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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
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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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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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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