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World-Making Stories
Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared California Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
World-Making Stories is a collection of Maidu creation stories that will help readers appreciate California’s rich cultural tapestry. At the beginning of the...
The Virgin of Prince Street
Expeditions into Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
With organized religion becoming increasingly divisive and politicized and Americans abandoning their pews in droves, it’s easy to question aspects of traditional spirituality and devotion. In response to this shifting landscape, Sonja Livingston undertakes a variety of expeditions—from a mobile...
The Other Exchange
Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift...
White Gold
Stories of Breast Milk Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern...
Producing Early Modern London
A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598–1616
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater’s...
Of Love and Loathing
Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast...
by Leslie Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting...
by Venita Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner–Los Angeles
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and...
Deep Waters
The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher...
Awu's Story
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, villages in the Fang region of northern Gabon must grapple with the clash of tradition and the evolution of customs throughout modern Africa. With this tension in the background, the passionate, deft, and creative seamstress Awu marries Obame, after he and...
by William K. Powers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This study seeks to explain how one group of Native Americans, the Oglala Sioux, has preserved its social and cultural identity despite formidable attempts by the U.S. government to eliminate tribal societies. Treating continuity and change as two aspects of the same phenomenon, it focuses on the...
An Asian Frontier
American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However, this perspective underestimates Korea...
Declarations of Dependence
Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory in the alternative conception of money articulated by the contemporary heterodox school of political...
The Supernatural Sublime
The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
The Supernatural Sublime explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques...