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HIGHLIGHTS BECOMING HUMAN
HONEY ON THE PAGE
Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature
ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON
Edited by MIRIAM UDEL Foreword by JACK ZIPES
Argues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human
An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrations
$30.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 9781479830374 In Sexual Cultures
$29.95 • 352 Pages Cloth • 9781479874132
HAITI’S PAPER WAR
COMICS AND STUFF
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 CHELSEA STIEBER
Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation $30.00 • 380 pages Paper • 9781479802159 In America and the Long 19th Century
THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT Cultural Memory and the Korean War DANIEL Y. KIM
Enables a reckoning with the legacy of The Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory $29.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 9781479805365
THE SMELL OF RISK Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics
HENRY JENKINS
Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now $32.00 • 352 pages Paper • 978-1-4798-0093-3
LITERARY BIOETHICS Animality, Disability, and the Human MAREN TOVA LINETT
Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans $28.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 9781479801251 In Crip Instructor’s Guide Available
REALIST ECSTASY Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature
HSUAN L. HSU
LINDSAY V. RECKSON
A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality
Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment
$30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 9781479810093
$29.00 • 336 Pages Paper • 978-1-4798-5036-5 In Performance and American Cultures
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POSTMILENNIAL POP SERIES
THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE African American Comic Art and Political Belonging
2020 World Fantasy Awards | Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, FIYACON
THE DARK FANTASTIC Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head
Reveals the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination
$29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 9781479889587 In Postmillennial Pop
$16.95 • 240 Pages Paper • 9781479806072 In Postmillennial Pop
STORIES OF THE SELF
VIDEO GAMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUEER
REBECCA WANZO
Life Writing after the Book ANNA POLETTI
The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics
$29.00 • 248 Pages Paper • 9781479836666 In Postmillennial Pop
BONNIE RUBERG
Argues for the queer potential of video games $30.00 • 288 pages Paper • 9781479843749 In Postmillennial Pop
KEYWORDS SERIES AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES, third edition
Edited by BRUCE BURGETT and GLENN HENDLER
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated edition $28.00 • 360 Pages • Paper • 9781479822942 In Keywords FORTHCOMING
KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES
Edited by RAMZI FAWAZ, DEBORAH WHALEY and SHELLEY STREEBY
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies $28.00 • 288 Pages • Paper • 9781479831968 In Keywords
KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, second edition
Edited by PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL, and NINA CHRISTENSEN
Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children’s Literature in an updated edition $28.00 • 272 Pages • Paper • 9781479899678 In Keywords
ABOUT THE SERIES Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with each essay on a single term to help trace the contours and debates of a particular field. Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly concepts, the books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry.
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A V I D LY R E A D S FORTHCOMING
AVIDLY READS PASSAGES
FORTHCOMING
AVIDLY READS GUILTY PLEASURES
MICHELLE D. COMMANDER
ARIELLE ZIBRAK
“What is the value of Black life in America?”
“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.”
$14.95 • 168 Pages Paper • 9781479806171
$14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 9781479807093
AVIDLY READS MAKING OUT
AVIDLY READS BOARD GAMES
KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON
ERIC THURM
“Here’s the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all.”
“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”
$14.95 • 176 Pages Paper • 9781479843275
Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part personal reflection, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life.
$14.95 • 144 Pages Paper • 9781479826957
AVIDLY READS THEORY JORDAN ALEXANDER STEIN
“Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous.” $14.95 • 152 Pages Paper • 9781479801008
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L AT I N X S T U D I E S Honorable Mention, 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research
RICANNESS
RACIAL IMMANENCE
Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance
Chicanx Bodies beyond Representation
SANDRA RUIZ
MARISSA K. LÓPEZ
Argues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism
Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art
$30.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 9781479825684
$28.00 • 208 Pages Paper • 9781479813902
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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, International Society for the Study of Narrative
RUNAWAY GENRES The Global Afterlives of Slavery YOGITA GOYAL
Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre $30.00 • 280 Pages Paper • 9781479832712
FORTHCOMING
THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR Black Women and the Culture of US Empire ERICA R. EDWARDS
Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power $30.00 • 416 Pages Paper • 9781479808434
2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion | 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine
LANGSTON’S SALVATION
American Religion and the Bard of Harlem
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WALLACE D. BEST
A new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston Hughes $22.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 9781479847396
LITERARY HISTORY 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics | Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize, AAJR
Finalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience|2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
GOLEM
A RICH BREW
Modern Wars and Their Monsters
How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture SHACHAR M. PINSKER
MAYA BARZILAI
A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes $25.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 9781479848454
A fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish culture $22.00 • 384 Pages Paper • 9781479874385
LOVING JUSTICE Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England KATHRYN TEMPLE
A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justice $45.00 • 280 Pages Cloth • 9781479895274
POSTCARDS FROM AUSCHWITZ Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance DANIEL P. REYNOLDS
The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials $25.00 • 336 pages Paper • 9781479806034
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MEDIA STUDIES DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS African American Cybercultures
RACE AND MEDIA Critical Approaches Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ
An explanation of the digital practices of the Black Internet
A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media
$29.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 9781479829965 In Critical Cultural Communication
$30.00 • 344 pages Paper • 9781479889310 In Critical Cultural Communication
GAMER TROUBLE
POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CIVIC IMAGINATION
ANDRÉ BROCK, JR.
Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture AMANDA PHILLIPS
Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games
$29.00 • 256 Pages Paper • 9781479834921
Case Studies of Creative Social Change Edited by HENRY JENKINS, GABRIEL PETERS-LAZARO and SANGITA SHRESTHOVA
How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change $32.00 • 400 Pages • Paper • 9781479869503
A Biography
HORRIBLE WHITE PEOPLE
JEAN BURGESS and NANCY K. BAYM
Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness
The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture
TAYLOR NYGAARD and JORIE LAGERWEY
$18.95 • 144 Pages Cloth • 9781479811069
Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering $30.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 9781479805358 Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, Locus Science Fiction Foundation
LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?
OLD FUTURES
NYU Press is pleased to offer complimentary desk and exam copies to qualified educators.
Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media
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Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility ALEXIS LOTHIAN
$30.00 • 352 Pages Paper • 9781479825851 In Postmillennial Pop
S E X U A L C U LT U R E S TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY JANE WARD
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo $26.95 • 216 Pages Cloth • 9781479851553 In Sexual Cultures
THE SEX OBSESSION Perversity and Possibility in American Politics JANET R. JAKOBSEN
Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power $30.00 • 304 Pages Cloth • 9781479846085 In Sexual Cultures
2020 Latino Book Awards, LGBTQ+ Section| Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies
FROTTAGE Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora KEGURO MACHARIA
A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic $27.00 • 224 Pages Paper • 9781479865017 In Sexual Cultures
ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde ROBB HERNÁNDEZ
Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife $29.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 9781479820832 In Sexual Cultures
Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies
QUEER FAITH Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition MELISSA E. SANCHEZ
QUEER TIMES, BLACK FUTURES KARA KEELING
Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts
A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time
$35.00 • 344 Pages Paper • 9781479840861 In Sexual Cultures
$30.00 • 288 Pages Paper • 9780814748336 In Sexual Cultures
TIMES SQUARE RED, TIMES SQUARE BLUE 20 th anniversary edition
CRUISING UTOPIA, 10 th anniversary edition
SAMUEL R. DELANY
The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City
JOSÉ ESTEBAN MUÑOZ, Foreword by JOSHUA CHAMBERSLETSON, TAVIA NYONG’O, and ANN PELLEGRINI
$25.00 • 240 Pages Paper • 9781479827770 In Sexual Cultures
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars $25.00 • 280 pages • Paper • 9781479874569 In Sexual Cultures
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L I B R A RY O F A R A B I C L I T E R AT U R E Longlist, 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Translation
IMPOSTURES
ARABIAN ROMANTIC
Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways
ʿABDALLĀH IBN SBAYYIL Translated by MARCEL KURPERSHOEK Foreword by ANNMARIE DRURY
AL-ḤARĪRĪ Translated by MICHAEL COOPERSON
$29.95 • 542 Pages Cloth • 9781479800841
Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
Scenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century $15.00 • 328 Pages Paper • 9781479804405
IN DARFUR
An Account of the Sultanate and Its People
MUḤAMMAD AL-TŪNISĪ Translated by HUMPHREY DAVIES Foreword by KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Introduction by R.S. O’FAHEY
A merchant’s remarkable travel account of an African kingdom
A HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS Translated by BRUCE FUDGE
Foreword by ROBERT IRWIN A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder $15.00 • 272 Pages Paper • 9781479873234
$15.00 • 430 Pages Paper • 9781479804443 Longlist, 2019 National Translation Award for Poetry, American Literary Translators Association
WAR SONGS
ʿANTARAH IBN SHADDĀD Translated by JAMES E. MONTGOMERY with RICHARD SIEBURTH Foreword by PETER COLE
Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior $14.00 • 320 Pages Paper • 9781479858798
A PHYSICIAN ON THE NILE A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years
ʿABD AL-LAṬĪF AL-BAGHDĀDĪ Edited and translated by TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH
Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt $30.00 • 350 Pages Cloth • 9781479806249
THE BOOK OF TRAVELS ḤANNĀ DIYĀB Edited by JOHANNES STEPHAN Translated by ELIAS MUHANNA Foreword by YASMINE SEALE
Afterword by PAULO LEMOS HORTA The adventures of the man who created Aladdin Vol 1 • $30.00 • 300 Pages Cloth • 9781479892303 Vol 2 • $30.00 • 300 Pages Cloth • 9781479806300 2-Volume Set • $50.00 • 9781479810949
Supported by a grant from the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, and established in partnership with NYU Press, the Library of Arabic Literature offers Arabic editions and English translations of significant works of Arabic literature, with an emphasis on the seventh to nineteenth centuries. Books in the series are edited and translated by internationally recognized scholars.
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THE GIRL FROM DREAM CITY A Literary Life LINDA LEITH
Vivid stories from a Canadian literary icon, who shares a life spread across continents and immersed in books $18.95 • 304 Pages Paper • 9780889777859 In The Regina Collection Published by University of Regina Press
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS WHITE COAL CITY A Memoir of Place and Family ROBERT BOSCHMAN
A moving, unflinching exploration of life in Prince Albert, SK, as told through one family’s multigenerational story $18.95 • 320 pages Paper • 9780889777965 Published by University of Regina Press
RED OBSIDIAN
GATHER
New and Selected Poems
Richard Van Camp on Storytelling
STEPHAN TORRE
A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephen Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands $16.95 • 120 Pages Paper • 9780889777750 In Oskana Poetry & Poetics Published by University of Regina Press
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SURFACING On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa Edited by DESIREE LEWIS and GABEBA BADEROON
An anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing influential to today’s scholars and radical thinkers $35.00 • 328 Pages Paper • 9781776146093 Published by Wits University Press
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RICHARD VAN CAMP
Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp on how to tell a good story $17.95 • 162 Pages Paper • 9780889777002 In Writers on Writing Published by University of Regina Press
WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS AND WROTE MY STORY ANYWAY Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism BARBARA BOSWELL
Critically examines influential novels in English by eminent Black female writers $30.00 • 264 Pages Paper • 9781776146185 Published by Wits University Press
NEW VILLAGE PRESS MY LIFE IN 100 OBJECTS MARGARET RANDALL
Traces the remarkable life of a feminist poet through the items and images that have have defined her experiences $24.00 • 250 pages Paper • 9781613321140 Includes 100 color images Published by New Village Press
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