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From Sports through the Lens: Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers sliding into third base in 1909, Hilltop Park, photo by Charles M. Conlon.
by
(Arezzo)
¡Ay Tú!, Saldívar-Hull & Gano
Band People, Nicolay
Bill Hobby, Carleton & Purdy
Books Are Made Out of Books, Crews
Bordering on War, Ahmadi
Brazil’s Sex Wars, Sosa
The Burning Plain, Rulfo & Weatherford
Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain, Schmidt
Constructing
For the Bees
Chapman
A
new translation of El Llano en llamas , an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature
The Burning Plain
JUAN RULFO
TRANSLATED BY
DOUGLAS J WEATHERFORD
JUAN RULFO
1917–1986
Rulfo, who was born in the Mexican state of Jalisco, is best known for two seminal works that altered the course of world literature: El Llano en llamas (1953) and the novel Pedro Páramo (1955).
DOUGLAS J
WEATHERFORD provo, utah
Weatherford is a professor of Hispanic literature and film at Brigham Young University. In addition to The Burning Plain, he has also translated Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and The Golden Cockerel and Other Writings
joe r. and teresa lozano long endowment in latin american and latino art and culture
release date | september
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches, 192 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-2996-2
$21 95| £18 99 | C$26 95 paperback
Since its publication in 1953, Juan Rulfo’s The Burning Plain (El Llano en llamas) has become Mexico’s most significant and most translated collection of short fiction. Set largely in a distressed rural region of the state of Jalisco known as El Llano Grande (the burning plain of the title), the seventeen stories of this anthology trace the lives of characters in the wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1917) and the Cristero Revolt (1926–1929). A father carries his fatally wounded son through the night in search of healing; a young girl’s prized cow is swept away by a flood, along with her family’s harvest; and a group of campesinos spend all day walking across the immense, barren Llano that the government has given them to farm. Through it all, Rulfo rejects moralizing and nostalgia, capturing instead the hushed reality of a landscape and people marked by violence and the weight of hardship and injustice.
Rulfo’s writing, often compared in importance to that of William Faulkner, Anton Chekov, and Gabriel García Marquez, is characterized by a laconic literary prose and the distinctive language heard throughout the rural communities of southern Jalisco. These qualities come alive in Douglas J. Weatherford’s vibrant new rendition of Mexico’s most celebrated collection. Seventy years after its first publication in Spanish, Rulfo’s work speaks to a new generation of readers.
From “You Don’t Hear Dogs Barking” in The Burning Plain
—YOU UP THERE, IGNACIO, tell me if you don’t hear some sign of something or if you see some light somewhere.
—I don’t see a thing.
—We should be getting close.
—Yes, but I don’t hear a thing.
—Look closely.
—I don’t see a thing.
—Poor Ignacio.
The long, black shadow cast by the men continued to rise and fall, clambering over the rocks, shrinking or stretching as it advanced along the edge of the arroyo. It was one solitary shadow, staggering along.
The moon was slowly rising from the earth, like a circular disk of fire.
—We should be getting to that town, Ignacio. You with your ears out, listen close to see if you don’t hear dogs barking. Remember they told us Tonaya was just beyond the hill. And it’s been hours since we passed the hill. Remember, Ignacio.
—Yes, but I don’t see any sign of anything.
—I’m getting tired.
—Set me down.
The old man backed up until he was leaning against a wall of rock where he rested without releasing the load from his shoulders. Even with his legs buckling under the weight, he didn’t want to sit since he would never be able to lift his son’s body back into position where, hours earlier, others had helped place it. And he had been carrying him like that ever since.
—How do you feel?
—Bad.
He seldom spoke. Each time a bit less. Sometimes he seemed to be sleeping. Other times he seemed to be cold. He shivered. He recognized the moments when his son was overtaken with tremors by the way his body would shake, and because his feet would dig into his sides like spurs. Then his son’s hands, locked around his neck, would jostle his head as if it were a rattle.
He clenched his teeth to keep from biting his tongue and when it was over, he asked:
—Does it hurt a lot?
—A bit —he responded.
Earlier he had said: “Set me down here. . . . Leave me here. . . . You go on alone. I’ll catch up with you tomorrow or when I feel a bit better.” He had repeated those words about fifty times. Now he wasn’t even saying that.
The moon was there. Right in front of them. A large, reddish moon that flooded their eyes with light and that darkened their shadow and stretched it across the ground.
A definitive, bilingual selection of poetry, essays, and letters by one of Puerto Rico’s most beloved poets
I Am My Own Path Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos
EDITED BY VANESSA PÉREZ-ROSARIO
VANESSA PÉREZ-ROSARIO
new york, new york
Pérez-Rosario is a translator and a professor at the City University of New York, and the managing editor of Small Axe, a project devoted to Caribbean cultural criticism. She is the author of Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon, which is also available in Spanish.
the william and bettye nowlin endowment in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere
release date | february 7 x 10 inches, 440 pages, 14 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-2791-3
$39 95*|£36 00 | C$49 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2790-6
$125 00*| £112 00 | C$156 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2793-7
$39 95 e-book
Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) is best known for her poetry, but she is also an important cultural figure famous for her commitment to social justice, feminist ideas, and the independence of Puerto Rico. Admirers cultivated her legacy to bring to light the real Julia de Burgos, the woman behind the public figure, which this remarkable collection further illuminates by supplying a complex portrait using her own powerful and imaginative words.
Beginning with a critical introduction to Burgos’s life and work, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario then presents a selection of poems, essays, and letters, which offer a glimpse into this formidable talent and intellect. Burgos left Puerto Rico, spending the 1940s in both New York City and Havana, where she cultivated a new kind of identity refracted through her pathbreaking work as a poet and journalist. Both poetry and prose are alive with politically charged insights into the struggle of national liberation, literary creation, and being a woman in a patriarchal society. I Am My Own Path is essential reading for anyone interested in Puerto Rican literature and culture as well as a foundational text of Latinx and Chicanx literature and culture in the United States.
Momentos
From I Am My Own Path
Yo, fatalista, mirando la vida llegándose y alejándose de mis semejantes.
Yo, dentro de mí misma, siempre en espera de algo que no acierta mi mente.
Yo, múltiple, como en contradicción, atada a un sentimiento sin orillas que me une y me desune, alternativamente, al mundo.
Yo, universal, bebiéndome la vida en cada estrella desorbitada, en cada grito estéril, en cada sentimiento sin orillas.
¿Y todo para qué? —Para seguir siendo la misma.
Moments TRANSLATED BY URAYOÁN NOEL
I, fatalist, watching life move toward and away from my fellow men.
I, inside myself, always waiting for something that my mind can’t come up with.
I, multiple, as if in contradiction, tied to a feeling without shores that, by turns, binds and unbinds me to the world.
I, universal, drinking up life in each exorbitant star, in each sterile cry, in each feeling without shores.
And all for what? —To keep being the same me.
| latinx & chicanx studies | Gender & Sexuality
An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays
¡Somos Tejanas! Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas
EDITED BY JODY A . MARÍN AND NORMA E . CANTÚ
JODY A MARÍN
kingsville, texas
Marín is a full professor of English at Texas A&M UniversityKingsville, where she also serves as the interim Writing Center Director.
NORMA E CANTÚ
san antonio, texas
Cantú is the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor in Humanities at Trinity University. She has authored or edited multiple books, including coediting Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art
joe r. and teresa lozano long endowment in latin american and latino art and culture
release date | february 7 x 10 inches, 304 pages, 24 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3061-6
$39 95* | £36 00 | C$49 95 paperback
Being Tejanx is different than just being from Texas. Being Tejanx means you are a border subject. Being Tejanx means living in and from a certain history of oppression, possibility, activism, and cultural-linguistic hybridity arising within the US-Mexico borderland that is home. And being Tejanx means something in particular if you are a woman.
In ¡Somos Tejanas!, editors Jody A. Marín and Norma E. Cantú assemble contemporary Tejanx writers who provide firsthand accounts of their experience of identity, enriching the field of Tejanx studies through an encounter with gender and sexuality. The contributions, including personal and scholarly essays, poems, criticism, and artworks, explore the heterogeneity of Tejana identity and the sociopolitical movements, stories, dances, music, and athletic feats that mark Tejanidad. Authors contemplate the history and memory of segregation in Texas, the struggles of surviving the unnatural disaster and blackouts of 2021 amid the global pandemic of COVID-19, and the drugwar violence and ever-tightening immigration restrictions that strangle a transborder way of life shared by millions. An unrepentant act of expression from women under attack by state policymakers, this collection dispels the silence imposed by colonial erasure.
ISBN 978-1-4773-3060-9
$120 00* | £108 00 | C$150 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3063-0
$39 95 e-book
From ¡Somos Tejanas!
Resistance. It is a word that has become synonymous for Tejana scholars in recent years because of the attacks on our identity, representation, history, literature, and more. The censorship of books by and about Chicanx/Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and other minorities have forced us into the position of resistance. Those of us residing in San Antonio know this concept of resisting well, as we have struggled all our lives to counter the propaganda of the Alamo and the narratives that insist Mexicans are the “villains” of such a story. We resist by sharing our family stories, celebrating, and examining Tejana figures like Selena, and by continuing to do academic work focusing on Latinx/Chicanx studies. I use the phrase “becoming Tejana” because, like Gloria Anzaldúa and others, I believe our identities are ever-changing, especially in light of the significant upheavals plaguing our society: the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest, political divisions, and social justice efforts. Being a Tejana means acknowledging and understanding that our origins are shared with us by our families. From my family stories, I have learned to appreciate my culture, my language, and the privileges I inherited due to my ancestors’ challenging work and determination. Like Anzaldúa, I too believe that “identity is not just what happens to me in my present lifetime but also involves my family history, my racial history, my collective history.” The combination of all of these histories requires acknowledgment and validation. Through retelling and sharing, I affirm my own identity. Through these stories, I have also learned that being a Tejana often means maintaining significant ties to our landscapes. The land between Mexico and the United States and the Gulf waters of Mexico have played vital parts in sustaining my family members; to this day, I return to these spaces.
Excerpted from “Becoming Tejana: A Familial and Academic Genealogy of My Tejanidad” by Margaret E. Cantú-Sánchez
A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros
¡Ay Tú! Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros
EDITED BY SONIA SALDÍVAR-HULL AND GENEVA M . GANO
SONIA SALDÍVAR-HULL
san antonio, tx
Saldívar-Hull is a professor emerita of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author of Feminism on the Border
GENEVA M GANO
san marcos, tx
Gano is an associate professor of English at Texas State University and the author of The Little Art Colony and US Modernism
joe r. and teresa lozano long endowment in latin american and latino art and culture
release date | october 7 x 10 inches, 240 pages, 11 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-2990-0
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2989-4
$105 00* | £94 00 | C$131 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2992-4
$34 95 e-book
Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author of the acclaimed novel The House on Mango Street and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” and the PEN/ Nabokov Award for International Literature, was the first Chicana to be published by a major publishing house. ¡Ay Tú! is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical examination of her life and work as a whole. Edited by scholars Sonia SaldívarHull and Geneva M. Gano, this volume addresses themes that pervade Cisneros’s oeuvre, like romantic and erotic love, female friendship, sexual abuse and harassment, the exoticization of the racial and ethnic “other,” and the role of visual arts in the lives of everyday people. Essays draw extensively on the newly opened Cisneros Papers, housed in the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, and the volume concludes with a new longform interview with Cisneros by the award-winning journalist Macarena Hernández.
As these essays reveal, Cisneros’s success in the literary field was integrally connected to the emergent Chicana feminist movement and the rapidly expanding Chicanx literary field of the late twentieth century. This collection shows that Cisneros didn’t achieve her groundbreaking successes in isolation, situating her as a vital Chicana feminist writer and artist.
List of Illustrations
Preface. ¡Ay Tú! ¡Sí Yo! Nosotrxs: The Sinvergüenza Collective
Introduction. Her Fabulous Career:
Sandra Cisneros’s Life/Work
Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Geneva M.
Gano
PART I ¡AY, QUÉ RICO! CLOSE READINGS
1. Lingering with Complicity in Caramelo
Mary Pat Brady
2. The Racial City: Navigating Chicago’s Racialized Space in The House on Mango Street
Olga L. Herrera
3. Telenovela Feeling in Sandra Cisneros’s Loose Woman: “I Think of Me to Gluttony”
Adriana Estill
4. “You Were Telling Cochinadas”: Performative Metaphors for Storytelling in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo
Shanna M. Salinas
5. Mapping the Decolonial: Community Cartography in Sandra Cisneros’s
Woman Hollering Creek
Teresa Hernández
PART II LOVE, SHAME, AND SINVERGÜENZAS
6. “Love the Only Way I Know How”: Cultivating Erotic Conocimiento in the Work of Sandra Cisneros
Belinda Linn Rincón
7. From Marginal to Sin Vergüenza: Overcoming School-Inflicted Shame through Transgressive Literary Aesthetics in Sandra Cisneros’s Life and Writing
Georgina Guzmán
8. The Loose Woman and the Men of Ill Repute
Richard T. Rodríguez
9. Wild, Wicked, and Crazy Brave Tongues: Locating the Collaborative Origins of Sandra Cisneros’s and Joy Harjo’s Poetic Voices
Audrey Goodman
10. “Hay Que Inventarnos / We Must Invent Ourselves”: The Impact of Norma Alarcón and Sandra Cisneros’s Friendship on Chicana Feminist Literature
Sara A. Ramírez
11. Faxes, Friendship, and the Rise of Chicana Literature: Examining the Archive of Letters between Sandra Cisneros and Helena María Viramontes
Linda Margarita Greenberg
PART III ¡ADELANTE! SEEING AND LISTENING WITH CISNEROS
12. La Sandra como Artista: The Visual Cisneros
Tey Marianna Nunn
13. Sin Vergüenza: A Plática with Sandra Cisneros
Macarena Hernández
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
The
stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years
Sports through the Lens Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs
EDITED BY MAUREEN M . SMITH, DANIEL A . NATHAN, AND SARAH K FIELDS
MAUREEN M SMITH
carmichael, california
Smith is a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Sacramento and the coauthor of (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph.
DANIEL A NATHAN
saratoga springs, new york
Nathan is a professor of American studies at Skidmore College and the author of Saying It’s So
SARAH K FIELDS
denver, colorado
Fields is a professor of communication at the University of Colorado Denver and the author of Game Faces and Female Gladiators
terry and jan todd series on physical culture and sports, Thomas Hunt, Patricia Vertinsky, Sarah Fields & Daniel Nathan, Editors
release date | january
7 x 10 inches, 304 pages, 25 color photos
Ever since photography and professional sports originated in the nineteenth century, photographers have shaped how we perceive sports. Sports through the Lens collects essays by twenty-five historians that consider what it means to capture and revisit a moment of cultural significance in sports, looking at each photo’s creation, contexts, and how its meaning has shifted over time. Some essays provide fresh perspective on such iconic images as Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston at their 1965 rematch and Michael Jordan soaring at the 1988 NBA All-Star Game slam dunk competition; others introduce readers to the lesser-known stories of the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon or the inaugural World Indigenous Games. The authors examine the legacies alongside the artistry of both the athletes and the photographers. Reflecting on images of athletes from around the world engaged in sports from baseball to horse-racing to hockey, Sports through the Lens provides a wide-ranging meditation on the visual, historical, and cultural meaning of sports photographs.
ISBN 978-1-4773-3009-8
$45 00 | £40 00 | C$55 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3071-5
$45 00 e-book
clockwise from top : Kathrine Switzer in the Boston Marathon, April 19, 1967, photo by Harry Trask/Boston Traveler via Boston Herald, courtesy of 261 Fearless. Lewiston High School soccer players celebrate, October 30, 2019, Lewiston, Maine, photo by and courtesy of Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal. Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, June 9, 1973, Belmont Park, Elmont, New York; photo by Bob Coglianese. Aboriginal Australian runner Cathy Freeman at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, photo by John Feder/Newspix.
A handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond | nature & environment | Food Studies
For the Bees A Handbook for Happy Beekeeping
TARA DAWN CHAPMAN ILLUSTRATIONS BY CAROLINE BROWN
TARA DAWN CHAPMAN
manor, texas
Chapman spent ten years working for the C.I.A. and federal government in Washington, DC, focusing on foreign policy and intelligence gathering in Pakistan and Afghanistan. After quitting her government job, she launched Two Hives Honey and welcomes thousands of bee-curious folks to the Honey Ranch, just outside of Austin, Texas, each year. You can learn more and follow along @twohives on Instagram.
CAROLINE BROWN
st. augustine, florida Brown is a freelance illustrator and muralist.
mildred wyatt-wold endowment in ornithology and the natural world
release date | november 7 x 10 inches, 240 pages, 103 color illustrations
The path to becoming a successful beekeeper begins with a deep understanding of the bees themselves. Taking both a holistic and practical approach, Tara Chapman, founder and operator of Austin’s beloved Two Hives Honey, begins with a primer on honey bee biology and nutrition as well as beehive architecture. (Did you ever wonder why honey combs are composed of tiny hexagons?) A little scientific knowledge goes a long way: a beekeeper who understands how these fascinating creatures work will be better equipped to recognize a particular colony’s needs, make sound decisions when the unexpected happens, and adapt their care regimen to changing conditions. Moving beyond the basics, Chapman shows potential beekeepers how to spot pests and diseases; manage swarms (those bees aren’t angry; they’re just looking for a good home); and, of course, how to harvest delicious homegrown honey.
Imbued with the joy of the beekeeping journey, For the Bees provides practical visual explanations through appealing illustrations, that, alongside Chapman’s own stories from the bee yard, share the charms of these essential insects.
ISBN 978-1-4773-2951-1
$26 95 | £22 99 | C$33 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2953-5
$26 95 e-book
Honey bee colonies can exhibit different personality traits. These traits can show up not only in the colony’s temperament but also in the practices the colony employs. For example, some colonies are very straight beeswax comb builders. Others will go out of their way to build outside of the frames and bars you give them in your hive, sort of like coloring outside the lines.
A student of mine and I once spent some time observing the undertaker bees and saw yet another way that bees can have different personalities. The undertakers have always been my favorite of the worker bees, maybe because my mother has worked in the funeral industry for decades and passed along her good sense of humor about death. One of my first bee keeping students, Diane, had her hives sited on gravel, so it was easy to see what debris and remains were being carried out and where they were being deposited. My hives had always rested on grass, which makes it more challenging to identify these activities. While the undertakers in one of Diane’s hives disposed of their dead rather carelessly by dropping the dead bees off the edge of the hive’s entrance, we noticed that the hive next door took a much more methodical approach. They carried their dead a few feet away from the hive to a sort of makeshift cemetery. They were also lining up the dead bees with the heads facing the same direction, like a burial ritual. It was too precise to be accidental and is just one more way that colonies can demonstrate their unique personalities.
A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t at the center of the stage
Band People
Life and Work in Popular Music
FRANZ NICOLAY
FRANZ NICOLAY
tivoli, new york
Nicolay is a writer, musician, and faculty member in music and written arts at Bard College. In addition to putting out records under his own name, he has been a member of World/Inferno Friendship Society and the Hold Steady. He is the author of The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar and the novel Someone Should Pay for Your Pain.
american music series, Jessica Hopper & Charles Hughes, Editors
release date | september 6 x 9 inches, 296 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-2353-3
$29 95 | £25 99 | C$36 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3023-4
$29 95 e-book
Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-thestagers, rhythm and horn sections, backup singers, accompanists—these and other “band people” are the anonymous but irreplaceable character actors of popular music. Through interviews and incisive cultural critique, writer and musician Franz Nicolay provides a portrait of the musical middle class. Artists talk frankly about their careers and attitudes toward their craft, work environment, and group dynamics, and shed light on how support musicians make sense of the weird combination of friend group, gang, small business consortium, long-term creative collaboration, and chosen family that constitutes a band. Is it more important to be a good hang or a virtuoso player? Do bands work best as democracies or autocracies? How do musicians with children balance their personal and professional lives? How much money is too little? And how does it feel to play on hundreds of records, with none released under your name? In exploring these and other questions, Band People gives voice to those who collaborate to create and dissects what it means to be a laborer in the culture industry.
From Band People
To talk about the role of a “band person” is to talk about art and craft. It is to talk about the value of fame, about a celebrity culture that requires the singling out of individuals from a collaborative enterprise, that privileges beauty or proximity or narrative. It is to talk about the politics of cultural labor, and the precarity that the working lives of musicians share with a growing segment of the larger economy. It is to talk about the myth of the genius working in isolation, and to uncover the wide pyramid of talent that supports that work—what Becker calls the “support personnel” of the culture industry. It is to once again challenge the myth of meritocracy: is it better to be the best player, or the best hang? It is to talk about political dynamics, and the ways in which social groups organize themselves: autocracy, aristocracy, democracy. It is to talk about individual psychology: everyone is the star of their own life, if not actually the star of their circumstances. It is to talk about freedom: the promiscuous freedom of relative anonymity versus the agency offered by fame.
A new edition of this groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy’s literary archive, which identifies over 150 writers and thinkers who influenced McCarthy, now includes analysis of McCarthy’s final works
Books Are Made Out of Books
A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences—Expanded Edition
MICHAEL LYNN CREWS
Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy was well aware of literary tradition and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors.
MICHAEL LYNN CREWS
virginia beach, virginia
Crews is an associate professor of English at Regent University. He specializes in American and contemporary literature.
release date | october 6 x 9 inches, 400 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-3084-5
$45 00* | £40 00 | C$55 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3086-9
$45 00 e-book
In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines McCarthy’s literary archive to identify over 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy referenced in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy’s published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men , and McCarthy’s correspondence. This updated edition now examines McCarthy’s final publications: the novel The Passenger and its play-like coda Stella Maris. For each work, Crews identifies referenced authors, artists, or other cultural figures; related sources in McCarthy’s papers; context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and their significance. This groundbreaking book vastly expands our understanding of how one of America’s foremost authors engaged with the ideas, images, and metaphors of other thinkers and made them his own.
Praise for Books Are Made Out of Books
“Comprehensive and enlightening.”
Times Literary Supplement
“Michael Crews has performed a great service in writing his thoughtful and carefully researched Books Are Made Out of Books. . . . McCarthy scholars will certainly admire Crews’s intrepidness and thoroughness and will be delighted to have found a book we have really needed.”
The Cormac McCarthy Journal
“A necessary addition to any serious McCarthy scholar’s library . . . Crews not only demonstrates the value of the McCarthy papers for opening up new lines of enquiry in literary criticism, but also uses detailed archival research to create a substantial picture of the variety of works and authors that have informed most of this major novelist’s work.”
This Year’s Work in English Studies
A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas
Texian Exodus
The
Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy
STEPHEN L . HARDIN ILLUSTRATIONS BY GARY S ZABOLY
STEPHEN L HARDIN
kerrville, texas
Hardin is recently retired after a thirty-five-year career in higher education. He is the author of Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835–1836, The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna’s Texas Campaign, Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston, and Lust for Glory: An Epic Saga of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation
GARY S ZABOLY
New York, New York
Zaboly is a freelance historical illustrator and writer who has specialized in American frontier and military history, particularly colonial-era early Texas.
jess and betty jo hay endowment
release date | december 6 x 9 inches, 536 pages, 5 b&w illustrations, 1 map
Two events in Texas history shine so brightly that they can be almost blinding: the stand at the Alamo and the redemption at San Jacinto, where General Sam Houston’s volunteers won the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. But these milestones came amid a less obviously heroic episode now studiously forgotten—the refugee crisis known as the Runaway Scrape. Propulsive, lyrical, and evocatively illustrated, Texian Exodus transports us to the frigid, sodden spring of 1836, when thousands of Texians—Anglo-American settlers—fled eastward for the United States in fear of Antonio López de Santa Anna’s advancing Mexican army. Leading Texas historian Stephen L. Hardin draws on the accounts of the runaways themselves to relate a tale of high stakes and great sorrow. While Houston tried to build a force that could defeat Santa Anna, the evacuees suffered incalculable pain and suffering. Yet dignity and community were not among the losses. If many of the stories are indeed tragic, the experience as a whole was no tragedy; survivors regarded the Runaway Scrape as their finest hour, an ordeal met with cooperation and courage. For Hardin, such qualities still define the Texas character. That it was forged in retreat as well in battle makes the Runaway Scrape essential Texas history.
ISBN 978-1-4773-3005-0
$39 95 | | £36 00 | C$49 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3007-4
$39 95 e-book
From Texian Exodus
Bridges were much on Houston’s mind. Around noon, he participated in a council of war. During that conclave, he urged the construction of a “floating bridge” across Buffalo Bayou to enable the army’s retreat. The suggestion utterly flabbergasted his field officers. They were here, Santa Anna was here, and, although the Texians no longer enjoyed the advantage of numbers, these odds were the best they were likely to have. The officers present insisted that Houston “must fight, that a further delay would not be countenanced by either soldiers or officers.” At last, the dejected commander snapped, “Fight then and be damned!”
Not exactly words to inspire confidence.
Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters with
a new epilogue
ALLYSON MCCABE
“McCabe skillfully renders the artist’s rise and ahead-of- her-time activism against the sociopolitical landscape of the 1980s and ’90s, persuasively rescuing O’Connor’s reputation from a mainstream media narrative that ‘all too often dismissed [her] as a slow-motion train wreck.’ Fans will be riveted.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“What’s most powerful is how McCabe draws on her own experience in parallel with O’Connor’s. Perhaps this is O’Connor’s most powerful asset as an artist: she opens up a space for people to see their struggles, their resistance and their trauma, in hers.”
THE IRISH TIMES
“[Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters] is about much more than Sinéad O’Connor. It asks the reader to consider their own relationship to the forces that once leveraged themselves en masse against O’Connor. It’s a beautiful and compassionate meditation on silence, trauma, healing, and much more. ” KCRW
Allyson McCabe is a writer, reporter, and producer whose work is often broadcast on NPR, and her byline appears in the New York Times, BBC Culture, Wired, and other publications.
music matters, Evelyn McDonnell, Series Editor
release date | july 5 x 8 inches, 224 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-3073-9
$19 95* | £16 99 | C$24 95
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ISBN 978-1-4773-3107-1
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You’re with Stupid kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
BRUCE ADAMS
2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
“A story of passion and perseverance with a soundtrack that echoes from the pages. . . . Dedicated fans of ’90s alt rock will find inspiration and lessons.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“You’re with Stupid is a thoroughly entertaining read. . . . Reading the book feels like sitting next to [Adams] on a bar stool, hearing memories of a bygone but beloved musical era straight from the horse’s mouth. ”
AQUARIUM DRUNKARD
“This book nurtures our sense of nostalgia for a tremendous decade of music, especially in kranky’s pursuit to ‘release music that transcended the moment,’ and reminds us of simpler, pre-Internet times where radio airplay, touring, and fanzines heavily influenced the success of music’s breakout stars.”
SPIN, “BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2022”
Bruce Adams, who has worked in the music industry since 1988, is the cofounder of kranky records, which was established in Chicago in 1993. He left kranky in 2005 and continues to work in the industry.
american music series, Jessica Hopper & Charles Hughes, Editors
release date | october
5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 inches, 312 pages, 21 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3072-2
$22 95* | £19 99 | C$28 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2617-6
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Loose
of Earth A Memoir BY
KATHLEEN DOROTHY BLACKBURN
ISBN 978-1-4773-2962-7
$26 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2964-1
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Home, Heat, Money, God
Texas and Modern Architecture
TEXT BY KATHRYN E O’ROURKE
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BEN KOUSH
ISBN 978-1-4773-2892-7
$45 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2893-4
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Grief is a Sneaky
Bitch
Rick Perry
American Coal
Russell Lee Portraits BY
MARY JANE APPEL AND DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
ISBN 978-1-4773-2956-6
$45 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2965-8
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An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss BY
A Political Life BY BRANDON
ROTTINGHAUS
Pastures of the Empty Page
LISA KEEFAUVER
ISBN 978-1-4773-2930-6
$21 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2932-0
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ISBN 978-1-4773-2889-7
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Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry
EDITED BY GEORGE GETSCHOW
ISBN 978-1-4773-2787-6
$29 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2789-0
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Quantum Criminals
Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan BY
ALEX PAPPADEMAS AND JOAN LEMAY
ISBN 978-1-4773-2499-8
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ISBN 978-1-4773-2746-3
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Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso BY TARA LÓPEZ
ISBN 978-1-4773-2481-3
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ISBN 978-1-4773-2958-0
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A Curious Mix of People
The Underground Scene of ’90s
Austin
BY GREG BEETS AND RICHARD WHYMARK
ISBN 978-1-4773-2813-2
$27 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2815-6
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DJ Screw
A Life in Slow Revolution BY LANCE SCOTT WALKER
ISBN 978-1-4773-2513-1
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ISBN 978-1-4773-2515-5
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Emergent Quilombos
Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil BY BRYCE
HENSON
ISBN 978-1-4773-2810-1
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A Pure Solar World
Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism BY
PAUL YOUNGQUIST
ISBN 978-1-4773-2728-9
$24 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-1118-9
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Juneteenth Rodeo
PHOTOS AND ESSAY BY SARAH
BIRD
AFTERWORD BY DEMETRIUS W PEARSON
ISBN 978-1-4773-2954-2
$45 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2955-9
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Armadillos to Ziziphus
A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country
BY DAVID M HILLIS
ISBN 978-1-4773-2673-2
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Texas Lithographs
A Century of History in Images BY
RON TYLER
ISBN 978-1-4773-2608-4
$60 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2598-8
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A Good Long Drive
Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter BY BOB
PHILLIPS
ISBN 978-1-4773-2401-1
$27 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2403-5
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The Mexican American Experience in Texas
Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality BY
MARTHA MENCHACA
ISBN 978-1-4773-2759-3
$23 95*
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ISBN 978-1-4773-2439-4
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A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles
A History of Politics and Race in Texas BY BILL MINUTAGLIO
ISBN 978-1-4773-2858-3
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São Paulo
A Graphic Biography BY FELIPE CORREA
ISBN 978-1-4773-1627-6
$65 00* hardcover
My Mexico
A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes BY
DIANA KENNEDY
ISBN 978-1-4773-2298-7
$45 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-0-292-75447-8
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Yucatán
Recipes from a Culinary Expedition BY DAVID STERLING
ISBN 978-0-292-73581-1
$60 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-0-292-76067-7
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As Far as You Can See
Picturing Texas BY KENNY BRAUN
ISBN 978-1-4773-1547-7
$45 .00 hardcover
Keith Carter: Fifty Years BY
KEITH CARTER
ISBN 978-1-4773-1801-0
$65 00 hardcover
The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection
A History and Catalog BY DAVID SHIELDS
ISBN 978-1-4773-2368-7
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ISBN 978-1-4773-2773-9
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How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West
City of Wood
San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood
Lumber Industry
JAMES MICHAEL BUCKLEY
JAMES MICHAEL BUCKLEY
san francisco, california
Buckley is an urban planner and historian.
peter t. flawn endowment in natural resource management and conservation release date | november
California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional “city” consisting of a far-reaching network of spaces produced as company owners and workers arrayed men and machines to extract resources from the region’s rich natural environment to create human commodities.
Combining labor, urban, industrial, and social history, City of Wood employs a variety of sources—including contemporary newspaper articles, novels, and photographs—to explore the architectural landscape of lumber, from backwoods logging camps and company towns in the woods to busy lumber docks and the homes of workers and owners in San Francisco. By imagining the redwood lumber industry as a single community spread across multiple sites—a “City of Wood”—Buckley demonstrates how capitalist resource extraction links different places along the production value chain. The result is a paradigm shift in architectural history that focuses not just on the evolution of individual building design across time, but also on economic connections that link the center and periphery across space.
Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism
The Earth That Modernism Built
Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design
KENNY CUPERS
The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis. Rather than describing how new design ideas and practices traveled and transformed people and places across the globe, this book interrogates the politics of life and earth underpinning this process. It demonstrates how approaches to modern housing, landscape design, and infrastructure planning are indebted to an understanding of planetary and human ecology fueled by settler colonialism and imperial ambition.
Cupers draws from both canonical and unknown sources and archives in Germany, Namibia, and Poland to situate Wilhelmine and Weimar design projects in an expansive discourse about the relationship between soil, settlement, and race. This reframing reveals connections between colonial officials planning agricultural hinterlands, garden designers proselytizing geopolitical theory, soil researchers turning to folklore, and Bauhaus architects designing modern communities according to functionalist principles. Ultimately, The Earth That Modernism Built shows how the conviction that we can design our way out of environmental crisis is bound to exploitative and divisive ways of inhabiting the earth.
KENNY CUPERS
basel, switzerland
Cupers is a professor of architectural history and urban studies and cofounder of the Critical Urbanisms program at the University of Basel. He is the author of The Social Project: Housing Postwar France, coeditor of Architecture and Neoliberalism from the 1960s to the Present.
lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices, Bruno Carvalho & Alison Isenberg, Editors
release date | december 6 x 9 inches, 360 pages, 130 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-3021-0
$39 95* | £36 00 | C$49 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2981-8
$120 00*| £108 00 | C$150 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2983-2
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Taking the Land to Make the City A Bicoastal History of North America
MARY P RYAN
“Throughout this very engaging and important book, [Ryan] notes how the organizing of the land nurtured democracy . . . enabled commercial and then industrial capitalism to take hold, and contributed to the formation of a bicoastal nation independent of foreign control.”
JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY
“Ryan generously shares her deep knowledge of the emergence of Baltimore and San Francisco, two storied cities she has studied long and well. . . . [Taking the Land to Make the City] is deeply informed, clearly written, and engagingly told.”
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
“[Taking the Land to Make the City] is a masterful ‘how to’ for those embarking on writing comparative urban histories that link archival methods with the contextual questions that arise from viewing cities’ unique spatial histories in relation to one another.”
PLANNING PERSPECTIVES
Mary P. Ryan is a noted historian who has won the Bancroft Prize and the Berkshire Prize. She is the author of several books, including Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790–1865; Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century; and Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men
through American History. She is an emeritus professor of history at John Hopkins University and the University of California, Berkeley.
lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices, Bruno Carvalho & Alison Isenberg, Editors
release date | october
6 x 9 inches, 448 pages, 60 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3094-4
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-1785-3
$34 95 e-book
|history: united states | Latinx & Chicanx Studies
How Black and white Cubans navigated issues of race, politics, and identity during the post-Civil War and early Jim Crow eras in South Florida
Constructing Cuban America Race and
Identity in Florida’s Caribbean South, 1868–1945
ANDREW GOMEZ
On July 4, 1876, during the centennial celebration of US independence, the city of Key West was different from other cities. In some of post-Civil War Florida, Black residents were hindered from 4th of July festivities; but, Key West’s celebration, “led by a Cuban revolutionary mayor working in concert with a city council composed of Afro-Bahamians, Cubans, African Americans, and Anglos,” represented a profound exercise in interracial democracy amid the Radical Reconstruction era. Constructing Cuban America examines the first Cuban American communities in South Florida—Key West and Tampa—and how race played a central role in shaping the experiences of white and Black Cubans. Andrew Gomez argues that factors like the Cuban independence movement and Radical Reconstruction produced interracial communities of Cubans that worked alongside African Americans and Afro-Bahamians in Florida, yielding several successes in interracial democratic representation, even as they continued to wrestle with elements of racial separatism within the Cuban community. But the conclusion of the Cuban War of Independence and early Jim Crow laws led to a fracture in the Cuban-American community. In the process, both Black and white Cubans posited distinct visions of Cuban-American identity.
ANDREW GOMEZ
tacoma, washington Gomez is an associate professor of history at the University of Puget Sound.
historia usa, Luis Alvarez, Carlos Blanton & Lorrin Thomas, Editors
release date | september
6 x 9 inches, 208 pages, 11 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-2975-7
$45 00* | £40 00 | C$55 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2977-1
$45 00 e-book
Violence in the Hill Country
The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era
NICHOLAS KEEFAUVER ROLAND
2022 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters
“This well-written, meticulously researched book offers a scholarly assessment of many long-popularized stories and events. . . . Recommended.”
CHOICE
“This is an important addition to the literature on Texas during the Civil War and to frontier and violence studies.”
SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
“Roland does a great job of contributing to the study of violence in Texas, joining scholars such as Barry Crouch, James Smallwood, and Kenneth Howell by bringing the study into the realm of the Civil War where most research focuses on the Reconstruction Era.”
WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
“Roland provides a good narrative of what happened in the Hill Country, and he should be commended as the first to place these well-known violent events, especially the aptly named Nueces River Massacre, within a broader historical context.”
H-CivWar
Nicholas Roland is the US Army JAG Corps Regimental Historian and Archivist, and professor of legal history and leadership at the JAG’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
clifton and shirley caldwell texas heritage endowment
release date | october 6 x 9 inches, 288 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-3074-6
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2177-5
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The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West
Rehab on the Range A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West
HOLLY M . KARIBO
In 1929, the United States government approved two ground-breaking and controversial drug addiction treatment programs. At a time when fears about a supposed rise in drug use reached a fevered pitch, the emergence of the nation’s first “narcotic farms” in Fort Worth, Texas, and Lexington, Kentucky, marked a watershed moment in the treatment of addiction. Rehab on the Range is the first in-depth history of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm and its impacts on the American West. Throughout its operation from the 1930s to the 1970s, the institution was the only federally funded drug treatment center west of the Mississippi River. Designed to blend psychiatric treatment, physical rehabilitation, and vocational training, the Narcotic Farm, its proponents argued, would transform American treatment policies for the better. The reality was decidedly more complicated.
Holly M. Karibo tells the story of how this institution—once framed as revolutionary for addiction care—ultimately contributed to the turn towards incarceration as the solution to the nation’s drug problem. Blending an intellectual history of addiction and imprisonment with a social history of addicts’ experiences, Rehab on the Range provides a nuanced picture of the Narcotic Farm and its cultural impacts. In doing so, it offers crucial historical context that can help us better understand our current debates over addiction, drug policy, and the rise of mass incarceration.
HOLLY M KARIBO stillwater, oklahoma Karibo is an associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University. She is the author of Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland and the coeditor of Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America.
jack and doris smothers endowment in texas history, life, and culture
release date | november
6 x 9 inches, 272 pages, 15 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN 978-1-4773-3034-0
$45 00* | £40 00 | C$55 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3036-4
$45 00 e-book
For Dear Life
Art, Medicine, and Disability
A visual study of how artists have shaped responses to disability from the 1960s to the advent of the Covid era
For Dear Life Art, Medicine, and Disability
EDITED BY JILL DAWSEY AND ISABEL CASSO
JILL DAWSEY
san diego, california
Dawsey is the senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art at San Diego and the author of Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist
ISABEL CASSO
san diego, california
Casso is a former associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art at San Diego and a coauthor of Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding.
release date | october 9 ½ x 11 inches, 296 pages, 116 illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-3102-6
$45 00* | £40 00 | C$55 95 paperback
In recent years, the art world has seen an explosion of activity confronting issues of illness, disability, and the vulnerability of the human body. This development, which was set in motion by disability justice movements of the twenty-first century, accelerated at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Contemporary artists with disabilities and chronic illnesses have produced influential bodies of art and writing, seeking to highlight relations of mutual dependence and practices of care. These artists have dramatically expanded the discourse about access, while reframing disability as a refusal to conform to the pace, architecture, and economic conditions of contemporary life. For Dear Life explores how this turn was preceded by the work of artists and activists beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. Informed by intersecting movements that included civil rights, antiwar, women’s and gay liberation, and disability rights, artists of that era represented the body in works that merged the personal and political. This book, and the accompanying exhibition, surveys artistic responses to vulnerability, illness, impairment, and forms of unruly embodiment, tracing artistic legacies that have shaped contemporary currents in art. Gathering an intergenerational group of artists from across the United States, the project illuminates connections among art practices, social movements, and medical events of the past and present.
How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive
Revolting Indolence
The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture
MARCOS GONSALEZ
Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in “productivist” ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices—revolts that in turn are treated as revolting.
Gonsalez explores how queer and trans Latinx artists refute discourses in which work is a moral good. In Paris Is Burning, RuPaul’s Drag Race, documentary photography of queer and trans Latinx life in Los Angeles, and other sources, Gonsalez identifies two lazy styles: first, flagrant refusals of work that critique capitalist reason; second, the invention of alternative aesthetic worlds beyond racial capitalism and violence targeting queer and trans people, whose rejection of the cisgender nuclear family paradigm is rightly seen as threatening the stability of a functioning capitalist system. Reclaiming laziness as a resource for radical imagining, Revolting Indolence asks us to do that which we want most and which capitalist exploitation can least tolerate: to slow down.
MARCOS GONSALEZ new york, new york Gonsalez is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University. He is the author of Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land
latinx: the future is now, Lorgia García-Peña & Nicole Guidotti-Hernádez, Editors
release date | december
6 x 9 inches, 200 pages, 17 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3051-7
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-3050-0
$105 00* | £94 00 | C$131 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3053-1
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How artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in 1970s and 1980s São Paulo
The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde
Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil
MARI RODRÍGUEZ
BINNIE
MARI RODRÍGUEZ BINNIE williamstown, massachusetts
Binnie is an assistant professor of art history at Williams College and at the Graduate Program in the History of Art of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
joe r. and teresa lozano long endowment in latin american and latino art and culture
release date | september 7 x 10 inches, 216 pages, 85 illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-2986-3
$50 00* | £45 00 | C$62 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2988-7
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Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, during Brazil’s military dictatorship, artists shifted their practices to critique the government and its sanitized images of Brazil, its use of torture, and its targeted persecutions. Mari Rodríguez Binnie’s The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde examines these artworks and their engagement with politics and mainstream art institutions and practices.
As Binnie skillfully shows, artists appropriated processes like photocopy, offset lithography, and thermal and heliographic printing, making newly available technologies of mass production foundational to their work of resistance against both the dictatorship and the established art world. Often working collaboratively, these artists established alternative networks of exchange locally and internationally to circulate their work. As democracy was reestablished in Brazil, and in the decades that followed, their works largely fell out of sight. Here, in the first English-language book to focus entirely on conceptual practices in São Paulo in the 1970s and 1980s, Binnie unearths a scene critical to the development of contemporary Brazilian Art.
clockwise from top : Mario Ishikawa, Em boca fechada não entra mosca (A closed mouth catches no flies), courtesy of Mario Ishikawa; Gabriel Borba, Nós (Us/Knots), Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP Collection, São Paulo, Brazil, courtesy of Gabriel Borba; Julio Plaza, Untitled, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP Collection, São Paulo, Brazil, courtesy of Anabela Plaza, photograph by the author.
An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018
Brazil’s Sex Wars
The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo
JOSEPH JAY SOSA
JOSEPH JAY SOSA brunswick, maine
Sosa is an assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Bowdoin College.
release date | november 6 x 9 inches, 224 pages, 7 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3011-1
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-3010-4
$105 00* | £94 00 | C$131 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3013-5
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For decades, LGBT+ activists across the globe have secured victories by persuasively articulating rights to sexual autonomy. Brazilian activists, some of the world’s most energetic, have kept pace. But since 2010, a backlash has set in, as defenders of “tradition” and “family” have countered LGBT+ rights discourses using a rights-based language of their own.
To understand this shifting ground, Joseph Jay Sosa collaborated with Brazilian LGBT+ activists, who use the language of rights while knowing that rights are not what they seem. Drawing on the symbolic and affective qualities of rights, activists mobilize slogans, bodies, and media to articulate an alternative democratic sensorium. Beyond conventional notions of rights as tools for managing the obligations of states vis-à-vis citizens, activists show how rights operate aesthetically—enjoining the public to see and feel as activists do. Sosa tracks the fate of LGBT+ rights in a growing authoritarian climate that demands “human rights for the right humans.” Interpreting conflicts between advocates and opponents over LGBT+ autonomy as not just an ideological struggle but an aesthetic one, Brazil’s Sex Wars rethinks a style of politics that seems both utterly familiar and counterintuitive.
A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions
The Interior Recentering Brazilian History
EDITED BY FREDERICO FREITAS AND JACOB BLANC
In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers appeared content to remain “clinging to the coastline, like crabs.” From their perspective, the vast Brazilian interior seemed like an untapped expanse waiting to be explored and colonized. This divide between a thriving coastal area and a less-developed hinterland has become deeply ingrained in the nation’s collective imagination, perpetuating the notion of the interior as a homogeneous, stagnant periphery awaiting the dynamic influence of coastal Brazil.
The Interior challenges these narratives and reexamines the history of Brazil using an “interior history” perspective. This approach aims to reverse the conventional conceptual and geographical boundaries often employed to study Brazilian history, and, by extension, Latin America as a whole. Through the work of twelve leading scholars, the volume highlights how the people and spaces within the interior have played a pivotal role in shaping national identities, politics, the economy, and culture. The Interior goes beyond the traditional boundaries of borderland and frontier history, expands on the current wave of scholarship on regionalism in Brazil, and, by asking new questions about space and nation, provides a fresh perspective on Brazil’s history.
FREDERICO FREITAS
raleigh, north carolina Freitas is an associate professor of Latin American and digital history at North Carolina State University and the author of Nationalizing Nature.
JACOB BLANC
montreal, canada Blanc is an associate professor of history and international development studies at McGill University and the author of The Prestes Column.
joe r. and teresa lozano long endowment in latin american and latino art and culture
release date | january
6 x 9 inches, 328 pages, 16 maps, 16 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3037-1
$50 00* | £45 00 | C$62 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3039-5
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Unruly Domestication
Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru
BY KRISTIN SKRABUT
ISBN 978-1-4773-2910-8
$34 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2912-2
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Physicians of the Future
Doctor-Influencers, PatientConsumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
BY ROSALYNN A VEGA
ISBN 978-1-4773-2868-2
$34 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2870-5
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Pink Gold
Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico
BY MARÍA L CRUZ-TORRES
ISBN 978-1-4773-2802-6
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Llamas Beyond the Andes
Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
BY MARCIA STEPHENSON
ISBN 978-1-4773-2840-8
$45 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2842-2
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Reckoning with Harm
The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia
BY AMELIA M FISKE
ISBN 978-1-4773-2778-4
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Oaxaca in Motion
An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration BY IVÁN
SANDOVALCERVANTES
ISBN 978-1-4773-2605-3
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An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness
Undoing Modernity
Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan
CATHERINE R . RHODES
On the Yucatán Peninsula today, undergraduates are inventing a new sense of being Maya by studying linguistics and culture in their own language: Maya. In this bold theoretical intervention informed by ethnographic research, Catherine R. Rhodes argues that these students are undoing the category of modernity itself. Created through colonization of the Americas, modernity is the counterpart to coloniality; the students, Rhodes suggests, are creating decoloniality’s companion: “demodernity.”
Disciplines like linguistics, anthropology, history, and archaeology invented “the Maya” as an essentialized ethnos in a colonial, modern mold. Undoing Modernity follows students and their teachers as they upset the seemingly stable ethnic definition of Maya, with its reliance on a firm dichotomy of Maya and modern. Maya linguistics does not prove that Maya is modern but instead rejects the Maya-ness that modernity built, while also fostering within the university an intellectual space in which students articulate identity on their own terms. An erudite and ultimately hopeful work of interdisciplinary scholarship that brings linguistic anthropology, Mesoamerican studies, and critical Indigenous studies into the conversation, Undoing Modernity dares to imagine the world on the other side of colonial/modern ideals of Indigeneity.
CATHERINE R RHODES albuquerque, new mexico Rhodes is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. She is a coauthor of Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions and associate producer of the ethnographic film Adelante
the william and bettye nowlin endowment in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere
release date | february 6 x 9 inches, 312 pages, 11 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN 978-1-4773-3108-8
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-3057-9
$105 00* | £94 00 | C$131 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3059-3
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Choreographing Mexico
Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation
MANUEL R . CUELLAR
2023 de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award, Dance Studies Association
“Choreographing Mexico is a rich exploration of how bodies in motion create and recreate the idea of a nation. The volume will be important for Mexicanists and scholars of dance and performance. Accessible to multiple audiences, Choreographing Mexico is for anyone interested in Mexican culture and anything Mexican.”
JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
“Ultimately, the book offers a rich cultural analysis of dance in connection with the national construction of Mexico, which also makes it possible to apply its ideas to other periods and cultural realities.”
HISPANIA
“Choreographing Mexico is a vital resource for scholars researching Mexican performance forms and cultural history. . . . Queering dominant narratives and reading representations of the popular against the grain, he disrupts conventional approaches to understanding a national past.”
PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW
Manuel R. Cuellar is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures at George Washington University. joe r. and teresa lozano long endowment in latin
american and latino art and culture
release date | january 6 x 9 inches, 344 pages, 32 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3080-7
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95
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ISBN 978-1-4773-2518-6
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An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the mid-twentieth
century and today
The Taste of Nostalgia Women, Race and Culinary Longing in Peru
AMY COX HALL
From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru’s rapid industrialization and anti-communist authoritarianism coincided with the rise of mass-produced cookbooks, the first televised cooking shows, glossy lifestyle magazines, and imported domestic appliances and foodstuffs. Amy Cox Hall’s The Taste of Nostalgia uses taste as a thematic and analytic thread to examine the ways that women, race, and the kitchen were foundational to Peruvian longings for modernity, both during the Cold War and today.
Drawing on interviews, personal stories, media images, and archival and ethnographic research, Cox Hall considers how elite, European-descended women and the urban home were central to Peru’s modernizing project and finds that all women who labored within the deeply racialized and gendered world of food helped set the stage for a Peruvian food nationalism that is now global in the twenty-first century. Cox Hall skillfully connects how the sometimes-unsavory tastes of the past are served again in today’s profitable and pervasive gastronostalgia that helps sell Peru and its cuisine both at home and abroad.
AMY COX HALL red hook, new york Cox Hall is a writer and cultural anthropologist. She is the author of Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography and the Making of Machu Picchu and The Camera as Actor: Photography and the Embodiment of Technology
joe r. and teresa lozano long endowment in latin american and latino art and culture
release date | november 6 x 9 inches, 224 pages, 33 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-3028-9
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-3027-2
$105 00* | £94 00 | C$131 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3030-2
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Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico
Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain
Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives
STEPHANIE SCHMIDT
STEPHANIE SCHMIDT
amherst, new york
Schmidt is an assistant professor in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Buffalo (SUNY). the william and bettye nowlin endowment in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere
release date | january 6 x 9 inches, 224 pages, 10 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3054-8
$45 00* | £40 00 | C$55 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3056-2
$45 00 e-book
A cornerstone of the evangelization of early New Spain was the conversion of Nahua boys, especially the children of elites. They were to be emissaries between Nahua society and foreign missionaries, hastening the transmission of the gospel. Under the tutelage of Franciscan friars, the boys also learned to act with militant zeal. They sermonized and smashed sacred objects. Some went so far as to kill a Nahua religious leader. For three boys from Tlaxcala, the reprisals were just as deadly.
In Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain , Stephanie Schmidt sheds light on a rare manuscript about Nahua child converts who were killed for acts of zealotry during the late 1520s. This is the Nahuatl version of an account by an early missionary-friar, Toribio de Benavente Motolinía. To this day, Catholics venerate the slain boys as Christian martyrs who suffered for their piety. Yet Franciscan accounts of the boys’ sacrifice were influenced by ulterior motives, as the friars sought to deflect attention from their missteps in New Spain. Illuminating Nahua perspectives on this story and period, Schmidt leaves no doubt as to who drove this violence as she dramatically expands the knowledge base available to students of colonial Latin America.
An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito
Finding Caspicara
Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Colonial Quito
SUSAN VERDI WEBSTER
Who is Caspicara? Nothing is known of Caspicara’s life, and not a single sculpture has been documented as his work. Yet traditional histories laud him as a prolific Indigenous sculptor in eighteenth-century Quito who created exquisite polychrome figures and became a national artistic icon. Drawing on extensive archival, historical, and object research, Susan Verdi Webster peels away layers of historiographical fabrication to reveal what we do and do not know about Caspicara and his work.
Rather than a solitary master, Caspicara collaborated with other, largely Indigenous artists in Quito’s protoindustrial workshops, manufacturing sculptures now credited to him alone. The high quality of Quito sculptures produced by anonymous artists turned the city into a hub of far-flung commerce in religious icons. The art world and post-independence Ecuadorians have lionized the one named sculptor, Caspicara, according to the Western model of the artist-genius, amplifying the market for works bearing his name and creating a national hero on par with European masters. Lost in this process were the artists themselves. Webster returns to their world, detailing their methods and labor and, for the first time, documenting a sculpture made by Caspicara.
SUSAN VERDI WEBSTER williamsburg, virginia Webster is the Mahoney Professor emerita of Art History at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain: Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture of Holy Week.
joe r. and teresa lozano long endowment in latin american and latino art and culture
release date | october 7 x 10 inches, 272 pages, 44 color photos, 5 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-2972-6
$55 00* | £49 00 | C$68 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2974-0
$55 00 e-book
The first study of Christian murals created by Indigenous artists in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Yucatán
Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán
AMARA SOLARI AND LINDA K WILLIAMS
AMARA SOLARI
university park, pennsylvania
Solari is a professor of art history at Pennsylvania State. She is the author of Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan
LINDA K WILLIAMS tacoma, washington
Williams is professor emerita of art history at the University of Puget Sound.
pachita tennant pike excellence endowment
release date | november
8 ½ x 11 inches, 256 pages, 120 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-2968-9
$60 00* | £54 00 | C$74 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2969-6
$60 00
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Maya artists painted murals in churches and conventos of Yucatán using traditional techniques to depict iconography brought from Europe by Franciscan friars. The fragmentary visual remains and their placement within religious structures embed Maya conceptions of sacredness beyond the didactic imagery. Mobilizing both cutting-edge technology and tried-and-true analytical methods, art historians Amara Solari and Linda K. Williams reexamine the Maya Christian murals, centering the agency of the people who created them.
The first volume to comprehensively document the paintings, Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán collects new research on the material composition of the works, made possible by cutting-edge imaging methods. Solari and Williams investigate pigments and other material resources, as well as the artists and historical contexts of the murals. The authors uncover numerous local innovations in form and content, including images celebrating New World saints, celestial timekeeping, and ritual processions. Solari and Williams argue that these murals were not simply vehicles of coercion, but of cultural “grafting,” that allowed Maya artists to shape a distinctive and polyvocal legacy in their communities.
clockwise from top left : Musicians, Room 1, Structure 1, Bonampak, the Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo; Anonymous Venetian (active c. 1300–1310), Noli me tangere panel from Triptych with the Virgin and Child, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; The Madrid Codex, folios 75–76, the Museo de las Américas, Madrid; Coat of arms of the Franciscan order, sacristy of the Convento of Saints Paul and Peter, Teabo, photograph by the authors.
Riot and Rebellion in Mexico
The Making of a Race War Paradigm
ANA SABAU
2023 Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section
“This groundbreaking study takes the discussion of race relations to the forefront of Mexican colonial and postcolonial history. ”
—ADELA PINEDA FRANCO, COEDITOR OF OPEN BORDERS TO A REVOLUTION: CULTURE, POLITICS, AND MIGRATION
“There is no book quite like Riot and Rebellion in Mexico, and it will surely make a serious and sustained impact on many fields for years to come.”
—DAVID KAZANJIAN, AUTHOR OF THE BRINK OF FREEDOM: IMPROVISING LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ATLANTIC WORLD
“To undertake such an ambitious spatial and temporal project, Sabau closely analyzes a handful of documents generated by colonial and republican authorities as they sought to manage violent opposition.”
HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
Ana Sabau is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77 Social Sciences
KATHERINE D MCCANN
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the most comprehensive annual bibliography in Latin American Studies. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities.
The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. Subject categories for the Social Sciences editions include anthropology; geography; government and politics; international relations; political economy; and sociology.
KATHERINE D . MCCANN washington, dc
McCann is an editor at the Library of Congress, Hispanic Division.
release date | september
6 x 9 ¼ inches, 770 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-3047-0
$150 00* |£134 00 |
C$188 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3049-4
$150 00
e-book
2023 de la Torre Bueno First Book Award
DANCE STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Choreographing Mexico
Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation
MANUEL R CUELLAR
ISBN 978-1-4773-3080-7
$34 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2518-6
$34 95 e-book
2022 Nonfiction Discovery Prize
WRITERS’ LEAGUE OF TEXAS
2023 Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff
Memorial Prize
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA
Undocumented Motherhood
Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing
ELIZABETH FARFÁN-SANTOS
ISBN 978-1-4773-2613-8
$24 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2615-2
$24 95 e-book
2023 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award
THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME
2023 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award
AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Black Country Music
Listening for Revolutions
FRANCESCA T ROYSTER
ISBN 978-1-4773-2649-7
$24 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2651-0
$24 95 e-book
2023 Outstanding Book Award
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ETHNIC STUDIES
Reclaiming the Americas
Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory
TATIANA REINOZA
ISBN 978-1-4773-2690-9
$34 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2691-6
$34 95 PDF e-book
2023 Turriano Book Prize
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Electrifying Mexico Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
DIANA J MONTAÑO
ISBN 978-1-4773-2825-5
$34 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2347-2
$34 95 e-book
2024 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize
TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Before Lawrence v. Texas
The Making of a Queer Social Movement
WESLEY G PHELPS
ISBN 978-1-4773-2947-4
$34 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2666-4
$34 95 e-book
2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize
NORTHEAST POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
Only the Names Have Been Changed
Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture
CLAUDIA CALHOUN
ISBN 978-1-4773-2538-4
$50 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2541-4
$50 00 e-book
2023 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize
NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
The Rural State
Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru’s Central Sierra
JAVIER PUENTE
ISBN 978-1-4773-2628-5
$45 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2630-5
$45 00 e-book
2023 Outstanding Book Award
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ETHNIC STUDIES
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies
Living Death in Latinx Narratives
KRISTY L ULIBARRI
ISBN 978-1-4773-2657-2
$34 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2603-9
$34 95 e-book
2022 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz
Book Prize
BARD GRADUATE CENTER
Image Encounters
Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History
LISA TREVER
ISBN 978-1-4773-2427-1
$45 00* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2429-5
$45 00 e-book
2024 Spiro Kostof Book Award
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Free People of Color and Their Influence
TARA A DUDLEY
ISBN 978-1-4773-2855-2
$34 95* paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2304-5
$34 95 e-book
2023 Kate Broocks Bates Award
TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Texas Lithographs
A Century of History in Images
RON TYLER
ISBN 978-1-4773-2608-4
$60 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2598-8
$60 00 PDF e-book
An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s
Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair
ALEXANDRA SEROS
ALEXANDRA SEROS
pacific palisades, california
Seros is a working screenwriter and PhD. She is currently working with UCLA to preserve film and early television movies directed and written by Ida Lupino. the william and bettye nowlin endowment in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere
release date | december 6 x 9 inches, 240 pages, 35 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3065-4
$45 00* | £40 00 | C$55 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3067-8
$45 00 e-book
Though her acting career is well known, Ida Lupino was, until very recently, either unknown or overlooked as an influential director. One of the few female directors in Classical Hollywood, Lupino was the only woman with membership in the Directors Guild of America between 1948 and 1971. Her films were about women without power in society and engaged with highly controversial topics despite Hollywood’s strict production code. Working in a male-dominated field, Lupino was forced to manage her public persona carefully, resisting attempts by the press to paint her solely as a dutiful wife and mother—a continual feminization—just so that she could continue directing.
Filmmaker Alexandra Seros retells the story of Ida Lupino’s career, from actor to director, first in film, then in television, using archival materials from collections housed around the world. The result provides rich insights into three of Lupino’s independently directed films and a number of episodes from her vast television oeuvre. Seros contextualizes this analysis with discussions of gendered labor in the film industry, the rise of consumerism in the United States after World War II, and the expectations put on women in their family lives during the postwar era. Seros’s portrait of Lupino ultimately paints her life and career as an exemplar of collaborative auteurship.
How
changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women’s reproductive roles and rights
It’s All in
the Delivery
Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy
VICTORIA STURTEVANT
Pregnancy and the politics surrounding it are serious matters, but humor has been a revealing and transformative means of engaging the subject. Victoria Sturtevant examines productions from I Love Lucy to Junior, Jane the Virgin to Murphy Brown , finding that comedic films and television programs have articulated and altered public anxieties, expectations, and hypocrisies concerning reproduction. Evolving—and sometimes stubborn—attitudes toward pregnancy owe much to representational strategies that turn the social discomforts of childbirth into something we can laugh at.
On-screen comedy offers a fascinating lens on the role of pregnancy in defining American womanhood, as studio-era censorship gave way to fetishization of sentimental childbirth in the 1950s; the pill and legalized abortion spiked media interest in nonmarital pregnancy; the patriarchal entrenchment of the 1980s and ’90s turned attention to biological clocks; and more recent film and television shows have moved toward medically and socially candid depictions of pregnancy. It’s All in the Delivery argues that representational breakthroughs were enabled by comedy’s capacity to violate restrictive norms, introducing greater candor, courage, and critique into popular notions of the embodiment of pregnancy on-screen.
VICTORIA STURTEVANT norman, oklahoma
Sturtevant is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler and coeditor of Hysterical! Women in American Comedy the william and bettye nowlin endowment in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere
release date | december 6 x 9 inches, 248 pages, 50 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3044-9
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-3043-2
$105 00* | £94 00 | C$131 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3046-3
$34 95 e-book
| film, media & popular culture | Comics
A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture
Redrawing the Western A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
WILLIAM GRADY
WILLIAM GRADY
manchester, united kingdom
Grady is an independent scholar and librarian.
world comics and graphic nonfiction series, Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González & Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, Editors
release date | november
6 x 9 inches, 304 pages, 75 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-2998-6
$50 00* | £45 00 | C$62 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3000-5
$50 00 e-book
Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media, Grady engages with several key historical timeframes, from the origins of the Western in the nineteenth-century illustrated press; fin de siècle anxieties with the closing of the frontier; and the centrality of cowboy adventure across the interwar, postwar, and high Cold War years, to the revisions of the genre in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Western’s continued vitality in contemporary comics storytelling.
In its study of stories about vengeance, conquest, and justice on the contested frontier, Redrawing the Western highlights how the “simplistic” conflicts common in Western adventure comics could disguise highly political undercurrents, providing young readers with new ways to think about the contemporaneous social and political milieu. Besides tracing the history, forms, and politics of American Western comics in and around the twentieth century, William Grady offers an original reassessment of the important role of comics in the development of the Western genre, ranking them alongside popular fiction and film in the process.
How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories
Searching for Feminist Superheroes
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics
SAM LANGSDALE
It’s no secret that superhero comics and their related media perpetuate a model of a straight, white, male hero at the expense of representing women and other minorities, but other narratives exist. Searching for Feminist Superheroes recognizes that female-led superhero comics, with diverse casts of characters and inclusive storytelling, exist on the margins of the mainstream superhero genre. But rather than focusing on these stories as marginalized, Sam Langsdale’s work on heroes such as Spider-Woman, America Chavez, and Ironheart locates the margins as a site of innovation and productivity, which have enabled the creation of feminist superhero texts. Employing feminist and intersectional philosophies in an analysis of these comics, Langsdale suggests that feminist superheroes have the potential to contribute to a social imagination that is crucial in working towards a more just world. At a time when US popular culture continues to manifest as a battleground between oppressive and progressive social norms, Searching for Feminist Superheroes demonstrates that a fight for a better world is worthwhile.
SAM LANGSDALE
oakland, california Langsdale is an independent scholar and the coeditor of Monstrous Women in Comics.
world comics and graphic nonfiction series, Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González & Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, Editors
louann atkins temple women and culture endowment
release date | september
6 x 9 inches, 240 pages, 16 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-2978-8
$45 00* | £40 00 | C$55 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2980-1
$45 00 e-book
Mainstream Maverick John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema
HOLLY CHARD
Winner, Best First Monograph, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
“An insightful study of Hughes’s cinematic oeuvre. . . . The proof of his auteur status is very much in Chard’s book. Her work checks, rehearses and confirms all criteria that determine the status of film authorship.”
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES
“A creditable and insightful argument for why Hughes is worth studying. . . . Readers interested in a serious study of Hughes and 1980s cinema will enjoy this engaging book.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL
“One need not be a fan of John Hughes’s films to find this book fascinating and enlightening. . . . Building on extensive research, Chard meticulously describes Hughes’s marketing strategies, alongside her analyses of his films’ content. . . . Chard’s limpid writing style makes this book an easy reading assignment. . . . Recommended.”
CHOICE
Holly Chard is an independent scholar.
release date | september
6 x 9 inches, 284 pages, 17 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-2130-0
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95
paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2132-4
$34 95 e-book
A study of Denis Villeneuve’s genretranscendent film
Arrival
DAVID ROCHE
In Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016), scientists must decipher the language of and peacefully communicate with aliens who have landed on Earth before the world’s military attacks. In this first book-length study of the film, scholar David Roche argues that it is one of the most important films of this century, and the most brilliant science fiction film since Blade Runner. Roche posits Arrival as a blockbuster with artistic ambitions—an argument supported by the film’s several Academy Award nominations—and looks closely at how the film engages with theoretical questions posed by contemporary film studies and philosophy alike. Each section explores a central aspect of the film: its status as an auteur adaptation; its relation to the science fiction genre; its themes of communication on narrative and meta-narrative levels; its aesthetics of time and space; and the political and ethical questions it raises. Ultimately, Roche declares Arrival a unique, multifaceted experience in the world of hard science fiction films, placing it in context with works like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind , and Contact while also examining how it bridges the gap between genre and art house cinema.
DAVID ROCHE montpellier, france Roche is a professor of film studies at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and an Institut Universitaire de France member. He is the author of Meta in Film and Television Series and Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction, and coeditor of Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film
21st century film essentials, Donna Kornhaber, Editor
release date | september 5 x 7 inches, 200 pages, 26 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3015-9
$24 95* | £21 99 | C$30 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-3014-2
$105 00* | £94 00 | C$131 00 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3017-3
$24 95 e-book
Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents
The 100 Greatest ScienceFiction Films
DOUGLAS BRODE
“Brode’s done an admirable job in this well-written and engaging book. For neofans, it’s an excellent starting place. For older fans, it’s interesting to see old favourites in context against newer movies. Fantastic Planets is a welcome addition to any SF or film buff’s bookshelf.”
FORTEAN TIMES
“It contains a ton of information that sci-fi fans will love having collected into one volume. . . . The central benefit of Brode’s book [is] discovering new films that one is already highly likely to enjoy. Not only does it collect all that film ephemera into one place for easy reference, it also serves as a springboard for the kinds of conversations that energize film fans.”
POPMATTERS
“Reading the short entries is addictive, like sampling canapés at a buffet table. The chronological order allows the reader to enter anywhere, or even to read the book backwards, favoring recent, more familiar items over older more obscure ones.”
—JAMES MACKILLOP, AUTHOR OF CONTEMPORARY IRISH CINEMA: FROM THE QUIET MAN TO DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Douglas Brode is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, graphic novelist, film historian, and multi-award-winning journalist who has written nearly forty books on movies and the mass media.
release date | january 6 x 9 inches, 440 pages, 133 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-3076-0
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-0247-7
$34 95 e-book
The Claremont Run Subverting Gender in the X-Men
J . ANDREW DEMAN
“If you were ever curious how much each X-Man talks or thinks on the page, Deman’s book has cataloged and applied it in an essay written with deep love and admiration. It’s the perfect complement for anyone looking to revisit Claremont’s run or read his enduring stories for the first time.”
—ERIC VILAS-BOAS , VULTURE
“A masterful work on the ways Claremont’s run is not only iconic but achieves a level of gender subversion at a time when comics stood by traditional masculine and feminine roles. . . . This is an excellent work of scholarship.”
—INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG
“The Claremont Run is a dynamic and convincing piece of literature that brings attention to gender dynamics with a specific era of X-Men. . . . Deman’s overall expertise and compelling argument throughout the books creates a quick-paced and convincing piece of literature for both scholars and everyday readers.”
—THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE
J. Andrew Deman is on the faculty in the Department of English Language and Literature at St. Jerome’s University and the author of The Margins of Comics: The Construction of Women, Minorities, and the Geek in Graphic Narrative.
world comics and graphic nonfiction series, Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González & Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, Editors
release date | september 6 x 9 inches, 176 pages, 14 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-3075-3
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2547-6
$34 95 e-book
Soldiers and Silver
Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest
MICHAEL J . TAYLOR
“This book represents a rare and impressive breadth of research across the ancient Mediterranean and sheds new light on a critical period in Western history. Its conclusions will be fundamental to future study of an age-old but still highly relevant area of enquiry.”
JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES
“A tightly written monograph. . . . Taylor argues that Romans won ultimately because they were able to muster a larger fighting force. The narrative includes a number of fresh and more nuanced thoughts about how Romans paid for and deployed their numerical advantage. . . . The author’s excellent mind for military strategy and tactics is on display throughout. . . . Taylor’s sturdy account is welcome reading.”
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
“This book will be of interest to anyone with a serious interest in the mechanics of ancient Roman and Hellenistic warfare. Its emphasis on the interplay between recruitment and finance—an aspect that has only recently received more scholarly attention —shows the importance of a solid financial structure behind any military venture.”
ANCIENT WARFARE
Michael J. Taylor is an associate professor in the history department at the University at Albany. He previously served as an officer in the California National Guard, with deployments to Iraq and Kosovo.
ashley and peter larkin endowment in greek and roman culture
release date | january 6 x 9 inches, 256 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-3077-7
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95
paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2170-6
$34 95 e-book
A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of
Arretium
Arretium (Arezzo)
EDITED BY INGRID EDLUND-BERRY AND CRISTIANA ZACCAGNINO
Beneath the Italian city of Arezzo lie the remains of Etruscan Arretium. This volume, the first comprehensive treatment of excavations at Arretium, gathers the most up-todate scholarship on the city and delves into key archaeological discoveries and the stories they tell about life in the Etruscan world.
Chapters explore local history—including the city’s complex political exchanges with Rome—Etruscan religion, Arretium’s role as a center of the arts, and the challenges of excavation amid the bustle of European urban modernity. Editors Ingrid Edlund-Berry and Cristiana Zaccagnino have gathered chapters by expert contributors that detail Arretium’s material culture, including the city’s famed pottery, Arretine ware, which was known across the Mediterranean; terracotta pieces depicting gods and other supernatural beings; and exquisite bronze-work, most notably the piece now known as the Chimera of Arezzo. One of the few Etruscan cities that continued flourishing after the Roman takeover, Arretium proves to be a trove of archaeological riches and of the historical insights they reveal.
INGRID EDLUND-BERRY austin, texas
Edlund-Berry is a professor emerita in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the coeditor of The Chora of Metaponto 6: A Greek Settlement at Sant’Angelo Vecchio.
CRISTIANA ZACCAGNINO
kingston, ontario, canada Zaccagnino is a professor of archaeology at Queens University at Kingston. She is the coauthor of “Ora gli eroi sono fossili arguti”: Riflessioni iconografiche sui miti di Perseo e Bellerofonte.
cities and communities of the etruscans, Nancy Thomson de Grummond & Lisa C. Pieraccini, Editors
release date | january 8 ½ x 11 inches, 240 pages, 106 b&w illustrations, 18 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-3018-0
$60 00* | £54 00 | C$74 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3020-3
$60 00 e-book
A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran’s Khuzestan province
Bordering on War A
Social and Political History of Khuzestan
SHAHERZAD AHMADI
SHAHERZAD AHMADI
st. paul, minnesota
Ahmadi is an associate professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
connected histories of the middle east and the global south, Afshin Marashi & Houri Berberian, Editors
release date | november
6 x 9 inches, 280 pages, 1 map
ISBN 978-1-4773-2993-1
$55 00* | £49 00 | C$68 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2995-5
$55 00
e-book
In 1980, Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘athist forces invaded Khuzestan, one of the oldest and richest provinces in Iran, triggering the Iran-Iraq War. Shaherzad Ahmadi’s Bordering on War examines the social history of Khuzestan and sheds light on how border dwellers, provincial leaders, and migrants in the region shaped Iran and Iraq’s history before, during, and after the war.
Drawing from a rich collection of Persian- and Arabiclanguage archival sources—rarely used by western scholars due to restrictions in Iran—Ahmadi’s research focuses on Arab Iranians and argues that Iranian border dwellers and migrants formed local, non-national loyalties, thereby eschewing bureaucratic pressures to confine loyalties to a single nation-state. The transnational character and ethnically diverse composition of Khuzestan, and especially the oil-rich towns in the southwestern border, led many, including Iraq’s Ba‘ath Party, to question the national belonging of Arab Iranians. Bordering on War contributes to a wider discussion about the ability of individuals and communities to exert agency through migration, trade, education, and other activities.
Recently Published
Across the Green Sea
Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640
BY SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM
ISBN 978-1-4773-2877-4
$50 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2879-8
$50 00 e-book
Reading Across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
BY ARIA FANI
ISBN 978-1-4773-2881-1
$55 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2883-5
$55 00 e-book
A War of Colors
Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut BY NADINE A SINNO
ISBN 978-1-4773-2874-3
$55 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2876-7
$55 00 e-book
France and Algeria
A History of Decolonization and Transformation
BY PHILLIP NAYLOR
ISBN 978-1-4773-2843-9
$55 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2845-3
$55 00 e-book
In the Land of the Patriarchs
Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements
BY NOAM SHOKED
ISBN 978-1-4773-2854-5
$34 95* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2786-9
$34 95 e-book
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey
BY OYMAN BAŞARAN
ISBN 978-1-4773-2702-9
$55 00* hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-2704-3
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A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas A Comparative Approach
EDITED BY NAHUM KARLINSKY
NAHUM KARLINSKY
brookline, massachusetts
Karlinsky is a visiting associate professor at Boston University’s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of several books and the coauthor with Mustafa Kabha of The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850–1950.
jewish history, life, and culture endowment
release date | december 6 x 9 inches, 344 pages, 7 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3040-1
$55 00* | £49 00 | C$68 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3042-5
$55 00 e-book
Exilic and diasporic experience have become ubiquitous in recent decades. Jews, lacking a homeland, spread to various parts of the world, making the Jewish diaspora paradigmatic. But after the establishment of Israel in 1948, a different kind of diaspora emerged, as more than a tenth of Israeli citizens have chosen to leave their newly established state and resettle. Meanwhile, about half of all Palestinians, including Palestinian citizens of Israel, now reside in exile, predominantly as a result of the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Recognizing that Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab societies coexist and are engaged in constant relations, Nahum Karlinsky assembles an impressive array of contributors to explore these diasporas alongside one another and in dialogue with other diasporic communities. The collected essays cover such topics as the experiences of Palestinian exiles within Israel, the demographics of today’s Israeli diaspora, the unique place of Israeli Jews in the United States, literatures of Palestinian transnationals, the emergence of Berlin as a queer IsraeliJewish immigrant enclave, and self-reflections on voluntary exile. The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas challenges and reimagines the very notion of a homeland.
A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day
Prohibition in Turkey
Alcohol and the Politics of Identity
EMINE Ö . EVERED
Prohibition in Turkey investigates the history of alcohol, its consumption, and its proscription as a means to better understand events and agendas of the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras. Through a comprehensive examination of archival, literary, popular culture, media, and other sources, it unveils a traditionally overlooked—and even excluded—aspect of human history in a region that many do not associate with intoxicants, inebriation, addiction, and vigorous wet-dry debates.
Historian Emine Ö. Evered’s account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategies for managing its heterogeneous communities and their varied rights to produce, market, and consume alcohol, or to simply abstain. The first author to reveal this experience’s connections with American Prohibition, she demonstrates how—amid modernization, sectarianism, and imperial decline—drinking practices reflected, shifted, and even prompted many of the changes that were underway and that hastened the empire’s collapse. Ultimately, Evered’s book reveals how Turkey’s alcohol question never went away but repeatedly returns in the present, in matters of popular memory, public space, and political contestation.
EMINE Ö EVERED east lansing, michigan Evered is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. She is the author of Empire and Education under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform, and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks
release date | december 6 x 9 inches, 288 pages, 20 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978-1-4773-3031-9
$55 00* | £49 00 | C$68 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4773-3033-3
$55 00 e-book
A new translation of a best-selling novel about love, liberty, and exile in the final years of the Ottoman Empire
Seviyye Talip
HALIDE EDIB ADIVAR
TRANSLATED BY ICLAL
VANWESENBEECK
HALIDE EDIB ADIVAR
1884–1964
Adivar was one of the most prolific Turkish women writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than a dozen novels, essays, short stories, memoirs, a play, a libretto, and various translations. She was the founder of Taali-I Nisvan Cemiyeti (the Organization for the Elevation of Women), worked as the head of the English Literature program at Istanbul University, and served in the Turkish Parliament as an MP from 1950 to 1954.
ICLAL VANWESENBEECK
Fredonia, New York
Vanwesenbeeck is an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
modern middle east literatures in translation
release date | november
5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 inches, 176 pages , 3 illustrations
From the most acclaimed Turkish woman writer of the twentieth century comes a novel of violent political uprisings, opera, adultery, polygamy, modernity, liberty, and exile in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. Set in the early twentieth century, the novel follows Fahir, a philosopher, idealist, and reformist who graduates from Oxford University and returns to Istanbul after a voluntary (but possibly compulsory) exile. In the midst of political turmoil and social upheaval, Fahir finds himself embroiled in a love triangle with Macide, a traditional Muslim Turkish woman, and Seviyye, a rebellious Turkish soprano who defies social and religious norms. A bestseller in Turkey in 1910, the novel features the first-ever Turkish soprano protagonist and is interwoven with operatic references and landscapes from turn-of-the-century Istanbul and Cairo.
ISBN 978-1-4773-3064-7
$21 95* | £18 99 | C$26 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-3091-3
$21 95 e-book
The third book in a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure trilogy centered on a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to save the world
Thunderbird Book Three
SONIA NIMR
TRANSLATED BY M
LYNX QUALEY
In the third and final book of the Thunderbird trilogy, Noor finds herself in Byzantine Jerusalem, in the year 638 CE, where the city is under siege. She is joined by Sabeeka, the djinn who takes the form of a cat, and meets the twins Helena and Julian, who have the power of healing. The four team up to find the thunderbird. But before they can, they are swallowed by a giant wormlike creature called a bakasola , which takes them to the world beyond the wall that separates the world of the djinn from our ordinary human world. From the terrifying, dark, gloomy world of the bakasola , Noor and her friends are rescued and delivered to the colorful and peaceful world of the sakarik, where they discover the bakasola are stealing the golden liquid that keeps the sakarik alive. Will Noor and her friends rescue the sakarik and return to the human world in time to find the last two thunderbird feathers that will save the world?
SONIA NIMR ramallah, palestine
Nimr is an award-winning Palestinian writer, storyteller, translator, and oral historian who has published more than two dozen books for children and young adults. She is an assistant professor of philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University.
M LYNX QUALEY rabat, morocco
Qualey is an award-winning translator and the founding editor of ArabLit and ArabLit Quarterly, and cohost of the BULAQ literary podcast.
emerging voices of the middle east
release date | september
5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 inches, 120 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-2752-4
$18 00* | £15 99 | C$22 95 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4773-2754-8
$18 00 e-book
Sarah Oppenheimer, C-010106, 2022. Photo by Richard Barnes.
Courtesy of Landmarks, the public art program of the University of Texas at Austin.
tower Books is named in honor of the University of Texas at Austin’s most prominent landmark. Acting as a consultant and publisher, the University of Texas Press partners with colleges, schools, and other divisions of the university to produce institutional histories, commemorative anniversary editions, exhibition catalogues, and similar volumes under the Tower Books imprint.
tower books
Bill Hobby
A comprehensive biography of a legendary lieutenant governor
A Life in Journalism and Public Service
DON CARLETON AND ERIN L . PURDY
DON CARLETON
austin, texas
Carleton is the founding executive director of the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous works include The Governor and the Colonel: A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby and Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics.
ERIN L PURDY
austin, texas
Purdy is deputy executive director of the Briscoe Center.
release date | september
7 x 10 inches, 432 pages, 50 b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-953480-12-5
$34 95* | £29 99 | C$43 95 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-953480-13-2
$34 95
e-book
During his five terms as lieutenant governor of Texas, Bill Hobby became one of the most powerful political figures in the state’s history. He was first elected lieutenant governor in 1972 and served through 1990. Thanks to his brilliance as a legislative tactician and his personal integrity, Hobby was able to set the Senate’s agenda and garner respect from legislators on both sides of the aisle.
In Bill Hobby, Don Carleton and Erin L. Purdy document Hobby’s significant contributions as a journalist, politician, and philanthropist. Born into a prominent Texas family with a rich legacy of public service, he was the son of Houston newspaper publisher and former Texas governor William P. Hobby Sr., and Oveta Culp Hobby, who led the Women’s Army Corps during World War II and served in President Eisenhower’s cabinet.
After more than a decade as a journalist for the Houston Post, Hobby forged his own political path while also playing a prominent role in his family’s newspaper and television business.
Hobby was never shy about using his power to serve the people of Texas. Even after he left office, he continued to make a difference as a strong advocate for public education, including a term as chancellor of the University of Houston.
clockwise from top: Bill Hobby, in beekeeper’s gear, and Parliamentarian Steve Dial welcome the “Killer Bees” legislators at their ten-year reunion in 1989. Bill Hobby with a typewriter at the Houston Post, 1952. Bill Hobby with Ann Richards, c. 1977. Bill Hobby in the pressroom at the Houston Post, c. 1972.
Featuring a playful work of public art designed to interrupt and alter our perception of space
Sarah Oppenheimer C-010106
ANDRÉE BOBER
ANDRÉE BOBER
austin, texas
Bober is the founding director and curator of Landmarks, the public art program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include The Collections: The University of Texas at Austin and Landmarks.
release date | september
8 x 12 inches, 112 pages, 50 color and b&w photos
ISBN 978-1-4773-3008-1
$40 00* | £36 00 | C$49 95 hardcover
Few artists possess the ability to shape the ways we inhabit space as profoundly as Sarah Oppenheimer. Challenging the idea of sculptures as static objects, the artist animates inert materials, transforming them into vibrant apparatuses that interact with their surroundings. These manipulations defy the boundaries between sculpture and architecture, prompting us to reimagine our interactions with the spaces we navigate, inviting us to form new relationships with one another, and encouraging us to play.
Landmarks, the public art program of the University of Texas at Austin, is pleased to present Oppenheimer’s C-010106, a commission designed with precise structural calculations that interrupt space and complicate our perceptions. Occupying the surface of the Peyton Family Bridge at the Cockrell School of Engineering, C-010106 invites us to pause and wonder. Each view tempts us to engage with the work’s complex geometry and spatial arrangements, as it yields surprising vistas that heighten our awareness of others.
Sarah Oppenheimer, C-010106, 2022. Photos by Richard Barnes. Courtesy of Landmarks, the public art program of the University of Texas at Austin.
An exhibition catalog celebrating a storied photographer’s career
Through Her Lens
The Photojournalism of Diana Walker
BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHS BY
DIANA WALKER
BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY
austin, texas
The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the leading historical research centers in the United States.
DIANA WALKER
washington, dc
Walker is a photojournalist who covered the White House for Time magazine for over twenty years. Her work has been recognized by the World Press, the National Press Photographers Association, and the White House News Photographers Association.
release date | september
9 ½ x 11 ½ inches, 152 pages, 233 photos
ISBN 978-1-953480-20-0
$45 00* | £40 00 | C$55 95 hardcover
Through Her Lens, the catalog of the retrospective exhibition, showcases iconic photos from Diana Walker’s extensive archive at the Briscoe Center for American History. Walker’s photography allows us to see through her lens and step behind the scenes with politicians, artists, celebrities, and business leaders. Her wide-ranging coverage of political campaigns sits alongside the public and private events of multiple presidential administrations. During Walker’s years in the White House press pool, she achieved extraordinary access and exclusives, and was often the only photographer in the room. With selections from five decades of her work, the exhibit also showcases Walker’s technical ability and social acumen in a career spent capturing some of the most notable faces in the news.
“Diana Walker is one of the preeminent photojournalists of her generation,” says Don Carleton, founding executive director of the Briscoe Center. “She has visually documented the news— and the individuals who made that news—with talent, imagination, diligence, and grace. Her body of work provides us with a deeper understanding of the past events and notable people that she has skillfully photographed.”
All images (c) Diana Walker, courtesy of the Diana Walker Photographic Archive, Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Hill Anderson
School in Mars Hill, North Carolina. The school was part of the historic Rosenwald School project and has recently been renovated to become an interpretive museum and cultural center. From Freedom Schools.
Mars
Rosenwald
Asian Music
EDITOR: RICARDO D TRIMILLOS
University of Hawai’i at Ma¯noa
Asian Music, the journal of the Society for Asian Music, is the leading journal devoted to ethnomusicology in Asian music, publishing all aspects of the performing arts of Asia and their cultural context.
Semiannual ISSN 0044-9202 individuals $38/yr institutions $95/yr students $30/yr
Diálogo
EDITOR: BILL JOHNSON GONZ Á LEZ
DePaul University
Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal is published with support from DePaul University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the Office of the Provost. Diálogo is a refereed journal published since 1996 that seeks research and reflection articles of regional and hemispheric contexts with a focus on diverse Latin American, US Latino, and Indigenous populations and experiences, recent immigration, and places of origin. Diálogo publishes articles that help bridge barriers between academic and local communities, book and film/media reviews, and interviews pertinent to Latino communities in the US, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Freedom Schools A Journal of Democracy and Community
EDITORS: ROBERT M CERESA, HustonTillotson University
AND RONALD E GOODWIN, Prairie View
A&M University
Freedom Schools is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that elevates the distinctive voices of historically Black colleges and universities in Texas and beyond. The journal touches upon themes of democracy and experiences of civic agency.
Annual Individuals $35/yr Institutions $80/yr
Information & Culture
EDITOR: ANDREW DILLON University of Texas at Austin
Information & Culture: A Journal of History publishes highquality, peer-reviewed articles examining the social and cultural influences and impact of information and its associated technologies, broadly construed, on all areas of human endeavor.
Journal of Advancement Analytics is the journal of the Texas Advancement Analytics Symposium (TAAS), which brings together industry thought leaders and practitioners to discuss advanced problems in fundraising analytics. Together we explore, exhibit, and envision advancement analytics problems and their solutions. TAAS provides a venue for in-depth discussion and topical exploration in the advancement analytics space.
Annual ISSN 2693-4442
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Journal of the History of Sexuality
EDITORS: ISHITA PANDE, Queen’s University AND NICHOLAS L SYRETT , University of Kansas
The Journal of the History of Sexuality spans geographic and temporal boundaries, providing a much-needed forum for historical, critical, and theoretical research in its field. Its cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary character brings together original articles and critical reviews from historians, social scientists, and humanities scholars worldwide.
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The Journal of Individual Psychology
EDITORS: JON SPERRY, Lynn University AND LEN SPERRY, Florida Atlantic University
The Journal of Individual Psychology provides a forum for the finest dialogue on Adlerian practices, principles, and theoretical development. Articles relate to theoretical and research issues as well as to concerns of practice and application of Adlerian psychological methods. The Journal of Individual Psychology is the journal of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology.
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Journal of Latin American Geography
EDITORS: MARTHA BELL, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú AND JESSICA BUDDS , Universität Bonn
Distributed by the University of Texas Press
The Journal of Latin American Geography is a publication of the Conference of Latin American Geography (CLAG). JLAG publishes original geographical and interdisciplinary research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
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ISSN 1545-2476
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Korean Journal of Communication
EDITORS: DO KYUN DAVID KIM, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
AND YEONSOO KIM, University of Texas at Austin
The Korean Journal of Communicationn is a peer-reviewed publication that disseminates scholarly research, book reviews, insightful commentaries, meticulous field notes, and data analysis in Korean communication studies.
Triannual
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Latin American Music Review
EDITOR: ROBIN D MOORE University of Texas at Austin
Latin American Music Review explores the historical, ethnographic, and sociocultural dimensions of Latin American music in Latin American social groups, including the Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, and Portuguese populations in the United States. Articles are written in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Semiannual
ISSN 0163-0350
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Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
EDITOR: MELISSA A FITCH
University of Arizona
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, an annual interdisciplinary journal, publishes articles, review essays, and interviews on diverse aspects of popular culture in Latin America. Since its inception in 1982, the journal has defined popular culture broadly as “some aspect of culture which is accepted by or consumed by significant numbers of people.”
Annual ISSN 0730-9139
Individuals $44/yr Institutions $130/yr
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
EDITORS: HANNAH C WOJCIEHOWSKI AND ALLEN MACDUFFIE
University of Texas at Austin
Texas Studies in Literature and Language is an established journal of literary criticism publishing substantial essays reflecting a variety of critical approaches and covering all periods of literary history.
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
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Established in 1962, The Textile Museum Journal is the leading publication for the exchange of textile scholarship in North America. The journal promotes high-quality research on the cultural, technical, historical, and aesthetic significance of textiles from various cultures.
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US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal
EDITOR: MAGGIE RIVAS-RODRIGUEZ
University of Texas at Austin
The US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal is a research publication created to mine, showcase, and promote the rich field of oral history as it relates specifically to the US Latina and Latino experience. This annual volume focuses on specific topics, and the journal features articles and book reviews. The University of Texas Press publishes the journal with support from the Voces Oral History Project at the university’s School of Journalism.
Annual ISSN 2574-0180
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The Velvet Light Trap
The Velvet Light Trap offers critical essays on significant issues in film studies while expanding its commitment to television as well as film research. Each issue provokes debate about critical, theoretical, and historical topics relating to a particular theme.
The Velvet Light Trap is edited at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Texas at Austin, with the support of media scholars at those institutions and throughout the country.
Also available as an e-journal
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