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December 2015 Hot Off The Press! RIGHTS CATALOG DECEMBER 2015 1

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FILM & MEDIA “Tom Rice’s well-researched, highly readable study of how the KKK used, made, and protested against the movies is an important, much-needed contribution to what we know about the afterlife of The Birth of a Nation.” —Gregory A. Waller, author of Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition

“... a brilliant exposé that unveils the complex, rich, and disturbing history of the modern Klan, its extensive appropriations of motion pictures for political purposes, its attacks on Hollywood, and Hollywood’s own multi-faceted responses to this powerful force of reaction.” —Charles Musser, Yale University

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White Robes, Silver Screens Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan TOM RICE The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith’s paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith’s film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom Rice explores the little-known relationship between the Klan’s success and its use of film and media in the interwar years when the image, function, and moral rectitude of the Klan was contested on the national stage. By examining rich archival materials including a film series produced by the Klan and a wealth of documents, newspaper clippings, and manuals, Rice uncovers the fraught history of the Klan as a local force that manipulated the American film industry to extend its reach across the country. White Robes, Silver Screens highlights the ways in which the Klan used, produced, and protested against film in order to recruit members, generate publicity, and define its role within American society. TOM RICE is a lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews.

Worldwide Rights Film & Media, US History, Cultural Studies 304 pages, 27 b&w illus., 6 x 9 3

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LITERARY CRITICISM “Sonya Loftis’s book is a valuable contribution to the growing critical literature on representations of autism in literature and popular media. She brings new perspectives to works we thought we knew and attention to works we might have missed. An extremely intelligent book.” —Bruce E. Henderson, Ithaca College

“This pioneering and groundbreaking study inaugurates new lines of inquiry within English and Disability Studies, situating fictional characters and texts in conversation with trends in public discourse.” —Christopher Wixson, Eastern Illinois University

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Imagining Autism Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum SONYA FREEMAN LOFTIS A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Freeman Loftis’s groundbreaking study examines literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover what impact they have had on cultural stereotypes, autistic culture, and the identity politics of autism. Imagining Autism looks at fictional characters (and an author or two) widely understood as autistic, ranging from Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Harper Lee’s Boo Radley to Mark Haddon’s boy detective Christopher Boone and Steig Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander. The silent figure trapped inside himself, the savant made famous by his other-worldly intellect, the brilliant detective linked to the criminal mastermind by their common neurology— these characters become protean symbols, stand-ins for the chaotic forces of inspiration, contagion, and disorder. They are also part of the imagined lives of the autistic, argues Loftis, sometimes for good, sometimes threatening to undermine self-identity and the activism of the autistic community. SONYA FREEMAN LOFTIS is Assistant Professor of English at Morehouse College, where she specializes in Shakespeare and disability studies. Her work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, and The South Atlantic Review.

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Worldwide Rights Literary Criticism & Theory, Popular Culture 216 pages, 6 x 9

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AFRICA “Richard Werbner has produced a work of rare depth and profound insight that is destined to become a classic in African Studies and the anthropology of religion. Readers will feel the comfort and inspiration that comes from an encounter with mastery, deep dialogue, and longstanding witness of Tswapong divining séances.” —Paul Stoller, author of Yaya’s Story: The Quest for Well-Being in the World

“Richard Werbner’s superb account of moral imagination and the poetics of divination grasps the density of its subject, matching the insights of the diviner with those of the ethnographer. The book takes its place among the very best works of Africanist anthropology as a new classic in the tradition of ethnographic divination and a necessary reminder of live and deep traditions of African wisdom.” —Michael Lambek, University of Toronto Scarborough

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Divination’s Grasp African Encounters with the Almost Said RICHARD WERBNER Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner’s skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting. RICHARD WERBNER is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is author of Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana (IUP, 2004).

Worldwide Rights Africa, Anthropology 356 pages, 21 b&w illus., 3 tables., 6 x 9 5

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MUSIC “Treats cutting-edge music with a sophisticated theoretical approach, presenting innovative ways of reading operatic narrative and music dramaturgy that will inform the best opera analysis available today.” —Andrew Davis, author of Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini’s Late Style

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Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun YAYOI UNO EVERETT Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls “multimodal narrative.” Aspects of production design, the mechanics of stagecraft, and their interaction with music and sung texts contribute significantly to the semiotics of operatic storytelling. Everett’s study draws on Northrop Frye’s theories of myth, Lacanian psychoanalysis via Slavoj Žižek, Linda and Michael Hutcheon’s notion of production, and musical semiotics found in Robert Hatten’s concept of troping in order to provide original interpretive models for conceptualizing new operatic narratives. YAYOI UNO EVERETT is Professor of Music at University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Music of Louis Andriessen.

Worldwide Rights Music 264 pages, 21 b&w illus., 52 music exx., 3 tables, 6.125 x 9.25 6

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FILM & MEDIA “A much-needed, provocative intervention in current debates about sexuality, radicalism and the cinema.” —Garry Watson, author of the Cinema of Mike Leigh

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Sex Radical Cinema CAROL SIEGEL In this provocative study of cinematic and televisual representations of “sex radicalism,” Carol Siegel explores how sexually explicit liaisons on film have shaped American cultural visions of sex and sexual politics in the 21st century. Siegel distinguishes between a liberal approach to visual representations, which has overemphasized normative equal opportunity while undervaluing our distinctive erotic selves, and a radical approach to visual representation, which portrays forbidden sexualities and desires. She illustrates how visual media participates in and even drives political policies related to pedophilia, prostitution, interracial relationships, and war. By examining such popular film and television shows as Dr. Strangelove, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, and the HBO hits, Sex in the City and Girls, Siegel takes the discussion of radical sex in the movies out of the margins of political discussions and puts it in the center, where, she argues, it has belonged all along. CAROL SIEGEL is Professor of English and American Studies at Washington State University Vancouver and author of New Millennial Sexstyles (IUP, 2000) and Goth’s Dark Empire (IUP, 2005).

Worldwide Rights Film & Media, Gender, Sexuality 244 pages, 15 b&w illus., 6 x 9 7

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FILM & MEDIA “One of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country.” —Washington Post, on the film Nothing But a Man

“We thought that the most powerful, useful political statement [in the struggle for civil rights] would be a human one.” —Michael Roemer, filmmaker, Nothing But a Man

“The finest comment to date on the Negro revolution in the South, but its primary distinction is that the comment is made through a universal theme, that of a young man’s coming to terms with himself and with society.” —Judith Crist, on the film Nothing But a Man

The Politics and Poetics of Black Film

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Nothing But a Man EDITED BY DAVID C. WALL AND MICHAEL T. MARTIN Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct reference to the civil rights movement. Despite this intentional absence, contemporary audiences were acutely aware of the social context for the film’s indictment of white prejudice in America. To help frame and situate the film in the context of black film studies, the book gathers primary and secondary resources, including the original screenplay, essays on the film, statements by the filmmakers, and interviews with Robert M. Young, the film’s producer and cinematographer, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. DAVID C. WALL is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Utah State University. MICHAEL T. MARTIN is Director of the Black Film Center/Archive and Professor in the Departments of Communication and Culture and American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Worldwide Rights Film & Media 306 pages, 32 b&w illus., 6 x 9

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POLITICAL SCIENCE “An extremely original work. . . . Black has his facts well in hand, and his interpretations are convincing.” —Kelly DeVries, Loyola University Maryland

“A germinal contribution to the study of geopolitics, international relations, and nationstate mechanisms for achieving predominance and hegemony in world affairs. . . . [It] is superlatively organized and written in eminently readable, clear, literary, and engaging prose. . . . Black has opened new frontiers of explanation and reference for future investigators.” —Peter Brown, Rhode Island College

Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance

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JEREMY BLACK History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. The study of power, in foreign policies and actions of states in time and space, is an important element in the understanding both of international relations and of the development of states and of state systems. Approaching state strategy and policy from the spatial angle, Jeremy Black relates this angle to the changing perceptions of power and the international system. Black argues that just as the perception of power is central to issues of power, so place, and its constraints and relationships, is partly a matter of perception, not merely map coordinates. Perceptions of geographical place are one means by which states and their population make sense of their situation, and thus geopolitics is as much about ideas and perception as it is about the actual spatial dimensions of power. Black’s study ranges widely, examining geography and the spatial nature of state power from the 15th century to the present day. He considers the rise of British power, geopolitics and the age of Imperialism, the Nazis and World War II, and the Cold War, and he looks at the key theorists of the latter 20th century, including Henry Kissinger, Francis Fukuyama and Samuel P. Huntington, Philip Bobbitt, Niall Ferguson, and others. JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books including Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures (IUP, 2015); Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice (IUP, 2015); The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World; War and Technology (IUP, 2013); and Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871 (IUP, 2011).

Worldwide Rights Political Science, World History 352 pages, 6 x 9

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RELIGION “While respecting certain, perhaps unbridgeable differences, this book draws some surprising and fascinating points of comparison. It illuminates aspects of Pentecostal Christianity and Tillichian theology by bringing them together in compelling and highly creative ways.” —Daniel J. Peterson, Seattle University

“This is the first sustained encounter between the theological thought of one of the greatest modern Protestant theologians, Paul Tillich, and one of the most significant contemporary movements in Christianity, Pentecostalism.” —Russell Re Manning, Bath Spa University

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Paul Tillich and Pentecostal Theology Spiritual Presence and Spiritual Power EDITED BY NIMI WARIBOKO AND AMOS YONG Paul Tillich (1886–1965) is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. By bringing his thought together with the theology and practices of an important contemporary Christian movement, Pentecostalism, this volume provokes active, productive, critical, and creative dialogue with a broad range of theological topics. These essays stimulate robust conversation, engage on common ground regarding the work of the Holy Spirit, and offer significant insights into the universal concerns of Christian theology and Paul Tillich and his legacy. NIMI WARIBOKO is Katherine B. Stuart Professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological Seminary. He is author of Economics in Spirit and Truth: A Moral Philosophy of Finance. AMOS YONG is Professor of Theology and Mission and Director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Seminary. He is editor (with James K. A. Smith) of Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences (IUP, 2010).

Worldwide Rights Religion 266 pages, 6 x 9 10

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PHILOSOPHY “Mjaaland reveals a radical Luther whose break with prior metaphysics sowed the seeds for deep cultural struggles into the future in ways that came to frighten even Luther himself.” —Paul S. Rowe, Trinity Western University

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The Hidden God Luther, Philosophy, and Political Theology MARIUS TIMMANN MJAALAND In this phenomenological reading of Luther, Marius Timmann Mjaaland shows that theological discourse is never philosophically neutral and always politically loaded. Centering his discussion on the theme of destruction, which is important in Luther’s early writings, Mjaaland challenges the familiar notion that theology is a matter of faith and philosophy a matter of reason. By linking Luther to Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida, Mjaaland establishes connections between destruction and deconstruction and draws philosophy, politics, and theology together in the light of Luther’s radical critique of religion. MARIUS TIMMANN MJAALAND is Professor for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Oslo. He is author of Autopsia: Self, Death, and God after Kierkegaard and Derrida.

Worldwide Rights Philosophy 248 pages, 6 x 9 11

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POPULAR CULTURE “A touching gift book that also offers an unusual window into American history.” —Library Journal

“A heartwarming and delightful collection, dating back to the 1930s...” —Huffington Post

“Some of the most poignant, hilarious and unusual letters from around the world. . .” —The Examiner

“Spanning nine decades, from the 1930s through the 2010s, the letters provide a window into the ever-shifting economic and cultural landscape of modern America. It also will help everyone understand why the unique role of Santa Claus in the popular imagination is bound to endure.” —The Weekly Standard

Letters to Santa Claus THE ELVES FOREWORD BY PAT KOCH, HEAD ELF AFTERWORD BY EMILY WEISNER THOMPSON For years, children and adults have stuffed their candid dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes addressed to Santa Claus. Whether the envelopes come with stamps or without, are addressed to “The Big Red Guy at Jingle Bells Lane” or simply “To Santa,” for over 100 years, millions of these letters have poured into Santa Claus, Indiana. Arriving from all corners of the globe, the letters ask for toys, family reunions, snow, and help for the needy—sometimes the needy being the writers themselves. They are candid, heartfelt, and often blunt. Many children wonder how Santa gets into their chimneyless homes. One child reminds Santa that she has not hit her brothers over 1,350 times that year, and another respectfully requests two million dollars in “cold cash.” One child hopes to make his life better with a time machine, an adult woman asks for a man, and one miscreant actually threatens Santa’s reindeer! Containing more than 200 actual letters and envelopes from the naughty and nice reaching back to the 1930s, this moving book will touch readers’ hearts and bring back memories of a time in our lives when the man with a white beard and a red suit held out the hope that our wishes might come true. PAT KOCH is founder of the Santa Claus Museum & Village in Santa Claus, Indiana. Since 1943, she has worked tirelessly to make sure every child who writes to Santa Claus receives a response. Pat received her MA in Pastoral Ministry in 2002 at the age of 70. EMILY WEISNER THOMPSON, Executive Director of the Santa Claus Museum & Village, is a historian and author of Images of America: Santa Claus. She holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in History from American University.

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Worldwide Rights Popular Culture 224 pages, 270 color illus., 8.5 x 11

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RAILROADS “Jack Delano had a successful career as a photographer and was widely recognized for his evocative scenes of railway workers and their equipment. In this book, Reevy has presented a topical summary for a comprehensive and well-designed coverage of this worthy subject.” —J. Parker Lamb, author of Railroads of Meridian

“Tony Reevy has given us an intimate, wellresearched masterwork about Jack Delano’s rail-related photography created during his early 1940s tenure with the FSA/OWI. Delano’s photography is foregrounded and given the fulsome aesthetic and historical consideration it deserves. Coupled with Reevy’s thoughtful essays, a deeper contextual appreciation of Delano’s imagery—and its heretofore underrated position within the pantheon of American photography—emerges.” —Jeff Brouws, Director for Center for Railroad Photography and Art

The Railroad Photography of Jack Delano TONY REEVY FOREWORD BY PABLO DELANO Born in the Ukraine, photographer Jack Delano moved to the United States in 1923. After graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, Delano worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) as a photographer. Best known for his work for the Office of War Information during 1940–1943, Jack Delano captured the face of American railroading in a series of stunning photographs. His images, especially his portraits of railroad workers, are a vibrant and telling portrait of industrial life during one of the most important periods in American history. This remarkable collection book features Delano’s photographs of railroad operations and workers taken for the OWI in the winter of 1942/43 and during a cross-country journey on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, plus an extensive selection of his groundbreaking color images. The introduction provides the most complete summary of Delano’s life published to date. Both railroad and photography enthusiasts will treasure this worthy tribute to one of the great photographers of the thirties and forties. TONY REEVY is Senior Associate Director of the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Worldwide Rights Railroads & Transportation 204 pages, 33 color illus., 140 b&w illus., 3 maps, 11 x 10 13

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RAILROADS “H. Roger Grant has brought his considerable research and writing skills to the story of a unique and exotic present-day railroad enterprise that . . . makes for fascinating reading.” —Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., author of The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad

“Railroaders without Borders covers the recent appearance of a revolutionary railway holding company, whose purpose has been to acquire and rejuvenate properties that have suffered financial failure. While its 1987 beginning concerned a Pennsylvania company, its later ventures have spanned the globe. Grant’s detailed narratives follow RDC’s growth through both successes and failures.” —J. Parker Lamb, author of Railroads of Meridian

Railroaders without Borders

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A History of the Railroad Development Corporation H. ROGER GRANT For over 25 years, the creatively-led Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) has rejuvenated a series of down-and-out and even defunct railroads. Launched in 1987 by the Henry Posner III, this investment and management company has demonstrated that it is possible both to have a conscience and to earn a profit in today’s railroad industry. With ventures on four continents, RDC has created an admirable record of long-term commitments, respect for local cultures, and protection of the public interest. H. Roger Grant presents a first-hand look at this unique business operation and its triumphs and disappointments. H. ROGER GRANT is Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University. He is author of over 30 books, including The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South (IUP, 2014), Railroads and the American People (IUP, 2012), Iowa’s Railroads: An Album (with Don L. Hofsommer) (IUP, 2009), and Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution (IUP, 2008).

Worldwide Rights Railroads & Transportation 256 pages, 64 b&w illus., 9 maps, 7 x 10 14

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MIDDLE EAST “Zuzanna Olszewska’s virtuoso study explores how young progressive Afghan intellectuals use the writing and performance of poetry as a prestigious discourse, to sustain community and claim dignity in exile. Her work makes an essential new contribution in Persian literary studies, ethnolinguistics, and refugee cultural studies worldwide.” —Margaret A. Mills, Professor Emerita of Persian and Folklore, Ohio State University

“Well beyond its focus on a community of Persianspeaking Afghan intellectuals living in exile in Mashhad, Iran, over the past three decades, The Pearl of Dari offers the reader the precious pearl of a genuine reading and learning experience. Zuzanna Olszewska combines solid scholarship with uplifting sensitivity to create a lively narrative replete with joyful discoveries of genuine personhood, agency, and humanity in the midst of multiple marginalities, an account of growing up amid layer upon layer of tension, bravely defying overwhelming odds.” —Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland

The Pearl of Dari

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Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran ZUZANNA OLSZEWSKA The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the “Pearl of Dari” cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in Afghanistan. Afghan immigrants in Iran, refugees from the Soviet war in Afghanistan, are marginalized and restricted to menial jobs and lower-income neighborhoods. Ambitious and creative refugee youth have taken to writing poetry to tell their story as a group and to improve their prospects for a better life. At the same time, they are altering the ancient tradition of Persian love poetry by promoting greater individualism in realms such as gender and marriage. Zuzanna Olszewska offers compelling insights into the social life of poetry in an urban, Middle Eastern setting largely unknown in the West. ZUZANNA OLSZEWSKA is Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Oxford University.

Worldwide Rights Middle East, Poetry 288 pages, 20 b&w illus., 6 x 9 15

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AFRICA “A masterful book that explores a little known part of Africa and makes it the showcase for transformative changes involving colonial agents, local subjects, religious narratives, and unpredictable outcomes.” —Bruce Lawrence, author of Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia

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West Africa’s Women of God Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition ROBERT M. BAUM West Africa’s Women of God examines the history of direct revelation from Emitai, the Supreme Being, which has been central to the Diola religion from before European colonization to the present day. Robert M. Baum charts the evolution of this movement from its origins as an exclusively male tradition to one that is largely female. He traces the response of Diola to the distinct challenges presented by conquest, colonial rule, and the post-colonial era. Looking specifically at the work of the most famous Diola woman prophet, Alinesitoué, Baum addresses the history of prophecy in West Africa and its impact on colonialism, the development of local religious traditions, and the role of women in religious communities. ROBERT M. BAUM is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Religion at Dartmouth College. He is author of Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia.

Worldwide Rights Africa, Religion 312 pages, 6 b&w illus., 4 maps, 6 x 9 16

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AFRICA “Particularly valuable for the manner in which religious or mystical notions of evil are linked to more secular ones, notably violence and warfare, fetishes, gender constructs, psychoanalytic processes, personhood, theft, transnational connections, and apartheid.” —Isak Niehaus, co-author of Witchcraft, Power and Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld

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Evil in Africa Encounters with the Everyday EDITED BY WILLIAM C. OLSEN AND WALTER E. A. VAN BEEK FOREWORD BY DAVID PARKIN William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity. WILLIAM C. OLSEN lectures in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University. WALTER E. A. VAN BEEK is Professor of Anthropology of Religion at Tilburg University.

Worldwide Rights Africa, Religion 404 pages, 6 x 9 17

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AFRICAN AMERICAN “An illuminating study that promises to make significant inroads in the field of African American literary criticism and American studies. Larkin poses a series of provocative queries about the ‘politics’ of writing, reading, and interpreting 20th century literature by African and Caribbean American writers.” —Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination

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Race and the Literary Encounter Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett LESLEY LARKIN What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison’s words, “a race of readers that understands itself to be ‘universal’ or race-free”? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts interrupt, manage, and manipulate, employing thematic, formal, and performative strategies in order to multiply meanings for multiple readers, teach new ways of reading, and enable the emergence of antiracist reading subjects. Analyzing works by James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Percival Everett, Sapphire, and Toni Morrison, Lesley Larkin covers a century of African American literature in search of the concepts and strategies that black writers have developed in order to address and theorize a diverse audience, and outlines the special contributions modern and contemporary African American literature makes to the fields of reader ethics and antiracist literary pedagogy. LESLEY LARKIN is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. Her research on race and reader ethics has appeared in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, MELUS, and Callaloo.

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Worldwide Rights African American, Literature 294 pages, 6 x 9

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ANTHROPOLOGY “Readers of this volume are presented with a strong case for the relevance of a particular (and major) strand within the phenomenological tradition to anthropology, along with several lucid demonstrations of how that strand can be used within anthropological analyses.” —Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University

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Phenomenology in Anthropology A Sense of Perspective EDITED BY KALPANA RAM AND CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL JACKSON This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies. The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in anthropology beyond the areas in which it has been most influential­­—studies of sensory perception, emotion, bodiliness, and intersubjectivity—into new areas of inquiry such as martial arts, sports, dance, music, and political discourse. KALPANA RAM is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University and Director of the India Research Centre. Her books include Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocations of the Modern. CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University. His books include Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves (IUP, 2008).

Worldwide Rights Anthropology, Philosophy 336 pages, 17 b&w illus., 6 x 9 19

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