Literary Studies

BLACK AGE

Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life HABIBA IBRAHIM

A view of transatlantic slavery’s afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age

Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim argues that Black age—through nearly four centuries of subjugation— has become contingent, malleable, and suited for the needs of enslavement. As a result, rather than the number of years lived or a developmental life stage, Black age came to signify exchange value, historical under-development, timelessness, and other fantasies borne out of Black exclusion from the human.

Habiba Ibrahim is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the recipient of African American Review’s 2016 Darwin T. Turner prize and author of Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism. September 2021 272 pages • 6 x 9 1 black & white illustration Paper • $28.00S(£20.99) 9781479810895 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479810888

Literary Studies

DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE

Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present DENNIS TYLER

Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America

Through both law and custom, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom, incapable of self-governance, and contagious within the national body politic. Dennis Tyler argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed what he calls the disabilities of the color line: the historical and ongoing anti-Black systems of division that maim, immobilize, and stigmatize Black people. In doing so, Tyler reveals how Black writers and activists have engaged in a politics and aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that, in the pursuit of racial and disability justice, acknowledged the disabling violence perpetrated by anti-Black regimes in order to conceive or engender dynamic new worlds that account for people of all abilities.

Dennis Tyler is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Fordham University. February 2022 336 pages • 6 x 9 5 black & white illustrations Paper • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479831128 Cloth • $89.00X(£71.00) 9781479805846 In Crip

Literary Studies

Marita Sturken is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright), and Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism From Oklahoma City to Ground Zero, and is the former editor of American Quarterly.

TERRORISM IN AMERICAN MEMORY

Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post9/11 Era

MARITA STURKEN

The role of cultural memory in American identity

Terrorism in American Memory argues that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and all that followed in its wake were the primary force shaping United States politics and culture in the post-9/11 era. The post-9/11 era began with a hunger for memorialization and it ended with massive protests over police brutality that demanded the destruction of historical monuments honoring racist historical figures. Sturken argues that memory is both the battleground and the site for negotiations of national identity because it is a field through which the past is experienced in the present. The paradox of these last two decades is that it gave rise to an era of intensely nationalistic politics in response to global terrorism at the same time that it released the containment of the ghosts of terrorism embedded within US history. And within that disruption, new stories emerged, new memories were unearthed, and the story of the nation is being rewritten. For these reasons, this book argues that the post-9/11 era has come to an end, and we are now in a new still undefined era with new priorities and national demands. Woven within analyses of memorialization, memorials, memory museums, art projects on memory, and architectural projects is a discussion about design and architecture, the increased creation of memorials as experiences, and the role of architecture as national symbolism and renewal. Terrorism in American Memory sheds light on the struggles over who is memorialized, who is forgotten, and what that politics of memory reveals about the United States as an imaginary and a nation.

January 2022 336 pages • 6 x 9 93 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479811687 • $29.00S(£21.99) Cloth • 9781479811670 • $89.00X(£71.00)

Cultural Studies

KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES

Edited by THE KEYWORDS FEMINIST EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE

Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality

Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements. Reflecting the interdisciplinary breadth of the field, this collection of seventy essays by scholars across the social sciences and the humanities weaves together methodologies from science and technology studies, affect theory, and queer historiographies, as well as Black Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies. Taken together, these essays move alongside the distinct histories and myriad solidarities of the fields to construct the much awaited Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.

The Keywords Feminist Editorial

Collective includes Kyla Wazana Tompkins (she/her), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at Pomona College, who also served as managing editor; Aren Aizura (he/him), Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota; Aimee Bahng (she/her), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Pomona College; Karma R. Chávez (she/ her), Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin; Mishuana Goeman (she/her), Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Professor of Gender Studies, American Indian Studies, and affiliated faculty of Critical Race Studies in the Law School at the University of California, Los Angeles and Amber Jamilla Musser (she/her), Professor of English at the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.

November 2021 320 pages • 8 x 8.5 Paper • 9781479808151 • $28.00S(£20.99) Cloth • 9781479808137 • $89.00X(£71.00) In Keywords

Cultural Studies