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GENERAL INTEREST MUSIC
The Last Beach, Pilkey & Cooper 1 Roy Cape, Guilbault & Cape 28
My Tibetan Childhood, Naktsang 2
What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Massumi 3 MEDIA STUDIES
On The Wire, Williams 4 Beautiful Data, Halpern 28
Postcolonial Modernism, Okeke-Agulu 5 Forensic Media, Siegel 29
Other Planes of There, Green 6 Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era, Marcus 29
Speculation, Now, Rao, Krishnamurthy & Kuoni 7
AMERICAN STUDIES
My Father’s House, Dumm 8
Willful Subjects, Ahmed 9 New World Drama, Dillon 30

Land’s End, Li 10 Formations of United States Colonialism, Goldstein 30

The Theater of Operations, Masco 11 Orgies of Feeling, Anker 31

The Life of Captain Cipriani, James 12 Soundtracks of Asian America, Wang 31

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Staging the Blues, McGinley 32
Association Papers, Volume XII, Garvey 13 Desire and Disaster in New Orleans, Thomas 32
Dance Floor Democracy, Tucker 14 Fighting for Recognition, Smith 33
Traveling Heavy, Behar 15
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Adam’s Gift, Creech 15
A Rock Garden in the South, Lawrence 16 Wandering, Cervenak 33
Beautiful at All Seasons, Lawrence 16 Skin Acts, Stephens 34
Black Atlas, Madera 34
ANTHROPOLOGY
I N D I G E N O U S & N AT I V E A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
Entrepreneurial Selves, Freeman 17
A Nation Rising, Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, Hussey & Wright 35
Aurality, Ochoa Gautier 17
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America,
Speculative Markets, Peterson 18 Woolford, Benvenuto & Hinton 35
Second Chances, Whyte 18
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place, Street 19 L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
How Climate Change Comes to Matter, Callison 19 Portrait of a Young Painter, Vaughan 36
The Multispecies Salon, Kirksey 20 The Great Depression in Latin America, Drinot & Knight 36
Illusions of a Future, Schechter 20 The Vanguard of the Atlantic World, Sanders 37
The Republic Unsettled, Fernando 21 We Are Left without a Father Here, Findlay 37
Rubble, Gordillo 21 The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast, Albuquerque Jr. 38
Given to the Goddess, Ramberg 22 Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Gutiérrez Aguilar 38
Cultivating the Nile, Barnes 22
GEOGRAPHY
C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S Prostitution and the Ends of Empire, Legg 39
Habeas Viscus, Weheliye 23
Oxford Street, Accra, Quayson 23 HISTORY

Utopias, Featherstone & Miles 24 German Colonialism in a Global Age, Naranch & Eley 39

Porn Archives, Dean, Ruszczycky & Squires 24 Body and Nation, Rosenberg & Fitzpatrick 40
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire, Burton & Hofmeyr 40
WOMEN’S STUDIES
POLITICAL SCIENCE
A Taste for Brown Sugar, Miller-Young 25
Developments in Russian Politics 8, White, Sakwa & Hale 41
Street Corner Secrets, Shah 25

JOURNALS
G AY & L E S B I A N / Q U E E R / T R A N S G E N D E R S T U D I E S
Miriam Hansen, Bathrick, Huyssen & Rentschler 41
A View from the Bottom, Nguyen 26
Tikkun, Lerner 42
On the Visceral, Part I, Holland, Ochoa & Tompkins 26
MIT and the Transformation of American Economics, Weintraub 42
Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary, Aizura, Ochoa,
Vidal-Ortiz, Cotton & Balzer/LaGata 27 journals 43
Queer Theory without Antinormativity, Wiegman & Wilson 27 selected backlist & bestsellers 46
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The Last Beach

orrin h . pilkey & j . andrew g . cooper

The Last Beach is an urgent call to save
Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper the world’s beaches while there is still
time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and
J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in
the last beach
this frank assessment of our current
relationship with beaches and the grim
future if we do not change the way we
understand and treat our irreplaceable
shores. Combining case studies and
anecdotes from around the world, they
argue that many of the world’s developed
beaches, including some in Florida and
in Spain, are virtually doomed and that
we must act immediately to save imper-
iled beaches.
After explaining beaches as dynamic ecosystems, Pilkey and Cooper assess
the harm done by dense oceanfront development, accompanied by the
construction of massive seawalls to protect new buildings from a shoreline
that encroaches as sea levels rise. They discuss the toll taken by sand mining,
trash that washes up on beaches, and pollution, which has contaminated
not only the water but also, surprisingly, the sand. Acknowledging the
challenge of reconciling our actions with our love of beaches, the geologists
offer suggestions for reversing course, insisting that given the space,
beaches can take care of themselves and provide us with multiple benefits.
Orrin H. Pilkey, deemed “America’s
foremost philosopher of the beaches,”
by the New York Times, is James B.
Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at
the Nicholas School of the Environment
at Duke University, and Founder and
Director Emeritus of the Program for the
Study of Developed Shorelines, based at Western Carolina
University. Pilkey is a coauthor (with Keith C. Pilkey)
of Global Climate Change: A Primer, published by Duke
University Press, and of twenty books in the Press’s Living
with the Shore series, edited by Pilkey and William J. Neal.
The Orrin Pilkey Marine Science and Conservation Genetics
Center opened at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort,
North Carolina, in 2013. Pilkey lives in Hillsborough, North
Carolina.
J. Andrew G. Cooper is Professor
of Coastal Studies in the School of
Environmental Sciences at the University
of Ulster. He and Pilkey are coauthors
(with William J. Neal and Joseph T. Kelley)
of The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide
to the Science of the Shoreline and
coeditors of Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization. Well known
for his advocacy of nonintervention on shorelines and
his work on beaches and coasts worldwide, Cooper lives
in the town of Coleraine in Northern Ireland.

“We’re all used to lying on beaches and zoning out—but it turns out that if we want
those beaches to be there much longer we better stand up and make our voices also by Orrin H. Pilkey
heard. This is fascinating new information about one of the planet’s most beloved
ecosystems.”—BILL M C KIBBEN , author of Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across
America’s Most Hopeful Landscape

“The Last Beach is a must-read for anyone interested in the plight of the world’s
beaches. This brave confrontation with coastal engineers, coastal planners, develop-
ers, politicians, and beachfront property owners lays bare their adverse impact on the
world’s beaches.”—ANDREW SHORT, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney

Global Climate Change:

A Primer
Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey,
with Mary Edna Fraser
paper, $19.95tr/£12.99
978–0–8223–5109–2 / 2011

ENVIRONMENT
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Naktsang Nulo (born in 1949) worked as an offi-
cial in the Chinese government, serving as a primary
school teacher, police officer, judge, prison governor,
and county leader in Qinghai province, China,
before retiring in 1993. Angus Cargill was formerly
a Lecturer in the Department of Tibetan Language
and Literature at Minzu University of China, Beijing.
Ralph A. Litzinger is the author of Other Chinas:
The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging.
Robert Barnett is the Director of Modern Tibetan
Studies at Columbia University and the author of
Lhasa: Streets with Memories.
“Equipped with a superbly comprehensive introduction,
this absorbing memoir of nomadic life in the 1950s takes
us deep into a Tibetan world neglected by both official
Chinese histories and narratives by Tibetans in exile.
Few books on Tibet have been as revelatory as this
one.”—PANKAJ MISHRA , author of From the Ruins of
Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking
of Asia
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My Tibetan Childhood
When Ice Shattered Stone
naktsang nulo
Translation edited and abridged by Angus Cargill
With a Foreword by Ralph Litzinger
and an Introduction by Robert Barnett
In My Tibetan Childhood, Naktsang Nulo
chronicles his life in Tibet’s Amdo region
during the 1950s. Recalling events as he
experienced them at the age of ten, he
describes his upbringing as a nomad on
the grasslands of Tibet’s eastern plateau.
He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries,
including a 1500-mile horseback expedition
his family made to Lhasa. A year or so
later, they attempted to flee by the same
route as troops of the People’s Liberation
Army advanced into their area. Naktsang’s
father was killed in the fighting that
ensued, part of a little-known wave of
unrest that took place throughout Amdo
in 1958, as Tibetans rose up against the imposition of social and religious
reforms by the Chinese forces. During the next year, the author and his brother
were imprisoned in a camp where, after the onset of famine, very few children
survived.
The narrative reveals, through the eyes of a child, the lived experience of the
forced and violent incorporation of the Tibetan heartlands into the People’s
Republic by Chinese troops in the 1950s. The author’s matter-of-fact accounts
cast the atrocities that he relays in stark relief. Remarkably, Naktsang lived
to tell his tale. His book was published in 2007 in China, where tens of
thousands of unofficial copies are believed to have circulated. It is one of
the most reprinted works in modern Tibetan literature. This translation offers
rare insight into a fascinating, painful period of modern Tibetan history.
“With little comment or condemnation, [My Tibetan Childhood] records the price paid
in lives and lifestyles by the author’s family and community for their incorporation into
modern China. . . . In many senses, it is a naive story, the chronicle of a world seen through
a child’s eyes. But to readers within Tibet, it was a revelation. It told of epochal events
that had rarely if ever been described before in print.”—ROBERT BARNETT, from the
introduction
T I B E T/ M E M O I R
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What Animals
Teach Us about Politics
brian massumi

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication
BRIAN MASSUMI Brian Massumi takes up the question Department at the University of Montreal. He is the
author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy
of “the animal.” By treating the human

What
as animal, he develops a concept of an
animal politics. His is not a human politics
and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual:
Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published
by Duke University Press.

Animals of the animal, but an integrally animal

politics, freed from connotations of the

Teach Us “primitive” state of nature and the accom-

panying presuppositions about instinct
“This is a truly brilliant book, one of Brian Massumi’s best.
More than anyone else I have read, Massumi makes

about permeating modern thought. Massumi real progress in untangling the relationship between play,
sympathy, politics, and animality. What Animals Teach Us
integrates notions marginalized by the

Politics
about Politics provides a fascinating and persuasively non-
dominant currents in evolutionary biology,
subject-centered account of sympathy, and it goes a long
animal behavior, and philosophy—notions way toward helping us to see how the practice and theoriza-
such as play, sympathy, and creativity— tion of ‘politics’ would be radically refigured within a process-
into the concept of nature. As he does ontology.”—JANE BENNETT, author of Vibrant Matter:
so, his inquiry necessarily expands, encompassing not only animal behavior A Political Ecology of Things
but also animal thought and its distance from, or proximity to, those capaci-
“In a remarkable work of speculative thought, Brian Massumi
ties over which human animals claim a monopoly: language and reflexive reimagines what politics can be when we ramify the
consciousness. importance of play—its excesses, surpluses, and transforma-
tive energies—and how it intimately binds human beings to
For Massumi, humans and animals exist on a continuum. Understanding that
other forms of life. This is not the ‘animal,’ and the ‘politics,’
continuum, while accounting for difference, requires a new logic of “mutual
you thought you knew.”—CARY WOLFE, author of Before
inclusion.” Massumi finds the conceptual resources for this logic in the work the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
of thinkers including Gregory Bateson, Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon, and
Raymond Ruyer. This concise book intervenes in Deleuze studies, posthuman-
ism, and animal studies, as well as areas of study as wide-ranging as affect
theory, aesthetics, embodied cognition, political theory, process philosophy,
the theory of play, and the thought of Alfred North Whitehead.
also by Brian Massumi

Parables for the Virtual:

Movement, Affect, Sensation
paper, $24.95/£15.99
978–0–8223–2897–1 / 2002

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Linda Williams is Professor of
Film Studies and Rhetoric at the
University of California, Berkeley.
Her books include Screening
Sex and Porn Studies, both also
published by Duke University Press;
Playing the Race Card: Melodramas
of Black and White from Uncle Tom
to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing
Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy
of the Visible.” In 2013, Williams received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and
Media Studies.
“I must admit initially being skeptical of Linda Williams’s
thesis that The Wire is best understood as melodrama.
But after reading her convincing and compelling analy-
sis, I not only came away with new insights into a series
that I knew very well, but have fully revised my notions
of how serial melodrama applies to contemporary televi-
sion. This vital book is essential reading for scholars
and viewers of both The Wire and television drama
more broadly.”—JASON MITTELL , author of Television
and American Culture
“Linda Williams’s kaleidoscopic study compellingly
considers The Wire as art, as rhetoric, and as political
intervention. Her absorbing argument for the series
as ‘institutional melodrama’ upends conventional
discussions not only about this narrative but about
the broader practice of contemporary television drama.
We understand The Wire not as tragedy, not as a novel,
not as a piece of journalism; rather, we see and feel
the show at the intersection of home and the world,
as the orange couch in the courtyard of the low rises.”
—SEAN O’SULLIVAN , author of Mike Leigh
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On The Wire
linda williams
Many television critics, legions
of fans, even the President of the
United States, have cited The Wire
as the best television series ever.
On The Wire
In this sophisticated examination of
the HBO serial drama that aired from
2002 until 2008, Linda Williams,
a leading film scholar and authority
on the interplay between film, melo-
drama, and issues of race, suggests
what exactly it is that makes The
Wire so good. She argues that while
the series is a powerful exploration
of urban dysfunction and institu-
L I N D A W I L L I A M S tional failure, its narrative power
derives from its genre. The Wire is
popular melodrama, not Greek tragedy, as critics and the series creator David
Simon have claimed. Entertaining, addictive, funny, and despairing all at once,
it is a serial melodrama grounded in observation of Baltimore’s people and
institutions: of cops and criminals, schools and blue-collar labor, local gov-
ernment and local journalism. The Wire transforms close observation into an
unparalleled melodrama by juxtaposing the good and evil of individuals with
the good and evil of institutions.
SPIN OFFS
A Series Edited by Lynn Spigel
also by Linda Williams
Screening Sex Porn Studies
paper, $27.95/£17.99 Linda Williams, editor
978–0–8223–4285–4 / 2008 paper, $27.95/£17.99
978–0–8223–3312–8 / 2004
TELEVISION
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Postcolonial Modernism
Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
chik a okeke- agulu

Written by one of the foremost Chika Okeke-Agulu is an

p o stco lo n i a l m o d e r n i s m

scholars of African art and artist, curator, and Associate

featuring over 125 color images,
Postcolonial Modernism chronicles
the emergence of artistic
modernism in Nigeria in the
heady years surrounding political
independence in 1960, before
the outbreak of civil war in 1967.
Chika Okeke-Agulu traces the
artistic, intellectual, and criti-
cal networks in several Nigerian
cities. Zaria is particularly impor-
tant, because it was there, at the
Nigerian College of Arts, Science
art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
Chik a Okeke-agulu
and Technology, that a group of
students formed the Art Society
and inaugurated “postcolonial modernism” in Nigeria. As Okeke-Agulu explains,
their works show both a deep connection with local artistic traditions and the
stylistic sophistication that we have come to associate with twentieth-century
modernist practices. He explores how these young Nigerian artists were
inspired by the rhetoric and ideologies of decolonization and nationalism in
the early- and mid-twentieth century and, later, by advocates of negritude
and pan-Africanism. They translated the experiences of decolonization into
a distinctive “postcolonial modernism” that has continued to inform the work
of major Nigerian artists.
Professor in the Department
of Art & Archaeology
and the Center for African
American Studies at Princeton
University. He is a coauthor of
Photo ©Chika Okeke-Agulu
Contemporary African Art since
1980 and coeditor (with Okwui Enwezor and Salah M. Hassan)
of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, also published
by Duke University Press.
“With this impressive book, Chika Okeke-Agulu has written
an expansive, incisive, and dazzling account of the production
of a new spirit of postcolonial artistic modernity in Nigeria
at the denouement of colonialism in the 1950s. Postcolonial
Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century
Nigeria is perhaps the most important book of its kind
to appear in years. In succinct and lucid language, and on
lavishly illustrated pages, it offers a vigorous analysis of the
artistic forces that lend a new understanding of the complex
formations of global art history.”—OKWUI ENWEZOR ,
Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich

“In this work of prodigious scholarship, Chika Okeke-Agulu draws on a trove of previ-
ously unexamined archival resources and he subjects the artistic and literary produc-
tion of Nigeria’s pioneer modernists to critical analysis. Redirecting our understand-
ing of the modern art movement in Nigeria, his book will interest a broad range of
scholars, including those studying comparative modernism, global art, visual culture,
history, and literature. This groundbreaking work affirms Okeke-Agulu as a rigorous
critical thinker and interdisciplinary scholar.”—SALAH M. HASSAN, Goldwin Smith
Professor, Department of History of Art and Africana Studies and Research Center,
Cornell University

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Renée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker.
Her exhibitions, videos, and films have been seen
throughout the world in museums, biennales,
and festivals. A selection of her books includes
Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, Ongoing
Becomings, Between and Including, Shadows and
Signals, and, as editor, Negotiations in the Contact
Zone. Green’s essays and fiction have appeared in
magazines and journals such as Transition, October,
and Collapse. She is also a Professor at the MIT
Program in Art, Culture and Technology, School
of Architecture and Planning.
“More than a collection of an artist’s writings, Other
Planes of There is also a rigorous meditation on the
question of why artists are compelled to write. Along
the way, almost incidentally as it were, readers are
offered a self-conscious survey of the most advanced
thinking in the artistic practice of an artist who not
only dares to represent herself but also to put herself
forward, in that representation, as representative.”
—FRED MOTEN , author of In the Break: The Aesthetics
of the Black Radical Tradition and B Jenkins
“Renée Green’s far-reaching social and political interests
have led her into taking on the roles of artist-curator-
archivist-historian-exhibition designer—and, perhaps
most unusual, adventuress-traveler. As indefatigable
explorer of circuits of ideas, objects, geographies,
histories, and categories, as challenger of historical
and cultural boundaries, she has accrued an extraor-
dinary body of work across at least four continents.
This remarkable selection of essays bears vivid witness
to the range of her ideas, the reach of her curiosity,
and her generosity and acuity of intellect.”—Y VONNE
RAINER , avant-garde American dancer, choreographer,
and filmmaker
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Other Planes of There
Selected Writings
renée green
For more than two decades, the artist
Renée Green has created an impressive
body of work in which language is an
essential element. Green is also a prolific
OTH E R PL A N E S OF TH E R E
writer and a major voice in the interna-
tional art world. Other Planes of There
gathers for the first time a substantial
collection of the work she wrote between
1981 and 2010. The selected essays
initially appeared in publications in differ-
ent countries and languages, making their
availability in this volume a boon to those
wanting to follow Green’s artistic and
Selected Writings | RENÉE GREEN
intellectual trajectory.
Charting this cosmopolitan artist’s thinking
through the decades, Other Planes of There brings essays, film scripts, reviews,
and polemics together with reflections on Green’s own artistic practice and
seminal artworks. It immerses the reader in three decades of contemporary art
showcasing the art and thought, the incisive critiques, and prescient observa-
tions of one of our foremost artists and intellectuals. Sound, cinema, literature,
time-based media, and the relationship between art forms and other forms of
knowledge are just a few of the matters that Green takes up and thinks through.
Featuring a new visual essay created by the artist for this volume, Other Planes
of There is lavishly illustrated with 290 illustrations (with nearly 250 in color).
“The publication of Other Planes of There is a major intellectual event. Given Renée
Green’s stature and influence, both in the United States and abroad, her writing can
be surprisingly hard to track down. This volume will be an essential reference point
for anyone invested in critical practice of the last three decades and the shape of things
to come. We need this book.”—HUEY COPELAND , author of Bound to Appear: Art,
Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America
ART
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Speculation, Now
Essays and Artwork
edited by v yjayanthi venuturupalli rao ,
with prem krishnamurthy & carin kuoni
With an Afterword by Arjun Appadurai

Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao is Assistant Professor

of Anthropology and International Affairs at The New
School. Prem Krishnamurthy, a designer and
curator based in New York, is a founder of the award-
winning design studio Project Projects. Carin Kuoni
is Director and Curator of the New School’s Vera List
Center for Art and Politics, a public research laboratory
dedicated to exploring the relationship between political
and aesthetic practices. Arjun Appadurai is the Paulette
Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication
at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human
Development at New York University.

“Speculation can only occur in the course of action, in the

heat of practice, in the thick of experience. It is immanent

Hans Haacke, photograph from !?!?..., created for Speculation, Now, 2014. Courtesy of the Vera List Center.
Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates
unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork
is interspersed among essays that approach speculation and progressive
critique, insofar as it does not seek to distance itself from
experience but rather to intervene . . . through a particular
form of disciplined action. Hannah Arendt famously distin-
guished action from behavior, by remarking that genuine
action begins something new in the world. So does specula-

change from surprising perspectives. A radical cartographer asks whether “the tion, as the many projects, art works, and arguments in this
book so vividly illustrate.”—ARJUN APPADURAI , from the
speculative” can be represented on a map. An ethnographer investigates reli-
afterword
gious possession in Islam to contemplate states between the divine and the
seemingly human. A financial technologist queries understandings of specula-
tion in financial markets. A multimedia artist and activist considers the relation
between social change and assumptions about the conditions to be changed,
and an architect posits purposeful neglect as political strategy. The book
includes an extensive glossary with more than twenty short entries in which
scholars contemplate such speculation-related notions as insurance, hallucina-
tion, prophecy, the paradox of beginnings, and states of half-knowledge. The
book’s artful, nonlinear design mirrors and reinforces the notion of contingency
that animates it. By embracing speculation substantively, stylistically, seriously,
and playfully, Speculation, Now reveals its subversive and critical potential.
Artists and Essayists include:
Arjun Appadurai, William Darity Jr., Filip De Boeck, Boris Groys, Hans Haacke, Darrick Hamilton,
Victoria Hattam, Angie Keefer, Laura Kurgan, Lin + Lam, Gary Lincoff, Lize Mogel, Christina Moon,
Trevor Paglen, Stefania Pandolfo, Satya Pemmaraju, Mary Poovey, Walid Raad, Sherene Schostak,
Robert Sember, Lucy Skaer, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss

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AND POLITICS AT THE NEW SCHOOL

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Thomas Dumm is William H.
Hastie ’25 Professor of Political
Ethics at Amherst College. He is
the author of Loneliness as a Way
of Life, A Politics of the Ordinary,
Michel Foucault and the Politics
of Freedom, and Democracy and
Punishment: Disciplinary Origins
of the United States, and a
coeditor of Performances of
Photo by Judith Piotrkowski
Violence.
“My Father’s House is a genuine and rare accomplish-
ment. Art criticism is often at its best when, rather than
dissecting objects, it follows their rhythms, twists, and
turns. Thomas Dumm does just that. One of this book’s
many strengths is the variety of ways that he evocatively
relates the experience of Will Barnet’s paintings. Another
is the magnificent introduction, which brings Emerson,
Melville, Cavell, and others into conversation with the
spirit of Barnet’s work and with Barnet himself.”—TOM
HUHN , author of Imitation and Society: The Persistence
of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant
“In this beautiful book, Thomas Dumm invents a new
genre of writing, neither art criticism nor memoir nor
philosophy nor psychology but something drawing from
each of those, something that tries to show more than
describe how works of art have power, a disseminating,
productive power that exceeds any biography. Dumm is
an extraordinary writer and courageous thinker.”—JANE
BENNETT, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology
of Things
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My Father’s House
On Will Barnet’s Paintings
thomas dumm
In My Father’s House, the political phi-
losopher Thomas Dumm explores a series
M y Fat h e r’ s h ou s e of stark and melancholy paintings by the
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on w ill barnet ’ s pai ntings
American artist Will Barnet. Responding
to the physical and mental decline of his
sister Eva, who lived alone in the family
home in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet
began work in 1990 on what became
a series of nine paintings depicting Eva
and other family members as they once
were and as they figured in the artist’s
Thomas Dumm memory. Rendered in Barnet’s signature
quiet, abstract style, the paintings, each
featured in full color, present the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of a twen-
tieth-century American family.
Dumm first became acquainted with Barnet and his paintings in 2008. Given his
scholarly focus on the lives of ordinary people, he was immediately attracted
to the artist’s work. When they met, Dumm and Barnet began a friendship and
dialogue that lasted until the painter’s death in 2012, at the age of 101. This
book reflects the many discussions the two had concerning the series of paint-
ings, Barnet’s family, his early life in Beverly, and his eighty-year career as a
prominent New York artist. Reading the almost gothic paintings in conversation
with the writers and thinkers key to both his and Barnet’s thinking—Emerson,
Spinoza, Dickinson, Benjamin, Cavell, Nietzsche, Melville—Dumm’s haunting
meditations evoke broader reflections on family, mortality, the uncanny, and
the loss that comes with remembrance.
“Thomas Dumm’s unique intelligence, perceptual clarity, and philosophical erudition inform
this powerful homage to the artist Will Barnet and his series of paintings, My Father’s
House. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Benjamin, and Stanley Cavell
are among those summoned to assist Dumm as he meditates on questions of place
and person, loss and love, past and present, conjured for him by Barnet’s haunting and
haunted works. This is a deeply moving account of how an encounter with art might allay
the turbulent loneliness of our age.”—ANN LAUTERBACH , author of Under the Sign
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Willful Subjects
sara ahmed
In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed
Willful Subjects explores willfulness as a charge often
Sara Ahmed made by some against others. One
history of will is a history of attempts
to eliminate willfulness from the will.
Delving into philosophical and literary
texts, Ahmed examines the relation
between will and willfulness, ill will
and good will, and the particular
will and general will. Her reflections
shed light on how will is embedded
in a political and cultural landscape,
how it is embodied, and how will
and willfulness are socially mediated.
Attentive to the wayward, the wander-
ing, and the deviant, Ahmed considers
how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded
in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the
willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that
willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.
also by Sara Ahmed
On Being Included: The Promise Queer Phenomenology:
Racism and Diversity of Happiness Orientations,
in Institutional Life paper, $24.95/£15.99 Objects, Others
paper, $22.95/£14.99 978–0–8223–4725–5 / 2010 paper, $22.95/£14.99
978–0–8223–5236–5 / 2012 978–0–8223–3914–4 / 2006
F E M I N I S T T H E O R Y/C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S/ P H I L O S O P H Y
August 304 pages paper, 978–0–8223–5783–4, $24.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5767–4, $89.95/£59.00
Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and
Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College,
University of London. She is the
author of On Being Included: Racism
and Diversity in Institutional Life,
The Promise of Happiness, and Queer
Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects,
Others, all also published by Duke University Press, as well
as The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Strange Encounters:
Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, and Differences That
Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.
“Like Sara Ahmed’s other works, which are known for their
originality, sharpness, and reach, Willful Subjects offers
here a vibrant, surprising, and philosophically rich analysis
of cultural politics, drawing on feminist, queer, and antiracist
uses of willingness and willfulness to explain forms of sus-
tained and adamant social disagreement as a constitutive
part of any radical ethics and politics worth its name.”
—JUDITH BUTLER, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative
Literature, University of California, Berkeley
“Willful Subjects is beautifully conceived and expertly
conducted, sentence by sentence, suggestion by suggestion.
Paradoxically, Sara Ahmed’s willfulness promises happiness
for her readers. Exquisite formulations engage our contempla-
tion and render real intellectual enjoyment. Followers
of Ahmed, of whom there are many, will not be disappointed.
This new instance of razor-sharp thinking powerfully builds
upon The Promise of Happiness to look at something
usefully slicing through contentment: the scissoring relations
between the will and willfulness. More than cutting-edge, this
is cutting thought.”—KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON , author
of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth
Century
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Tania Murray Li is Professor of
Anthropology at the University of
Toronto. She is the author of The
Will to Improve: Governmentality,
Development, and the Practice of
Politics, also published by Duke
University Press.
“This is a wonderful book. It may have the biggest
general impact of a book centered on Southeast Asian
rural social dynamics since James Scott’s seminal
Weapons of the Weak. With unusual clarity and great
persuasiveness, Tania Murray Li explores theoretical and
methodological issues through vivid depictions of peo-
ples’ lives.”—HENRY BERNSTEIN , Professor Emeritus
of Development Studies, University of London
also by Tania Murray Li
The Will to Improve:
Governmentality, Development,
and the Practice of Politics
paper, $26.95/£17.99
978–0–8223–4027–0 / 2007
10
August 248 pages, 14 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5705–6, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5694–3, $84.95/£55.00
general interest
Land’s End
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
tania murray li
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic
research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania
Murray Li offers an intimate account of the
LAND’S END tania murray li
emergence of capitalist relations among
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
indigenous highlanders who privatized their
common land to plant a boom crop, cacao.
Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty
and isolation, some prospered, while others
lost their land and struggled to sustain their
families. Yet the winners and losers in this
transition were not strangers—they were kin
and neighbors. Li’s richly peopled account
takes the reader into the highlanders’ world,
exploring the dilemmas they faced as sharp
inequalities emerged among them.
The book challenges complacent modernization narratives promoted by devel-
opment agencies that assume inefficient farmers who lose out in the shift to
high-value export crops can find jobs elsewhere. Decades of uneven and often
jobless growth in Indonesia meant that for newly landless highlanders, land’s
end was a dead end. The book also has implications for social-movement activ-
ists, who seldom attend to instances where enclosure is initiated by farmers
rather than coerced by the state or agribusiness corporations. Li’s attention to
the historical, cultural, and ecological dimensions of this conjuncture demonstrates
the power of the ethnographic method and its relevance to theory and practice
today.
“Tania Murray Li, one of the foremost scholars of the native peoples, economies, and
ecologies of Southeast Asia, here tells the subtle and challenging story of the Lauje,
a group who defy clichés of indigeneity and whose destructive involvement in commodity
production was willingly embraced. Her analysis complicates our understanding of
the expansion of global capitalism, and the millions of people who do not fit easily into
narratives of modern rural transformation.”—MICHAEL R. DOVE , coeditor of Beyond
the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
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The Theater of Operations

National Security Affect from
the Cold War to the War on Terror
joseph masco

How did the most powerful nation on Joseph Masco is Professor of

earth come to embrace terror as the Anthropology at the University of

THE
organizing principle of its security policy?
In The Theater of Operations, Joseph
Chicago. He is the author of The Nuclear
Borderlands: The Manhattan Project
in Post–Cold War New Mexico, winner

THEATER
Masco locates the origins of the present- of the J. I. Staley Prize from the School
day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus for Advanced Research and the Rachel

OF
in the Cold War’s “balance of terror.” Carson Prize from the Society for the
Social Studies of Science.
He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11,

OPERATIONS
the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized
a wide range of affective, conceptual,
and institutional resources established
during the Cold War to enable a new
planetary theater of operations. Tracing
NATIONAL SECURITY AFFECT FROM THE COLD WAR
how specific aspects of emotional
TO THE WAR ON TERROR
JOSEPH MASCO
management, existential danger, state
secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American
social contract, he draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to
offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and
“What Joseph Masco shows us in The Theater of Operations
is an entire affective structure—the management of anxiety,
resilience, steadfastness, sacrifice—that is demanded of every
citizen. Alert to liquid containers above 2.4 ounces, hyper-
vigilant about abandoned bags, suspicious of loitering, and
prepared for the detonation of a thermonuclear weapon—
we learn to live our lives aware of tiny and apocalyptic things.
With an anthropologist’s eye long attuned to life in the para-
wartime state, Masco is the perfect guide to the theater of
the security state.”—PETER GALISON , author of Einstein’s

unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time

and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an
unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats—real, imagined,
and emergent.

“Joseph Masco’s brilliance lies in his ability to make visible the complex affective and
discursive technologies that emerged from the long history of the Cold War, and to illumi-
nate their effects on our everyday perceptions of security and harm. This much-anticipated
book will be read widely in cultural anthropology and cultural studies. It is beautifully
written and argued. That one leaves The Theater of Operations a bit paranoid is a
tribute to Masco’s rhetorical skill.”—ELIZABETH A. POVINELLI, author of Economies
of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism

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 general interest
C. L. R. James (1901–1989), a Trinidadian historian,
political activist, and writer, is the author of The Black
Jacobins, an influential study of the Haitian Revolution.
His play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only
Successful Slave Revolt in History and his now-classic
book on sport and culture, Beyond a Boundary, are
both published by Duke University Press. Bridget
Brereton is Emerita Professor of History at the
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
“The Life of Captain Cipriani and the excerpted
pamphlet, The Case for West-Indian Self Government,
are two of C. L. R. James’s most significant contribu-
tions to the anticolonial cause. These early works
played a crucial part in the development of his career
as a writer and political thinker. They helped articulate
the case for independence for Trinidad and the West
Indies, and they effectively launched James’s career
as a public figure.”—KENT WORCESTER , author of
C. L. R. James: A Political Biography
“This volume is an indispensable introduction to
the dialectical synthesis of biography, sports, race,
politics, and poetics that the early James brought to
his encounter with Marxism. It was the later merging
of the codes of these two already complex and syn-
thetic discourses that made possible classic works like
The Black Jacobins and Beyond A Boundary.”—PAGET
HENRY, coeditor of C. L. R. James’s Caribbean
THE C. L. R. JAMES ARCHIVES
A Series Edited by Robert A. Hill
12
July 200 pages
The Life of Captain Cipriani
An Account of British Government
in the West Indies with the pamphlet
The Case for West-Indian Self Government
c . l . r . james
With a New Introduction by Bridget Brereton
The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest
C. L. R. JAMES
full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian
writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant
THE LIFE OF
C A PTA I N C I PR I A N I historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth
T H E S TO RY O F T H E
O N LY S U C C E S S F U L S L AV E
R E VO LT I N H I S TO RY century. It is partly based on James’s interviews
A Play in Three Acts
with Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1876–1945). As
a captain with the British West Indies Regiment
during the First World War, Cipriani was greatly
A N AC C O U N T impressed by the service of the black West Indian
OF BRITISH
G OV E R N M E N T
troops and appalled at their treatment during and
IN THE
after the war. After his return to the West Indies,
WEST INDIES
W I T H T H E PA M P H L E T The Case for West-Indian Self Government
he became a Trinidadian political leader and advo-
cate for West Indian self-government. James’s book is as much polemic as
biography. Written in Trinidad and published in England, it is an early and power-
ful statement of West Indian nationalism. An excerpt, The Case for West-Indian
Self Government, was issued by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press in
1933. This volume includes the biography, the pamphlet, and a new introduction
in which Bridget Brereton considers both texts and the young C. L. R. James
in relation to Trinidadian and West Indian intellectual and social history. She
discusses how James came to write his biography of Cipriani, how the book was
received in the West Indies and Trinidad, and how, throughout his career, James
would use biography to explore the dynamics of politics and history.
also in the C. L. R. James Archives
C. L. R. James Beyond a Boundary Toussaint Louverture
in Imperial Britain C. L. R. James C. L. R. James
Christian Høgsbjerg paper, $24.95tr/£15.99 paper, $23.95tr/£15.99
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978–0–8223–5618–9 / 2014 Rights: U.S. only
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 general interest

The Marcus Garvey and

Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920–1921 Volume XII
marcus garvey
robert a . hill , editor in chief
Robert A. Hill is Professor of History at the University
of California, Los Angeles, where he is Editor in Chief and
Project Director of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro
Volume XII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Improvement Association Papers Project at the James S.
Coleman African Studies Center.
Negro Improvement Association Papers covers
a period of twelve months, from the opening of the
UNIA’s historic first international convention in New PR AISE FOR THE M ARCUS G ARVE Y AND UNIVER SAL
the
m arcus York, in August 1920, to Marcus Garvey’s return to NEG RO IMPROVEMENT A SSOCIATION PAPER S
garvey a nd
u ni v ersa l negro the United States in July 1921 after an extended tour
improv emen t
associ ation “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
pa pers of Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, and Belize.
The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920–1921 Association Papers will take its place among the most impor-
Volume XII In many ways the 1920 convention marked the high
robert a. hill
tant records of the Afro-American experience.”—ERIC FONER ,
Editor in Chief
point of the Garvey movement in the United States, New York Times Book Review
while Garvey’s tour of the Caribbean, in the winter
“Robert A. Hill and his staff . . . have gathered over 30,000
and spring of 1921, registered the greatest outpour-
documents from libraries and other sources in many
ing of popular support for the UNIA in its history. The period covered in the
countries. . . . The Garvey papers will reshape our under-
present volume was the moment of the movement’s political apotheosis, standing of the history of black nationalism and perhaps
but also the moment when the finances of Garvey’s Black Star Line went into increase our understanding of contemporary black politics.”
free fall. —CLAYBORNE CARSON , The Nation

Volume XII highlights the centrality of Caribbean people not only to the conven- “Now is our chance, through these important volumes,
tion, but also to the movement. The reports to the convention discussed the to finally begin to come to terms with the significance
range of social and economic conditions obtaining in the Caribbean, particularly of Garvey’s complex, fascinating career and the meaning
their impact on racial conditions. The quality of the discussions and debates of the movement he built.”—LAWRENCE W. LEVINE ,
The New Republic
were impressive. Contained in these reports are some of the earliest and most
clearly enunciated statements in defense of social and political freedom in the
Caribbean. These documents form an underappreciated and still underutilized
record of the political awakening of Caribbean people of African descent.
also available
About The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro
Improvement Association Papers Project
A monumental archival undertaking, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Association Papers Project has collected thousands of historical documents related to
Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA),
which spread Garvey’s influential message of racial pride, black nationalism, and Pan-
Africanism around the world. The Papers include letters, pamphlets, intelligence reports,
newspaper articles, speeches, legal records, and diplomatic dispatches carefully assem-
bled, editorially arranged, and annotated by Robert A. Hill and his research team. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro
Improvement Association Papers, Volume
For more information about The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920
Association Papers, visit web.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp cloth, $120.00/£78.00
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Dance Floor Democracy

The Social Geography of Memory
at the Hollywood Canteen
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and coeditor of Big Ears: Listening
for Gender in Jazz Studies, both also men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening
published by Duke University Press. night, when the crowds were so thick that
Bette Davis had to enter through the bath-
room window to give her welcome speech,
“The publication of Dance Hall Democracy elevates cultural
the storied dance floor where movie stars
studies scholarship to new levels of sophistication and
significance.”—GEORGE LIPSITZ , author of Midnight danced with soldiers has been the subject
at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story of much U.S. nostalgia about the “Greatest
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sensitivity. Tucker brilliantly reads the dance floor to reveal the war in U.S. national memory. Yet her interviewees’ varied experiences and
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meanings created, challenged, and negotiated by the dancers.
Dance Floor Democracy insists upon a complex and multi-
dimensional portrait of a period and a place too often viewed
through the lens of nostalgia.”—FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN ,
author of Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive
Politics During World War II
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recall racism, sexism, and inequality on the nightclub’s dance floor and in Los
Angeles neighborhoods, dynamics at odds with the U.S. democratic, egalitarian
ideals associated with the Hollywood Canteen and the “Good War” in popular
culture narratives. For Tucker, swing dancing’s torque—bodies sharing weight,
velocity, and turning power without guaranteed outcomes—is an apt metaphor
for the jostling narratives, different perspectives, unsteady memories, and
quotidian acts that comprise social history.

also by Sherrie Tucker

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Traveling Heavy Adam’s Gift

A Memoir in between Journeys
ruth behar
“Ruth Behar’s vivid personal vignettes
sing of sorrow and joy, disappointment
and love. They range from family and
fieldwork to travel and returns to her
birthplace: Havana, Cuba. They explore
her mixedness, Jewish and Latina. She
is an ethnographer and a writer. Read
A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the
Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays
jimmy creech
With a New Foreword by Frank Schaefer
“Adam’s Gift is the most engaging
Adam ’s and candid autobiography I have
Gift come across. The extraordinary
journey of the Reverend Jimmy Creech
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and join her moving quest for belong- certainly reveals his innermost desire
A MeMoir of A

ing and home.”—RENATO ROSALDO , PA stor’s CA llin g to to help allay the suffering that exists
Defy the C hurC h’s

author of The Day of Shelly’s Death: PerseC ution of

The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
“‘Travelers are those who go else-
where because they want to . . . .
Immigrants are those who go else-
where because they have to.’ Ruth Behar’s own story is one of being both
the reluctant immigrant and the enthusiastic traveler, and finally, perhaps
to appease both legacies, ‘an anthropologist who specializes in homesick-
ness.’ Behar admits Spanish is her mother tongue, and yet she is a master
craftsperson in her father tongue, English. As always, her exquisite stories
leave me astonished, amused, exhilarated, illuminated, and forever trans-
formed.” —SANDRA CISNEROS , author of The House on Mango Street
“Ruth Behar takes us deep into geographies she has charted, transcend-
ing anthropological reportage and finding the poetry that is there not
only in the places she has mapped but also in history. She has written an
observant and surprisingly compassionate book, full of warmth. I enjoyed
reading every page; it is full of wisdom and devastating sincerity.”—NILO
CRUZ , author of Anna in the Tropics, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba. She and her family moved
to New York City when she was five. In the years since, she has become
an internationally acclaimed writer and the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is the
author of many books, including An Island Called Home: Returning
to Jewish Cuba, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks
Your Heart, and Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s
Story, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Behar has been
honored with many prizes, including a MacArthur “Genius” Award.
on our planet. Viewed within this
lesbiA ns AnD gAys context, it comes as no surprise that
as a young United Methodist minister
he became involved in the justice
issue that would rock the church from
within—the LGBTQ rights movement.
. . . Sadly, Jimmy’s message of inclu-
jimmy creech siveness and acceptance of LGBTQ
With a NeW ForeWord by FraNk SchaeFer
rights within the Christian community
was ahead of his time and was, therefore, not heard or correctly under-
stood by the leadership. In 1999, he was defrocked by a U.M. church trial
court. But that did not stop him from continuing his advocacy and activism
within the church. . . . Creech’s early witness and activism within the church
have provided a foundation for our new understanding of what ministerial
integrity means in the LGBTQ movement.”—FRANK SCHAEFER , from the
foreword
“Jimmy Creech is a man who puts his life where his Gospel is! His amazing
journey, as told in his memoir, is the story of a follower of Christ who,
like Christ, risked his own life and ministry for the sake of the marginalized
and scorned. The LGBT community will forever owe him a debt for his
sacrifice and his witness to the love of God for ALL of God’s children.”
—BISHOP GENE ROBINSON , Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire
Jimmy Creech is a former United Methodist minister, now retired and
living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has worked with many social action
organizations, including Soulforce, an interfaith movement confronting
spiritual violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
persons; the Methodist Federation for Social Action; the Raleigh Religious
Network for Gay and Lesbian Equality; and Faith in America, an organiza-
tion working to end religion-based bigotry. Frank Schaefer, a United
Methodist minister, was put on a church trial for performing his son’s
same-sex wedding.

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A Rock Garden in the South Beautiful at All Seasons

elizabeth lawrence Southern Gardening and Beyond
Edited by Nancy Goodwin with Allen Lacy with Elizabeth Lawrence
PR A I S E FO R E LI Z A B E T H L AW R E N C E elizabeth lawrence
Edited by Ann L. Armstrong and Lindie Wilson
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thoughts on rock gardening. She

“Lawrence displays the virtues of a dedicated plantswoman: she is
addresses the unique problem of culti- generous, patient, watchful and above all curious as she delves into
A Rock vating rock gardens in the South, where the histories of her favorite plants.”—JENNIFER POTTER , The Times
Garden in
the South the growing season is prolonged and Literary Supplement
EDITED BY NANCY GOODWIN

WITH ALLEN L ACY the humidity and heat are not conducive
to such planting. Describing her experi-
ences making a rock garden, Lawrence
offers excellent advice on placing stones,
constructing steps, selecting plants, and making cuttings. At the
same time, A Rock Garden in the South is relevant to all kinds of
gardens; the renowned garden writer thoroughly discusses plants
she has tried, recommending bulbs and other perennials, annuals,
and woody plants. The editors have added an encyclopedia of plants
alphabetized by genus and species.
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–1985) wrote a popular gardening column
for the Charlotte Observer from 1957 until 1971. She is the author of
A Southern Garden, Gardens in Winter, and Lob’s Wood, as well as
Beautiful at All Seasons, Gardening for Love, and The Little Bulbs, which
are published by Duke University Press. Nancy Goodwin is the author
of Montrose: Life in a Garden, also published by Duke University Press.
Allen Lacy, formerly a gardening columnist for the New York Times, is
the author of numerous gardening books. Goodwin and Lacy are coauthors
of A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy.
“All gardeners will welcome this splendidly edited collection of essays
by Elizabeth Lawrence. They will delight in her elegant prose and subtle
humor and will marvel at her breadth of knowledge of plants and literature.
I could hardly put it down.”—NANCY GOODWIN , author of Montrose:
Life in a Garden
“Reading Lawrence reminds us that gardening is a way to connect to our
community, our history and traditions and ultimately to the world around
us. This is one for the bedside table.”—DAVID BARE , Winston-Salem
Journal
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–1985) wrote a popular gardening column
for the Charlotte Observer from 1957 until 1971. She is the author
of A Southern Garden, Gardens in Winter, and Lob’s Wood, as well as
A Rock Garden in the South, Gardening for Love, and The Little Bulbs,
which are published by Duke University Press. Ann L. Armstrong
is a garden lecturer and writer in Charlotte, North Carolina. She wrote
the Wing Haven Garden Journal, a garden planning and maintenance
calendar. Lindie Wilson owned Elizabeth Lawrence’s former
home in Charlotte, where for more than twenty years she maintained
the garden that Lawrence began in 1948.

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 anthropolog y

Entrepreneurial Selves Aurality

Neoliberal Respectability and the Listening and Knowledge
Making of a Caribbean Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
carla freeman ana maría ochoa gautier

“Carla Freeman’s scholarship reveals a delicate omnivorousness. She
offers a unique perspective on the affective economies through which
neoliberal capitalism and its middle-class subjects are made and remade,
demonstrating that neoliberalism is not monolithic or guaranteed. Its
varied ‘structures of feeling’ are produced, contested, and differentiated.
Freeman’s way of making and working with theory is rare; it traverses
multiple registers, holding in tension the specific, the general, the abstract,
and the concrete.”—CINDI KATZ , author of Growing Up Global: Economic
Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives
Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging
political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on
the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodi-
ment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography
on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds
dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the
rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that
the déjà vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flex-
ibility and its concomitant project of self-making, can only be grasped
through the thickness of cultural specificity where its costs and plea-
sures are unevenly felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by
reimagining the Caribbean cultural model of ‘reputation-respectability.’
This remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social
practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism (reputa-
tion) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal precepts and,
in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a new emotional
economy.
Carla Freeman is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Women’s,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and associated faculty in Anthropology
and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, at Emory University. She is
the author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women,
Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean, also published by Duke
University Press, and a coeditor of Global Middle Classes: Theorizing
Through Ethnography.
NEXT WAVE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES
A Series Edited by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Robyn Wiegman
“Aurality shows how hearing, writing, speech, and song were central to
the constitution of modern personhood in the nineteenth century. Using
Colombia as her case study, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how
colonial intellectuals, creoles, and indigenous people spoke, sung, and
wrote across difference as they struggled to establish new kinds of politi-
cal subjectivity and nationality. Her book offers a vital alternative to
a literature that has too often taken Western Europe and Anglophone
North America as points of historical departure. Aurality will transform
our understandings of the human and the animal; nation and citizenship;
music and language; speech and writing; and modernity itself.”
—JONATHAN STERNE, author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format
In this audacious book, Ana María
Ochoa Gautier explores how listening
has been central to the production
of notions of language, music, voice,
and sound that determine the poli-
tics of life. Drawing primarily from
nineteenth-century Colombian sources,
AurAlity
Listening & Knowledge in
Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced
by different living entities at the junc-
Nineteenth-Century Colombia ture of the human and nonhuman.
Her “acoustically tuned” analysis of
duke Ana María Ochoa Gautier a wide array of texts reveals multiple
debates on the nature of the aural.
These discussions were central to a politics of the voice harnessed in
the service of the production of different notions of personhood and
belonging. In Ochoa Gautier’s groundbreaking work, Latin America
and the Caribbean emerge as a historical site where the politics of life
and the politics of expression inextricably entangle the musical and
the linguistic, knowledge and the sensorial.
Ana María Ochoa Gautier is Associate Professor of Music and Director
of the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University. She is the author
of several books in Spanish.
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Speculative Markets Second Chances

Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria Surviving AIDS in Uganda
kristin peterson susan reynolds why te , editor

“Speculative Markets brings exceptional clarity to a topic of genuine impor-
tance—the relationship between transnational finance capital and phar-
maceutical supply in West Africa. This is a brilliant multisited ethnography
of a market, advancing new theoretical understandings of contemporary
economic life in Nigeria and beyond. Kristin Peterson also makes a vital
contribution to global health and pharmaceutical reasoning by raising
critical questions about drug procurement, distribution, and efficacy.”
—JULIE LIVINGSTON , author of Improvising Medicine: An African
Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
“Second Chances provides insight of impressive range and depth into the
impact of global health programs. It moves medical anthropology’s theoret-
ical agenda along by offering a subtle but sharp critique of contemporary
manifestations of biological/therapeutic citizenship. Yet its greatest innova-
tion may be methodological. As a convincing work of collective ethnogra-
phy, Second Chances reveals the productive potential of ‘team’ or ‘project’
anthropology.”—VINH-KIM NGUYEN , author of The Republic of Therapy:
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS

During the first decade

In this unprecedented account of the of this millennium, many
dynamics of Nigeria’s pharmaceutical thousands of people in
markets, Kristin Peterson connects Uganda who otherwise
multinational drug company policies, would have died from
oil concerns, Nigerian political and AIDS got second chances
economic transitions, the circulation at life. A massive global
of pharmaceuticals in the Global health intervention, the
South, Wall Street machinations, scaling up of antiretroviral
and the needs and aspirations of Photo by the author. therapy (ART), saved them
individual Nigerians. Studying the and created a generation of people who learned to live with treatment.
Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria
pharmaceutical market in Lagos, As clients they joined programs that offered free antiretroviral medi-
Nigeria, she places local market cine and encouraged “positive living.” Because ART is not a cure but a
KristiN PetersoN social norms and credit and pricing lifelong treatment regime, its consequences are far-reaching for society,
practices in the broader context of families, and individuals. Drawing on personal accounts and a broad
regional, transnational, and global financial capital. Peterson explains knowledge of Ugandan culture and history, the essays in this collection
how a significant and formerly profitable African pharmaceutical market explore ART from the perspective of those who received second chances.
collapsed in the face of U.S. monetary policies and neoliberal economic Their concerns about treatment, partners, children, work, food, and
reforms. And she illuminates the relation between that collapse and the bodies reveal the essential sociality of Ugandan life. The collection is
American turn to speculative capital during the 1980s. In the process, based on research undertaken by a team of social scientists including
she reveals the mutual constitution of financial speculation in the drug both Western and African scholars.
industry and the structural adjustment plans that the IMF imposed on
Contributors
African nations. Her book is a sobering ethnographic analysis of the
Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne O. Mogensen, Godfrey Etyang
effects of speculation and “development” as they reverberate across Siu, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte
markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transac-
tions of the Lagos pharmaceutical market. Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Copenhagen. She is the author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics
Kristin Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda, coauthor of Social Lives of Medicines, and
of California, Irvine. coeditor of Disability in Local and Global Worlds.

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 anthropolog y
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place
Infrastructure and Personhood
in a Papua New Guinean Hospital
alice street
“This compelling study achieves almost perfect pitch in the way it engages
quite different sources of understanding. At once true to the locale of a
hospital in the Pacific and to the world of institutions just round everyone’s
corner, it also conveys the unexpected accommodations that patients and
staff alike have to make to the predicaments in which they find themselves.
Closely observed, sympathetic, critical, this is contemporary ethnography
of the first order.”—MARILYN STRATHERN , University of Cambridge
Biomedicine in an
Unstable Place is
the story of people’s
struggle to make
biomedicine work
in a public hospital
in Papua New Guinea.
It is a story encom-
Photo by the author. passing the history of
hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance,
the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global
medical research and public health, and people’s encounters with
urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea,
a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial
infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of insti-
tutional, medical, and ontological instability.
In the hospital’s clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe
resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to
the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors,
nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others—
to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international
development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons.
Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are
fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making
people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.
Alice Street is a Chancellors Fellow in Social Anthropology in the School
of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.
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How Climate Change Comes to Matter
The Communal Life of Facts
candis callison
“A gifted storyteller who brings enormous empathy and nuance to each
group she documents, Candis Callison depicts the current discursive strug-
gles over climate change, as such diverse players as corporate respon-
sibility advocates, evangelical Christians, and Inuit tribal leaders, not to
mention scientists and journalists, seek to reconcile the need for dramatic
change with their existing sets of professional norms and cultural values.
This is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand how
science gets refracted across an increasingly diverse media landscape and
for anyone who wants to understand how they might be more effective at
changing entrenched beliefs and practices.”—HENRY JENKINS , coauthor
of Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated
those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take
action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison
examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they
encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She
explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become
expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals,
Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility.
The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of main-
taining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical
and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars
through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the
nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in
different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers
an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin
in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink
emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experi-
ence, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.
Candis Callison is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of
Journalism at the University of British Columbia.
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 anthropolog y

The Multispecies Salon Illusions of a Future

eben kirksey, editor Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire
k ate schechter

“This timely anthology offers a substantial and engaging introduction to

the field of multispecies studies, clearly presenting the core concepts of
an important and influential area of scholarship, which will become increas-
ingly central to anthropology, science studies, environmental studies,
and social theory. At the same time, The Multispecies Salon is in many
ways an art book. It features an extraordinary range of remarkable art
projects, which are fascinating in their own right and beautifully written
up.”—SARAH FRANKLIN , author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells,
and the Future of Kinship
A new approach to writing culture has
arrived: multispecies ethnography.
The
Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes
appear alongside humans in this
M U LT I S PE C I E S
singular book about natural and
SALON
cultural history. Anthropologists
have collaborated with artists and
biological scientists to illuminate
“Illusions of a Future is not only a careful, fightingly smart account of what
happens to middle-American psychoanalysis and its ‘crisis’ under neoliberal
conditions of risk and accountability. It is an argument for a rethinking of bio-
politics. Kate Schechter uses a rigorous historical and ethnographic account
of twentieth-century and contemporary psychoanalysis in Chicago to address
and extend both Foucauldian and Derridean readings of analysis and of Freud
at the very point where these readings appear to falter or reverse course.
She does so through empirical engagement with ‘local catalogs of resistances,’
a project that she terms ‘rethinking biopolitics with renovated psychoanalytic
resources’ and one that makes intense and rewarding demands on
its reader.”—LAWRENCE COHEN, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s,
The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
A pioneering ethnography of psychoanal-
ysis, Illusions of a Future explores the
ILLUSIONS political economy of private therapeutic
FUTURE labor within industrialized medicine.

OF A
how diverse organisms are entangled Focusing on psychoanalysis in Chicago,
in political, economic, and cultural psychoanalysis and the
a historically important location in the
biopolitics of desire
systems. Contributions from influ- development and institutionalization of
kate schechter
ential writers and scholars, such as psychoanalysis in the United States, Kate
E B E N K I R K S E Y, EDITOR
Dorion Sagan, Karen Barad, Donna Schechter examines the nexus of theory,
Haraway, and Anna Lowenhaupt practice, and institutional form in the
Tsing, are featured along with essays by emergent artists and cultural original instituting of psychoanalysis,
anthropologists. its normalization, and now its “crisis.”
Delectable mushrooms flourishing in the aftermath of ecological She describes how contemporary ana-
disaster, microbial cultures enlivening the politics and value of food, lysts struggle to maintain conceptions
and emergent life forms running wild in the age of biotechnology of themselves as capable of deciding what psychoanalysis is and how
all figure in this curated collection of essays and artifacts. Recipes to regulate it in order to prevail over market demands for the efficiency
provide instructions on how to cook acorn mush, make cheese out and standardization of mental health treatments.
of human milk, and enliven forests after they have been clear-cut. In the process, Schechter shows how deeply imbricated the analyst-patient
The Multispecies Salon investigates messianic dreams, environmental relationship is in this effort. Since the mid-twentieth century, the “real”
nightmares, and modest sites of biocultural hope. relationship between analyst and patient is no longer the unremarked
Contributors background of analysis but its very site. Psychoanalysts seek to validate
Karen Barad, Caitlin Berrigan, Karin Bolender, Maria Brodine, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, the centrality of this relationship with theory and, through codified “stan-
David S. Edmunds, Christine Hamilton, Donna J. Haraway, Stefan Helmreich, dards,” to claim it as a privileged technique. It has become the means by
Angela James, Lindsay Kelley, Eben Kirksey, Linda Noel, Heather Paxson, Nathan Rich, which psychoanalysts, in seeking to protect their disciplinary autonomy,
Anna Rodriguez, Dorion Sagan, Craig Schuetze, Nicholas Shapiro, Miriam Simun, have unwittingly bound themselves to a neoliberal discourse of regulation.
Kim TallBear, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Kate Schechter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at
Eben Kirksey is a permanent faculty member in Environmental Humanities Rush Medical College, Chair of Conceptual Foundations at the Institute for
at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author Clinical Social Work, and Faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Global Architecture of She is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Chicago.
Power, also published by Duke University Press.
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 anthropolog y

The Republic Unsettled Rubble

Muslim French and the The Afterlife of Destruction
Contradictions of Secularism gastón r . gordillo
mayanthi l . fernando

“The Republic Unsettled is a brilliant book, at once a concrete examina-
tion of the experiences of Muslim French and a compelling analysis of the
structural and discursive obstacles they face. A major contribution to both
ethnography and political theory, this provocative, beautifully written work
will appeal to those interested in debates about Muslims in Europe and the
possibilities for thinking difference differently.”—JOAN WALLACH SCOTT,
author of The Fantasy of Feminist History
“At the edges of the dreamscapes put forward by the state and capi-
tal, Gastón R. Gordillo shows us haunted places where phantoms and
curses join human bones and broken bricks: rubble. The Argentine Chaco
becomes a magical landscape wrapped in multiple pasts and presents.
Simultaneously erudite and evocative, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction
remakes the stories we tell about knowledge and history—and the legacy
of violent conquest from the Spanish empire to the soy boom.”—ANNA
LOWENHAUPT TSING , coeditor of Words in Motion: Toward a Global
Lexicon

In 1989, three Muslim schoolgirls

from a Paris suburb refused to At the foot of the Argentine Andes,
Mayanthi L. Fernando remove their Islamic headscarves in bulldozers are destroying forests
class. The headscarf crisis signaled and homes to create soy fields in
The Republic an Islamic revival among the chil- an area already strewn with rubble
unseTTled from previous waves of destruction
dren of North African immigrants;
it also ignited an ongoing debate and violence. Based on ethno-
The Afterlife of Destruction
about the place of Muslims within
////////////////////
graphic research in this region
the secular nation-state. Based on where the mountains give way to
ten years of ethnographic research, the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón
The Republic Unsettled alternates R. Gordillo shows how geographic
between an analysis of Muslim space is inseparable from the
French religiosity and the con- material, historical, and affective
tradictions of French secularism ruptures embodied in debris.
Muslim French and the contradictions of secularism
precipitated by this Muslim identity. Gastón R. Gordillo His exploration of the significance
Mayanthi L. Fernando explores how Muslim French draw on both Islamic of rubble encompasses lost cities,
and secular-republican traditions to create novel modes of ethical and derelict train stations, overgrown Jesuit missions and Spanish forts,
political life, reconfiguring those traditions to imagine a new future for stranded steamships, mass graves, and razed forests. Examining the
France. She also examines how the political discourses, institutions, effects of these and other forms of debris on the people living on
and laws that constitute French secularism regulate Islam, transforming nearby ranches and farms, and in towns, Gordillo emphasizes that for
the Islamic tradition and what it means to be Muslim. Fernando traces the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist
how long-standing tensions within secularism and republican citizen- endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the
ship are displaced onto France’s Muslims, who are, as a result, rendered violence and dislocation that created it.
illegitimate as political citizens and moral subjects. She argues, ulti- Gastón R. Gordillo is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
mately, that the Muslim question is as much about secularism as it is British Columbia. He is the author of Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place
about Islam. and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco, also published by Duke University
Press.
Mayanthi L. Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the
University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Given to the Goddess Cultivating the Nile

South Indian Devadasis The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt
and the Sexuality of Religion jessica barnes
lucinda ramberg

“Cultivating the Nile is an impressive account of something we know little

“Lucinda Ramberg’s powerful combination of ethnographic observation
and theoretical reflection connects the study of a particular social group
in South India (devadasis or jogatis) with general issues in anthropology
and feminist and queer studies. Given to the Goddess will prove relevant
to those, such as myself, who know very little about India but who are
concerned with related issues in different contexts.”—ÉRIC FASSIN,
Université Paris-8
Who and what are marriage and
sex for? Whose practices and which
Gi v en to the Godde ss ways of talking to god can count as
Lucinda Ramberg
religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers
these questions based on two years
of ethnographic research on an ongo-
ing South Indian practice of dedication
in which girls, and sometimes boys,
are married to a goddess. Called
devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated
become female and male women who
conduct the rites of the goddess out-
SOUTH INDIAN DEVADASIS and the SEXUALITY of RELIGION
about despite its growing urgency: the causes of water scarcity in any
particular region and the ways that the people affected deal with it.
A significant contribution to the growing literature on water sustainability
around the world, Cultivating the Nile is likely to be discussed for years
to come.”—STEVEN C. CATON , Harvard University
The waters of the Nile are fundamen-
tal to life in Egypt. In this compelling
ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores
the everyday politics of water: a poli-
tics anchored in the mundane yet vital
acts of blocking, releasing, channeling,
and diverting water. She examines
the quotidian practices of farmers,
government engineers, and interna-
Cultivating the Nile T h e e v e ry d ay P o l i T i c s
o f waT e r i n e g y P T
tional donors as they interact with
the waters of the Nile flowing into and
through Egypt. Situating these local
jessica barnes
practices in relation to broader pro-
cesses that affect Nile waters, Barnes

side the walls of her main temple and
transact in sex outside the bounds
of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites
that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long
been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is
productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues,
and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or
religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of
modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations—between
and among humans and deities—that exceed such categories.
Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Anthropology and the Program in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies
at Cornell University.
moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irriga-
tion canal to international water conference. By showing how the waters
of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in
and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range of political dynamics,
social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorpo-
rated into understandings of water and its management.
Jessica Barnes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography
and the Environment and Sustainability Program at the University of South
Carolina.
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Habeas Viscus Oxford Street, Accra

Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
and Black Feminist Theories of the Human ato quayson
alex ander g . weheliye

“Oxford Street, Accra is an erudite and accomplished book by one of Africa’s

“Habeas Viscus is a major contribution to the discourses of race and most prominent literary and cultural critics. Ato Quayson is astute in his

modern politics. Alexander G. Weheliye intervenes in contemporary use of critical theory to illuminate transforming African urban cultures,

engagement with Agamben’s and Foucault’s scholarship on biopolitics and he is creative in the aspects of urban space he chooses to analyze.

by opening new lines of inquiry for thinking through the problem of the He inventively depicts the tensions of the diverse imaginaries, calculations,

human. Weheliye turns to the work of two major scholars and theorists and ethical sensibilities that cut across the conventional zones and distinc-

of black studies, Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter, revealing their tions of city life, giving rise to new connections near and far.”—ABDOU-

thinking about the material and discursive existence of black bodies as MALIQ SIMONE , author of For the City Yet to Come: Changing African
vital analytical rubrics for conceptualizing the human.”—WAHNEEMA Life in Four Cities

LUBIANO , editor of The House That Race Built

OX F ORD
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on analyzes the dynamics of Ghana’s

HABEAS VISCUS
S T R E E T,
the centrality of race to notions of capital city through a focus on Oxford
the human. Alexander G. Weheliye Street, part of Accra’s most vibrant

ACCRA
develops a theory of “racializing and globalized commercial district.
assemblages,” taking race as a He traces the city’s evolution from
set of sociopolitical processes that its settlement in the mid-seventeenth
discipline humanity into full humans, century to the present day. He com-
not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. bines his impressions of the sights,
This disciplining, while not biological sounds, interactions, and distribu-
per se, frequently depends tion of space with broader dynamics,
on anchoring political hierarchies including the histories of colonial and
in human flesh. The work of the City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism Ato Quayson postcolonial town planning and the
RACIALIZING ASSEMBLAGES, BIOPOLITICS,
AND BLACK FEMINIST THEORIES OF THE HUMAN
black feminist scholars Hortense marks of transnationalism evident in
ALEXANDER G. WEHELIYE
Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital Accra’s salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards. Quayson
to Weheliye’s argument. Particularly significant are their contributions finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and
to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF -mandated structural
the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-
configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing concep- 1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic
tion of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexist-
posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives ing with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of
to the “bare life and biopolitics discourse” exemplified by the works historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated
of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends, and contradictory metropolis that it is today.
vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for
in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is
to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational the author of Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing, Calibrations:
Reading for the Social, and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the
to the study of modern humanity.
Crisis of Representation, as well as editor of the two-volume Cambridge
Alexander G. Weheliye is Associate Professor of African-American History of Postcolonial Literature, coeditor of A Companion to Diaspora
Studies and English at Northwestern University. He is the author of and Transnationalism, and General Editor of the Cambridge Journal
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity, also published by of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.
Duke University Press.

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Utopias Porn Archives

mark featherstone & malcolm miles , tim dean , steven ruszczycky
special issue editors & david squires , editors

a special issue of CULTURAL POLITICS

“Everyone working on porn will have to refer to this field-defining collection.
It is an important book, notable for its compelling argument, stellar
Following the collapse of
roster of contributors, intellectual heft, and broad theoretical scope.
communist and socialist
It is the most exacting and exciting statement about porn studies to date.”
utopianism in the twen-
—ROBYN WIEGMAN , author of Object Lessons
tieth century, the global
economic crisis has
foreclosed the promise of While sexually explicit writing and
a neoliberal consumerist art have been around for millennia,
utopia in the twenty-first. pornography—as an aesthetic, moral,
This special issue of and juridical category—is a modern inven-
Hut 11, a.k.a. the Bombe Room, a.k.a. “the hell hole.” Cultural Politics consid- tion. The contributors to Porn Archives
Photo by Gair Dunlop. ers what happens when explore how the production and prolifera-
people believe that the system they currently inhabit does not work, tion of pornography has been intertwined
but they see few viable alternatives, and wide-scale change seems with the emergence of the archive as a
impossible in any case. Considering history, fiction, art, and economic conceptual and physical site for preserving,
theory, the contributors think about the ways in which a vital future cataloguing, and transmitting documents
might emerge from an exhausted culture. Topics include narratives of and artifacts. By segregating and regulat-
catastrophe and escape in Cold War fiction, the narcotic haze of amuse- ing access to sexually explicit material,
ment culture in China, and the meaning of protest and utopian critique Jess, Untitled “paste-up” (ca.
1950s). © The Jess Collins Trust, archives have helped constitute pornogra-
in contemporary art. The issue also features an interview with autono- used by permission. phy as a distinct genre. As a result,
mist Paolo Virno on social individualism and imagination. Exploring porn has become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as
how the current dystopian worldview points toward alternative utopian the production of pleasure.
futures, the contributors seize a critical opportunity for new forms of
The essays in this collection address the historically and culturally
cultural politics to emerge.
varied interactions between porn and the archive. Topics range from
Contributors library policies governing access to sexually explicit material to the
Thierry Bardini, John Beck, Mark Chou, Mark Dorrian, Gair Dunlop, Mark Featherstone, growing digital archive of “war porn,” or eroticized combat imagery;
Jonathan Harris, Malcolm Miles, Tao Dongfeng, Paolo Virno
and from same-sex amputee porn to gay black comic book superhero
Mark Featherstone is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University. porn. Together the pieces trace pornography as it crosses borders,
Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of transforms technologies, consolidates sexual identities, and challenges
Plymouth School of Architecture, Design and Environment. notions of what counts as legitimate forms of knowledge. The collection
concludes with a valuable resource for scholars: a list of pornography
archives held by institutions around the world.

Contributors
Jennifer Burns Bright, Eugenie Brinkema, Joseph Bristow, Robert L. Caserio, Ronan
Crowley, Tim Dean, Robert Dewhurst, Lisa Downing, Frances Ferguson, Loren Glass,
Harri Kalha, Marcia Klotz, Prabha Manuratne, Mireille Miller-Young, Nguyen Tan Hoang,
John Paul Ricco, Steven Ruszczycky, Melissa Schindler, Darieck Scott, Caitlin Shanley,
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, David Squires, Linda Williams

Tim Dean is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SUNY

at Buffalo, where he is also the Director of the Center for the Study
of Psychoanalysis and Culture. He is the author of Unlimited Intimacy:
Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking and Beyond Sexuality.
Steven Ruszczycky recently completed a PhD in English at SUNY at
Buffalo, where David Squires is a PhD candidate in English.

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 w o m e n’ s s t u d i e s

A Taste for Brown Sugar Street Corner Secrets

Black Women in Pornography Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai
mireille miller -young svati p. shah

“Finally: scholarship that centers black women’s labor and ideas in both
academia and the sex industries and gives crucial voice to underrepre-
sented workers and feminist thinkers. Accessible to scholars and general
readers alike, this book will enrage you, enlighten you, and make you
rethink everything you know about race and sex.”—TRISTAN TAORMINO,
author of True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn, and Peversion
“I learned a tremendous amount from Street Corner Secrets. Svati P. Shah
thoughtfully and passionately lays out the struggles poor women face every
day and their creative attempts to survive and move forward. Her concern
about and respect for the women she meets shines through on every page.
This is the best of engaged anthropology. It will become a classic on gendered
labor, sexual labor, and the precarity of informal work.”—DENISE BRENNAN ,
author of Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on

representations of black women’s sexual- Street Corner Secrets challenges wide-
ity in the porn industry. It is based on spread notions of sex work in India by
Mireille Miller-Young’s extensive archival examining solicitation in three spaces
ST REET CORNER SECRETS
research and her interviews with dozens within the city of Mumbai that are
of women who have worked in the adult seldom placed within the same analytic
entertainment industry since the 1980s. frame—brothels, streets, and public
The women share their thoughts about day-wage labor markets (nakas), where
desire and eroticism, black women’s sexu- sexual commerce may be solicited
ality and representation, and ambition discreetly alongside other income-
and the need to make ends meet. Miller- generating activities. Focusing on women
Young documents their interventions into who migrated to Mumbai from rural, eco-
Jeannie Pepper, Cannes, France the complicated history of black women’s Sex, Work, and Migration nomically underdeveloped areas within
in the City of Mumbai
1986. Courtesy of JohnDragon.com.
sexuality, looking at individual choices, S VAT I P. S H A H India, Svati P. Shah argues that selling
however small—a costume, a gesture, an improvised line—as small acts sexual services is one of a number of
of resistance, of what she calls “illicit eroticism.” Building on the work ways women working as laborers may earn a living, demonstrating that
of other black feminist theorists, and contributing to the field of sex sex work, like day labor, is a part of India’s vast informal economy. Here,
work studies, she seeks to expand discussion of black women’s sexual- various means of earning—legitimized or stigmatized, legal or illegal—
ity to include their eroticism and desires, as well as their participation overlap or exist in close proximity to one another, shaping a narrow field
and representation in the adult entertainment industry. Miller-Young of livelihood options that women navigate daily. In the course of this rich
wants the voices of black women sex workers heard, and the decisions ethnography, Shah discusses policing practices, migrants’ access to hous-
they make, albeit often within material and industrial constraints, ing and water, the idea of public space, critiques of states and citizenship,
recognized as their own. and the discursive location of violence within debates on sexual commerce.
Mireille Miller-Young is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the Throughout, the book analyzes the epistemology of prostitution, and the
University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a coeditor of The Feminist silences and secrets that constitute the discourse of sexual commerce on
Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. Mumbai’s streets.
Svati P. Shah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender,
Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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A View from the Bottom On the Visceral, Part I

Asian American Masculinity Race, Sex, and Other Gut Feelings
and Sexual Representation sharon holland , marcia ochoa &
nguyen tan hoang kyla wazana tompkins , special issue editors

a special issue of GLQ

“Nguyen Tan Hoang’s exciting book is a compelling account of the aesthetic,
political, and queer possibilities of racialized forms of ‘bottomhood.’
Using the gut as a starting point,
As someone who has been writing about masochism and passivity in
this special issue of GLQ focuses
relation to queer femininities for a while, I realize that this is the book
on the idea of the visceral as a
I have needed in sorting through the complex forms of personhood, plea-
trope for the carnal and bloody
sure, and power that bottomhood braids into the meanings of race, nation,
logic that organizes life. It brings
and sexuality.”—JACK HALBERSTAM , author of The Queer Art of Failure
together scholars working in food
studies, American studies, sexual-
A View from the Bottom offers a ity and queer studies, and critical
major critical reassessment of male race theory, who are keen not
effeminacy and its racialization in only to understand patterns of
visual culture. Examining portrayals bodily production and consump-
of Asian and Asian American men in tion but also to propose new
Hollywood cinema, European art film, theoretical scaffoldings for our
gay pornography, and experimental understanding of the intersection
documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang of race, food, the human, and
explores the cultural meanings that the animal. These essays high-
accrue to sexual positions. He shows light the moments, texts, and
how cultural fantasies around the
Sweetness January 20, 2006. gimmepicture@ processes that link food, flesh,
dirtysurface.com.
position of the sexual “bottom” over- and the alimentary tract to
determine and refract the meanings of systems of pleasure—as well as to historical and political systems of
race, gender, sexuality, and national- inequality. The contributors seek to unearth structures of feeling, sens-
ity in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian ing, and embodiment that have been obscured either by colonialist
masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and historiography or political prejudice.
abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom posi- Contributors
tion that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of Leah Devun, Sharon Holland, Rachel Lee, Jennifer C. Nash, Marcia Ochoa, Kyla Wazana
bottomhood—as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, Tompkins, Zeb Tortorici
and an aesthetic form—has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender,
Sharon Holland is Associate Professor of English at Duke University.
and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism and Raising the Dead:
around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, both published by Duke
shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates University Press. Marcia Ochoa is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Queen for
a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity
as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects. in Venezuela, also published by Duke University Press. Kyla Wazana
Tompkins is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s
Nguyen Tan Hoang is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies Studies at Pomona College.
at Bryn Mawr College. He is also a videomaker whose works include
look_im_azn, K.I.P., PIRATED! and Forever Bottom! His videos have been
screened at the Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Center, and the Centre
Pompidou.

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 gay & lesbian / queer / transgender studies

Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary Queer Theory without Antinormativity

aren aizura , marcia ochoa , salvador robyn wiegman &
vidal- ortiz , trystan cotton & carsten B alzer / elizabeth a . wilson , special issue editors
C arla l a G ata , special issue editors
a special issue of DIFFERENCES
a special issue of TSQ: TRANSGENDER STUDIES QUARTERLY

What is at stake in acknowledging transgender studies’ Anglophone

roots in the global North and West? What kinds of politics might
emerge from challenging the assumption that biological sex—or the
categories “man” and “woman”—is stable and self-evident across
time, space, and culture? This special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies
Quarterly asks how trans scholarship can decolonize, rather than
reproduce, dominant imaginaries of sexuality and gender.

The issue highlights roadblocks as well as unexpected openings in the

global circulation of trans politics and culture. A First Nations scholar
recovers lost tribal knowledge of non-Eurocentric gender. A Thai trans
filmmaker negotiates culturally incommensurable categories of self.
Two contributors consider what is lost as the term transgender replaces
local, vernacular categories of difference in India. A study of gender-
queer childhood in Peru disrupts colonial ethnographer-informant
The tyrannies of sexual normativity have been widely denounced
roles, while another author critiques the colonialist ethnography on the
in queer theory. Heteronormativity, homonormativity, family values,
sarimbavy, gender nonconforming categories of Madagascar. Another
marriage, and monogamy have all been objects of sustained queer
essay follows the global commodity chain of synthetic hormones to
critique, most often in purely oppositional form: as antinormativity.
explore the biopolitics of transgender bodies and race. Finally, a round-
The contributors to this special issue of differences ask a seemingly
table discussion among transnational activists, culture makers, and
simple question of this critical code: can queer theory proceed without
scholars offers perspectives ranging from the celebratory to the cynical
a primary allegiance to antinormativity? These essays offer an affirma-
on decolonizing the transgender imaginary.
tive answer either by rethinking normativity or eschewing it altogether
Contributors in order to redirect the intellectual and political energies of the field.
Aren Aizura, Finn Jackson Ballard, Carsten Balzer/Carla LaGata, Karma Chavez,
Contributors
Giancarlo Cornejo, Trystan Cotton, Aniruddha Dutta, Julian Gill-Peterson, Marcia Ochoa,
Erica Edwards, Annamarie Jagose, Vicki Kirby, Heather Love, Madhavi Menon,
Seth Palmer, Jai Arun Ravine, Lara Rodriguez, Liz Rosenfeld, Raina Roy, T. J. Tallie,
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Michael Warner, Robyn Wiegman, Elizabeth A. Wilson
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Saylesh Wesley, Cindy Wu
Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at
Aren Aizura is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the
Duke University. She is the author of Object Lessons and editor of Women’s
School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Marcia Ochoa
Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, both
is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California,
published by Duke University Press. Elizabeth A. Wilson is Professor
Santa Cruz. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is Associate Professor of Sociology
of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is
at American University. Trystan Cotton is Associate Professor of Gender
the author of Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, also
Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. Carsten Balzer/Carla
published by Duke University Press.
LaGata is the senior researcher of Transgender Europe and lead researcher
of the Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide project.

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 music media studies

Roy Cape Beautiful Data

A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand A History of Vision and Reason since 1945
jocelyne guilbault & roy cape orit halpern

“Roy Cape is a true delight. It is an engagingly written portrayal of the
interplay of Roy Cape’s musicianship and life, demonstrating how his social
relations on the bandstand are inextricably connected to the way he lives
in the world. I like the way that the book moves from the conventions of
biography to a lively exchange between Roy and Jocelyne Guilbault, and
then becomes increasingly adventurous, only to slow down again before
the poignant afterword.”—RONALD RADANO , author of Lying Up a
Nation: Race and Black Music
“Beautiful Data is a wonderful book, deeply engaging and full of compel-
ling insights. Reading across fields, disciplines, borders, and issues, Orit
Halpern chronicles the emergence of a new way of thinking about the
world for the digital moment. It is crucial reading for anyone interested
in the new directions in which the humanities, the arts, and education are
moving.”—PRISCILLA WALD , author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers,
and the Outbreak Narrative

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist

joCeLyne guiLBAuLt roy CApe active as a band musician for more
than fifty years and as a bandleader
for more than thirty. He is known
throughout the islands and the
Caribbean diasporas in North America
and Europe. Part ethnography, part
biography, and part Caribbean music
history, Roy Cape is about the making
of reputation and circulation, and
about the meaning of labor and work
ethics. An experiment in storytell-
Charles and Ray Eames, Glimpses of the USA, Moscow 1959. ©2013 Eames Office, LLC
A Life on the CALypso soCA BAndstAnd
ing, it joins Roy’s voice with that of
(eamesoffice.com).
ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.
The idea for the book emerged from an exchange they had while dis- Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and
cussing Roy’s journey as a performer and bandleader. In conversation, a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the
they began experimenting with voice, with who takes the lead, who second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of
says what, when, to whom, and why. Their book reflects that dynamic, attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit
combining first-person narrative, dialogue, and the polyphony of Roy’s Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves,
bandmates’ voices. Listening to recordings and looking at old photo- to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of
graphs elicited more recollections, which allowed Roy to expand on cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human
recurring themes and motifs. This congenial, candid book offers differ- sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in
ent ways of knowing Roy’s labor of love—his sound and work through attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed
sound, his reputation and circulation as a renowned musician and band- attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms
leader in the world. of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management
Jocelyne Guilbault is Professor of Music at the University of California, and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value
Berkeley. She is the author of Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and
of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics and Zouk: World Music in the West Indies. train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transfor-
Roy Cape (born in Trinidad in 1942) is an internationally renowned calypso mations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief
and soca musician and bandleader. He has toured widely, played on hun- that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a
dreds of recordings, and released eight albums with his band Roy Cape All crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption.
Stars.
Orit Halpern is Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social
Research and Eugene Lang College.

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 media studies

Forensic Media Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era

Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity sharon marcus , special issue editor

greg siegel
a special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE

“An original historical analysis of the intersection of accidents and media,

this book resonates with the present climate of terror and risk, bringing a
significant historical dimension to our understanding of the contemporary
moment. Forensic Media demonstrates how thoroughly the technological
accident drives and is driven by parallel developments in modern recording
media. By raising crucial questions about the role of the mediated accident
in modern debates on causality, evidence, knowledge, and narrative, it
makes significant contributions to media archeology and the history of
science.”—KAREN BECKMAN, editor of Animating Film Theory

In Forensic Media, Greg

Siegel considers how pho-
tographic, electronic, and
Jay-Z and Marina Abramović. Still from Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film, 2013 (director
digital media have been Mark Romanek).
used to record and recon-
The contributors to Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era ask how
struct accidents, particularly
new digital media platforms such as search engines, Twitter, Facebook,
high-speed crashes and
Instagram, and YouTube have qualitatively changed celebrity culture.
catastrophes. Focusing in
Drawing on examples ranging from the luxury selfies of microcelebrities
turn on the birth of the
including Kane Lim to performance artist Marina Abramović’s collabora-
field of forensic engineering,
Photograph by and courtesy of Jeffrey Milstein. tions with Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, from the karaoke standard in shows
www.jeffreymilstein.com Charles Babbage’s invention
such as American Idol to Syrian singer Assala’s media battle with the
of a “self-registering
Assad regime, and from the “emotion economy” of reality TV to the
apparatus” for railroad trains, flight-data and cockpit voice recorders
influence of such network entrepreneurs as Tim O’Reilly, the essays in
(“black boxes”), the science of automobile crash-testing, and various
this special issue of Public Culture identify core structural features that
accident-reconstruction techniques and technologies, Siegel shows
contribute to the development of a new theory of celebrity.
how “forensic media” work to transmute disruptive chance occurrences
into reassuring narratives of causal succession. Through historical Contributors
and philosophical analyses, he demonstrates that forensic media are Laura Grindstaff, Marwan M. Kraidy, Christine Larson, Sharon Marcus, Alice E. Marwick,

as much technologies of cultural imagination as they are instruments Susan Murray, Sharrona Pearl, Dana Polan, Carlo Rotella, Karen Tongson, Fred Turner

of scientific inscription, as imbued with ideological fantasies as they Sharon Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative
are compelled by institutional rationales. By rethinking the historical Literature at Columbia University.
links and cultural relays between accidents and forensics, Siegel sheds
new light on the corresponding connections between media, technol-
ogy, and modernity.
Greg Siegel is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.

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New World Drama Formations of United States Colonialism

The Performative Commons alyosha goldstein , editor

in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849

elizabeth maddock dillon
“This indispensable anthology makes a significant intervention in multiple
fields by bridging what has often been seen as two separate processes,
the consolidation of U.S. control over the continent and the rise of formal
“Beginning with regicide and ending in riot, New World Drama revisits key
overseas interests at the end of the nineteenth century. The collected
sites along the Atlantic rim to show how theatrical audiences, electing their
essays offer rich and substantive directions for future investigations to
representatives from a ballot of dramatic characters, expanded the ‘public
scholars interested in what American Indian and Indigenous studies bring
sphere’ of the print world into a dynamic ‘performative commons.’ In this
to American studies and U.S. imperial studies.”—JODI A. BYRD , author
innovative book, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon reframes discussion across
of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
literature, history, cultural studies, and performance studies.”—JOSEPH
ROACH , author of Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance

Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S.

settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism
In New World Drama, Elizabeth
in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the essays in this groundbreaking
Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous
Elizabeth
volume underscore the United States as a fluctuating constellation
Maddock
scene of theatre in the eighteenth-
of geopolitical entities marked by overlapping and variable practices
DILLON

NEW century Atlantic world to explore the

of colonization. By rethinking the intertwined experiences of Native
WORLD
creation of new publics. Moving from
DRAMA
Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chamorros, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Samoans,
England to the Caribbean to the early
and others subjected to U.S. imperial rule, the contributors consider
the

United States, she traces the theatri-

PERFORMATIVE
COMMONS
in the
how the diversity of settler claims, territorial annexations, overseas
ATLANTIC
cal emergence of a collective body
occupations, and circuits of slavery and labor—along with their atten-
WORLD

1 649 – 1 849 in the colonized New World—one

dant forms of jurisprudence, racialization, and militarism—both facilitate
that included indigenous peoples,
and delimit the conditions of colonial dispossession. Drawing on the
diasporic Africans, and diasporic
insights of critical indigenous and ethnic studies, postcolonial theory,
Europeans. In the raucous space of
critical geography, ethnography, and social history, this volume empha-
the theatre, the contradictions of
sizes the significance of U.S. colonialisms as a vital analytic framework
colonialism loomed large. Foremost
for understanding how and why the United States is what it is today.
among these was the central paradox of modernity: the coexistence of
a massive slave economy and a nascent politics of freedom. Contributors
Julian Aguon, Joanne Barker, Berenika Byszewski, Jennifer Denetdale, Augusto Espiritu,
Audiences in London eagerly watched the royal slave, Oroonoko, tor-
Alyosha Goldstein, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Barbara Krauthamer, Lorena Oropeza, Vicente
tured on stage, while audiences in Charleston and Kingston were
L. Rafael, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Lanny Thompson, Fa’anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa, Manu
forbidden from watching the same scene. Audiences in Kingston and Vimalassery
New York City exuberantly participated in the slaying of Richard III on
stage, enacting the rise of the “people,” and Native American leaders Alyosha Goldstein is Associate Professor of American Studies at the
University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The
were enjoined to watch actors in blackface “jump Jim Crow.” Dillon
Politics of Community Action during the American Century, also published
argues that the theater served as a “performative commons,” staging
by Duke University Press.
debates over representation in a political world based on popular sover-
eignty. Her book is a capacious account of performance, aesthetics, and
modernity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is Professor of English at Northeastern
University. She is the author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of
Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere.

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Orgies of Feeling Soundtracks of Asian America

Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom Navigating Race through Musical Performance
elisabeth r . anker gr ace wang

“Anyone who thinks that melodrama is inherently politically progressive
is advised to read this book, the first to systematically apply the role
of the American melodramatic mode to the politics of American heroic
sovereignty. Perhaps the boldest part of Elisabeth R. Anker’s thesis is not
simply the general argument that Americans often cast their politics into
narratives of victimization and vengeance, but the historical argument that
a new kind of melodrama has emerged ‘with a vengeance’ after the end of
the Cold War and especially after 9/11. I am in awe at this book’s boldness
and acuity.”—LINDA WILLIAMS , author of On The Wire
“Soundtracks of Asian America is smart and informed, capacious and beauti-
fully written. Arguing that the racialized imagination works similarly across
musical genres, Grace Wang explores senses of Asian and Asian American
belonging across the worlds of classical and popular music. From young
classical musicians’ parents as key sites of ideology formation to the
‘reverse migration’ of young Asian Americans to East Asian popular music
markets, her case studies are inspired and telling.”—DEBORAH WONG ,
author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music

In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian

Melodrama is not just a film or literary Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and
genre but a powerful political belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they
discourse that galvanizes national navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences
orgies of feeling sentiment to legitimate state violence. of Asians and Asian Americans in Western classical music, U.S. popular
Finding virtue in national suffering music, and Mandopop (Mandarin-language popular music). Her study
and heroism in sovereign action, encompasses the perceptions and motivations of middle-class Chinese
melodrama and melodramatic political discourses and Korean immigrant parents intensely involved in their children’s clas-
the politics of freedom
cast war and surveillance as moral sical music training, and of Asian and Asian American classical musicians
imperatives for eradicating villainy whose prominence in their chosen profession is celebrated by some and
and upholding freedom. In Orgies undermined by others. Wang interviews young Asian American singer-
elisabeth r. anker of Feeling, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly songwriters using YouTube to contest the limitations of a racialized U.S.
reframes political theories of sover- media landscape, and investigates the transnational modes of belonging
eignty, freedom, and power by forged by Asian American pop stars pursuing recording contracts and
analyzing the work of melodrama fame in East Asia. Foregrounding musical spaces where Asian Americans
and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates are particularly visible, Wang examines how race matters and operates
desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic dis- in the practices and institutions of music making.
courses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric, Grace Wang is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University
Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich of California, Davis.
Nietzsche’s notion of “orgies of feeling,” in which overwhelming
emotions displace commonplace experiences of vulnerability and pow-
erlessness onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, Anker contends
that the recent upsurge in melodrama in the United States is an indica-
tion of public discontent. Yet the discontent that melodrama reflects is
ultimately an expression of the public’s inability to overcome systemic
exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated
threats to the nation.
Elisabeth R. Anker is Assistant Professor of American Studies and
Political Science at George Washington University.

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Staging the Blues Desire and Disaster in New Orleans

From Tent Shows to Tourism Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory
paige a . m c ginley lynnell l . thomas

“This beautifully written and engaging account of how blues has been
staged will change for good how theater scholars think of musical perfor-
mance, and how music scholars think of theater. Paige A. McGinley’s obser-
vation that ‘authenticity is produced theatrically, on stage, in the context of
the performance event’ deconstructs the binary between authenticity and
inauthenticity, allowing her to focus on black agency and subjectivity as it
is produced in and through performance.”—GAYLE WALD , author of Shout,
Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta
Tharpe
“This highly original book fills a significant gap in the literature on New
Orleans and on tourism in general by offering a rare look at African American
tourism within the dominant (white) tourism narrative. Desire and Disaster
in New Orleans will be vital reading for scholars working on New Orleans
and those examining representations of African Americans in modern
American culture. It is filled with astute analyses based on Lynnell L.
Thomas’s impressive interpretations of sources ranging from websites to
interviews.”—ANTHONY J. STANONIS , author of Creating the Big Easy:
New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945

Singing was just one element of blues Most of the narratives packaged for
performance in the early twentieth New Orleans’s many tourists cultivate
g

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in

century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, a desire for black culture—jazz, cuisine,

lu
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vaudeville stages. The press even and natural disaster. In this timely
described these women as “actresses” DESi rE & book, the Americanist and New Orleans
long before they achieved worldwide DiSAS tEr in nEw orLEAnS native Lynnell L. Thomas delves into
fame for their musical recordings. In the relationship between tourism,
Staging the Blues, Paige A. McGinley cultural production, and racial politics.
shows that even though folklorists, She carefully interprets the racial nar-
tourism, race, and Historical Memory Lynnell L. thomas
record producers, and festival promot- ratives embedded in tourist websites,
ers set the theatricality of early blues travel guides, business periodicals,
aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant and newspapers; the thoughts of tour guides and owners; and the
throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey, stories told on bus and walking tours as they were conducted both
Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie before and after Katrina. She describes how, with varying degrees
McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial of success, African American tour guides, tour owners, and tourism
British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists industry officials have used their own black heritage tours and tourism-
who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy, focused businesses to challenge exclusionary tourist representations.
and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial Taking readers from the Lower Ninth Ward to the White House, Thomas
authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice. highlights the ways that popular culture and public policy converge to
Paige A. McGinley is Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at create a mythology of racial harmony that masks a long history of racial
Washington University in St. Louis. inequality and structural inequity.
Lynnell L. Thomas is Associate Professor of American Studies at the
University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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 american studies african american studies

Fighting for Recognition Wandering

Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence Philosophical Performances
in Professional Wrestling of Racial and Sexual Freedom
r . t yson smith sarah jane cervenak

“Behind the hypermacho performance of pro wrestling, R. Tyson Smith
reveals a backstage where hard aggressive bodies are actually soft and
yielding, hypersensitive as lovers so that they don’t cripple each other.
It is more akin to ballet than battle, except that all the effort goes into
giving the opposite impression. This is one of the great ethnographies of
the backstage of occupations, of athletes, of show business, of the bodily
self—and of social performance itself.”—RANDALL COLLINS , author of
Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory
“The rigorous turns and supple overturnings in Wandering illuminate and
extend meditative resistance to the racial and sexual pathologization of
the irregular, antiregulative, social, and aesthetic movement animating
the history of black thought. Sarah Jane Cervenak’s devoted study of the
disruption of linearity, from David Walker to Gayl Jones, from Harriet Jacobs
to William Pope.L challenges and allows us to understand that the errand
of blackness is a wandering whose origin and end are dislocation, where
the new thing awaits.”—FRED MOTEN , author of B Jenkins

In Fighting for Recognition, R. Tyson Combining black feminist theory,

 FIGHTING FOR  Smith enters the world of indepen- philosophy, and performance stud-

RECOGNITION dent professional wrestling,

IDENTITY, MASCULINITY, AND THE ACT OF
VIOLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
R. TYSON SMITH
a community-based entertainment
ies, Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates
on the significance of physical and
staged in community centers, high- mental roaming for black freedom.
school gyms, and other modest She is particularly interested in the
venues. Like the big-name, televised power of wandering or daydreaming
pro-wrestlers who originally inspired for those whose mobility has been
them, indie wrestlers engage in cho- under severe constraint, from the
reographed fights in character. Smith slave era to the present. Since the
details the experiences, meanings,
WA N D E R I N G Enlightenment, wandering has been
and motivations of the young men considered dangerous and even crimi-
Philosophical Performances of
Racial and Sexual Freedom
Sarah Jane Cervenak

who wrestle as “Lethal” or “Southern nal when associated with people of

Bad Boy,” despite receiving little-to-
no pay and risking the possibility of serious and sometimes permanent
injury. Exploring intertwined issues of gender, class, violence, and
the body, he sheds new light on the changing sources of identity in
a postindustrial society that increasingly features low wages, insecure
employment, and fragmented social support. Smith uncovers the
tensions between strength and vulnerability, pain and solidarity, and
homophobia and homoeroticism that play out both backstage and in
the ring as the wrestlers seek recognition from fellow performers and
devoted fans.
R. Tyson Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown
University.
color. Cervenak engages artist-philos-
ophers who focus on wayward movement and daydreaming, or mental
travel, that transcend state-imposed limitations on physical, geographic
movement. From Sojourner Truth’s spiritual and physical roaming to the
rambling protagonist of Gayl Jones’s novel Mosquito, Cervenak high-
lights modes of wandering that subvert Enlightenment-based protocols
of rationality, composure, and upstanding comportment. Turning to the
artists William Pope.L, Adrian Piper, and Carrie Mae Weems, Cervenak
argues that their work produces an otherworldly movement, an errant
kinesis that exceeds locomotive constraints, resisting the straightening-
out processes of post-Enlightenment, white-supremacist, capitalist,
sexist, and heteronormative modernity. Their roaming animates another
terrain, one where free, black movement is not necessarily connected
to that which can be seen, touched, known, and materially valued.
Sarah Jane Cervenak is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender
Studies and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina,
Greensboro.

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Skin Acts Black Atlas

Race, Psychoanalysis, Geography and Flow in
and the Black Male Performer Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
michelle ann stephens judith madera

“Michelle Ann Stephens has written a book that anyone interested in race “In Black Atlas Judith Madera shows how the shifting territory comprising
and psychoanalysis will want to pay attention to, and one that even those the nation and the even more fluid relation of African Americans to that
who do not consider themselves interested in the topic will have to pay evolving terrain enabled the writing of such key figures such as Martin
attention to. She has taken the most immediate and seemingly obvious site Delany, William Wells Brown, and Pauline Hopkins. In so doing, Madera
of racialization, the skin, and given it a revelatory new genealogy. She sets provides an important contribution to African American literary criticism;
the standard for all future engagements with what Frantz Fanon termed the expanding corpus of material focused on territoriality, transnational-
‘epidermalization.’ Through arresting readings of modern and contemporary ism, and empire; and our understanding of the rise of the novel in the
art and performance, Stephens unfolds the racializing and engendering Americas.”—CAROLINE F. LEVANDER , author of Where is American
of skin within modernity, and makes a powerful argument for reading Literature?
it through the lens of feminist, antiracist, and haptic visuality.”—TAVIA
NYONG’O , author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and
the Ruses of Memory Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography.
It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and
African American literature during the long nineteenth century,
In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War,
michelle ann stephens
explores the work of four iconic Reconstruction, Pan-Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera
twentieth-century black male per- argues that spatial reconfiguration was a critical concern for the era’s
formers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, black writers, especially in response to legacies of containment and
Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to territorialization. But she also demonstrates how the possibility for
reveal how racial and sexual difference new modes of representation could be found in the radical redistricting
is both marked by and experienced of space.
Skin  Acts
in the skin. She situates each figure
In a series of impressive readings, Madera reveals how crucial geogra-
within his cultural moment, examining
phy was to the genre-bending works of writers such as William Wells
his performance in the context of
Brown, Martin Delany, James Beckwourth, Pauline Hopkins, Charles
contemporary race relations and
Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. These authors intervened in major
race, psychoanalysis, visual regimes. Drawing on Lacanian
nineteenth-century debates about free soil, regional production, Indian
and the black male performer
psychoanalysis and performance
deterritorialization, internal diasporas, pan-American expansionism,
theory, Stephens contends that while
and hemispheric circuitry. They staged spaces as multimodal, as sites
black skin is subject to what Frantz Fanon called the epidermalizing
for creative dissent and invention. Black geographies stood in for what
and hardening effects of the gaze, it is in the flesh that other—inter-
was at stake in negotiating a shared world. Black Atlas shows how the
subjective, pre-discursive, and sensuous—forms of knowing take place
rethinking of place and scale can galvanize the study of black literature.
between artist and audience. Analyzing a wide range of visual, musical,
and textual sources, Stephens shows that black subjectivity and perfor- Judith Madera is Associate Professor of English and Environmental
Studies at Wake Forest University.
mativity are structured by the tension between skin and flesh, sight
and touch, difference and sameness.
Michelle Ann Stephens is Associate Professor of English and Latino and
Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is
the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean
Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, also published by Duke
University Press.

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 indigenous & native american studies

A Nation Rising Colonial Genocide in

Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty Indigenous North America
noelani goodyear - k a‘ōpua , ik aik a hussey andrew woolford , jeff benvenuto
& erin k ahunawaik a’ala wright, editors & alex ander laban hinton , editors

Photographs by Edward W. Greevy With a Foreword by Theodore Fontaine

“These are the voices of the beating heart of Kanaka Maoli resistance to the
usurpation of Hawaiian land and nationhood. Strong words by good minds,
the book is at once an honest reflection on the Hawaiian struggle and
a motivating call to action to protect the land and waters and heritage. It
is history, it is culture, it is wisdom, it is art, and it is an invaluable contri-
bution to the literature of Indigenous resurgence.”—TAIAIAKE ALFRED
(Kahnawà:ke Mohawk), Professor of Indigenous Governance, University of
Victoria
“Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America is one of the best antholo-
gies I have read in the field of American Indian and Indigenous studies.
Within North American history, few have seriously tackled the central ques-
tion of this anthology: to what extent were Indigenous-settler relations
genocidal? The failure of U.S. and Canadian scholars to address this ques-
tion in a deep and sustained way makes this insightful collection particu-
larly timely and important.”—NED BLACKHAWK , author of Violence over
the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

A Nation Rising chronicles the political This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demo-
A NAtioN RisiNg

struggles and grassroots initiatives collec-
tively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty
movement. Scholars, community organiz-
ers, journalists, and filmmakers contribute
essays that explore Native Hawaiian
resistance and resurgence from the 1970s
to the early 2010s. Photographs and
vignettes about particular activists further
HAwAiiAN MoveMeNts for Life, LANd, and soveReigNty
Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, Ikaika Hussey,
and Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright, editors
bring Hawaiian social movements to life.
Photographs by Edward W. Greevy
graphic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass
the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America.
Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy
Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts
through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destruc-
tive aspects of the colonization and subsequent settlement of North
America, several essays address Indigenous boarding school systems
imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. governments in attempts to
“civilize” or “assimilate” Indigenous children. Contributors examine
some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and

The stories and analyses of efforts to

protect land and natural resources, resist community dispossession, and
advance claims for sovereignty and self-determination reveal the diverse
objectives and strategies, as well as the inevitable tensions of the broad-
tent sovereignty movement. The collection explores the Hawaiian political
ethic of ea, which both includes and exceeds dominant notions of state-
based sovereignty. A Nation Rising raises issues that resonate far beyond
the Hawaiian archipelago, issues such as Indigenous cultural revitalization,
environmental justice, and demilitarization.
Contributors
Noa Emmett Aluli, Ibrahim G. Aoudé, Kekuni Blaisdell, Joan Conrow, Noelani Goodyear-
Ka‘ōpua, Edward W. Greevy, Ulla Hasager, Pauahi Ho‘okano, Micky Huihui, Ikaika Hussey,
Manu Ka‘iama, Le‘a Malia Kanehe, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Anne Keala Kelly, Jacqueline
Lasky, Davianna Pōmaika‘i McGregor, Nālani Minton, Kalamaoka‘āina Niheu, Katrina-Ann
R. Kapā‘anaokalāokeola Nākoa Oliveira, Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, Leon No‘eau
Peralto, Kekailoa Perry, Puhipau, Noenoe K. Silva, D. Kapua‘ala Sproat, Ty P. Kāwika
Tengan, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Kūhiō Vogeler, Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright
Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua is Associate Professor of Political Science
at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Ikaika Hussey is the Founder and
Publisher of the award-winning news magazine the Hawai‘i Independent.
Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright is the Director of Native Hawaiian Student
Services in the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Edward W. Greevy is a freelance photographer whose
career spans more than forty years.
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the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the
spread of disease, the near-extinction of the buffalo, and forced politi-
cal restructuring of Indigenous communities. Assessing the record of
these appalling events, the contributors maintain that North Americans
must reckon with colonial and settler colonial attempts to annihilate
Indigenous peoples.
Contributors
Jeff Benvenuto, Robbie Ethridge, Theodore Fontaine, Joseph P. Gone, Alexander Laban
Hinton, Tasha Hubbard, Kiera L. Ladner, Tricia E. Logan, David B. MacDonald, Benjamin
Madley, Jeremy Patzer, Julia Peristerakis, Christopher Powell, Colin Samson, Gray H.
Whaley, Andrew Woolford
Andrew Woolford is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and
Social Justice Research Coordinator at the University of Manitoba.
Jeff Benvenuto is a Ph.D. student in the Division of Global Affairs
at Rutgers University, Newark. Alexander Laban Hinton is the Director
of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights; Professor
of Anthropology and Global Affairs; and the UNESCO Chair on Genocide
Prevention at Rutgers University, Newark. Theodore Fontaine is the
author of Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools:
A Memoir.

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 latin american studies

Portrait of a Young Painter The Great Depression in Latin America

Pepe Zúñiga and Mexico City’s Rebel Generation paulo drinot & alan knight, editors

mary k ay vaughan

“In The Great Depression in Latin America, leading Latin Americanists

“Portrait of a Young Painter is one of the most original and engaging books address an important and timely topic from new perspectives, paying more

I have read in a long time. It is dazzling in its layers of perception, its attention to the cultural and social repercussions of the Depression in Latin

textures, and its intimate insights. It is genuinely original in both argument America than have previous studies. A number of the essays take strong

and methodology, a remarkable work and a pleasure to read.”—BARBARA revisionist stands that will garner a lot of attention, and Paulo Drinot’s

WEINSTEIN , coeditor of The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a introduction and Alan Knight’s conclusion do a wonderful job of framing

Transnational History
In Portrait of a Young Painter, the
distinguished historian Mary Kay
Vaughan adopts a biographical
approach to understanding the
culture surrounding the Mexico
City youth rebellion of the 1960s.
Her chronicle of the life of painter
Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature
that portrays post-1940 Mexican
history as a series of uprisings
against state repression, injustice,
and social neglect that culmi-
nated in the student protests of
1968. Rendering Zúñiga’s coming
José Zúñiga, Self-portrait, 1968. Courtesy of
of age on the margins of formal
the artist.
politics, Vaughan depicts mid-
century Mexico City as a culture of growing prosperity, state largesse,
and a vibrant, transnationally informed public life that produced a
multifaceted youth movement brimming with creativity and criticism
of convention. In an analysis encompassing the mass media, schools,
politics, family, sexuality, neighborhoods, and friendships, she subtly
invokes theories of discourse, phenomenology, and affect to examine
and enhancing the already strong essays.”—STEVEN TOPIK , coeditor of
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building
of the World Economy, 1500–2000
Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the
United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s
had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this
book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role
of the state, party-political competition, and the formation of working-
class and other social and political movements. Going beyond economic
history, they chart the repercussions and policy responses in different
countries, while noting common cross-regional trends, in particular,
a mounting critique of economic orthodoxy and greater state interven-
tion in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, both trends crucial
to the region’s subsequent development. The book also examines
how regional transformations interacted with and differed from global
processes. Taken together, these essays deepen our understanding of
the Great Depression as a formative experience in Latin America and
provide a timely comparative perspective on the recent global economic
crisis.
Contributors
Marcelo Bucheli, Carlos Contreras, Paulo Drinot, Jeffrey L. Gould, Roy Hora,
Alan Knight, Gillian McGillivray, Luis Felipe Sáenz, Angela Vergara, Joel Wolfe,
Doug Yarrington

the formation of Zúñiga’s persona in the decades leading up to 1968. Paulo Drinot is Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the Institute
By discussing the influences that shaped his worldview, she historicizes of the Americas, University College London. He is the author of The Allure
the process of subject formation and shows how doing so offers new of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State and editor
perspectives on the events of 1968. of Che’s Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America,
both also published by Duke University Press. Alan Knight is Professor
Mary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History Emerita at the University
of the History of Latin America at the University of Oxford. He is the author
of Maryland. She is the author of Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers,
of Mexico: The Colonial Era; Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish
Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–40, winner of both the Conference
Conquest; and The Mexican Revolution (two volumes).
on Latin American History’s Bolton Prize and the Latin American Studies
Association’s Bryce Wood Award, and a coeditor of Sex in Revolution:
Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico and The Eagle and the Virgin:
Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940, both also published
by Duke University Press.

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The Vanguard of the Atlantic World We Are Left without a Father Here
Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration
in Nineteenth-Century Latin America in Postwar Puerto Rico
james e . sanders eileen j . suárez findlay

“The Vanguard of the Atlantic World is a fundamental contribution not
only to our understanding of nineteenth-century Latin America, but also
to the broader scholarly debate about the origins of modern democratic
republicanism. James E. Sanders argues that in the nineteenth century
Spanish America was the most democratic region of the world. In so
doing, he rejects claims that Latin America has always stood on the
margins of democratic culture and modernity, and he speaks directly to
current debates about the relationship between capitalism, modernity,
and democracy.”—REBECCA EARLE , author of The Return of the Native:
Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810–1930
“In this fascinating study, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay reinterprets Puerto
Rican history in the mid-twentieth century by placing labor migration,
populist politics, and gender at the heart of her narrative. Thousands of
Puerto Rican migrant workers, seeking modernity and an escape from
the harsh colonialism on their home island, journeyed to sugar beet fields
in Michigan. There they found exploitation harsher than they had known.
Findlay eloquently explores their travels and travails and shows how
they reshaped both U.S. colonialism and Puerto Rican populism.”—JULIE
GREENE , author of The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the
Panama Canal

In the nineteenth century, Latin
America was home to the majority
James e. sanders
of the world’s democratic republics.
Many historians have dismissed
these political experiments as
corrupt pantomimes of governments
of Western Europe and the United
States. Challenging that perspective,
James E. Sanders contends that Latin
America in this period was a site of
The Vanguard
of the atlantic World genuine political innovation and pop-
Cre ating M oder ni t y, n at i o n, a nd d e M o Cr a C y ular debate reflecting Latin Americans’
in nineteenth-C e nt u ry L at i n a M e r i C a
We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working
people’s struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism
in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of
agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government,
migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state’s sugar beet fields.
The men expected to earn enough income to finally become successful
breadwinners and fathers. To their dismay, the men encountered
abysmal working conditions and pay. The migrant workers in Michigan
and their wives in Puerto Rico soon exploded in protest. Chronicling
the protests, the surprising alliances that they created, and the Puerto
Rican government’s response, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay explains that
notions of fatherhood and domesticity were central to Puerto Rican

visions of modernity. Drawing on
archival sources in Mexico, Colombia,
and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and
democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immi-
grants, slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty,
democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the
region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse
constituencies. In doing so, Sanders reframes the locus and meaning of
political and cultural modernity.
James E. Sanders is Associate Professor of History at Utah State
University. He is the author of Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics,
Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, also published by Duke
University Press.
populist politics. Patriarchal ideals shaped citizens’ understandings
of themselves, their relationship to Puerto Rican leaders and the state,
as well as the meanings they ascribed to U.S. colonialism. Findlay
argues that the motivations and strategies for transnational labor
migrations, colonial policies, and worker solidarities are all deeply
gendered.
Eileen J. Suárez Findlay is Associate Professor of Latin American and
Caribbean History at American University. She is the author of Imposing
Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920, also
published by Duke University Press.
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The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast
durval muniz de albuquerque jr .
With a Foreword by James N. Green
Translated by Jerry Dennis Metz
“In this modern classic of Brazilian cultural history, Durval Muniz de
Albuquerque Jr. provides a richly documented and theoretically illuminating
exploration of how the most ‘regional’ of all Brazilian regions has
been imagined, indeed ‘invented,’ as a space of alterity, poverty, and
authenticity during the past century. In doing so, he reveals the discursive
production of regions, the relations of power that produce them, and
the stereotypes that make them recognizable to a national audience.”
—CHRISTOPHER DUNN , coeditor of Brazilian Popular Music and
Citizenship
Brazil’s Northeast has traditionally been considered one of the coun-
try’s poorest and most underdeveloped areas. In this impassioned work,
the Brazilian historian Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. investigates
why Northeasterners are marginalized and stereotyped not only by
inhabitants of other parts of Brazil but also by nordestinos themselves.
His broader question, though, is how “the Northeast” came into exis-
tence. Tracing the history of its invention, he finds that the idea of
the Northeast was formed in the early twentieth century when elites
around Brazil became preoccupied with building a nation. Diverse
phenomena—from drought policies to messianic movements, banditry
to new regional political blocs—helped to consolidate this novel con-
cept, the Northeast. Politicians, intellectuals, writers, and artists, often
nordestinos, played key roles in making the region cohere as a space of
common references and concerns. Ultimately, Albuqerque urges histo-
rians to question received notions, such as regions and regionalism, to
reveal their artifice and abandon static categories in favor of new, more
granular understandings.
Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. is Professor of Brazilian History at the
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. An award-winning author, he is
considered one of Brazil’s leading historians. James N. Green is Professor
of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University. He is the author of
We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
in the United States, also published by Duke University Press. Jerry Dennis
Metz is translator and independent scholar, has a PhD in Latin American
History from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Rhythms of the Pachakuti
Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
raquel gutiérrez aguilar
With a Foreword by Sinclair Thomson
Translated by Stacey Alba D. Skar
“This wonderful book is both a detailed historical account of the 2000–2005
uprisings in Bolivia and a significant theoretical intervention into central
contemporary questions about political action and revolution. In particular,
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar emphasizes the profound significance of indig-
enous social organization and worldviews for the contemporary political
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Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar documents
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century.”—SINCLAIR THOMSON , from the foreword
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous
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Prostitution and the Ends of Empire German Colonialism in a Global Age

Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India bradley nar anch & geoff eley, editors

stephen legg

“This landmark collection showcases the latest research in many areas

“Prostitution and the Ends of Empire deftly reveals that the attack on the of German colonialism. As a state-of-the-art expression of a vibrant field,

brothel in interwar Delhi was more than just a city-specific act, but rather German Colonialism in a Global Age will set a new benchmark and become

demonstrated the power of international, imperial, and local networks. a standard reference.”—A. DIRK MOSES , author of German Intellectuals

Using Foucault’s and Agamben’s work Stephen Legg persuasively shows and the Nazi Past

the reimagining of the brothel as a space of danger that required its

suppression. Legg’s use of scalar analysis is carefully constructed and
This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colo-
brilliantly conclusive. This is an important and original reading of colonial
nial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the
prostitution.”—PHILIPPA LEVINE , author of The British Empire: Sunrise
colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German poli-
to Sunset
tics during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871–1918), but also
how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during
Officially confined to red-light the Nazi era. In introductory essays, editors Bradley Naranch and Geoff
districts, brothels in British India were Eley survey the historiography and broad developments in the imperial
p r o s t i t u t i o n and
the e n d s of e m p i r e
tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by imaginary of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors then
•

s ca l e , g ov e r n m e n ta l i t i e s, a n d i n t e r wa r i n d i a

this time, prostitution reform cam-
paigns led by Indian, imperial, and
international bodies were combin-
ing the social scientific insights of
sexology and hygiene with the moral
condemnations of sexual slavery and
human trafficking. These reformers
identified the brothel as exacerbating
rather than containing “corrupt-
stephen legg ing prostitutes” and the threat of
venereal diseases, and therefore
encouraged the suppression of brothels rather than their urban segre-
gation. In this book, Stephen Legg tracks the complex spatial politics
examine diverse particular aspects, from science and the colonial state
to the disciplinary constructions of Africans as colonial subjects for
German administrative control. They consider the influence of imperial-
ism on German society and culture via the mass-marketing of imperial
imagery; conceptions of racial superiority in German pedagogy; and
the influence of colonialism on German anti-Semitism. The collection
concludes with several essays that address geopolitics and the broader
impact of the German imperial experience.
Contributors
Dirk Bönker, Jeff Bowersox, David Ciarlo, Sebastian Conrad, Christian S. Davis, Geoff
Eley, Jennifer Jenkins, Birthe Kundus, Klaus Mühlhahn, Bradley Naranch, Deborah Neill,
Heike Schmidt, J. P. Short, George Steinmetz, Dennis Sweeney, Brett M. Van Hoesen,
Andrew Zimmerman

surrounding brothels in the interwar period at multiple scales, including
the local, regional, national, imperial, and global. Campaigns and state
policies against brothels did not just operate at different scales but
made scales themselves, forging new urban, provincial, colonial, and
international formations. In so doing, they also remade the boundary
between the state and the social, through which the prostitute was,
Bradley Naranch is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Montana. Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished
University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan.
He is the author of Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground
of Consent in Germany, 1930–1945, and A Crooked Line: From Cultural
History to the History of Society.

Legg concludes, “civilly abandoned.” POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE

Stephen Legg is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the A Series Edited by Julia Adams and George Steinmetz

University of Nottingham. He is the author of Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s

Urban Governmentalities and the editor of Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl
Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos.

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Body and Nation Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire
The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics Creating an Imperial Commons
in the Twentieth Century antoinette burton & isabel hofmeyr , editors

emily s . rosenberg &

shanon fitzpatrick , editors
“The new critical history of empire and the freshly theorized transnational
history of the book are together at last, each enhancing the other in a
superb collection edited by the leading scholars in studies of the British
“This unusually synthetic and well-conceived volume covers historical and
world. Neither ‘book’ nor ‘empire’ is a straightforward idea. Focusing
contemporary situations in which the bodies of civilians, combatants, and
on ten influential works, the editors and contributors show how readers
those defined as outsiders are managed, mobilized, and politically tethered
appropriated ideas as they circulated—often without regard for intellectual
to broad nationalist and imperial projects ‘at home’ and ‘abroad.’ In attend-
property—in periodical, pamphlet and volume forms.”—LESLIE HOWSAM ,
ing to the details of bodily care and coercion, the contributors ask why,
how, and when bodies matter, demonstrating the blur between technolo- author of Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain 1850–1950

gies of war and ever more sophisticated forms of peacetime surveillance.

Taken together, their essays show that we need to know more about whose
Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book
bodies count in the changing landscape of national security and imperial
history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields
governance and in the embattled space between ‘care’ and ‘control.’”
through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book.
—ANN LAURA STOLER, editor of Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination
Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire,
including Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Thomas Macaulay’s History of
Body and Nation interrogates the connec- England, Charles Pearson’s National Life and Character, and Robert
tions among the body, the nation, and the Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. They explore anticolonial texts in
world in twentieth-century U.S. history. which authors such as C. L. R. James and Mohandas K. Gandhi chipped
The idea that bodies and bodily characteris- away at the foundations of imperial authority, and they introduce books
body and nation tics are heavily freighted with values that that may be less familiar to students of empire. Taken together, the
The Global Realm of
are often linked to political and social essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an “imperial com-
U.S. body PoliTicS in The
TwenTieTh cenTURy
spheres remains underdeveloped in the mons,” a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire
histories of America’s relations with the nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize
rest of the world. Attentive to diverse state the other.
Emily S. Rosenberg and
Shanon Fitzpatrick, editors and nonstate actors, the contributors pro- Contributors
vide historically grounded insights into the Tony Ballantyne, Elleke Boehmer, Antoinette Burton, Catherine Hall, Isabel Hofmeyr,
transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the Aaron Kamugisha, Marilyn Lake, Charlotte Macdonald, Derek Peterson, Mrinalini Sinha,
regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S. Army to Cold War Tridip Suhrud, André du Toit

ideals of American feminine beauty, and from “body counts” as metrics

of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in
the United States as public health threats. By considering bodies as
complex, fluctuating, and interrelated sites of meaning, the contributors
to this collection offer new insights into the workings of both soft and
hard power.
Contributors
Frank Costigliola, Janet M. Davis, Shanon Fitzpatrick, Paul A. Kramer, Shirley Jennifer
Lim, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Natalia Molina, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Emily S. Rosenberg,
Kristina Shull, Annessa C. Stagner, Marilyn B. Young
Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce
A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books, includ-
ing The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader and A Primer for Teaching World
History: Ten Design Principles, both also published by Duke University Press.
Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and Visiting Distinguished Global Professor
at New York University. Her prize-winning books include Gandhi’s Printing
Press: Experiments in Slow Reading and ‘We Spend Our Years as a Tale That
is Told’: Oral Historical Storytelling in a South African Chiefdom.

Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California,

Irvine. She is the author of Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics
and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930, and A Date Which Will Live:
Pearl Harbor in American Memory, both also published by Duke University
Press. Shanon Fitzpatrick is a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of
History at McGill University.

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Developments in Russian Politics 8 Miriam Hansen

stephen white , richard sakwa & Cinema, Experience, and the Public Sphere
henry e . hale , editors david bathrick , andreas huyssen
& eric rentschler , special issue editors

In Developments in Russian
Politics 8, leading experts provide
a broad-ranging assessment of
Putin’s third term in power. All
either new or comprehensively
rewritten for this volume, the
essays cover topics including
executive power, parliamentary
politics, the electoral process,
a special issue of NEW GERMAN CRITIQUE
This special issue of New German
Critique is dedicated to the thought
and writing of Miriam Hansen, whose
contributions broke ground in film
history, film theory, and the politics
of mass culture and the public sphere.

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the rule of law, foreign policy, The collection focuses on the areas in
the economy, and the military. which she was most influential: early
They also address matters such cinema, its reception, and the legacy of
as Russia’s media and political vernacular modernism, including essays
communication in the digital touching on the concept’s impact on
age, society and social divisions, Miriam Hansen. Photo by Howard
contemporary thinking about Russian
Helsinger. Courtesy of Michael Geyer.
protest and challenge, and future and Chinese cinemas. The issue also
trajectories for Russian politics. features extensive commentary on Hansen’s pioneering Cinema and
Developments in Russian Politics remains the first-choice introduction Experience, expanding on the book’s inquiry into the continuing legacy
to the politics of the world’s largest nation. of the Frankfurt School.
Contributors Contributors
Vladimir Gel’man, Henry E. Hale, Philip Hanson, Kathryn Hendley, Margot Light, Weihong Bao, David Bathrick, Bill Brown, Susan Buck-Morss, Edward Dimendberg,
Jennifer Mathers, Ian McAllister, Sarah Oates, Thomas F. Remington, Graeme Mary Anne Doane, Tom Gunning, Sabine Haenni, Andreas Huyssen, Martin Jay,
Robertson, Richard Sakwa, Darrell Slider, Svetlana Stephenson, Stephen White, Anton Kaes, Gertrud Koch, Katharina Loew, Daniel Morgan, Laura Mulvey, Eric
John P. Willerton Rentschler, D. N. Rodowick, Simon Rothöhler, Heide Schlüpmann, Yuri Tsivian,
Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Stephen White is James Bryce Professor of Politics at the University of
Glasgow, and also Visiting Professor at the Institute of Applied Politics in David Bathrick is Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Film and Dance, and
Moscow. Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics German Studies at Cornell University. Andreas Huyssen is Professor
at the University of Kent, and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the
Programme at Chatham House in London. Henry E. Hale is Associate editor of Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Age, also published by Duke University Press. Eric Rentschler is Professor
Washington University. of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

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