Nyu Press: 1737 books
Culture Jamming
Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others.
Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert,...
by Douglas Biklen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Autism has been defined by experts as a developmental disorder affecting social and communication skills as well as verbal and nonverbal communication. It is said to occur in as many as 2 to 6 in 1,000 individuals. This book challenges the prevailing, tragic narrative of impairment that so often characterizes...
The Sounds of Latinidad
Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization,...
Virginia Woolf
Lesbian Readings
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face is used to sell everything from Barnes &...
The Epistle on Legal Theory
A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This...
Renegade Revolutionary
The Life of General Charles Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
In November 1774, a pamphlet to the “People of America” was published in Philadelphia and London. It forcefully articulated American rights and liberties and argued that the Americans needed to declare their independence from Britain. The author of this pamphlet was Charles Lee, a former British...
Queering the Countryside
New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires...
Sapphistries
A Global History of Love between Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex...
Sojourner Truth
Slave, Prophet, Legend
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a...
Eight Stories
Tales of War and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front
German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as in an impressive selection...
by Eric Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1989
After decades of feminism and deconstruction, romance remains firmly in place as a central preoccupation in the lives of most women. Divorce rates skyrocket, the traditional family is challenged from all sides, and yet romance seems indestructible. In terms of its cultural representation, the popularity...
Race in Translation
Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within...
Archives of Flesh
African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals
In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a...
Unsettled States
Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical...