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Dear Friends, have been t the last few months There is no doubt tha and faced ses los y has suffered difficult. Our communit ensified int g inequalities have crises, and longstandin illness, of at can books do in light across the country. Wh I would Speaking for myself, poverty, and violence? ion; yet I reading with direct act never want to conflate . Among the many tenance and inspiration do turn to books for sus o offer examples of ected for this season, tw terrific titles we have sel writer and Holocaust ation of a biography of resilience. A new transl and determination, captures her strength lbo De e ott arl Ch or viv sur ps and persevered the brutality of the cam ed viv sur she w ho ng showi ar years. A second throughout the postw as a witness to injustice of an entire people. tifies to the resilience title in this season tes Tales, Volume 1 fea”: Penobscot Transformer “Still They Remember Me re hero, Gluskabe, out the Penobscot cultu ab s rie sto en rte thi es tur into the future. world to sustain life the to ce lan ba s ng bri who uce many readers ted volume will introd uc str con y ull htf ug This tho r, and will bring the hy, ecology, and humo to Penobscot philosop Native peoples to new of one of this region’s language and culture nt struggles, I hope historic loss and curre generations. In light of ng you inspiration. ers in this season will bri oth the d an s ok bo se the Best wishes,
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COVER ART Cover art by Judith Wolfe, detail from Dans la Lumière de Glace I, from the series Hommage à Charlotte Delbo. Acrylic and India ink on rice paper, © 2013, 60 x 60 cm. Courtesy of the artist judith-wolfe.com. From Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed by Ghislaine Dunant, p. 1.
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Charlotte Delbo A Life Reclaimed GHISLAINE DUNANT TRANSLATED BY KATHRYN M. LACHMAN In 1943, Charlotte Delbo and 229 other women were deported to a station with no name, which they later learned was Auschwitz. Arrested for resisting the Nazi occupation of Paris, Delbo was sent to the camps, enduring both Auschwitz and Ravensbrück for twenty-seven months. She sustained herself by reciting Molière and resolved to someday write a book about herself and her fellow deportees, a stunning work called None of Us Will Return. After the camps, Delbo devoted her life to the art of writing and the duty of witnessing, fiercely advocating for the power of the arts to testify against despotism and tyranny. Ghislaine Dunant’s unforgettable biography of Delbo, La vie retrouvée (2016), captivated French readers and was awarded the Prix Femina. Now translated into English for the first time, Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed depicts Delbo’s lifelong battles as a working-class woman, as a survivor, as a leftist who broke from the Communist Party, and most of all, as a writer whose words compelled others to see. “Charlotte Delbo is one of the most important testimonial writers of the Holocaust, alongside Primo Levi. She is also one of the rare witnesses to have focused on the lives of women in Nazi concentration camps. As the first biography of Delbo to appear in English, A Life Reclaimed is likely to become a reference for anyone seeking context for Delbo’s work. The translation is excellent.”
“This splendid biography brings to life a woman of uncommon courage and intellect who needs to be better known and understood in America, in a fine translation by Kathryn Lachman. Detailed and fully documented, A Life Reclaimed is a gripping narrative told with empathy and deep understanding of the issues and traumas faced by so many in the unhappy history of France in the twentieth century.” —David Bellos, author of Georges Perec: A Life in Words
—David Caron, author of The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV
GHISLAINE DUNANT is the author of five books, among them Brazen and Un effondrement, winner of the Prix Dentan. KATHRYN M. LACHMAN is associate professor of compara tive literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Biography and Autobiography / History: World and Area Studies 472 pp., 1 illus. $24.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-578-3 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-583-7 Also available as an e-book May 2021 A Collaboration with the Massachusetts Review
Also of Interest “And there will be singing” An Anthology of International Writing Edited by Jim Hicks, Ellen Doré Watson, and Q. M. Zhang $24.95 td paper 978-1-943902-14-9
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Legends of the Common Stream JOHN HANSON MITCHELL
“Mitchell’s writing about the natural world, one that he accesses from the back door of his house— the birds he hears, the family of muskrats and otters he encounters, the quietness of this landscape in winter while he skates through it—is remarkable.” —Amy Seidl, author of Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming
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Flight Calls Exploring Massachusetts through Birds John R. Nelson $22.95 bt paper 978-1-62534-470-0
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For over twenty years, John Hanson Mitchell has visited Beaver Brook almost daily. This small, slow-flowing Massachusetts stream was of vital importance for early settlers and an indispensable resource for the Native peoples who lived and fished along its shores, but it has been largely forgotten in our own time. Revisiting the river’s oxbows, bends, and marshes over the course of a year, Legends of the Common Stream combines a natural history of Beaver Brook with a study of the people who lived on this land and a meandering, but stunning, examination of the myths and legends that can help us to better understand humanity’s relationship to the natural world. While Mitchell never leaves the brook’s shores, he draws from a range of traditions and takes readers on excursions to regions and cultures across the globe and across time, making the case that our contemporary separation from nature goes hand in hand with our alienation from the world of myth. This book seeks to restore these broken relationships and offers the reminder that while cultures may come and go, the stream goes on forever. “Mitchell weaves history, natural history, culture, environmental issues, myths, folklore, religion—in powerful, dynamic ways, all while visiting Beaver Brook. I have not read another book that so intimately ties together so many strands so effectively. Mitchell takes these strands and braids a beautiful book.” —Sean Prentiss, author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
JOHN HANSON MITCHELL is the author of thirteen books, six of which focus on Scratch Flat, a single square mile of land in eastern Massachusetts. New England History and Culture / Creative Nonfiction / Natural History and Botany 224 pp., 13 illus. $22.95 bt paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-581-3 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-582-0 Also available as an e-book April 2021 spring / summer 2021 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS 10/26/20 3:03 PM
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I Believe I’ll Go Back Home Roots and Revival in New England Folk Music THOMAS S. CURREN Between 1959 and 1968, New England saw a folk revival emerge in more than fifty clubs and coffeehouses, a revolution led by college dropouts, young bohemians, and lovers of traditional music that renewed the work of the region’s intellectuals and reformers. From Club 47 in Harvard Square to candlelit venues in Ipswich, Martha’s Vineyard, and Amherst, budding musicians and hopeful audiences alike embraced folk music, progressive ideals, and community as alternatives to an increasingly toxic consumer culture. While the Boston-Cambridge Folk Revival was short-lived, the youthful attention that it spurred played a crucial role in the civil rights, world peace, and back-to-the-land movements emerging across the country. Fueled by interviews with key players from the folk music scene, I Believe I’ll Go Back Home traces a direct line from Yankee revolutionaries, up-country dancers, and nineteenth-century pacifists to the emergence of blues and rock ’n’ roll, ultimately landing at the period of the folk revival. Thomas S. Curren presents the richness and diversity of the New England folk tradition, which continues to provide perspective, inspiration, and healing in the present day.
“Accessibly written by a knowledgeable and esteemed author, I Believe I’ll Go Back Home does a good job of taking the reader on a journey along the ethnic origins of folk music that have absorbed into our culture.” —John Kane, author of The Last Seat in the House: The Story of Hanley Sound
THOMAS S. CURREN is chairman of the board of Folk New England and executive director of the Franklin Land Trust. Music, Film, and Popular Culture / New England History and Culture 232 pp., 14 illus. $22.95 bt paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-565-3 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-566-0 Also available as an e-book May 2021
Also of Interest Lost Wonderland The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston’s Million Dollar Amusement Park Stephen R. Wilk $22.95 bt paper 978-1-62534-558-5
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Minds and Hearts The Story of James Otis Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren JEFFREY H. HACKER
“The dual biography of various ‘founders’ has become a familiar genre, but this approach only works if the relationship between protagonists reveals insights that a standard solo biography might ignore or downplay. Hacker’s insightful work clears this hurdle.” —Ray Raphael, author of A People’s History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
“Beautifully written and thoroughly researched . . . Hacker interweaves the story of Otis and Warren, crafting a seamless narrative and analyzing their common lives, careers, and growing animosity toward Great Britain. As a result, abstract political ideas take on personal significance.” —Rosemarie Zagarri, author of A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
JEFFREY H. HACKER is an independent scholar and writer based in Durham, North Carolina.
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Went to the Devil A Yankee Whaler in the Slave Trade Anthony J. Connors $22.95 bt paper 978-1-62534-405-2
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As a firebrand attorney and political agitator, James Otis Jr. helped to shape colonial resistance in the decades leading up to the American Revolution, establishing individual rights and “no taxation without representation” as cornerstones of the patriot cause. After his violent coffeehouse altercation and bouts with mental illness, his younger sister, Mercy Otis Warren, took up his cause. Her incendiary plays and poems rallied colonial opinion in the lead-up to the war, and her chronicle of the period established her as America’s first female historian. Minds and Hearts is the dual biography of these remarkable siblings, placing James and Mercy in the spotlight together for the first time, amid the rush of events, competing ideologies, and changing social conditions of eighteenth-century America. Jeffrey H. Hacker crafts a compelling narrative that focuses on the Otises’ unique and dramatic relationship and traces their impact on the Revolutionary movement in Massachusetts. If the real American Revolution took place “in the minds and hearts of the people,” as John Adams claimed, then the Otises were among the nation’s true patriots.
Biography and Autobiography / History: Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early American / New England History and Culture 216 pp., 12 illus. $22.95 bt paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-574-5 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-575-2 Also available as an e-book June 2021 spring / summer 2021 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS 10/26/20 3:03 PM
A VOLUME IN THE SERIES NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE NORTHEAST
“Still They Remember Me” Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1 CAROL A. DANA, MARGO LUKENS, AND CONOR M. QUINN Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine’s Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a “raconteur among the Indians.” The thirteen stories in this new volume were among those that Lyon recounted to anthropologist Frank Speck, who published them in 1918 as Penobscot Transformer Tales. Transcribed into current Penobscot orthography and with a new English translation, this instructive and entertaining story cycle focuses on the childhood and coming-of-age of Gluskabe, the tribe’s culture hero. Learning from his grandmother Woodchuck, Gluskabe applies lessons that help shape the Wabanaki landscape and bring into balance all the forces affecting human life. These tales offer a window into the language and culture of the Penobscot people in the early twentieth century. In “Still They Remember Me,” stories are presented in the Penobscot language and English side-by-side, coupled with illustrations from members of the tribal community. For the first time, these stories are accessible to scholars and a new generation of Penobscot language learners. “Bombarded by books in English, Wabanaki children and community readers now have access to this important bilingual book that emphasizes language use and acquisition. For most academics and general readers, the bilingual stories can reposition our place of privilege by encouraging us to deeply appreciate the important nuances in Penobscot history.”
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“This book is an outstanding example of successful, reciprocal collaboration between tribal scholars and academics. These stories are short enough to allow for easy reading and accessible teaching, but they are not simplified versions. They allow readers to see the depth of Penobscot philosophy, ecology, humor, and knowledge. I cannot stress enough how necessary these stories are now, in the twenty-first century.” —Lisa Brooks, author of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War
—Micah A. Pawling, editor of Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat
CAROL A. DANA is Penobscot language master for the Penobscot Nation. MARGO LUKENS is professor of English at the University of Maine. CONOR M. QUINN is adjunct assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Southern Maine. Native American and Indigenous Studies / New England History and Culture 296 pp., 13 illus., 1 map $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-579-0 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-580-6 Also available as an e-book May 2021
Also of Interest “For the Good of Their Souls” Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country William B. Hart $26.95 paper 978-1-62534-495-3
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND
Making the Forever War Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism EDITED BY MARK PHILIP BRADLEY AND MARY L. DUDZIAK Afterword by Andrew Bacevich
“Marilyn B. Young remains the preeminent historian of war’s place in modern American history.” —Michael S. Sherry, author of The Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s
“The essays in this collection serve as a durable testament to one of the most important academic critics of U.S. war-making in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.” —Susan L. Carruthers, author of The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace
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MARILYN B. YOUNG (1937–2017) was a renowned historian of American foreign relations and a longtime professor of history at New York University. Her landmark book The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990 remains a defining work in the field. MARK PHILIP BRADLEY is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College at the University of Chicago and author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. MARY L. DUDZIAK is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University and author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences.
The Sacking of Fallujah
Military History, Cold War, and Veterans Studies / Political History
A People’s History Ross Caputi, Richard Hil, and Donna Mulhearn
232 pp., 1 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-568-4 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-569-1 Also available as an e-book June 2021
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The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving end of U.S. military force. At the center of her inquiries was a seeming paradox: How can the United States stay continually at war, yet Americans pay so little attention to this militarism? Making the Forever War brings Young’s articles and essays on American war together for the first time, including never before published works. Moving from the first years of the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, and more recent “forever” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Young reveals the ways in which war became ever-present, yet more covert and abstract, particularly as aerial bombings and faceless drone strikes have attained greater strategic value. For Young, U.S. empire persisted because of, not despite, the inattention of most Americans. The collection concludes with an afterword by prominent military historian Andrew Bacevich.
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND
We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan ANDREW HUNT In the moments before his weekly radio address hit the airwaves in 1984, Ronald Reagan made an off-the-record joke: “I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” As reports of the stunt leaked to the press, many Americans did not find themselves laughing along with the president. Long a fervent warrior against what he termed the “Evil Empire,” by the mid-1980s, Reagan confronted growing domestic opposition to his revival of the Cold War. While numerous histories of the era have glorified the “Decade of Greed,” historian Andrew Hunt instead explores the period’s robust political and cultural dissent. We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes focuses on a striking array of protest movements that took up issues such as the nuclear arms race, U.S. intervention in Central America, and American investments in South Africa. Hunt’s new history of the eighties investigates how film, television, and other facets of popular culture critiqued Washington’s Cold War policies and reveals that activists and cultural rebels alike posed a more meaningful challenge to the Cold War’s excesses than their predecessors in the McCarthy era. “Alternative cultural histories of the Reagan era can be counted on one hand. Hunt presents an important counterbalance to the ‘triumphalist’ school that misrepresents the decade.” —William M. Knoblauch, author of Nuclear Freeze in a Cold War: The Reagan Administration, Cultural Activism, and the End of the Arms Race
“An excellent contribution to the small but growing scholarly literature on the cultural and political opposition to Reagan and conservatism in the 1980s. The Cold War lens that Hunt brings to his narrative represents a unique innovation in this emerging scholarship.” —Bradford Martin, author of The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan
ANDREW HUNT is professor of history at the University of Waterloo and coauthor of Social History of the United States: The 1980s. Political History / Military History, Cold War, and Veterans Studies / History: Twentieth-and Twenty-First- Century American 232 pp., 12 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-576-9 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-577-6 Also available as an e-book August 2021
Nuclear Freeze in a Cold War
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The Reagan Administration, Cultural Activism, and the End of the Arms Race William M. Knoblauch $26.95 paper 978-1-62534-275-1
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JUNIPER PRIZE FOR FICTION
The Deposition PETE DUVAL An insurance lawyer driving across Iowa engages a wounded, hitchhiking priest in a metaphysical debate. A vacationing air traffic controller with a penchant for Saint Francis of Assisi is bitten by an ancient parrot. The Marxist owner of a Florida curiosity shop confronts a local church community’s rising anger over a jarred fetus, while a fasting husband of an evangelical minister holds bloody communion with the leader of a suburban coyote pack, and a Catholic cable news cameraman tracks a missing stigmatist through a Caribbean port city. As cosmic struggles play out against the backdrop of forgotten strip malls, suburban cul- de-sacs, and grimy cities, guidance comes from the unlikeliest of sources. In prose both dreamlike and vivid, the characters in Pete Duval’s second collection navigate paths through a landscape of vestigial faith and nagging doubt. “The book in your hands is holy writ, a collection of stories as searching, heartbroken, and beautiful as the work of its spiritual and intellectual forebears, not just Andre Dubus and Flannery O’Connor, but Melville and Hawthorne. This is not a work of escapism; this is a work of wisdom, situated at the very heart of the peculiar brokenness of being alive in the twenty-first century.” —Mark Powell, author of Firebird and Small Treasons
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“The Deposition occupies the space between dreaming and waking, the known and the unknown, the sacred and profane in prose which feels at once from another time, and timeless. You may not know precisely where you are in some of these stories, though you will almost certainly be struck by the unnerving feeling you have absolutely been there.” —Sam Michel, author of Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five
PETE DUVAL is author of the short-story collection Rear View, which won the Bakeless Prize and the Connecticut Book Award. The recipient of two Connecticut artist grants and fellowships from the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Duval is associate professor of English at West Chester University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ascent, the Massachusetts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Witness, Chelsea, Exquisite Corpse, and Appalachian Heritage, among other venues. Fiction and Poetry
Senseless Women Sarah Harris Wallman $19.95 td paper 978-1-62534-518-9
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216 pp. $19.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-570-7 Also available as an e-book March 2021 spring / summer 2021 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS 10/26/20 3:03 PM
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Silver Beach CLAIRE COX It’s been decades since Mara’s family was last together, decades since the day her sister Allison drowned at Silver Beach. After the family tragedy, Mara’s father took her to the opposite end of the country, where she made a tidy life for herself in western Massachusetts, with a good education, stable job, and loving girlfriend. Her half-sister, Shannon, was left behind with their mother in San Diego. Surviving on disability checks and handouts from family, Shannon can’t remember a time when Linda wasn’t drunk. When a heart attack lands Linda in the hospital, Shannon’s first impulse is to skip town—to finally escape her mother’s orbit and make her sister step up. While Mara gave up on Linda years ago and couldn’t have less in common with her sister, an unemployed stoner, it’s time for her to stop running from everything that makes her have feelings. This is a novel about the persistent, mystifying ties of family, the extravagant mess of addiction, and what it means to actually live inside your own life.
“Silver Beach speaks with candor and compassion to the sometimes overwhelming weight of the family romance, revealing the courage, doubt, tenderness, cruelty, frailty, and resilience of human nature. The people in Silver Beach are real, their stories artfully, painfully true.” —Sam Michel, author of Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five
CLAIRE COX holds an MFA in creative writing from Hunter College and was a finalist for the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Originally from San Diego, she lives with her husband and son in New York City, where she has taught high school English since 2005. Fiction and Poetry 208 pp. $19.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-564-6 Also available as an e-book March 2021
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A Wolf by the Ears Wayne Karlin $22.95 td paper 978-1-62534-503-5
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JUNIPER PRIZE FOR POETRY
Patmos BRUCE BOND The dead are never far from the living in Patmos, the end is always nigh, and the cultural symptoms of denial and reconciliation, unresolved shame and loneliness, remain just beneath the surface: “It is how, these many / years, we survived. In our rooms, alone, at the end of time.” In this book-length poetic sequence, Bruce Bond explores the psychology of endings as a living presence that haunts our spiritual, moral, and ecological imaginations, elevates its summons, and draws us to question its significance. The horrors and glories in the revelations of John of Patmos provide a lens into a wound, a crisis of values, a longing to heal a visionary brokenness that is fundamentally solitary and yet contemporary, written against a door that will not open. “Bruce Bond’s Patmos is composed of quietly contained octets, bound together as a single elegantly clear-eyed and elegiac poem. Like the visions of John the Revelator (exiled to the island of Patmos), Bond’s lines conjure cinematic glimpses of end-times. They invoke a sublime mythic reckoning (“The sea will lift into the sky and take with it its mirror”), while evincing the intimately human moment (“the fly at the window, the bored child”). Patmos is wonderfully lucid and compelling, meditative, and vital, an astringently balanced music.” —James Haug, author of Riverain
BRUCE BOND is the author of twenty-six books including, most recently, Dear Reader, Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods, Frankenstein’s Children, Words Written Against the Walls of the City, Scar, Behemoth, and The Calling, and his work has appeared in seven editions of Best American Poetry. Presently, Bond is Regents Professor of English at University of North Texas.
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Fiction and Poetry Stardust Media Christina Pugh $16.95 td paper 978-1-62534-511-0
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How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It LARA EGGER Wrestling with desire, shame, and the complications of attempting to resist one’s own nature, How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It offers a tragicomic tour of a heart in midlife crisis. Populated by unruly angels, earthbound astronauts, xylophones, wordplay, and glitter glue, these wildly associative poems transform the world line by line, image by image. Part confessional, part kitsch, and often self-deprecating, this debut collection offers an honest and tender exploration of love’s necessary absurdity. Lara Egger asks: Who put the end in crescendo, the over in lover? Are metaphors always reliable witnesses? Why does the past sleep with us when we hope the person beside us is the future? Did you know, across the international dateline, there’s a village where adulterers are believed to be earthly manifestations of god? I’ve been there. I kissed a man until my mouth became a conch shell of secrets. Even at sunrise, the village’s feral harbor was already thinking about dinner. (From “Wanderlust”) “Headlong, agile, volatile, Lara Egger’s poems crackle with collision and invention. They shoot the divide between unsayable and unknowable. They ‘traipse the vast / in devastation.’ It’s a thrill to discover her work.” —James Haug, author of Riverain
“Beating inside Lara Egger’s chest is a beast of pathologic geometry. She cries and curses, begs and screams, and laughs it over the cliff. She refuses to love and die alone, will not ever judge you, will gladly swap all of your jaded conceits for a few hardy knocks of messy wonder. If you’re feeling lucky, say yes to her eternal burning questions. Say yes to all of them.” —Barrett Warner, author of Why Is It So Hard to Kill You?
LARA EGGER is a Boston-based poet. The recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship, winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize, and a two-time Pushcart nominee, her work has appeared in Verse Daily, Ninth Letter, New Ohio Review, the Laurel Review, Washington Square Review, Salt Hill, The Pinch, and elsewhere. Fiction and Poetry 88 pp. $16.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-571-4 Also available as an e-book April 2021
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That Place Where You Opened Your Hands Susan Leslie Moore $16.95 td paper 978-1-62534-510-3
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JUNIPER PRIZE FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
White Space Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing JENNIFER DE LEON
“White Space documents a life in flux, a life in the throes of becoming, and we applaud its subversive, metaphoric depth. We were both struck by Jennifer De Leon’s lively writing and engaged consciousness. We see her as someone who might well join the ranks of our leading essayists, such as Roxane Gay, Samantha Irby, Michelle Orange; soon, we hope. She is well on her way.” —Madeleine Blais and Kathy Roberts Forde, Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction judges
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Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, “What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?” While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn’t been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return—to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family’s history, and begin to make her own way. Alternately honest, funny, and visceral, this powerful collection follows De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan-American woman and learns to navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for her posh college, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in her parents’ home country. During the years to follow, she would return to Guatemala again and again, meet ex-guerrillera and genocide survivors, get married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigua, and teach her newborn son about his roots.
JENNIFER DE LEON is author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From and editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education. De Leon has published prose in over a dozen literary journals, including Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and is a GrubStreet instructor and board member. She is assistant professor of creative writing at Framingham State University and makes her home in the Boston area. Creative Nonfiction
The Memory Eaters Elizabeth Kadetsky $19.95 td paper 978-1-62534-502-8
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Sailing to Freedom Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad EDITED BY TIMOTHY D. WALKER In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn’s maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century, an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans’ paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers. “Sailing to Freedom connects the world of seafaring with the lives of runaway slaves in so many compelling ways that the reader cannot help but think the Underground Railroad should be renamed.”
“The central question of the volume—To what extent are maritime escapes rightfully referred to as part of the Underground Railroad?— leads to an expanded understanding of what the path to freedom in nineteenth-century America looked like.” —Jeffrey A. Fortin, coeditor of Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World
—Christopher P. Magra, author of Poseidon’s Curse: British Naval Impressment and Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution
TIMOTHY D. WALKER is professor of history at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. African American History / History: Nineteenth-Century American and Civil War 248 pp., 19 illus., 2 maps, 1 table $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-592-9 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-593-6 Also available as an e-book April 2021
Also of Interest Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds A History of Slavery in New England Jared Ross Hardesty $22.95 bt paper 978-1-62534-457-1
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES CHILDHOODS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Vicious Infants Dangerous Childhoods in Antebellum U.S. Literature LAURA SODERBERG
“Vicious Infants makes a significant contribution to the study of childhood, non-idealized childhoods, and the child as understood in relation to paradigms of race and class.” —Melanie Dawson, author of Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850–1920
Childhood as scholars often recognize it—innocent, vulnerable, and above all, precious—is anchored in the cultural imagination of the early nineteenth-century United States, when an attitude of child worship drove sentimental politics and literature. But, not all childhoods were defined by love, education, and nurture. Singled out by nineteenth-century legal and medical establishments, children already marginalized by slavery, ethnicity, and poverty were increasingly branded as “incorrigible,” delinquent, and antisocial. Vicious Infants offers a counterhistory of literary childhood as both perceived social threat and site of resistance, revealing that many children were not only cut off from family and society, they were also preemptively excluded from the rewards of citizenship and adulthood. Turning to prison documents, medical journals, overlooked periodical fiction, and literary works from William Apess, Harriet Wilson, Herman Melville, Susan Paul, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Laura Soderberg recovers alternate narratives of childhood and provides an important window into the cultural links between race, reproduction, and childhood in the antebellum period. “Soderberg’s work is especially important because it utilizes an innovative archive to radically shift the reading of children from the private to the public sphere and demonstrates how the study of childhood can open up new ways of thinking about population.” —Allison Giffen, coeditor of Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
LAURA SODERBERG is assistant professor of English at University of Southern Indiana.
Also of Interest The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
Childhood and Youth / Literary Studies and Print Culture / History: Nineteenth-Century American and Civil War
Free Soil in Antislavery Boston Karen Woods Weierman
208 pp. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-588-2 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-589-9 Also available as an e-book July 2021
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES CHILDHOODS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Revolutions at Home The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class EMILY C. BRUCE How did we come to imagine what “ideal childhood” requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and as these innovations in ideology and educational practice spread from middle-class families across European society, childhood came to be seen as a life stage critical to self- formation. This new approach was in part a process that adults imposed on youth, one that hinged on motivating children’s behavior through affection and cultivating internal discipline. But this is not just a story about parents’ and pedagogues’ efforts to shape childhood. Offering rare glimpses of young students’ diaries, letters, and marginalia, Emily C. Bruce reveals how children themselves negotiated these changes. Revolutions at Home analyzes a rich set of documents created for and by young Germans to show that children were central to reinventing their own education between 1770 and 1850. Through their reading and writing, they helped construct the modern child subject. The active child who emerged at this time was not simply a consequence of expanding literacy but, in fact, a key participant in defining modern life.
“A new and valuable contribution to the growing literature on children’s literacy and writing.” —Andrea Immel, coeditor of Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550–1800
“Bruce compellingly demonstrates how German pedagogues, authors of children’s tales, and children themselves constructed a new ‘childhood subjectivity.’ This study will appeal to readers interested in the histories of childhood, education, and German middle-class identity, as well as anyone curious about the origins of classics like Grimms’ fairy tales.” —Anna Kuxhausen, author of From the Womb to the Body Politic: Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia
EMILY C. BRUCE is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota Morris. Childhood and Youth / History: World and Area Studies / Education 224 pp., 12 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-562-2 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-563-9 Also available as an e-book July 2021
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American Tomboys, 1850 –1915 Renée M. Sentilles $26.95 paper 978-1-62534-320-8
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Oceans at Home Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth- Century American Women’s Writing MELISSA GNIADEK
“Gniadek broadens the archive and models readings which advance the variety of oceanic methodologies that have recently become a robust area of study within literary criticism. Her archive impressively includes children’s literature, a personal diary heretofore unexamined, a fictionalized travelogue, and novels. The analysis of these female-authored texts is a significant contribution.”
The maritime world was central to nineteenth-century America, and ideas about the ocean, seafaring, and encounters with distant peoples and places suffused the cultural imagination. Women writers who were not mariners themselves incorporated oceanic representations and concerns into their work, often through genres that were generally not associated with the sea, such as children’s fiction, diaries, and female coming-of-age stories. Melissa Gniadek explores the role of the ocean, with particular attention to the Pacific, in a diverse range of literary texts spanning the late 1820s through the mid- 1860s from Lydia Maria Child, Caroline Kirkland, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Harriet Prescott Spofford. Oceans at Home shows that authors employed maritime plots and stories from distant locations to probe contemporary concerns facing the continental United States, ranging from issues of gender restrictions in the domestic sphere to the racial prejudices against Indigenous peoples that lay at the heart of settler colonialism. “Oceans at Home offers a rich exploration of authors and texts not often considered in relation to narratives and economies of the sea. It does so with a careful attention to the ways in which the women writers it treats applied popular oceanic plots and characterizations to speak to the concerns, desires, and experiences that animated their own lives.” —Maura D’Amore, author of Suburban Plots: Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture
—Robin Miskolcze, author of Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity
MELISSA GNIADEK is assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto.
Also of Interest Books for Idle Hours Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading Donna Harrington- Lueker $29.95 paper 978-1-62534-383-3
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Literary Studies and Print Culture / Gender and Women’s Studies 208 pp., 12 illus. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-572-1 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-573-8 Also available as an e-book August 2021 spring / summer 2021 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS 10/26/20 3:04 PM
Feeling Godly Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America EDITED BY CAROLINE WIGGINTON AND ABRAM VAN ENGEN In 1746, Jonathan Edwards described his philosophy on the process of Christian conversion in A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections. For Edwards, a strict Congregationalist, true conversion is accompanied by a new heart and yields humility, forgiveness, and love—affections that work a change in the person’s nature. But, how did other early American communities understand religious affections and come to recognize their manifestation? Feeling Godly brings together well-known and highly regarded scholars of early American history and literature, Native American studies, African American history, and religious studies to investigate the shape, feel, look, theology, and influence of religious affections in early American sites of contact with and between Christians. While remaining focused on the question of religious affections, these essays span a wide range of early North American cultures, affiliations, practices, and devotions, and enable a comparative approach that draws together a history of emotions with a history of religion. In addition to the volume editors, this collection includes essays from Joanna Brooks, Kathleen Donegan, Melissa Frost, Stephanie Kirk, Jon Sensbach, Scott Manning Stevens, and Mark Valeri, with an afterword by Barbara H. R osenwein.
CAROLINE WIGGINTON is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi and author of In the Neighborhood: Women’s Publication in Early America. ABRAM VAN ENGEN is associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Religion / History: Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early American 248 pp. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-590-5 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-591-2 Also available as an e-book July 2021
“Feeling Godly succeeds very well in its arrangement of contributions. Set alongside each other, with the four brilliant responses and an insightful afterword, they call our attention to the wide spectrum of religious feeling, experience, and— yes—affections in early America.” —Laura M. Stevens, author of The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility
Above the American Renaissance
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David S. Reynolds and the Spiritual Imagination in American Literary Studies Edited by Harold K. Bush and Brian Yothers $28.95 paper 978-1-62534-360-4
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHEAST
Managing the River Commons Fishing and New England’s Rural Economy ERIK REARDON
“Managing the River Commons shows how central river fish were to rural/agrarian New England prior to industrialization and how farmer-fishermen sought conservation and sustainable resource use. It goes beyond this by suggesting that river restoration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century shares a basic environmental ethos with those farmer-fishermen of preindustrial New England.”
New England once hosted large numbers of anadromous fish, which migrate between rivers and the sea. Salmon, shad, and alewives served a variety of functions within the region’s preindustrial landscape, furnishing not only maritime areas but also agricultural communities with an important source of nutrition and a valued article of rural exchange. Historian Erik Reardon argues that to protect these fish, New England’s farmer-fishermen pushed for conservation measures to limit commercial fishing and industrial uses of the river. Beginning in the colonial period and continuing to the mid-nineteenth century, they advocated for fishing regulations to promote sustainable returns, compelled local millers to open their dams during seasonal fish runs, and defeated corporate proposals to erect large-scale dams. As environmentalists work to restore rivers in New England and beyond in the present day, Managing the River Commons offers important lessons about historical conservation efforts that can help guide current campaigns to remove dams and allow anadromous fish to reclaim these waters. “Reardon persuasively argues for the importance of river fish for the ecology of the watershed, Native Americans, and early settlers. He also makes a case for their importance to the world today.” —John T. Cumbler, author of Cape Cod: An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem
—Brian J. Payne, author of Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818–1910
ERIK REARDON is visiting assistant professor of history at Bates College.
Also of Interest Breaking the Banks Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866–1966 Matthew McKenzie $28.95 paper 978-1-62534-391-8
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Natural History and Botany / New England History and Culture 192 pp., 7 illus., 3 maps $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-584-4 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-585-1 Also available as an e-book July 2021 spring / summer 2021 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS 10/26/20 3:04 PM
A VOLUME IN THE SERIES THE AMHERST SERIES IN LAW, JURISPRUDENCE, AND SOCIAL THOUGHT
Law and the Visible EDITED BY AUSTIN SARAT, LAWRENCE DOUGLAS, AND MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY If you take a video of police officers beating a Black man into unconsciousness, are you a witness or a bystander? If you livestream your friends dragging the body of an unconscious woman and talking about their plans to violate her, are you an accomplice? Do bodycams and video doorbells tell the truth? Are the ubiquitous technologies of visibility open to interpretation and manipulation? These are just a few of the questions explored in the rich and broadly interdisciplinary essays within this volume, Law and the Visible, the most recent offering in the Amherst Series for Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Individual essays discuss the culpability of those who record violence, the history of racialized violence as it streams through police bodycams, the idea of digital images as objective or neutral, the logics of surveillance and transparency, and a defense of anonymity in the digital age. Contributors include Benjamin J. Goold, Torin Monahan, Kelli Moore, Eden Osucha, Jennifer Peterson, and Carrie A. Rentschler.
“Law and the Visible interrogates the broad set of ethical, jurisprudential, and epistemological questions tied to the increasingly universal presence of digital evidence. This is cutting-edge and very smart work by a highly qualified and careful group of scholars.” —John Gilliom, author of Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy
AUSTIN SARAT is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and associate provost and associate dean of faculty at Amherst College. LAWRENCE DOUGLAS is James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government at Amherst College. Law and Legal Studies 256 pp., 7 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-586-8 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-587-5 Also available as an e-book August 2021
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Guns in Law Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey $27.95 paper 978-1-62534-429-8
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DIAS DE MELO INTRODUCTION BY MARIA JOÃO DODMAN TRANSLATED BY GREGORY MCNAB Bringing to life his countrymen’s daily struggles with the sea, struggles carried out against the dark-stoned background of their homeland, novelist Dias de Melo tells the collective story of Azorean seamen at a moment of great change toward the end of the nineteenth century. Confronted with increasing economic hardship and social and political tensions, whalers faced the choice of continuing to eke out a living at home or forsaking their boats for the shores of America. This expanded Tagus Press edition features Gregory McNab’s masterful 1988 translation of Dark Stones and a new introduction from Maria João Dodman. As an insider from the island of Pico, Dias de Melo writes in a realistic
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Fiction and Poetry 160 pp. $19.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-951470-0 6-7 April 2021
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Books, Organizing, and Global Activism Sherrin Frances $26.95 paper, 978-1-62534-491-5 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America Josephine Donovan $24.95 at paper, 978-1-62534-544-8
Constructing the Outbreak
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Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory Katherine A. Foss $26.95 at paper, 978-1-62534-528-8
Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White Kimberly Mack $28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-550-9 African American Intellectual History
Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston’s Chinatown, 1880–2018 Michael Liu $26.95 at paper, 978-1-62534-546-2
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A Prison in the Woods
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Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. $29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-536-3 Environmental History of the Northeast
African American Periodical Cultures Eurie Dahn $26.95 paper, 978-1-62534-526-4 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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