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Sitting in Darkness Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization HSUAN L. HSU
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The Impossible Jew Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History
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An Imperialist Love Story Desert Romances and the War on Terror AMIRA JARMAKANI
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Artistic Form and Social Critique in African-American Culture
EDITED BY CORINNE T. FIELD AND NICHOLAS L. SYRETT
The Colonial Era to the Present
PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER
Displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principle site of cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of literature.
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At Home in Nineteenth-Century America A Documentary History AMY G. RICHTER
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The Perils of Marriage Equality KATHERINE FRANKE
Wedlocked turns to history to compare today’s samesex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they were able to legally marry for the first time.
Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire HIRAM PÉREZ
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Living On After Great Pain CHRISTINA CROSBY
Crosby offers a beautifully written and unflinching account of the labors of everyday life after a traumatic spinal cord injury and how writing, imagination, and memory are critical components of such a life. CLOTH • 978-1-4798-3353-5 • $22.95
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Complex TV
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Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
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Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
Desi Hoop Dreams
Modernity’s Ear
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Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday “A beautifully written and original discussion of Asian American performance and the politics of the everyday.” Josephine Lee, author of Performing Asian America 304 PAGES • 6 HALFTONES PAPER • 978-1-4798-4432-6 • $28.00 CLOTH • 978-1-4798-9789-6 • $89.00
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The Black Radical Tragic Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution JEREMY MATTHEW GLICK
Examines twentieth-century performances engaging the Haitian Revolution as laboratories for political thinking. JANUARY 2016 296 PAGES • 1 HALFTONE PAPER • 978-1-4798-1319-3 • $27.00 CLOTH • 978-1-4798-4442-5 • $89.00
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Queering the Countryside New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
Chronic Youth
Deafening Modernism
Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation
Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature
JULIE PASSANANTE ELMAN
“An extraordinary book. Superbly written, critically nuanced, and refreshingly new.”
“A whip-smart read that makes groundbreaking contributions.”
Offers a comprehensive analysis of the meanings and formations of queer desires found in the rural United States
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HISTORY Dissent The History of an American Idea RALPH YOUNG
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Sounds of Belonging
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Drawing from rich interviews, Discounted Life focuses on the processes of social and market exchange in transnational surrogacy.
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A Century of Film Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay “Will be widely recognized and embraced as a key, innovative text in our field.”
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The Price of Global Surrogacy in India
Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies “Provocative and evocative.”
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The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America RACHEL C. LEE
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Alexander Weheliye, author of Phonographies
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“With sharp insight, Kheshti explores the nexus between bodies and sounds at the intersection of racial and gender identities.”
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Geisha of a Different Kind
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Listening to Race and Gender in World Music
STANLEY I. THANGARAJ
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Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity
Carla L. Peterson, author of Black Gotham
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A History of Environmental Racism in the United States CARL A. ZIMRING
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From the Land of Shadows War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora KHATHARYA UM
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Making the Empire Work Labor and United States Imperialism EDITED BY DANIEL E. BENDER AND JANA K. LIPMAN
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