Syracuse University Press imprint: 176 books
by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as
the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have
scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of
historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings...
Becoming Turkish
Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey 1923-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post—Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Y?lmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how...
Iraqi Migrants in Syria
The Crisis before the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
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...
Minorities and the Modern Arab World
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the...
Mahmud Sami al-Barudi
Reconfiguring Society and the Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets—the perils and promises—of change in the rapidly modernizing Egypt of the nineteenth century. Al-Barudi, sole scion of a Turko-Circassian elite family that clung precariously to a legacy of position...
The War of the Wheels
H. G. Wells and the Bicycle
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells’s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to utopias, futurological speculations, and letters, Wells’s texts abound with bicycles. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines...
Corey Village and the Cayuga World
Implications from Archaeology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy,
a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting
much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their
nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga
endured...
Vilna My Vilna
Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Abraham Karpinowitz (1913–2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus, moved...
Laying Out the Bones
Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel from James Joyce to Anne Enright
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides...
by Jane Davison
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O’Brien (1897–1974) was also a pioneer of women’s writing. In a career that spanned almost fifty years, nine novels, nine plays, two travelogues, and copious criticism, O’Brien rebelled against the narrow nationalism...
The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre
Beyond O'Casey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Ireland’s Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904. Under the guidance of W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory it became instrumental to the success of many of the leading Irish playwrights and actors of the early twentieth century.
Conventional wisdom holds that the playwright Sean O’Casey was the first...
Standish O'Grady's Cuculain
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
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...
Yom Kippur in Amsterdam
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Whether set in Maxim D. Shrayer’s native Russia or in North America and Western Europe, the eight stories in this collection explore emotionally intricate relationships that cross traditional boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture. Tracing the lives, obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian...
Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker
A Study of the Prose
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of this extraordinary career. The Nobel Prize–winning poet, translator, and playwright from the North of Ireland is considered the...