International Rights Catalog Fall 2020

International Rights Catalog Fall 2020

Duke University Press Syracuse University Press University of Georgia Press University of Nebraska Press University of New Mexico Press University of North Carolina Press University of West Indies Press Vanderbilt University Press

Contents Duke University Press

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Syracuse University Press

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University of Georgia Press

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University of Nebraska Press

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University of New Mexico Press

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University of North Carolina Press

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University of West Indies Press

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Vanderbilt University Press

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Duke University Press Universal Tonality

The Life and Music of William Parker

CISCO BRADLEY

February 2021 408 pages, 47 illustrations Jazz/Biography Rights: World

Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually toured around the world and released over forty albums as a leader. He is one of the most influential jazz artists alive today. In Universal Tonality historian and critic Cisco Bradley tells the story of Parker’s life and music. Drawing on interviews with Parker and his collaborators, Bradley traces Parker’s ancestral roots in West Africa via the Carolinas to his childhood in the South Bronx, and illustrates his rise from the 1970s jazz lofts and extended work with pianist Cecil Taylor to the present day. He outlines how Parker’s early influences—Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and writers of the Black Arts Movement—grounded Parker’s aesthetic and musical practice in a commitment to community and the struggle for justice and freedom. Throughout, Bradley foregrounds Parker’s understanding of music, the role of the artist, and the relationship between art, politics, and social transformation. Intimate and capacious, Universal Tonality is the definitive work on Parker’s life and music.

Cisco Bradley is Associate Professor of History at the Pratt Institute, editor of the Jazz Right Now blog, and author of Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Da’ud bin ‘Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia.

The Inheritance

ELIZABETH A. POVINELLI

March 2021 336 pages Memoir/Anthropology Rights: World excluding Italian

Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down, not through blood or soil, but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the region where family’s ancestral alpine village is found—hung above her family’s television. Far more than a map, the image’s colors and lines held in place the memories and values that fueled the Povinelli family’s fraught relationship with the village and each other. In her graphic memoir The Inheritance, Povinelli explores the events, traumas, and powers that divide and define our individual and collective pasts and futures. Weaving together stories of her grandparents’ flight from their village in the early twentieth century to the fortunes of their knife-grinding business in Buffalo, New York, and her own Catholic childhood in a shrinking Louisiana woodlands of the 1960s and 70s, Povinelli describes the serial patterns of violence, dislocation, racism and structural inequality that have shaped not only her life but the American story. Plumbing the messy relationships between nationality, ethnicity, kinship, religion, and belonging, The Inheritance takes us into the gulf between facts of history and stories we tell ourselves in order to survive and justify them.

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University and founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. Her most recent book is Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism.

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All about Your Eyes Second Edition, revised and updated

SHARON FEKRAT, TANYA S. GLASER , and HENRY L. FENG, editors

A concise, easy-to-understand reference book, the revised and updated second edition of the bestselling All about Your Eyes tells you what you need to know to care for your eyes and what to expect from your eye doctor. In this reliable guide, leading eye care experts:

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explain eye anatomy and how healthy eyes work

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describe various eye diseases, including pink eye, cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy

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provide up-to-date information on surgery

For each eye problem, the authors describe in simple, straightforward language •

what it is

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the symptoms

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what, if anything, you can do to prevent it

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when to call the doctor

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diagnostic tests and treatment

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the likelihood of recovery

All about Your Eyes includes a glossary of technical terms and, following each entry, links to websites where further information may be found.

Sharon Fekrat, MD, is Professor of Ophthalmology, Associate Professor of Surgery, and Director of Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship, Duke University School of Medicine. Tanya S. Glaser, MD, is Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center. Henry L. Feng, MD, is a Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow, Duke University Eye Center.

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Soundworks

Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production

ANTHONY REED In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations, as well as the interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media that accompany them, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially. Soundwork is Reed’s term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes’s collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka’s work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez’s albums with the Firespitters, as well as the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes.

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Anthony Reed is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing.

Antiblackness

MOON-KIE JUNG and JOÃO H. COSTA VARGAS, editors

Black man with “End Mass Black Incarceration” sign at San Francisco Bay area protest, c. 2015. Image used with permission of San Francisco Bay View (Robinson 2015).

April 2021 384 pages, 3 illustrations Black studies/Critical ethnic studies/Social theory Rights: World

Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book’s contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy, indeed of the world, that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete.

Moon-Kie Jung is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing US Racisms Past and Present. João H. Costa Vargas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside and the author of The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering.

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Black Utopias

Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds

JAYNA BROWN

BLACK UTOPIAS

Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds

Jayna Brown

February 2021 232 pages, 14 illustrations Black studies/Queer studies Rights: World

In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as an occasion to explore new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Brown uses the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler to develop a concept of utopia that radically refuses the terms of liberal humanism. For Brown, utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate themselves as elements in a cosmic effluvium. In such moments, musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people can take part in modes of alternative worldmaking. Brown demonstrates that engaging in such practices gives Black people the power to destabilize humanism and to create new genres of existence and models of collectivity.

Jayna Brown is Professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern, also published by Duke University Press.

Black Bodies, White Gold

Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World

ANNA ARABINDAN-KESSON

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In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth century Atlantic world. In doing so, Arabindan-Kesson models an art historical approach that makes the histories of the Black diaspora central to nineteenth-century cultural production. She traces the emergence of a speculative vision that informs perceptions of Blackness, where artistic renderings of cotton—as both commodity and material—became inexorably tied to the monetary value of Black bodies. From the production and representation of “negro cloth”—the textile worn by enslaved plantation workers—to depictions of Black sharecroppers in photographs and paintings, Arabindan-Kesson demonstrates that visuality was the mechanism through which Blackness and cotton became equated as resources for extraction. In addition to interrogating the work of nineteenth-century artists, she also engages with contemporary artists such as Hank Willis Thomas, Lubaina Himid, and Yinka Shonibare, who contend with the commercial and imperial processes shaping constructions of Blackness and meanings of labor.

Anna Arabindan-Kesson is Assistant Professor of Black Diaspora Art at Princeton University.

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Pollution Is Colonialism MAX LIBOIRON

Some of the fif ty plastics ingested by dovkie D-156 in Newfoundland. Photo by the author.

April 2021 224 pages, 10 illustrations Native and Indigenous studies/Science and technology studies/Environmental studies Rights: World

In Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. She points out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, conducting environmental science and activism is often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land.

Focusing on plastic pollution, Liboiron models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous concepts of land, ethics, and relations. She draws on her work in the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research—an anticolonial science laboratory in Newfoundland, Canada—to illuminate how pollution is not a symptom of capitalism, but a violent enactment of colonial land relations in which settlers claim access to Native land.

She challenges theories of pollution that make Native land available for settler and colonial goals and shows how plastics can be taken up to refuse and refute colonial relations. In this way, her methodology demonstrates that anticolonial science is not only possible, it is currently being practiced in ways that enact more ethical modes of being in the world.

Max Liboiron is Associate Professor of Geography at Memorial University.

The World Computer

Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism

JONATHAN BELLER February 2021 344 pages Marxist theory/Media and communications/ Critical Race theory Rights: World

In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics, Beller situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation. Built on oppression and genocide, capital and its technical result as computation manifest as racial formations, as do the machines and software of social mediation that feed racial capitalism and run on social difference.

Algorithms, derived from for-profit management strategies, conscript all forms of expression—language, image, music, communication—into the calculus of capital such that even protest may turn a profit. Computational media function for the purpose of extraction rather than ameliorating global crises, and financialize every expressive act, converting each utterance into a wager. Repairing this ecology of exploitation, Beller contends, requires decolonizing information and money, and the scripting of futures wagered by the cultural legacies and claims of those in struggle.

Jonathan Beller is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of The Message is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital and The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle.

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Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Politics of the Pluriverse

MARTIN SAVRANSKY May 2021 192 pages Philosophy/Anthropology Rights: World

This innovative work brings William James’ pluralism into dialogue with anthropology in order to build a conceptual framework for a more radically pluralistic anthropology. Martin Savranksy draws on James’ notion of the pluriverse to develop what he calls a “pluralistic realism.” Pluralistic realism challenges more conventional understandings of ontology through the idea that, at any given time, the world is both “one and many.” The book weaves key aspects of James’s thought together with singular stories of Magellan’s circumnavigations, of the reality of sorcery-lions in Mozambique, of God’s felt presence among a group of evangelicals in California, of visible spirits in Zambia, and of ghosts in the wake of the 2011 tsunami in Japan, among others. Emphasizing its anti-imperialist and decolonial efforts, Savranksy offers a speculative pragmatism that centralizes indeterminacy and challenges an all-inclusive systemization of the world.

Martin Savransky is the Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Colonial Debts

The Case of Puerto Rico

ROCÍO ZAMBRANA May 2021 272 pages, 21 illustrations Decolonial theory/Caribbean studies Rights: World

Colonial Debts centers the debt crisis in Puerto Rico to consider the relationship between neoliberalism and the afterlives of colonialism. Puerto Rico currently holds $123 billion in debt, the largest municipal debt in US history. In May 2017, even before the devastation left

by Hurricanes Irma and María, Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy, and the US federal government instituted a Fiscal Control Board with the power to override all local government decisions. Rocío Zambrana argues that debt operates as a form of coloniality in Puerto Rico, as taxation and austerity policies deepen race, gender, and class hierarchies through expulsion, dispossession, and expropriation. Debt relations reproduce colonial relations with the USand mark certain populations as dispensable in the service of developing capitalism. In the aftermath of Hurricane María, predatory neoliberal policies have intensified the economic and political crisis faced by the people of Puerto Rico, creating a greater urgency for decolonial practices that will interrupt the continuation of colonial violence through the strictures of debt.

Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emory College.

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ANOTHER AESTHETICS IS POSSIBLE

JENNIFER PONCE DE LEÓN

ARTS OF REBELLION IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR March 2021 336 pages, 34 illustrations, including 16 in color Latin American studies/Chicanx and Latinx studies/Art Theory and Criticism Rights: World

Another Aesthetics Is Possible Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War

JENNIFER PONCE DE LEÓN In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de León shows how experimental practices in the visual, literary, and performing arts have been influenced by and articulated with leftist movements and popular uprisings that have repudiated neoliberal capitalism and its violence. Whether enacting solidarity with Zapatista communities through an alternate reality game or using surrealist street theater to amplify the more radical strands of Argentina’s human rights movement, these artists fuse their praxis with forms of political mobilization, from direct-action tactics to economic resistance. Advancing an innovative transnational and transdisciplinary framework of analysis, Ponce de León proposes a materialist understanding of art and politics that brings to the fore the power of aesthetics to both compose and make visible a world beyond capitalism.

Jennifer Ponce de León is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Decolonizing Memory

Algeria and the Politics of Testimony

JILL JARVIS In Decolonizing Memory Jill Jarvis argues that writers have played a central role in protecting historical memory and nurturing political resistance in Algeria. In Arabic, French, and other Algerian languages, Algerian writers have defied linguistic partitions and disputed the authority of the government as the arbiter of justice. Weaving together close readings of literary fiction with analyses of theoretical, juridical, visual, and activist texts concerning disappearance, detainment, torture, and genocide, Jarvis shows how Algerian writers point to continuities between the violence of French colonization (and decolonization) and the oppressive Algerian nation-state.

Jill Jarvis is Assistant Professor of French at Yale University.

Samira Negrouche , Close up photograph of the final panel of XIII planches/poètes : A genealogy a constellation. Courtesy of Samira Negrouche.

May 2021 304 pages, 13 illustrations Postcolonial theory/North Africa and the Middle East Rights: World

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Visions of Beirut

The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure

HATIM EL-HIBRI

Aerial photograph from damage assessment study, 1991.

Photo courtesy of Belal Hibri.

May 2021 288 pages, 40 illustrations Media studies/Middle East studies/Visual culture Rights: World

In Visions of Beirut Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut. Drawing on fieldwork and texts ranging from maps, urban plans, and aerial photographs to drone-camera footage and television, El-Hibri traces the histories of how the technologies and media infrastructure that visualize the city are used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power. Throughout the twentieth century, colonial, economic, and military mapping projects were key to producing and governing its spaces. In the 1990s, the imagery of its post-civil war downtown reconstruction cast Beirut as politically and economically stable in ways that obscured its ongoing crises. During and following the 2006 Israel/Hizbullah war, Hizbullah’s use of live television broadcasts of fighting and protests along with its construction of a war memorial museum at a former secret military bunker outline the tension between visualizing the city and the need to remain concealed from surveillance.

Hatim El-Hibri is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at George Mason University.

Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam

Evren Savcı

January 2021 256 pages Queer studies/Middle East studies/Sociology Rights: World

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Queer in Translation

Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam

EVREN SAVCI In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics unfold under Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP government. Under AKP’s neoliberal Islamic regime, she shows, there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to securitized authoritarianism. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse, Savcı traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savcı turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/ colonial, global/local, and East/West—thereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourses that coalesce around sexual liberation in ways that do justice to the complexities of both what circulates under the signifier Islam and of sexual political movements in Muslim-majority countries.

Evren Savcı is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.

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The Small Book of Hip Checks

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On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing

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ERICA RAND

book ON QUEER GENDER, RACE, AND WRITING

of hip checks erica rand January 2021 184 pages, 1 illustration Queer and Trans studies/Writing Rights: World

In The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check—an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off balance and the inspection of racialized gender—to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing. Explicitly attending to processes of writing and revising, Rand pursues interruption, rethinking, and redirection to challenge standard methods of argumentation and traditional markers of heft and fluff. She writes about topics including a trans shout-out in a Super Bowl ad, the heyday of lavender dildos, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, the criticism received by figure skater Debi Thomas and tennis great Serena Williams for competing in bodysuits while black, and the gendering involved in identifying the remains of people who die trying to cross into the United States south of Tucson, Arizona. Along the way, Rand encourages making muscle memory of experimentation and an openness to being conceptually knocked sideways. In other words, to be hip checked.

Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College and author of Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice, The Ellis Island Snow Globe, and Barbie’s Queer Accessories, all also published by Duke University Press.

Bombay Brokers

LISA BJÖRKMAN, editor

BROKERS

EDITED BY LISA BJÖRKMAN

May 2021 472 pages, 33 illustrations Anthropology/South Asian studies Rights: World

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A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who is able to secure otherwise impossible building permits. These and other dealmakers—whose expertise and labor is often considered morally suspect—can be indispensable for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world’s most complex, dynamic, and populous cities.

Bombay Brokers collects profiles of thirty-six such “brokers.” Written by anthropologists, artists, city planners, and activists, these character sketches bring into relief the paradox that these brokers’ knowledge and labor are ethically fraught yet essential for Bombay’s functioning. Their centrality reveals the global-scale paradoxes and gaps that these brokers mediate and bridge. In this way, Bombay Brokers prompts a reconsideration of what counts as legitimate and valuable knowledge and labor, while offering insight into changing structures of power in Bombay and around the globe.

Lisa Björkman is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, and author of Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai, also published by Duke University Press, and Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories.

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Gods in the Time of Democracy KAJRI JAIN

January 2021 400 pages, 124 illustrations, including 14 in color Art and visual culture/South Asian studies Rights: World

In 2018 India’s prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the world’s tallest statue: a 597foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is but one of many massive statues built following India’s economic reforms of the 1990s.

In Gods in the Time of Democracy Kajri Jain examines how monumental icons emerged as a religious and political form in contemporary India, mobilizing the concept of emergence toward a radical treatment of art historical objects as dynamic assemblages. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork at giant statue sites in India and its diaspora and interviews with sculptors, patrons, and visitors, Jain masterfully describes how public icons materialize the intersections between new image technologies, neospiritual religious movements, Hindu nationalist politics, globalization, and Dalit-Bahujan verifications of equality and presence.

Centering the ex-colony in rethinking key concepts of the image, Jain demonstrates how these new aesthetic forms entail a simultaneously religious and political retooling of the “infrastructures of the sensible.”

Kajri Jain is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Toronto and author of Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art, also published by Duke University Press.

Minor China

Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic

HENTYLE YAPP

Yan Xing, Kill (the) TV-Set, 2012. © Yan Xing. Courtesy of the artist.

In Minor China Hentyle Yapp analyzes contemporary Chinese art as it circulates on the global art market to outline the limitations of Western understandings of non-Western art. Yapp reconsiders the all-too-common narratives about Chinese art that celebrate the heroic artist who embodies political resistance against the authoritarian state. These narratives, as Yapp establishes, prevent Chinese art, aesthetics, and politics from being discussed in the West outside the terms of Western liberalism and notions of the “universal.” Yapp engages with art ranging from photography and performance to curation and installations to foreground what he calls the minor as method—tracking aesthetic and intellectual practices that challenge the predetermined ideas and political concerns that uphold dominant conceptions of history, the state, and the subject. By examining the minor in the work of artists such as Ai Weiwei, Zhang Huan, Cao Fei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Carol Yinghua Lu, and others, Yapp demonstrates that the minor allows for discussing non-Western art more broadly and for reconfiguring dominant political and aesthetic institutions and structures.

March 2021 280 pages, 38 illustrations Art and visual culture/Asian studies/Affect theory Rights: World. Figures may be restricted.

Hentyle Yapp is Assistant Professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University and coeditor of Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value.

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February 2021 224 pages, 18 illustrations Asian studies/Women’s studies/The Global 1960s Rights: World. All images are excluded.

Coed Revolution

The Female Student in the Japanese New Left

CHELSEA SZENDI SCHIEDER In the 1960s, a new generation of university educated youth in Japan challenged forms of capitalism and the state. In Coed Revolution Chelsea Szendi Schieder recounts the crucial stories of Japanese women’s participation in these protest movements led by the New Left throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Women were involved in contentious politics to an unprecedented degree, but they and their concerns were frequently marginalized by men in the movement and the mass media, and the movement at large is often memorialized as male and masculine. Drawing on stories of individual women, Schieder outlines how the media and their fellow activists portrayed them as icons of vulnerability and victims of violence, making women central to discourses about legitimate forms of postwar political expression. Schieder disentangles the gendered patterns that obscured radical women’s voices to construct a feminist genealogy of the Japanese New Left, demonstrating that student activism in 1960s Japan cannot be understood without considering the experiences and representations of these women activists.

Chelsea Szendi Schieder is Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University.

Mao’s Bestiary

Medicinal Animals and Modern China

LIZ P. Y. CHEE May 2021 280 pages, 9 illustrations Asian studies/History of medicine Rights: World

Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao’s Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, Chee demonstrates that the early Communist state expanded and systematized their production and use to compensate for drug shortages, generate foreign investment in high-end animal medicines, and facilitate an ideological shift toward legitimating folk medicines.

Among other topics, Chee investigates the craze for chicken blood therapy during the Cultural Revolution, the origins of deer antler farming under Mao and bear bile farming under Deng, and the crucial influence of the Soviet Union and North Korea upon Chinese zootherapies. In the process, Chee shows Chinese medicine to be a realm of change rather than a timeless tradition, a hopeful conclusion given current efforts to reform its use of animals.

Liz P. Y. Chee is Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute and Lecturer at Tembusu College, both at the National University of Singapore.

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The Stone and the Wireless Mediating China, 1861–1906

SHAOLING MA May 2021 312 pages, 10 illustrations Media and technology studies/Asian studies/ Literary theory Rights: World

In the last few years of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign, and their uptake and use by intellectuals and political leaders was deeply entangled with national anxieties around modernization and relations to other nations and cultures. The Stone and the Wireless considers how turn-of-the 20th-century material technologies—from the lithograph to early cinematic devices—interacted with the discursive representations of these media in texts and images. For Shaoling Ma, the dynamics between the machines themselves and their social and cultural forms reveal that mediation is at the heart of media history. Ma brings together an archive of cultural representations of media to demonstrate how the material forms of communication technologies were entangled with cultural narratives around late Qing China’s political upheavals and relation to other cultures, but also to develop a larger argument about the interaction between media forms (material technologies) and forms of media (the visual or linguistic aspects of media).

Shaoling Ma is Assistant Professor of Literature at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.

Experiments in Skin

Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam

THUY LINH NGUYEN TU

EXPERIMENTS IN SKIN RA C E A ND B E A U T Y I N T H E S H A D O W S O F V I E T NA M

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March 2021 256 pages, 10 illustrations American studies/Asian American studies/ Cultural studies Rights: World

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In Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been formed, Tu foregrounds the histories of militarism in the production of US biomedical knowledge and commercial cosmetics. She uncovers the efforts of wartime scientists in the US Military Dermatology Research Program to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers’ skin. These dermatologists sought relief for white soldiers while denying that African Americans soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were also vulnerable to harm. Their experiments led to the development of pharmaceutical cosmetics, now used by women in Ho Chi Minh City to tend to their skin, and to grapple with the damage caused by the war’s lingering toxicity. In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the intersecting histories of militarism, biomedicine, race, and aesthetics become materially and metaphorically visible on skin.

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, also published by Duke University Press.

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CONTEMPORARY ART’S TRAUMAS OF MODERNITY AND HISTORY IN SÀI GÒN AND PHNOM PENH

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Return Engagements

Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh

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In Return Engagements Viêt Lê examines contemporary art in Cambodia and Viêt Nam to � trace the entwinement of� militarization, trauma, diaspora, and modernity in Southeast Asian art. Highlighting artists tied to Phnom Penh and Sài Gòn and drawing on a range of visual art as well as documentary and experimental films, Lê points out that artists of Southeast Asian descent are often expected to address the twin traumas of armed conflict and modernization, and shows how desirable art on these themes is on international art markets. As the global art market fetishizes trauma and violence, artists strategically align their work with those tropes in ways that Lê suggests allow them to reinvent such aesthetics and discursive spaces. By returning to and refashioning these themes, artists such as Sandrine Llouquet, Tiffany Chung, and Sopheap Pich challenge categorizations of “diasporic” and “local” by situating themselves as insiders and outsiders relative to Cambodia and Viêt Nam. By doing so, they disrupt dominant understandings of place, time, and belonging �in contemporary art.

Việt Lê is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and coauthor of White Gaze.

History on the Run

Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies

MA VANG

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February 2021 272 pages, 9 illustrations Asian American studies/Critical ethnic studies Rights: World

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During its secret war in Laos (1961–1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong. Vang conceptualizes these histories as fugitive histories, as they move and are carried by people who move. Charting the incomplete archives of the war made secret through redacted US state documents, ethnography, film, and literature, Vang shows how Hmong refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from narratives of US empire and that cannot be traditionally archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic attempts to silence those histories.

Ma Vang is Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced, and coeditor of Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women.

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Empire’s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper VERNADETTE VICUÑA GONZALEZ

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February 2021 232 pages, 41 illustrations Asian and Asian American studies/Postcolonial studies Rights: World

In Empire’s Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur.

If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur’s biography—a failed love affair between a venerated war hero and a young woman of Filipino and American heritage. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington DC to Hollywood, where she died penniless, Gonzalez frames her not as a tragic heroine, but as someone caught within the violent histories of US imperialism. In this way, Gonzalez uses Cooper’s life as a way to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships. Along the way, Gonzalez fills in the archival gaps of Cooper’s life with speculative fictional interludes that both unsettle the authority of “official” archives and dislodge the established one-dimensional characterizations of her. By presenting Cooper as a complex historical subject who lived at the crossroads of American colonialism in the Philippines, Gonzalez demonstrates how intimacy and love are woven into the infrastructure of empire.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines, and coeditor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i, both also published by Duke University Press.

City of Screens

Imagining Audiences in Manila’s Alternative Film Culture

JASMINE NADUA TRICE March 2021 320 pages, 21 illustrations Film/Southeast Asian studies Rights: World

In City of Screens Jasmine Nadua Trice examines the politics of cinema circulation in early-2000s Manila. She traces Manila’s cinema landscape by focusing on the primary locations of film exhibition and distribution: the pirated DVD district, mall multiplexes, art house cinemas, the university film institute, and state-sponsored cinematheques. In the wake of digital media piracy and the decline of the local commercial film industry, the rising independent cinema movement has been a site of contestation between filmmakers and the state, each constructing different notions of a prospective, national public film audience. Discourses around audiences become more salient given that films by independent Philippine filmmakers are seldom screened to domestic audiences, despite their international success. Concerns about audiences also reveal the tensions in independent cinema between the films’ often political and aesthetic radicalism and their elite audiences as well as desires to be simultaneously cosmopolitan and culturally specific. In so doing, she provides a deeper understanding of the debates about the competing roles of the film industry, the public, and the state in national culture in the Philippines and beyond.

Jasmine Nadua Trice is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Sound Alignments

Popular Music in Asia’s Cold Wars

MICHAEL K. BOURDAGHS, PAOLA IOVENE , and KALEY MASON, editors

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May 2021 312 pages, 15 illustrations Asian studies/Cold War/Popular music Rights: World

The contributors to Sound Alignments explore the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from India to Indonesia, Hong Kong to South Korea, China to Japan. From studies of how Western-style folk and pop was adapted and reconfigured to meet local cultural and political exigencies to how Cold War networks and organizations facilitated the creation and exchange of popular music throughout the region, the contributors outline how popular music forged and challenged alliances, revolutions, and countercultures. They also show how the Cold War’s legacy shapes contemporary culture, particularly in the ways 1990s and 2000s J-pop and K-pop are rooted in American attempts to foster economic exchange in East Asia in the 1960s.Throughout, Sound Alignments demonstrates that the experiences of the Cold War in Asia were as diverse and dynamic as the music heard and performed in it.

Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop. Paola Iovene is Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China. Kaley Mason is Assistant Professor of Music at Lewis and Clark College.

Slow Disturbance

Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier

RAFICO RUIZ April 2021 256 pages, 102 illustrations Media studies/Environmental studies Rights: World

From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador’s coast. In Slow Disturbance Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell mission to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls infrastructural mediation—the ways in which colonial lifeworlds, subjectivities, and affects come into being through the creation and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents, maps, interviews with municipal officials, teachers, and residents, as well as his field photography, Ruiz shows how the mission’s infrastructural mediation—from its attempts to restructure the local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the coastline—responded to the colony’s environmental conditions in ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing the mission’s history and the mechanisms that enabled its functioning, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler colonialism and extractive capitalism.

Rafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

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Experts in Action

Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance

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February 2021 248 pages, 49 illustrations Media studies/Labor studies/Cultural studies Rights: World

Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced cinema aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts in Hollywood, New Zealand, and Thailand. Foregrounding the transnational circulation of Hong Kong-influenced films, television shows, stars, choreographers, and stunt workers, she shows how stunt workers like Chan, Bell, and others combine techniques from martial arts, dance, Peking opera, and the history of movie and television stunting practices to create embodied performances that are both spectacular and, sometimes, rendered invisible. By describing the training, skills, and labor involved in stunt work as well as the location-dependent material conditions and regulations that impact it, Steimer illuminates the expertise of the workers whose labor is indispensable to some of the world’s most popular movies.

Lauren Steimer is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Media Arts at the University of South Carolina.

Millennials Killed the Video Star MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming

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January 2021 256 pages, 24 illustrations TV/Gender studies/Popular culture Rights: World

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Between 1995 and 2000, the number of music videos airing on MTV dropped by thirty-six percent. As an alternative to the twenty-four-hour music video jukebox the channel had been during its early years, MTV created an original cycle of scripted reality shows aimed at predominantly white youth audiences that include Laguna Beach, The Hills, The City, Catfish, and Jersey Shore. In Millennials Killed the Video Star Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV’s shift away from music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s. Drawing on interviews with industry workers from programs such as The Real World and Teen Mom, Klein demonstrates how MTV generated a coherent discourse on youth and identity by intentionally leveraging stereotypes about race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Klein explores how this production cycle, which showcased a variety of ways of being in the world, has played a role in identity construction in contemporary youth culture—ultimately shaping the ways in which Millennial audiences of the 2000s thought about, talked about, and embraced a variety of identities.

Amanda Ann Klein is Associate Professor of Film Studies at East Carolina University, author of American Film Cycles: Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures, and coeditor of Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots: Multiplicities in Film and Television.

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Beyond Man

Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion

AN YOUNTAE and ELEANOR CRAIG, editors June 2021 304 pages Religion/Black studies/Decolonial theory Rights: World

Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of religion that better attends to the inextricable links between religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and the contributors reckon with the colonial and racial implications of the field’s history by staging a conversation with Black, Indigenous, and decolonial studies. In their introduction, An and Craig point out that European-descended Christianity has historically defined itself by its relation to the Other while paradoxically claiming to represent and speak to humanity in its totality. The topics range from secularism, the Eucharist’s relation to Blackness, and sixteenth-century Brazilian cannibalism rituals to an analysis of how Mircea Eliade’s conception of the sacred underwrites settler colonial projects and imaginaries. Throughout, the contributors also highlight the theorizing of Afro-Caribbean thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, and Aimé Césaire, whose work disrupts the normative Western categories of religion and philosophy. Taken together, the essays expand the frameworks through which the philosophy of religion can take up questions surrounding the existence and nature of God, divinity, and morality.

An Yountae is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge and author of The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins. Eleanor Craig is Program Director and Lecturer, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights, Harvard University.

Chosen Peoples

Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan

CHRISTOPHER TOUNSEL May 2021 232 pages, 3 illustrations Religion/African studies Rights: World

On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world’s newest nation, an occasion which the country’s Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from Arab and Muslim Sudanese to their north and understand themselves as a spiritual community now freed from their oppressors. Less than three years later, however, new conflicts emerged along ethnic lines, belying the liberation theology that had supposedly reached its climactic conclusion with independence. In Chosen Peoples, Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict. From the creation of a colonial-era mission school to halt Islam’s spread up the Nile, the centrality of Biblical language in South Sudanese propaganda during the Second Civil War (1983–2005), and post-independence transformations of religious thought in the face of ethnic warfare, Tounsel highlights the potential and limitations of deploying race and Christian theology to unify South Sudan.

Christopher Tounsel is Assistant Professor of History and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

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Fighting and Writing

The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar

LUISE WHITE March 2021 312 pages, 8 illustrations African history/Military history/Colonial and postcolonial studies Rights: World

Fighting and Writing draws upon the robust corpus of memoirs written by those who fought on the Rhodesian side of the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In these accounts of white soldiers fighting against African nationalism (and internationalism), White finds a robust and contentious conversation about the purpose of the war and how it was conducted. More an affective history of military engagement than a chronicle of military history, the study traces how these memoirs construct two key myths about Rhodesia and its wars: one, that they were carried out by an extraordinary force of determined soldiers, Black and white, skilled in the ways of the wild, and two, that the wars consisted primarily of covert operations carried out by small groups who were not racist in any way. Reading the memoirs alongside decades of archival research and conversations in Zimbabwe, White is able not just to debunk these myths but to produce a more nuanced history of the war.

In so doing, her book opens up new narratives about the process of decolonization and independence.

Luise S. White is Professor Emerita of History at University of Florida.

The CIA in Ecuador MARC BECKER

March 2021 336 pages, 6 illustrations Latin American studies/International relations/ History Rights: World

In The CIA in Ecuador Marc Becker draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s. Emphasizing the competing roles of the domestic ruling class and grassroots social movements, Becker details the struggles and difficulties that activists, organizers, and political parties confronted. He shows how leftist groups, including the Communist Party of Ecuador, navigated disagreements over tactics and ideology, and how these influenced shifting strategies in support of rural Indigenous communities and urban labor movements.

He outlines the CIA’s failure to understand that the Ecuadorian left was rooted in local social struggles rather than being bankrolled by the Soviet Union. By decentering US-Soviet power struggles, Becker shows that the local patterns and dynamics that shaped the development of the Ecuadorian left could be found throughout Latin America during the cold war.

Marc Becker is Professor of History at Truman State University and the author and editor of several books, including The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files and Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements, both also published by Duke University Press.

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The Surrendered

Reflections by a Son of Shining Path

JOSÉ CARLOS AGÜERO

Edited and Translated by MICHAEL J. LAZZARA with CHARLES F. WALKER March 2021 152 pages, 6 illustrations Latin American studies/Human rights Rights: World excluding Spanish

When Peruvian public intellectual José Carlos Agüero was a child, the government imprisoned and executed his parents, who were members of Shining Path. In The Surrendered—originally published in Spanish in 2015 and appearing here in English for the first time—Agüero reflects on his parents’ militancy and the violence and aftermath of Peru’s internal armed conflict. He examines his parents’ radicalization, their lives as guerrillas, and his tumultuous childhood, which was spent in fear of being captured or killed, while grappling with the complexities of public memory, ethics and responsibility, human rights, and reconciliation. Much more than a memoir, The Surrendered is a disarming and moving consideration of what forgiveness and justice might mean in the face of hate. This edition includes an editor’s introduction, a timeline of the Peruvian conflict, and an extensive interview with the author.

José Carlos Agüero is an essayist, poet, public intellectual, and the author and coeditor of several books in Spanish. Michael J. Lazzara is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. Charles F. Walker is Professor of History and Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis.

Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora NICOLE M. GUIDOTTI-HERNÁNDEZ

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May 2021 360 pages, 52 illustrations Latinx studies/Gender and sexuality Rights: World

In Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández challenges the stereotypes of machismo—a shorthand for racialized and heteronormative misogyny in Latino men—with nuanced portraits of Mexican men and masculinities along and across the US-Mexico border. Guidotti-Hernández foregrounds Mexican men’s emotional vulnerability and queer intimacy, whether within their families or among other men. She examines Enrique Flores Magón, an anarchist political leader and journalist, demonstrating how he upended gender norms through sentimentality and emotional vulnerability that he both performed publicly and also expressed privately. Guidotti-Hernández also focuses on braceros, the over 4.5 million Mexican men who travelled to the United States to work in temporary agricultural jobs from 1942 to 1964. In all-male living environments, braceros forged domesticity and intimacy, sharing affection but also physical violence. Through these case studies, Guidotti-Hernández formulates a theory of transnational Mexican masculinity rooted in emotional and physical intimacy that emerged from the experiences of being racial, political, and social outsiders in the United States.

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández is Professor of English at Emory University and author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries, also published by Duke University Press.

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Experimenting with Ethnography A Companion to Analysis

ANDREA BALLESTERO and BRIT ROSS WINTHEREIK , editors May 2021 320 pages, 33 illustrations Anthropology/Science and Technology studies Rights: World

Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice.

Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects, showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data, or working with smartphones, sound recordings, and social media as analytic devices, the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography. Practical and broad in theoretical scope, Experimenting with Ethnography is an indispensable companion for all ethnographers.

Andrea Ballestero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and author of A Future History of Water, also published by Duke University Press. She also directs The Ethnography Studio.

Brit Ross Winthereik is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Ethnography at the IT University of Copenhagen and coauthor of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures.

The Charismatic Gymnasium

Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil

MARIA JOSÉ DE ABREU January 2021 256 pages, 10 illustrations Anthropology/Latin American studies/Religion Rights: World

In The Charismatic Gymnasium Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total power through a concatenation between the breathing body, theology, and electronic mass media. De Abreu documents a vast religious respiratory program of revival popularly branded as “the aerobics of Jesus.”

Pneuma—the Greek term for air, breath, and spirit—is central to this aerobic program whose goal is to labor on the athletic elasticity of spirit. Tracing the rhetoric, gestures, and spaces that together constitute this new theological community, de Abreu exposes the articulating forces between evangelical Christianity, neoliberal logics, and the rise of rightwing politics. By calling attention to how an ethics of pauperism vitally intersects with the neoliberal ethos of flexibility, de Abreu shows how paradoxes do not hinder but expand the Charismatic Gymnasium. The result, de Abreu demonstrates, is the production of a fluid form of totalitarianism and Christianity in Brazil and beyond.

Maria José A. de Abreu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.

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Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited Capital and State Building in the West Bank

KAREEM RABIE April 2021 288 pages, 31 illustrations Anthropology/Middle East studies Rights: World

In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jumpstart the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. Or as Fayyad described the conference: Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.” In this book, Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad’s rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank focused on large-scale private housing development in an effort toward state-scale economic stability and market building. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet, as Rabie contends, these investment-based policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestine’s subordinate and suspended political economic relationship with Israel.

Kareem Rabie is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University.

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Syracuse University Press Understanding Hezbollah The Hegemony of Resistance

ABED T. KANAANEH In Lebanon over the last three decades, Hezbollah has developed from a small radical organization into a major player in the Lebanese, regional, and even international political arenas. Its influence in military issues is well known, but its role in shaping cultural and political activities has not received enough attention. Kanaaneh sheds new light on the organization’s successful evo-lution as a counterhegemonic force in the region’s resistance movement, known as “Muqāwama.” Founded on the idea that Islam is a resisting religion, whose real heroes are the poor populations who have finally decided to take action, Hezbollah has shifted its focus to advocate for social justice issues and to attract ordinary activists to its cause. Kanaaneh argues that this perpetual resistance—military as well as cultural and political—is fundamental to Hezbollah’s continued success.

Abed T. Kanaaneh is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany.

November 2020 248 pages Middle East Rights: World

Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War MATEO MOHAMMAD FARZANEH

Eighteen months after Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country’s women participated in the Iran-Iraq War. Iran was divided into women of conservative religious backgrounds and liberal women. However, both groups were integral to the war effort, serving as journalists, paramedics, combatants, intelligence officers, medical instructors, and propagandists. Behind the frontlines, women were drivers, surgeons, fundraisers, and community organizers. The war provided women of all social classes the opportunity to assert their role in society, and in doing so, they refused to be marginalized.

Drawing upon primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail women’s participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.

Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh is associate professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani.

October 2020 400 pages Middle East Studies/Gender Rights: World

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The Lost Orchard

The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850–1950

MUSTAFA KABHA and NAHUM KARLINSKY The Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, devastated Palestinian lives and shattered Palestinian society, culture, and economy. It also nipped in the bud a nascent grassroots, binational alliance between Arab and Jewish citrus growers. This significant and unprecedented partnership was virtually erased from the collective memory of both Israelis and Palestinians when the Nakba deci-mated villages and populations in a matter of months. In The Lost Orchard, Kabha and Karlinsky tell the story of the Palestinian citrus industry from its inception until 1950, tracing the shifting relationship between Palestinian Ar-abs and Zionist Jews. Using rich archival and primary sources, as well as on a variety of theoretical approaches, Kabha and Karlinsky portray the industry’s social fabric and stratification, detail its economic history, and analyze the conditions that enabled the formation of the unique binational organization that managed the country’s industry from late 1940 until April 1948.

December 2020 238 pages Middle East Rights: World

Mustafa Kabha is associate professor and chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at Open University of Israel. Nahum Karlinsky is a senior lecturer at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He teaches modern Jewish history and Israeli studies.

The Best of Hard Times

Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon

GUSTAVO BARBOSA April 2021 300 pages Gender Rights: World

Even though the world is presently undergoing unprecedented levels of forced migration, there is still little investigation about the gendered aspects of refugeeness, prominently so as far as masculinities are concerned. The Best of Hard Times asks how today’s lads (shabab) from the Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, in southern Beirut, come of age and display gender belonging. In Palestine, prior to 1948, men came of age by marrying and bearing a son. For the Palestinian diaspora in Lebanon, throughout the 1970s, acting as a fidai (freedom fighter) worked as an alternative mechanism for coming of age and displaying gender belonging. Currently, however, both the economic and the political-military avenues have ceased to be options for the Shatila shabab. Through vivid ethnographic stories, The Best of Hard Times invites the consideration of more complex and nuanced views on gender. By placing men’s gender belonging right at the core of kinship, The Best of Hard Times aims to contribute to the burgeoning literature on masculinity.

Gustavo Barbosa is currently an Associate Researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Universidade Federal Fluminense/Rio de Janeiro, as well as Head of the Division for International Educational Cooperation at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Readings in Syrian Prison Literature The Poetics of Human Rights

R. SHAREAH TALEGHANI The significance of Syrian prison literature goes beyond a form of witnessing, expressing creative opposition, and illuminating the larger cultural and historical backstory of the Syrian uprising. Prison literature, in all its diversity, challenges the narrative structures and conventional language of human rights. In doing so, prison literature has played an essential role in generating the “experimental shift” in Arabic literature since the 1960s.

Taleghani’s groundbreaking work explores prison writing’s critical role in resistance movements in Syria, the evolution of Arabic literature, and the development of a global human rights.

R. Shareah Taleghani is assistant professor and director of Middle East studies at Queens College, City University of New York.

November 2020 296 pages Middle East Studies Rights: World

Turkey’s State Crisis

Institutions, Reform, and Conflict

BULENT ARAS March 2021 150 pages Turkey Rights: World

With Turkey’s much-appraised role as a democratic and prosperous Muslim country in decline over the last decade, the recent focus on Turkey has magnified the schisms of democracy against authoritarianism, secularism against political Islam, and rule of law against dictatorship. In this book, Aras addresses the key questions of bureaucratic reform; the state-society relationship; the role of the opposition and civil society in the reform process; the relationship between state capacity and conflict resolution; the Turkish state’s traditional methodology of conflict resolution and its effects on conflict reproduction; foreign policy’s role in setting the stage for reform or aversion to reform; the correlation between growing insecurities abroad and the domestic reform agenda; the reverberant effects of political, systemic, security, and identity crises on state crisis and foreign policy; the geopolitical causes of Turkey’s disassociation from a reform agenda and its increasing association with hard power choices.

Bulent Aras is a senior scholar and the coordinator of the Conflict Resolution and Mediation stream at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University and a visiting professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Figures that Speak

The Vocabulary of Turkish Nationalism

MATTHEW DETAR April 2021 280 pages Turkey/Rhetorical Studies Rights: World

Figures that Speak argues that five primary figures in Turkish public discourse operate as a shorthand for complex networks and histories of authority. The processes of representation mobilized in these five figures, Ataturk, religion, the military, the minority, and Europe, produce Turkish political culture. The five figures name institutions or actors that are topics of public debate, and yet their naming produces and reproduces historical conditions of authority between sectors of society. This familiar vocabulary functions as more than a set of descriptors of institutions, phenomena, or issues to debate in public. These figures represent Turkish history and political authority but also shape history and political authority.

Matthew deTar is assistant professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.

The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation Reections on the Art of Translating Verse

ERIC SELLIN Sellin invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of liter-ary translators.

With wry humor and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nu-anced solutions he’s developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry. The essays offer a balance of commen-tary on structural challenges as well as linguistic and aesthetic issues, giving readers practical and theoretical advice gained from a long career as a profes-sor, poet, editor, and translator.

Eric Sellin is emeritus professor of French at Tulane University. He is the author and translator of numerous books, including cotranslator of Arabs and the Art of Storytell-ing: A Strange Familiarity.

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The Intellectual Journey of Sayyid Qutb A Twin Branch of Literature and Islam

GIEDRE SABASEVICIUTE March 2021 280 pages Biography Rights: World

This book follows the intellectual career of Egyptian writer and late-life Islamist, Sayyid Qutb. Qutb was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, whose life and career has largely been defined as marked by a shift from a “secular” writer and critic to an Islamist ideologue. This historical narrative focuses on his “conversion” story, reinforcing the idea that the categories of Islamism and literature are incompatible. Sabaseviciute critically engages with the assertion that Qutb’s commitment to Islamic politics entailed a break with his literary past and argues that when taken as a whole, there is much more continuity in his life and career than previously allowed by both scholars and his contemporaries. Arguing that categories that are often imposed on the past as dualistic, such as Islamism and literature, were in reality fluid and complex, and taking into account the changing Egyptian late and post-colonial political context, Sabaseviciute finds that Sayyid Qutb moved within a world which was itself constantly moving Giedre Sabaseviciute is a postdoctoral research fellow at Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences.

Revolutions of All Colors A Novel

DEWAINE FARRIA Gabriel Mathis, a twenty-three-year-old aspiring fantasy writer and reluctant Russophile, travels to Ukraine to teach English and meets the love of his life: an international arms dealer very much out of his league. Simon—a former Special Forces medic, torn over a warped sense of duty and a child he did not want—returns to the US to pursue his dream of becoming a mixed martial artist. After spending his adolescence defending his bisexuality, Michael makes his mark in New York’s fashion industry while nursing resentment for a community that never accepted him. Farria traces the lives of brothers Michael and Gabriel and their friend Simon from adolescence to their mid-twenties, through Oklahoma, Afghanistan, New York, Somalia, Ukraine, and New Orleans. Revolutions of All Colors is a brash, funny, and honest look at the evolution of characters we don’t often see—black nerds and veterans bucking their community’s rigid parameters of permissible expression while reconciling love of their country with the injustice of it.

October 2020 208 pages Fiction Rights: World

Dewaine Farria’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, CRAFT, Rumpus, the Southern Humanities Review, and on the Afropunk website.

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Rings on the Soul ELI SHECHTMAN

Translated from the Yiddish by ROSE WALDMAN March 2021 143 pages Fiction Rights: World

This autobiographical novel, originally published in Yiddish in 1981 as Ringn Oyf Der Neshome, follows not only the life of Elisha ben-Meir, but also the lives of his family and his people—Soviet Jews under communist rule. Using a stream-of-consciousness style, which Waldman maintains in her faithful and elegant translation, Shechtman tells a story of loss, fear, imprisonment, strife, and the longing for a culture and a community that have been destroyed. During an era when many Yiddish writers were persecuted and their voices silenced, Shechtman’s novel is a testament to an incredibly difficult yet important period in Jewish history.

Eli Shechtman (1908–1996) was a Yiddish writer and the author of several novels and short story collections. His magnum opus, the seven-volume epic novel Erev, was completed in 1983. His final novel, Byim shkie aker (The Last Sunset), was published in 1994.

Letters from a Distant Relation The Yiddish World of M. Y. Berdichevsky

MICAH YOSEF BERDICHEVSKY

Translated from the Yiddish by JAMES ADAM REDFIELD May 2021 272 pages Fiction Rights: World

This book could be seen as the “anti-Fiddler on the Roof.” While humor and verbal dexterity enchant the reader and, to an extent, color the world of the Jewish small town from which he speaks, in this work, we glimpse that world in a sharp realist prose style with moments of humor and surreal, Freudian-inflected fantasy. Themes of repressed desire; poverty; relations with non-Jews; and historical upheavals such as pogroms and migrations, which rarely penetrated the quasi-idyllic borders of the shtetl, echo in the voices of a cast of memorable characters from a wide variety of social locations.

Micah Yosef Berdichevsky or Mikhah Yosef Bin-Gorion (August 7, 1865–November 18, 1921) wrote books in Hebrew, Yiddish, and German. He was one of the most important European Jewish intellectuals of his time and was virtually a household name around the turn of the twentieth century.

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University of Georgia Press Hong Kong without Us A People’s Poetry

Edited by THE BAUHINIA PROJECT April 2021 120 pages Activism/Poetry Rights: World

This is an authorless work of poetry, drawn directly from Hong Kong’s voices during the anti-extradition protests of 2019. Comprised of submitted testimonies and found materials, the poems are anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated curation. The book was edited by anonymous poets acting through the Bauhinia Project, a collective uplifting Hong Kong’s struggle through lyric and language in the same spirit of leaderlessness as the protests themselves. Under the National Security Law enacted in 2020, this book is effectively banned, and these voices criminal.

The Bauhinia Project is a collective of artists and activists seeking to bring international attention to and understanding of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, as well as to forge bonds of solidarity between that movement and struggles against oppression worldwide.

Divine Fire Poems

DAVID WOO March 2021 104 pages Poetry Rights: World

Divine Fire opens in a bedroom, the chaotic intrusions of adulthood reviving the restless bafflements of childhood. The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, like race, class inequality, and climate change. But the restlessness that the narrator evinces is merely a symptom of a larger quest for spiritual awakening,thwarted by the limits of language itself and by the ineffability of the divine.

Poet David Woo was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. The son of Chinese immigrants, Woo studied at Harvard, earned an MA in Chinese studies from Yale University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. His first collection of poetry, The Eclipses (2005), won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize.

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Kindred Spirits One Animal Family

ANNE BENVENUTI June 2021 248 pages Animal Studies Rights: World

In Kindred Spirits, Anne Benvenuti visits with individuals and groups working in animal conservation, rescue, and sanctuary programs around the world. We meet not only cats and dogs but also ravens, elephants, cheetahs, whales, farm and circus animals, monkeys, even bees. A psychologist and storyteller, Benvenuti focuses on moments of transformative contact between humans and other animals, portraying vividly the resulting ripples that change the lives of both animals and humans. As we travel with her to both backyard and far-flung locations, we experience again and again the surprising fact that other animals reach back to us, with curiosity, interest, even care. Benvenuti writes for the animal-loving public but also for anyone who loves a good story, or is interested in ecology, animal welfare, psychology, or philosophy.

Anne Benvenuti is currently a farmer, licensed psychologist, and associate editor for Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.

Minding Dogs

Humans, Canine Companions, and a New Philosophy of Cognitive Science

MICHELE MERRITT April 2021 200 pages Animal Studies/Philosophy Rights: World excluding

Studies pertaining to dog minds have been pouring out of canine cognition labs all over the world, but they remain relatively ensconced within the scientific, sociological, and anthropological communities. Besides dogs,researchers have also been probing the minds of octopi, fish, and crows, and indeed, several philosophers have weighed in on these findings.

Nevertheless, very little philosophical thought on dog cognition exists. Even less common, if not entirely nonexistent, is a critical examination of this very question—what are dogs thinking?—and what asking and attempting to answer this question reveals, not so much about dogs, but about us. This book adds to the growing discussion on canine cognition, which has been overlooked until recently, and is in need of more consideration. It also takes seriously our relationship and co-evolution with our canine friends as crucial to understanding both their minds as well as our own.

Michele Merritt is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Arkansas State University.

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NGOs and Human Rights

Comparing Faith-Based and Secular Approaches

CHARITY BUTCHER and MAIA CARTER HALLWARD June 2021 240 pages International Studies Rights: World

Given that religious and secular groups are both working on global human rights advocacy, is it important to consider whether and how these groups understand the work of human rights advocacy in similar ways, how they might collaborate and cooperate in the advancement of human rights. However, little research has attempted to compare religious and secular human rights organizations and their approaches. This book seeks to explore the extent to which religiously-oriented human rights groups differ from their secular kin and to identify the key areas of overlap and divergence. In so doing, it helps lay the groundwork for better understanding how to capitalize on the strengths of religious groups in addressing the world’s many human rights challenges.

Charity Butcher and Maia Carter Hallward are an assistant professors in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University.

Selling Hate

Marketing the Ku Klux Klan

DALE W. LAACKMAN The brilliant, amoral, and spectacularly bold Bessie Tyler and Edward Young Clarke— together, the Southern Publicity Association—met the fervent William Joseph Simmons (founder of the second KKK), saw an opportunity, and played on his many weaknesses. It was the volatile, precarious terrain of post–World War I America. Tyler and Clarke took Simmons’s dying and broke KKK, with its two thousand to three thousand associates in Georgia and Alabama, and in a few short years swelled its membership to nearly five million. is a fascinating and powerful story about the power of a southern PR firm to further the Ku Klux Klan’s agenda. Dale W. Laackman uncovered never-before-published archival material, census records, and obscure books and letters to tell the story of an emerging communications industry—an industry filled with potential and fraught with peril.

Dale W. Laackman is an award winning television producer, director, and writer turned historian.

September 2020 272 pages History Rights: World

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A Queer History of Adolescence Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures

GABRIELLE OWEN December 2020 264 pages Queer Studies Rights: World

Rich in intersectional analysis, this book offers a multifaceted and historicized theory for categories of age that challenges existing methodologies for studying the people called children and adolescents. Rather than offering critique as an end in and of itself, A Queer History of Adolescence imagines the worldmaking possibilities that critique enables and, in so doing, shines a necessary light on the question of relationality in the lived world. Drawing from a dynamic and varied archive, including British and American newspapers, medical papers and pamphlets, and adolescent and children’s literature circulating on both sides of the Atlantic, Gabrielle Owen argues that adolescence has a logic, a way of thinking, that emerges over the course of the nineteenth century and that survives in various forms to this day.

Gabrielle Owen is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Mountain Madness

Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan

CLINTON CROCKETT PETERS March 2021 184 pages Memoir/Essays Rights: World

This essay collection covers the author’s path from West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan’s Chichibu Mountains.

From 2007 to 2010, the author lived in Kosuge Village (population 900), nestled in central Japan’s peaks. He was the only foreigner in this rugged,hilly town, and the book uses these three years as a frame. The project profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and the fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. The collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities, physical and metaphysical?

Clinton Crockett Peters has been awarded literary prizes from Shenandoah, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Columbia Journal, and the Society for Professional Journalists.

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Entry without Inspection A Writer’s Life in El Norte

CECILE PINEDA Cecile Pineda—award-winning novelist, memoirist, theater director, performer, activist—felt rootless throughout much of her life. Her father was an undocumented Mexican immigrant, and her mother was a French-speaking immigrant from Switzerland. Pineda, born in New York City, felt culturally disconnected from both of her parents, while also ill at ease in US culture. Pineda brings it all together, reconciling her past (much of which she had to piece together from vague memories and parental clues) while tracing how she formed her own identity through prose and theater in the absence of known roots. But as Pineda discovers, her life story doesn’t belong solely to her but is interwoven with those of her families, whether biological or chosen, and of the world around her.

Cecile Pineda is a professor emerita of English at San Diego State University. She is the founder, director, and producer of the Theatre of Man and the author of several books, including Face, Frieze, and The Love Queen of the Amazon.

November 2020 240 pages Memoir Rights: World

If We Were Electric Stories

PATRICK EARL RYAN Winner of The Flannery O’connor Award for Short Fiction, If We Were Electric’s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities, about people on the outside who don’t fi t in, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds.

Patrick Earl Ryan was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

November 2020 168 pages Fiction Rights: World

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Stargazing in the Atomic Age Essays

ANNE GOLDMAN During World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish artists and scientists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most diffi cult questions posed by our age. Alternately celebrated as mavericks and dismissed as eccentrics, they trespassed the boundaries of their own disciplines as the entrance to nations slammed shut behind them. In this unique work Anne Goldman deftly interweaves personal and intellectual history in lucent essays that throw new light on these fi gures and their virtuosic thinking. In sentences that mingle learning with self-revelation, juxtaposition becomes an instrument for making the familiar strange, leading us to question our assumptions about who these iconic characters were and where their contributions can lead us.

Anne Goldman is a professor of English at Sonoma State University and author of Take My Word: Autobiographical Innovations of Ethnic American Working Women January 2021 168 pages Essays/Jewish History Rights: World

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University of Nebraska Press Cold War Resistance

The International Struggle over Antibiotics

MARC LANDAS This revealing history explains how politics, conflict, and profits facilitated the onset of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial drugs. It uncovers the dark history behind the discovery, production, and distribution of antibiotics. In 1949 America embargoed any material deemed of “strategic importance”—including antibiotics—from going to Communist countries, effectively shutting off the Soviet Union from a modern medical miracle. This inadvertently created a system of Soviet satellite antibiotic factories among Warsaw Pact countries that produced sub par antibiotics, which fostered an environment conducive to antibiotic resistance. Today the number of effective antibiotics available is dwindling, and the state of antibiotic resistance is worsening. The Cold War played a critical role in facilitating conditions that led to resistance — use in factory farms, over prescription, and the non existent antibiotic pipeline.

October 2020 368 pages History/Medicine/Cold War Rights: World

Marc Landas is an editor at Scientific Inquirer and freelance writer.

Bad Tourist

Misadventures in Love and Travel

SUZANNE ROBERTS Suzanne Roberts invites her reader to join her on a series of misadventures. This collection of travel inspired essays takes you to nearly twenty countries across four continents, showing the reader what “not” to do when traveling. She encounters lightning, landslides, and avalanches; snorkels and kayaks with sharks; goes inner tubing in piranha infested waters; gets drugged in a disco; and engages in brief affairs all on a search for the love of her life and finally herself. Roberts’s style makes her writing appeal both to more experienced hikers/ travelers plus women looking for motivation to travel more and to take trips alone.

Suzanne Roberts’s previous books include Almost Somewhere: Twenty Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award).

October 2020 280 pages Travel/Memoir Rights: World

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Asphalt A History

KENNETH O’REILLY July 2021 295 pages History/Environment Rights: World

Kenneth O’Reilly traces the history of asphalt—in both its natural and processed forms— from ancient times to the present to identify its importance within various contexts of human society and culture. Although O’Reilly argues that asphalt creates our environment, he believes it also eventually threatens it. Looking at its role in economics, politics, and global warming, Asphalt: A History explores all aspects of asphalt and its contribution to the larger history, and future, of the world.

Kenneth O’Reilly is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of Nixon’s Piano, Black Americans and Racial Matters.

The Leave-Takers A Novel

STEVEN WINGATE January 2021 305 pages Fiction Rights: World

The Leave-Takers is a twenty-first-century American love story and a tale of internal migration to the Great Plains. Sculptor Jacob Nassedrine and painter Laynie Jackman—he from Boston, she from Los Angeles—nearly married but broke off the engagement at the last possible moment. Four years later, having lost their families, they discover they have no one but each other. They find themselves together in the isolated, drafty eastern South Dakota house where Jacob spent his unhappy teen years, fighting for their emotional survival.

Steven Wingate is an associate professor of English at South Dakota State University. He is the author of Of Fathers and Fire: A Novel (Nebraska, 2019), Wifeshopping (Mariner, 2008), and Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations (CW Books, 2014).

Waltzing Montana A Novel

MARY CLEARMAN BLEW January 2021 240 pages Fiction Rights: World

Midwife Mildred Harrington is riding back one evening after checking on one of her pregnant neighbors when she stumbles upon an injured stranger. She soon realizes that the stranger is actually her old sweetheart from country school, and he may not be telling the full truth about how he was injured. Set in central rural Montana in 1925, Waltzing Montana follows Mildred Harrington as she grapples with feelings for her old sweetheart while also trying to overcome the horrific abuse that she suffered as a young teenager. In the end, Mildred is offered help for her trauma as well as other choices in her life, and she must decide whether to continue her isolated life or accept the hand extended to her.

Mary Clearman Blew is the author of the acclaimed essay collection All But the Waltz; two memoirs, and three books of short stories, most recently Sister Coyote.

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To Hell with It

Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno

DINTY W. MOORE March 2021 225 pages Non-fiction Rights: World

Moore started questioning the world of religion at a young age, quizzing—and often stumping—the nuns in his Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural conditioning, Moore still can’t shake the feelings of inadequacy, and asks the question: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable? In To Hell with It, Moore intersects narratives of his everyday life, reflections on his childhood, the world of religion, and its influence on contemporary culture and society.

Dinty W. Moore is a professor and director of creative writing at Ohio University. He has authored various books of literary nonfiction as well as textbooks and craft guides, most notably Dear Mister Essay WriterGuy and his memoir, Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize.

Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited New Echoes of My Father’s German Village

MIMI SCHWARTZ In this second edition, Mimi Schwartz returns to the story of her father’s German village during the Third Reich, ten years after the book’s initial publication in 2008. Schwartz’s initial quest to find out about decency in this little village of Christian and Jewish neighbors during the Third Reich seemed more urgent in today’s world—especially after she received a letter from Max Sayer in South Australia. Born in 1930, Sayer grew up Catholic in Schwartz’s father’s village during the Hitler years, and he wrote about his life for his family. Reading this unpublished memoir gave Schwartz a new perspective on daily life in the Third Reich, as experienced by a young boy: at five, attending his first Hitler parade; at eight, entering the burnt synagogue the day after Kristallnacht; at ten, worrying about the rules for wearing a Nazi cap. In Sayer’s stories, there is an unguarded honesty and a wealth of illuminating small moments and thoughts too easy to miss in oral interviews. In this new edition, Mimi Schwartz uses excerpts from Max Sayer’s memoir—appearing as interstices between her original chapters—continuing the conversation she started over ten years ago.

April 2021 205 pages, Non-fiction Rights: World

Mimi Schwartz is professor emeritus of English at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the author of When History is Personal, Good Neighbors, Bad Times of My Father’s German Village, and Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed.

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Animated Lands Studies in Territoriology

ANDREA MUBI BRIGHENTI and MATTIAS KÄRRHOLM In Animated Lands Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm focus on territory as a living phenomenon—and territoriality as an active and constantly reshaping force. They explore the complexity of territorial production through a series of parallel investigations into fundamental territorial themes, such as rhythm, synchronization, melody, morphogenesis, and animism. The notion of territory is excavated through case studies including the analysis of urban playgrounds, homemaking, the transformations of urban walls, and the stabilization of peculiar building types such as the house-museum. These empirical examples span such cities as Ahmedabad, Amsterdam, London, and Rome. Animated Lands provides a broad introduction to what a theory of territories could be and how it could help to advance sociospatial studies.

November 2020 276 pages Politics Rights: World

Andrea Mubi Brighenti is a professor of social theory at the University of Trento, Italy. He is the author of The Ambiguous Multiplicities: Materials, Episteme and Politics of Cluttered Social Formations. Mattias Kärrholm is a professor of architectural theory at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Retailising Space: Architecture, Retail and the Territorialisation of Public Space.

Buying into Change

Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco’s Spain, 1939–1982

ALEJANDRO J. GÓMEZ DEL MORAL May 2021 305 pages, History Rights: World excluding World

This book examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorship of Generalissimo Francisco Franco (1939–1975) inserted Spain into transnational consumer networks and set the stage for Spain’s transition to democracy during the late 1970s. This transition is broadly significant to both a Spanish public still struggling to redefine their society after Franco, and to scholars who have long debated the origins of Spain’s current democracy. Yet, many aspects of it remain largely unexamined.

Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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¡Vamos a avanzar!

The Chaco War and Bolivia’s Political Transformation, 1899–1952

ROBERT NIEBUHR August 2021 345 pages History Rights: World

Robert Niebuhr argues that despite widespread corruption, a lack of skills, and failed policies, Bolivian leaders in the first half of the twentieth century created a modern state because of the profound role of warfare over the Chaco. When President Daniel Salamanca hastily thrust his isolated and poverty-stricken country into the devastation of the Chaco War against Paraguay in 1932, he unleashed a number of forces that had been brewing in and outside of Bolivia, all of which combined to bring Bolivia a truly modern national identity and state-building program. With the final Revolution of 1952, politics in Bolivia became more modern than the period of either the Chaco War or the populist-leanings of all post-1899 governments.

Robert Niebuhr is the author of When East Met West: World History through Travelers’ Perspectives (Trebarwyth, 2010) as well as coauthor of Beginner’s Croatian (Hippocrene, 2009) and Beginner’s Serbian (Hippocrene, 2009).

Heroic Hearts

Sentiment, Saints, and Authority in Modern France

JENNIFER J. POPIEL June 2021 195 pages History Rights: World

This is a revisionist interpretation of Catholic women and the public sphere in Modern French history, noting how religious devotion allowed women to escape post-revolutionary concepts of domesticity and patriarchy. Heroic Hearts examines how young women, authorized by a widespread cultural discourse that privileged public action over love and marriage, sought to change the world.

Jennifer J. Popiel is an associate professor of history at Saint Louis University.

Hostages of Empire

Colonial Prisoners of War in Vichy France

SARAH ANN FRANK May 2021 280 pages History Rights: World

Hostages of Empire challenges the traditional scholarship of the Vichy regime by arguing that during the Occupation, the Vichy government managed to protect the CPOWs from a far more difficult captivity than if they had been interned in Germany. Sarah Frank examines the nature of Vichy’s imperial commitments and collaboration with its German occupiers, as well as how CPOWs fared in comparison with French prisoners. By looking at both the social and political history of the French CPOWs, Frank seeks to reconcile two previously rather distinct histories, that of metropolitan France and that of the French colonies during World War II. Sarah Ann Frank (PhD, Trinity College, University of Dublin, 2015) is an associate lecturer of modern history at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Her work has been published in several edited collections

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The People Are Missing Minor Literature Today

GREGG LAMBERT “The people are missing” (le peuple manque) is a constant refrain in Deleuze and Guattari’s writings after the 1975 publication of Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure. In this critical reflection, Lambert traces the “narrowing” of the refrain itself, as well as the premise that the act of art is capable of inventing the conditions of a “people” or a “nation,” and asks whether this only results in reducing the positive conditions of art and philosophy in the postmodern period. Lambert presents the most penetrating and systematic analysis to date of the famous Deleuzian concept of minor literature and the related notion of the missing people in the conjuncture of contemporary critical theory.

Gregg Lambert is is the author of several books, including Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae and Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari?

March 2021 295 pages Literary Theory Rights: World

Jews and Germans

Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy

GUENTER LEWY The Weimar Republic era—the fifteen years between Germany’s defeat in WWI (1918) and Hitler’s accession (1933)— has been characterized as a time of unparalleled German Jewish concord and collaboration. Even though Jews constituted less than one percent of the German population, they occupied a significant place in German literature, music, the theatre, journalism, science, and many other fields. Was that German Jewish relationship truly reciprocal? How has it evolved since the Holocaust, and what can it become? Beginning with the German Jews’ struggle for emancipation, Lewy delves into Jewish life during the heyday of the Weimar Republic when the Nazis assumed power. He then examines Jewish life in post war West Germany, in East Germany and finally in the united Germany— enlightening us about the complexities of fraught relationships over time.

Guenter Lewy is is the author of seventeen books, most recently Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers (Oxford, 2017).

October 2020 282 pages History/Jewish History Rights: World

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Thinking about the Prophets A Philosopher Reads the Bible

KENNETH SEESKIN Rethinking the great literary prophets whose ministry ran from the eighth to the sixth centuries BCE—Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Second Isaiah, and Job—this book examines their often-shocking teachings in light of their times, their influence on later Western and Jewish thinkers, and their enduring lessons for all of us. As a noted scholar of Jewish philosophy, Kenneth Seeskin teases out philosophical, ethical, and theological questions in the writings, such as the nature of moral reasoning, the divine persona, divine providence, the suffering of the innocent, the power of repentance, and what it means to believe in a monotheistic conception of God. He then he interweaves the medieval and modern philosophers Maimonides, Kant, Cohen, Buber, Levinas, Heschel, and Soloveitchik, all of whom read the prophets and had important things to say as a result. We come to see the prophets perhaps in equal measure as divinely authorized whistle-blowers and profound thinkers of the human condition.

September 2020 176 pages Religion Rights: World

Kenneth Seeskin is Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University. He is the author of several books, including Thinking about the Torah: A Philosopher Reads the Bible (JPS, 2016) and Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides.

Thinking about Good and Evil Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity

RABBI WAYNE ALLEN May 2021 254 pages, Religion Rights: World

The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God’s role in matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to modernity. Accessible and engaging to readers of all knowledge levels this books takes us on an urgent journey of Jewish exploration that will result in a better understanding of the nature of the problem and the range of solutions.

Rabbi Wayne Allen serves as the chairman of the Rabbinics Department of the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto.

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Contested Utopia

Jewish Dreams and Israeli Realities

MARC J. ROSENSTEIN March 2021 250 pages Current Affairs/Jewish Studies Rights: World

The first volume to examine the Jewish state through the lens of Jewish utopian thought from its biblical beginnings to modernity, Contested Utopia illuminates a kaleidoscope of conflicting utopian visions influencing Israel. Rosenstein’s subsequent analysis of how these disparate utopian visions collide in Israel’s attempts to chart policy and practice yields novel perspectives on contemporary flashpoints, and sets the stage for more aware, informed, and nuanced conversations about the “Jewish state” we hope to see.

Marc J. Rosenstein was the director of the Israel Rabbinical Program at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem from 2009 until 2015.

Sanctified Sex

The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy

NOAM SACHS ZION June 2021 255 pages Jewish Studies Rights: World

Sanctified Sex draws on two thousand years of rabbinic thought and law to address contesting aspirations for loving intimacy, passionate sexual union, and sanctity in marriage.

Invited into these sanctified and often sexually explicit discussions with our ancestors and contemporaries, we encounter innovative Jewish worldviews of marital intimacy— especially ardent lovemaking techniques and the arts of couple communications vital for matrimonial success.

Noam Sachs Zion’s publications include a best-selling series on Jewish holidays: A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah,A Different Light: The Big Book of Hanukkah, A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home, and Halaila Hazeh, and A Night to Remember.

New Principles of War

Enduring Truths with Timeless Examples

MARVIN POKRANT April 2021 282 pages Warfare Rights: World

This rethinking of war uses historical examples to show how recognized principles of war identified by Carl von Clausewitz in his essay “Principles of War,” and later enlarged in his book, On War which has been influential on how military thinking is outdated and flawed, and in their place proposes a new set of principles. Formulated with the intention of passing the 5,000 year test, the nine new principles of war are: Prioritized Objectives, Relative Advantage, Unity of Effort, Initiative, Surprise, Deception, Know Yourself, Know Your Enemy, and Know the Environment. By analyzing and reforming the principles of war, Dr. Marvin Pokrant provides a new, relevant and useful way to guide decisions made in times of war.

Dr. Marvin Pokrant is a retired Military Operations Analyst for the ManTech International Corporation and the Center for Naval Analyses.

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War at the Speed of Light

Directed-Energy Weapons and the Future of Twenty-First-Century Warfare

LOUIS A. DEL MONTE War at the Speed of Light covers the ever-increasing and revolutionary role of directed-energy weapons in warfare, including laser, microwave, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and cyberspace weapons. In addition, and most importantly, this book delineates the threat that directed-energy weapons pose to disrupting the doctrine of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), which has kept the major powers of the world from engaging in nuclear war.

Louis A. Del Monte breaks down the meaning of hyperwar and showcases how disturbingly close the world is coming to being fully armed in nuclear warfare.

Louis A. Del Monte is the author of Nanoweapons.

January 2021 205 pages Warfare Rights: World

Spymaster’s Prism

The Fight Against Russian Aggression

JACK DEVINE March 2021 295 pages Cold War Rights: World

Legendary former spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on the US’s intelligence and counterintelligence posture against Russia, among other adversaries. Spymasters are not spies - their mission is to run and handle spies and spy networks. They exist in virtually all sophisticated intelligence services around the world, including the more high-profile services like the CIA, SVR, SIS, MSS, VAJA and Mossad. They make the life and death decisions. The vast majority of spymasters remain unknown to the world, but there are several legendary figures such as East German spy chief Marcus Wolf and CIA Soviet officer George Kisevalter who rise above the fray. To understand current Russian aggression towards the US, it’s crucial to know the history of it. Spymaster’s Prism sheds urgent light on Russian intelligence activities by emphasizing the parallels between tactics used today and those that were employed during the Cold War. Considering this history, and present Russian intelligence activities, Devine also provides hard-edged policy prescriptions for countering Russian hostility going forward.

Jack Devine is the current president of The Arkin Group, an international risk consulting and intelligence firm and cia veteran. He is the author of Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story (Picador, 2015).

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Power and Complacency

American Survival in an Age of International Competition

PHILLIP T. LOHAUS June 2021 275 pages Current Affairs Rights: World

This up-to-date volume highlights the disconnect between America’s approach to international competition and the realities of how its adversaries conceive of war. Through an examination of foreign “active measures,” Philip Lohaus demonstrates how America’s adversaries challenge and confuse Washington’s responses and reduce the effectiveness of America’s military interventions before they even begin. Lohaus weaves together historical analyses and interviews to illuminate how China, Russia, Iran and the Islamic State conceive of war and shows how these countries’ conception conflicts with American strategic culture and current circumstances.

Phillip Lohaus is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he focuses on special operations forces and intelligence policy issues.

A Raid on the Red Sea

The Israeli Capture of the Karine A

AMOS GILBOA

Edited and translated by YONAH JEREMY BOB May 2021 225 pages, Current Affairs Rights: World

A Raid on the Red Sea is a thrilling, real-life tale of illegal gun-running in the Middle East.

Recounting the most successful Israeli intelligence operation since the legendary Entebbe hostage rescue, Gen. Amos Gilboa gives the harrowing details for the first time of the secret, close working relations between Israeli and American intelligence in the seizure of the Karine A ship.

Amos Gilboa has served in a variety of capacities in the Israeli intelligence community for fifty years.

He is an author and editor of a number of books and publications on intelligence matters, including Mr. Intelligence: Arale, the Biography of General Aharon Yariv.

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University of New Mexico Press The Believer

Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack

RALPH BLUMENTHAL March 2021 230 pages Biography Rights: World excluding World

This is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. Born in 1929, this eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Lawrence of Arabia risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to these stupefying tales. Over the course of his career his interest in alien abduction grew, ultimately developing into a limitless, unwavering passion. As Mack’s career matured, his inquiries into paranormal experience became increasingly diverse, with his scientific pursuits leading him to investigate crop circles, the legend of the Grail, and, finally, life after death. Based on exclusive access to Mack’s archives, journals, and psychiatric notes and interviews with his family and closest associates, The Believer reveals the life and work of a man who explored the deepest of scientific conundrums and further leads us to the hidden dimensions and alternate realities that captivated Mack until the end of his life.

Ralph Blumenthal was an award-winning reporter for the New York Times. He coauthored the Times articles in 2017 that broke the news of a secret Pentagon unit monitoring ufos

Shook

An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest’s Deadliest Day

JENNIFER HULL Dave Hahn is a legendary figure in mountaineering. The 2015 expedition that he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of sixteen Sherpas. Dave and his team—Sherpa sirdar Chhering Dorje, assistant guide JJ Justman, base-camp manager Mark Tucker, and the eight clients who had trained for the privilege to attempt to summit with Dave Hahn spent weeks honing the techniques that would help keep them alive through the Icefall and the Death Zone. None of this could have prepared them for the earthquake that shook Everest and all of their lives on the morning of April 25, 2015. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people in Nepal, 21 of them in an avalanche at Everest Base Camp. This is a fascinating and nailbiting story of resilience, nerve, and ultimate survival on the deadliest day on Everest.

Jennifer Hull is a writer and teacher.

September 2020 240 pages Outdoors/Mountaineering Rights: World

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Chile Peppers A Global History

DAVE DEWITT For more than ten thousand years, humans have been fascinated by a seemingly innocuous plant with bright-colored fruits that bite back when bitten. Cultures from Mexico to South America combined these pungent pods with every conceivable meat and vegetable, as evident from archaeological finds, Indian artifacts, botanical observations, and studies of the cooking methods of the modern descendants of the Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs. Dave DeWitt, a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia chronicling the history, mystery, and mythology of chiles around the world and their abundant uses in seventy mouth-tingling recipes.

Dave DeWitt is a food historian and one of the foremost authorities in the world on chile peppers, spices, and spicy foods. He has published more than fifty books, including Precious Cargo: How Foods from the Americas Changed the World, which won the iacp Award for Best Culinary History.

September 2020 376 pages History/Food Rights: World Spanish only

The Gospel According to Billy the Kid A Novel

DENNIS MCCARTHY March 2021 262 pages Fiction Rights: World

Based on a 1949 interview with Bill Roberts, one of the most credible claimants to be Billy the Kid, this novel fills in the blanks in Robert’s life. It takes us to the showdown at Fort Sumner in 1881 when Pat Garrett supposedly killed him, and leads us through all the adventures that led up to that moment. Was Billy a psychopathic killer or an impassioned young man looking for justice in a momentous time? We’ll probably never know. That’s why his story is universally appealing and this novel, based in fact but vividly imagined, gives us a glimpse at the pieced together life of a legend.

Dennis McCarthy has been a government scientist, speechwriter, and an attorney. As he says, “Because my brother was a novelist-a brilliant one at that I never considered writing fiction. That notion changed, however, when I retired and moved to the Southwest. I fell I fell in love with the landscape and the history and before long I began thinking about a story about Billy the Kid. Probably not the Billy the Kid you know, however.” This is his first book.

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The Unmasking A Novel

LYNN MILLER Best friends Bettina, Miriam, and Fiona are shocked when their dean of liberal studies dies in a single-car accident amid accusations of mishandling university funds. They suspect murder, especially after learning that the dean’s estranged wife will inherit three million dollars. Events take a surprising turn when they travel from Austin, Texas, to a Chautauqua performance in Silver City, New Mexico, where they join several others, some with questionable motives, including the dean’s wife and her lover. In the close confines of the lodge, the group brings to life remarkable women from history—including Victoria Woodhull, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Virginia Woolf. But when one woman is kidnapped and another disappears, the friends’ lives are forever changed as they realize that the masks we wear often hide chilling truths.

Lynn C. Miller is the author and coauthor of several books, including The Day After Death: A Novel (UNM Press) and Death of a Department Chair: A Novel.

October 2020 264 pages Fiction Rights: World

Georgia O’Keeffe A Life Well Lived

MALCOLM VARON Georgia O’Keeffe remains an icon, continuing to inspire generations to break barriers and embrace the natural world in both art and life. Featuring sixty-four rich, full-color photographs, this stunning new work captures O’Keeffe as she neared her ninetieth birthday, showcasing her home and companions at Ghost Ranch. While O’Keeffe and her environs have been the subject of many photographers’ work, only two haveever been specifically chosen by O’Keeffe to photograph her artwork: her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, and the photographer of this collection, Malcolm Varon.

Malcolm Varon has photographed on location across three continents in museums, collectors’ homes, art galleries, and artists’ studios. His photographs of O’Keeffe as well as his photographs of paintings and sculptures have been featured in over 175 books.

October 2020 112 pages, 64 color plates Art/Photography Rights: World

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Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry J. AGUSTÍN PASTÉN B.

This insightful volume examines the ways in which Bolaño employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism. Pastén B. coins these aesthetics “postmodernism of resistance” and argues that this resistance stands in direct opposition to critical discourses that construe the presence of hopeless characters and marginal settings in Bolaño’s works as signs of the writer’s disillusionment with the political as a consequence of the defeat of the Left in Latin America.

J. Agustín Pastén B. is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Octavio Paz: crítico practicante en busca de una poética.

December 2020 464 pages Literary Studies Rights: World

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University of North Carolina Press Lula and His Politics of Cunning From Metalworker to President of Brazil

JOHN D. FRENCH Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate migrant parents in northeastern Brazil. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to union leadership, helped end a military dictatorship—and in 2003 became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. During his eight-year administration, Lula led his country through reforms that lifted tens of millions out of poverty. Interweaving an intimate and colorful story of Lula’s life—his love for home, soccer, factory floor, and union hall— with an authoritative analysis of large-scale forces, French argues that Lula was uniquely equipped to influence the authoritarian structures of power in this developing nation. His cunning capacity to speak with, not at, people and to create shared political meaning was fundamental to his political triumphs.

John D. French is professor of history at Duke University and the author, most recently, of Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture.

October 2020 520 pages Biography Rights: World

Trouble of the World

Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital

ZACH SELL In the mid-nineteenth century, American slavery was characterized by relentless colonization, seen in the rapid expansion of enslavement to new plantations and extensive exportation not only of commodities but also of ideas. While other scholars have focused upon on commodities such as cotton when analyzing the history of slavery, this expose shows how settler-colonial land acquisition and the conversion of those lands into plantations, what the author refers to as settler slavery, became central to molding the US as an empire-state. Sell shows the US as bent on replicating itself, its methods of land acquisition, and its anti-black racism worldwide. Ultimately, Sell reveals that histories that often appear to be about commodities are in fact about racialized attempts to seize, incorporate, and transform labor and territory.

Zach Sell is a visiting research scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University.

January 2021 352 pages History/Political Theory Rights: World

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Black Power on the Move

Migration, Internationalism, and the British and Israeli Black Panthers

ANNE-MARIE ANGELO This is the story of how the Black Panther Party travelled around the world, shaping activism from London to Jerusalem. International versions of the Black Panthers depended on their own local issues, derived from similar experiences of migration and racism. More than two million people from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean migrated to the UK and Israel.

In the UK, migrants established the British Black Panther Movement in London in 1967.

Mizrahi (Arab) Jews—from countries such as Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, and Egypt—founded the Israeli Black Panther Party in Jerusalem in 1971. Through oral histories, photographs, passport visas, films, court cases, and surveillance files, Angelo explores how these Panther activists represented themselves and their politics.

Anne-Marie Angelo is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex.

December 2020 384 pages History/Social movements Rights: World

Porn Work

HEATHER BERG

Fall 2021 256 pages Social History Rights: World

An insightful tour of the pornography industry that takes porn workers as guides, revealing the boundless creativity of workers who have outmaneuvered state regulation and managerial control, to redefine work and pleasure on their own terms. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene in its conditions. It tells a story of crafty workers, a faltering managerial class, and complicated solidarities. Experts in the politics of class, pleasure, and the state, porn workers offer shrewd analyses of labor under late capitalism and creative strategies for hacking it. Blending extensive fieldwork with the insights of Feminist and antiwork theory, this book details the cutting edge of entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that porn work is an aberration from straight work, it sees porn workers’ strategies as prophetic of a working landscape still emerging. It asks what porn tells us about what’s wrong with work and what it might look like to build something better.

Heather Berg is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University, St. Louis.

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Oil Palm

A Global Environmental History

JONATHAN ROBINS Spring 2021 352 pages Enviromental History Rights: World

Oil palms are ubiquitous. Grown in nearly every tropical country, oil palms supply the world with the majority of its edible fat, and play a role in more than half of all packaged products, from lipsticks and soaps to ice cream. Robins shows how an African palm tree became such an important part of the world economy. The plant’s path around the planet was not driven by nature nor an abstract “invisible hand.” It moved amidst sweeping social transformations: slavery, industrialization, imperialism, and globalization. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries, the author is able to show how an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, spanning eras of slavery, imperialism, decolonization, and the present.

Jonathan Robins is assistant professor of history at Michigan Technological University.

The Male Chauvinist Pig A History

JULIE WILLETT Spring 2021 352 pages History/Gender Studies Rights: World

The definitive story of the Male Chauvinist Pig, revealing how an epithet for sexism was transformed into an icon, shaping the way we understand feminism, masculinity, and humor, as well as politics as we know it. Being a sexist pig transformed from insult to both a joke and a badge of honor. In time, it would transcend pop culture to define politics, informing the personas of politicos such as Donald Trump. Written with verve and wit, this book shows how the MCP became an acceptable identity in polite society, how it served to demonize feminist and reduce women to caricature, and how it served as a convenient path into hardcore conservatism and mass appeal for a number of the most influential figures in our times.

Julie Willett is professor of history at Texas Tech University.

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Sick and Tired

An Intimate History of Fatigue

EMILY K. ABEL Spring 2021 208 pages Health Rights: World

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about a host of diseases conclude that fatigue is under-recognized, under-diagnosed, and under-treated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with different types of fatigue. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. There is no way to diagnose fatigue—without medical confirmation, it’s difficult to convince others that the problem is real—and when fatigue limits one’s ability to work, society sees those of low productivity as burdens.With her engaging and lively style, Abel gives us a deeply synthetic history of fatigue and how it has been ignored or misunderstood by not only medical professionals, but by society as a whole.

Emily K. Abel is emerita professor of history of medicine and public health at University of California, Los Angeles and the author of several books, including After the Cure: Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors.

Moral Majorities across the Americas

Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right

BENJAMIN A. COWAN Spring 2021 286 pages Religion Rights: World

The story of the rise of the religious right and conservative politics will never look the same: Benjamin A. Cowan’s new history of the Christian right and conservative politics does not stop at national nor religious boundaries, unearthing how Brazilian and US activists collaboratively fashioned the religious conservatism that arose in the twentieth century. This is a brand-new, shocking argument about the rise of the religious right and conservative politics across the Americas that emphasizes that similarities between todays US and Brazilan politics did not arise by chance.

Benjamin A. Cowan is the author of Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil.

The Thing about Religion

An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions

DAVID MORGAN Spring 2021 268 pages Religion Rights: World

The default understanding of “religion” is commonly restricted to the beliefs and meaning derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan is a leading thinker who has radically expanded that framework to include the understanding that religions are fundamentally embodied, material forms of practice. Here, Morgan offers a concise primer on how to study what has come to be termed material religion—investigating how religious meaning is enacted in the material world.

David Morgan, professor of religious studies and professor of art, art history, and visual studies at Duke University, is the author of numerous books.

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Muhammad’s Body

Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage

MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT Analyzing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad’s body from the eighth through the eleventh centuries CE, Knight argues that early Muslims’ imaginings about Muhammad’s body contributed in significant ways to the construction of prophetic masculinity and authority. In rich detail, he lays out the immense variety of questions and depictions early followers produced regarding Muhammad’s sacred power (baraka)—its boundaries, effects, and limits. Drawing on insights from contemporary theory about the body, he shows how changing representations of the Prophet’s body helped to legitimatize certain types of people as religious authorities, while marginalizing or delegitimizing others. For some Sunni Muslims, Knight concludes, claims of religious authority today continue to be connected to ideas about Muhammad’s body.

September 2020 214 pages Islamic Studies Rights: World

Michael Muhammad Knight is the author of several books, including Muhammad: Forty Introductions, Why I Am a Salafi, and The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip Hop, and the Gods of New York.

Realizing Islam

The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World

ZACHARY VALENTINE WRIGHT The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya’s origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period. While introducing the group’s founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735–1815), Wright’s focus is on the wider network in which the order developed—a veritable global Islamic revival whose scholars commanded large followings, shared Ney ideas, and produced literature read widely throughout the Muslim world. They were linked, Wright shows, through chains of knowledge transmission in the face of widespread Muslim prejudice against Sufism.

Zachary Valentine Wright is associate professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar and the author of Living Knowledge in West African Islam: The Sufi Community of Ibrahim Niasse.

October 2020 324 pages Islamic Studies Rights: World

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Dancing with the Revolution Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba

ELIZABETH B. SCHWALL Spring 2021 386 pages Cuba/Dance Rights: World

Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on the art form that became the darling of the revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and folkloric dance, Schwall analyzes how and why dance artists interacted with republican and, later, revolutionary politics. Drawing on written and visual archival materials, including intriguing exchanges between dancers and bureaucrats, Schwall argues that Cubans dancers used their bodies and ephemeral, nonverbal choreography to express political concerns.

Elizabeth B. Schwall is assistant professor of history at Northern Arizona University.

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University of West Indies Press Dancehall

A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture Edited by SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH This reader contextualizes the emergence of the globally popular dancehall genre, while tracing the complex and often contradictory aspects of its evolution, dispersion and politics. This collection of foundational essays places dancehall in context with cutting-edge analyses of performance modes and expression, genre development, and impact in the wider local, regional and international socio-political milieu of struggles by black Jamaicans in particular and cultural adherents more broadly.

Sonjah Stanley Niaah is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Director of the Institute of Caribbean Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

April 2020 500 pages Cultural Studies Rights: World

The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man The Last Testament of Eric Williams

ERIC WILLIAMS

Edited by BRINSLEY SAMAROO

This book represents the final instalment of research and analysis by one of the Caribbean’s foremost historians. In this volume, Eric Williams reflects on the institution of slavery from the ancient period in Europe down to New World African slavery. The book also includes other forms of bondage which followed slavery, including Japanese, Chinese, Indians and Pacific peoples in many locations worldwide. Williams points ways in which this bondage led to European and American prosperity and the manner in which bonded peoples created their own spaces. This they did through the preservation and revival of the transported culture to the new locations Eric Williams served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1962 until his death in 1981. He is a noted Caribbean historian.

June 2020 256 pages History Rights: World

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Obeah, Race and Racism

Caribbean Witchcraft in the English Imagination

EUGENIA O’NEAL Eugenia O’Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences. Translated or interpreted by racist writers as a devilworshipping religion, Obeah came to symbolize the brutality, savagery and superstition in which blacks were thought to be immured by their very race. For many writers, black belief in Obeah proved black inferiority and justified both slavery and white colonial domination.

Eugenia O’Neal is an independent writer and researcher.

January 2020 440 pages Cultural Studies Rights: World

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Vanderbilt University Press Manifold Destiny

Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule

JOHN TOFIK KARAM For the more than six decades since they started settling at the trinational border between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, Arabs have animated the hemisphere. Their transnational economic and social projects reveal a heretofore unacknowledged venue of exceptional rule in which the community accommodates and abides multiple states’ varied suspensions of norms and laws. Arabs set up businesses and community centers at the border under authoritarian military governments between the 1950s and 1980s; thereafter, when denied full democratic enfranchisement, they instead underwent increasing surveillance from the 1990s to today. Karam reveals an unfinished history of exceptional rule that Arabs accommodate from an authoritarian past to a counterterrorist present.

John Tofik Karam is acting director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is an associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese as well.

January 2021 272 pages Latin American Studies Rights: World

Hot, Hot Chicken A Nashville Story

RACHEL LOUISE MARTIN Hot chicken is on the list of “must‑try” Southern foods in countless publications and websites. Restaurants worldwide advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville‑style.”

The James Beard Foundation recently gave Prince’s Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for inventing the dish. But for almost seventy years, hot chicken was made and sold primarily in Nashville’s black neighborhoods—and the story of hot chicken says something powerful about race relations in Nashville, especially as the city tries to figure out what it will be in the future. Hot, Hot Chicken recounts the history of Nashville’s black communities through the story of its hot chicken scene from the Civil War, when Nashville became a segregated city, through the tornado that ripped through North Nashville in March 2020.

Rachel Martin is a writer and public intellectual. Her work has appeared in O Magazine, Oxford American, The Atlantic online, Bitter Southerner, and CityLab, and she is a guest columnist for Catapult.

March 2021 164 pages Food Rights: World

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Becoming a Visible Man Second Edition

JAMISON GREEN At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies. With profoundly personal and eminently practical threads, Green clarifies transgender experience for transgender people and their families, friends, and coworkers. Medical and mental health care providers, educators, business leaders, and advocates seeking information about transgender concerns can all gain from Green’s integrative approach to the topic. This book candidly addresses emotional relationships that are affected by a transition, and brings refined integrity to the struggle to self-define, whether one undergoes a transition or chooses not to. Green’s inspirational wisdom has informed and empowered thousands of readers. There is still no other book like Becoming a Visible Man in the transgender canon.

September 2020 250 pages LGBTQ Studies Rights: World

Jamison Green is currently board chair of Gender Education and Advocacy, a non-profit educational corporation, and a board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute and the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. He has also been featured in eight documentary films and numerous articles and books.

A Laboratory of Her Own

Women and Science in Spanish Culture

VICTORIA KETZ , DAWN SMITH-SHERWOOD, and DEBRA FASZER-MCMAHON , editors A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address women’s interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm.

While women’s historic exclusion from STEM fields has been receiving increased scrutiny worldwide, women within the Spanish context have been perhaps even more peripheral given the complex sociocultural structures emanating from gender norms and political ideologies dominant in nineteenth and twentieth century Spain. Nonetheless, Spanish female cultural producers have long been engaged with science and technology, as expressed in literature, art, film, and other genres.

January 2021 320 pages Science/History Rights: World

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Victoria Ketz is professor of Spanish at La Salle University. Debra Faszer-McMahon is associate professor of Spanish at Seton Hill University. Dawn M. Smith-Sherwood is associate professor of Spanish at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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Reality in Movement

Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual

MAARTEN VAN DELDEN Reality in Movement looks at a wide range of topics of interest in Paz’s career, including his engagement with the subversive, adversary strain in Western culture, his meditations on questions of cultural identity and intercultural contact, his dialogue with both leftist and conservative ideological traditions, his interest in feminism and psychoanalysis, as well as his theory of poetry, concluding with a chapter on Octavio Paz as a literary character—a kind of reception study. The book offers a complex and nuanced portrait of Paz as a writer and thinker, as well as an understanding of the era in which he lived.

Maarten van Delden is Professor of Latin American literature and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at ucla.

March 2021 280 pages Literary Criticism Rights: World

Delivering Health

Midwifery and Development in Mexico

LYDIA Z. DIXON Midwives have long been marginalized in Mexico as remnants of the country’s precolonial past, yet Dixon shows how they are now strategically positioning themselves as agents of modernity and development. Midwifery education programs have popped up across Mexico, each with their own critique of the healthcare system and vision for how midwifery can help. Delivering Health ethnographically examines three such schools with very different educational approaches and professional goals. From San Miguel de Allende to Oaxaca to Michoacán and points between, Dixon takes us into the classrooms, clinics, and conferences where questions of what it means to provide good reproductive health care are being taught, challenged, and implemented. Through interviews, observational data, and even student artwork, we are shown how underlying inequality manifests in poor care for many Mexican women.

November 2020 232 pages Public Health Rights: World

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Lydia Z. Dixon is an assistant professor of Health Science at California State University, Channel Islands.

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For the Public Good

Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India

PATRICIA ANTONIELLO

November 2020 212 pages Public Health Rights: World

For the Public Good details the role of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), a groundbreaking, internationally recognized primary health care model that uses local solutions to solve intractable global health problems. Emphasizing equity and community participation, this grassroots approach recruits local women to be educated as village-based health workers. In turn, women village health workers collaborate to overcome the dominant double prejudices in local villages—caste and gender inequality. In one generation, village health workers have progressed from child brides and sequestered wives to knowledgeable health practitioners, valued teachers, and community leaders. Through collective efforts, crhp has reduced infant and maternal mortality, eliminated some endemic health problems, and advanced economic well-being in villages with women’s cooperative lending groups. This book describes how the recognition and elimination of embedded inequalities—in this case caste discrimination, gender subordination, and class injustice—promote health and well-being and collaboratively establish the public good.

Patricia Antoniello is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Stagecraft

VESNA PAVLOVIĆ

March 2021 200 pages Art/Photography Rights: World

Stagecraft features four extensive bodies of the photographer’s work, spanning from early 2000s to today—photographs of the Yugoslav socialist modernist hotel spaces from her internationally recognized series “Hotels”; photographs of the ceremonial space of the Yugoslav Presidential Palace in Belgrade from the series “Collection/Kolekcija”; and the recent “Fabrics of Socialism” and “Sites of Memory” series exploring the archives of the Museum of Yugoslav History. The book includes critical essays that contextualize and expound on Pavlović’s unique treatment of the photographic medium, in which a photographic moment is expanded to include the conditions of image making, production, documentation, and representation.

Vesna Pavlović is an associate professor of art, 2018–19 Fulbright Scholar, and Chancellor Fellow 2018–2020 at Vanderbilt University.

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Exhuming Franco Spain’s Second Transition

SEBASTIAAN FABER Franco ruled Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. In October 2019, his remains were removed from the massive national monument in which they had been buried for forty-four years. For some, the exhumation confirmed that Spain has long been a modern, consolidated democracy. The reality is more complicated. In fact, the country is still deeply affected by the dictatorial legacies of Francoism. In one short volume, Exhuming Franco covers all major facets of the Francoist legacy today, combining research and analysis with reportage and interviews. This book is critical of Spanish democracy; yet, as the final chapter makes clear, Spain is one of many countries facing difficult questions about a conflictive past.

Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, is the author of several books, including Exile and Cultural Hegemony.

April 2021 200 pages History Rights: World

Deviant and Useful Citizens

The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru

MARISELLE MELENDEZ February 2021 248 pages History/Gender Studies Rights: World

This book explores the conditions of women and perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout the Viceroyalty of Peru, which until 1776 comprised modern-day Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Mariselle Melendez introduces the reader to a female rebel, Micaela Bastidas, whose brutal punishment became a particularly harsh example of state response to women who challenged the system. Deviant and Useful Citizens presents a highly complex society that relied on representations of utility and productivity to understand the female body, as it reveals the surprisingly large stake that colonial authorities had in defining the status of women during a crucial time in South American history.

Mariselle Melendez is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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José Martí’s Liberative Political Theology MIGUEL DE LA TORRE

Miguel De La Torre has authored the most comprehensive text written thus far concerning Martí’s religious views and how they impacted his political thought. The few similar texts that exist are written in Spanish; and among those, mainly romanticize Martí’s spirituality in an attempt of portraying him as a “Christian believer.” Only a handful provide an academic investigation of Martí’s theological thought based solely on his writings, and those concentrate on just one aspect of Martí’s religious influences. José Martí’s Liberative Political Theology allows for mutual influence between Martí’s political and religious views rather than assuming one had precedence over the other.

Miguel A. De La Torre is a professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at iliff School of Theology-Denver.

May 2021 400 pages Religion Rights: World

Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain JENNIFER SMITH

Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin‑de‑Siècle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth‑ and early twentieth‑century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject. This archival-historical work highlights the phenomenon in medical, social, and literary texts of the time, illustrating that despite many liberals’ hostility toward the Church, secular doctors and intellectuals employed strikingly similar paradigms to those through which the early modern Spanish Church castigated female mysticism as demonic possession.

Jennifer Smith is an associate professor of Spanish in the department of languages, cultures, and international trade at Southern Illinois University.

June 2021 375 pages History/Gender Studies Rights: World

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