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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES “This is the most robust defense of historical counterfactuals to date . . . For those interested in this fascinating subject, Black’s book is indispensable.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“A concise, comprehensive analysis of an approach to history that is far more complex than either its supporters or its critics understand. Black succeeds above all in establishing counter factualism’s importance in extending the grounded imagination.” —Dennis Showalter, author of Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk, the Turning Point of World War II
“With a unique methodology, Black performs a what-if analysis of history to show how little it takes to change the world’s fate. . .This book provokes thought and speculation while also entertaining.” —Foreword Reviews
Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures JEREMY BLACK What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or “known knowns” can be fascinating and, indeed, “What if?” books are very popular. However, this speculative approach, known as counter factualism, has had limited impact in academic histories, historiography, and the teaching of historical methods. In this book, Jeremy Black offers a short guide to the subject, one that is designed to argue its value as a tool for public and academe alike. Black focuses on the role of counter factualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history, and the salutary critique the approach offers to determinist accounts of past, present, and future. JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books including War and Technology (IUP, 2013), Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871 (IUP, 2011), and War and the Cultural Turn. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.
Worldwide Rights World History 256 pages, 6 x 9 3
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES “An intense examination of whistleblower Edward Snowden that successfully wades through both partisan rhetoric and ideological constraints . . . Fidler’s work is significant because, while events are still playing out, it is actively helping to make sense of this pressing particular American crisis a lot more quickly. An indispensable resource for understanding the Snowden leaks.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The Snowden Reader is a must-read volume for every citizen who cares about protecting our fundamental right to privacy, and ensuring that our nation’s legitimate security needs are kept within the letter and spirit of our Constitution.” —Bob Barr, former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
The Snowden Reader EDITED BY DAVID P. FIDLER FOREWORD BY SUMIT GANGULY When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked intense debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden’s disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts discuss the historical, political, legal, and ethical issues raised by the disclosures. Over forty key documents related to the case are included with introductory notes explaining their significance. Brought together in an accessible format, these include documents leaked by Snowden; responses from the NSA, the Obama administration, and Congress; statements by foreign leaders, their governments, and international organizations; judicial rulings; findings of review committees; and statements by Snowden as the controversies unfolded. This volume provides a valuable introduction and overview for anyone who wants to go beyond the headlines to understand this case. DAVID P. FIDLER is James Louis Calamaras Professor in the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University. He is author or editor of twelve books, including (with Arturo J. Marcano Guevara) Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz (IUP, 2002).
Worldwide Rights (except China) Contemporary Issues, Political Science 312 pages, 28 b&w illus., 6 x 9 4
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MEMOIR “Arbogast delivers a raw and honest narrative of her life as a lover, a widow, and a woman. . .The theme of death and life, both literally and figuratively, are navigated with such emotion, it seems natural to empathize with the author in sadness, joy, love, and uncertainty as her longtime companion (later husband) Jim combats cancer. . . An excellent choice for those touched by grief, ready for a change, or just wanting to read a beautifully written memoir.” —Library Journal
“Claire Arbogast’s deeply moving memoir records with honesty and clarity how she managed to move forward with her life despite the death of her husband. Her story beautifully depicts the aftermath of deep personal loss.” —Carrol Krause, author of Showers Brothers Furniture Company: The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a City, and a University
Leave the Dogs at Home A Memoir
CLAIRE S. ARBOGAST Claire and Jim were friends, lovers, and sometimes enemies for 27 years. In order to get health insurance, they finally married, calling their anniversary the “It Means Absolutely Nothing” day. Then Jim was diagnosed with cancer. With ever-decreasing odds of survival, punctuated by arcs of false hope, Jim’s deteriorating health altered their wellestablished independence as they became caregiver and patient, sharing intimacy as close as their own breaths. A year and a half into their marriage, Jim died from lung/brain cancer. Sustained by good dogs and gardening through the two years of madness that followed, Claire soldiered through home repairs, career disaster, genealogy quests, and “dating for seniors” trying to build a better life on the debris of her old one. Leave the Dogs at Home maps and plays with the stages of grief. Delightfully confessional, it challenges persistent, yet outdated, societal norms about relationships, and finds relief in whimsy, pop culture, and renewed spirituality. CLAIRE ARBOGAST is a graduate of Indiana University. She gardens, walks with dogs, and writes in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Worldwide Rights Memoir 192 pages, 5.25 x 8 5
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES “A well-written, deeply researched anthropological investigation of the ethos—the experiential tone or mood—of Egyptian life in the twenty-first century… Schielke’s residence in the country before, during, and after the political uprisings of 2011 lends authority to his writing about the broader significance of these events… A major contribution.” —Gregory Starrett, author of Putting Islam to Work: Education, Politics and Religious Transformation in Egypt
“Egypt in the Future Tense is an incredibly exciting book. It provides an altogether innovative, compelling, and sensitive perspective on what is perhaps the most important question facing young people in the Middle East today: how to make a life in rapidly shifting, complex times whose future is uncertain.” —Jessica Winegar, author of Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
Egypt in the Future Tense
Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011 SAMULI SCHIELKE Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of the existential anxieties and stalled expectations that inevitably accompany such hopes. Drawing on many years of study in Egypt and the life stories of rural, lower-middle-class men before and after the revolution, Schielke views recent events in ways that are both historically deep and personal. Schielke challenges prevailing views of Muslim piety, showing that religious lives are part of a much more complex lived experience. SAMULI SCHIELKE is a research fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and an external lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. He is author of The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt, and editor (with Knut Graw) of The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East and (with Liza Debevec) of Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion. PUBLIC CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, PAUL A. SILVERSTEIN, SUSAN SLYOMOVICS, AND TED SWEDENBURG, EDITORS
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Worldwide Rights Contemporary Issues, Anthropology, Middle East 296 pages, 24 b&w illus., 6 x 9
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES “Remarkable both for its geographical scope and historical scale, and for its command of scholarship on a breathtaking range of subjects. I can’t imagine another historian who could attempt such an ambitious work or pull it off with such aplomb.” — William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University
“Refreshing . . . Black eschews ‘Eurocentricism’ and includes considerable material on other areas of the world that one does not usually find in such a work. Typical of Black’s writing, there is much to learn in the numerous small asides throughout the text. Taken together these form an impressive whole.” —Spencer C. Tucker, VMI
Clio’s Battles
Historiography in Practice JEREMY BLACK To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus is on the interaction between the presentation of the past and current circumstances, on how history is used to validate one view of the present or to discredit another, and on readings of the past that unite and those that divide. Black opens with an account that underscores the differences and developments in traditions of writing history from the ancient world to the present. Subsequent chapters take up more recent decades, notably the post-Cold War period, discussing how different perspectives can fuel discussions of the past by individuals interested in shaping public opinion or public perceptions of the past. Black then turns to the possible future uses of the then past as a way to gain perspective on how we use the past today. Clio’s Battles is an ambitious account of the engagement with the past across world history and of the clash over the content and interpretation of history and its implications for the present and future. JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books including War and Technology (IUP, 2013), Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871 (IUP, 2011), and War and the Cultural Turn. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.
Worldwide Rights History, US History 326 pages, 6 x 9
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PALEONTOLOGY “Likely to become a landmark reference in dinosaur ichnology. Specialists in the field and workers on the functional morphology of dinosaur locomotion will find a great deal to think about in the work. La Rioja preserves a world-class set of dinosaur tracksites, and making this information available to Anglophone readers performs a great service to the research community.” —James O. Farlow, editor of The Complete Dinosaur
Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of Rioja FÉLIX PÉREZ- LORENTE During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen. The dinosaurs that lived here 120 million years ago left their footsteps imprinted in the mud and moist soil. Now fossilized in rock, they have turned Rioja into one of the most valuable dinosaur footprint sites in all of Europe. Félix Pérez-Lorente and his colleagues have published extensively on the region, mostly in Spanish-language journals. In this volume, Pérez-Lorente provides an up-to-date synthesis of that research in English. He offers detailed descriptions of the sites, footprints, and trackways, and explains what these prints and tracks can tell us about the animals who made them. FÉLIX PÉREZ-LORENTE teaches geology at Universidad de La Rioja, Spain. LIFE OF THE PAST, JAMES O. FARLOW, EDITOR
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Worldwide Rights Paleontology 448 pages, 227 b&w illus., 30 tables, 7 x 10
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The White River Badlands
Geology and Paleontology RACHEL C. BENTON, DENNIS O. TERRY JR., EMMETT EVANOFF, AND H. GREGORY MCDONALD The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than 30 million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The book provides a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands and will compliment, enhance, and in some ways replace the classic 1920 volume by Cleophas C. O’Harra. RACHEL C. BENTON is Park Paleontologist at Badlands National Park. DENNIS O. TERRY JR., is Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Temple University in Philadelphia. EMMETT EVANOFF is Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. H. GREGORY MCDONALD is Senior Curator of Natural History in the National Park Service Museum Management Program. LIFE OF THE PAST, JAMES O. FARLOW, EDITOR
Worldwide Rights Paleontology 400 pages, 114 b&w illus., 16 color illus., 8.5 x 11
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MIDDLE EAST “Kadman provides a description of the systematic process of obfuscation, concealment, and erasure of the ruined villages, and the creation of a new map—the Israeli national map, the map of the Jewish country standing upon the ruins of ancient Judea… The publication of Kadman’s book is a cultural event of the first rank. —Ariel Hirschfeld, Haaretz
“An excellent, original, and important work [that] will immediately become a textbook for courses in the US and elsewhere.” —Ariella Azoulay, Brown University
“. . .[C]rucial reading for understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict.” —Publishers Weekly
Erased from Space and Consciousness
Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948 NOGA KADMAN FOREWORD BY OREN YIFTACHEL Hundreds of Palestinian villages were left empty across Israel when their residents became refugees after the 1948 war. Most of these villages were razed by the new State of Israel, their lands and property confiscated, but in dozens of others, communities of Jews were settled—many refugees in their own right. The state embarked upon a systematic effort of renaming and remaking the landscape, and the Arab presence was erased from official maps and histories. While most Israelis are familiar with the walls, ruins, and gardens that mark these sites today—almost half are located within tourist areas or national parks—they are unaware that Arab communities existed there within living memory. Using official documents, kibbutz publications, and visits to the former village sites, Noga Kadman reconstructs this history of erasure for all 418 depopulated villages. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and contemporary Israeli society. NOGA KADMAN is a researcher and licensed tour guide whose main interest is to explore the encounter between Israelis and the Palestinian presence in the landscape and history of the country. She is co-editor of Once Upon a Land: A Tour Guide to Depopulated Palestinian Villages and Towns.
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Worldwide Rights Middle East 280 pages, 30 b&w illus., 9 maps, 15 tables, 6 x 9
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MIDDLE EAST “Islam and Politics in the Middle East is a solid and excellent empirical exploration of the factors underlying support for political Islam in the Arab world. Tessler nuances our understanding of Islam by breaking it down into values, practices, and political orientations. He pays attention to crosscountry variation and structural influences on the role of Islam in everyday politics. This is a careful book that not only contributes to our overall theorizing and empirical understanding of political Islam, but corrects the dominant and misleading conventional wisdom about the monolithic nature of ‘everything Islam.’ Tessler brings to this project decades of expertise on this topic, a wealth of empirical data, and deep-seated understanding of the politics underlying Islam in the Arab world.” —Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton University
Islam and Politics in the Middle East
Explaining the Views of Ordinary Citizens MARK TESSLER Some of the most pressing questions in the Middle East and North Africa today revolve around the proper place of Islamic institutions, officials, and laws in governance and political affairs. This study draws on the results of surveys carried out in fifteen countries, representing the opinions of more than 60,000 men and women, which sought to discover why some individuals support a central role for Islam in government while others favor a separation of religion and politics. Utilizing the Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, the book formulates and tests hypotheses about the of the views held by ordinary citizens, offering insights into the individual and country-level factors that shape attitudes toward political Islam. MARK TESSLER is Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is author of Public Opinion in the Middle East: Survey Research and the Political Orientations of Ordinary Citizens (IUP, 2011), A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Second Edition (IUP, 2009), and editor (with Jodi Nachtwey and Anne Banda) of Area Studies and Social Science: Strategies for Understanding Middle East Politics (IUP, 1999). INDIANA SERIES IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, MARK TESSLER, GENERAL EDITOR
Worldwide Rights Middle East, Politics 312 pages, 62 tables, 8.5 x 11
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SOCIOLOGY “This is an outstanding book that analyzes the complexities of the ‘conscientious consumer’ movement in several global industries. The authors do an excellent job of outlining the debates surrounding efforts to promote decent labor and environmental conditions through various initiatives aimed at promoting ethical consumption and then illustrate the difficulties in implementing these schemes across different industries (apparel, footwear, food, wood and paper, and electronics industries) and nations. This book nicely blends theory with rich empirical evidence and case studies in ways that are easily accessible to all readers interested in learning more about conscientious consumerism. This is a must read for anyone interested in promoting social and environmental justice in today’s world.” —Richard M. Locke, Watson Institute, Brown University
Looking behind the Label
Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer TIM BARTLEY, SEBASTIAN KOOS, HIRAM SAMEL, GUSTAVO SETRINI, AND NIK SUMMERS Looking behind the Label presents an informative introduction to global production and ethical consumption, tracing the links between consumers’ choices and the practices of multinational producers and retailers. Case studies of several types of products—wood and paper, food, apparel and footwear, and electronics—are used to reveal what lies behind voluntary rules and to critique predominant assumptions about ethical consumption as a form of political expression. TIM BARTLEY is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. SEBASTIAN KOOS is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Mannheim. HIRAM SAMEL is University Lecturer in International Business at the Saïd Business School and Fellow in Management at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. GUSTAVO SETRINI is Assistant Professor of Food Studies at New York University. NIK SUMMERS is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Indiana University. GLOBAL RESEARCH STUDIES
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Worldwide Rights Sociology, Global Studies 288 pages, 6 b&w illus., 8.5 x 11
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PHILOSOPHY “Will provide fertile ground for future work in this area.” —Jill Gordon, Jill Gordon, author of Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death
“Shows readers of Plato that he remains significant to issues currently pursued in Continental thought and especially in relation to Derrida and Heidegger.” —Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver
“A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics.” —Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky
Plato’s Animals
Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts EDITED BY JEREMY BELL AND MICHAEL NAAS Plato’s Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato’s Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato’s work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato’s understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato’s bestiary in both Greek and English. JEREMY BELL is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. MICHAEL NAAS is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media and Derrida From Now On. STUDIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT, JOHN SALLIS, EDITOR
Worldwide Rights Philosophy 328 pages, 6 x 9 13
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AFRICA “Matthias Krings has brilliantly fused together vignettes of contemporary African visual mediascapes that cause us to revise our perceptions of eddies and translocations of transnational mediated popular culture to Africa and within Africa.” —Adballa Uba Adamu, Bayero University, Kano
“An original, stimulating, and convincing discussion of mimetic behaviors in the fields of cultural production and artistic expression.” —Peter Probst, Tufts University
African Appropriations
Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media MATTHIAS KRINGS Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an “original” or “faithful copy,” but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture. MATTHIAS KRINGS is Professor of Anthropology and African Popular Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He is editor (with Onookome Okome) of Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry (IUP, 2013). AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES, PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR
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Worldwide Rights Africa 288 pages, 33 b&w illus., 6 x 9
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AFRICA “A rich primary source for urban anthropology in early 21st-century Accra. Effectively shows that theater arts and the National Theatre in particular have been central to Ghana’s cultural and political history.” —Benjamin Talton, author of Politics of Social Change in Ghana: The Konkomba Struggle for Political Equality
“Skillfully argues that trickster narratives and aesthetics continue to frame the tensions between a nationalist ideology of the collective good and a neoliberal ideology of individualism.” —Debra Klein, Gavilan College
Trickster Theatre
The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa JESSE WEAVER SHIPLEY Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre from its rise as an idealistic state project during independence through the revolutionary 1980s to its electronic adaptations in the neoliberal era. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre, describes theatre events and their political and social impact, and looks into the cultural conditions in which the Ghanaian theatre evolved. Tracing how performers, directors, culture workers, and playwrights developed theatre as a new form of critical public knowledge, Shipley shows how Ananse trickster storytelling traditions were repurposed in new contexts as expressions of national identity. JESSE WEAVER SHIPLEY is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College. He is author of Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music and has produced a documentary film with the same title. AFRICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURES, PATRICK MCNAUGHTON, EDITOR
Worldwide Rights Africa, Performing Art 320 pages, 16 b&w illus., 6 x 9 15
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FILM & MEDIA “[A] welcome addition to the scholarship on Arab film. . . . [I]ncludes a rich and well selected mix of important directors from across the region [and offers] an authoritative and comprehensive accounting of each director’s biography, his or her important works, and the political, social, and cultural contexts in which she or he has worked. Clearly written and accessible, Ten Arab Filmmakers will be a welcome addition to university courses on Arab cinema. It will inform students’ viewings of these filmmakers’ works and facilitate their understanding of the contexts from which they emerged and in which they circulate.” —Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina
“The collection greatly enriches our understanding of the strains and tensions within individual countries and across the region, helping us appreciate the complexity of the region’s filmmaking context and the region’s immense cultural vitality.”
Ten Arab Filmmakers
—Kevin Dwyer, author of Beyond Casablanca: M. A. Tazi and the Adventure of Moroccan Cinema
Political Dissent and Social Critique EDITED BY JOSEF GUGLER Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent the principal national cinemas of the Arab world. Although they have produced many of the region’s most-renowned films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with few exceptions these filmmakers have received little critical attention. All ten share a concern with giving image and voice to people struggling against authoritarian regimes, patriarchal traditions, or religious fundamentalism—theirs is a cinéma engagé. JOSEF GUGLER is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent (IUP, 2003) and editor of Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence.
Worldwide Rights Film & Media, Middle East 256 pages, 40 b&w illus., 6 x 9 16
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AFRICAN AMERICAN “Karen Morrison argues that to achieve a more complete understanding of the tensions, shifts, and turns in the public discourses of race in Cuba, we first need to trace the material human relations upon which those discourses are built.” —Ileana M. Rodriquez-Silva, University of Washington
“One of only a few works on Cuban history that critically examines the intersection of gender, race, and nation . . . [and] offers a unique perspective considering changes in race making and family formation over the long term.” —Marc McLeod, Seattle University
Cuba’s Racial Crucible
The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750–2000 KAREN Y. MORRISON Since the 19th century, assertions of a common racially mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of the Cuban as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women and men make their own racially oriented choices in family formation. Cuba’s Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics of Cuban race relations by highlighting the racially selective reproductive practices and genealogical memories associated with family formation. Karen Y. Morrison reads archival, oral-history, and literary sources to demonstrate the ideological centrality and inseparability of “race,” “nation,” and “family,” in definitions of Cuban. Morrison analyzes the conditions that supported the social advance and decline of notions of white racial superiority, nationalist projections of racial hybridity, and pride in African descent. KAREN Y. MORRISON is Assistant Professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a social historian of the African diaspora. BLACKS IN THE DIASPORA, HERMAN L. BENNETT, KIM D. BUTLER, JUDITH A. BYFIELD, AND TRACY SHARPLEYWHITING, EDITORS
Worldwide Rights African American 348 pages, 8 b&w illus., 1 map, 16 tables, 6 x 9
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LITERARY CRITICISM “This volume presents ethical, moral criticism at its best: beautifully written, entirely accessible, profound in its explications of well-known texts that are here given new readings, and comprehensive in its attention to other critics.” —Anita Norich, University of Michigan
The Subject of Holocaust Fiction EMILY MILLER BUDICK Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in Holocaust fiction and in the reader’s encounter with it. Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers EMILY MILLER BUDICK holds the Ann and Joseph Edelman Chair in American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is also chair of the Department of English and Director of the Center for Literary Studies. Her major publications include Fiction and Historical Consciousness, Engendering Romance, Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation, and Aharon Appelfeld’s Fiction (IUP, 2004). JEWISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE, ALVIN H. ROSENFELD, EDITOR
Worldwide Rights Literary Criticism & Theory, Judaica 328 pages, 6 x 9 18
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