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New Books: 2017-2018 (Latin America & Caribbean edition)

Eurospan's latest new books catalogue (Latin America & Caribbean edition)

Art & Humanities
Literature 49

TRANSLATION IN AFRICAN CONTEXTS CONNECTING HISTORIES
Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Francophone Caribbean Writers
Cosmopolitan Fluency Interrogating Their Past

Evan Maina Mwangi Bonnie Thomas

Jul 2017 320pp Apr 2017 176pp
9781606353219 Hardback $59.95 9781496810557 Hardback $65.00

Translation Studies Caribbean Studies Series

Explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems.
cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Evan Maina Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-
Mwangi illustrates how such texts allude to various provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting
forms of translation to depict the ethical relations body of work demands scholarly attention. Through their
to foreigners and the powerless, including sexual historically informed autobiography, the authors in this
minorities. He also explains the popularity of fluent study offer compelling insights into confronting, coming
models of translation in African literature. to terms with, and reconciling their past.

University Press of Mississippi CONVERSATIONS WITH EDMUND WHITE

BEYOND WINDRUSH Edited by Will Brantley & Nancy McGuire Roche
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone
Caribbean Literature Oct 2017 208pp
9781496815057 Paperback $25.00
Edited by J. Dillon Brown & Leah Reade Rosenberg Literary Conversations Series

May 2017 234pp Brings together twenty-one interviews with an author
9781496813046 Paperback $30.00 known for chronicling gay culture. Ranging from a 1982
Caribbean Studies Series discussion of his early works to a new and unpublished
interview conducted in 2016, these interviews highlight
This collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. White’s predilections, his major achievements, and the
Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, pivotal moments of his long, varied career.
scholars have exalted an elite cohort of novelists based
in postwar London. However, their canonization has DIRECT DEMOCRACY
obscured the diversity of postwar Caribbean writers. Collective Power, the Swarm, and the
These essays make clear that in the 1950s there was Literatures of the Americas
already a wide spectrum of West Indian men and women
who were writing and publishing. Scott Henkel

Jun 2017 224pp
9781496812254 Hardback $65.00
Caribbean Studies Series

Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays
out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas.
Much research considers direct democracy as a form
oforganization fit for worker cooperatives or political
movements. Henkel reinterprets it as a type of collective
power, based on the massive slave revolt in Haiti.

Art & Humanities
50 Literature

University of Nebraska Press THE OTHER EXCHANGE
Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass
CATHER STUDIES, VOLUME 11 in Early Modern English Literature
Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux
Denys Van Renen
Edited by Ann Moseley, John J. Murphy & Robert Thacker
Mar 2017 282pp
Aug 2017 366pp, 19 photos 9780803280991 Hardback $55.00
9780803296992 Paperback $40.00 Early Modern Cultural Studies
Cather Studies
Argues that, fascinated by the intellectual and cultural
Examines Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and vibrancy of the urban underclass, many major authors
in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself and playwrights in the early modern era - Ben Jonson,
a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she Richard Brome, Aphra Behn, Joseph Addison, Richard
wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning Steele, Eliza Haywood, and Daniel Defoe - featured
with a prologue locating Cather’s position, this volume of lower-class men and women and other marginalized
Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays. groups in their work as a response to the shifting
political and social terrain of the day.
THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF
HENRY JAMES, 1880-1883 Purdue University Press
Volume 2
ANATOMÍA DEL DESENCANTO
Henry James Humor, ficción y melancolía en España
Edited by Michael Anesko, Greg W. Zacharias & (1976-1998)
Katie Sommer
Santiago Morales-Rivera
Oct 2017 336pp
9781496201188 Hardback $95.00 Feb 2017 200pp
The Complete Letters of Henry James 9781557537683 Paperback $45.00
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, Vol. 69
Includes 178 letters, 98 of which are published for the
first time, written from November 1, 1881, to January 1, Notions such as disenchantment, trauma, memory, and
1883. The letters record Henry James’s establishment as empathy inform virtually all the analyses of modern Spanish
one of the preeminent professional writers in Britain and culture, from the Civil War to the transition to democracy.
the United States and follow James’s return journeys to Santiago Morales intervenes in this approach to history and
the United States following the deaths of his parents. to the novelistic production of the transition by recovering
the links and tensions that the notion of melancholy
maintains with the aesthetics of black humour in a corpus
of fictional works written between 1976 and 1998.

Art & Humanities 51
L iter ature

Rutgers University Press THIEVING THREE-FINGERED JACK
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw,
LATINASIAN CARTOGRAPHIES 1780-2015
History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
Frances R. Botkin
Susan Thananopavarn
Dec 2017 224pp, 5 illustrations
Jan 2018 216pp, 3 illustrations 9780813587387 Paperback $28.95
9780813589848 Paperback $27.95 Critical Caribbean Studies
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as “Three-
Examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers Fingered Jack”, terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost two
provide important counter-narratives to the stories of years. An outlaw, thief, and killer, he was also a freedom
racial encroachment that have come to characterize fighter. Frances R. Botkin has compiled and analysed the
twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan various plays and songs written about Three-Fingered
Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American Jack throughout the centuries in order to show how this
and Latina/o presence in the United States is crucial story travelled from the Caribbean to England and the US.
to understanding how national identity has been
constructed. Salem Press

SEARCHING FOR SYCORAX LATIN AMERICAN FICTION
Black Women’s Hauntings of
Contemporary Horror Sep 2017 300pp
9781682175613 Hardback $105.00
Kinitra D. Brooks Critical Insights

Dec 2017 216pp, 10 illustrations, 17 maps Explores contemporary Latin American fiction and focuses
9780813584614 Paperback $25.95 on authors born after 1950 and works published since
the mid-1990s. Authors include Chilean Roberto Bolano,
Highlights the unique position of Black women in horror Mexican Daniel Sada, and Costa Rican Ana Cristina Rossi.
as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates The volume also deals with the presence of social media
a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic and new technology in current Latin American literature.
women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes
and interrogating forms of literature that have often
been ignored by Black feminist theory.

TEXTUAL SILENCE
Unreadability and the Holocaust

Jessica Lang

Aug 2017 244pp, 10 photos
9780813589916 Paperback $34.95

For full details of this title, see page 42.

Art & Humanities
L iter ature
52 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Rutgers University Press

University Press of Mississippi CONSIDERING WATCHMEN

ASIAN COMICS Andrew Hoberek

John A. Lent May 2017 224pp, 16 colour illustrations
9780813590363 Paperback $29.95
Feb 2017 400pp, 178 illustrations Comics Culture
9781496813015 Paperback $30.00
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen has been
Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the
outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic graphic novel. Demonstrating a keen eye for historical
strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian detail, Considering Watchmen gives readers a new
mass communication and comic art research, John A. appreciation of just how radical Moore and Gibbons’s
Lent shows that nearly every country had a golden age blend of gritty realism and formal experimentation was
of cartooning and has experienced a recent rejuvenation back in 1986.
of the art form.
MOVIE COMICS
NEW IN PAPERBACK Page to Screen/Screen to Page

A CHARLIE BROWN RELIGION Blair Davis

Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Nov 2016 256pp, 36 colour, 14 b&w photos
Charles M. Schulz 9780813572253 Paperback $27.95

Stephen J. Lind For full details of this title, see page 56.

Oct 2017 308pp SUPERMAN
9781496814678 Paperback $20.00 The Persistence of an American Icon

Great Comics Artists Series Ian Gordon

For full details of this title, see page 66. Feb 2017 200pp, 30 color illustrations
9780813587516 Paperback $28.95
LALO ALCARAZ Comics Culture
Political Cartooning in the Latino Community
Explores Superman’s status as an American icon and
Hector D. Fernandez L’Hoeste examines how a fictional character has managed
to sustain that pre-eminent standing for almost
Feb 2017 224pp, 20 b&w illustrations eighty years. Superman is shown by Gordon to be an
9781496811370 Hardback $65.00 amalgam of factors including myth, memory, nostalgia,
intellectual property regimes, authors, readers, fans,
Great Comics Artists Series collectors, comics, radio series, movie serials, television
shows, animation, toys, and feature films.
Amid the controversy surrounding immigration and
border control, the work of California cartoonist Lalo
Alcaraz (b. 1964) has delivered a resolute Latino
viewpoint. Through an analysis of Alcaraz’s early
editorial cartooning and his strips for La Cucaracha,
Héctor D. Fernández L’Hoeste shows the many ways
Alcaraz’s art attests to the community’s struggles.

Art & Humanities 53
MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS

Performing Arts · FILM & TV

MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS University Press of Mississippi

Potomac Books ALEXANDER PAYNE
Interviews
TOUGH SELL
Fighting the Media War in Iraq Edited by Julie Levinson

Tom Basile Jan 2017 264pp, filmography
Foreword by John R. Bolton 9781496810519 Paperback $25.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
May 2017 328pp
9781612349008 Hardback $32.95 Since 1996, Alexander Payne has made six feature films
and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although
For full details of this title, see page 62. his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively
impressive. In this first compilation of his interviews,
PERFORMING ARTS Payne muses on many subjects including his own
creative processes, his commitment to telling character-
FILM & TV centred stories, and his abiding admiration for movies
and directors from across decades of film history.
The University of Georgia Press
BAZ LUHRMANN
WILLIAM FAULKNER IN HOLLYWOOD Interviews
Screenwriting for the Studios
Tom Ryan
Stefan Solomon
Aug 2017 159pp
Aug 2017 320pp, 19 b&w images 9781496813022 Paperback $25.00
9780820351131 Hardback $49.95 Conversations with Filmmakers Series
The South on Screen Series
Though he has made only five films in two decades,
During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Australian writer-director Baz Luhrmann is an
Faulkner worked on approximately fifty film screenplays. internationally known brand name. In this collection
The scripts that Faulkner wrote for film and, later on, of interviews, Luhrmann discusses his methods and his
television constitute an extensive and, until now, motives, explaining what has been important to him
thoroughly underexplored archival source. Stefan and his collaborators from the start and how he has been
Solomon not only analyses the majority of these scripts able to maintain an independence from the studios that
but compares them to the novels and short stories have backed his films.
Faulkner was writing at the same time.
BEYOND BOMBSHELLS
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture

Jeffrey A. Brown

Feb 2018 274pp
9781496814661 Paperback $30.00

Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic
books, TV, and literature than they have ever been. Their
spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about
female agency, power, and sexuality. Beyond Bombshells
explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure
perceptions about how and why women are capable of
physically dominating roles in modern fiction.

Art & Humanities
Performing Arts
54 FILM & TV

BLAKE EDWARDS WONG KAR-WAI
Interviews Interviews

Edited by Gabriela Oldham Edited by Silver Wai-ming Lee & Micky Lee

Jan 2018 192pp Aug 2017 208pp
9781496815668 Hardback $60.00 9781496812841 Hardback $60.00

Conversations with Filmmakers Series Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Blake Edwards was a multi-talented, versatile director Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai as an
constantly exploring who he was, not only in filmmaking enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and
but also in life. Blake Edwards: Interviews highlights his high expectations for actors all contribute to the
how he created the Pink Panther franchise; his long idea that he only makes art for a few high-brow critics.
partnership with award-winning composer Henry However Wong’s interviews show this Hong Kong auteur
Mancini; his principles of comedy; his marriage and is candid about the art of filmmaking, even surprising his
film collaborations with Julie Andrews; and his unique interlocutors by suggesting his films are commercial and
philosophy of life. made for a popular audience.

MARGARETHE VON TROTTA University of Nebraska Press
Interviews
IMAGINING KASHMIR
Edited by Monika Raesch Emplotment and Colonialism

Feb 2018 224pp Patrick Colm Hogan
9781496815613 Hardback $60.00
Conversations with Filmmakers Series Oct 2016 294pp, 6 illustrations
9780803288591 Hardback $60.00
A collection of twenty-four illuminating interviews with Frontiers of Narrative
the auteur. Spanning three decades, from the mid-1980s
until today, the interviews reveal not only von Trotta’s For full details of this title, see page 68.
life in the film industry, but also evolving roles of and
opportunities provided to women over that time. These Rutgers University Press
interviews present the different dimensions of von Trotta
through the lenses of film critics, scholars, and journalists. DEMOGRAPHIC ANGST
Cultural Narratives and American Films of the
THE SCREEN IS RED 1950s
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War
Alan Nadel
Bernard F. Dick
Dec 2017 256pp, 86 b&w photos
Feb 2018 308pp 9780813565491 Paperback $29.95
9781496814937 Paperback $30.00
Argues that mandated normativity - as a political
Explores Hollywood’s ambivalence toward the former agenda and a social ethic - precluded explicit expression
Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. Today of the anxiety produced by America’s radically
the threat is no longer the Soviet Union, but international reconfigured postwar population. Alan Nadel explores
terrorism. Bernard F. Dick argues, however, that the Soviet influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and
Union has not lost its appeal, as evident from the popular public documents in conjunction with films to examine
and critically acclaimed television series The Americans. how these films worked through fresh anxieties that
More than eighty years later, the screen is still red. emerged during the 1950s.

Art & Humanities 55
Performing Arts

FILM & TV

DISNEY CULTURE IMPERIAL AFFECTS
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of
John Wills American Cinema

Feb 2017 140pp Jonna Eagle
9780813583327 Paperback $17.95
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture Jul 2017 276pp, 25 photos
9780813583020 Paperback $29.95
For full details of this title, see page 38. War Culture

FILM REMAKES AND FRANCHISES In American culture and history, a feeling of national
identity and belonging have often derived from a sense
Daniel Herbert of injury, vulnerability, and loss. Jonna Eagle turns to
the workings of American cinema to understand the
Nov 2017 160pp power and persistence of these conjunctions, tracing the
9780813579412 Paperback $17.95 shifting dynamics of action and pathos as they structure
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture representations of imperialist motion and violence
across the twentieth century.
Examines how remakes and sequels have been central to
the film industry from its very inception, yet also considers MAKING BELIEVE
how the recent trends toward reboots and transmedia Screen Performance and Special Effects in
franchises depart from those historical precedents. Popular Cinema
Film scholar Daniel Herbert not only analyses the film
industry’s increasing reliance on recycled product, but also Lisa Bode
asks why audiences are currently so drawn to such movies.
Jul 2017 218pp, 19 photos
GOING VIRAL 9780813579979 Paperback $27.95
Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World Techniques of the Moving Image

Dahlia Schweitzer In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of
digital effects cinema in which the human performer
Feb 2018 216pp, 35 b&w photos is entangled with animation, collaged with other
9780813593142 Paperback $27.95 performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic
situations. Making Believe sheds light on these
Examines outbreak narratives in film, television, and a developments by historicizing screen performance
variety of other media, putting them in conversation within the context of special effects cinema and
with rhetoric from government authorities and news technological change in Hollywood filmmaking.
organisations that have capitalized on public fears about
our changing world. Dahlia Schweitzer identifies three
distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding
to a specific contemporary anxiety.

Art & Humanities

56 FPIeLrMfo&rTmVi· nMgUASrICts

MOVIE COMICS MUSIC
Page to Screen/Screen to Page
University Press of Mississippi
Blair Davis
GEOGRAPHIES OF CUBANIDAD
Nov 2016 256pp, 36 colour, 14 b&w photos Place, Race, and Musical Performance in
9780813572253 Paperback $27.95 Contemporary Cuba

Adaptations of comics have been an integral part of Rebecca M. Bodenheimer
American cinema from its very inception. Movie Comics is
the first book to study the long history of both comics-to- May 2017 328pp
film and film-to-comics adaptations. With a special focus 9781496813152 Paperback $30.00
on the Classical Hollywood era, Blair Davis investigates Caribbean Studies Series
the factors that spurred this media convergence.
Argues that regional identity exerts a significant
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MOVIES influence on the aesthetic choices made by Cuban
musicians. Through the examination of several genres,
David Sterritt Rebecca M. Bodenheimer explores the various ways that
race and place are entangled in contemporary Cuban
Nov 2017 152pp music. She argues that racialized notions which circulate
9780813583228 Paperback $17.95 about different cities affect both the formation of local
Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture identity and musical performance.

Presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of GODFATHER OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS
rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies Morris Levy
to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations
to reverent biopics to animated shorts to performance Richard Carlin
documentaries. Acclaimed film critic David Sterritt considers
the diverse ways that filmmakers have regarded rock ‘n’ roll. Oct 2017 312pp
9781496814807 Paperback $25.00
THE LIMITS OF AUTEURISM American Made Music Series
Case Studies in the Critically Constructed
New Hollywood Tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in
the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990).
Nicholas Godfrey At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in
Hell’s Kitchen, which became the home for a new musical
Feb 2018 274pp, 30 b&w photos style, bebop. In 1957, he founded a record label, Roulette
9780813589145 Paperback $27.95 Records. Roulette featured many of the significant jazz
artists who played Birdland but also scored top pop hits.
The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early
1970s has become one of the most romanticized
periods in motion picture history, celebrated for
its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the
unshackling of directorial ambition. The Limits of
Auteurism aims to challenge many of these assumptions.

Art & Humanities 57

PerMfUoSrICmi· nTHgEAArTtRsE

I’M JUST DEAD, I’M NOT GONE THEATRE

Jim Dickinson Southern Illinois University Press
Edited by Ernest Suarez
MEMORY, TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE,
Mar 2017 248pp AND THEATRE IN POSTDICTATORSHIP
9781496810540 Hardback $25.00 ARGENTINA
American Made Music Series
Noe Montez
Chronicles Jim Dickinson’s life in the Memphis music
scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to Nov 2017 264pp, 13 illustrations
play with and produce a rich array of artists, including 9780809336296 Paperback $50.00
Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane
Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King. This memoir Considers how theatre can produce memory narratives
recounts a love affair with Memphis, the blues, and that change the public’s reception to governmental
rock’n’ roll through Dickinson’s captivating blend of policies that address a previous regime’s human rights
intelligence, humour, and candour. violations. Drawing on contemporary research in
transitional justice strategies, memory studies, and
STEELPAN AMBASSADORS theatre history, Noe Montez examines the Argentine
The US Navy Steel Band, 1957-1999 theatre’s responses to the numerous changes in the
country’s transitional justice policies.
Andrew R. Martin
THEATRE AND CARTOGRAPHIES OF POWER
Jul 2017 272pp Repositioning the Latina/o Americas
9781496812407 Hardback $65.00
Caribbean Studies Series Edited by Analola Santana & Jimmy A. Noriega

Today, steelbands have become a global phenomenon; Feb 2018 320pp, 16 illustrations
yet, in 1957 the exotic sound and the unique image 9780809336319 Paperback $60.00
of the US Navy Steel Band was one-of-a-kind. Steelpan
Ambassadors uncovers the lost history of the US Navy Reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways
Steel Band and provides an in-depth study of its role in in which theatrical and performance histories have been
the development of the US military’s public relations. constructed throughout the Americas. Essays bridge
political, racial, gender, class, and national divides that have
traditionally restricted and distorted our understanding of
Latin American theatre and performance.

Art & Humanities
58 Philosophy

PHILOSOPHY READINGS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Third Edition
Broadview Press
Edited by Kelly James Clark
BRINGING BIOLOGY TO LIFE
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology Jun 2017 575pp
9781554812769 Paperback $59.95
Mahesh Ananth
For full details of this title, see page 63.
Oct 2017 300pp
9781551119908 Paperback $34.95 The Catholic University of America Press

For full details of this title, see page 29. HEIDEGGER’S QUESTION OF BEING
Dasein, Truth, and History
FORMAL LOGIC
Edited by Holger Zaborowski
Paul A. Gregory
Oct 2017 277pp
Jul 2017 400pp 9780813229546 Hardback $75.00
9781554812721 Paperback $44.95 Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy

An undergraduate text suitable for courses in symbolic The contributions to this volume, written by leading
logic. This title offers coverage of truth-functional and scholars in the field of Heidegger research, offer close
quantificational logic, as well as the basics of more readings of Heidegger’s texts and provide sound
advanced topics such as set theory and modal logic. orientation in the field of contemporary Heidegger research.
Complex ideas are explained in plain language that They show how the different trajectories of Heidegger’s
doesn’t presuppose any background in logic or maths, thought all converge at one point: the question of Being.
and derivation strategies are illustrated with examples.
AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSONALISM
MORE PRECISELY
The Math You Need to Do Philosophy, Juan Manuel Burgos
Second Edition
Feb 2018 288pp
Eric Steinhart 9780813229874 Paperback $34.95

Oct 2017 248pp Much has been written about the great personalist
9781554813452 Paperback $24.95 philosophers of the 20th century, but few books cover
the personalist movement as a whole. An Introduction
It is impossible to fully understand much of the most to Personalism fills that gap, and presents an engaging
important work in contemporary philosophy without a anthropological vision capable of taking the lead in the
basic grasp of set theory, functions, probability, decision debate about the meaning of human existence and of
theory, and modality. More Precisely is written for people winning hearts and minds for the cause of the dignity of
who wish to engage with contemporary philosophical every person.
writing but first need to fill gaps in their technical
knowledge.

Art & Humanities 59
P hilosophy

THE MODERN TURN THOMAS AQUINAS
A Historical and Philosophical Profile
Edited by Michael Rohlf
Pasquale Porro
Dec 2017 344pp Translated by Joseph G. Trabbic & Roger W. Nutt
9780813230054 Hardback $75.00
Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 60 May 2017 400pp
9780813230108 Paperback $34.95
What is the modern turn in philosophy? In other words,
what are the features that make modern philosophy Reflecting the highest standards of philological
distinctively “modern” in contrast with the pre-modern and textual scholarship accompanied by judicious
philosophy from which it emerged? The twelve essays in philosophic analysis, Pasquale Porro explores the
this volume seek to address this question, and in doing philosophical issues in each of Thomas Aquinas’
so, exemplify and contribute to a rich debate about the writings, which he interprets within the parameters
nature and value of modern philosophy. of the temporal circumstances and institutional
imperatives of their composition and in respect of the
THE THINGS THAT MATTER authoritative texts that Thomas encountered.
Essasys Inspired by the Later Work of
Jacques Maritain The University of Georgia Press

Edited by Heidi M. Geibel THE FATE OF TRANSCENDENTALISM
Secularity, Materiality, and Human
Feb 2018 296pp Flourishing
9780997220506 Paperback $34.95
Bruce A. Ronda
Comprised of original essays by twenty English-speaking
Thomists on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Oct 2017 256pp
Jacques Maritain’s Untrammeled Approaches first English 9780820351247 Hardback $64.95
appearance, this volume explores several of Maritain’s
still-untrammeled (or at least less-trammeled) themes. Examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of
While following his unbeaten paths, the contributing American transcendentalism and shows the movement’s
authors find and refine hidden treasures at every turn. influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers,
and artists who have drawn inspiration and energy
from the creative outpouring it produced. The Fate of
Transcendentalism allows readers to engage with this
fascinating dialogue between transcendentalist thinkers
who believe that the ultimate end of human life is
the fulfillment of human possibility and others who
challenge human-centeredness in favor a relocation of
humanity in a vital cosmos.

Art & Humanities
60 Politics & International Relations

POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT DYNAMICS
RELATIONS Civil Wars, Armed Actors, and Their Tactics

The University of Georgia Press Alethia Cook & Marie Olson Lounsbery

BOLIVIA AND THE UNITED STATES Apr 2017 240pp
A Limited Partnership 9780820338330 Hardback $59.95
Studies in Security and International Affairs Series
Kenneth D. Lehman
Presents case studies of six nation-states: Sierra Leone, the
Apr 2017 320pp Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and
9780820352145 Hardback $89.95 Peru. Alethia H. Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery examine
the evolving nature of violence in intrastate conflicts, as
This comprehensive account of US-Bolivian relations well as the governments and groups involved, by focusing
presents startling contrasts between the histories, on the context of the relationships involved, the capacities
mythologies, and economies of the two countries, of the conflict s participants, and the actors goals.
debunking the myth that Bolivia is a poorer and less
modern version of the United States. Kenneth D. SPACES OF CAPITAL/SPACES OF RESISTANCE
Lehman focuses primarily on the countries’ relationship Mexico and the Global Political Economy
during the twentieth century, highlighting periods when
Bolivia became important to the US. Chris Hesketh

COLOMBIA AND THE UNITED STATES Dec 2017 264pp, 4 b&w photos
Hegemony and Interdependence 9780820352848 Paperback $26.95
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series 37
Stephen J. Randall
For full details of this title, see page 39.
Apr 2017 344pp
9780820352183 Hardback $89.95 VENEZUELA AND THE UNITED STATES
From Monroe’s Hemisphere to
Strategically located at the gateway to the South Petroleum’s Empire
American continent, Colombia has long been a key
player in shaping the US’s involvement with its Latin Judith Ewell
American neighbours. In this book Stephen J. Randall
examines the course of US-Colombian relations over Apr 2017 280pp
two centuries, taking into account the broad spectrum 9780820352701 Hardback $84.95
of political, social, cultural, and economic contacts that
have figured in the interaction. Long before sea power, the Panama Canal, and petroleum
drew the world’s attention to the Caribbean coast, United
States leaders recognized Venezuela’s potential as the
linchpin of the Caribbean’s southern rim. In Venezuela
and the United States , Judith Ewell provides a historical
analysis of the main themes and directions of US-
Venezuelan relations from the early 1800s to the present.

Art & Humanities 61
Politics & International Relations

ISEAS Publishing THE RISE OF CHINA AND THE
CHINESE OVERSEAS
FRANCE AND SINGAPORE A Study of Beijing’s Changing Policy in
Strategic Partners in a Fast-Changing World Southeast Asia and Beyond

Francois Hollande Leo Suryadinata

Jul 2017 37pp Apr 2017 277pp
9789814786164 Paperback $16.90 9789814762649 Paperback $29.90

The Singapore Lecture is designed to provide an With the rise of China and massive new migrations,
opportunity for distinguished statesmen and leaders of China has adjusted its policy towards the Chinese
thought and knowledge to reach a wider audience in overseas in Southeast Asia and beyond. This book deals
Singapore. The 40th Singapore Lecture was delivered by with Beijing’s policy which has been a response to the
François Hollande, President of the French Republic, on external events involving the Chinese overseas as well as
27 March 2017 under the Chairmanship of Mr Tharman the internal needs of China.
Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore.

LIVING NEXT TO THE GIANT University of Nebraska Press
The Political Economy of Vietnam’s Relations
with China Under Doi Moi ANTI-JUDAISM, ANTISEMITISM, AND
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book examines the conflicting effects that Doi Moi has examine antisemitism from the perspectives of history,
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Researching Asia-Pacific Affairs increasingly vocal and violent hatred of Jews and Israel.

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Potomac Books THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ
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RUSSIA’S DEAD END
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Andrei A. Kovalev takes readers behind the scenes during his time as a
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as it became more deadly and less popular at home.
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One of the most influential government representatives of
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R eli g ion

RELIGION CATHOLIC WITNESS IN HEALTH CARE
Practicing Medicine in Truth and Love
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Edited by Stephen M. Hildebrand & Sean Sheridan
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ONGOING THEOLOGICAL EVENT
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GLORY OF THE LOGOS IN THE FLESH THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
Saint John Paul’s Theology of the Body A Catholic Biblical Theology of God’s Temple
Presence in the Old and New Testaments
Michael Maria Waldstein
Steven Smith
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Helps readers of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
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Thomas Aquinas, John of the Cross, Kant, and Scheler. biblical temple. The journey represents a tour de force of
biblical theology, guided by author Steven Smith.
THE BIBLE AND EARLY TRINITARIAN
THEOLOGY THE INCARNATE LORD
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Based on a multi-year consultation in the Society of Considers central themes in Christology from a
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THE CLEANSING OF THE HEART Fr. Thomas Joseph White presents major doctrines of
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THE THREE DYNAMISMS OF FAITH The Jewish Publication Society
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JOSEPH University of Nebraska Press
Portraits through the Ages
ANTI-JUDAISM, ANTISEMITISM, AND
Alan T. Levenson DELEGITIMIZING ISRAEL

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brings the voices of Philo, Josephus, Midrash, and medieval
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
THINKING ABOUT THE TORAH Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor
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University Press of Mississippi

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A CHARLIE BROWN RELIGION

Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of
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Stephen J. Lind

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Based on new archival research and original interviews
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intense journey toward understanding God and faith.

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Social Studies

SOCIAL STUDIES The University of Georgia Press

Canadian Scholars’ Press A CURSE UPON THE NATION
Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America
REIMAGINING ANTI-OPPRESSION SOCIAL and the Atlantic World
WORK PRACTICE
Kay Wright Lewis
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From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic
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populations. Contributors also reveal how anti-oppression nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and
approaches more strongly combat a diversity of social would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of
issues, including anti-Black sanism, discrimination against Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even inform civil
queer populations, and children and youth injustices. rights movement strategy.

REIMAGINING ANTI-OPPRESSION SOCIAL MAKING BLACK HISTORY
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Outlines the challenges and advantages of conducting
research with marginalized communities and within For full details of this title, see page 41.
organisational contexts. Students in social work
programs will gain a thorough understanding of the University Press of Mississippi
decision-making processes involved in conducting
anti-oppression research studies through examples RESISTING PARADISE
of anti-oppression research applications and personal Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean
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Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and
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ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism.

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68 Social Studies

THE INDIAN CARIBBEAN INTERSECTIONALITY
Migration and Identity in the Diaspora Origins, Contestations, Horizons

Lomarsh Roopnarine Anna Carastathis

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Caribbean Studies Series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of
Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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which they define themselves and the world around racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives.
them. Through oral history and ethnography, Lomarsh Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround
Roopnarine explores previously marginalized Indians in the it, Anna Carastathis argues that intersectionality is
Caribbean and their distinct social dynamics and histories. a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have
yet to be realized; consequently, calls to go beyond
University of Nebraska Press intersectionality are premature.

AMERICA’S DIGITAL ARMY SCIENCE, SEXUALITY, AND RACE IN THE
Games at Work and War UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA,
1780-1940
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Anthropology of Contemporary North America Jul 2017 516pp, 7 illustrations, 1 table
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Provides an ethnographic study of the link between
interactive entertainment and military power, drawing Examines the entwined formation of racial theory
on Robertson Allen’s fieldwork observing video game and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the
developers, military strategists, US Army marketing US and Australia. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the
agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies dissemination and application of scientific and social-
that worked to produce the official US Army video game, scientific ideas within the process of nation building and
America’s Army. shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality
were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples.

IMAGINING KASHMIR Rutgers University Press
Emplotment and Colonialism
ADDICTED TO REHAB
Patrick Colm Hogan Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass
Incarceration
Oct 2016 294pp, 6 illustrations
9780803288591 Hardback $60.00 Allison McKim

Frontiers of Narrative May 2017 226pp
9780813587622 Paperback $29.95
Examines cinematic and literary imaginings of the Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Kashmir region’s conflicts and diverse citizenship,
analysing a wide range of narratives from writers and After decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless
directors in conjunction with research in psychology, prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging
cognitive science, and social neuroscience. Patrick mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising
Colm Hogan’s analysis advances theories of narrative, solution to reduce the prison population: addiction
colonialism, and their corresponding ideologies in relation treatment. In Addicted to Rehab, Allison McKim gives an
to the cognitive and affective operations of identity. in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such
rehab programs for women.

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Social Studies 69

IN SEARCH OF THE MEXICAN PARKOUR AND THE CITY
BEVERLY HILLS Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a
Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles Postmodern Sport

Jerry Gonzalez Jeffrey L. Kidder

Nov 2017 252pp, 6 images, 4 maps Apr 2017 216pp, 27 photos
9780813583150 Paperback $27.95 9780813571959 Paperback $29.95

Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States Critical Issues in Sport and Society

Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run,
political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes,
the employment and living opportunities for millions resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck
of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican spectators. Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this
Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as
exclusive world and the impact that movement had on well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture
collective racial and class identity. that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger.

ISTANBUL SOVEREIGN ACTS
Living with Difference in a Global City Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in
Panama and the Canal Zone
Edited by Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce &
E. Fuat Keyman Katherine A. Zien

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New Directions in International Studies
Critical Caribbean Studies
Explores how to live with difference through the prism
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confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama
Rather than exploring Istanbul as one place at one time, the Canal Zone, from the Canal Zone’s inception in 1903
contributors to this volume focus on the city’s experience to its dissolution in 1999. By demonstrating the place
of migration and globalization over the last two centuries. of performance in the US Empire’s legal landscape,
Katherine A. Zien transforms our understanding of US
imperialism and its aftermath in the Panama Canal Zone
and the larger US-Caribbean world.

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ANTHROPOLOGY GENDER & SEXUALITY

Canadian Scholars’ Press Rutgers University Press

THE TATTOO PROJECT DEMANDING JUSTICE AND SECURITY
Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in
the Digital Archive Latin America

Edited by Deborah Davidson Edited by Rachel Sieder

Mar 2017 193pp Jun 2017 298pp, 2 figures, 1 table
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Unique in scope and content, this methods-based text Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing
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mobilization of knowledge across communities, disciplines, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the
and space. Deborah Davidson’s multidisciplinary collection contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include
addresses the cultural history of tattooing and the social both leading researchers and community activists.
meanings and implications of commemorative tattoos.
SHADOW BODIES
University of Nebraska Press Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and
Politics
CAPTIVES
How Stolen People Changed the World Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

Catherine M. Cameron Oct 2017 224pp, 1 figure
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Oct 2016 232pp, 10 illustrations
9780803293991 Hardback $40.00 What does it mean for Black women to organize in a
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies political context that has generally ignored them or
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the profound impact that captives of warfare and does #sayhername translate into a political agenda
raiding have had on small- scale societies through that manifests itself in specific policies? Shadow Bodies
time. Catherine M. Cameron provides a new point of focuses on the positionality of the Black woman’s body,
orientation for archaeologists, anthropologists, and which serves as a springboard for helping us think
historians by illuminating the impact that captive-taking through political and cultural representations.
and enslavement have had on cultural change, with
important implications for understanding the past. West Virginia University Press

#WOMENTECHLIT

Edited by Maria Mencia
Introduction by N. Katherine Hayles

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