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HIGHLIGHTS THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR
KEEPING IT UNREAL
Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics
Black Women and the Culture of US Empire
Darieck Scott
Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books
Erica R. Edwards
Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power
400 PG | PAPER | 9781479808434 | $30
280 PG | PAPER | 9781479824144 | $29
BLACK AGE
THE QUEER NUYORICAN
Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life
Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida
Habiba Ibrahim
Karen Jaime
A view of transatlantic slavery’s afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479810895 | $28
A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic
232 PG | PAPER | 9781479808298 | $28
CRIP SERIES DISTRESSING LANGUAGE
DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE
Disability and the Poetics of Error
Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present
Michael Davidson
Dennis Tyler
The role of disability and deafness in art
Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479813841 | $29
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479831128 | $30
ACCESSIBLE AMERICA
LITERARY BIOETHICS
A History of Disability and Design
Animality, Disability, and the Human
Bess Williamson
Maren Tova Linett
A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it *NEW IN PAPERBACK*
Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans
304 PG | PAPER | 9781479802494 | $19.95
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224 PG | PAPER | 9781479801251 | $28
KEYWORDS SERIES KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES Edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley and Shelley Streeby
Second Edition
Edited by Philip Nel, Lissa Paul and Nina Christensen
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479899678 | $28
Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children’s Literature in an updated edition
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479831968 | $28
KEYWORDS FOR GENDER & SEXUALITY
KEYWORDS FOR AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES
Edited by The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective
Third Edition
Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality 312 PG | PAPER | 9781479808151 | $28
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies
Edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler
360 PG | PAPER | 9781479822942 | $28
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies
AVIDLY READS SERIES AVIDLY READS OPERA
AVIDLY READS POETRY
Alison Kinney
“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.” Whether we’re listening for the first time or revisiting the arias that first stole our hearts, Avidly Reads Opera welcomes readers and listeners to a community full of friendship, passion, critique—and, always, beautiful music. 160 PG | PAPER | 9781479811731 | $14.95
176 PG | PAPER | 9781479807093 | $14.95
Jacquelyn Ardam
“Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world” Avidly Reads Poetry is an ode to poetry and the worlds that come into play around the different ways it is written and shared.
176 PG | PAPER | 9781479813582 | $14.95
AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES
AVIDLY READS PASSAGES
Arielle Zibrak
Michelle D. Commander
“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.” In Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures, Arielle Zibrak considers the specifically pleasurable forms of feminine guilt and desire stimulated by supposedly “lowbrow” aesthetic tendencies.
“What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. 168 PG | PAPER | 9781479806171 | $14.95
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LITERARY THEORY & HISTORY HONEY ON THE PAGE
EMPIRE’S NURSERY
A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature
Children’s Literature and the Origins of the American Century
Edited and translated by Miriam Udel
Brian Rouleau
How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire
Winner, 2021 Reference & Bibliography Award in the ‘Reference’ Section, given by the Association of Jewish Libraries
352 PG | CLOTH | 9781479874132 | $29.95 320 PG | CLOTH | 9781479804474 | $35
THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT
THE SMELL OF RISK
Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics
Cultural Memory and the Korean War
Hsuan L. Hsu
A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality
Daniel Y. Kim
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479805365 | $29
Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479810093 | $30
COMICS AND STUFF
HAITI’S PAPER WAR
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954
Henry Jenkins
Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics— as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now
Chelsea Stieber
2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation In America and the Long 19th Century
352 PG | PAPER | 9781479800933 | $32
380 PG | PAPER | 9781479802159 | $30
RUNAWAY GENRES
REALIST ECSTASY
The Global Afterlives of Slavery
Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature
Yogita Goyal Winner, 2021 René Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of Narrative 280 PG | PAPER | 9781479832712 | $30
Lindsay V. Reckson
Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment.
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479850365 | $29
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MEDIA STUDIES DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM
MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED
Black Women’s Digital Resistance
Catherine Knight Steele
Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought
208 PG | PAPER | 9781479808380 | $27
Moya Bailey
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny
248 PG | CLOTH | 9781479865109 | $28
THE FORBIDDEN BODY
RACE & MEDIA
How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society
Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination
Edited by Lori Kido Lopez
A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
Douglas E. Cowan
From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come together
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479803118 | $30
344 PG | PAPER | 9781479889310 | $30
SEXUAL CULTURES SERIES BECOMING HUMAN
THE SEX OBSESSION
Matter and Meaning in an AntiBlack World
Perversity and Possibility in American Politics
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
320 PG | PAPER | 9781479830374 | $30
Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women’s Studies Association Winner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies
FROTTAGE
Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora Keguro Macharia
Winner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic
Janet R. Jakobsen
Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power
304 PG | CLOTH | 9781479846085 | $30
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224 PG | PAPER | 9781479865017 | $27
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POSTMILLENNIAL POP SERIES THE DARK FANTASTIC
STORIES OF THE SELF
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Life Writing after the Book Anna Poletti
The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON for BIPOC+ in Speculative Fiction *NEW IN PAPERBACK* 240 PG | PAPER | 9781479806072 | $16.95
248 PG | PAPER | 9781479836666 | $29
THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE
CONNECT WITH US!
African American Comic Art and Political Belonging Rebecca Wanzo
Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Winner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
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256 PG | PAPER | 9781479889587 | $29
LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE THE BOOK OF CHARLATANS
KALĪLAH AND DIMNAH
Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Rahīm al-Jawbarī Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East
300 PG | PAPER | 9781479813247 | $16
Fables of Virtue and Vice Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
Translated by Michael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal
300 PG | CLOTH | 9781479806539 | $30
IMPOSTURES
LOVE, DEATH, FAME
Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition al-Māyidī ibn Zāhir Edited and translated by Marcel Kurpershoek Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates
al-Harīrī One of The Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year! Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways *New in paperback!
542 PG | PAPER | 9781479810567 | $15
400 PG | CLOTH | 9781479806577 | $35
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UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS BREAD & WATER
FIELD NOTES FOR THE SELF
Essays
dee Hobsbawn-Smith
James Frideres and Randy Lundy
A meditation on the poetics of hunger and the social worlds of cooking
241 PG | PAPER | 9780889778115 | $21.95
Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul In Oskana Poetry & Poetics
128 PG | PAPER | 9780889776913 | $16.95
SHIFTING BASELINE SYNDROME
SYNAPTIC
How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life
Aaron Kreuter
Alison Calder
A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time In Oskana Poetry & Poetics
96 PG | PAPER | 9780889778542 | $16.95
An award-winning poet attempts to map the brain’s neural connections, raising fundamental questions about identity and interiority In Oskana Poetry & Poetics
96 PG | PAPER | 9780889778610 | $16.95
UNSETTLED
PITCHBLENDE
A Reckoning on the Great Plains
Elise Marcella Godfrey
Dawn Morgan
Delivers an urgent poetics of resistance and appeal for environmental justice for a Saskatchewan community In Oskana Poetry & Poetics
A probing memoir examining family tragedy on the Great Plains
392 PG | PAPER | 9780889778573 | $19.95
96 PG | PAPER | 9780889778405 | $16.95
NEW VILLAGE PRESS MY LIFE IN 100 OBJECTS
SUCH A PRETTY GIRL
A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride
Margaret Randall
Traces the remarkable life of a feminist poet through the items and images that have have defined her experiences
250 PG | PAPER | 9781613321140 | $24
Nadina LaSpina
A memoir by a disability rights activist
352 PG | PAPER | 9781613320990 | $19.95
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