Literature & Literary Studies 2022

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LITERARY STUDIES 2022-2023

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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

LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?

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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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