Syracuse University Press Fall / Winter 2016 Catalog by Syracuse University Press

Past Director’s Choice In the Wake of the Poetic Palestinian Artists after Darwish Najat Rahman Director’s Choice for Fall 2015 “The author beautifully shows how these artists express their belonging to Palestine despite many forces aiming at their erasure and how they have done so in aesthetically accepted ways.”—Issa J. Boullata, World Literature Today Hardcover $29.95s 978-0-8156-3408-9 Ebook 978-0-8156-5341-7

Reading the Wampum Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery Penelope Myrtle Kelsey Director’s Choice for Fall 2014 Reading the Wampum conveys the vitality and continuance of wampum traditions in Iroquois art, literature, and community as they persist and reappear in new guises with each new generation. Hardcover $29.95s 978-0-8156-3366-2 Ebook 978-0-8156-5299-1

Sylvia Porter America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist Tracy Lucht Director’s Choice for Fall 2013

Director’s Choice Discovered in Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections, William Osborne Dapping’s previously unpublished manuscript, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club (ca. 1900–1910), is this season Director’s Choice. The Muckers is a long-lost and singular firsthand account of the author’s youth as a member of a boys’ street gang in 1890s New York City. Colorfully and wittily told in the argot of the city’s slums, it portrayed the boys’ mischievous and criminal escapades in a way that challenged the conventions of writing about children and the poor. The publication of Dapping’s story represents the commitment of Syracuse University Press to preserve the history, literature, and culture of our region, as well as our mission to promote the scholarship of the university. I’m delighted to add this book to our New York State collection and showcase one of the many treasures Syracuse University has to offer.

“With everyone mad about Mad Men, this book shows how Porter successfully

—Alice Randel Pfeiffer, director

played the gender game in the 1950s.” —Carol Kolmerten, Hood College Cloth $24.95 978-0-8156-1029-8 Ebook 978-0-8156-5249-6

Books for the Trade

HISTORICAL FICTION

Director’s Choice for Fall 2016

The Muckers A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club William Osborne Dapping Edited and with an Introduction by Woody Register Hardcover $59.95s 978-0-8156-3440-9 Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1063-2

Ebook 978-0-8156-5362-2

6 x 9, 272 pages, 10 black-and-white photographs, annotations, index October 2016

Written in the vernacular of the streets, a firsthand account of the author’s youth as a member of a boys’ gang in 1890s New York City.

“Provides the point of view of street kids or gang members, something heretofore very hard to have access to in the primary documents of the period, except in tiny bits and snatches. Here, we have a booklength insider’s account.” —Keith Gandal, professor of English, City College of New York

“Dapping’s book is a welcome addition to Progressive Era books on the culture of the streets and, more particularly, street children, the objects of much moralistic, philanthropic, and official attention in this period.” —Amy Schrager Lang, author of The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America

In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club recovers a long-lost fictionalized account of Dapping’s life in a gang of rowdy boys. Simultaneously a polished work of social reform literature and a rejoinder to the era’s alarming exposés of the “dangerous classes,” The Muckers stands as an important reform era primary document. The thinly disguised autobiographical narrative is told in the slangy, profane voice of the gang’s leader, Spike, who describes life through the eyes of the young boys who thronged the city’s streets, hawking newspapers, playing baseball, shooting craps, pilfering beer, and tormenting any and all adult authorities. These muckers are dirty and insubordinate, and prefer to steal rather than to work, but they also possess a high-spirited zest for life and mischief, a wily intelligence, and a sturdy code of honor that help them exploit the good intentions of social reformers and survive in a darkly violent and hypocritical world. Historian Woody Register’s introduction explores the book’s documentary value as a social history of 1890s tenement life; as a literary work that challenged the conventions of writing about children and the poor; and as a window through which to observe the remarkable story of the author’s transformation from slum mucker to Harvard man. Destined to become a classic of Progressive Era literature, The Muckers reads with the lively cadence of a novel, told in the voice of an unforgettable narrator of wit, grit, and heart. William Osborne Dapping (1880–1969) was an American journalist and editor from Auburn, New York. In 1930, the Pulitzer Prize Committee awarded him a special prize for his reportorial work in connection with the outbreak at Auburn prison in December 1929. Woody Register is the Francis S. Houghteling Professor of American History at Sewanee, the University of the South. He is the author of The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements, and he is coauthor of the two-volume series Crosscurrents in American Culture: A Reader in United States History. 1

TELEVISION | LINGUISTICS

Watching TV with a Linguist Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten Hardcover $65.00s 978-0-8156-3493-5 Paper $34.95 978-0-8156-1081-6

Ebook 978-0-8156-5395-0

6 x 9, 352 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables, notes, references, index Series: Television and Popular Culture September 2016

An introduction to the study of linguistics, using popular and critically acclaimed television series to explain and illustrate language in use.

“A book like this ought to be available for instruction in linguistics and television studies, media studies, and cultural studies.” —Michael Adams, professor of English, Indiana University

“This is an excellent book, which is innovative in its conceptualization, and expertly edited. . . . A must-read for the budding linguist and TV-enthusiast.” —Monika Bednarek, senior lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney

Also available . . .

Reading Joss Whedon Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery “Cuts new ground as a collection, just as its many contributions individually examine various elements of Whedon’s work with nuance and precision.”—Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin–Madison Cloth $59.95L 978-0-8156-3364-8 Paper $29.95 978-0-8156-1038-0 Ebook 978-0-8156-5283-0

In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humor, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters. The essays gathered in this volume explore specific areas of linguistics, providing a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the study of language. Through programs such as Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Sherlock, and The Wire, contributors deftly illustrate key linguistic concepts and terminology using snippets of familiar dialogue and examples of subtle narration. In addition, contributors aim to raise linguistic awareness among readers by identifying linguistics in action, encouraging readers to recognize additional examples of concepts on their own. To this end, each chapter provides suggestions for viewing other television series or specific episodes, where further examples of the linguistic concepts in focus can be found. Invaluable as a resource in linguistics and communication courses, Watching TV with a Linguist is the first book to use the familiar and compelling medium of television to engage students with the science of language. Kristy Beers Fägersten is associate professor of English linguistics at Södertörn University in Sweden. She is the author of Who’s Swearing Now? The Social Aspects of Conversational Swearing.

LITERARY CRITICISM | MEMOIR

Literary Awakenings Personal Essays from the Hudson Review Edited by Ronald Koury With an Introduction by William H. Pritchard Hardcover $55.00s 978-0-8156-3487-4 Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1078-6

Ebook 978-0-8156-5385-1

6 x 9, 312 pages, notes November 2016

A collection of deeply personal essays musing on literature from the Hudson Review.

“The collection makes a strong case for the centrality of reading to human life . . . to argue for literature’s importance in an increasingly post-literate age.” —Jeff Porter, associate professor of English, University of Iowa

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Poets Translate Poets A Hudson Review Anthology Edited by Paula Deitz “There are poems and plays here that will positively delight read-

During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications. Over time, the Hudson Review became a home for this kind of accessible, memoirist writing. Literary Awakenings collects eighteen essays published over the last three decades that celebrate the writer’s relationship with literature, one that is deeply shaped by experience and remembrance. The essays gathered here recall disparate awakenings to the influence of literature and discoveries of the many ways in which it enriches nearly every aspect of our lives. Antonio Muñoz Molina describes his education as a writer and a citizen as a form of protest against Franco’s totalitarian regime in Spain. Drawing upon Huckleberry Finn, Wendell Berry meditates on the impulse to escape that literature often invokes, and Judith Pascoe’s tribute to Clarissa confesses to the appeal of reading select literature that initiates one into an exclusive coterie of people. What unites these diverse contributions is the joy of appreciation, the pleasures of engaging with literature. Contributors include:

to do justice to a work of genius in another language.”—Brian M.

Wendell Berry Dana Gioia

David Mason Antonio Muñoz Molina

Reed, author of Hart Crane: After His Lights

Seamus Heaney

Clara Claiborne Park

ers, inform them, and make them think about what it means to try

Cloth $39.95 978-0-8156-1027-4 Ebook 978-0-8156-5247-2

Ronald Koury has been managing editor of the Hudson Review since 1985.

FICTION

The Elusive Fox Muhammad Zafzaf Translated from the Arabic by Mbarek Sryfi and Roger Allen Paper $18.95 978-0-8156-1077-9

Ebook 978-0-8156-5381-3

5 x 7, 120 pages Series: Middle East Literature in Translation August 2016

The first English translation of Muhammad Zafzaf’s novel of a coastal Moroccan city and its gritty underbelly.

“The Elusive Fox is an indelible portrait of a man in transit and a country in transition. Zafzaf writes without indulgence, yet with sympathy and humor, about life in the coastal town Essaouira, where locals and tourists mingle, mutually exposing their hypocrisies. A gritty, powerful novel by one of Morocco’s greatest writers.” —Laila Lalami, author of The Moor’s Account

“A key novel by one of Morocco’s most important Arabic novelists. . . . Represents the neglected Arabic perspective on the characters Beat generation writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs encountered during their stay in Morocco.” —Jonathan Smolin, associate professor of Arabic, Dartmouth College

“A welcome addition to the canon of works of Moroccan literature in translation.” —William Hutchins, translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy

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Felâtun Bey and Râkım Efendi An Ottoman Novel Ahmet Midhat Efendi Translated from the Turkish by Melih Levi and Monica M. Ringer “An enchanting read. . . . A unique, entertaining and enlightening book.”—The Jordan Times Paper $14.95 978-0-8156-1064-9 Ebook 978-0-8156-5363-9

Considered one of Morocco’s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins of society. In The Elusive Fox, Zafzaf’s first novel to be translated into English, a young teacher visits the coastal city of Essaouira in the 1960s. There he meets a group of European bohemians and local Moroccans and is exposed to the grittier side of society. More than a novel, The Elusive Fox is a portrait of a city during a time of fluid cultural and political mores in Morocco. Muhammad Zafzaf (1945–2001) was one of the most prominent writers of the Maghreb. The author of dozens of novels and short stories, Zafzaf was celebrated for his innovative, modernist, and aesthetic literature rooted in the detailed daily anxieties of the ordinary Moroccan. Mbarek Sryfi is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. His translations have appeared in CELAAN, Metamorphoses, World Literature Today, and Banipal. Roger Allen is the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor Emeritus of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor emeritus of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

FICTION

Wins and Losses Stories Peter Makuck Hardcover $49.95s 978-0-8156-3494-2 Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-1082-3

Ebook 978-0-8156-5391-2

5 x 8, 200 pages September 2016

A collection of compassionate stories filled with humor, heartbreak, and grace.

“I enjoyed these stories very much and felt their implicit connection to one another. . . . There’s much to admire in the surety and maturity of this writer’s voice and prose. Never showy or overwrought in any way, the writing has the best kind of near-invisibility. There are also moments of lyrical surprise.” —Suzanne Greenberg, author of Speed-Walk and Other Stories

“The stories in Wins and Losses observe steadily the details of ordinary American lives. They are surprising in the strength of their revelations. Easily recognizable figures change before our eyes, discarding appearances and exposing truths they may not be aware of. Only the most perceptive of authors can claim such insight. Are winners losers in purposeful disguise? Or is it the other way round? Here is a book I read through eagerly.” —Fred Chappell, award-winning author of Dagon

“It was a pleasure to read Makuck’s collection of stories. The characters are believable; the stories are tight; the scenes have purpose; everything about the collection is clear and readable. . . . His world was well observed, and I enjoyed my stay within it.” —Gary Fincke, author of Sorry I Worried You

In Makuck’s fourth collection of short stories he once again explores the fertile territory of small, rural American towns. With tenderness and clarity, he excavates the mundane surface of everyday lives to reveal compassionate characters who are unexpectedly vulnerable. The stories in Wins and Losses are set in a car, a courtroom, a university English department, a sports bar, a jetliner, a laundromat. Characters struggle with regret, desire, expectations, and a need to win when loss is inevitable. A high school student whose father was killed in a car crash and who can speak openly only to his girlfriend delivers prescriptions for a pharmacy and learns much about people and values in the course of his deliveries. A lawyer recalls a dubious family friend, an undercover cop, who pressured him as a young boy toward guns and football. A recent widow finds a cardboard box on her front porch only to discover it contains the body of her dog. A young woman takes her mother to a cardiologist and, while in the waiting room, gets into an argument with a wealthy political conservative at great cost to both of them. In the tradition of Cheever and Updike, Makuck's stories give us characters struggling with questions of what really matters. Peter Makuck is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University. He is the author of Long Lens: New and Selected Poems and three collections of short stories, including Allegiance and Betrayal: Stories. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in the Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, the Nation, and Gettysburg Review.

POETRY

They Rule the World Samuel Hazo Hardcover $45.00s 978-0-8156-3492-8 Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-1080-9

Ebook 978-08156-5390-5

51/2 x 8, 120 pages August 2016

A new collection of poems musing on mortality and love from one of the most enduring poets of our time.

“Hazo speaks in these poems with impressive clarity, honesty, intelligence and courage. By turns philosophical and political, Hazo does not suffer fools gladly. . . . Here is a poet who understands not only language, but silence. We would do well to listen to the words and silences of Samuel Hazo.” —Martín Espada, award-winning poet and author of Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: Poems

“These poems are engaging, personally warm, and stylistically poised, cultured and full of concern for family and friends. The candid voice of a man preoccupied with mortality and delighted with the details of a life among those he loves is an exemplary pleasure.” —Brooks Haxton, author of They Lift Their Wings to Cry

Praise for Like a Man Gone Mad

“This is poetry of maturity, of wisdom. . . . A beautiful book— distilled from years and years of living and writing.” —Adam Zagajewski, author of Without End: New and Selected Poems

“Hazo’s poems advance with wit, irony, and insightful commentary on many subjects, aphoristic thinking a key trait of his signature.” Also available . . .

Like a Man Gone Mad Poems in a New Century Samuel Hazo Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Like a Man Gone Mad embody a rich intellectual and emotional curiosity. Cloth $16.95 978-0-8156-0957-5 Ebook 978-0-8156-5099-7

—The Hudson Review

For over fifty years, Hazo’s poetry has meditated on themes of mortality and love, passion and art, and courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his own. In this new collection, he offers his most candid reflections on the passage of time and the tenderness of the present moment. By turns convivial and introspective, these poems explore the complex synchronicity between life and art, and the connections between the personal and the political. With sharp clarity and deep emotion, Hazo continues his pursuit of wisdom and discovery through the act of expression. Samuel Hazo is founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, where he is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. His books include And The Time Is, Stills, and This Part of the World. Among his translations are Adonis’s The Pages of Day and Night and Nadia Tuéni’s Lebanon: Poems of Love and War. 6

“Captures the essence of what it is to be a community.”

REGIONAL

—Jason Emerson, author of Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln

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NEW YORK | SYR ACUSE STORIES BY |

SEAN KIRST

The Soul of Central New York Syracuse Stories by Sean Kirst With a Foreword by Eric Carle

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Hardcover $59.95s 978-0-8156-3483-6 Paper $29.95 978-0-8156-1083-0

Ebook 978-0-8156-5380-6

6 x 9, 352 pages, 45 black-and-white photographs December 2016

With a Foreword by Eric Carle

Nationally celebrated columnist Sean Kirst offers a deeply moving collection of stories about the struggles and triumphs of the everyday men and women who define Syracuse.

“Kirst demonstrates an extraordinary connection with his readers and subjects. How wonderful it would be for any community to have such an artful chronicler of its poignant moments.” “Kirst not only shares with readers his love and passion for the people, places, and voices of his hometown, but captures the essence of what it is to be a community.” —Jason Emerson, author of Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln

—Janice Bullard Pieterse, author of Our Work Is But Begun: A History of the University of Rochester, 1850–2005

A group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence at Syracuse University. The beautiful yet tragic connection between Vice President Joseph Biden and Syracuse. The impossible account of how Eric Carle, one of the world’s great children’s authors, found his way to a childhood friend through a photograph taken in Syracuse more than eighty years ago. All these tales can be found in The Soul of Central New York, a collection of columns by Sean Kirst that spans almost a quarter-century. During his long career as a writer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, Kirst won some of the most prestigious honors in journalism, including the Ernie Pyle Award, given annually to one American writer who best captures the hopes and dreams of everyday Americans. For Kirst, his canvas is Syracuse, an upstate city of staggering beauty and profound struggle. In this book, readers will find a nuanced explanation of how Syracuse is intertwined with the spiritual roots of the Six Nations, as well as a soliloquy from a grieving father whose son was lost to violence on the streets. In these emotional contradictions—in the resilience, love, and heartbreak of its people—Kirst offers a vivid portrait of his city and, in the end, gives readers hope. Sean Kirst is an award-winning columnist who retired from the Syracuse Post-Standard after nearly three decades. He is the author of The Ashes of Lou Gehrig and Other Baseball Essays and the coauthor of Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd.

MYCOLOGY | FIELD GUIDES

Boletes of Eastern North America Alan E. Bessette, William C. Roody, and Arleen R. Bessette Hardcover $150.00s 978-0-8156-3482-9 Paper $69.95 978-0-8156-1074-8

Ebook 978-0-8156-5394-3

7 x 10, 528 pages, 362 color photographs, appendixes, glossary, references, indexes November 2016

A comprehensive field guide to the identification, study, and preparation of boletes.

“This book fills an important need, enabling the many interested amateur and professional mycologists to identify the boletes that occur in the eastern US and Canada; a ‘must have’ book for people seriously interested in mushrooms.” —Gregory M. Mueller, chief scientist and Negaunee Foundation Vice President of Science, Chicago Botanic Garden

“A state of the art, comprehensive treatment of the diversity of bolete fungi found in eastern North America, admirable in its degree of coverage, and reflecting an authoritative knowledge of the subject.” —Todd Osmundson, assistant professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse

Of all the groups of wild mushrooms, none have engendered more enthusiasm and affection than the boletes. Their inherent beauty, abundance, and, for many, culinary appeal have firmly established boletes in the hearts of mushroom hunters around the world. The habitats, geographic distribution, and ecology of boletes—including the intriguing relationships they have with trees and shrubs—only add to their interest. Boletes of Eastern North America offers readers a comprehensive field guide, including extensive descriptions and more than 350 rich color photographs. Each species listing includes the most recent scientific name with existing synomyms; common names when applicable; and an overview that includes field impressions, similar species, and detailed information about habitat, fruiting frequency, and geographic distribution. Because boletes are one of the most sought-after wild mushrooms, the authors have also included a section with information on collecting, cooking, and preserving them. Advanced students and professional mycologists, as well as amateur mushroom hunters, will find this field guide an indispensable resource. Alan E. Bessette is a mycologist and professor emeritus of biology at Utica College of Syracuse University. He has published numerous papers in the field of mycology and has authored or coauthored more than twenty books, including Mushrooms of Northeastern North America and Milk Mushrooms of North America. William C. Roody is a mycologist and wildlife diversity biologist. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States. Arleen R. Bessette is a mycologist and an award winning botanical photographer. She is the author or coauthor of more than fifteen books, including The Tricholomas of North America.

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

An Oneida Indian in Foreign Waters The Life of Chief Chapman Scanandoah, 1870–1953 Laurence M. Hauptman Hardcover $55.00s 978-0-8156-3489-8 Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1079-3

Ebook 978-0-8156-5387-5

6 x 9, 232 pages, 31 black-and-white illustrations, 4 maps, 1 chart, notes, bibliography, index Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors October 2016

Chronicles the extraordinary life of Chapman Scanandoah and the indelible impact he had on Oneida history.

“In this book, we have that very rare thing: the biography of a Native American figure who moved through what I have called ‘the many worlds of the Iroquois.’” —Michael Leroy Oberg, author of Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794

“Widely admired for combining meticulous research with deep sympathy for his subject, Hauptman is the foremost historian of recent Iroquois history. Now he has given us a work illuminating the notable life of Chapman Scanandoah. . . . This book casts new light on neglected chapters of the Oneida land claims story.” —Anthony Wonderley, author of Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History: New York Oral Narrative from the Notes of H. E. Allen and Others

Chief Chapman Scanandoah (1870–1953) was a decorated Navy veteran who served in the Spanish-American War, a skilled mechanic, and a prizewinning agronomist who helped develop the Iroquois Village at the New York State Fair. He was also a historian, linguist, philosopher, and early leader of the Oneida land claims movement. However, his fame among the Oneida people and among many of his Hodinöhsö:ni’ contemporaries today rests with his career as an inventor. In the era of Thomas Edison, Scanandoah challenged the stereotypes of the day that too often portrayed Native Americans as primitive, pre-technological, and removed from modernity. In An Oneida Indian in Foreign Waters, Hauptman draws from Scanandoah’s own letters; his court, legislative, and congressional testimony; military records; and forty years of fieldwork experience to chronicle his remarkable life and understand the vital influence Scanandoah had on the fate of his people. Despite being away from his homeland for much of his life, Scanandoah fought tirelessly in federal courts to prevent the loss of the last remaining Oneida lands in New York State. Without Scanandoah and his extended Hanyoust family, Oneida existence in New York might have been permanently extinguished. Hauptman’s biography not only illuminates the extraordinary life of Scanandoah but also sheds new light on the struggle to maintain tribal identity in the face of an increasingly diminished homeland. Laurence M. Hauptman is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History. He is the author of numerous books on the Iroquois, including Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations since 1800, which was awarded the Herbert Lehman book prize by the New York Academy of History, and In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians since World War II, which was awarded the annual book prize by the American Association for State and Local History.

MEMOIR | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

New in Paper . . .

A Child from the Village Sayyid Qutb Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by John Calvert and William Shepard Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-1075-5

Ebook 978-0-8156-0807-3

6 x 9, 184 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography Series: Middle East Literature in Translation September 2016

This tender memoir chronicles the early years of Sayyid Qutb, one of Egypt’s most influential radical Islamist thinkers and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

“The child’s eye, feelings, emotions, as well as the comments of a grown-up writer present valuable information for students who are interested in the modern history of Egypt as well as those who are interested in the history of Egyptian culture. In addition, the book provides scholars of Qutb’s ideology with the texture of life that produced, and still produces, such an ideology, in which the cry for social and political justice is mixed with a utopian adherence to a divine law.” —Nasr Abu-Zayd, author of Rethinking the Qur’an: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics John Calvert is professor of history at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the author of numerous books, including Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism. William Shepard was professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of The Faith of a Modern Muslim Intellectual: The Religious Aspects and Implications of the Writings of Ahmad Amin and Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of "Social Justice in Islam."

BIOGRAPHY | IRISH STUDIES

New in Paper . . .

Compassionate Stranger Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine Maureen O’Rourke Murphy Paper $29.95 978-0-8156-1076-2

Ebook 978-0-8156-5289-2

6 x 9, 400 pages, 36 black-and-white illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography, index Series: Irish Studies July 2016

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.

“Murphy’s beautifully written book is a fitting tribute to the kindness and compassion of Asenath Nicholson. It is also the work of an accomplished historian who has devoted five decades in pursuit of her fascinating—if at times shadowy—subject.” —Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies

“Compassionate Stranger is a landmark work of historical exploration and scholarship. Murphy has succeeded in rescuing from undeserved obscurity a woman of fierce determination and extraordinary compassion.” —Peter Quinn, best-selling author of Dry Bones

“A splendid biography of a remarkable woman.” —Dublin Review of Books

“[Nicholson’s] sharp, compassionate, first-hand accounts of the human dimension of Irish poverty were rooted in direct experience. For this reason her evidence is of exceptional value. Her life and work have found an exceptional chronicler.” —Irish Literary Supplement

“Compassionate Stranger is not only a notable academic achievement but is also a readable and tantalizing story of one powerful woman’s drive to bring justice to the marginalized.” —Irish America

“Meticulously researched, beautifully written, Compassionate Stranger is a gift to scholarship, literature, Ireland, and to readers everywhere who seek to understand both the hardship and nobility of the poor.” —Roger Rosenblatt, essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour Maureen O’Rourke Murphy is the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Teaching, Literacy, and Leadership at Hofstra University. She is coeditor of An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama, the editor of Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger and Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848, and 1849, and the director of New York State’s Great Irish Famine Curriculum.

A Last Loving Collected Poems

Bainne Gear : Spoilt Milk

Maeve Kelly

Rogha Dánta : Selected Poems

Kelly’s poetry gives voice to the ordinary, everyday lives of Irish women. She writes out of her own experience as a woman, wife, mother, nurse, farmer, and feminist who over the past fifty years has been an astute witness to the narrow confines of home and the limitations imposed by Irish society on women. A Lantern in the Dark for Gerard I have shut the shutters, clipped the locks and put the cat out, kissed your beard and helped you to your bed. Eighty now and the years bend you like a bow, a sprung arch, a willow wand, bone chiselled to a new arc. Sweetheart I know the way you grow not old but with your old lightness still showing, a lantern swinging in the dark. Paper $22.95 978-1-851321-48-3 51/2 x 8, 146 pages Distributed for Arlen House

POETRY

Distributed Titles

Opening Time Mick Delap

With their stylistic assurance and wildly imaginative flair, Nic Aodha’s poems are invigorating the Irish language. Many of her poems are visionary meditations; meeting places where the inner being can commune with the outer world. This is an essential volume of modern Irish poetry, presented in a bilingual edition.

In Opening Time there is a sense of a life richly lived and imaginatively examined. Time in both historical and personal terms is central to these poems that meditate on life, creation, and continuity. Delap is an experienced sailor, and the sea is ever present. The insights of a lone sailor, especially along the west coast of Ireland, are presented within a multigenerational family context and an informed historical perspective.

Swallows

Sweeney

Colette Nic Aodha

A swallow line on telephone wire, strokes of Payne’s grey, vertical daubs

These weeks of Aprilmay spring to life rinsed and over-rung by song. Blackbirds are calling everywhere in more than thirteen ways. It cannot last. Yesterday I dreamt glad thoughts, but when I came to speak them, birdsong came from my mouth. Mine, but sweeter, more true than any of my words.

wait to fly south under the wing of their patron who has just painted in this ochre sunshine. Their feet tap telegraphs to southern cousins. I travel east feel a blast of coolness, icicles of mistrust, stalactites in the cave of my mind. I emerge into opposite light.

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Other Routes Mary Turley-McGrath

In the Space Between

POETRY

Distributed Titles Gerry Boland

In this new collection, acclaimed Donegal writer Mary Turley-McGrath explores the magic and mystery of destination and destiny; of meetings and misses; of what might have happened. The poems range widely through time and space, and are keyed to the music and chaos of interconnection.

Poet, short story writer, and children’s author, Boland was born and lived for much of his life in Dublin before moving to Roscommon, where he was appointed writer-in-residence by Roscommon County Council. In the Space Between is his second poetry collection.

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On a Turning Wing Paddy Bushe

Gondla; or, The Salvation of the Wolves

PLAY

POETRY

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Translated by Philip McDonagh

Bushe’s latest collection of poems opens with a stirring meditation on music and art, viewing them not as rarefied experiences but as fundamental and nourishing encounters for both their makers and their audience. On a Turning Wing contains some of Bushe’s finest sketches of the natural world, as well as touching lyrics on the birth of a grandchild and the joy and consolation of companionship and love.

Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was one of the most celebrated Russian poets of the twentieth century and a decorated war hero. His autobiographical play Gondla is the tale of a visionary poet who chooses between escape and self-sacrifice. This translation, with an introduction by the poet Philip McDonagh, makes Gumilyov’s work available to a wider audience.

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Ger Reidy In Ger Reidy’s debut short story collection, he offers a series of powerful, chiseled tales by

ESSAYS

turns funny, bleak, and compassionate. The

Rosie

WOMEN’S HISTORY

Jobs for a Wet Day

Essays in Honour of Rosanna ‘Rosie’ Hackett (1893–1976): Revolutionary and Trade Unionist Edited by Mary McAuliffe

recipient of several national literary competi-

In this collection, historians and activists pay

tions, Reidy has also been awarded residencies

tribute to Hackett by bringing to light the little-

sponsored by the Irish Arts Council and Mayo

known history of Irish women’s political, mili-

County Council.

tant, and trade union activism.

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Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen

Fear na Rosann

ESSAYS

SHORT FICTION

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Saol agus Saothar Fhinn Mhic Cumhaill

Oral Narratives from a South Galway Community

Edited by Nollaig Mac Congáil

Edited by Pauline Bermingham Scully

tribution to the emerging Revivalist Gaelic litera-

Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen collects oral histories from the people of Ardrahan and the surrounding areas of south Galway. These beautiful stories capture the simplicity and innocence of life in the first half of the twentieth century.

ture in the last century. In this book, the biography

Native Donegal writers made a considerable con-

of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, a prolific and influential member of that school, is meticulously presented along with an edited collection of his essays.

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Books for the Scholar

URBAN STUDIES | ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception Kevin R. Cox Hardcover $75.00L 978-0-8156-3456-0 Paper $44.95s 978-0-8156-3439-3

Ebook 978-0-8156-5361-5

6 x 9, 400 pages, 15 figures, 8 tables, notes, bibliography, index September 2016

An in-depth exploration of the politics of regional urban development, contrasting the United States with the countries of Western Europe.

“The product of many years of research, theoretical and political engagement. No one but this author could have written this book, drawing on a literature that stretches back through the last quarter of a century and reviewing the urban experience across the same period and longer.” —Allan Cochrane, author of Understanding Urban Policy: A Critical Approach

Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree, states, take the lead, spurred on by developers and those with interest in rent. This bottom-up policy creates conflict as one city battles with another for new investments and as real estate developers fight over the spoils, resulting in highly contentious politics. In The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception, Cox addresses the question of why US policy is so unique. In doing so, he illustrates the essential characteristics of American regional development through a series of case studies including housing politics in Silicon Valley; the history of the Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport; and a major redevelopment project that was rebuffed in Columbus, Ohio. Cox contrasts these examples with Western Europe’s tradition of centralized governmental involvement and stronger labor movements that historically have been more concerned with creating what he calls “the good geography” than profits for developers, whatever the shortfalls in policy outcomes might be. The differences illuminate the peculiar nature of political engagement and local competition in shaping the way US urban development has evolved. Kevin R. Cox is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Geography at The Ohio State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Making Human Geography, and was coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography. 15

SPORTS HISTORY | WOMEN’S STUDIES

Invisible Seasons Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports Kelly Belanger Hardcover $75.00L 978-0-8156-3484-3 Paper $44.95s 978-0-8156-3470-6

Ebook 978-0-8156-5382-0

6 x 9, 448 pages, 18 black-and-white illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index Series: Sports and Entertainment November 2016

Recounts the remarkable story of a women’s basketball team that challenged the separate-but-unequal world of big-time college sports.

“A fascinating and well-told story, written in a smooth and engaging style. The subtle rhetorical analysis woven into the story allows the work to blur the boundaries of sport history and communication; it is an exemplar of how the two fields should be interconnected.” —Sarah K. Fields, University of Colorado, Denver

In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution—their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made intercollegiate athletics the most controversial part of Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimination in all federally funded education programs and activities. At the same time, some of the most motivated, highly skilled women athletes in colleges and universities could no longer tolerate the long-standing differences between men’s and women‘s separate but obviously unequal sports programs. In Invisible Seasons, Belanger recalls the remarkable story of how the MSU women athletes helped change the landscape of higher education athletics. They learned the hard way that even groundbreaking civil rights laws are not self-executing. This behind-the‐scenes look at a university sports program challenges us all to think about what it really means to put equality into practice, especially in the money-driven world of college sports. Kelly Belanger is associate professor in the English Department at Valparaiso University. She is the coauthor of Second Shift: Teaching Writing to Working Adults.

SPORTS

Sports Business Unplugged Leadership Challenges from the World of Sports Rick Burton and Norm O’Reilly With a Foreword by David Stern Paper $19.95 978-0-8156-3476-8

Ebook 978-0-8156-5392-9

6 x 9, 160 pages, 10 color photographs, 4 tables, index July 2016

Two of the world’s leading sports business scholars share their views on a variety of provocative topics in this wide-ranging collection.

“Rick and Norm are among the top analysts in the sports business, and I always look forward to their column in SBJ. This compilation of their work will be a handy and welcome resource for anyone looking for shrewd insights about the issues of the day in the sports world.” —Val Ackerman, Commissioner, Big East Conference

“I look forward to the monthly columns by Rick and Norm, as they always provide thought-provoking commentary surrounding topics we all face in this business. Having a collection of their work in a single book makes this a must-have for any reader.”

“We live at a fascinating time in sports history. At the professional level, virtually every game has become a multi-faceted event that features an assortment of fan engagement opportunities. Broadcasts provide a wider range of content and access than ever. Social media reaches corners of the sports world that were unimaginable a few years ago. Analysis of the industry has grown more sophisticated than ever. Sports Business Unplugged would be a solid addition to the library of anyone eager to follow and process the warp-speed developments of this constantly evolving universe.” —Gary Bettman, Commissioner, National Hockey League

For more than seven years, the incisive commentary of Burton and O’Reilly has graced the pages of SportsBusiness Journal, the industry’s leading trade journal. Now, fifty of their most recent columns are collected in one volume, providing thoughtful and deeply knowledgeable insight into many of the industry’s most contentious issues. Covering an era in sports that has experienced rapid change, the authors discuss such topics as gender equity, corporate sponsorship, collegiate athletics, diversity, and the future of sports. As two of the leading scholars in the business of sports, Burton and O’Reilly also draw upon years of experience to give both students and industry professionals a dual perspective on the role sports play in a healthy, thriving society.

—John Swofford, Commissioner, ACC Rick Burton is the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University. From 2003 to 2007, Burton was commissioner of the Australian National Basketball League. He also served as the chief marketing officer for the US Olympic Committee for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Ad Age, among other journals. Norm O’Reilly is the Richard P. and Joan S. Fox Professor of Business and is chair of the Department of Sports Administration at Ohio University. O’Reilly has written seven books and more than ninety journal articles. Active in industry, he is partner consultant with T1. O’Reilly has been a member of the mission staff for the Canadian Team at three Olympic Games and is deputy chef for the 2016 Canadian Paralympic Team.

WOMEN’S STUDIES | NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France Lisa J. M. Poirier Hardcover $65.00 978-0-8156-3488-1 Paper $29.95 978-0-8156-3473-7

Ebook 978-0-8156-5386-8

6 x 9, 256 pages, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index October 2016

Explores the ways in which French and Native men and women reimagine kinship and negotiate cross-cultural encounters in early seventeenthcentury New France.

“The book is an in-depth study of four persons who were emblematic in this complex, violent, and creative history of cultural contestation. It is an ambitious and engaging study of colonial documents (records of both explorers and missionaries) within which Poirier reveals the voices of historically muted Wendat peoples. She is not simply reading between the lines, but also ‘against the text,’ discovering a story that we have not heard before. This book promises to be the most important (and corrective) study of the period since Bruce Trigger’s groundbreaking The Children of Aataentsic.” —Jennifer I. M. Reid, author of Religion and Global Culture

The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters by reimagining the meaning of kinship. Part micro-history, part biography, Religion, Gender, and Kinship in Colonial New France explores the lives of Etienne Brulé, Joseph Chihoatenhwa, Thérèse Oionhaton, and Marie Rollet Hébert as they created new religious orientations in order to survive the challenges of early seventeenth-century New France. Poirier examines how each successfully adapted their religious and cultural identities to their surroundings, enabling them to develop crucial relationships and build communities. Through the lens of these men and women, both Native and French, Poirier illuminates the historical process and powerfully illustrates the religious creativity inherent in relationship-building. Lisa J. M. Poirier is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University.

IRISH STUDIES | WOMEN’S STUDIES

Political Acts Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921–2012 Fiona Coffey Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3490-4 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3475-1

Ebook 978-0-8156-5388-2

6 x 9, 304 pages, notes, bibliography, index Series: Irish Studies November 2016

A social history of women in Northern Irish theatre, examining how sectarian conflict and the ensuing peace process have affected women’s political voice.

“A genuinely new and significant contribution to Irish theater history. . . . No other monograph out there that does what this book does, which is to provide a comprehensive and contextualized history of contemporary women’s contributions to theater in Northern Ireland.” —Susan Cannon Harris, author of Gender and Modern Irish Drama

Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North has experienced. From the mid–twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women’s experiences and in showing how women’s social and political status has changed with the transformation of the state. Throughout the North’s history, women’s dramatic writing and performance have often contradicted mainstream narratives of the sectarian conflict, creating a rich and daring trove of counternarratives that contest the stories promoted by the government and media. Moving beyond the better-known women theatre practitioners of the North such as Marie Jones, Christina Reid, Anne Devlin, and the Charabanc Theatre Company, Coffey recovers the lost history of lesser-known, early playwrights and highlights a new generation of women writing during peacetime. She examines how Northern women have historically used the theatrical stage as a form of political activism when more traditional avenues were closed off to them. Tracing the development of women’s involvement in Northern theatre, Coffey ultimately illuminates how issues such as feminism, gender roles, violence, politics, and sectarianism have shifted over the past century as the North moves from conflict into a developing and fragile peace. Fiona Coffey holds a BA from Stanford University, a MPhil from Trinity College, Dublin, and a PhD from Tufts University. She teaches theatre history and Irish cultural studies.

IRISH STUDIES

Standish O’Grady’s Cuculain A Critical Edition Edited by Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3491-1 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3477-5

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6 x 9, 312 pages, 3 illustrations, glossary, notes Series: Irish Studies September 2016

A concise, abridged version of the story of Cuculain, the central figure in Standish O’Grady’s History of Ireland, along with an introduction, glossary, and critical essays, demonstrating its significance for the continued reimagining of Ireland’s past, present, and future.

“An immensely useful and long-needed critical resource which combines an edition of Standish O’Grady’s influential writings on the heroic figure of Cuculain with an excellent scholarly apparatus.” “This [edition] makes available one of the seminal sources of the Irish Literary Revival. Its value is greatly enhanced by a number of essays which relate O’Grady’s treatment of Cuculain to the scholarly and antiquarian sources on which O’Grady drew.” —Patrick Maume, researcher for the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography

“O’Grady’s work opens discussion into English literature, historiography, and political writing at large, which makes this volume provocative and useful for multiple audiences.” —Nicholas Allen, professor of English, University of Georgia

—Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political upheaval. At the heart of this history was the figure of Cuculain, the great mythic hero who would inspire a generation of writers and revolutionaries, from W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory to Patrick Pearse. Despite the profound influence O’Grady’s writings had on literary and political culture in Ireland, they are not as well known as they should be, particularly in view of the increasingly global interest in Irish culture. This critical edition of the Cuculain legend offers a concise, abridged version of the central story in History of Ireland—the rise of the young warrior, his famous exploits in the Táin Bó Cualinge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), and his heroic death. Castle and Bixby’s edition also includes a scholarly introduction, biography, timeline, glossary, editorial notes, and critical essays, demonstrating the significance of O’Grady’s writing for the continued reimagining of Ireland’s past, present, and future. Inviting a new generation of readers to encounter this work, the volume provides the tools necessary to appreciate both O’Grady’s enduring importance as a writer and Cuculain’s continuing resonance as a cultural icon. Gregory Castle is professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Modernism and the Celtic Revival. Patrick Bixby is associate professor and director of graduate studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel.

LITERARY CRITICISM | IRISH STUDIES

Revolutionary Damnation Badiou and Irish Fiction from Joyce to Enright Sheldon Brivic Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3453-9 Paper $34.95s 978-0-8156-3435-5

Ebook 978-0-8156-5357-8

6 x 9, 328 pages, notes, bibliography, index Series: Irish Studies December 2016

Brivic links the work of writers such as Flann O’Brien, Patrick McCabe, and Anne Enright to the theories of Alain Badiou.

“An exciting and challenging rereading of contemporary Irish fiction, and especially of its relation to earlier Irish high modernism.” —Enda Duffy, professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara

“An addition to existing scholarship on the Irish novel, deepening our knowledge of the form and extending the ways in which it can be approached.” —Derek Hand, author of A History of the Irish Novel

In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom—politically, religiously, and creatively—is Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus. His “non serviam,” though, is not just the profound rebellion of one frustrated young man, but, as Brivic demonstrates in this sweeping account of twentieth-century Irish fiction, the emblematic and necessary standpoint for any artist wishing to envision something truly new. Because Irish culture was largely dictated by the Catholic Church and its conservatism, the most ambitious Irish writers, like Joyce, Beckett, and the ten others Brivic presents here, saw the privileges of damnation and seized them, rejecting powerful norms of church, state, and culture, as well as of literary form, voice, and character, to produce some of the most radical work of the twentieth century. Brivic links the work of writers such as Flann O’Brien, Patrick McCabe, and Anne Enright to the theories of Alain Badiou. His mathematical procedure for distinguishing what is truly innovative informs the progressive political and philosophical thrust that these writers at their best carry on from Joyce and Beckett to unfold a fierce tradition that extends into the twenty-first century. Sheldon Brivic is professor of English at Temple University. He has published widely on modernism and literary history and is known especially for his work on Joyce. He is the author of numerous books, including Joyce through Lacan and Žižek: Explorations.

FICTION

The Candidate A Novel Zareh Vorpouni Translated from the Western Armenian by Jennifer Manoukian and Ishkhan Jinbashian With an Afterword by Marc Nichanian Paper $19.95s 978-0-8156-3468-3 Ebook 978-0-8156--5379-0 6 x 9, 200 pages, 1 illustration, notes Series: Middle East Literature in Translation October 2016

A powerful novel by one of the most important twentieth-century writers of the Armenian diaspora.

Also available . . .

The Perception of Meaning Bilingual Edition Hisham Bustani Translated from the Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes "Bustani’s work is experimental, literary fiction with a razor edge, slicing the tops off of familiar myths, tales, legends, and then, transforming them into visceral, grotesque fables."—The Literary Review Paper $24.95 978-0-8156-1059-5 Ebook 978-0-8156-5348-6

The Candidate is one of the most masterful, psychologically penetrating novels in Armenian diaspora literature. Published in 1967 at a time of political awakening among the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide, the novel explores themes of trauma, forgiveness, reconciliation, friendship, and sacrifice, and examines the relationship between victim and perpetrator. The book opens in 1927 in Paris after Minas has found his friend Vahakn’s body on the floor of the apartment they share. In a fragmentary way, Minas tells of his meeting Vahakn in the cafés of the Latin Quarter; the friendship that joins them; their conversations with Ziya, a Turkish student in Paris; Vahakn’s murder of Ziya; and Vahakn’s suicide. At the core of the novel is the note Vahakn leaves Minas to explain the enigma of Ziya’s murder and his own suicide. The letter recounts Vahakn’s and his mother’s deportation from their village in the Ottoman Empire; his mother’s death and Vahakn’s adoption by a Turkish woman, Fatma, who rapes and abuses him; his feelings of alienation and self-estrangement in France; and his inability to adapt to life after trauma. Known for his innovation of the Western Armenian novel, Vorpouni challenges the narrative elements of the conventional novel by playing with subjectivity and linearity. His melding of contemporary French literary and intellectual currents produces a literary and cultural hybrid unique in Western Armenian literature. Zareh Vorpouni (1902–1980) was a prominent Armenian writer. He is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including The Persecuted, a cycle of four novels published between 1929 and 1974: The Attempt, The Candidate, Asphalt, and A Regular Day. This is the first of his novels to be translated into English. Jennifer Manoukian is a translator of Western Armenian literature, most recently The Gardens of Silihdar by Zabel Yessayan. Ishkhan Jinbashian is the translator of numerous books, including Passage through Hell and The Fatal Night.

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES | REFUGEE STUDIES

Iraqi Migrants in Syria The Crisis before the Storm Sophia Hoffmann Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3485-0 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3471-3

Ebook 978-0-8156-5383-7

6 x 9, 264 pages, 3 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East October 2016

Analyzes political transformations brought on by the migration of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis into Syria before the outbreak of war.

“Hoffmann’s theoretical deftness and her acute ethnography of the places, peoples, and organizations she encountered make major contributions to our understanding of Syria, but also of the conditions of refugees and strangers everywhere.” —Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

“A lucid, theoretically informed, and original analysis of statehood and sovereignty in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria.” —Laura Ruiz de Elvira, postdoctoral researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research

Also available . . .

Syria from Reform to Revolt, Volume 1 Political Economy and International Relations Edited by Raymond Hinnebusch and Tina Zintl Hardcover $49.95s 978-0-8156-3377-8 Paper $34.95s 978-0-8156-3429-4 Ebook 978-0-8156-5302-8

Syria from Reform to Revolt, Volume 2 Culture, Society, and Religion Edited by Christa Salamandra and Leif Stenberg

During the decade that preceded Syria’s 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency. International aid organizations, the media, and diplomats alike praised the Syrian government for keeping open borders and providing a safe haven for Iraqis fleeing the violence in Baghdad and Iraq’s southern provinces. Only a few analysts looked beneath the surface to understand how the apparent generosity toward refugees squared with the ruthless oppression that characterized the Syrian government. In this volume, Hoffmann offers a richly detailed analysis of this contradiction, shedding light on Syria’s domestic and international politics shortly before the outbreak of war. Drawing on firsthand observations and interviews, Hoffmann provides a nuanced portrait of the conditions of daily life for Iraqis living in Syria. She finds that Syria’s illiberal government does not differentiate between citizen and foreigner, while the liberal politics of international aid organizations do. Based on detailed ethnographic research, Iraqi Migrants in Syria draws a highly original comparison between the Syrian government’s and aid organizations’ approaches to Iraqi migration, throwing into question many widely held assumptions about freedom, and its absence, in authoritarian contexts.

Hardcover $59.95L 978-0-8156-3425-6 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3415-7 Ebook 978-0-8156-5351-6

Sophia Hoffmann is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for International and Intercultural Studies at the University of Bremen in Germany.

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

New in Paper . . .

Becoming Turkish Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923–1945 Hale Yılmaz Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3467-6

Ebook 978-0-8156-5222-9

6 x 9, 352 pages, 26 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East July 2016

Deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post–Ottoman Turkey through the perspective of ordinary citizens.

“All those who wish to understand the history of modern Turkey will read the book with pleasure.” —International Journal of Turkish Studies

“Adds important nuance to scholarship on the Kemalist reforms and the societal constraints that framed them. It also offers useful insight for scholars interested in broader questions about modernist reform efforts in the Middle East.” —Canadian Journal of History

“Most impressively, she conveys a sense of the dynamic, contested, and indeterminate quality of the efforts to ‘civilize’ and homogenize Turkish citizenry, which also contributes to a much more realistic portrayal of the complexities of contemporary Turkish society. Recommended.” —Choice

“By extending the scope of existing studies, by adding nuance and complexity, and above all by shifting the focus of inquiry from state to society, [Yılmaz] significantly enhances our understanding of this seminal period of radical reform, social engineering, and national identity construction.” —American Historical Review

“This richly researched book makes an important contribution to the social history of early republican Turkey.” —International Journal of Middle East Studies

“An invaluable resource for historians of the Turkish Republic for some time to come.” —Middle East Journal

“Yılmaz’s intricate narrative not only helps to broaden our understanding of twentieth-century Turkey; it also provides an original and dynamic perspective on the problems of modernity in general.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary History Hale Yılmaz is associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Toplumsal Tarih, as well as in the edited volumes Women’s Memory: The Problem of Sources and Transcultural Localisms: Responding to Ethnicity in a Globalized World.

WOMEN’S STUDIES | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

New in Paper . . .

Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa Gender, Media, and Resistance Kimberly Wedeven Segall Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3474-4

Ebook 978-0-8156-5256-4

6 x 9, 320 pages, 10 black-and-white illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index July 2016

A groundbreaking exploration of how groups use cultural forms to navigate memories of violation and to create new political identities.

“A bold attempt to re-create the mindscapes of the South African and Iraqi worlds that were under the jackboot of tyranny and repressive governance.” —African Studies Quarterly

“Kimberly Segall’s book draws our attention to the use of media, art, and popular culture by ordinary people living through extraordinary times. She highlights the role of affect and emotion in resisting, negotiating, understanding, and coping with dramatic and sometimes violent political change. In so doing, she deconstructs and reconstructs identities both within and across national boundaries, helping us to think about familiar political events in unfamiliar ways.” —Nicola Pratt, coauthor of What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq

“A keen listener and observer, Kimberly Wedeven Segall brings together two decades of engagement with Middle Eastern and African communities that have sought to forge new political imaginaries. Drawing our attention to many forgotten springs beyond the newly named ‘Arab Spring,’ Segall shows how popular and artistic expressions in these communities have resulted in ‘hybrid blooms of democratic voices.’” —Gaurav Desai, coeditor of Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism Kimberly Wedeven Segall is professor of English at Seattle Pacific University and affiliate faculty of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

New in Paper . . .

Colonial Jerusalem The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948–2012 Thomas Philip Abowd Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3469-0

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6 x 9, 312 pages, 16 black-and-white illustrations, 5 maps, notes, references, index Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East July 2016

Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict and shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today.

“Abowd’s anthropological approach brings both color and great attention to the symbolic and human dimensions of the tensions in daily life. His apt analysis of signage in public spaces and the salience and physical condition of sites and objects he studies are matched by astute observations regarding the tone of voice, body language, and silences of his interviewees. The city comes alive with his sympathetic and critical dissection of both the particular and the general.” —Journal of Palestine Studies

“A welcome contribution to a growing trend of writings about urbanism and the life in cities of the Middle East. Although more than half of the population in the Middle East is currently living in urban areas, anthropological writings continue to focus on small-scale societies and tribal communities. Colonial Jerusalem helps to align anthropology scholarship with actual demographic conditions.” —Aseel Sawalha, Department of Anthropology, Fordham University

“Elegantly and captivatingly written, this ethnographic study of Jerusalem as a site of colonial rule offers a substantial contribution to studies of colonialism, particularly in its modern, urban manifestation and over a long period of time.” —Julie Peteet, Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville Thomas Philip Abowd is a lecturer in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures at Tufts University.

BIOGRAPHY | THEOLOGY

Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action A Life in Parts Edited by James Carleton Paget and Michael J. Thate Hardcover $95.00L 978-0-8156-3479-9 Paper $59.95s 978-0-8156-3464-5

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7 x 10, 472 pages, notes, bibliography, index Series: Albert Schweitzer Library November 2016

A wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary intellectuals.

“Readers will discover a new appreciation for Schweitzer in each of the domains he helped pioneer, and his timeless and, indeed, prescient thought will resonate across multiple ethical, theological, and political domains. This volume has the potential to become a landmark in the study of Schweitzer.” —David K. Goodin, associate researcher at the McGill Centre for Research on Religion, McGill University

In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, cementing his place as one of the great intellectual leaders of his time. Schweitzer is less well known now but nonetheless a man of perennial fascination, and this volume seeks to bring his achievements across a variety of areas—philosophy, theology, and medicine—into sharper focus. To that end, international scholars from diverse disciplines offer a wideranging examination of Schweitzer’s life and thought over the course of forty years. Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action gives readers a fuller, richer, and more nuanced picture of this controversial but monumental figure of twentieth-century life—and, in some measure, of that complex century itself. James Carleton Paget is senior lecturer of New Testament studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Jews, Christians, and Jewish Christians in Antiquity. Michael J. Thate is a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. He is the author of Remembrance of Things Past? Albert Schweitzer, the Anxiety of Influence, and the Untidy Jesus of Markan Memory.

JEWISH STUDIES | MEMOIR

With Rake in Hand Memoirs of a Yiddish Poet Joseph Rolnik Translated from the Yiddish by Gerald Marcus Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3495-9 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3478-2

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Yiddish poet Joseph Rolnik’s vivid memoir, recalling his childhood in a small village in Belarus and his experience as a Jewish immigrant in New York.

“A boon to Yiddish studies and American Jewish studies. . . . Anyone with a fondness for Yiddish literature will appreciate these detailed and evocative vignettes.” —Josh Lambert, author of Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

“Provides compelling insights into the life of one of the wellknown Yiddish poets, Joseph Rolnik.” —Agnieszka Legutko, author of Krakow’s Kazimierz: Town of Partings and Returns

Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group that formed in the early twentieth century. In his moving and evocative memoir, Rolnik recalls his childhood growing up in a small town in Belarus and his exhilarating yet arduous experiences as an impoverished Yiddish poet living in New York. Working in garment factories by day and writing poetry by night, he became one of the most published and influential writers of the Yiddish literary scene. Unfolding in a series of brief sketches, poems, and vignettes rather than consistent narrative, Rolnik’s memoir is imbued with the poet’s rich, sensuous language, which vividly describes the sounds and images of his life. Marcus’s elegant translation, along with his introduction situating Rolnik’s poetry in its literary historical context, gives readers a fascinating account of this underappreciated literary treasure. Joseph Rolnik’s (1879–1955) poetry was published in newspapers, journals, and several poetry collections. Gerald Marcus is a painter and printmaker who grew up surrounded by Yiddish-speaking relatives and friends. He is the translator of From Our Springtime: Literary Memoirs and Portraits of Yiddish New York by Reuben Iceland.

JEWISH STUDIES | LITERARY CRITICISM

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction David Gantt Gurley Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3486-7 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3472-0

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A pioneering new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest nineteenthcentury writers as, first and foremost, a Jewish artist.

“With original insight, Gurley demonstrates how Goldschmidt’s rich literary texts uniquely combine the ideals and aesthetics of Danish Golden Age romantic literature with older and authentic narrative traditions rooted in Jewish learning.” —Marianne T. Stecher, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt’s relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the Talmud and the Midrash. At the same time, he shows that Goldschmidt’s midrashic style in a secular context predates certain narrative movements within Modernism that are usually associated with the twentieth century and especially Czech writer Franz Kafka. Goldschmidt was remarkable in his era, both as a writer who explored his peripheral identity in the mainstream of European culture and as a writer of the first truly Jewish bildungsroman. In this groundbreaking study of Goldschmidt’s narrative art, Gurley refashions his position in both the Danish and Jewish literary canons and introduces his extraordinary work to a wider, non-Scandinavian audience. David Gantt Gurley is assistant professor in the Department of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon.

EDUCATION

The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project Culture, Place, and Authenticity David A. Jolliffe, Christian Z. Goering, Krista Jones Oldham, and James A. Anderson Jr. Hardcover $65.00L 978-0-8156-3481-2 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3466-9

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6 x 9, 264 pages, appendixes, bibliography, index Series: Writing, Culture, and Community Practices October 2016

A multiyear collaboration between the University of Arkansas and several high schools in rural Arkansas that encourages students to learn about and celebrate their region.

“The authors have two goals. The first is to offer rich qualitative data about what occurs when rural students, in partnership with university students, work on extended projects with topics of their own choosing. The second is to argue that such self-chosen and directed projects—authentic literacy projects—can actually have an effect on rural outmigration and rural residents’ desire and ability to improve their own communities. Both goals are important and timely.” —Kim Donehower, coauthor of Rural Literacies

In rural America, perhaps more than other areas, high school students have the ability to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of their home communities by engaging in oral history projects designed to highlight the values that are revered and worth saving in their region. The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project, a multiyear collaboration between the University of Arkansas and several public high schools in small, rural Arkansas towns, gives students that opportunity. Through the project, trained University of Arkansas studentmentors work with high school students on in-depth writing projects that grow out of oral history interviews. The Delta, a region where the religious roots of southern culture run deep and the traditions of cooking, farming, and hunting are passed from generation to generation, provides the ideal subject for oral history projects. In this detailed exploration of the project, the authors draw on theories of cultural studies and critical pedagogy of place to show how students’ work on religion, food, and race exemplifies the use of community literacy to revitalize a distressed economic region. Advancing the discussion of place-based education, The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project is both inspirational and instructive in offering a successful model of an authentic literacy program. David A. Jolliffe is professor of English and the Brown Chair in English Literacy at the University of Arkansas. Christian Z. Goering is associate professor of English education at the University of Arkansas. Krista Jones Oldham is a special collections librarian at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. James A. Anderson Jr. is assistant professor of English education at Lander University in South Carolina.

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America in the Teens Andrew J. Dunar With a Foreword by John Robert Greene Cloth $65.00L 978-0-8156-3480-5 Paper $29.95s 978-0-8156-3465-2

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A wide-ranging survey of a remarkable era in American history, one that thrust the nation into the modern age.

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In the latest addition to the America in the Twentieth Century series, Dunar provides a sweeping account of the twentieth century’s second decade. Beginning with the social, political, and economic circumstances in the United States in 1910, America in the Teens presents the themes and pivotal events that shaped America during this tumultuous period. The election of 1912, World War I, social change in the late Progressive Era, the influence of war on women and minorities, and changes in the motion picture industry are among the many issues covered in this eminently readable, concise text. Dunar traces the development of a vibrant society during a time of enormous change and explores the ways in which Americans reacted. World War I brought our nation to the forefront of the world’s great powers but also provoked divisions that Americans would confront through the twentieth century and beyond: racial tensions, immigration issues, and labor-management disputes. At the same time, there were progressive triumphs: women earned the right to vote; American industry made great strides, symbolized by the mass production of Henry Ford’s automobiles; and American cinema and jazz enjoyed international acclaim. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis, America in the Teens enriches our understanding of that critical era. Andrew J. Dunar is professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His books include The Truman Scandals and the Politics of Morality and America in the Fifties.

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