PUBLICATIONS & DISTRIBUTED TITLES Spring 2016
Arts & Culture • Humanities Poetry • Social Sciences
Welcome to the Spring 2016 Catalogue from Oxbow Books We are delighted to present to you an excellent spring collection of humanities, arts, culture and social sciences books from our distributed publishers. From music and poetry, cultures and literature, to American and Irish History, we hope there is something here that takes your interest. Don’t forget to turn to page 37 to discover our recently published highlights available now. Visit our website and subscribe to receive email alerts on new books. Our spring Archaeology and Ancient History catalogue is also available to view online along with advanced information sheets and publication schedules.
Art & Architecture .........................................................1 Textiles ................................................................................5 Music & Dance ...............................................................6 Media & Film...................................................................10 Jewish Studies & Hebrew ...................................... 12 Islam & the Middle East ......................................... 13 Spain & Hispanic Culture ...................................... 14 Irish History ................................................................... 15 American History ....................................................... 17 American Politics & Culture ................................. 19 American Landscape & Nature ..........................20 Gender Studies ........................................................... 21 Psychology, Medicine & Health .........................22 Language & Literature ............................................24 Philosophy & Religion .............................................27 Fiction ..............................................................................28 Poetry ...............................................................................29 Memoir...............................................................................36 Recent Highlights .......................................................37 Trade Ordering Information.................................... 41
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Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna By Elana Shapira • A fresh, original interpretation of Jews’ contribution to the development of Viennese modernism. In the first book to investigate the cultural contributions of the banker Eduard Todesco, the steel tycoon Karl Wittgenstein, the textile industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, and many others, Shapira reconsiders theories identifying the crisis of Jewish assimilation as a primary creative stimulus for the Jewish contribution to Viennese modernism. Instead, she argues that creative tensions between Jews and non-Jews offer more convincing explanations for the formation of a new semantics of modern Viennese architecture and design than do theories based on assimilation. Thoroughly researched and richly illustrated, this book will interest scholars and students of Jewish studies, Viennese culture, and modernism. “ 9781611689204 • Hardback • £64.00 Brandeis University Press • 320 pages • July 2016 9781611689211 • Paperback • £30.00
ART & ARCHITECTURE
STYLE AND SEDUCTION
PARVIZ TANAVOLI By Lisa Fischman and Shiva Balaghi • Published on occasion of Tanavoli’s exhibition in US, this book traces the life and work of acclaimed Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli. Parviz Tanavoli is published on the groundbreaking occasion of the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US museum in nearly 40 years, and his first career retrospective outside of Iran. Critically acclaimed and widely acknowledged as the “father of modern Iranian sculpture”, Tanavoli’s trajectory has spanned east and west as he has innovated ambitiously across media. This book will appeal to general audiences interested in the arts, particularly those interested in sculpture, as well as collectors, connoisseurs and aficionados, students and educators, and curators and museum professionals invested in modern and contemporary arts of the Middle East, particularly of Iran.
Davis Museum • 9780985824938 Hardback • 170 pages • Available Now • £41.00
PLAYING WITH EARTH AND SKY
Astronomy & Geography and the Art of Marcel Duchamp By James Housefield • Marcel Duchamp’s art was profoundly influenced by science: Playing with Earth and Sky explores this delicate bond. Playing with Earth and Sky reveals the significance astronomy, geography, and aviation had for Marcel Duchamp—widely regarded as the most influential artist of the past fifty years. This illuminating study offers new interpretations of Duchamp’s momentous works, demonstrating how the immersive spaces and narrative environments of popular science, from museums to the modern planetarium, prepared paths for Duchamp’s non-retinal art. By situating Duchamp’s career within the transatlantic cultural contexts of Dadaism and Surrealism, this book enriches contemporary debates about the historical relationship between art and science. 9781611689563 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611689570 • Paperback • £30.00
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Dartmouth College Press • 280 pages • August 2016
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WEAVINGS OF WAR
Fabrics of Memory By Ariel Zeltin Cooke and Masha MacDowell • Catalogue for the 2005–2007 national traveling exhibit, Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory. Accompanies the landmark 2005-2007 traveling exhibit of textiles depicting the horrors of war, created by women artists from Central and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and South Africa. With scholarly essays, profiles of several artists featured in the show, and beautiful textile images, Weavings of War stands as an eloquent testimony of the impact of modern warfare in our world, and the resilience of folk arts in contemporary life.
Vermont Folklife Centre • 9780944311202 Paperback • 100 pages • Available Now • £15.00
RESILIENZA ITALIANA By Francesco Arecco • The first volume to address the art movement Resilienza Italiana and to highlight the social shifts that reshaped the way art is perceived. This is the first book about the Italian Resilience, an artistic and cultural movement born at the end of 2013 and formed by a group of artists. This movement develops around central issues of contemporary Italian cultural debate: the economic crisis and art’s social value; the public dimension of the work of art and the role of the viewer; the value of territoriality and cultural diversity; the power of dialogue. This volume analyses Italian Resilience by comparing the work of contemporary sculptors with the experience of masters such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Isgrò, Ugo La Pietra, Scabia Giuliano, and Giuseppe Spagnulo. Mimesis International • 9788869770067 Paperback • 94 pages • February 2016 • £7.00
RE/SEARCH MILANO Map of a city in pieces Edited by Various Authors
• Accompanied by an engaging website of interactive maps. This book is a hypertextual guide to an uncharted Milan described through less-known aspects of the city often overlooked by the media. Disassembling the numerous components of the urban framework, it will provide useful tips for a journey full of surprise and emotion, enhanced by a dedicated website featuring interactive maps. Part of a project involving a multitude of researchers, artists, academics and professionals, Re/Search Milano contributes to the growth of a different Milan.
Mimesis International • 9788869770371 Paperback • 400 pages • January 2016 • £20.00
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zijn leven en werk By Margreet van der Hut
The Dutch painter Barend Graat lived his entire life in Amsterdam and worked as an artist from 1645 until 1709. He produced drawings and paintings, well over a hundred of which are currently known. He was trained by his uncle Hand Bodt as a landscape and animal painter but developed and a genre and historic painter as well. This monograph is a well-documented recount of Graats’ life and work.
Sidestone Press • 9789088902970 Paperback • 314 pages • January 2015 • £85.00
TEXT IN DUTCH
ART & ARCHITECTURE
BAREND GRAAT (1628-1709)
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Volume III: The Sanford B. D. Low Illustration Collection By Joyce Schiller, Douglas K. S. Hyland Lindsley Wellman and Howard Munce
The NBMAA’s Sanford B. D. Low Illustration Collection is among the finest in the USA, with 2,000 examples representing a range of media and subject matter by the major figures in American illustration. Although publications that chronicle the leading American illustrations of the 19th and 20th centuries already exist, this volume, featuring new, original research, will serve as both a formal record of works in the Museum’s collection and a tribute to great modern and contemporary American illustrators New Britain Museum • 9780972449793 Paperback • 352 pages • July 2016 • £45.00
RARE LIGHT
J. Alden Weir in Windham, Connecticut, 1882–1919 Edited by Anne E. Dawson Rare Light is a collection of essays exploring little known facets of the life and career of major American Impressionist painter, J. Alden Weir (1852–1919). The book offers indepth contextual information about the architecture, culture, and history of Connecticut, allowing to see it with Weir’s eyes. Interweaving photos, paintings, and letters—some never before published—Rare Light documents the artist’s sense of Windham. Includes essays by Charles Burlingham Jr., Rachel Carley, Anne E. Dawson, and Jamie Eves. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576170 Paperback • 176 pages • April 2016 • £21.00
THE ESTRANGEMENT PRINCIPLE By Ariel Goldberg The Estrangement Principle argues for a wider range of possible associations with art made by queer people by unravelling the difficulties of the “queer art” label. Goldberg invokes the lives and works of artists Renee Gladman, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Jack Waters & Peter Cramer, and others to bring into focus the problematics of categorisation in art and literary histories.
Nightboat Books • 9781937658519 Paperback • 192 pages • August 2016 • £13.00
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AMERICAN FURNITURE 2015 Edited by Luke Beckerdite • American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.
Chipstone Foundation • 9780982772270 Hardback • April 2016 • £49.00
MEL BOCHNER
Illustrating Philosophy By Thomas E. Wartenberg and John R. Stomberg • This book will interest an academic audience, particularly in the areas of philosophy, art and art history, linguistics, and word and image studies. How can a visual image illustrate an abstract philosophical idea? Curator Thomas E. Wartenberg explores Bochner’s prints and drawings inspired by the writings of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Through sensitive analysis, Wartenberg shows how Bochner translates Wittgenstein’s revolutionary claims about knowledge and doubt into visual images.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum • 9780989083539 Hardback • 48 pages • February 2016 • £15.00
GOTHIC TO GOTH
Romantic Era Fashion and Its Legacy By Lynne Zacek Bassett • Suitable for academics, students, and anyone interested in 19thcentury culture as well as followers of modern Goth and Steampunk fashion movements. Costume of the early nineteenth century integrates the elements of history, imagination, religion, and even landscape central to the Romantic sensibility. This exhibition catalogue from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art examines these influences on women’s clothing from 1810–1860, alongside fine and decorative arts of the period and how Romanticism forms the roots of today’s Goth and Steampunk fashion movements.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art • 9780918333285 Paperback • 80 pages • April 2016 • £19.00
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COSTUMES S C A N D I N AV I A N L AT E I RO N A G E COSTUME ICONOGRAPHY
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ICONIC COSTUMES
Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography By Ulla Mannering • Useful as a sourcebook for those interested in textiles, costume and the history of design.
TEXTILES
ICONIC
This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400-1050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeological textile and clothing perspective. In particular, the study explores the question of whether the selected images complement the archaeological clothing sources, through a new analytical tool which enables us to compare and contrast the object categories in regard to material, function, chronology, context and interpretation. The book contributes with new information on social, regional and chronological differences in clothing traditions from c. AD 400 to the Viking Age.
MANNERING
Oxbow Books • 9781785702150 Hardback • 288 pages • June 2016 • £38.00
SPINNING FATES AND THE SONG OF THE LOOM
The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature Edited by Giovanni Fanfani, Mary Harlow and Marie Louise Nosch • Major series of studies examining the literary exploitation of the imagery, concepts and symbolism of ancient textiles and clothing in the Greek and Roman world.
Spinning Fates A N D T H E S O N G O F T H E LO O M The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature
Spanning mainly Greek and Latin poetic genres, yet encompassing comparative evidence from other Indo-European languages and literatures, these 18 chapters draw a various yet consistent picture of the literary exploitation of the imagery, concepts and symbolism of ancient textiles and clothing. Edited by G I O VA N N I FA N FA N I , M A RY H A R L OW & M A R I E - L O U I S E N O S C H
Oxbow Books • 9781785701603 Hardback • 300 pages • April 2016 • £28.50
THE DYER’S HANDBOOK
Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist By Dominique Cardon
The Dyer´sHandbook memoirs of an 18th-century master colourist •
by dominique cardon
• A translation and facsimile reproduction of a unique 18th century French manuscript that provides colour recipes and samples for producing dyes for the textiles of the day, with analysis and essays setting it in context. The Dyer’s Handbook includes a unique manuscript; an 18th Century dyer’s memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for dyes with corresponding colour samples. It is an exceptional document, hugely rare and of great significance both to textile historians and to dyers and colourists today, as the colours can be reproduced exactly, with the same ingredients, or reproduced using modern techniques by matching the colour samples. Along with the English translation of the text, are facsimile pages reproduced in colour from the original manuscript, and essays which situate it in its historical, economic and technological contexts.
Oxbow Books • 9781785702112 Hardback • 160 pages • June 2016 • £48.00
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MUSIC & DANCE
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOHN CAGE By John Cage Edited by Laura Kuhn Cage and Laura Kuhn • Letters of avant-garde icon John Cage, available to the public for the first time. This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives shed new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American avant-garde. Cage’s joie de vivre resounds in these letters; above all, they reveal his passionate interest in people, ideas, and the arts. A deep pleasure to read, this volume presents an extraordinary portrait of a complex, brilliant man who challenged and changed the artistic currents of the twentieth century. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819575913 Hardback • 656 pages • June 2016 • £30.00
DEMETRIO STRATOS A Mediterranean Voice By Claudio Chianura
• An engaging and intimate recount of singer Demetrio Stratos’ life and career. Demetrio Stratos (1945–1979) was one of the most original and popular singers in the 1970s. His voice has interpreted Artaud’s theatre, beat music, the jazz rock of Area and the mesostics of John Cage, who was one of the major architects of his international consecration. Although he died prematurely at the age of 34, Stratos still lives in terms of enormous popularity in countries like Italy, Spain, Brasil and Japan. This book is the story of a unique figure, from the inception to its dramatic epilogue.
Mimesis International • 9788898599578 Paperback • 140 pages • January 2016 • £16.00
WORDS OF OUR MOUTH, MEDITATIONS OF OUR HEART
Pioneering Musicians of Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, and Dancehall By Kenneth Bilby • The first book to offer an insight into the birth of Jamaica’s popular music in a widely appealing style. This is the first book devoted to the studio musicians who were central to Jamaica’s popular-music explosion. With colour portraits and interview excerpts, over 100 musical pioneers—such as Prince Buster, Robbie Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and many of Bob Marley’s early musical collaborators—provide new insights into the birth of Jamaican popular music in the recording studios of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Includes a listening guide of selected songs. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819575883 Paperback • 264 pages • June 2016 • £22.00
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Music and Dance By Marco Brunamonti • Explores all the musical compositions of the cultural phenomenon of tango, capturing multitudes of aficionados worldwide. The charm of tango knows no bounds, nor linguistic borders. Anyone who is willing to embrace its magic, all of a sudden is left smitten. This book intends to explore all the musical compositions of such cultural phenomenon, able to capture multitudes of dancers in every corner of the world. Dancing styles, major composers and interpreters, historical orchestras and one of the most updated studies on the phenomenon of New Tango: as it discusses all of these, this book is a must for any aficionados of tango.
MUSIC & DANCE
TANGO
Mimesis International • 9788898599585 Paperback • 180 pages • January 2016 • £16.00
WILDE TIMES
Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet By Joel Lobenthal • The first biography of ballet star Patricia Wilde, written with her cooperation and supported by additional sources. At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. In her heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, she was a first-generation member and principal dancer of New York City Ballet during the uniquely dramatic Balanchine era—the golden age of the company and its hugely gifted, influential, exploitative, and dictatorial director. In Wilde Times, Joel Lobenthal brings the world of Wilde thrillingly to life. With unfettered access to Wilde and her family, friends, and colleagues, Lobenthal proposes a portray of Patricia Wilde as a figure of towering strength, grace, and grit. ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611688030 Hardback • 312 pages • July 2016 • £26.00
CHINESE DANCE
In the Vast Land and Beyond By Commas Chang and Lynn E. Frederiksen • Unveils the relationship between Chinese dance and the cultural contexts of dance within the region and abroad. As a comprehensive resource, Chinese Dance offers students and scholars an invaluable introduction to the subject. It serves as a foundation of common knowledge from which Chinese and English-language communities can begin a cross-cultural conversation about Chinese dance. The book gives Englishlanguage readers a chance to understand the development of Chinese dance as it is officially articulated by historians and dance scholars in Asia. Through the online database of video clips, an extensive bibliography and appendices, Chinese Dance provides a broad collection of primary source images, videos, and text that invite interactive and flexible engagement by a range of users. 9780819576309 • Hardback • £60.00 9780819576316 • Paperback • £20.00
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Wesleyan University Press • 248 pages • July 2016
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FLOWERS CRACKING CONCRETE
Eiko & Koma’s Asian/American Choreographies By Rosemary Candelario • First in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko & Koma, two Japanese modern and postmodern dancers. Covers the career of Eiko & Koma—two artists from Japan who have lived and worked in New York City since the mid-1970s, establishing themselves as innovative and influential modern and postmodern dancers. They continue to choreograph, perform, and give workshops across the United States and around the world. Drawing on interviews, live performance, videos, and reviews, Candelario demonstrates how ideas have kinesthetically and choreographically cycled through Eiko & Koma’s body of work, creating dances deeply engaged with the wider world through an active process of mourning, transforming, and connecting. “ 9780819576477 • Hardback • £60.00 Wesleyan University Press • 272 pages • August 2016 9780819576484 • Paperback • £20.00
A SEASON OF SINGING
Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States By Sarah M. Ross • A comprehensive study and unique overview of the birth and spread of Jewish feminist music. In this lively study, Sarah M. Ross brings together scholarship on Jewish liturgy, U.S. history, and musical ethnology to describe the multiple roots and development of feminist Jewish music in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Focusing on the work of prolific songwriters, this volume illuminates the biographies of innovators in the field, and shows how this new musical form arose from the rich contexts of feminism, identity politics, folk music, and Judaism. In addition, Ross examines the feminist Jewish music scene across the United States, the reception of this music and the challenges. Brandeis University Press • 264 pages • August 2016
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STRATEGIES OF NOISE
Interferences Between Art, Philosophy and Underground By Martina Raponi • Proposes a fascinating analysis of noise as interaction between subject and object. To live means to enter into circles of mediation between subject and object. These mediations imply filters and prejudices, they cause disturbances and interferences, they determine accumulations, they require attention and discernment. This research analyses the concept of noise, but also explores the reasons why we find fascination and attraction to such phenomenon.
Mimesis International • 9788898599561 Paperback • 140 pages • January 2016 • £16.00
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By Michael Benson In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture. He defends the proposition that the Grateful Dead are, in fact, a musical movement as transformative as any -ism in the artistic history of this century and the last. In this book, Michael Benson brings it all back to life and makes a compelling case for the band’s lasting cultural importance.
MUSIC & DANCE
WHY THE GRATEFUL DEAD MATTER
ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611688511 Paperback • 84 pages • March 2016 • £12.00
MY MUSIC, MY WAR
The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan By Lisa Gilman In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, recent technological developments in music listening enabled troops to carry with them vast amounts of music and easily acquire new music. This ethnographic study examines U.S. troops’ musical-listening habits during and after war, and the accompanying fear, domination, violence, isolation, pain, and loss that troops experienced. My Music, My War is a moving ethnographic account of what war was like for those most intimately involved. 9780819575999 • Hardback • £60.00 9780819576002 • Paperback • £20.00
Wesleyan University Press • 240 pages • May 2016
AMERICAN LUTHIER
Carleen Hutchins—the Art and Science of the Violin By Quincy Whitney From the time of Stradivari, the mysterious craft of violinmaking has been an entirely masculine preserve. In the 1950s, Carleen Maley Hutchins, knowing virtually nothing about violins and acoustical physics, nonetheless became the most innovative violinmaker of the modern age. A self-taught genius who went head to head with a closed and ancient guild, Hutchins carved nearly 500 stringed instruments over the course of half a century and collaborated on more than 100 experiments in violin acoustics. ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611685923 Hardback • 312 pages • May 2016 • £26.00
THE CHRISTOPHER SMALL READER By Christopher Small, Edited by Robert Walser The Christopher Small Reader is the fourth and final book in Christopher Small’s legacy as a composer, pianist, teacher, friend, provocateur, and influential outsider in classical music studies. It is at once a compendium of, a complement to, and an important addition to Small’s prior books. The Christopher Small Reader brings previously published work together, making of this collection a fitting capstone, providing rich insights into Small’s understanding of musicking as a crucial way of relating to the world.
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MEDIA & FILM
E PORNO, TEM PORNO?
Panorama of Brazilian Porn Edited by Mariana Baltar • A theoretical study of the many facets of Brazilian pornography from early productions to the netporn era. E Pornô, tem pornô? represents a panorama of both Brazilian Porn Industry and studies. From the early Pornochanchadas’ productions – that were more erotical than explicitly pornographical – to the contemporary ambience of the netporn. The articles presented represent the statement of a theoretical, political and historical field of studies that has been developing within the last decade, and create a groundbreaking mapping of a peculiar and popular domain of productions. The feminine issues in Brazilian Porn are stressed by most of the articles of the book, focusing on the case study of the Women in Prision films. Mimesis International • 9788869770234 Paperback • 240 pages • January 2016 • £14.00
SHIFTING LAYERS
New Perspectives in Media Archaeology across Digital Media and Audiovisual Arts Edited by Miriam De Rosa and Ludovica Fales • Explores the value of media archaeology as a scientific method, drawing upon the work of scholars and practitioners. Shifting Layers proposes an overview of possible research perspectives stemming from the archaeological methods applied to the study of digital audiovisual media and arts. The aim is to focus on the potentiality of media archaeology as a framework able to open up new territories of inquiry. Drawing upon previous literature that contributed to establish media archaeology as a groundbreaking scientific method, the book offers a wide collection of chapters tackling, through the work of young scholars, the challenges posed by digitisation in terms of research methods in the realm of Film and Media Studies. Mimesis International • 9788869770258 Paperback • 195 pages • March 2016 • £12.00
AGAINST IMMEDIACY
Video Art and Media Populism By William Kaizen • Examines the relation between video art and television and the ways the spectator interacts with this form of art. Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which “the people” were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media. Against Immediacy connects early video art and the rise of the media screen in gallery-based art to the question of participation and activation of the spectator in art and electronic media, moving from video art as an early form of democratic media practice to its canonisation as a form of high art. 9781611689440 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611689457 • Paperback • £30.00
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By Vincenzo Estremo and Francesco Federici • A dialog with the well-known Catalan director and artist, retracing the main themes of his work. Starting from an artist’s talk at the last Filmforum Festival in Udine, the book develops a dialogue with the well-known Catalan director and artist Albert Serra, retracing the main themes of his work. This book focuses especially on Albert Serra’s works in contemporary art spaces, from Kassel Documenta (13th), the last Venice Biennale (56th) to major exhibitions, such as Ouverture de l’intégrale (Centre Pompidou Paris, 2013) and Divine Visionaries and Holy Fools (Tate Modern London, 2015).
MEDIA & FILM
ALBERT SERRA TALKS
Mimesis International • 9788869770265 Paperback • 120 pages • March 2016 • £10.00
CINÉMA & CIE
Neurofilmology. Audiovisual Studies and the Challenge of Neuroscience Edited by Adriano D’Aloia and Ruggero Eugeni • A special issue of Cinéma & Cie focusing on the major conceptual and epistemological arguments arising between audiovisual studies and neurosciences. In the last two decades, discoveries made in cognitive neuroscience have begun to permeate humanities and social sciences. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie focuses on conceptual and epistemological arguments arising from the dialogue between audiovisual studies and neurosciences. Neurofilmology is an interdisciplinary research program that focuses on the “viewer-as-organism” model, and investigates the subject of audiovisual experience postulated as embodied, embedded, enacted, extended, emerging, affective, and relational.
Mimesis International • 9788869770227 Paperback • 214 pages • Available Now • £15.00
AESTHETIC RESISTANCE AND DIS-INTEREST
Things Which Will Not Allow Themselves to be Said By John Steppling • Examining the way in which art and culture subsumes and erases radicalism and otherness. As the institutionalisation of the avant-garde took place, the postmodern theory helped create the forces that eroded reason, labelling them quaint. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture. After all, art is a recreation of our own psychic formation (mimesis), and all art contains a narrative. For only by having no purpose can the artwork posit the direction to which society must look to create an ‘other’ or elsewhere.
Mimesis International • 9788869770241 Paperback • 140 pages • January 2016 • £11.00
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JEWISH STUDIES & HEBREW
A HOME FOR ALL JEWS
Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State By Orit Rozin • A fundamental companion for all scholars and students of Israeli history, law, politics, and culture. Orit Rozin’s inspired scholarship focuses on the construction and negotiation of citizenship in Israel during the state’s first decade. This work reveals the historical circumstances and the ideological and bureaucratic pressures that limited the freedoms of Israeli citizens. Rozin sets her work within a solid analytical framework, drawing on a variety of historical sources portraying the voices, thoughts, and feelings of Israelis. She takes on both negative and positive freedoms in her analysis of three discrete yet overlapping issues: the right to childhood, the right to travel abroad, and the right to speak out. 9781611689495 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611689501 • Paperback • £30.00
Brandeis University Press • 224 pages • August 2016
BRANDEIS MODERN HEBREW By Vardit Ringvald et al. • An accessible introduction to the Hebrew language for American undergraduates and high school students. Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew Program at Brandeis University, Brandeis Modern Hebrew’s functional and contextual elements are designed to bring students from the beginner level to the intermediate level, and to familiarise them with those linguistic aspects that will prepare them to function in advanced stages. Focusing on the learner, the volume provides the tools to develop all four skills areas: speaking, listening, reading, and writing, contextualise each unit within a specific subject or theme; exposing the student to authentic materials (texts written by native speakers); exploring different elements of Israeli and Jewish culture.
Brandeis University Press • 9781611689181 Paperback • 608 pages • Available Now • £64.00
SELF AS NATION
Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography By Tamar Hess • A systematic review of contemporary Hebrew autobiography raising questions that are at the heart of Israeli culture today. Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasise the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. She analyses the idea of a national self, and how the individual takes on meaning from his or her relation to the collective history and ethos of the nation. The second argument is that this self must be understood in the context of waves of immigration to Israel’s shores. Hess convincingly shows that autobiography is deeply influenced by the nation’s literary as well as cultural history. 9781611688795 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611688801 • Paperback • £30.00
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Hisham’s Palace By Donald Whitcomb and Ḥamdān Tāhā
• A stunning collection of coloured mosaics reproduced in never before published high quality photographs. This presentation of beautiful coloured mosaics originates from buildings in the oasis of Jericho and all date from the first half of the eighth century, during the time of Umayyad caliphate of the early Islamic period. Since they were first excavated in the 1930s and 1940s, one has experienced the impact of all these pavements. In 2010 the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage uncovered, cleaned, and assessed the state of conservation of these mosaics. A series of high-quality digital photographs was prepared by a team from the Department from which the present selection is offered for study and appreciation.
ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST
THE MOSAICS OF KHIRBET EL-MAFJAR
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago • 9781614910046 Hardback • 128 pages • Available Now • £40.00
ISLAMIC CULTURE IN SPAIN TO 1614 Essays and Studies By L.P. Harvey
• Analyses the difficult conversion process Spanish Muslims were forced to drawing upon new, revealing sources. In this volume of essays, the fruit of over fifty years of sustained research, L. P. Harvey sets out to see what may be discovered about the reactions of the Spanish Muslims themselves to the crisis created by their forcible conversion. An aljamiado manuscript in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, proved to contain a passage which went to the heart of the subject. When even a few such revealing sources come to light, the effort of scouring through the scanty Morisco sources proves justified.
Legenda • 9781910887127 Hardback • June 2016 • £75.00
YEAR ZERO OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT 1929 By Hillel Cohen Translated by Haim Watzman • A new and provocative reassessment of the origins of the ArabIsraeli conflict. In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as year zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict that persists today. The result is a multifaceted and revealing examination of a formative series of episodes that will intrigue historians, political scientists, and others interested in understanding the essence – and the very beginning – of what has been an intractable conflict. 9781611688108 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611688115 • Paperback • £20.00
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Brandeis University Press • 312 pages • Available Now
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SPAIN & HISPANIC CULTURE
ALTAMIRA VISTA POR LOS ESPAÑOLES By Xurxo Ayán Vila • Analyses the comments of Altamira’s visitors’ book of the last decade, exposing the tight connections between past and present, archaeology, politics and social experience in a conflictive scenario. In an excellent essay about memory, politics and archaeology, the author delves into the image of the cave, the past and the Spanish society of the last decade. Ten years that have been a rollercoaster for Spanish society, but also for Altamira. Through the comments of famous and anonymous visitors, the book offers a unique view of a country where memories of the recent past are still fresh, merged with the remains of human experience. Humour and astonishment through the 13,000 pages of a visitors’ book concentrated in a scathing but rigorous analysis.
JAS Arqueologia • 9788494436826 Paperback • 250 pages • Available Now • £14.00
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MEMORIAS SUJETADAS
Hacia una lectura crítica y situada de los procesos de memorialización Edited by Gonzalo Compañy and Soledad Biasatti • A collection of essays about memory and materiality in South America and Spain. A place to meet and exchange reflections from Anthropology, Archaeology and other Social Sciences from Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Spain and Argentina. A debate around “places of memory” to delve into their particularities with a critical approach of the processes of memorialisation that affect them, as well as the ways to show and hide their materialities. Some papers offer experiences related to dictatorships and others are about the memory of indigenous groups. In both cases, memory articulates a discourse between past and present, territory and materiality. JAS Arqueologia • 9788494103063 Paperback • 272 pages • Available Now • £13.00
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URBAN SPACE, IDENTITY AND POSTMODERNITY IN 1980S SPAIN By Marite Usoz de la Fuente
• How the urban youth movement known as la movida transformed the Spanish cultural landscape in the 1980s, particularly in Madrid. The vibrancy, optimism and aesthetic heterogeneity of the la movida period are best captured in contemporary ephemera – in the fanzines and magazines that provided movida participants with an immediate and largely unmediated outlet for their creative experiments. Among them, monthly arts magazine La Luna de Madrid is arguably the most iconic, and its preoccupation with urban space, identity, and postmodernity suggests that la movida was indeed more than ‘just a teardrop in the rain’, as some of its critics have suggested.
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Essays on Irish Poetry Edited by Fran Brearton
• An indispensable reading for anyone interested in the development of Irish poetry during the twentieth century. Michael Allen was a member of the famous ‘Belfast Group’ of Ulster poets in the 1960s, and one of the most authoritative critical voices on poetry in the North of Ireland until his death in 2011. Intimately part of the North’s poetic movement, he taught at Queen’s University where he was tutor to Paul Muldoon and a colleague of Seamus Heaney. Allen’s precision and subtlety as a poetry critic made him a significant figure in the broader field of Irish literary criticism and a vital presence in the cultural and literary life of Northern Ireland. This important book collects Allen’s critical writings on Kavanagh, MacNeice, Heaney, Mahon, McGuckian and Muldoon, and presents for the first time Allen’s final work, a ground-breaking study of the dynamics of Michael Longley’s extraordinary career.
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IRISH HISTORY
MICHAEL ALLEN: CLOSE READINGS
Irish Academic Press • 318 pages • Available Now
STRAW, HAY & RUSHES IN IRISH FOLK TRADITION By Anne O’Dowd • This beautifully illustrated book presents a fascinating insight into Irish crafts and rituals and their ancient origins. The humble organic materials of straw, hay and rushes were utilised throughout the centuries in Ireland for a myriad of uses and practices. The heyday of their use as objects were the 18th and 19th centuries, when travellers to Ireland often wrote disparaging and derogatory accounts of what they saw. Yet the people who produced and utilised these objects were both ingenious and thrifty, making use of what they could find at no cost and using their learned skills to make objects which we now see as having not only function, but also beauty. Anne O’Dowd’s powerful and lavishly illustrated work looks at the historical context of the making of a wide range of useful and ceremonial objects and the folklore of belief and custom connected with the materials and practices.
Irish Academic Press • 9780716533108 Hardback • 512 pages • Available Now • £35.00
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IRISH HISTORY
HARRY CLARKE’S WAR
Illustrations for Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914–1918 By Marguerite Helmers, Foreword by Nicola Gordon Bowe • A lavishly illustrated book that revives the little-known Ireland’s Memorial Records and the impressive works of art that it contains. Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918 are a little-known record of the names of 49,435 people of Irish birth or affiliation who were killed in the First World War. Commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1919 and published in 100 eight-volume sets, the books are unique among countries involved in the war. The elaborate page decorations of the Records were the work of the celebrated Irish stained-glass artist and illustrator Harry Clarke. This beautifully illustrated book shows how Ireland’s Memorial Records are situated between the Celtic Revival, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and international modernism, providing an insight into the work of Harry Clarke as an extraordinary war artist. Irish Academic Press • 9780716533085 Hardback • 192 pages • Available Now • £24.99
SPECIAL CATEGORY
The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 2: 1978-1985 By Ruán O’Donnell • A complete overview of the Irish Republican prisoners’ history, outlining the different perspective of the parties involved. This major three-part work is the definitive history of Irish Republican prisoners detained in England’s maximum security prisons during the ‘Troubles’. O’Donnell tells the story of all the major riots, roof top protests, sabotage attacks and escape attempts undertaken by the IRA, as well as the little-known ‘blanket protest’ in several prison locations in England. Volume 2 tells the story of the Wormwood Scrubs ‘riot’ of August 1979, Brixton breakout of December 1980 and the pivotal Albany ‘mutiny’ of May 1983, told for the first time using eye-witness accounts as well as official and public sources. Irish Academic Press • 500 pages • Available Now
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ACTIVITIES WISE AND OTHERWISE
The Career of Sir Henry Augustus Robinson, 1898-1922 By Brendan O Donoghue • A remarkable biography that brings Robinson’s professional and private life for the first time. This is the first biography of Sir Henry Augustus Robinson, who in addition to being a senior civil servant in Dublin’s Custom House between 1898 and 1922, he acted as unofficial adviser to British ministers. A consummate administrator, Robinson was responsible for a new and democratic local government system and for supervising infrastructural services in Ireland. Yet, in defiance of British civil service protocols, he became a critical figure who had a significant political effect on Ireland’s administration during the crucial years of 1912 to 1922. This comprehensive and detailed biography uncovers Robinson’s official and unofficial life and work. Irish Academic Press • 500 pages • Available Now
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Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory By Anne Farrow In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner’s son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut’s slave trade and question how we could forget this part of the past so completely.
AMERICAN HISTORY
THE LOGBOOKS
Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576446 Paperback • 208 pages • July 2016 • £15.00
SURVIVING THE ESSEX
The Afterlife of America’s Most Storied Shipwreck By David O. Dowling Surviving the Essex tells the captivating story of a ship’s crew battered by a whale attack, broken by four months at sea, and forced—out of necessity—to make meals of their fellow survivors. Exploring the Rashomon-like Essex accounts that complicate and even contradict Owen Chase’s narrative, David O. Dowling examines the vital role of one’s point of view in shaping how an event is remembered and delves into the ordeal’s submerged history—the survivors’ lives, ambitions, and motives. 9781611689419 • Hardback • £64.00 ForeEdge from University Press of New England 9781611689075 • Paperback • £19.00 248 pages • May 2016
OPERATION WHISPER
The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen By Barnes Carr In Operation Whisper, Barnes Carr tells the full, true story of the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, a pair who vanished right under the FBI’s nose only to turn up as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying.
ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611688092 Hardback • 320 pages • June 2016 • £22.00
COMMUNITY WITHOUT CONSENT New Perspectives on the Stamp Act Edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins
The first book-length study of the US Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together essays from a broad range of disciplines to provide a thoroughly original investigation of the influence of 1760s British tax legislation on colonial culture, and vice versa. While earlier scholarship has largely focused on the political origins and legacy of the Stamp Act, this volume illuminates the social and cultural impact of a legislative crisis that would end in revolution. 9781611688818 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611688825 • Paperback • £30.00
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Dartmouth College Press • 288 pages • April 2016
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AMERICAN HISTORY
THE GENIUS OF PLACE
The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic By Christopher C. Apap The Genius of Place examines how, after the War of 1812, concerns about the scale of the nation resulted in a fundamental reorientation of American identity away from the Atlantic or global ties that held sway in the early republic and toward more localised forms of identification. Instead of addressing the sweep of the nation, American authors, artists, geographers, and politicians shifted from the larger reach of the globe to the more manageable scope of the local and sectional. 9781611688832 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611688849 • Paperback • £30.00
New Hampshire Historical Society • 280 pages • April 2016
THE SARATOGA CAMPAIGN
Uncovering an Embattled Landscape Edited by William A. Griswold and Donald W. Linebaugh The battles of Saratoga proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War when British forces under the command of General John Burgoyne surrendered to American forces led by General Horatio Gates. The Saratoga Campaign provides a new and greatly expanded understanding of the battles of Saratoga by drawing on the work of scholars in a broad range of academic disciplines, and adding a physical and tangible dimension to the story of the Saratoga campaign. University Press of New England • 9781611688962 Paperback • 272 pages • June 2016 • £21.00
TEMPEST-TOSSED
The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker By Susan Campbell Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the passionate, fascinating youngest daughter of the “Fabulous Beecher” family – one of America’s most high-powered families of the nineteenth century: Isabella Beecher Hooker. Isabella was a leader in the suffrage movement, and a mover and shaker in Hartford’s storied Nook Farm neighborhood and salon. But there is more to the story – to Isabella’s character – than that. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819575975 Paperback • 244 pages • February 2016 • £14.00
PRUDENCE CRANDALL’S LEGACY
The Fight for Equality in the 1830s, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education By Donald E. Williams When schoolteacher Prudence Crandall accepted a black woman as a student, she unleashed a storm of controversy that catapulted her to national notoriety, insomuch that the Connecticut state legislature passed its infamous Black Law in an attempt to close down her school. Prudence Crandall’s Legacy marshals a wealth of detail concerning the life and work of Crandall, and her role in the fight for civil rights and equality in America. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576460 Paperback • 476 pages • July 2016 • £20.00
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A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity By Richard H. Saunders • A unique look at the history of portraiture and its broader effects in the collective imaginary. Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Whether painting in oil, carving in stone, casting in bronze, capturing on film, or calculating in binary code, we spend considerable time creating, contemplating, and collecting our likenesses. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Richard H. Saunders explores our collective understanding of portraiture, its history in America, how it shapes individual and national identity, and why we make portraits—whether for propaganda and public influence or for personal and private appreciation. University Press of New England • 9781611688924 Hardback • 232 pages • October 2016 • £34.00
AMERICAN POLITICS & CULTURE
AMERICAN FACES
I HEART OBAMA By Erin Aubry Kaplan • I Heart Obama looks at Barack Obama’s presidency in the context of the black community’s fight against American racist culture. In I Heart Obama, Kaplan offers an unapologetic appreciation of the highestranking “First” and what he means to black Americans. In the process, she explores the critiques of those in the black community who charge that he has not done enough to motivate real change in America. Racial antipathy cloaked as political antipathy has been the major conflict in Obama’s presidency. His impossible task is nothing less than this: to reform the entire racist American culture. Obama is a noble and singular story we will tell for generations. I Heart Obama looks at the story so far.
ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611685367 Hardback • 256 pages • March 2016 • £17.00
AMERICAN STUDIES AS TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICE Edited by Yuan Shu and Donald E. Pease • Offering a rich and rewarding mix of essays and case studies, this collection will satisfy American Studies students and scholars. This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and how these have affected its localisations, epistemological perspectives, ecological imaginaries, and politics of translation. The volume seeks both to elaborate on the causes of the transnational paradigm shift in American studies and to describe the material changes that this new paradigm has brought about. The contributors hail from a variety of positions and sensibilities, enabling them to theorise a “crossroads of cultures” explanation of transnational American studies that moves beyond the multicultural studies model. 9781611688467 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611688474 • Paperback • £34.00
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Dartmouth College Press • 400 pages • February 2016
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AMERICAN LANDSCAPE & NATURE
BIRDWATCHING IN NEW YORK CITY AND ON LONG ISLAND By Deborah Rivel This easy-to-use guide gives seasonal information for both popular birding sites and those off the beaten path. Precise directions to the best viewing locations within the region’s diverse habitats enable birdwatchers to efficiently explore urban and wild birding hotspots. Including the latest information on the seasonal status and distribution of more than 400 species, with 39 maps and over 50 photographs, this full-colour guide features information essential to planning a birding visit.
University Press of New England • 9781611686784 Paperback • 320 pages • June 2016 • £19.00
MESSAGES FROM A SMALL TOWN
Photographs Inside Pawlet, Vermont By Susanne Rappaport, Neil Rappaport and Nellie Bushee Susanne Rappaport has selected the best of her late husband’s work, juxtaposed with historical photographs taken by two Pawlet women from the early years of the century, and adding selections from oral histories collected from some of the subjects of her late husband’s portraits. In addition, she has added her own poignant recollections. Richly illustrated, Messages From A Small Town is a powerful portrait of the residents of Pawlet, Vermont, from the 1970s through the 1990s. Vermont Folklife Centre • 9780916718275 Paperback • 136 pages • Available Now • £22.99
BOGS AND FENS
A Guide to the Peatland Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada By Ronald B. Davis To aid the increasing number of bog walkers, Ronald B. Davis has produced an attractive, informative guide to the trees, shrubs, and wildflowers of the peatlands of the greater American northeastern region. The book covers 155 of the species most likely to be discovered alongside the boardwalks with stunning photographs of 98 of them. Includes a primer on peatland ecology and offers an invaluable guide to 78 peatlands across the region.
University Press of New England • 9781611687934 Paperback • 304 pages • July 2016 • £19.00
THE CONFLUENCE
Fly-fishing & Friendship in the Dartmouth College Grant Edited by David Van Wie, Phil Odence, Norm Ritcher and Bob Chamberlin Seven lifelong friends head north each June to a remote cabin at the confluence of the Dead Diamond and Swift Diamond Rivers. What started as a single fishing trip has evolved over twenty-plus years into an annual retreat to the mystical environs of the Dartmouth College Grant. Fishing is only a part of their story. In a collection of intertwined essays from seven unique voices, the authors reveal how their friendships have grown deeper as their lives flow into middle age. Peter E. Randall Publishers • 9781942155126 Paperback • 176 pages • June 2016 • £19.00
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The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine By Margalit Shilo Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917–1918), the Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish a representative body. The issue was whether women participate. A group of Zionist women from all over the country created a political party that eventually participated in the elections. Margalit Shilo examines the story of these activists to elaborate the Zionist roots of feminism and nationalism and how the fight for women’s suffrage spread throughout the country. 9781611688856 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611688863 • Paperback • £30.00
GENDER STUDIES
GIRLS OF LIBERTY
Brandeis University Press • 232 pages • May 2016
RELIGIOUS CRISIS AND CIVIC TRANSFORMATION
How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church By Kimba Allie Tichenor A fresh interpretation of the connection between the Catholic Church and post-1950s debates on women’s reproductive rights in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women sought to renegotiate their relationship with the Church and challenged the Church’s view of marriage and artificial contraception. When the Church refused to compromise, women left en masse. In response, the Church slowly stitched together a new identity for a post-secular age.
9781611689082 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611689099 • Paperback • £30.00
Brandeis University Press • 304 pages • June 2016
SISTERS OF TOMORROW
The First Women of Science Fiction Edited by Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp For nearly half a century, feminists have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about “boys and their toys,” pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as proof that women have always been part of the genre. This anthology documents how women in the early twentieth century contributed to the pulp-magazine community and showcases the content they produced, including short stories, editorial work, illustrations, poetry, and science journalism. 9780819576231 • Hardback • £68.00 9780819576248 • Paperback • £22.00
Wesleyan University Press • 432 pages • July 2016
WINNING MARRIAGE
The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won By Marc Solomon Marc Solomon reveals the inner workings of the advocacy movement that has championed and protected advances won in legislative, court, and electoral battles over the decade since the landmark Massachusetts ruling guaranteeing marriage for same-sex couples for the first time. Updated with a new foreword from former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick, and a new afterword that includes the 2015 Supreme Court ruling. ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611688993 Paperback • 374 pages • Available Now • £15.00
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PSYCHOLOGY, MEDICINE & HEALTH
GEOGRAPHIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Encounters Between Cultures in Tehran By Lorena Preta
In recent times, the questions psychoanalysis has to face are very complex. The modern world is dominated by technology that subverts the perception of the body and dominated by a global violence that enforces a changed geometry of the mind. The answers to these new situations differ between countries, regardless of the uniformity brought about by globalisation. Presenting different experiences, the authors have laid out a map which is different from the geographical and geopolitical ones that we all know. Mimesis International • 9788869770173 Paperback • 126 pages • Available Now • £10.00
NEEDLESS SUFFERING
How We Fail to Manage Chronic Pain By Davis Nagel Needless Suffering offers a sociological examination of a complex medical problem: chronic pain and the inability of doctors and other health professionals to understand and manage it in their patients. Drawing on his own experience and numerous clinical stories, Nagel looks at US patients and their doctors, then broadens his canvas to elaborate a “pain power structure” that includes the entire healthcare community, insurers, lawyers, government regulators, employers, politicians, law enforcement, and painkilling drugs. ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611689624 Hardback • 320 pages • August 2016 • £64.00
THE HAND BOOK
Surviving in a Germ-Filled World By Miryam Z. Wahrman In this well-researched book, Wahrman discusses the microbes that live among us, both benign and malevolent. She looks at how ancient cultures dealt with disease and hygiene and how scientific developments led to the germ theory, which laid the foundation for modern hygiene. She investigates hand hygiene in clinical settings, where lapses by medical professionals can lead to serious, even deadly, complications.
9781611689174 • Hardback • £64.00 ForeEdge from University Press of New England 9781611685244 • Paperback • £15.00 248 pages • June 2016
ESSAYS ON SOME MALADIES OF ANGOLA (1799) By José Pinto de Azeredo Edited by Timothy D. Walker A unique medical text describing healing practices in Africa at the peak of the transatlantic slave trade. Through the first-hand observation of José Pinto de Azeredo, it describes the medical practices and substances used, as well as the health issues. This first English-language edition was translated by Stewart Lloyd-Jones (University of Stirling).
Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth • 9781933227696 Paperback • 144 pages • May 2016 • £19.00
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Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century Edited by Lisa Ottum
• A ground-breaking and unique collection on the role of emotions in Western environmentalism. While critics have traditionally positioned Romantic Nature as idealised and illusory, Romantic representations of nature are, in fact, ambivalent, scientifically informed, and ethically engaged. They often reflect writers’ efforts to capture the fleeting experience of affect, raising urgent questions about how nature evokes feelings, and what demands these sensations place upon the feeling subject. By focusing on the affective dimensions of Green Romanticism, Wordsworth and the Green Romantics propose a vision of Romantic ecology that complicates scholarly perceptions of Romantic Nature, as well as popular caricatures of the Romantics as naïve nature lovers. 9781611688948 • Hardback • £64.00 9781611688955 • Paperback • £30.00
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
WORDSWORTH AND THE GREEN ROMANTICS
New Hampshire Historical Society • 248 pages • June 2016
WORLD BEATS
Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature By Jimmy Fazzino • An original interpretation of the Beat authors and how their work contributed to the spread American literature abroad. This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naïve tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism’s sake, World Beats finds that these writers propelled a highly politicised agenda that sought to use the tools of the earlier avant-garde to undermine Cold War and postcolonial ideologies and offer a new vision of engaged literature. With fresh interpretations of central Beat authors, World Beats shows that embedded within Beat writing is an essential universality that brought America to the world and the world to American literature. 272 pages • May 2016 • Dartmouth College Press
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WOMEN VILLAINS AND DOUBLE AGENTS IN SPY FICTION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE Edited by Carmen Concilio • A gender-focused analysis of espionage narrative through the works of the most appreciated English writers. The aim of this collection of essays is to explore “negative characters” in espionage narratives of some of the most esteemed English writers, such as Conrad, Maugham, Ambler, Greene, Fleming, MacEwan, among others. The role of women is analysed, in particular with the figure of Mata Hari, so as to provide a gender perspective on women as villains and /or double agents. The relationship between literature and film studies is also considered in a comparative approach.
Mimesis International • 9788869770319 Paperback • 105 pages • January 2016 • £8.00
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CASTAWAY TALES
From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi By Christopher Palmer Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales’ history and changes through periods of settlement, violence, and reconciliation, and across genres and languages. Showing how subsequent authors have parodied or inverted the castaway tale, Palmer concentrates on the period following H. G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau. 9780819576217 • Hardback • £60.00 9780819576576 • Paperback • £20.00
Wesleyan University Press • 272 pages • June 2016
SINGNAGTUGAQ
A Greenlanders Dream By Mathias Storch Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original novel in Greenlandic. The book portrays the encounter between the Danish colonisers and colonised Greenlanders in vivid, harsh terms reflecting the time. At the end of the novel comes a vision of a future, modern Greenland, freed from colonial humiliation and poverty: the first literary expression of the desire for progress which later became so prominent in Greenlandic poetry and politics. International Polar Institute • 9780982170380 Paperback • 160 pages • May 2016 • £15.00
LUCIDITY
Essays in Honour of Alison Finch Edited by Ian James and Emma Wilson This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites. Ranging from engagements with early modern writing through to more recent material, the contributions focus in particular on nineteenthand twentieth-century French prose and poetry. Legenda • 9781909662889 Hardback • 200 pages • February 2016 • £75.00
MONTAIGNE IN TRANSIT
Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean By Neil Kenny and Richard Scholar This volume tracks a Montaigne ‘in transit’ all the way from the genesis and production of his Essais and travel journal in the 1570s–1590s to their diffusion and reception from the 1580s up till the present day, in France, England, Germany, and elsewhere. This volume explores transit as a critical concept cutting across different languages, places, and times, and its authors include leading specialists in early modern French and English studies. Legenda • 9781909662964 Hardback • 200 pages • April 2016 • £75.00
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Edited by Pietra Pietra Palazzolo and Ben Pestell Ever since Odysseus heard tales of his own exploits being retold among strangers, audiences have been alive to the complications and questions arising from the translation of myth. How are myths taken and carried over into new languages, new civilizations, or new media? An international group of scholars is gathered in this volume to present diverse but connected case studies which address the artistic and political implications of the changing condition of myth – this most primal and malleable of forms.
Legenda • 9781910887042 Hardback • 200 pages • February 2016 • £75.00
LAUGHTER FROM REALISM TO MODERNISM
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
TRANSLATING MYTH
Misfits and Humorists in Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda By Alberto Godioli As exemplified by the works of Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda, Italian modernist fiction is particularly rich in bizarre and ludicrous characters, whose originality is often derided. On the other hand, laughter is used by the author as a reaction to the levelling pressure of social life. What is, then, the role of laughter in international Modernism? Building on the analysis of a large corpus of works by modernist Italian authors, this book attempts at answering this and other questions. Legenda • 9781909662865 Hardback • 200 pages • Available Now • £75.00
POETRY AND THE LENINGRAD RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL SEMINAR 1974-1980 Music for a Deaf Age By Josephine von Zitzewitz
The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten journal ‘37’. This book is thus a study of a major current in twentiethcentury Russian poetry. It also presents case studies of five poets: Krivulin and Shvarts, Sergei Stratanovskii (1944-), Oleg Okhapkin (1944-2008) and Aleksandr Mironov (1948-2010).
Legenda • 9781909662926 Hardback • 200 pages • February 2016 • £75.00
METAMORPHOSIS IN MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE Transforming Bodies, Identities and Affects By Tara Beaney
Radical bodily transformation can be shocking, terrifying and wonderful. But what makes it such compelling literary subject matter, and what place does it have in modern Germany? Tara Beaney analyses metamorphosis in literary texts from the Romantic period onwards, focusing on the affects involved. This emphasis allows for a unique insight into ways of experiencing bodily change, into threatened identities, and into changing affective styles across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Legenda • 9781909662841 Hardback • 200 pages • April 2016 • £75.00
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GERMAN NARRATIVES OF BELONGING
Writing Generation and Place in the Twenty-First Century By Linda Shortt Since unification, German culture has experienced a boom in discourses on generation, family and place. Linda Shortt reads this as symptomatic of a wider quest for belonging that mobilises attachment to counter the effects of post-modern deterritorialisation and globalisation. Investigating twenty-first century narratives of belonging, Shortt examines how the desire to belong is repeatedly unsettled by disturbances of lineage and tradition. Legenda • 9781907975882 Hardback • 146 pages • Available Now • £75.00
THE LAST DAYS OF HUMANISM A Reappraisal of Quevedo’s Thought By Alfonso Rey
Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a consistent and systematic thinker, with moral philosophy lying at the core of his numerous and varied works. In this book Alfonso Rey surveys Quevedo’s ideas in such diverse fields as ethics, politics, religion and literature, reconstructing in doing so the cultural evolution of Europe in the years prior to the Enlightenment. Legenda • 9781909662810 Hardback • 230 pages • Available Now • £75.00
BROKEN GLASS, BROKEN WORLD
Glass in French Culture in the Aftermath of 1870 By Hannah Scott In this interdisciplinary study, Scott combines cultural history with close literary analyses of fictional works by three major authors from the period: Emile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), Guy de Maupassant’s Contes et nouvelles (1870-1891), and Joris-Karl Huysmans’s decadent masterpiece, A Rebours (1884). She explores the distressing freight of meaning attached to glass for readers in the wake of the Année Terrible, before Symbolism and the Art Nouveau could purify the material world of its haunting past. Legenda • 9781909662872 Hardback • 200 pages • May 2016 • £75.00
ADAPTED VOICES By Armelle Blin-Rolland Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961), and Zazie dans le métro (1959), by Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), were two revolutionary novels in their transposition of spoken language into written language. In this study, Armelle Blin-Rolland examines adaptations sparked by these two seminal novels to understand what ‘voice’ means in each medium, and its importance in the process of adaptation.
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By Olaf Breidbach and Federico Vercellone Morphology is the general theory of form and formation, which can be seen as the innovative and fruitful point of intersection of the scientific and the humanistic cultures. The three papers presented in the book respectively illustrate different features of morphology from the epistemic viewpoints of history of science, mathematics and biology. The texts were produced in the context of the second meeting of the “Centro Interdipartimentale di Morfologia F. Moiso”, which took place in Udine on 14 December 2007. Mimesis International • 9788884838407 Paperback • 70 pages • January 2016 • £5.00
ON THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
CONCEPTS OF MORPHOLOGY
By Emanuele Severino On the Future of the World is the second collection of writings by Emanuele Severino, one of the most prominent philosophers of contemporaneity. Turning his analysis to the contemporary world and its main facets – politics, economics, religion, ethics, and technics guided by science – Severino digs to their deepest roots and deduces what will be their inevitable development.
Mimesis International • 9788869770197 Paperback • 120 pages • April 2016 • £10.00
CHIASMI INTERNATIONAL N. 17
Psychology, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics Edited by Leonard Lawlor Since the 1990s, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s thought is the focus of exceptional interest. It is on this grounds that the magazine Chiasmi – an emanation of the Società di Studi su Merleau-Ponty – became a trilingual magazine renamed International Chiasmi. This issue addresses Husserl’s transcendentalism, the rehabilitation of the constitutive dimension of the body itself and focus on the perceptual layer, accommodating articles on Husserl, Heidegger and Patočka. Mimesis International • 9788869770326 Paperback • 360 pages • January 2016 • £23.00
THE SIMPLE BEAUTY OF THE UNEXPECTED
A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything By Marcelo Gleiser Now a world-famous theoretical physicist, Marcelo Gleiser felt it was time to connect with nature in less theoretical ways. After seeing a fly-fishing class at the Dartmouth College green, he decided to take up this hobby. In The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, Gleiser travels the world wondering at each stop how physics informs the act of fishing and, more generally, how science engages with questions of meaning and spirituality. Personal and engaging, this book is a scientist’s tribute to nature. ForeEdge from University Press of New England • 9781611684414 Hardback • 192 pages • July 2016 • £17.00
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FICTION
BLUE RAVENS Historical Novel By Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor weaves an engrossing portrayal of Native American soldiers in World War I. Blue Ravens is a story of courage from a master of the postwar American novels. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576453 Paperback • 300 pages • June 2016 • £14.00
LITTLE CRIMINALS By Kurt Rheinheimer “Kurt Rheinheimer’s Little Criminals is sure to rank as one of the finest short story collections of this year.” Laurence Goldstein, Editor of Michigan Quarterly Review.
Eastern Washington University Press • 9780910055963 Paperback • 280 pages • Available Now • £13.00
GOD OF BEER
ADULT SWIM
By Garret Keizer
By Heather Hartley
Garret Keizer’s gripping novel about young people in revolt bears witness to the bonds of friendship, and the trials of working-class kids on the margins of American society.
Engaging, playful, and often with a dark sense of humour, this novel gathers together unlikely characters whose different stories explore the connections we share—love, loss, and laughter.
University Press of New England • 9781611689150 Paperback • 256 pages • March 2016 • £11.00
Carnegie Mellon • 9780887486074 Paperback • 80 pages • March 2016 • £12.00
WINGS IN THE WIND
RUST BELT BOY
By Julia Walsh Illustrated by John Hayes and John Gorey
By Paul Hertneky
Against all odds an orphan Mallard reaches adulthood on the banks of the Merrimack River watched over from a distance by a young girl. Peter E. Randall Publisher • 9781942155119 Paperback • 32 pages • June 2016 • £13.00
Tales of a largely unknown and recurrent Promised Land, revealing the soul of industrial life, and a yearning for broader horizons.
Bauhan Publishing • 9780872332225 Paperback • 232 pages • June 2016 • £17.00
TREATY SHIRTS
October 2034—A Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation By Gerald Vizenor Gerald Vizenor creates masterful, truthful, surreal, and satirical fiction similar to the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman. In this imagined future, seven natives are exiled from federal sectors that have replaced federal reservations; they pursue the liberty of an egalitarian government on an island in Lake of the Woods. These seven narrators, known only by native nicknames, are related to characters in Vizenor’s other novels and stories. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576286 Hardback • 144 pages • June 2016 • £19.00
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I n S w a s t i k a i n t o Lo t u s , Katrovas humurously casts a w a r y e y e o n p o e t r y, education, religion, politics and more.
The Nomenclature of Small Things explores grief through the language of science, history, and art.
Carnegie Mellon University Press • 9780887486081 Paperback • 56 pages • March 2016 • £12.00
Carnegie Mellon University Press • 9780887486098 Paperback • 80 pages• March 2016 • £12.00
THE SPOKES OF VENUS
EATING MOORS AND CHRISTIANS
By Rebecca Morgan Frank
By Sandra M. Castillo
These poems focus on the tensions between the act of making and the art of observing.
This book utilises the Cuban Revolution as a springboard from which to discuss what is at the centre of exile literature.
Carnegie Mellon University Press • 9780887486067 Paperback • 64 pages • March 2016 • £12.00
Cavankerry Press • 9781933880501 Paperback • 72 pages • May 2016 • £12.00
ORPHANS
TORNADOESQUE
By Joan Cusack Handler
By Donald Platt
Joan Cusack Handler explores our most primitive and ambivalent relationships while confronting her own mortality. Cavankerry Press • 9781933880563 Paperback • 128 pages • April 2016 • £14.00
In Tornadoesque the poet discovers his bisexuality, responds to war in the Middle East, and gives an eyewitness account of a tornado.
Cavankerry Press • 9781933880518 Paperback • 96 pages • June 2016 • £14.00
CAN I FINISH, PLEASE?
EMOTICONCERT
By Catherine Bowman
The book works as a concert of intensities associated with loss, nationalism, and the slippery boundary between human and animal.
These poems explore hungers, from appetite to hedonistic consumption, from prayer to a yearning for generative resolution. Four Way Books • 9781935536666 Paperback • 132 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
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By Lynn Pedersen
POETRY
By Richard Katrovas
THE NOMENCLATURE OF SMALL THINGS
SWASTIKA INTO LOTUS
By Maya Pindyck
Four Way Books • 9781935536710 Paperback • 96 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
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POETRY
FROM NOTHING By Daniel Tobin From Nothing, a book-length poem in 33 sections, explores the conflicted and exemplary life of Belgian physicist and priest Georges Lemaître.
Four Way Books • 9781935536697 Paperback • 64 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
HOW THE END BEGINS By Cynthia Cruz How the End Begins j u x t a p o s e s t h e wo r l d ’ s seductions and incessant clamouring for more with the invisible world. Four Way Books • 9781935536673 Paperback • 92 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
THE HALO By C. Dale Young The Halo is quasi-autobiography about a man who has wings and wants desperately to simply be human. Tracking from adolescence through adulthood, it explores an accident that temporarily paralyzes him and exposes him to human weakness all the way to his transformation into something more powerful than even he realises. It explores a personal evolution from being prey to becoming the hunter.
Four Way Books • 9781935536680 Paperback • 76 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
THE TAXIDERMIST’S CUT
TRAVELS OF MARCO
By Rajiv Mohabir
The poems in Travels of Marco speak with a heightened awareness of the incipience of personhood and of its tatters.
A survival guide that shows how bigotry and redemption are mapped on the psyche and on the body.
Four Way Books • 9781935536727 Paperback • 112 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
Four Way Books • 9781935536703 Paperback • 96 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
NO DOUBT THE NAMELESS
BALANCING ACTS
By Sydney Lea
Th e d e b u t co l l e ct i o n o f poems by Robin Seyfried, editor of Poetry Northwest.
No Doubt the Nameless delves the depths of elegy, yet moves into a positive reading of the human situation.
Four Way Books • 9781935536734 Paperback • 120 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
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Eastern Washington University Press • 9780910055642 Paperback • 112 pages • Available Now • £10.00
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New and Selected Poems By Jean Hollander “In this book there are poems of terrible simplicity, profound i g n o ra n ce — w h i c h m e a n s “negative capability”—and profound wisdom.” Stanley Moss
Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679620 Paperback • 180 pages • June 2016 • £17.00
NIGHT SKY FREQUENCIES
New and Selected Poems By Debra Nystrom This acclaimed poet has received awards from Five Points, VQR and Shenandoah for her highly appreciated collections. Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679590 Paperback • 190 pages • April 2016 • £17.00
By David Blair “Very few poets ever achieve this kind of fellow feeling and write about it with such tact and intelligent sympathy.” —Tom Sleigh
Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679606 Paperback • 68 pages • April 2016 • £13.00
THE ART OF FORGETTING By Andrei Codrescu A new collection by Andrei Codrescu, commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered and literature and poetry professor. Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679613 Paperback • 148 pages • June 2016 • £14.00
DIANOIA
HELL FIGURES
By Michael Heller
By E. Tracy Grinnell
Heller articulates with precision the lyric/anti-lyric boundaries of contemporary life exploring the nature of violence, politics, and the literary imagination
Hell Figures ventures into the mythical histories of H e l e n o f Troy, S a p p h o, Cassandra, Antigone, by way of our current condition of perpetual war.
Nightboat Books • 9781937658465 Paperback • 112 pages • June 2016 • £13.00
PROXIES
Essays Near Knowing By Brian Blanchfield In Proxies Brian Blanchfield addresses his concerns: sex and sexuality, poetry and poetics, and family.
Nightboat Books • 9781937658458 Paperback • 184 pages • June 2016 • £12.00
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FRIENDS WITH DOGS
POETRY
AND THEY SHALL WEAR PURPLE
Nightboat Books • 9781937658472 Paperback • 168 pages • June 2016 • £13.00
REMEMBERING ANIMALS By Brenda Iijima Remembering Animals chronicles the animal in all the complexity of such a categorisation, revealing the ways in which bodies are marked and evaluated. Nightboat Books • 9781937658496 Paperback • 136 pages • June 2016 • £13.00
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POETRY
THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY BODY
BLOOD HYPHEN
By Maged Zaher
Readers have become aware of Kenny Williams as a strikingly original writer, but the range of his achievement in this collection are remarkable.
T h e va r y i n g p o e t i c s o f ancient and modern Arabic poetry inflect this book-long exploration of the materiality of the body. Nightboat Books • 9781937658502 Paperback • 152 pages • June 2016 • £12.00
Oberlin College Press • 9780932440549 Paperback • 84 pages • May 2016 • £12.00
PRELUDES AND FUGUES
MIDDLE TIME
By Emmanuel Moses Translated by Marilyn Hacker
Middle Time imagines the limits of bodies when our attachments and our ecologies are increasingly administered, exploited, and degraded.
Stunning new work by this inimitable French master.
Oberlin College Press • 9780932440938 Paperback • 86 pages • May 2016 • £12.00
By Angela Hume
Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430168 Paperback • 96 pages • May 2016 • £13.00
OUR ANIMAL
SELECTED POEMS
By Meredith Stricker
By Keith Waldrop
Our Animal hybridizes novel flaking into poetic forms like a gnat swarm, magnetic filings, or migratory flux.
Waldrop says: “I think the worst fault a poem can have is striving for effect.” Waldrop never strives; instead, he haunts—his presence is all the more powerful for barely being there.
Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430199 Paperback • 96 pages • May 2016 • £13.00
THE ORCHARD GREEN AND EVERY COLOR By Zach Savich In Zach Savich’s new collection, intent seeing makes the present more present. Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430182 Paperback • 96 pages • May 2016 • £13.00
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THE UNFOLLOWING By Lyn Hejinian The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss.
Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430151 Paperback • 96 pages • May 2016 • £13.00
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POETRY
THE CITIZEN POETS OF BOSTON
A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789–1820 Edited by Paul Lewis Selected from over 4,500 poems published during the early national period, the works presented here, mostly anonymous, will carry you back to Old Boston to hear the voices of its long-forgotten citizen poets. A rich collection of lost poetry that will beguile locals and visitors to the area alike.
9781611688887 • Paperback • £17.00 9781611688870 • Hardback • £64.00
University Press of New England • 232 pages • May 2016
RETURN FLIGHTS
COMMON SENSE
By Jarita Davis
By Ted Greenwald
These poems reflect the “sodade” of Cape Verdean culture that is shaped by separation and longing.
Now something of a cult classic, the book is recognised as an understated masterpiece, pushing at the edges of spoken word.
Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth • 9781933227672 Paperback • 96 pages • May 2016 • £11.00
SCARECROW Robert Fernandez Taking Dante and other cataloguers of failure and ruin as its guiding lights, Scarecrow charts situations of extremity and madness.
Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576507 Hardback • 88 pages • April 2016 • £19.00
THE AGE OF REASONS
Uncollected Poems 1969–1982 By Ted Greenwald Edited by Miles Champion A sample of some of Greenwald’s most breathtaking work. Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576262 Paperback • 120 pages • May 2016 • £12.00
THE BOOK OF LANDINGS
A KIND OF ENDLESSNESS
By Mark McMorris
By Donald Britton Edited by Reginald Shepherd and Philip Clark
The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris’s visionary trilogy.
Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576330 Hardback • 216 pages • April 2016 • £20.00
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Wesleyan University Press • 9780819576422 Paperback • 200 pages • May 2016 • £13.00
Reprints Italy alongside previously unpublished poems to display Britton’s vivid language and subtle humour. Nightboat Books • 9781937658441 Paperback • 120 pages • March 2016 • £13.00
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HUNDRED YEAR WAVE
SOMETHING SINISTER
By Rachel Richardson
By Hayan Charara
Hundred-Year Wave reaches back into the past through stories of marriage and motherhood over the currents of a nearly mythological ancestry.
These poems grapple with conflicts arising from a world in which the personal, political, cultural, and aesthetic are deeply entangled and often troubling.
Carnegie Mellon University Press • 9780887486104 Paperback • 80 pages • March 2016 • £12.00
TRANSLATING APOLLINAIRE
THE PLEASURES OF INFLUENCE
By B. P. Nichol Introduction by C. A. Conrad
Edited by Stanley Moss
A facsimile edition of B. P. Nichol’s classic selftranslation text and responses by 21st century poets. Nightboat Books • 9781937658120 Paperback • 76 pages • March 2016 • £12.00
An appreciation of Stanley Kunitz’s work and life in poetry and prose by those poets closest to him.
Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679576 Paperback • 160 pages • April 2016 • £15.00
DEVIL’S PAINTBRUSH
YOU WERE THAT WHITE BIRD
By Desirée Alvarez
By Shelley Girdner
Winner of numerous awards, fellowships, and residencies, Alvarez’s poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner.
Shelley Girdner has been a featured poet in the Aurorean and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry.
Bauhan Publishing • 9780872332188 Paperback • 80 pages • May 2016 • £10.00
Bauhan Publishing • 9780872332201 Paperback • 80 pages • May 2016 • £10.00
RITUAL AND BIT
HEAT WAKE
By Robert Ostrom
By Jason Zuzga
Throughout the book, the speaker restlessly searches for ways to regain control of his life, partly through ceremonies, prayers, and devotions, and partly through lyrical force.
“His new book Heat Wake is a miracle of pacing, reflection, action mixed together in scherzo form.”—Kevin Killian
Saturnalia Books • 9780996220644 Paperback • 88 pages • April 2016 • £12.00
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By Alan Jenkins • British poet Alan Jenkins is deputy editor of the Times Literary Supplement and has won a Forward Prize and an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry.
POETRY
WHITE NIGHTS
Alan Jenkins’s White Nights gathers together the translations, “imitations” and versions—mostly from French poets—that he has worked on intermittently for 25 years, with a handful of longer poems, previously unpublished or published underground. Jenkins speaks of difficult passions, loneliness, lovers and friends lost to time and death; he pays homage, with gratitude and a profound sympathy if not always with reverence, to those poets from the past who have been his truest companions. “These beautifully rhymed and metered verses provide an image of the ‘accelerated grimace’ of our day—indeed, this is a composite portrait, like one of Hockney’s Polaroid assemblages, of a lonely, bitter dandy, the Spare Man, a black rosebud in his silk lapel. I love these poems.” —Edmund White Sheep Meadow Press • 9781937679460 April 2016 • Paperback • 76 pages • £13.00
THE OLD PHILOSOPHER
FLESH OF LEVIATHAN
By Vi Khi Nao
By Chus Pato Translated by Erín Moure
The Old Philosopher is enigmatic, sexual, biblical, anachronistic, political, and personal all at once. These quiet, implosive poems inhabit a nonlinear temporality in which Vi Khi Nao brings biblical time and political time together in the same poetic space, allowing current affairs to converse with a more ancient and historical r e a l i t y. W i n n e r of the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry.
Nightboat Books • 9781937658489 June 2016 • Paperback • 72 pages • £12.00
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In Flesh of Leviathan, Chus Pato alters her cadence to record, in sombre lyric form, the direct address of a singular voice that seems to emerge from time itself. In these poems, worldly things are largely absent and those present are iconic: birds, skies, winds. Through them, Pato articulates the possibility of thinking, the foreignness of any thinking subject, the borders to be crossed to move thinking forward, and the relation of thinking with time as humanity a p p ro a c h e s — o r not—time’s end.
Omnidawn Publishing • 9781632430175 May 2016 • Paperback • 120 pages • £13.00
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THE JAPAN AND INDIA JOURNALS, 1960–1964 By Joanne Kyger First published in 1981, The Japan and India Journals, 1960–1964 is Joanne Kyger’s journal of her four tumultuous years in Japan and India as a young poets in her late twenties. This book chronicles her developing poetic sensibility, emergent Buddhist practice, and what it meant to be a woman trying to write in pre-feminist Beat days. Attentive, witty, and always entertaining, this is poet’s prose at its best.
Nightboat Books • 9781937658434 Paperback • 300 pages • February 2016 • £14.00
NOW THE DAY IS OVER
My Five Years at South Kent School By Paul Matthews Noted painter Paul Matthews looks back on his preparatory school years at the South Kent School in Connecticut. His work is in the permanent collections of the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City, the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, the Trenton City Museum in New Jersey, the Birkenhead Gallery in Liverpool, England, and in many private collections.
Bauhan Publishing • 9780872332164 Paperback • 160 pages • April 2016 • £17.00
LETTERS FROM NIGERIA
A young American observes a newly independent country 1961–62 By Gretel Clark A young American joins her husband on a pre–Peace Corps mission to newly independent Nigeria. She works in the Ministry of Education, while her husband joins a team of economists sent by the Ford Foundation. These letters home give an inside view of the fledgling government and full-colour images bring alive the vibrant cultures of the new nation. Life among British civil servants, visiting foreign diplomats and speculators, and daily interactions with the Nigerian people are the heart of this story. Peter E. Randall Publisher • 9781942155133 Hardback • 246 pages • June 2016 • £26.00
FINDING PHIL
My Search for an Uncle Lost in War and Family Silence By Paul Levy Paul Levy was a year old when his Uncle Phil was killed in World War II, and his family, like many, faced their grief with silence. Seventy years after his uncle’s death, he set out to discover what might still be found about Phil. Research led to unexpected turns, and ultimately revealed a vivid portrait of Phil’s life and, astoundingly, of his death. In the process, the author gained insights into war, antisemitism, family silences, and heroism, and encountered intriguing and sometimes famous characters who had touched Phil’s life. Bauhan Publishing • 9780872332249 Paperback • 160 pages • June 2016 • £17.00
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THE STRANGERS WE BECAME
BABY YOU’RE A RICH MAN
By Cynthia Kaplan Shamash
By Sam Soocher
A smart, funny, and lyrical memoir of an Iraqi Jewish girl’s experiences in five countries before settling in the United States. Brandeis University Press 9781611688054 • £20.00 Hardback • 240 pages
MALEVOLENT MUSE By Oliver Hilmes
First book devoted to the cascade of legal actions engulfing the Beatles, from their earliest days to present.
An even-handed yet tantalizingly detailed account of the fascinating life of Alma Mahler, using previously unpublished material.
ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611683806 • £20.00 Hardback • 288 pages
Northeastern University Press • 9781555537890 Hardback • 360 pages • £30.00
RADICALISM & MUSIC
NO LAUGHING MATTER
AT THE POINT OF A CUTLASS
By Jonathan Pieslak
By Angela Rosenthal with David Bindman and Adrian W. B. Randolph
By Gregory N. Fleming
A comparative study of the music cultures of four radical groups, offering a convincing argument for music’s transformational impact. Wesleyan University Press 9780819575845 •£20.00 Paperback • 320 pages
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A interdisciplinary collection discussing the role of race and ethnicity in global humour.
Expands on a lost classic narrative of America and the sea, and brings to life a forgotten world of ships and men on both sides of maritime law.
Dartmouth College Press 9781611688214 •£35.00 Paperback • 328 pages
Uni Press of New England 9781611687804 • £15.00 New in PB • 256 pages
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INFERNO IN CHECHNYA
By Bruce Ware Allen
By Brian Glyn Williams
A fresh, vivid retelling of the definitive battle in the clash of empires that has defined Europe for 500 years.
The fascinating history of the Chechen wars and the origins of terrorism in Russia and beyond.
The story behind the British Administration’s cultivation of Sayyid Mohammed Idris as the figurehead for their project of indirect rule in Cyrenaica.
ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611687651 • £25.00 Hardback • 328 pages
ForeEdge from UPNE 9781611687378 • £20.00 Hardback • 296 pages
Silphium Press 9781900971256 • £18.00 Paperback • 248 pages
By Richard Synge
By Marjo T. Nurminen
THE IMAGE AND ITS PROHIBITION IN JEWISH ANTIQUITY
Lavishly illustrated history o f t h e E u ro p e a n wo r l d map, with illustrations of maps and paintings from the finest private and public collections.
Edited by Sarah Pearce
By Luca Vitali, Edited by Fiona Talkington
This sumptuously illustrated book, with contributions from leading experts, offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity.
The first book dedicated to the lively Norwegian jazz scene; dense with anecdotes, unpublished interviews and encounters.
Journal of Jewish Studies 9780957522800 • £55.00 Paperback • 288 pages
Mimesis International 9788898599530 • £18.00 Paperback • 190 pages
THE MAPMAKERS’ WORLD
Pool of London Press 9781910860007 • £50.00 Hardback • 360 pages
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ARCADIAN VISIONS
JEWISH SOUL FOOD
By Allan R. Ruff
By Carol Ungar
Discusses the influences of Arcadia and the pastoral tradition on the arts and landscape design from the Classical period to the present day.
A lighthearted introduction to the art of traditional Jewish cooking, which links Jewish foods and Jewish beliefs.
Brandeis University Press 9781611685015 • £21.00 Paperback • 184 pages
Windgather Press 9781909686663 • £39.95 Hardback • 288 pages
Investigates the emergences of alternative pornographies, highlighting their cultural status and role in redefining the idea of pornography. Mimesis International 9788857523590 • £20.50 Paperback • 312 pages
By Doug Kennedy
Edited by Anna Longo Text of a 2008 conference Meillassoux gave exploring his notion of absolute contingency, with a new contribution from Anna Longo.
SPRING 2016
Edited by Enrico Biasin, Giovanna Maina and Federico Zecca
NORFOLK LANDSCAPES
TIME WITHOUT BECOMING
Mimesis International 9788857523866 • £5.00 Paperback • 70 pages
PORN AFTER PORN
Beautiful book of over 100 pages of photography capturing classic Norfolk landscapes, villages, and towns, with text illuminating the history, geography and ecology of the area.
Windgather Press 9781909686816 • £14.99 Hardback • 112 pages
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AVAILABLE NOW RECENT HIGHLIGHTS THE SOUND OF CULTURE
TREES IN TOWNS AND CITIES
By Louis Chude-Sokei
By Mark Johnston
Explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialisation, beginning in the 19th century through to the 21st.
The history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them from the Romans to the present day.
Wesleyan University Press 9780819575777 • £19.99 Paperback • 300 pages
Windgather Press 9781909686625 • £39.95 Paperback • 256 pages
SEEING THE WAR By David P. Colley Looks at the dramatic stories behind over 100 of World War II’s best-known photos.
THE HOLY CITIES OF ARABIA
By Eldon Rutter, Introduction by William Facey and Sharon Sharpe This new edition revives a neglected masterpiece and establishes Rutter’s reputation.
ForeEdge from UPNE • 9781611687262 • £19.00 Paperback • 200 pages
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Arabian Publishing 9780992980825 • £40.00 Hardback • 592 pages
THE HOMERIC GODS By Walter F. Otto This analysis by W. F. Otto denotes an open consonance of the author with the spirit of Greek polytheism.
Mimesis International 9788857523996 • £14.50 Paperback • 310 pages
EUROPE AND CAPITALISM By Diego Fusaro Looks at the realities behind the European Union alongside a critique of the euro and contemporary finance. Mimesis International • 9788857526607 • £10.00 Paperback • 130 pages
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