Syracuse University Press: 176 books
Disability and Mothering
Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Editors Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio have put together the first book to focus on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering. Derived from the Latin for threshold, the word "liminal" calls attention to the book’s focus on the transitional moments and spaces where...
by Rita Liberti, Maureen M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Wilma Rudolph was born black in Jim Crow Tennessee. The twentieth of 22 children, she spent most of her childhood in bed suffering from whooping cough, scarlet fever, and pneumonia. She lost the use of her left leg due to polio and wore leg braces. With dedication and hard work, she became a gifted...
by Samuel Hazo
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
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...
From Where We Stand
Recovering a Sense of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall’s From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places—and the loss to us if there are no such connections. A typically rootless child of several American suburbs,...
by Valérie Bénéjam, Richard Brown, Vincent J. Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Shakespeare’s presence in Joyce’s work is tentacular, extending throughout his career on many different levels: cultural, structural, lexical, and psychological; yet a surprisingly long time has passed since the last monograph on this literary nexus was published. Joyce/Shakespeare brings together...
Reading the Wampum
Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum...
Black Male Frames
African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Williams identifies the origins of these roles in an America where black men were forced either to defy...
by Virginia Iris Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
To understand how Albert Einstein’s pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein’s thoughts and feelings in response...
Laura Cornelius Kellogg
Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early twentieth century Native American affairs. An organizer, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked tirelessly for Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination when efforts to Americanize Native people reached their...
The Irish Bridget
Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Many of the socially marginalized Irish immigrant women of this era made their living in domestic service. In contrast to immigrant men, who might have lived in a community with their fellow Irish, these women lived and worked in close contact with American families. Lynch-Brennan reveals the essential...
by Matthew D. Mingus
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Located in the often-contentious center of the European continent, German territory has regularly served as a primary tool through which to understand and study Germany’s economic, cultural, and political development. Many German geographers throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion
Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
During the postwar period of 1948–56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the 1950s, Mizrahim, also known as Oriental Jewry, represented the ethnic majority of the Israeli Jewish population. Despite their large numbers,...
The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
The culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project stands as one of the largest and most important public works’ initiatives of the twentieth century. Seen as vital to North American commerce and...
Screwball Television
Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Adored by fans and celebrated by critics for its sophisticated wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this...