2020 Literary Studies

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LITERARY STUDIES 2019-2020

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HIGHLIGHTS THE DARK FANTASTIC

BECOMING HUMAN

Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS

Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human

“The Dark Fantastic is a wakeup call to all who research, teach, or create young adult speculative fiction ... A must-read.”

—Booklist $28.00 • 240 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-0065-0 In Postmillennial Pop

RUNAWAY GENRES The Global Afterlives of Slavery YOGITA GOYAL

“A richly textured and startlingly original meditation on the meaning and uses of contemporary ‘neo-slave narratives.’”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk $30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3271-2

RICANNESS Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance SANDRA RUIZ

“Ricanness accomplishes a sustained dislocation of the hierarchies of the senses.”

—Tavia Nyong’o, author of AfroFabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life $30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2568-4

RACIAL IMMANENCE Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation MARISSA K. LÓPEZ

“This is a bold, refreshing book that demonstrates the urgency and importance of Chicanx literature while simultaneously challenging the reasons why we read it.”—Julie A. Minich, author of Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico $28.00 • 208 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-1390-2

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ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON

$30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3037-4 In Sexual Cultures

QUEER FAITH Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition MELISSA E. SANCHEZ

“Sanchez engages her subject with humor. Queer Faith is an enjoyable and outstanding piece of scholarship.”

—Foreword Reviews $35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4086-1 In Sexual Cultures

QUEER TIMES BLACK FUTURE KARA KEELING

“Just when the world seems to be collapsing, Queer Times, Black Futures guides us towards an anti-fragile future that exists here and now.”—Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Updating to Remain the Same $30.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-4833-6 In Sexual Cultures

COLONIAL PHANTOMS Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present DIXA RAMÍREZ

“In this piercing and important study, Dixa Ramírez has given scholars of the so-called New World an indelible intellectual gift. Scholarship of the highest order.”—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of This is How You Lose Her $30.00 • 336 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-6756-1 In Nation of Nations

I N T R O D U C I N G AV I D LY R E A D S Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, each volume in the Avidly Reads series brings to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience.

Building on the popular online magazine Avidly, founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle and supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly Reads continues the Avidly project of encouraging experts to offer original, surprising, and entertaining explorations of how it feels to try and understand the world. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life.

AVIDLY READS BOARD GAMES ERIC THURM

Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart, Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships—from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and nostalgia. $14.95 • 144 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-2695-7

AVIDLY READS MAKING OUT KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON

Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who you’re kissing, and where it’s leading? It can feel luscious, libidinal, friendly, but are we trying to make out something through our kissing? For Kathryn Bond Stockton, making out is a prism through which to look at the cultural and political forces of our world: race, economics, childhood, books, movies. Making Out is Stockton’s memoir about a non-binary childhood before that idea existed in her world. We think about kissing as we accompany Stockton to the bedroom, to the closet, to the playground, to the movies, and to solitary moments with a book, the ultimate source of pleasure. $14.95 • 176 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4327-5

AVIDLY READS THEORY JORDAN ALEXANDER STEIN

As an avowed “theory head,” Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends: an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how-to. Organized around five ways that theory makes us feel—silly, stupid, sexy, seething and stuck—Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now. $14.95 • 152 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-0100-8

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A M E R I C A A N D T H E L O N G 1 9 T H C E N T U RY The America and the Long 19th Century series publishes innovative work in American literary studies from the revolutionary movements of the late 18th century through the early years of modernism at the turn of the 20th century. Books in the series place the study of 19th-century American culture in its broader multi- and transnational contexts by publishing work that unsettles familiar cultural formations, including the presumptive stability of American literature itself.

GENERAL EDITORS David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania Elizabeth McHenry, New York University Priscilla Wald, Duke University Honorable Mention, 2019 First Book Prize, Modern Language Association

FUGITIVE SCIENCE Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

EMERGENT WORLDS Alternative States in NineteenthCentury American Culture

BRITT RUSERT

EDWARD SUGDEN

“Imaginative and based on rich interdisciplinary research, Rusert’s book resurrects an important, neglected story about race and oppositional science in the antebellum US.”—CHOICE $32.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4766-2

“Sugden has the rare gift of being able to synthesize complex conversations and formulations and then to intervene within them generously and wisely.”

—Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia $30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8926-6

BEFORE CHICANO

THE LATINO NINETEENTH CENTURY

Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 ALBERTO VARON

“Varon examines an emerging hybrid synthesis of U.S. and Mexican republicanism as well as the instabilities inherent to a malecentered conception of citizenship.”

—Society for US Intellectual History $35.00 • 336 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-3119-7

THE BLACK RADICAL TRAGIC

A Developmental Perspective Edited by RODRIGO LAZO and JESSE ALEMÁN

“An impressive anthology that demonstrates the diversity and vitality of this period.”—MELUS $30.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5587-2

UNDISCIPLINED

Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution

Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

JEREMY MATTHEW GLICK

NIHAD FAROOQ

“[A] book we were all waiting for without knowing it. Only now, after finding it, do we know what we were waiting for.”

—Los Angeles Review of Books $28.00 • 296 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1319-3

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“Persuasive and thoughtprovoking... With dazzling archival work... Farooq makes a compelling case for the centrality of race within the emergent sciences of evolutionary biology and anthropology.”—Jane Thrailkill, author of Affecting Fictions $30.00 • 280 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-0699-7

A M E R I C A A N D T H E L O N G 1 9 T H C E N T U R Y C O N T.

RACIAL RECONSTRUCTION

ETHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE

Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship

Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands

EDLIE L. WONG

“The juxtaposition of these policies provides for intriguing analysis. It clearly shows that US history is never simply linear, as when steps toward freedom for some coincide with oppression of others. The topic is fascinating.”

—CHOICE $29.00 • 304 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-1796-2

ROBERT LAWRENCE GUNN

“Ethnology and Empire demonstrates the power and flexibility of postmodern approaches to the study of colonial relationships.”

—American Quarterly $29.00 • 304 pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4905-5

PICTURE FREEDOM

SITTING IN DARKNESS

Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century

Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization

JASMINE NICHOLE COBB

HSUAN L. HSU

“This is a book that will become one of the most influential sources for African American visual culture.”

—Winterthur Portfolio $28.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2977-4

UNSETTLED STATES Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies Edited by DANA LUCIANO and IVY WILSON

“[S]heds light on the papers long swept under the rug ranging from early Hispanic literature to polar periodicals.”

—American Studies Journal $28.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8932-7

TOMORROW’S PARTIES Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America

“Exciting, well-written, and filled with surprising, unexpected connections, Sitting in Darkness contributes to our understanding of the history of comparative racialization in America while deftly placing literature in legal and social contexts that are truly illuminating.”—Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University $26.00 • 248 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-1510-4

THE TRAUMATIC COLONEL The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr MICHAEL J. DREXLER and ED WHITE

“Innovative and original, White and Drexler locate Aaron Burr as the symbolic pivot for the representations that emerge politically around the repression of slavery.”—Dana Nelson, author of Bad for Democracy $26.00 • 288 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4253-7

BONDS OF CITIZENSHIP Law and the Labors of Emancipation

PETER COVIELLO

HOANG GIA PHAN

“This book breaks new ground in theorizations of temporality for those working in queer theory, gender studies, and 19th century literature.”—CHOICE $27.00 • 265 pages Paper • 978-0-8147-1741-7

Demonstrates how Americancitizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor $27.00 • 272 pages • Paper • 978-0-8147-7170-9

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES RACIAL INDIGESTION

AFRO-FABULATIONS

Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

The Queer Drama of Black Life

KYLA WAZANA TOMPKINS

TAVIA NYONG’O

“Highly ambitious and fascinating work.”

—Children’s Literature Association Quarterly

“Nyong’o offers not only a compelling new way to think about works that challenge history, narrative, and truth, but also a method in which we might continue that work.”

—Brooklyn Rail $29.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8844-3 In Sexual Cultures

“Bold and brilliant.”

—Journal of American History $28.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-7003-0 In America and the Long 19th Century

SENSUAL EXCESS

FROTTAGE

Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora

AMBER JAMILLA MUSSER

KEGURO MACHARIA

“Inviting empathy and embodiment to ways of knowing, the text pulses with both sentient and critical offerings from an archive of explicit body performances that center racialized and sexualized works of art.”—Women & Performance

A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic $27.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6501-7 In Sexual Cultures

$27.00 • 240 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-3095-4 In Sexual Cultures

ANTHEM Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora SHANA L. REDMOND

“Offers a model to future scholars who wish to blend the intricacies of musical analysis with other source bases or methodologies.”

—American Quarterly

REPRESENTING THE RACE A New Political History of African American Literature GENE ANDREW JARRETT

“There is much to learn from this project, for both experienced scholars and more casual readers.”

—Journal of American History $26.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-4339-3

$29.00 • 356 Pages • Paper • 978-0-8147-7041-2 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion

RALPH ELLISON’S INVISIBLE THEOLOGY M. COOPER HARRISS

“[A] suggestive, learned, and accessible entrance into Ellison’s life and work which creatively appraises the theological significance of Ellison’s thought...”—Reading Religion $30.00 • 288 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-2301-7 In North American Religions Get 30% off and free shipping* with coupon LIT20-FM

LANGSTON’S SALVATION American Religion and the Bard of Harlem WALLACE D. BEST

“Best weaves together the varied and often controversial strands of Hughes’s life . . . a wellresearched argument that offers a vivid perspective on a literary giant.”—Publishers Weekly $22.00 • 320 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-4739-6

A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S C O N T. 2013 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature, Modern Language Association

HOW TO READ AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

DIFFICULT DIASPORAS The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic

Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation

SAMANTHA PINTO

“In its richness of content and advancement of the fields of African diaspora and feminist studies, Difficult Diasporas proves that such risks can yield groundbreaking scholarship.”

—Gender, Place, & Culture $28.00 • 281 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-7009-2 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education

AIDA LEVY-HUSSEN

“Beautifully-written and insightful... invigorates black feminist critique andqueer literary studies... A model of critical writing, and of how to read.”—Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection Instructor’s Guide Available $27.00 • 224 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-8471-1 2012 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, Modern Language Association

RACIAL INNOCENCE

EXTRAVAGENT ABJECTION

Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

ROBIN BERNSTEIN

“One of those rare books that shifts the paradigm—a book that, in years to come, will be recognized as a landmark in children’s literature and childhood studies...”—Children’s Literature $28.00 • 318 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-8708-3 In America and the Long 19th Century

DARIECK SCOTT

In Sexual Cultures

“A powerful theoretical statement in the emerging field of black queer studies. ... surely become a dark classic.”—Robert Reid-Pharr, author of Once You Go Black $27.00 • 327 pages Paper • 978-0-8147-4095-8

L I T E R AT U R E EIGHT STORIES

STELLA

Tales of War and Loss

A Novel of the Haitian Revolution

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Introduction by LARRY WOLFF and MARIA TATAR

ÉMERIC BERGEAUD Translated and edited by LESLEY S. CURTIS and CHRISTEN MUCHER

A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front $13.95 • 192 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8809-2 AWashington Mews book

Stella, first published in 1859, is an imaginative retelling of Haiti’s fight for independence from slavery and French colonialism $26.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9240-2 In America and the Long 19th Century

CECIL DREEME

TALES FOR LITTLE REBELS

A Novel THEODORE WINTHROP

“This prophetic and rich novel whose very existence must be seen as surprising against the backdrop of 21st century skepticism as to the possibility of ‘gay’ literature in pre-modern times. It deserves the widest possible readership.”—The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review $17.95 • 288 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-5529-2 AWashington Mews book

A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature Edited by JULIA L. MICKENBERG and PHILIP NEL, with a foreword

by JACK ZIPES

“[M]ade me think of the subtle ideological messages in some of my favorite recent children’s books.”—The Atlantic $29.00 • 313 pages • Paper • 978-0-8147-5721-5

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DISABILITY CRIP TIMES

LITERARY BIOETHICS

Disability, Globalization, and Resistance

Animality, Disability, and the Human

ROBERT MCRUER

MAREN TOVA LINETT

Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics $30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7415-6 In Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Sexualities Section

Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans $28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0125-1 In Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies Instructor’s Guide Available

FANTASIES OF IDENTIFICATION

DEAFENING MODERNISM

Disability, Gender, Race

Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature

ELLEN SAMUELS

Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the “fantasy of identification” $27.00 • 273 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5949-8 In Cultural Front

REBECCA SANCHEZ

Tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight $26.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0555-6 In Cultural Front

PERFORMANCE 2016 Best Book in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies Award

REALIST ECSTASY Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature LINDSAY V. RECKSON

Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment $29.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5036-5 In Performance and American Cultures

2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies, Modern Language Association

THE EXQUISITE CORPSE OF ASIAN AMERICA Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies RACHEL C. LEE

“[T]he study is provocative and evocative, raising such issues and questions as why Asian American artists are so preoccupied with fragments of ‘self.’”—CHOICE $28.00 • 336 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-6164-4 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association

THE COLOR OF KINK

EMBODIED AVATARS

Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography ARIANE CRUZ

Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance URI MCMILLAN

How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality

How black women have personified art, expression, identity, and freedom through performance

$30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2746-6 In Sexual Cultures

$30.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5247-5 In Sexual Cultures

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GENDER AND SEXUALITY ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde ROBB HERNÁNDEZ

Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife $29.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2083-2 In Sexual Cultures

GAMER TROUBLE Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture AMANDA PHILLIPS

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games

$29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3492-1

Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, Locus Science Fiction Foundation

OLD FUTURES Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility ALEXIS LOTHIAN

Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media $30.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2585-1 In Postmillennial Pop

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LATISHA KING A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia GAYLE SALAMON

“[A] hard-hitting philosophical investigation into gender and its cultural depiction.”

—Foreword Reviews $24.00 • 192 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9252-5 In Sexual Cultures

M E D I A A N D P O P C U LT U R E

COMICS AND STUFF

STORIES OF THE SELF

HENRY JENKINS

Life Writing after the Book

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now

ANNA POLETTI

$32.00 • 352 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0093-3

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics

$29.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3666-6 In Postmillennial Pop

DON’T USE YOUR WORDS!

VIDEO GAMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUEER

Children’s Emotions in a Networked World

BONNIE RUBERG

JANE JUFFER

How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist this emotional management through cultural production $35.00 • 304 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3305-4

“Ruberg offers a polemical intervention into game studies, discovering queer frisson through close readings of how games are played...”

—Real Life Magazine $30.00 • 288 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4374-9 In Postmillennial Pop

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V I S U A L C U LT U R E 2017 Book Prize, Association for the Studies of the Present

THE NEW MUTANTS Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics RAMZI FAWAZ

“The New Mutants is not only one of the smartest critiques I’ve ever read, its one of the most brilliant academic engagements with pop culture, period.”

—Patheos $30.00 • 368 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-2308-6 In Postmillennial Pop

THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO

Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head $29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8958-7 In Postmillennial Pop 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics

ABSTRACTIONIST AESTHETICS Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER

“Opens up possibilities for revising our notions of representation. ... [A] valuable contribution to ongoing conversations about race, politics, and aesthetics.”—ASAP/Journal $28.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1836-5 In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis

GOLEM Modern Wars and Their Monsters MAYA BARZILAI

A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes $25.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4845-4

H I S T O RY LOVING JUSTICE Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England KATHRYN TEMPLE

A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justice

$45.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-9527-4

EDUCATED FOR FREEDOM The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys who Grew Up to Change a Nation ANNA MAE DUANE

The powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery $30.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4747-1

2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Association for Jewish Studies

A RICH BREW How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture SHACHAR M. PINSKER

A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture $22.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7438-5 Get 30% off and free shipping* with coupon LIT20-FM

HOW THE WISE MEN GOT TO CHELM The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition RUTH VON BERNUTH

The first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors $35.00 • 336 Pages Cloth • 978-1-4798-2844-9

KEYWORDS Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with each essay on a single term to help trace the contours and debates of a particular field.

Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly concepts, the books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry.

keywords.nyupress.org AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Edited by ERICA R. EDWARDS, RODERICK A. FERGUSON, and JEFFREY O.G. OGBAR

$28.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5489-9

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Edited by PHILIP NEL and LISSA PAUL

$28.00 • 293 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-5855-7

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Edited by JONI ADAMSON, WILLIAM A. GLEASON, and DAVID N. PELLOW

$28.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-6083-3

AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES, SECOND EDITION Edited by BRUCE BURGETT and GLENN HENDLER

$28.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-0801-9

DISABILITY STUDIES

Edited by RACHEL ADAMS, BENJAMIN REISS, and DAVID SERLIN

$28.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3952-0

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Edited by CATHY J. SCHLUND-VIALS, LINDA TRINH VÕ, and K. SCOTT WONG

$28.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0328-6

Finalist, 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine

LATINA/O STUDIES

MEDIA STUDIES

Edited by DEBORAH R. VARGAS, NANCY RAQUEL MIRABAL, and LAWRENCE LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES

Edited by LAURIE OUELLETTE and JONATHAN GRAY

$28.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8330-1

$28.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5961-0

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L I B R A R Y O F A R A B I C L I T E R AT U R E Supported by a grant from the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, and established in partnership with NYU Press, the Library of Arabic Literature offers Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with an emphasis on the seventh to nineteenth centuries. The Library of Arabic Literature thus includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period, and encompasses a wide range of genres, including poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history, and historiography. Books in the series are edited and translated by internationally recognized scholars. They are published in parallel-text and English-only editions in both print and electronic formats.

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IMPOSTURES

WAR SONGS

AL-ḤARĪRĪ Translated by MICHAEL COOPERSON

ʿANTARAH IBN SHADDĀD Translated by JAMES E. MONTGOMERY with RICHARD SIEBURTH

Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways “Impostures is a wild romp through languages and literatures, places and times...”

—Esther Allen, translator of Zama, winner of the 2017 National Translation Award $29.95 • 534 Pages • Cloth • 978-1-4798-0084-1

Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior “Compelling, beautiful poetry.”

—Times Literary Supplement $14.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5879-8

LEG OVER LEG

ARABIAN SATIRE

AḤMAD FĀRIS AL-SHIDYĀQ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES

Poetry from 18th-Century Najd ḤMĒDĀN AL-SHWĒʿIR Translated by MARCEL KURPERSHOEK

A satirical masterpiece by a pioneer of modern Arabic literature “[T]he first ever English translation of this pivotal work...

An accessible, informative, and highly entertaining read.”

—Banipal Magazine $18.00 • Paper Vol 1 & 2 • 978-1-4798-0072-8 Vol 3 & 4 • 978-1-4798-1329-2

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies

$15.00 • 160 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-8516-9

BRAINS CONFOUNDED

BY THE ODE OF ABŪ SHĀDŪF EXPOUNDED

A HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS Translated by BRUCE FUDGE

YŪSUF AL-SHIRBĪNĪ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES

A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder

$15.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-7323-4 Vol 2 • 978-1-4798-2966-8

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Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population $16.00 • Paper Vol 1 • 978-1-4798-4021-2

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IN SEARCH OF THE SWAN MAIDEN

Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts

A Narrative on Folklore and Gender

JONATHAN GRAY

BARBARA FASS LEAVY

“Show Sold Separately will rewrite the rules of what we look at when we want to understand how audiences make meaning of media franchises.”

—Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture

“Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds.”

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CHARLES DICKENS AND THE IMAGE OF WOMEN

NARCISSISM AND THE LITERARY LIBIDO

DAVID K. HOLBROOK

MARSHALL W. ALCORN JR.

Using recent developements in psychoanalytic object-relations theory, this book offers new insight into the way in which the novels of Dickens’ both uphold emotional needs and at the same time represent the limits of his view of women and that of his time 208 Pages • Paper • 978-0-8147-3528-2

Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity Uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change 264 Pages • Paper 978-0-8147-0665-7

IMAGINED HUMAN BEINGS

EMPLOYMENT OF ENGLISH

A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature

Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies

BERNARD J. PARIS

What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be “employed” in the culture at large?

270 Pages • Paper 978-0-8147-1301-3

One of literature’s greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters—human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions 304 Pages • Paper 978-0-8147-6656-9

MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ

MANIFESTO OF A TENURED RADICAL CARY NELSON

“Manifesto of a Tenured Radical is the Silent Spring of higher education.”—Constance Penley, University of California at Santa Barbara 254 pages • Paper 978-0-8147-5797-0

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G R E AT F O R C O U R S E S

TIME A Vocabulary of the Present AMY ELIAS Edited by JOEL BURGES and AMY ELIAS

“The many writings in this book make clear that time studies are thriving.”

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COSMOPOLITANISMS Edited by BRUCE ROBBINS and PAULO LEMOS HORTA

An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world

$30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-6323-5

EMERGENT U.S. LITERATURES From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century CYRUS PATELL

“Patell makes a key distinction between the previously preferred term multiculturaland newly favored word cosmopolitan when describing what he calls & emergent literatures.”

—American Literary Scholarship $26.00 • 288 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-7338-8

THE SECRET LIFE OF STORIES From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ

How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading $19.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-3273-6

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THE UTOPIA READER, SECOND EDITION Edited by GREGORY CLAEYS and LYMAN TOWER SARGENT

“The Utopia Reader is the place to start a literary voyage into new futures, possible futures, and dangerous alternative futures.

These well-selected readings let the reader know that there is neither a shared perfect future nor a shared perfect interpretation. Accessible and provocative.”

—Jean Pfaelzer, author of The Utopian Novel in America $40.00 • 576 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-3707-6

THE STONEWALL RIOTS A Documentary History Edited by MARC STEIN

“When you’re trying to figure out what Stonewall meant to people at the time, these documents, many of which were first printed in the couple of years afterward, are indispensable.”—Slate $35.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-1685-9

CONTEMPORARY ARAB-AMERICAN LITERATURE Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging CAROL FADDA-CONREY

The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres $25.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0431-3 In American Literatures Initiative

NEOCITIZENSHIP Political Culture after Democracy EVA CHERNIAVSKY

“Sophisticated and fresh, Neocitizenship breathes new life into the discourse on neoliberalism.”

—Cotten Seiler, author of Republic of Driverse $30.00 • 232 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-9357-7

AWARD-WINNING BACKLIST 2015-16 Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association

Honorable Mention, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association

SEXUAL FUTURES, QUEER GESTURES, AND OTHER LATINA LONGINGS

ARCHIVES OF FLESH African America, Spain, and PostHumanist Critique ROBERT F. REID-PHARR

Enlists the principles of posthumanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals $29.00 • 264 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-4362-6 In Sexual Cultures

JUANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ

This book proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures $26.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 978-0-8147-6492-3 • In Sexual Cultures 2019 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education for Joshua Chambers-Letson

AFTER THE PARTY A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life JOSHUA CHAMBERS-LETSON

A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking

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WRITERS ON WRITING

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VOICE

SLEUTH

On Writing with Deafness

On Writing Mysteries

ADAM POTTLE

GAIL BOWEN

Explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer’s development

A smart, practical, and often funny guide for those who aspire to write mysteries—reveals the secrets behind the curtain from a bestselling and award-winning master of the genre

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University of Regina Press publishes books that matter—in both academic and trade formats. URP endeavours to develop writers into public intellectuals, encourage debate, and inspire young people to study the humanities by publishing books that are both seen and relevant.

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ANGRY QUEER SOMALI BOY

IN MY OWN MOCCASINS

A Complicated Memoir

A Memoir of Resilience

MOHAMED ABDULKARIM ALI

HELEN KNOTT

A story of a young man’s queer coming of age amidst displacement, violence, and alienation

A reflection on what can be said about addiction, trauma, and the pains of sexual violence

“A tour de force.”—Omayra Issa, Radio-Canada $19.95 • 144 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8897-7659-3

OUT OF MY MIND A Psychologist’s Descent into Madness and Back SHALOM CAMENIETZKI

Reveals the strengths and fallibilities of traditional psychotherapies and shows how one doctor finally obtained a symptom-free life $19.95 • 272 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8897-7689-0

THE EDUCATION OF AUGIE MERASTY

“Proclaims healing a revolutionary act.”—Booklist $19.95 • 336 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8897-7644-9

THE LISTENER In the Shadow of the Holocaust IRENE OORE

A reflection on how trauma is passed from generation to generation “Demonstrates the persistence of memory and the pervasiveness of evil.”—Kirkus Reviews $19.95 • 104 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8897-7653-1

FLORENCE OF AMERICA

A Residential School Memoir New Edition

A Feminist in the Age of McCarthyism

JOSEPH A. MERASTY and DAVID CARPENTER

FLORENCE BEAN JAMES

The harsh truth of racist politics in Canada’s schools as seen through the eyes of a child “Historically significant.”

—Publishers Weekly $19.95 • 150 Pages • Cloth • 978-0-8897-7457-5

The life of the woman who brought professional theatre to Canada “An object lesson in courage and vision.”—Mark F. Jenkins, playwright $19.95 • 272 Pages • Cloth • 978-0-8897-7647-0

ANTIGONE UNDONE Named as a tribute to Saskatchewan’s capital city and its rich history of boundary-defying innovation, The Regina Collection builds upon our motto of “a voice for many peoples.” These beautifully-packaged books are written by authors who have been caught in social and political circumstances beyond their control.

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Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance WILL AITKEN

What can be learned from tragedy and the art of theater “[C]hampions a way of making and seeing the arts that heightens their relevance and brings Sophocles’s 2,500-year-old play into readers’ contemporary lives and world.”—Publishers Weekly $19.95 • 210 Pages • Cloth • 978-0-8897-7521-3

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O S K A N A P O E T RY & P O E T I C S

LIVE ONES

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SADIE MCCARNEY

On Poetry, Language, and Wilderness

In her first full-length poetry collection, McCarney grapples with mourning, coming of age, and queer identity against the backdrop of rural and small-town Atlantic Canada and celebrates the personal and idiosyncratic aspects of death, seeing them as intimately wedded to lives well-lived

JOHN STEFFLER

This series of elegant and wide-ranging meditations on language, wilderness, poetry, and technocracy, takes us on a guided tour of one poet’s mental workshop $16.95 • 112 pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7587-9

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BLACKBIRD SONG RANDY LUNDY

An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land—Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions

THE HOUSE OF CHARLEMAGNE TIM LILBURN

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Tracks the birth of an ideal nation in the burning imagination of the young settler Henry Jackson—Lilburn’s poem gives voice and body to Louis Riel’s Massinahican, a radical philosophical system which now survives only in fragments $16.95 • 85 Pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7530-5

CLOUD PHYSICS

THE LONG WALK

KAREN ENNS

JAN ZWICKY

“Personal and remote, cool and exacting, mysteriously exciting, like a top skier these poems cut their own tracks.”

—Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Turtle Island

“The Long Walk carries a lifetime’s force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book.”

—Anne Michaels

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“Poems of exquisite lyric grace and deep feeling.”—Toronto Star

FIELD NOTES FOR THE SELF RANDY LUNDY

These poems are a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul $35.00 • 96 pages Paper • 978-0-8897-7691-3

Publishing new and established authors, Oskana Poetry & Poetics from University of Regina Press offers both contemporary poetry at its best and probing discussions of poetry’s cultural role. Oskana is the Cree word for “bones,” and we use it with the blessing of Elder Noel Starblanket.

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MEMOIRS A BODY, UNDONE

SUCH A PRETTY GIRL

Living On After Great Pain

A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

CHRISTINA CROSBY

“Part grueling diary of living with chronic pain and part celebration of survival, this is a complicated understanding of what it means to change your definition of living while living through it.”—Elle $17.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5316-8 In Sexual Cultures

NADINA LASPINA

“[A]n empowering and feminist book. In an intimate way, Such a Pretty Girl shows how far disability rights have come in the past 70 years and touches on inequalities that still exist.”

—Book Riot $19.95 • 352 Pages • Paper • 978-1-6133-2099-0 Published by New Village Press

A MAN OF THE THEATER Survival as an Artist in Iran NASSER RAHMANINEJAD

Life in Iran as an artist under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution $21.95 • 320 Pages Paper • 978-1-6133-2110-2 Published by New Village Press

OPENINGS A Compelling Account of Recreating a Life through Writing, Memory, and Desire SABRA MOORE

An account of the women’s art movement in New York City from 1970 to 1992 and how these women created politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, actions, and institutions $34.95 • 410 Pages • Paper • 978-1-6133-2018-1 Published by New Village Press

RELATION OF VIRGINIA A Boy’s Memoir of Life with the Powhatans and the Patawomecks HENRY SPELMAN Edited by KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN

A memoir of one of America’s first adventurers, a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans $25.00 • 96 Pages • Paper • 978-1-4798-7129-2

LIE ON YOUR WOUNDS The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe ROBERT SOBUKWE Edited by DEREK HOOK

Across approximately 300 letters, this book provides access to the voice of Robert Sobukwe via the single most poignant resource of Sobukwe’s voice that exists: his prison letters $35.00 • 360 Pages • Paper • 978-1-7761-4240-8 Published by Wits University Press

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LEGAL FEMINISM Activism, Lawyering, and Legal Theory ANN SCALES

In this important book, Ann Scales, a founding contributor to the movement, reflects on the past, present, and future of feminist jurisprudence $50.00 • 217 Pages Cloth • 978-0-8147-9845-4

APARTHEID AND THE MAKING OF A BLACK PSYCHOLOGIST A Memoir N. CHABANI MANGANYI

This intriguing memoir details in a quiet and restrained manner with what it meant to be a committed black intellectual activist during the apartheid years and beyond $30.00 • 228 Pages • Paper • 978-1-8681-4862-2 Published by Wits University Press

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TIN BUCKET DRUM NEIL COPPEN

Through a lyrical script and the creative use of lighting and sound, one woman, the Narrator, succeeds in evoking a host of characters as this allegorical tale of oppression and liberation plays itself out $20.00 • 80 pages Paper • 978-1-8681-4972-8

MOOI STREET AND OTHER MOVES PAUL SLABOLEPSZY

A collection of six plays by South Africa’s leading playwright and actor featuring works written between 1984 and 1993

$20.00 • 338 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4159-3

SUDDENLY THE STORM

THE BRAM FISCHER WALTZ

PAUL SLABOLEPSZY

HARRY KALMER

A smouldering dark comedy that suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination

Although widely known as the Afrikaner communist who saved Nelson Mandela from the gallows, very little is known about Bram Fischer the man

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ULWEMBU

MISSING

Empatheatre and The Big Brotherhood

JOHN KANI

NEIL COPPEN, MPUME MTHOMBENI, DYLAN MCGARRY, and THE BIG BROTHERHOOD

Danger stalks the township of KwaMashu, near Durban $20.00 • 106 Pages Paper • 978-1-7761-4195-1

Missing is the story of Robert Khalipa, an ANC cadre living in exile, who is very senior in the organisation but is left out of the negotiations and almost forgotten in Sweden $20.00 • 80 pages Paper • 978-1-8681-4889-9

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