and the Forms of Knowledge
Ben Spatz
978-0-8101-4658-7
$36.00
The Matter of Evil Drew M. Dalton
978-0-8101-4640-2
$40..00
Archive of Style
Cheryl Clarke
978-0-8101-4760-7
$29.00
The Inheritor Collective Creation of Théâtre de l’Aquarium, translated by Kate Bredeson and Thalia Wolff
978-0-8101-4782-9
$20.00
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BY TITLE
A Preponderance of Starry Beings..................................................7
Agrippina the Younger.........................................................................10 and when the light comes it will be so fantastic...................11
Bahktin’s Adventure...............................................................................22
Black Studies in Europe........................................................................25
Bruja...............................................................................................................16
Daisy.................................................................................................................6
Excavation...................................................................................................17
Faith Healer of Olive Avenue............................................................18
First Contact...............................................................................................29
Graphomaniac..........................................................................................23
Hollywood Notebook..........................................................................16
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal......................................................13
Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève........................................21
Mud in Our Mouths..................................................................................8
My Oceans.....................................................................................................1
Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile..................26
Pony..................................................................................................................4
Reclaiming Time.....................................................................................27
Returning to My Father’s Kitchen...................................................12
Theatrical Consciousness....................................................................20
The Third Coast.......................................................................................2-3
Toward a Feminist Theater....................................................................5
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism...........................................24
Transanything..............................................................................................9
We Are Civic Media.........................................................................14-15
What You See in the Dark..................................................................19
Wound of the Name..............................................................................28
Zigzagger......................................................................................................18
BY
AUTHOR, EDITOR, CONTRIBUTOR, OR TRANSLATOR
Arterian, Diana..........................................................................................10
Berget, Kristin, trans. by Kathleen M. Paltrineri ....................11
Córdova, Chad A......................................................................................24
Edmonds, Samantha................................................................................7
Feder, Rachel................................................................................................6
Filoni, Marco, trans. by David Broder............................................21
Flynn-Goodlett, Luiza..............................................................................8
Grégoire, Nicole, Sarah Fila-Bakabadio, Jacinthe Mazzocchetti, eds....................................................................................................25
Hamill, Kate, ed. Kristin Leahey..........................................................5
Jones, Ever.....................................................................................................9
Khatibi, Abdelkébir, trans. Matt Reeck.........................................28
Lin, Alisa Ballard......................................................................................20
Macansantos, Monica...........................................................................12
Muñoz, Manuel.................................................................................18-19
Mykhed, Oleksandr, trans. Tanya Savchynska and David Mossop..........................................................................................................13
Ortiz, Wendy C..................................................................................16-17 Oswald, Sylvan.............................................................................................4
Paloff, Benjamin.......................................................................................22
Rivera, Christina.......................................................................................31
Shresthova, Sangita, Dan Sinker, Pratik Nyaupane, Sophie Madej, and Colin Maclay eds....................................................14-15 Thompson, Jennifer J............................................................................26
Vinitsky, Ilya...............................................................................................23
Wooden, Isaiah M...................................................................................27 Zimmer, Zac...............................................................................................29 Zurick, David............................................................................................2-3
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