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A Nation of Family and Friends?
Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
Aarti Ratna
Critical Issues in Sport and Society
April 2024 164pp
9781978834118 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781978834125 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between South Asian women and sporting and leisure cultures. She uses the sociological concepts of family and friends, particularly as they relate to an analysis of wider debates about the complexities of race, gender, and the nation.
A Winning Dialect
Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway
Thea R. Strand
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
June 2024 160pp 6 b&w illus., 2 b&w maps, 5 b&w figures
9781487545963 £18.99/ $24.95 PB
9781487545956 £52.00/$65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.
From 1st April 2024
Anime's Knowledge Cultures
Geek, Otaku, Zhai
Jinying Li
March 2024 344pp 57 b&w illus.
9781517916282 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517916275 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Li analyzes anime culture beyond the national and subcultural frameworks of Japan or Japanese otaku, instead theorizing anime’s transnational, transmedial network as the epitome of the postindustrial knowledge culture of global geekdom. By investigating the the anime boom and global geekdom, Li reshapes how we understand anime culture in relation to changing social and technological environments.
A War of Colors
Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar
Beirut
Nadine A. Sinno
April 2024 320pp 16-page color insert, 85 b&w photos
9781477328743 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In A War of Colors, Sinno examines how graffiti and street art have been used in postwar Beirut to comment on the changing social dynamics of the region. Through analyzing graffiti, makers can reclaim cityscapes that were damaged by militias during the war. Copiously illustrated with images, this book is a visually captivating journey of both scarred and polished walls in the city.
Africanfuturism
African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds
Kimberly Cleveland
Contributions by Ainehi Edoro
Africa in World History
February 2024 216pp 15 color illus.
9780821411483 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
A comparative investigation of speculative expression by African creatives, this book features diverse examples of Africanfuturism from across the continent and in different media, including art, literary fiction, film, song lyrics, and comic books. The book is appropriate for students, academics, and general readers.
At the Vanguard of Vinyl
A Cultural History of the LongPlaying Record in Jazz
Darren Mueller
March 2024 448pp 20 illus.
9781478030072 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781478025818 £106.00/ $117.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the longplaying record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s.
Black Elders
The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom
Frederick Knight
Early American Studies
February 2024 248pp 10 b&w illus., 6 graphs, 2 tables
9781512825664 £36.00/ $39.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Drawing on a wide array of printed and archival sources, including slave narratives, plantation records, and letters, Black Elders offers a unique window into the individual and collective lives of African Americans.
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling Women, Memory, and Public Space
Edited by Valentina RozasKrause and Andrew M. ShankenBerkeley Forum in the Humanities
May 2024 272pp 71 b&w illus.
9781531506391 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781531506384 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.
Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
Tara López
American Music Series
June 2024 208pp 17 b&w photos
9781477324813 £18.99/ $21.95 PB
9781477329672 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In Chuco Punk, Tara López dives into the rebellious sonic history of the West Texas city of El Paso drawing, through more than seventy interviews with punks, flyers, photos, and other memorabilia. Covering the late 1970s through the early 2000s, López moves beyond the breakout bands to shed light on how the scene influenced the entire topography of punk rock.
Bottoms Up
Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance
Xiomara Verenice CervantesGomez
Sexual Cultures
August 2024 272pp 8 b&w images
9781479829156 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479829118 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Placing particular emphasis on questions of queer and trans Mexican embodiment, CervantesGómez explains how Mexicanness is constituted through discourses of exposure.
Chaos and the Automaton
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi e-flux
May 2024 320pp 10 b&w illus.
9781517917111 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517917104 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Chaos and the Automaton is the first volume to collect Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s extensive collaboration with e-flux. The selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi’s prescient interventions into more than a decade of social turmoil, as well as bizarre new cultural occurrences that were consequences.
Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets
Israel in the American Orbit, 1967-1973
Oz Frankel
July 2024 344pp
9781503639522 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503636262 £125.00/ $140.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the late 1960s, Israel became more closely entwined with the United States not just as a strategic ally but also through its intensifying intimacy with American culture, society, and technology. Taking an expansive view of Israeli–American encounters, historian Oz Frankel reveals their often unexpected consequences.
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain
Edited by Susan Larson Toronto IbericJuly 2024 400pp 44 b&w illus., 1 b&w table
9781487529109 £69.00/ $90.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain examines the evolution of domestic space through an analysis of the media-driven concept of comfort.
From 1st April 2024
Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry
Art, Affect, and Labor
Tiffany Rae Pollock
May 2024 186pp 13 b&w halftones, 3 maps
9781501774935 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781501774928 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the evolution of fire dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic, touristoriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a close consideration of the role of affect in the lives of fire dancers in the ever-changing scene. Pollock examines how they reimagine their labor, lives, and communities in Thailand's tourism industry.
Global Guyana
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Oneka LaBennett
April 2024 256pp 4 b&w images
9781479827015 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479826995 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing from archival research and oral history, this book exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana. LaBennett employs the powerful analytic of the pointer broom to disentangle the symbiotic relationship between Guyanese women’s gendered labor and global racial capitalism.
Fandom Is Ugly
Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
Mel Stanfill
Critical Cultural Communication
August 2024 272pp
9781479824960 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479824953 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that reactionary politics and media fandoms go hand in hand, and to understand one, we need to understand the other. Drawing on a corpus of angry social media posts, Stanfill finds that ugly moments happen when deep emotional attachments collide with social structures.
Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
Edited by Li Guo, Douglas Eyman and Hongmei SunMay 2024 272pp 13 b&w illus., 2 tables
9780295752402 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752396 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In exploring games and practices of play across social and historical contexts, this volume examines representations of gender, class, materiality, and imaginations of the nation in Chinese and Sinophone contexts, while addressing ways in which games inhabit, represent, disrupt, or transform cultural and social practices.
Gold Dust on the Air
Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture
Molly A. Schneider
July 2024 280pp 5 b&w photos
9781477329276 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, anthology dramas presented “quality” television programming meant to provide cultural uplift to American society. In Gold Dust on the Air, Schneider traces a cultural history of the “Golden Age” anthology by drawing on archival research, deep textual examination, and scholarship on both television history and broader American culture.
How the Earth Feels
Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Dana Luciano
ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
January 2024 256pp 5 illus.
9781478025702 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020967 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world.
Jump
Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality
Sam C. Tenorio
April 2024 208pp 6 b&w images
9781479828296 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781479828289 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In a period of increasing political mobilization, Jump attends to the layers of confinement that constitute the racial and gendered hierarchies of the antiblack world. Tenorio proposes a Black anarchist politics of refusal that helps us to think dissent anew and explores the voyages of the Black Star Line in defiance of the bordered authority of the nation state.
Like Children
Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America
Camille Owens
Performance and American Cultures
July 2024 352pp 32 b&w images, 5 color images
9781479812929 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479812912 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Like Children recenters the history of American childhood around Black children and rewrites the story of the human through their acts. Through the stories of Black and disabled children spectacularized as prodigies, Owens tracks enduring white investment in Black children’s power and value, and a pattern of Black children performing beyond white containment.
Identity Capitalists
The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality
Nancy Leong
August 2024 240pp
9781503640153 £16.99 / $20.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leong coins the term "identity capitalist" to label the powerful insiders who eke out social and economic value from people of color, women, LGBTQ people, the poor, and other outgroups.
Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century Transgressing the Frame
James Scorer
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
June 2024 272pp 25 b&w illus.
9781477329023 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of twenty-first-century Latin American comics, this book documents how these works move beyond national boundaries and explores new aspects of its creators.
Like Water
A Cultural History of Bruce Lee
Daryl Joji Maeda
April 2024 336pp 9 b&w illus.
9781479830732 £16.99/ $19.95 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Daryl Joji Maeda’s multifaceted account of Bruce Lee’s legacy uniquely traces how movements and migrations across the Pacific Ocean structured the cultures Bruce Lee inherited, his martial, his films, and the world he left behind. A unique blend of cultural history and biography, Like Water unearths the cultural strands that Lee intertwined in his rise to stardom.
Livestreaming
An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter
EL Putnam
Forerunners: Ideas First
January 2024 98pp
9781517917098 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In this book, EL Putnam takes up the implications of Livestreaming technology, arguing that livestreamed internet broadcasts invite distinctive means of relating to others. Treating humans and technologies as inherently relational, Putnam considers how livestreaming constitutes new patterns of being together that are complex, ambivalent, and transformative.
Maricas
Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982
Javier Fernández-Galeano
Engendering Latin America
June 2024 322pp
9781496239556 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781496234971 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people, who despite state repression and sexual violence, carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s.
Millennial Style
The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
February 2024 184pp 7 illus.
9781478030201 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478025955 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Writerly and experimental, Millennial Style theorizes contemporary black art as the holding (or hoarding) of black mortal and material resources against the injuries of social death, as the fashioning of relational ethics, and as exuberant black world-building in ruinous times.
Made in Asia/America
Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us
Edited by Christopher B. Patterson and Tara FicklePower Play: Games, Politics, Culture
April 2024 384pp 29 illus.
9781478030263 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478026037 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the key role video games play within the racemakings of Asia/America. Each of its fourteen critical essays and five roundtables with twenty Asian/ American game makers, examine the historical entanglements of games, Asia, and America, and reveal the ways games offer new modes of imagining imperial violence, racial difference, and coalition.
Matters of Inscription
Reading Figures of Latinidad
Christina A. León
July 2024 304pp 16 b&w images
9781479816781 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479816774 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Matters of Inscription explores feminist and queer inscriptions of Latinidad, encompassing the intersections of materiality and semiotics in art, performance, poetry, plays, and fiction. By focusing on the interplay of materiality and semiotics, Matters of Inscription challenges conventional approaches of what Latinx might mean and instead calls for analysis that goes beyond individual biographies.
Monuments Decolonized
Algeria's French Colonial Heritage
Susan Slyomovics
Worlding the Middle East
July 2024 368pp
9781503639485 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503632899 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century. But following Algeria's independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France. Slyomovics follows the afterlives of Frenchbuilt war memorials in Algeria and those taken to France. She analyzes the colonial nostalgia, dissonant heritage, and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art.
Monuments for Posterity
Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time
Antony Kalashnikov
July 2024 216pp 15 b&w halftones
9781501774270 £23.99/ $27.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. Kalashnikov analyzes what cultural factors prompted the sudden and powerful yearning to be remembered, and most importantly, what the culture of self-commemoration revealed about changing outlooks on the future.
Nordic Utopia
African Americans in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Leslie Anne
Anderson with Ethelene Whitmire, Temi Odumosu, and Ryan Thomas Skinner
July 2024 112pp 64 color illus.
9798987929346 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
During the twentieth century, Black Americans visited and lived in Nordic countries, studying, working, and seeking adventure, love, freedom to explore sexuality, and distance from Jim Crow segregation. Nordic Utopia captures these journeys and reflects on how some African Americans have called and continue to call Nordic countries home.
One and All The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty
Laikwan Pang
April 2024 264pp
9781503638815 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503638228 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Laikwan analyzes the historical roots of Chinese sovereignty by surveying the four different political structures of modern China—imperial, republican, socialist, and post-socialist—and the dramatic ruptures between them. With the possibility of a new Cold War looming large and globalization disintegrating, Pang provides a timely reevaluation of the logic of sovereignty in China as power, discourse, and a basis for governance.
Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition
Sora Y. Han
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
March 2024 272pp 21 illus.
9781478027836 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020974 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Han’s poetic meditations on freedom struggle come alive in the empty spaces between words, letters, and pictograms spanning her many languages—English, Korean, Chinese, jazz, law, and poetry.
Nothing Happened A History
Susan A. Crane
April 2024 264pp
9781503640115 £14.99 / $17.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Susan A. Crane moves effortlessly between different modes of seeing Nothing, drawing on visual analysis and cultural studies to suggest a new way of thinking about history. By remembering how Nothing happened, or how Nothing is the way it was, or how Nothing has changed, we can recover histories that were there all along
Organizing Color
Toward a Chromatics of the Social Timon Beyes
Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
March 2024 292pp
9781503638617 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638303 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, Organizing Color demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with colour's allure and flux. This book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization—a "chromatics of organizing"— that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color.
Out of the World
Peter Sloterdijk
Translated by Corey A.
Dansereau and Gill Zimmermann
Cultural Memory in the Present
May 2024 256pp
9781503639003 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503633292 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this essential work, the preeminent philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk develops a theory of consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history.
Preoccupied
Indigenizing the Museum
Editedby
Dare Turner and Leila GrotheMay 2024 160pp 50 color plates, 15 color illus.
9780912298023 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Published on the occasion of the “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum” initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples’ pivotal role in North American history. The written and visual contributions address and refute the oppressive and pervasive hierarchies of colonialism upon which museums are based.
Red Migrations
Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917
Edited by Bradley A. Gorski and Philip Gleissner
September 2024 432pp 29 b&w illus.
9781487543884 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Foregrounding transnational movements in and around Soviet culture, Red Migrations rethinks the field of migration studies in socialist Eastern Europe.
Pop Islam
Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media
Rosemary Pennington
April 2024 214pp 37 b&w illus., 1 b&w table
9780253069375 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253069368 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media traces narratives found in contemporary American comic books, scripted and reality television, fashion magazines, comedy routines, and movies to understand how they reveal nuanced Muslim identities to American audiences, even as their accessibility obscures their diversity.
Queer Obscenity
Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain
Javier Fernandez Galeano
July 2024 264pp
9781503639508 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503638754 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Under Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation initiatives that have bequeathed us an extensive queer pornographic archive. Galeano demonstrates how the incongruities of the Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) and Franco (1939–1975) regimes were manifested in the regulation of erotic material cultures.
SARS Stories
Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic
Belinda Kong
Sinotheory
February 2024 312pp
9781478025665 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020929 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Belinda Kong examines the Chinese popular culture archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, from music to television to humor, to show how Chinese people survived the pandemic through practices of community, care, and love rather than solely narrating pandemic life in terms of crisis.
Signs of the Time
Nlaka'pamux Resistance through Rock Art
Chris Arnett
May 2024 256pp 40 b&w photos
9780774867962 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Explores the historical and cultural reasons for making rock art. Chris Arnett draws on extensive archival research and decades of work with Elders and other Nlaka’pamux community members. Rock art was and is a form of communication between the spirit and physical worlds, a way to pass information to later generations, and a powerful protection against challenges to a people, land, and culture.
The Green Space
The Transformation of the Irish Image
Marion R. Casey
The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
April 2024 320pp 17 b&w images
9781479817450 £29.99/ $35.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Green Space examines what contributed to remaking the Irish image from downtrodden and despised to universally acclaimed. Featuring a rich assortment of sources and images, The Green Space takes the history of the Irish image in America as a prime example of the ways in which culture and identity can be revolutionized.
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Edited by Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez CouchTransits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
April 2024 284pp 15 b&w images
9781684485079 £56.00/ $62.95 PB
9781684485086 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices that are often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.”
Tendings
Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man
Nathan Snaza
February 2024 216pp 1 illus.
9781478030102 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478025849 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bringing contemporary feminist and queer popular culture’s resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought, Nathan Snaza demonstrates the ways esoterism affirms a pluriversal worldview that reimagines what it means to live in a more-thanhuman world.
The Influencer Factory
A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube
Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness
April 2024 248pp
9781503638792 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637924 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the "Corpocene": a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Demonstrating the material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary economic life.
The Specter and the Speculative Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
Edited by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene MeltonMay 2024 254pp 7 color and 7 b&w illus.
9781978834064 £38.00/ $42.95 PB
9781978834071 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and rearticulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized, to establish an “afterlife” for African Atlantic identities and narratives.
The Trauma Mantras
A Memoir in Prose Poems
Adrie Kusserow
Foreword by Yusef
Komunyakaa
January 2024 176pp
9781478025573 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
9781478020844 £85.00/ $94.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who uses her international work with refugees and humanitarian projects to challenge some of the most basic Western assumptions about the self, illness, suffering, and healing.
Theses on the Metaphors of DigitalTextual History
Martin Paul Eve
Stanford Text Technologies
July 2024 392pp
9781503614888 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital space, and traces their history as they interact with physical cultures.
Vanishing Vienna
Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Frances Tanzer
Jewish Culture and Contexts
June 2024 272pp
9781512825343 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese culture in the aftermath of the Holocaust. A society that consumes, redefines, and bestows symbolic meaning on the victims in their absence.
The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies
Edited by Melissa Hardie, Meaghan Morris, and Kane RaceThe Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
February 2024 428pp 25 b&w illus.
9780253068163 £34.00/ $38.00 PB
9780253068156 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender.
Unspooled
How the Cassette Made Music
Shareable
Rob Drew
Sign, Storage, Transmission
March 2024 232pp
9781478025597 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020837 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rob Drew traces the history of the cassette tape, showing how a lowly, hissy format that began life in office dictation machines and cheap portable players became a mode of musical and interpersonal communication as well as a source of cultural capital.
