Literature & Literary Studies 2021

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HIGHLIGHTS BECOMING HUMAN

HONEY ON THE PAGE

Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature

ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON

Edited by MIRIAM UDEL Foreword by JACK ZIPES

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

An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrations

$30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 9781479830374 In Sexual Cultures

$29.95 • 352 Pages Cloth • 9781479874132

HAITI’S PAPER WAR

COMICS AND STUFF

Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 CHELSEA STIEBER

Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation $30.00 • 380 pages Paper • 9781479802159 In America and the Long 19th Century

THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT Cultural Memory and the Korean War DANIEL Y. KIM

Enables a reckoning with the legacy of The Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory $29.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 9781479805365

THE SMELL OF RISK Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

HENRY JENKINS

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now $32.00 • 352 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0093-3

LITERARY BIOETHICS Animality, Disability, and the Human MAREN TOVA LINETT

Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 9781479801251 In Crip Instructor’s Guide Available

REALIST ECSTASY Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature

HSUAN L. HSU

LINDSAY V. RECKSON

A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality

Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment

$30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 9781479810093

$29.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5036-5 In Performance and American Cultures

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POSTMILENNIAL POP SERIES

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

2020 World Fantasy Awards | Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, FIYACON

THE DARK FANTASTIC Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS

Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head

Reveals the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination

$29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 9781479889587 In Postmillennial Pop

$16.95 • 240 Pages Paper • 9781479806072 In Postmillennial Pop

STORIES OF THE SELF

VIDEO GAMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUEER

REBECCA WANZO

Life Writing after the Book ANNA POLETTI

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics

$29.00 • 248 Pages Paper • 9781479836666 In Postmillennial Pop

BONNIE RUBERG

Argues for the queer potential of video games $30.00 • 288 pages Paper • 9781479843749 In Postmillennial Pop

KEYWORDS SERIES AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES, third edition

Edited by BRUCE BURGETT and GLENN HENDLER

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated edition $28.00 • 360 Pages • Paper • 9781479822942 In Keywords FORTHCOMING

KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES

Edited by RAMZI FAWAZ, DEBORAH WHALEY and SHELLEY STREEBY

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies $28.00 • 288 Pages • Paper • 9781479831968 In Keywords

KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, second edition

Edited by PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL, and NINA CHRISTENSEN

Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children’s Literature in an updated edition $28.00 • 272 Pages • Paper • 9781479899678 In Keywords

ABOUT THE SERIES 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.

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A V I D LY R E A D S FORTHCOMING

AVIDLY READS PASSAGES

FORTHCOMING

AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES

MICHELLE D. COMMANDER

ARIELLE ZIBRAK

“What is the value of Black life in America?”

“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.”

$14.95 • 168 Pages Paper • 9781479806171

$14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 9781479807093

AVIDLY READS MAKING OUT

AVIDLY READS BOARD GAMES

KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON

ERIC THURM

“Here’s the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all.”

“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”

$14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 9781479843275

Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part personal reflection, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life.

$14.95 • 144 Pages Paper • 9781479826957

AVIDLY READS THEORY JORDAN ALEXANDER STEIN

“Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous.” $14.95 • 152 Pages Paper • 9781479801008

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L AT I N X S T U D I E S Honorable Mention, 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research

RICANNESS

RACIAL IMMANENCE

Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance

Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation

SANDRA RUIZ

MARISSA K. LÓPEZ

Argues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism

Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art

$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 9781479825684

$28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 9781479813902

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, International Society for the Study of Narrative

RUNAWAY GENRES The Global Afterlives of Slavery YOGITA GOYAL

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre $30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 9781479832712

FORTHCOMING

THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR Black Women and the Culture of US Empire ERICA R. EDWARDS

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power $30.00 • 416 Pages Paper • 9781479808434

2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion | 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine

LANGSTON’S SALVATION

American Religion and the Bard of Harlem

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WALLACE D. BEST

A new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston Hughes $22.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 9781479847396

LITERARY HISTORY 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics | Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize, AAJR

Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience|2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award

GOLEM

A RICH BREW

Modern Wars and Their Monsters

How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture SHACHAR M. PINSKER

MAYA BARZILAI

A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes $25.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 9781479848454

A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture $22.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 9781479874385

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 • 9781479895274

POSTCARDS FROM AUSCHWITZ Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance DANIEL P. REYNOLDS

The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials $25.00 • 336 pages Paper • 9781479806034

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MEDIA STUDIES DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS African American Cybercultures

RACE AND MEDIA Critical Approaches Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ

An explanation of the digital practices of the Black Internet

A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

$29.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 9781479829965 In Critical Cultural Communication

$30.00 • 344 pages Paper • 9781479889310 In Critical Cultural Communication

GAMER TROUBLE

POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CIVIC IMAGINATION

ANDRÉ BROCK, JR.

Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture AMANDA PHILLIPS

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games

$29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 9781479834921

Case Studies of Creative Social Change Edited by HENRY JENKINS, GABRIEL PETERS-LAZARO and SANGITA SHRESTHOVA

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change $32.00 • 400 Pages • Paper • 9781479869503

A Biography

HORRIBLE WHITE PEOPLE

JEAN BURGESS and NANCY K. BAYM

Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness

The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture

TAYLOR NYGAARD and JORIE LAGERWEY

TWITTER

$18.95 • 144 Pages Cloth • 9781479811069

Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 9781479805358 Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, Locus Science Fiction Foundation

LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?

OLD FUTURES

NYU Press is pleased to offer complimentary desk and exam copies to qualified educators.

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

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Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility ALEXIS LOTHIAN

$30.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 9781479825851 In Postmillennial Pop

S E X U A L C U LT U R E S TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo $26.95 • 216 Pages Cloth • 9781479851553 In Sexual Cultures

THE SEX OBSESSION Perversity and Possibility in American Politics JANET R. JAKOBSEN

Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power $30.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 9781479846085 In Sexual Cultures

2020 Latino Book Awards, LGBTQ+ Section| Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

FROTTAGE Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora KEGURO MACHARIA

A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic $27.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 9781479865017 In Sexual Cultures

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 • 9781479820832 In Sexual Cultures

Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

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

QUEER TIMES, BLACK FUTURES KARA KEELING

Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts

A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time

$35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 9781479840861 In Sexual Cultures

$30.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 9780814748336 In Sexual Cultures

TIMES SQUARE RED, TIMES SQUARE BLUE 20 th anniversary edition

CRUISING UTOPIA, 10 th anniversary edition

SAMUEL R. DELANY

The Then and There of Queer Futurity

Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City

JOSÉ ESTEBAN MUÑOZ, Foreword by JOSHUA CHAMBERSLETSON, TAVIA NYONG’O, and ANN PELLEGRINI

$25.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 9781479827770 In Sexual Cultures

A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars $25.00 • 280 pages • Paper • 9781479874569 In Sexual Cultures

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L I B R A RY O F A R A B I C L I T E R AT U R E Longlist, 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Translation

IMPOSTURES

ARABIAN ROMANTIC

Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways

ʿABDALLĀH IBN SBAYYIL Translated by MARCEL KURPERSHOEK Foreword by ANNMARIE DRURY

AL-ḤARĪRĪ Translated by MICHAEL COOPERSON

$29.95 • 542 Pages Cloth • 9781479800841

Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century $15.00 • 328 Pages Paper • 9781479804405

IN DARFUR

An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

MUḤAMMAD AL-TŪNISĪ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES Foreword by KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Introduction by R.S. O’FAHEY

A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an African kingdom

A HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS Translated by BRUCE FUDGE

Foreword by ROBERT IRWIN A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder $15.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 9781479873234

$15.00 • 430 Pages Paper • 9781479804443 Longlist, 2019 National Translation Award for Poetry, American Literary Translators Association

WAR SONGS

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

Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior $14.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 9781479858798

A PHYSICIAN ON THE NILE A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years

ʿABD AL-LAṬĪF AL-BAGHDĀDĪ Edited and translated by TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH

Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt $30.00 • 350 Pages Cloth • 9781479806249

THE BOOK OF TRAVELS ḤANNĀ DIYĀB Edited by JOHANNES STEPHAN Translated by ELIAS MUHANNA Foreword by YASMINE SEALE

Afterword by PAULO LEMOS HORTA The adventures of the man who created Aladdin Vol 1 • $30.00 • 300 Pages Cloth • 9781479892303 Vol 2 • $30.00 • 300 Pages Cloth • 9781479806300 2-Volume Set • $50.00 • 9781479810949

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. Books in the series are edited and translated by internationally recognized scholars.

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THE GIRL FROM DREAM CITY A Literary Life LINDA LEITH

Vivid stories from a Canadian literary icon, who shares a life spread across continents and immersed in books $18.95 • 304 Pages Paper • 9780889777859 In The Regina Collection Published by University of Regina Press

UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS WHITE COAL CITY A Memoir of Place and Family ROBERT BOSCHMAN

A moving, unflinching exploration of life in Prince Albert, SK, as told through one family’s multigenerational story $18.95 • 320 pages Paper • 9780889777965 Published by University of Regina Press

RED OBSIDIAN

GATHER

New and Selected Poems

Richard Van Camp on Storytelling

STEPHAN TORRE

A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephen Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands $16.95 • 120 Pages Paper • 9780889777750 In Oskana Poetry & Poetics Published by University of Regina Press

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SURFACING On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa Edited by DESIREE LEWIS and GABEBA BADEROON

An anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing influential to today’s scholars and radical thinkers $35.00 • 328 Pages Paper • 9781776146093 Published by Wits University Press

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RICHARD VAN CAMP

Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp on how to tell a good story $17.95 • 162 Pages Paper • 9780889777002 In Writers on Writing Published by University of Regina Press

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS AND WROTE MY STORY ANYWAY Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism BARBARA BOSWELL

Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent Black female writers $30.00 • 264 Pages Paper • 9781776146185 Published by Wits University Press

NEW VILLAGE PRESS MY LIFE IN 100 OBJECTS MARGARET RANDALL

Traces the remarkable life of a feminist poet through the items and images that have have defined her experiences $24.00 • 250 pages Paper • 9781613321140 Includes 100 color images Published by New Village Press

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