Syracuse University Press Fall and Winter 2013 Catalog

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Syracuse University Press FALL 2013

“She possessed a strong sense of fairness and believed it immoral for large corporations to profit at the expense of average Americans, so she set about educating the public about economics and money.”

—From Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist

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Welcome to the Syracuse University Press fall 2013 catalog. It is my privilege and pleasure to introduce our “director’s choice” program, an opportunity to highlight a book from our seasonal list that deserves special attention. As a New York City native myself with an academic background in accounting, my selection wasn’t difficult: Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist, by Tracy Lucht, profiles the award-winning financial reporter who over the course of a remarkable 60-year career dispensed pragmatic financial advice to more than 40 million readers weekly, her syndicated column running in 350 newspapers nationwide at its peak. Lucht traces the shrewd career choices that allowed Porter to break through the “old boy’s club” chauvinism of Wall Street and Madison Avenue in the 1940s and 1950s to become the most trusted name in financial matters among the American middle class.

During a time of massive economic and social change, Porter educated the general public about personal finance, distilling complicated economic concepts into clear, sharp guidance. She would ultimately counsel half a dozen Secretaries of the Treasury and three U.S. presidents, influencing the crafting of key revenue legislation and championing consumer advocacy and protection. Her career remains relevant today for myriad reasons, not least because—long before Oprah Winfrey or Martha Stewart—she readily embraced emerging technologies and multimedia opportunities to reach her audience and strengthen her brand. Sylvia Porter understood the power of a strong narrative, and on her way to establishing the new field of personal finance journalism, created a mythological, larger-than-life persona trusted by millions of Americans. I’m confident you’ll enjoy Lucht’s timely professional biography of Porter, which brings to life an intriguing, pioneering woman who built an unassailable empire in a tradition-bound, male-dominated industry.

Syracuse University Press is a not-for-profit publisher, relying largely on outside funding to publish special-interest books of regional, academic, and cultural importance like this one. For more information about supporting the director’s choice title or other books on our list, please contact me at arpfeiff@syr.edu.

We hope you’ll enjoy our fall offerings.

—Alice Randel Pfeiffer, Director

BIOGRAPHY

Sylvia Porter

America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist Tracy Lucht Cloth $24.95 978-0-8156-1029-8

ebook 978-0-8156-5249-6

6 x 9, 248 pages, 7 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index November 2013

“With everyone mad about Mad Men, this book shows how Porter successfully played the gender game in the 1950s, when bright young women were expected to be secretaries or helpers to the men in the publishing world.”

—Carol Kolmerten, Hood College

“In Sylvia Porter, Tracy Lucht tells the compelling story of pioneering journalist Sylvia Porter and describes how she navigated a male-dominated field to become a leader in business journalism.

An excellent account—meticulously researched and comprehensive.”

—Marilyn Greenwald, author of A Woman of the Times: Journalism, Feminism and the Career of Charlotte Curtis

—Jane Marcellus, author of Business Girls and Two-Job Wives

Tracy Lucht is assistant professor of journalism in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University.

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“Setting out in the 1930s, Sylvia Porter did the unthinkable: she invented a new career—personal finance journalism. Once a household name, Porter has been forgotten. Now, Tracy Lucht reintroduces her, showing us all how one woman negotiated power between the waves of the women’s movement.”

In 1942, the directors of the New York Stock Exchange met to discuss a problem. The exchange—its air charged with testosterone, its floor scuffed by the frantic paces of men racing one another for shares of the American dream—was off-limits to women. This, it was agreed, was how it should be. However, it had recently become public knowledge that one of New York’s most prolific and respected financial writers, S. F. Porter, was a woman. If Porter trained her eye on the all-male stock exchange, the NYSE might find itself the subject of some unwanted controversy during the electrified “Rosie the Riveter” days of World War II. But should women really be allowed into the stock exchange? The board finally saw its way around the dilemma and voted on a resolution: “Sylvia is one of the boys. We hereby award her honorary pants.”

Sylvia Porter (1913–1991) was the nation’s first personal finance columnist and one of the most admired women of the twentieth century. In Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist, Lucht traces Porter’s professional trajectory, identifying her career strategies and exploring the role of gender in her creation of a once-unique, now-ubiquitous form of journalism. A pioneer for both male and female journalists, Porter established a genre of newspaper writing that would last into the twentyfirst century while carving a space for women in what had been an almost exclusively male field. She began as an oddity—a woman writing about finance during the Great Depression—and rose to become a nationally recognized expert, revered by middle-class readers and consulted by presidents. As the first biography of Sylvia Porter, this book makes an important contribution to the history of women and the media.

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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES | BIOGRAPHY

Improbable Women Five Who Explored the Middle East William Woods Cotterman Cloth $29.95 978-0-8156-1023-6

ebook 978-0-8156-5231-1

6 x 9, 312 pages, 6 black-and-white photographs, 3 maps, notes, bibliography, index Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East October 2013

“Interesting and highly entertaining. . . . It reaches back to these remarkable women and their exploits at a time when ladies did not travel so far and wide.”

—Laila Noman, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Zenobia was the third-century Syrian queen who rebelled against Roman rule. Before Emperor Aurelian prevailed against her forces, she had seized almost one-third of the Roman Empire. Today, her legend attracts thousands of visitors to her capital, Palmyra, one of the great ruined cities of the ancient world.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the time of Ottoman rule, travel to the Middle East was almost impossible for Westerners.

That did not stop five daring women from abandoning their conventional lives and venturing into the heart of this inhospitable region. Improbable Women explores the lives of Hester Stanhope, Jane Digby, Isabel Burton, Gertrude Bell, and Freya Stark, narrating the story of each woman’s pilgrimage to Palmyra to pay homage to the warrior queen. Although the women lived in different time periods, ranging from the eighteenth century to the mid–twentieth century, they all came from middle to upper-class British backgrounds and overcame great societal pressures to pursue their independence.

Cotterman situates their lives against a backdrop of the Middle Eastern history that was the setting for their adventures. Divided into six sections, one devoted to Zenobia and one focused on each of the five women, Improbable Women is a fascinating glimpse into the experiences and characters of these intelligent, open-minded, and free-spirited explorers.

William Woods Cotterman is professor and Chair Emeritus of computer information systems at Georgia State University. He has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East.

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POETRY

Poets Translate Poets A Hudson Review Anthology Edited by Paula Deitz With an Introduction by Mark Jarman Cloth $39.95 978-0-8156-1027-4

ebook 978-0-8156-5247-2

6 x 9, 448 pages, notes on poets and translators, index September 2013

“This gathering of translations from the pages of the Hudson Review is a testament to a far-reaching editorial vision that for more than sixty years has brought so much of the rest of the world to American readers and writers.”

—Geoffrey Brock, author of Weighing Light

—Brian M. Reed, author of Hart Crane: After His Lights

Paula Deitz is the editor of the Hudson Review and a cultural critic who writes about art, architecture, and landscape design for newspapers here and abroad. She is the author of the book Of Gardens: Selected Essays. Mark Jarman is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt and an advisory editor of the Hudson Review.

B OO K S F O R TH E T RAD E

“A monument to the good taste, longevity, and value of the Hudson Review. . . .

There are poems and plays here that will positively delight readers, inform them, and make them think about what it means to try to do justice to a work of genius in another language.”

Poets Translate Poets originates from the perception that while the poetry translated in the Hudson Review over the years—from ancient Greek to contemporary Russian—constitutes a history of world literature, the translators themselves are among the most distinguished American and British poets. These poems belong as much to them as to the original authors.

The collection features eighty-three poems in twenty-four languages, translated by sixty writers; it represents the best of more than five hundred translated works originally published in the Hudson Review over the last seven decades. The value of this anthology lies in the artistry of its translators, including William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore, combined with the range of its originals, from classical epics to Old French, Middle English, and medieval Japanese, to lesser-known twentieth-century works

by Bulgarian and Swedish poets. Among its translations are Ezra Pound’s remarkable re-creation of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Richard Wilbur’s transformation of Pierre Corneille’s alexandrines into English heroic couplets in Le Cid. Beyond the pleasures it provides as a collection of world poetry translated for an English reader, Poets Translate Poets offers a privileged exploration of the craft of translating poetry. The collection includes an introduction by poet Mark Jarman providing a history of the Hudson Review and its translated literature. The book is organized chronologically by language, and also features an index of the translators, adding another lens for appreciating the collected works. The range and depth of poems found here showcase a singular editorial vision from one of America’s oldest and most revered independent literary quarterlies.

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PHOTOGRAPHY | SOCIOLOGY

The Photographed Cat Picturing Close Human-Feline Ties, 1900–1940 Arnold Arluke and Lauren Rolfe Cloth $29.95 978-0-8156-1026-7

ebook 978-0-8156-5246-5

8 /2 x 11, 160 pages, 130 duotone illustrations, notes, bibliography, index 1

September 2013

“Their treatment of this visual ephemera generates rich insights about our attitudes toward cats, as friends, diversions, mascots, commensals, and symbols of our own identity, and helps to place cats at the heart of modern social life.”

—Bernard Unti, author of Protecting All Animals

“In The Photographed Cat, Arluke and Rolfe brilliantly use photography to explore the multifaceted relationships we have with our feline companions. . . .The result is a treat for head and heart that will appeal to pet lovers and scholars alike.”

—Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

With more than 130 illustrations, The Photographed Cat: Picturing Close Human-Feline Ties, 1900–1940 is both an archive and an analytical exploration of the close relationships between Americans and their cats during a period that is significant for photography and for modern understandings of animals as pets. This volume examines the cultural implications of feline companions while also celebrating the intimacy and joys of pets and family photographs.

In seven thematic sections, Arluke and Rolfe engage with the collection of antique images as representations of real relationships and of ideal relationships, noting the cultural trends and tropes that occur throughout this increasingly popular practice. Whether as surrogate children, mascots, or companions to women, cats are part of modern American life and visual culture.

Entertaining, smart, and filled with a collector’s trove of wonderful images, The Photographed Cat pays homage to the surprising range of relationships we have with cats and offers thoughtful consideration of the ways in which we represent them.

Arnold Arluke is professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University and senior scholar at Tufts University Center for Animals and Public Policy. He is the author of numerous books on animal-human interactions. His most recent book is Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905–1935, coauthored with Robert Bogdan.

Lauren Rolfe is a collector of early twentieth-century animal photographs.

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REGIONAL | TRAVEL GUIDE

Unknown Museums of Upstate New York A Guide to 50 Treasures Chuck D’Imperio Paper $27.95 978-0-8156-1028-1

ebook 978-0-8156-5248-9

6 x 9, 320 pages, 51 black-and-white illustrations, 1 map, index August 2013

“Chuck D’Imperio has traveled the rural byways of the upstate region and explored many of its museums to find the best and most interesting collections for travelers and history enthusiasts.”

—Garet D. Livermore, Vice President for Education, New York State Historical Association and The Farmers’ Museum

“Chuck D’Imperio knows where in upstate New York to look for the most interesting stuff. Without a doubt, his enthusiasm will spark many a road trip to these lesser-known places.”

—Janet Mendelsohn, author of Maine’s Museums: Art, Oddities and Artifacts

—Senator Betty Little, Chair of Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation Committee

Chuck D’Imperio is a well-known radio personality from Upstate New York and the author of several books that explore the hidden facets of his home region, including the recent Monumental New York! A Guide to 30 Iconic Memorials in Upstate New York.

B OO K S F O R TH E T RAD E

“Whether well-known or unfamiliar, every museum in the state tells us something about who we are and what we’re about as New Yorkers. I love this book because it informs us in a very personal way of the importance of all museums.”

Ask Gary Moeller about an unusual display at the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa and he will excitedly direct you to the privy exhibit of old bottles found in outhouses. More interested in cobblestones? There’s a museum for that. Cheese? Jell-O? Classic cars? These are covered as well in sometimes eccentric and always fascinating museums located throughout the state.

Unknown Museums of Upstate New York is an informative and entertaining guide to the rich resources available at fifty small, often overlooked, regional museums. Even those familiar with the upstate area will likely have never visited and perhaps never heard of some of the treasures this guide unearths, such as the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, the Kazoo Museum, and the Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage and Museum. D’Imperio tells each museum’s story, in light of its cultural and historical relevance, and he provides a wealth of information about the museums as places of interest to visit, not just to read about. In addition to information on ticket prices, hours of operation, and travel directions, Unknown Museums of Upstate New York highlights key information about the collections and offers suggestions for how visitors can make the most of their visit, listing nearby and related venues of interest to the regional explorer. Each of these museums deserves a visit, but you won’t find any of them in New York City. They’re some of the gems of Upstate New York, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find them without this guide.

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Also available . . .

Also available . . .

Yom Kippur in Amsterdam

Waiting for America A Story of Emigration Maxim D. Shrayer

Stories

Cloth $22.95 978-0-8156-0893-6 Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-0997-1

Maxim D. Shrayer Cloth $24.95 978-0-8156-0918-6 Paper $15.95 978-0-8156-0998-8

“This intricate, thoughtful collection explores the inexorable complexities of relationships and religion. . . . Shrayer’s eight delicate stories trace his characters’ diverse struggles against the limits of tradition and culture.”

—Booklist

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“The glory of this book lies in Shrayer’s sinuous, neo-Proustian prose, beautifully fluid and perceptive with its luminous shocks of recognition, landscapes, descriptions and asides. It illuminates its quarries, circles and pounces upon them in sumptuous ease. Tales and teller mesmerize and delight.”

—The Providence Journal

MEMOIR

Leaving Russia A Jewish Story Maxim D. Shrayer Cloth $29.95 978-0-8156-1024-3

ebook 978-0-8156-5243-4

6 x 9, 360 pages, 43 black-and-white illustrations, 1 map, index Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature November 2013

“Leaving Russia adds color to the black and white world forced on Jews in the old Soviet Union. In this book, Shrayer describes an emotional journey—not just from Russia to America, but from spiritual darkness into light. The book also explains why Jews felt forced to leave a country they loved, when it grew clear that country would never, could never, love them in return.”

—Wyatt Andrews, CBS News National Correspondent

“An exquisite memoir. . . . An unforgettable first-person account of Jewish life and Jewish suffering during the final years of Russian Communism.”

—Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews

Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy’s confessional trilogy and Nabokov’s autobiography, this is a searing account of the KGB’s persecution of refuseniks, a poet’s rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer’s remembrances are set against a rich backdrop of politics and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire’s collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence. Leaving Russia is a love story in which a young Jew’s love is unrequited and his heart is forever broken by his homeland.

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Born in Moscow in 1967, Maxim D. Shrayer is a professor at Boston College and a bilingual writer and translator. Shrayer has authored ten books, among them the memoir Waiting for America, the collection Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, and the Holocaust study I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah. Shrayer’s Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature won a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and in 2012 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Visit www.shrayer.com.

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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

LITERATURE

Journal of Turkish Literature

Stone Canoe

Volumes 8 and 9

A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, Number 7

Edited by Talat Halman

Edited by Robert M. Colley Volume 8: Paper $25.00s 978-975-6090-73-2 Volume 9: Paper $25.00s 978-975-6090-80-0

Paper $20.00 978-0-9836-1726-6

81/2 x 11, 160 pages

7 x 10, 292 pages

Distributed for the Center for Turkish Literature, Bilkent University

Distributed for University College of Syracuse University

The Journal of Turkish Literature is published annually by Bilkent University’s Center for Turkish Literature. It is the only Englishlanguage scholarly journal devoted in its entirety to Turkish literature. In the eighth issue, topics range from epics about early Anatolian frontier culture to Murathan Mungan’s fiction. Ahmet Tunc Sen discusses dream narratives in Ottoman Turkish literature, and Kim Fortuny looks at the interrogation of nature and culture in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s “Poetics of Loss.”

The ninth issue includes an article by Bill Hickman on the fourteenth-century Divan poet S˛eyyad Hamza, an essay by Burcu Karahan on female sexuality in Tanzimat-Mes˛ rutiyet fiction, and a book review by Clifford Endres.

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Winner of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal in the Anthology category “A constant force for good on the American literary landscape.”

—George Saunders, author of In Persuasion Nation

The seventh edition of Stone Canoe showcases the work of more than 68 diverse artists and writers, ranging from those with international reputations to emerging talents. The annual juried publication provides a splendid forum for highlighting the cultural and intellectual richness of life in the region.

Contributors include: Cornelius Eady, Shari Mendelson, Georgia A. Popoff, Hedi Schwöbel Robert Colley is associate dean and director of marketing and research at University College of Syracuse University.

JEWISH STUDIES

American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion A Study in Jewish Political Culture Henry L. Feingold Cloth $39.95 978-0-8156-1025-0

ebook 978-0-8156-5244-1

6 x 9, 384 pages, notes, bibliography, index Series: Modern Jewish History December 2013

—Marc Dollinger, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility, San Francisco State University

Henry L. Feingold is Professor Emeritus of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Baruch College. He is the author of several books, including The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust and Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust.

B OO K S F O R TH E T RAD E

“Feingold approaches his study of American Jewish political culture with originality, an innovative interdisciplinary perspective, and a novel thesis that challenges so much of the historiography. Casting a wide net from the European antecedents of American political culture to a sweep of over 350 years of American Jewish political history, this book brings needed attention to questions of Jewish diaspora life, the influence of Zionism, and the impact of the Holocaust on the ways American Jews have come to understand liberalism.

Organized by theme as much as chronology, Feingold presents a provocative thought piece for our consideration.”

The sustained loyalty of the Jewish electorate to the Democratic party while other ethnic voters cast their ballots elsewhere has long puzzled political pundits and chagrined Republican stalwarts. Yet efforts to turn the Jewish vote have thus far failed. The majority of Jewish voters continue to pull down the democratic voting lever as if guided by some divine force. No Republican presidential candidate has won the Jewish vote since the election of Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.

Since the heady years of the New Deal, Jewish liberalism has found shelter under the left wing of that party and Jewish voters have become some of the most politically engaged citizens of the Republic. American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion searches for the source of such political engagement, exploring the constantly adapting liberalism at the heart of American Jewish political behavior. Drawing on sociology and philosophy to inform his historical synthesis of a centuries-long, transcontinental pattern, Feingold eschews voting statistics and political theory. Instead, he tells the story of three overarching concerns that weave throughout the political priorities of contemporary American Jews: an everchanging definition of liberalism; the hope and turmoil of Israel; and the obsession with the Holocaust. The resulting tapestry demonstrates a culture of great complexity and a political voice that often lacks coherence despite these consistent threads.

American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion begins with the historical background of American Jewish politics before delving into old roots and then moving onto a thematic understanding of American Jewry’s political psyche. This exhaustive work answers the grand question of where American Jewish liberalism comes from and ultimately questions whether the communal motivations behind such behavior are strong enough to withstand twenty-first-century America.

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IRISH STUDIES

IRISH STUDIES | POETRY

Savage Solitude

Mysteries of the Home

Reflections of a Reluctant Loner

Paula Meehan

Máighréad Medbh Paper $19.95 978-1-906614-63-8 51/2 x 81/2, 280 pages Distributed for Dedalus Press

Savage Solitude takes the reader on a journey through the immediate experience of being alone. It is intimate, empathetic, dramatic, not so much a study as an immersion, a living experience in text. Through quotations from a wide range of poets, philosophers, and writers, the aphoristic conversation of the book moves forward in a kind of rolling wave that is both story and analysis, all the while pushing toward an answer to the question, more pressing perhaps in our high-tech world than ever before, of how to be alone.

Paper $14.95 978-1-906614-70-6 51/2 x 81/2, 92 pages Distributed for Dedalus Press

Mysteries of the Home gathers into a single volume a selection of poems from Meehan’s two seminal midcareer collections, The Man Who Was Marked by Winter and Pillow Talk, both of which won considerable praise from critics and readers. Included are some of her best-known and best-loved poems.

Groundswell New and Selected Poems Patrick Deeley Paper $19.99 978-1-906614-73-7 51/2 x 81/2, 210 pages Distributed for Dedalus Press

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Deeley’s earthy poems have a muscular tension and passion that gives his work a bracing and energizing quality. This volume draws on his five earlier collections and includes a large number of new and unpublished poems.

IRISH STUDIES

The Next Life Pat Boran Paper $14.95 978-1-906614-55-3 51/2 x 81/2, 92 pages Distributed for Dedalus Press

IRISH STUDIES

Stones and Stars Paul Murray Paper $15.99 978-1-906614-71-3 51/2 x 81/2, 150 pages Distributed for Dedalus Press

Murray’s poetry is celebrated for its precision and economy, its concentrated focus always well suited for the task at hand. In Stones and Stars, Murray’s is a mystical journey, informed by the vocabulary and symbols of the spiritual quest. He actively engages the readers in dialogue, drawing us into an exploration of memory and desire, of dreams, darkness, and rebirth.

B OO K S F O R TH E T RAD E

Following his widely acclaimed prose memoir The Invisible Prison, and New and Selected Poems, The Next Life is Boran’s first full-length collection of poems in over a decade. He explores questions of love, belonging, and connection in poems that, more than ever, are influenced by music and song, aware that the instinct to sing and praise has seldom been more relevant or crucial. Despite echoing the promise of religious belief, The Next Life of the title is entirely to be found in the here-and-now and the near-to-hand.

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Psychotic Episodes

Ripple Effect

Alan McMonagle

Terry McDonagh

Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-053-0

Paper $19.95 978-1-85132-062-2

51/2 x 81/2, 192 pages

51/2 x 81/2, 64 pages

Distributed for Arlen House

Distributed for Arlen House

A troubled boy convinces himself he can fly. An old crone decides to turn herself into a man. Two adolescents make an unusual list of ideal women. A childless couple is given their little nephew for the day. The characters in these humorously anxious stories are separate, apart from the mainstream, with a slow awareness that they may not be able to control the confusing landscapes they inhabit. Skewed comedy, absurd perspectives, and stretched realities abound as members of this misplaced assortment grapple for their place in the scheme of things.

In this new collection of poetry, McDonagh is back shaping his real and imagined journeys in rural Ireland, Germany, Australia, and Britain. Always the artful storyteller, his language continues to bounce randomly like the memory of flat stones he used to cast out on the river. The streets and people revealed here are his true dislocated home; his lyrical moments lie about like spiritual observations.

Hugging Thistles

Jim Chapson

Aideen Henry Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-047-9 51/2 x 81/2, 176 pages Distributed for Arlen House

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The stories in Hugging Thistles deal with the interior worlds of intense, multilayered characters. They struggle with matters that are often unspeakable, and how the powerful paradoxical emotions that emerge often control their lives. Hugging Thistles marks Henry’s stunning short fiction debut.

Plotinus Blushed Cloth $29.95 978-85132-049-3 51/2 x 81/2, 64 pages Distributed for Arlen House

Recently appointed as Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Chapson reveals himself to be a deeply cultured sensualist who communes effortlessly between a pan-Hellenic past and a more offbeat latterday Milwaukee. Attuned to the ancient, but alert to the present, he, like Cavafy, is a poet of time and desire. This is a limited edition numbered and signed collection of poetry.

On American Literature and Diasporas

Telling It Our Way

James Liddy

Mary Cullen

Essays in Gender History

Edited by Eamonn Wall Paper $34.95 978-0-905223-87-2 Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-044-8

51/2 x 81/2, 448 pages

51/2 x 81/2, 176 pages

Distributed for Arlen House

Distributed for Arlen House

This first volume of Liddy’s sparkling essays provides unique insights into the work of American and Irish writers. It includes first-hand accounts of meeting many of the canonical figures of American poetry. This is a book of literary-academic and bohemian witness written in an engaging, brilliant, and unique voice.

A collection of pioneering essays by one of the leading scholars of Irish women’s history, this is a companion to Margaret Mac Curtain’s Ariadne’s Thread: Writing Women into Irish History.

Among the essays are studies on women’s historical identity, political thought and participation in politics, women’s contribution to the household economy, and feminism and the peace process.

Aimsir Ársa

James Liddy

Edited by Ian Joyce

Edited by Eamonn Wall

Cathal Ó Searcaigh

Paper $19.95 978-1-85132-066-0

Paper $22.95 978-1-85132-051-6

51/2 x 81/2, 128 pages

51/2 x 81/2, 192 pages

Distributed for Arlen House

Distributed for Arlen House

This second volume of Liddy’s essays is framed by an intense and enduring attachment to Dublin and love of Irish literature.

Meeting Patrick Kavanagh was the singular event that changed Liddy’s life and opened up a new world of writers, social life, and cultural exchanges.

A new collection of poetry by one of Ireland’s leading voices is a cause for celebration. In these stunning poems Ó Searcaigh demonstrates that he has his finger on the pulse of the modern Gaelic poetic consciousness.

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On Irish Literature and Identities

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Books Books onfor thethe

Scholar REGION

Top: Seneca women elders who protested the building of the Kinzua Dam, c. 1956. Photograph courtesy of Seneca-Iroquois National Museum. Bottom: Kinzua Dam and upper and lower Allegheny Reservoir, 1993. Photograph by Margaret Luzier, 1993. Photograph courtesy of United States Army Corps of Engineers.

“Laurence Hauptman has decades of experience working with Senecas, and an unparalleled knowledge of the archives of modern Seneca history. In the Shadow of Kinzua blends these in a truly compelling fashion to show us the obvious and not-so-obvious effects of the Kinzua tragedy.”

—Karim M. Tiro, author of The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

In the Shadow of Kinzua

The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II Laurence M. Hauptman Cloth $45.00s 978-0-8156-3328-0

ebook 978-0-8156-5238-0

6 x 9, 424 pages, 39 black-and-white illustrations, 6 maps, 1 chart, notes, bibliography, index Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors December 2013

Laurence M. Hauptman is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History. Hauptman is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of numerous books on the Iroquois, including Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations Since 1800, which was awarded the 2012 Herbert Lehman Book prize from the New York Academy of History.

B O OK S F O R T H E SCH OL A R

Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua of 1794, flooded approximately 10,000 acres of Seneca lands in New York and Pennsylvania, and forced the relocation of hundreds of tribal members. Hauptman presents both a policy study, namely how and why Washington, Harrisburg, and Albany came up with the idea to build the dam, as well as a community study of the Seneca Nation of Indians in the postwar era. Sold to the Senecas as a flood control project, the author persuasively argues that major reasons for the dam were the push for private hydroelectric development in Pennsylvania and state transportation and park development in New York.

This important study, based on Hauptman’s forty years of archival research as well as numerous interviews with Senecas, shows that these historically resilient Native peoples adapted in spite of this disaster. Unlike previous studies, he stresses the federated nature of Seneca Nation government, one held together in spite of the great diversity of opinion and intense politics. Indeed, in the Kinzua crisis and its aftermath, the Senecas truly had heroes and heroines who faced problems head on and devoted their energies to rebuilding their nation for tribal survival. Without adequate financial resources or college diplomas, they left legacies in many areas, including two community centers, a modern health delivery system, two libraries, and a museum. Money allocated in a “compensation bill” passed by Congress in August 1964 produced a generation of collegeeducated Senecas, some of whom now work in tribal government making major contributions to the nation’s present and future. Facing impossible odds and forces hidden from view, they motivated a cadre of volunteers to help rebuild their devastated nation. Although their strategies did not stop the dam’s construction, they laid the groundwork for a tribal governing structure and for other areas that followed from the 1980s to the present, including land claims litigation and casinos.

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PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Exploring the Power of Nonviolence Peace, Politics, and Practice

Edited by Randall Amster and Elavie Ndura Foreword by Michael N. Nagler Cloth $55.00L 978-0-8156-3340-2 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3344-0

ebook 978-0-8156-5253-3

6 x 9, 320 pages, notes, bibliography, index Series: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution October 2013

“The most vital and promising approach to peace. It should find a place on any and all lists of essential works in the field.”

—Betty A. Reardon, Founding Director Emerita, International Institute on Peace Education

“The early years of the twenty-first century have rekindled public and scholarly dialogue as to the relevance of the efficacy and power of nonviolence. This new volume, featuring a modern-day who’s who of nonviolent thinkers, brings fresh new perspectives to the urgency and practicality of alternative recourses to violent conflict.”

—Anthony Jenkins, Vice President for Academic Affairs, National Peace Academy

“I hope that these essays reach educators and activists in a wide range of disciplines. By emphasizing mutual aid and empathy as key factors of human social development, contributors to this book help equip us to nonviolently resist corporate greed and war.”

—Kathy Kelly, Co-Coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence

The new millennium finds humanity situated at critical crossroads. While there are many hopeful signs of cross-cultural engagement and democratic dialogue, it is equally the case that the challenges of warfare and injustice continue to plague nations and communities around the globe. Against this backdrop, there exists a powerful mechanism for transforming crises into opportunities: the philosophy and practice of nonviolence. The expert authors brought together in this volume collectively deploy the essential teachings of nonviolence across a spectrum of contemporary issues.

From considering the principles of the French Revolution and encouraging peace through natural resource management to exploring multiculturism and teaching peace in the elementary classroom, this work is broad in scope yet detailed in its approach to the fundamental principles of nonviolence.

16 Randall Amster is professor of peace studies at Prescott College in Arizona. Elavie Ndura is professor of education at George Mason University.

PEACE STUDIES | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

Democracy and Conflict Resolution The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking Edited by Miriam Fendius Elman, Oded Haklai, and Hendrik Spruyt Cloth $55.00L 978-0-8156-3337-2 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3338-9

ebook 978-0-8156-5251-9

6 x 9, 288 pages, 3 tables, notes, bibliography, index Series: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution December 2013

“Deals with a very charged issue using a balanced tone. . . . The book makes a valuable and important contribution to a topic usually studied with strong political zeal rather than cool academic analysis.”

—Moaz Rosenthal, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya

Miriam Fendius Elman is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. Oded Haklai is associate professor of political studies at Queen’s University. Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations and director of the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University.

B O O KS FO R T H E SC H O L AR

Studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict typically focus on how international conditions drive the likelihood of conflict resolution. By contrast, Democracy and Conflict Resolution considers the understudied impact of domestic factors. Using the contested theory of “democratic peace” as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of a variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: electoral systems; political parties; identity; leadership; and social movements. Most strikingly, Democracy and Conflict Resolution explores the possibility that features of democracy inhibit resolution to the conflict, a possibility that resonates far outside the contested region. In reflecting on how domestic political configurations matter in a practical sense, this book offers policy-relevant and timely suggestions for advancing Israel’s capacity to pursue effective peacemaking policies.

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IRISH STUDIES | DRAMA

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama Richard Rankin Russell Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3331-0

ebook 978-0-8156-5234-2

6 x 9, 328 pages, notes, bibliography, index Series: Irish Studies November 2013

“Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama is written by a scholar with keen insight into contemporary Irish and Northern Irish culture. . . . His evocative readings of such plays as Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Faith Healer, and The Freedom of the City have significantly revised my understanding of this distinguished body of drama. Simply put, it’s a terrific book.”

—Stephen Watt, author of Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing

“A deeply thoughtful, comprehensively informed study of the greatest living playwright of the English-speaking world.

From now on, anyone who wants to write about Brian Friel will need to take this book into account.”

—Terry Teachout, drama critic, the Wall Street Journal

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on rural culture and on the imagined communities he strives to create between readers and script, actors and audience. While many critics have noted in passing his affinity for local culture and community, criticism of Friel has largely failed to examine the profound implications of his varying environments—ranging from rural and urban places, to public, built spaces, to the personal spaces of the body and mind—and to integrate that interest with a comprehensive theory of his drama. Drawing on the work of thinkers such as the phenomenologist Edward Casey and the environmental and literary critic Wendell Berry, successive chapters analyze Friel’s five best-known and most critically acclaimed major plays across roughly a quarter-century—Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Faith Healer, Translations, and Dancing at Lughnasa—in the context of his place-centered drama.

Richard Rankin Russell is professor of Irish and British literature at Baylor University.

He is the editor and author of numerous books, including Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland.

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IRISH STUDIES | GENDER STUDIES

The Banshees

A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers Sally Barr Ebest Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3330-3

ebook 978-0-8156-5240-3

6 x 9, 272 pages, works cited, index Series: Irish Studies October 2013

“The Banshees is notable for its intelligent coordination of the cultural history of feminism with the literature produced by a major ethnic group—Irish-American women.”

—Charles Fanning, author of The Irish Voice in America

“Strongly contextualized, historically specific, energetic and lively, this study offers a compelling account of Irish American women writers and writing.”

—Maria Luddy, author of Women In Ireland 1800–1918: A Documentary History

—Maureen Dezell, author of Irish America: Coming Into Clover

Sally Barr Ebest is professor of English and director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She is the coeditor of Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism? Personal Reflections on Tradition and Change and Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers.

B O OK S F O R T H E SCH OL A R

“Ambitious and sweeping in scope, The Banshees covers an impressive range of journalists, novelists, memoirists, and cultural critics from the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first. Ebest considers the writers’ legacies outside the confines of the Irish American literary canon, within the contexts of American social evolution, second- and third-wave feminism, and the American Catholic Church.”

Although much has been written about American feminism and its influence on culture and society, very little has been written about the key role played

by Irish American women writers in exposing women’s issues, protecting their rights, and anticipating, if not effecting, change. Like the mythical Irish banshee who delivered messages forewarning imminent death, through their writing Irish American women have repeatedly warned of the death of women’s rights. These messages carried the greatest potency at liminal times when feminism was under attack due to the politics of society, the government, or the church.

The Banshees traces the feminist contributions of a wide range of Irish American women writers, from Mother Jones, Kate Chopin, and Margaret Mitchell to contemporary authors such as Gillian Flynn, Jennifer Egan, and Doris Kearns Goodwin. To illustrate the growth and significance of their writing, the book is organized chronologically by decade. Each chapter details the progress and setbacks of Irish American women during that period by examining key themes in their novels and memoirs contextualized within a discussion of contemporary feminism, Catholicism, Irish American history, American politics, and society. The Banshees examines these writers’ roles in protecting women’s sovereignty, rights, and reputations.

Thanks to their efforts, feminism is revealed as a fundamental element of Irish American literary history.

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IRISH STUDIES | LITERARY CRITICISM

IRISH STUDIES | FILM STUDIES

Rethinking Occupied Ireland

A Chastened Communion

Gender and Incarceration in Contemporary Irish Film

Andrew J. Auge

Jessica Scarlata Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3332-7

Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism

Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3329-7 ebook 978-0-8156-5241-0

6 x 9, 296 pages,10 black-and-white illustrations, notes, references, filmography, index

ebook 978-0-8156-5239-7

6 x 9, 272 pages, notes, bibliography, index Series: Irish Studies November 2013

Series: Irish Studies December 2013

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Imprisonment is a central trope of Irish nationalism, often deployed to portray the injustice of an Ireland occupied by foreign rule. Irish nationalism celebrates people jailed for resistance to British forces. While such a celebratory history resists colonialist images of Irish brutality, it also generates nationalist amnesia and nostalgia. Rethinking Occupied Ireland takes this history as its point of departure, arguing that the potent visual language generated to represent national heroes facilitates a narrow conceptualization of “occupation” and “resistance.” Irish cinema has long offered a double critique—against both colonialist and nationalist historiography.

The films included in this book, ranging from 1980 to 2010, explore Irish history from the perspective of those marginalized within or ejected from Irish and British national narratives, providing an ideal occasion to interrogate the legacy of colonialism and post/anti-colonial nationalism. Exploring Ireland’s past in relation to its present, these films become a mode of postcolonial historiography, and, Scarlata argues, they are an important component in the re-evaluation of what constitutes political cinema and political resistance.

Jessica Scarlata is associate professor in the English department at George Mason University in Virginia.

“The prose is refreshingly clear and often well-turned. . . . This book will be useful for scholars of Irish poetry as well as for scholars of Irish Catholicism.”

—Daniel Tobin, author of Awake in America

A Chastened Communion traces a new path through the welltraversed field of modern Irish poetry by revealing how critical engagement with Catholicism shapes the trajectory of the poetic careers of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, and Paula Meehan. Underlying their divergent poetic styles and thematic concerns, Auge discerns a common pattern. He shows how, for each of these poets, a demythologizing critique of some elemental feature of Irish Catholicism—the sacraments of confession and the Eucharist, the pilgrimages to holy wells and Lough Derg, the veneration of the Blessed Virgin, the imperative to self-sacrifice, the narrowly patriarchal nature of the institution—elicits, in turn, a radical reshaping of these traditional religious phenomena. Auge provides compelling new readings of major Irish poets and establishes a basis for distinguishing modern Irish poetry from its Anglophone counterparts.

Andrew J. Auge is professor of English at Loras College in Iowa. His articles have been published in numerous journals, including New Hibernia Review and Contemporary Literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM

The Room and the World Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn Edited by Laura McCullough Foreword by Dave Smith

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

Reading Arabia British Orientalism in the Age of Mass Publication, 1880–1930 Andrew C. Long

Cloth $45.00s 978-0-8156-3335-8

Cloth $34.95s 978-0-8156-3323-5

6 x 9, 344 pages, I b/w illustration, works cited, index

6 x 9, 264 pages, 4 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index

December 2013

Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East

Stephen Dunn is the author of sixteen books, including Different Hours, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College. Laura McCullough is a poet and writer whose books include Rigger Death and Hoist Another, Panic, and Speech Acts.

November 2013

“The typical reader is likely to gain a deeper understanding about the ways Orientalist ideas have penetrated popular culture right up to the present. . . . A very important book.”

—Eric Hooglund, editor, Middle East Critique

In Reading Arabia, Long traces the evolving tradition of British Orientalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining the role of mass print culture in the construction of the British public’s perception of “Arabia.” Long brings together close readings and ideological analyses of primary texts by Richard Burton, Charles Doughty, Robert Cunninghame Graham, Marmaduke Pickthall, and T. E. Lawrence, along with pamphlets, journalism and commentary, silent films, stage spectacles, and travel literature. Through these texts, he examines the fantasy of the Orient and its constitutive function. Building on the pioneering work of Edward Said, Reading Arabia looks beyond foreign policy debates and issues of human rights to show how British Orientalism is rooted in words and phrases of a popular culture that shaped the way the public read and imagined the Arab world.

Andrew C. Long is a visiting faculty member at the Claremont Colleges.

His articles have appeared in the Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society and Prose Studies.

B O OK S F O R T H E SCH OL A R

The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn is the first book of its kind to explore and unpack the Pulitzer winning poet’s oeuvre. Including 24 essays, a preface by poet and essayist Smith, and an introduction by McCullough, this anthology illuminates Dunn’s development as a writer, his thematic obsessions, his strategies and maneuvers on the page, and locates him in the pantheon of essential American poets.

Philosophical, funny, and founded on the juxtaposition of ideas with masterful tonal layering and texture, Dunn’s poems are considered some of the best of his generation. The contributors, including Dunn’s contemporaries and former students, poets and scholars, highlight Dunn’s meditations on freedom and constraint, sexiness and sorrow, sound and sense, and finding mystery in the dailiness of living. Fans will find this a crucial text that reveals the complexities of Dunn’s poetry and much about the man himself.

ebook 978-0-8156-5232-8

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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES | GENDER STUDIES

The Ideal Refugees Islam, Gender, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival

Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan Vanguard of a New Modernity?

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3326-6

WOMEN’S STUDIES | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

Amina Jamal ebook 978-0-8156-5236-6

6 x 9, 304 pages, 13 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, glossary, index

Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3327-3

6 x 9, 296 pages, notes, bibliography, appendix, glossary, index

Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

Series: Gender and Globalization

November 2013

November 2013

“An original and important contribution to refugee studies.”

—Christina Clark-Kazak, author of Recounting Migration

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely secular and democratic spaces, and characterized by gender equality. Drawing on extensive research with and about Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Cuba, Spain, South Africa, and Syria, FiddianQasmiyeh explores how, why, and to what effect such idealized depictions have been projected onto the international arena.

In The Ideal Refugees, the author argues that secularism and the empowerment of Sahrawi refugee women have been strategically invoked to secure the humanitarian and political support of Western state and non-state actors who ensure the continued survival of the camps and their inhabitants. This book challenges the reader to reflect critically on who benefits from assertions of good, bad, and ideal refugees, and whose interests are advanced by interwoven discourses about the empowerment of women and secularism in contexts of war and peace.

22 Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is departmental lecturer in forced migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, where she is also junior research fellow in refugee studies at Lady Margaret Hall.

ebook 978-0-8156-5237-3

“Jamal’s biggest contribution lies in her ability to challenge the popular constructions of women who occupy leadership positions in the Jamaat. . . . Rather than being rooted in the past, as is so often believed, these women . . . play a very active role in using modernity to meet their ends.”

—Sadaf Ahmad, author of Transforming Faith

This book critically examines the feminization of the Jamaat-eIslami, a major movement for Islamic renewal and reform in South Asia. Through an ethnographic and textual study of Jamaat women elected to local, provincial, and national bodies in Pakistan from 2002 to 2008, Jamal draws attention to the cultural-political forces that enabled Jamaat women to become influential within the party and in Pakistan’s major urban centers of Karachi and Lahore.

Jamal situates Jamaat women within Islamic modernism without reifying them as either pious agents reacting to stateimposed modernization or gendered citizens who use Islam for class-based instrumental ends. Jamaat women are represented as subjects who move in many directions by acting against and through the discourses of Islamic tradition, cultural modernity, and modernization.

Amina Jamal is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario.

GENDER STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES

CULTURAL STUDIES

Imagined Identities Identity Formation in the Age of Globalization

Gender, Media, and Resistance

Edited by Gönül Pultar Paper $49.95s 978-0-8156-3342-6

Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa

ebook 978-0-8156-5226-7

7 x 10, 456 pages, notes, bibliography, index December 2013

Gönül Pultar is professor emerita at Bilkent University. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including On the Road to Baghdad or Traveling Biculturalism: Theorizing a Bicultural Approach to Contemporary World Fiction.

Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3343-3

ebook 978-0-8156-5256-4

6 x 9, 288 pages, 10 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, index November 2013

“Provides a thoughtful, thorough, and truly nuanced view and analysis of the social and cultural impacts of war, social unrest, and political violence over time and across geographic spaces.”

—Jennifer Fluri, Dartmouth College

Reflecting twenty years of research and experience—after working with guerrilla fighters in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, with Iranian refugees in Istanbul, with interreligious reconciliation groups in Morocco, and with former political prisoners in South Africa—Segall offers a groundbreaking study of globalization, gender, and resistance in public spaces. With timely correctives to the media lens of the Arab and African Spring, the author views protest not just as an economic and political act but also as a potential space of healing and creativity amidst contentious and gendered territories. Analyzing blogs, graphic novels, performances, and public testimonials, this book is unique in its attention to local expressions and creative use of technology to speak of political identities. With its impressive range of generational and gendered voices, Performing Democracy suggests hybrid protests that are voicing trauma, seeking change.

Kimberly Wedeven Segall is professor of English at Seattle Pacific University and affiliate faculty of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Washington.

B O OK S F O R T H E SCH OL A R

How are identities being forged during the age of globalization? This collection of essays, by scholars from various disciplines and regions of the world, discusses both the construction and deconstruction of identity in its engagement with culture, ethnicity, and nationhood. The authors explore the tension resulting from the desire to create a new cultural space for identities that are at once national, regional, linguistic, and religious, yet also attempt to encompass a political and geographic whole within designated areas. Tanja Stampfl looks at the elusiveness of cultural identity in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner; Dawn Morais investigates issues of ethnicity and nationality in Malasia’s tourism advertising; and Cathy Waegner explores ethnic identities as globalized market commodities.

Throughout the volume, identity is approached from a variety of sites—fiction, news analysis, film, theme parks, and field work—to contribute new insight and perspective to the wellworn debate over what identity signifies in societies where the existence of minorities, both indigenous and immigrant, challenges the dominant group.

Kimberly Wedeven Segall

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SPORTS HISTORY | ETHNIC STUDIES

Sport and the Shaping of Italian American Identity

Ecumenism, Memory, and German Nationalism, 1817–1917

Gerald R. Gems

Stan M. Landry

Cloth $45.00s 978-0-8156-3341-9

ebook 978-0-8156-5254-0

Cloth $29.95s 978-0-8156-3336-5

ebook 978-0-8156-5250-2

6 x 9, 336 pages, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index

6 x 9, 192 pages, notes, bibliography, index

Series: Sports and Entertainment

Series: Religion and Politics

October 2013

November 2013

“Gems brilliantly contextualizes a still evolving ethnic identity.

Iconic Italian American sports figures elicit telling commentary, but so do representative men and women. Specialists and general readers will find the volume accessible, interesting, and significant.”

—William Simons, director, Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture

Gems traces the experience of the Italian immigrant and illustrates the ways in which sports helped Italian Americans adapt to a new culture, assert pride in an ethnic identity, and even achieve social advancement. Employing historical, sociological, and anthropological studies, Gems explores how sports were instrumental in helping notions of identity evolve from the individual to the community, from the racial to the ethnic. In doing so, Sport and the Shaping of Italian American Identity transcends the study of a particular ethnic group to speak to defining values and characteristics of the American ethos.

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RELIGION

Gerald R. Gems is professor in the Health and Physical Education Department at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He is the author of numerous books, including The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism.

“Historians of nineteenth-century German national identity tend to emphasize confessional conflict, above all between Protestants and Catholics. In this wide-ranging book, Stan Landry spotlights an important new side to the story.”

—Brian Vick, author of Defining Germany

Ecumenism, Memory, and German Nationalism, 1817–1917, explores the relationship among the German confessional divide, collective memories of religion, and the construction of German national identity and difference. Landry argues that nineteenthcentury proponents of church unity used and abused memories of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation to imagine German unity during an era in which the meaning of the German nation was still hotly contested.

Framed by the third and fourth centennials of the Reformation, this book explores a wide range of primary historical sources at key points of crisis throughout the nineteenth century. In doing so, Landry demonstrates the frequent appeals made to Germany’s famous Protestant history in an attempt to unify the country’s churches and, ultimately, the country itself. He argues that in a nation deeply split by religious difference, ecumenism was essential to the unification of the German nation as a whole.

Stan M. Landry is a lecturer in history at Arizona State University. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Church History, Journal of Religion and Society, Lutheran Quarterly, and Religious Studies Review.

RHETORIC | DISABILITY STUDIES

DISABILITY STUDIES

Disability Rhetoric

Righting Educational Wrongs

Jay Timothy Dolmage

Disability Studies in Law and Education

Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3324-2

ebook 978-0-8156-5233-5

6 x 9, 304 pages, 13 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index Series: Critical Perspectives on Disability November 2013

Edited by Arlene S. Kanter and Beth A. Ferri Cloth $45.00s 978-0-8156-3325-9

ebook 978-0-8156-5235-9

6 x 9, 400 pages, notes, bibliography, index, appendix Series: Critical Perspectives on Disability

“In lively, fresh prose and with such an accessible style, Dolmage is using disability studies and its approach to bodies/ embodiment to re/place the body in the very old field of rhetoric. Yet he is also using rhetoric, in both theory and practice, to fruitfully expand and explore all the available means of persuasion that are also possible for disability.”

—Brenda Brueggemann, author of Deaf Subjects

Jay Timothy Dolmage is associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo. He is the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

“An outstanding contribution to the literature of both disability law and disability studies, effectively making connections between the two.”

—Ruth Colker, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

Righting Educational Wrongs brings together the work of scholars from the fields of disability studies in education and law to examine contemporary struggles around inclusion and access to education. Divided into three parts, the volume explores the intersections between disability studies, law, and education in part one. Contributors in this section forge a theoretical framework for thinking about educational access. Part two takes a critical look at some of the histories of exclusion in education and ways that these exclusions have been upheld by a variety of educational policies and practices. Part three reflects on the ways that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act is experienced by students with disabilities and their families.

Arlene S. Kanter is the Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor of Law and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence. She directs the Syracuse University College of Law’s Disability Law and Policy Program and co-directs the Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies. Beth A. Ferri is associate professor in the School of Education and coordinator of the Doctoral program in Special Education at Syracuse University.

B O OK S F O R T H E SCH OL A R

Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.

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Beyond Home Plate

Radical Chapters

Edited by Michael G. Long

Michael Doyle

“Jackie Robinson was much more than a splendid athlete who made history by his glittering skills on the baseball field and his courage in breaking racial barriers there. . . . Beyond Home Plate richly documents this larger vision of one of our most revered national icons.”—Arnold Rampersad, author of Jackie Robinson

“In generous, elegant prose, Doyle traces Kepler’s life and times from World War II, as a radical pacifist, antinuclear activist during the Cold War and antiwar activist from the Vietnam War to his death in 1994.”—San Francisco Chronicle Cloth $29.95 978-0-8156-1006-9 ebook 978-0-8156-5083-6

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Allegiance and Betrayal

The Only Thing That Matters

Peter Makuck

Kim Jensen

“Makuck returns to one of the most fertile wellsprings of literature—the family. With grace and wit, he dramatizes family matters in post–World War II America, drawing attention to why families matter and what is the matter with so many of them.”

—Henry Hart, author of James Dickey

“Jensen’s deftness in creating her own ‘poetic logic’ offers many pleasing jolts of surprise in a conceptual project that is original and compelling.”—Elizabeth Robinson, author of The Orphan and Its Relations

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Over the Line David Lloyd Lloyd illustrates his pitch-perfect ear for capturing the detached vernacular and emotional angst of adolescence. Lloyd brings to life the trials of a small, upstate New York town, creating a story that is as real as it is fictional.

Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-1022-9 ebook 978-0-8156-5230-4

Allegany to Appomattox Valgene Dunham “Dunham’s ability to place Private Whitlock—and the reader—in the time and place of the Civil War . . . makes this a meaningful and memorable contribution to the historical genre of Civil War letters literature.”—Rod Gragg, author of Confederate Goliath

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Cloth $29.95 978-0-8156-1011-3 ebook 978-0-8156-5205-2

The Arab and the Brit Bill Rezak “An epic adventure of an immigrant family arriving in a strange land. . . .

A page-turning classic.”—Edward Coll, President Emeritus, Alfred University Cloth $24.95 978-0-8156-0974-2 ebook 978-0-8156-5201-4

Steel’s Dave Dyer “[An] engaging story of Buffalo-based Steel’s department store.”—Field Horne, author of The Saratoga Reader The L. R. Steel Company could have been Wal-Mart, but ended up like Enron. A fascinating tale of failure by someone who had what it takes to succeed.

Cloth $24.95 978-0-8156-1012-0 ebook 978-0-8156-5206-9

Utopian Negotiation

Carmilla

Oddvar Holmesland

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“Holmesland is a careful, thorough, and gifted reader of Cavendish and Behn; he gives enlightening readings of the broader corpus of writing by these two important women writers.”—G. Gabrielle Starr, author of Lyric Generations

Edited by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

Cloth $39.95s 978-0-8156-3312-9 ebook 978-0-8156-5208-3

“This welcome edition of Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic tale Carmilla frames the original serialized text with an admirable introduction and a series of brilliant essays.”—Joseph Valente, author of The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880–1922 Paper $19.95s 978-0-8156-3311-2 ebook 978-0-8156-5204-5

The Emperor Tea Garden

The Salmiya Collection Craig Loomis

“Ingenious episodes flow like quicksilver through the pages. Almost every page delivers a shock of reading pleasure, expertly rendered in an equally enjoyable translation.”—Azade Seyhan, author of Tales of Crossed Destinies

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Who Will Die Last

Sheva’s Promise

David Ehrlich

Sylvia Lederman

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My Friendship with Martin Buber

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Maurice Friedman

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Peanuts, Pogo, and Hobbes

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The Rotinonshonni Brian Rice “Draws both on his own extensive and deeply reflective cultural life—and also from the oral traditions of knowledgeable elders.”—Hunter Gray (Abenaki/Mohawk), University of North Dakota Cloth $34.95 978-0-8156-1021-2 ebook 978-0-8156-5227-4

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A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634–1635 Revised Edition

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