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NEW AND NOTEWORTHY Archives of Flesh

African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique “A daring and beautifully written book, offering reflections on the current state of Black studies and the sociopolitical and geographical locations of Blackness that inform our dominant discourses.”

—Michelle Wright, author of Physics of Blackness

The Latino Nineteenth Century Edited by RODRIGO LAZO and JESSE ALEMÁN “Highlight[s] the historical dimensions of ‘the Latino/a’ and speak[s] to the concurrent traditions, canons, moments, and tensions that have long been neglected and overlooked ...this is sure to become a treasured volume.”

—Claudia Millian, author of Latining America

$30.00 • 384 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-5587-2 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

Time

A Vocabulary of the Present Edited by JOEL BURGES and AMY ELIAS “Offers a rich and beautiful mapping of the concept of time, showing where we have come from in our thinking, but more importantly, where we are headed. A true intellectual gem.”

—Amir Eshel, author of Futurity $30.00 • 384 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7484-2

Ethnology and Empire

Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands ROBERT LAWRENCE GUNN “A superb work. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”

—Choice

$28.00 • 304 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-4905-5 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

NYUPRESS • Literary Studies

Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific

The New Mutants

Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives

Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

AIDA LEVY-HUSSEN

VINCE SCHLEITWILER

RAMZI FAWAZ

“[R]einvigorates black feminist critique and queer literary studies...startlingly lucid, precise, and attentive to the nuances of its various texts both fictive and scholarly.”

—Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection

With an innovative prose style, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific pursues the poetic and ethical challenge of reading, or learning how to read, the black and Asian literatures that take form and flight within the fissures of imperialism’s racial justice.

“Fawaz takes a hard look at the politics behind superhero comics in this...satisfying debut. [A]n enjoyable and perceptive study.”

—Publishers Weekly

Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation

ROBERT F. REID-PHARR

$28.00 • 264 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-4362-6 In the Sexual Cultures series

How to Read African American Literature

$26.00 • 224 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8471-1

B r it t rus ert

Fugitive

Fugitive Science

Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

BRITT RUSERT

Science Empiricism

and Freedom in Early African American Culture

“[A]n ambitious, creative, and deeply researched interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century African Americans’ engagements with racial and other sciences of the period” —Robert S. Levine, author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass

$26.00 • 224 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8471-1 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

Undisciplined

Nihad M. Farooq

u ndiscipli ned Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 NIHAD M. FAROOQ “With dazzling archival work...

Farooq makes a compelling case for the centrality of race within the emergent sciences of evolutionary biology and anthropology.”

—Jane Thrailkill, author of Affecting Fictions

$30.00 • 280 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0699-7

Racial Reconstruction

Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship EDLIE L. WONG “With impressive archival research, Racial Reconstruction traces the fascinating transnational history of U.S. racial formation in the aftermath of abolition and reconstruction.”

—Gretchen Murphy, author of Shadowing the White Man’s Burden

$28.00 • 304 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1796-2 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

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$28.00 • 288 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-5708-1 In the Nation of Nations series

$29.00 • 368 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-2308-6

The Secret Life of Stories

The Black Radical Tragic

From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read

Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution

JEREMY MATTHEW GLICK

MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ “The Secret Life of Stories is that rare book that manages to speak to its specialized academic audience while imagining and addressing a much broader readership... an accessible, if still rigorous, study of the way fiction grapples with intellectual disability.”

—Slant Magazine $24.95 • 240 Pages • CLOTH • 978-1-4798-2361-1

“[A] book we were all waiting for without knowing it...

[Glick] combines here a sober and ruthless insight into the necessary tragic twists of the revolutionary process with the unconditional fidelity to this process.”

—Slavoj Zizek, Los Angeles Review of Books $27.00 • 296 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1319-3 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

The Utopia Reader

God Mocks

Edited by GREGORY CLAEYS and LYMAN TOWER SARGENT

TERRY LINDVALL

Second Edition

“[T]he place to start a literary voyage into new futures, possible futures, and dangerous alternative futures...Accessible and provocative.”

—Jean Pfaelzer, author of The Utopian Novel in America $40.00 • 576 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3707-6

Abstractionist Aesthetics

Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER “Exposes how our prefabricated notions of the sounds, sights, and feeling of blackness dictate our often parochial reactions to artistic efforts to engage and broaden the places assigned to black Americans.”

—Michael Awkward, University of Michigan $27.00 • 256 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1836-5 In the NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis series

A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert “[A]n excellent overview and introduction to numerous authors of religious satire... will appeal to readers...seeking a unique perspective.”

—Library Journal $35.00 • 384 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-6642-7

Deafening Modernism

Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature REBECCA SANCHEZ “An extraordinary book.

Superbly written, critically nuanced, and refreshingly new, Deafening Modernism will set the standard for future disability and Deaf studies scholarship. There is truly nothing else like it.”

—Brenda Brueggemann, author of Deaf Subjects $25.00 • 240 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0555-6

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LITERARY STUDIES

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY Archives of Flesh

African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique “A daring and beautifully written book, offering reflections on the current state of Black studies and the sociopolitical and geographical locations of Blackness that inform our dominant discourses.”

—Michelle Wright, author of Physics of Blackness

The Latino Nineteenth Century Edited by RODRIGO LAZO and JESSE ALEMÁN “Highlight[s] the historical dimensions of ‘the Latino/a’ and speak[s] to the concurrent traditions, canons, moments, and tensions that have long been neglected and overlooked ...this is sure to become a treasured volume.”

—Claudia Millian, author of Latining America

$30.00 • 384 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-5587-2 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

Time

A Vocabulary of the Present Edited by JOEL BURGES and AMY ELIAS “Offers a rich and beautiful mapping of the concept of time, showing where we have come from in our thinking, but more importantly, where we are headed. A true intellectual gem.”

—Amir Eshel, author of Futurity $30.00 • 384 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7484-2

Ethnology and Empire

Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands ROBERT LAWRENCE GUNN “A superb work. Summing Up: Highly recommended.”

—Choice

$28.00 • 304 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-4905-5 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

NYUPRESS • Literary Studies

Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific

The New Mutants

Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives

Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

AIDA LEVY-HUSSEN

VINCE SCHLEITWILER

RAMZI FAWAZ

“[R]einvigorates black feminist critique and queer literary studies...startlingly lucid, precise, and attentive to the nuances of its various texts both fictive and scholarly.”

—Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection

With an innovative prose style, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific pursues the poetic and ethical challenge of reading, or learning how to read, the black and Asian literatures that take form and flight within the fissures of imperialism’s racial justice.

“Fawaz takes a hard look at the politics behind superhero comics in this...satisfying debut. [A]n enjoyable and perceptive study.”

—Publishers Weekly

Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation

ROBERT F. REID-PHARR

$28.00 • 264 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-4362-6 In the Sexual Cultures series

How to Read African American Literature

$26.00 • 224 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8471-1

B r it t rus ert

Fugitive

Fugitive Science

Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

BRITT RUSERT

Science Empiricism

and Freedom in Early African American Culture

“[A]n ambitious, creative, and deeply researched interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century African Americans’ engagements with racial and other sciences of the period” —Robert S. Levine, author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass

$26.00 • 224 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8471-1 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

Undisciplined

Nihad M. Farooq

u ndiscipli ned Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940

Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 NIHAD M. FAROOQ “With dazzling archival work...

Farooq makes a compelling case for the centrality of race within the emergent sciences of evolutionary biology and anthropology.”

—Jane Thrailkill, author of Affecting Fictions

$30.00 • 280 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0699-7

Racial Reconstruction

Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship EDLIE L. WONG “With impressive archival research, Racial Reconstruction traces the fascinating transnational history of U.S. racial formation in the aftermath of abolition and reconstruction.”

—Gretchen Murphy, author of Shadowing the White Man’s Burden

$28.00 • 304 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1796-2 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

WWW . NYUPRESS . ORG

$28.00 • 288 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-5708-1 In the Nation of Nations series

$29.00 • 368 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-2308-6

The Secret Life of Stories

The Black Radical Tragic

From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read

Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution

JEREMY MATTHEW GLICK

MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ “The Secret Life of Stories is that rare book that manages to speak to its specialized academic audience while imagining and addressing a much broader readership... an accessible, if still rigorous, study of the way fiction grapples with intellectual disability.”

—Slant Magazine $24.95 • 240 Pages • CLOTH • 978-1-4798-2361-1

“[A] book we were all waiting for without knowing it...

[Glick] combines here a sober and ruthless insight into the necessary tragic twists of the revolutionary process with the unconditional fidelity to this process.”

—Slavoj Zizek, Los Angeles Review of Books $27.00 • 296 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1319-3 In the America and the Long 19th Century series

The Utopia Reader

God Mocks

Edited by GREGORY CLAEYS and LYMAN TOWER SARGENT

TERRY LINDVALL

Second Edition

“[T]he place to start a literary voyage into new futures, possible futures, and dangerous alternative futures...Accessible and provocative.”

—Jean Pfaelzer, author of The Utopian Novel in America $40.00 • 576 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3707-6

Abstractionist Aesthetics

Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER “Exposes how our prefabricated notions of the sounds, sights, and feeling of blackness dictate our often parochial reactions to artistic efforts to engage and broaden the places assigned to black Americans.”

—Michael Awkward, University of Michigan $27.00 • 256 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1836-5 In the NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis series

A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert “[A]n excellent overview and introduction to numerous authors of religious satire... will appeal to readers...seeking a unique perspective.”

—Library Journal $35.00 • 384 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-6642-7

Deafening Modernism

Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature REBECCA SANCHEZ “An extraordinary book.

Superbly written, critically nuanced, and refreshingly new, Deafening Modernism will set the standard for future disability and Deaf studies scholarship. There is truly nothing else like it.”

—Brenda Brueggemann, author of Deaf Subjects $25.00 • 240 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0555-6

USE THE DISCOUNT CODE ON THE MAILING PANEL TO SAVE

20%

WWW . NYUPRESS . ORG

NYUPRESS

20% OFF FEATURED BOOKS NYU Press 838 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, New York 10003

a NYU PRESS

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

NYU PRESS NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES IN

LITERARY STUDIES 2016-2017