Stanford Philosophy, Literature, and Theory Catalog 2012

2012
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A Literary History of the Democratic Party

Michael F. Szalay
Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. This bold and ingenious book gives us the hipsters racial background, but also a crucial glimpse into how cultural politics matter to politics in the weightiest and most straightforward sense.
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
Hip Figures
Post 45 publishes groundbreaking work on U. S. culture after the Second World War. Our goal is to question rather than reproduce critical orthodoxiesto ask basic questions about how to read and categorize American writing since 1945. Though the series will gravitate toward literature, we welcome writing on a wide range of popular and avant-garde culture, including film, drama, music, graphic arts, and computer-based forms.
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Projections
Comics and the History of Twenty-FirstCentury Storytelling

Jared Gardner
Projections argues that the seemingly sudden visibility of comics is no accident. Beginning with the parallel development of narrative comics at the turn of the 20th century, comics have long been a form that invitesindeed requiresreaders to help shape the stories being told. Today, with the rise of interactive media, the creative techniques and the reading practices comics have been experimenting with for a century are now in universal demand. Recounting the history of comics from the nineteenth-century rise of sequential comics to the newspaper strip, through comic books and underground comix, to the graphic novel and webcomics, Gardner shows why they offer the best models for rethinking storytelling in the twenty-first century.
Americas Corporate Art
The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures

Jerome Christensen
Contrary to theories of single person authorship, Americas Corporate Art argues that the corporate studio is the author of Hollywood motion pictures, both during the classical era of the studio system and beyond, when studios became players in global dramas staged by massive entertainment conglomerates. Hollywood movies are examples of a commodity that, until the digital age, was rare: a self-advertising artifact that markets the studios brand in the very act of consumption.
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Original, provocative, deeply informed, and a much needed corrective to the presentist bias of comics studies.
Charles Hatfield, California State University, Northridge, author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature
This highly original and engaging study makes a significant contribution to American film history and to film and media theory, particularly media industry studies. no other author has analyzed studio authorship with the depth, care, and complexity that Christensen exhibits here, nor has such an argument been supported with close readings of individual films.
Thomas Schatz, University of Texas at Austin
240 pp., 69 figures, 2012
400 pp., 102 illustrations, 2012
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Monopolizing the Master

Michael Anesko
Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship
Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation, a struggle that was continued by later generations of critics and biographers. Monopolizing the Master gives a blow-by-blow account of this conflict, which aroused intense feelings of jealousy, suspicion, and proprietorship among those who claimed to be the just custodians of Jamess literary legacy. With an unprecedented amount of new evidence now available, Michael Anesko reveals the remarkable social, political, and sexual intrigue that inspiredand influencedthe deliberate construction of the Legend of the Master.
Michael Anesko combines scholarship with the writers craft to engage both the seasoned Jamesian and the educated general reader. The story he tells is significant and compelling: it promises to change once again the way that we understand Henry James, all while opening a window onto academes seamier side.
Greg Zacharias, Creighton University
The Stillbirth of Capital

Siraj Ahmed
Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India
As this extraordinary work of scholarship shows, it would be family, friends, publishers, biographers, and critics who strove to perpetuate one or another Henry James in accordance with their view of the dead author. Anesko gives a vivid presence to these secondary actors like the novelists nephew, Percy lubbock (the first editor of Jamess letters), and leon edel, whose successful campaign to obtain and retain exclusive rights to publish Jamess letters and biography is a scandal of modern scholarship only now being exposed in detail.
Millicent Bell, Emerita, Boston University
This book targets one of the humanities most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenments vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century British India has not received nearly the same attention as nineteenth- and twentieth-century empires, it is the place where colonial rule and Enlightenment reason first became entwined. The Stillbirth of Capital makes its case by examining every work about British India written by a major author from 1670 to 1815. This ambitious book takes on contemporary critics of colonial discourse studies and makes a powerful argument about the violent histories of european militarized trading companies in the Indian Ocean and the capacity of eighteenth-century texts to critically register these violent practices.
Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania
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Ends of Enlightenment
John Bender
AVAILABLE IN JULY 2012
Ends of Enlightenment explores Raymond Birn three realms of eighteenth-century Today, we are inclined to believe European innovation that remain that intellectual freedom has no active in the twenty-first century: greater adversary than the censor. the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, In eighteenth-century France, the matter was more complicated. especially human anatomy. This Royal censors envisioned thembooks fresh perspective considselves not as fulfilling a mission ers the novel as an art but also as of state-sponsored repression a force in thinking. The critical but rather as guiding the literdistance afforded by a view back across the centuries allows Bender ary traffic of the Enlightenment. In essence, eighteenth-century to redefine such novelists as French censors served as cultural Defoe, Fielding, Goldsmith, Godintermediaries who bore responwin, and Laclos by placing them sibility for expanding public along philosophers and scientists awareness of the progressive like Newton, Locke, and Hume thought of their time. but also alongside engravings by Hogarth and by anatomist WilOffers richly documented insight liam Hunter. His book probes the into the complex mental world kinship among realism, hypothof enlightenment-era censors, esis, and scientific fact, defining in along with a compelling account the process the rhetorical basis of of how the government manpublic communication during the aged their work, and in the effort, Enlightenment. ended up encapsulating so many bender is our best index to the of the key paradoxes of modernextraordinary efflorescence of ization in the eighteenth century. eighteenth-century studies at the H-France turn into the new millennium. His 216 pp., 2012 oeuvre is an essential handbook for 9780804763592 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale those who care about the legacy of enlightenment.
Clifford Siskin, New York University
Royal Censorship of Books in EighteenthCentury France
The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 19442010

Robert S. C. Gordon
This book is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitlers prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Gordon probes a rich range of cultural material as he paints a picture of this shared encounter with the darkest moment of twentieth-century history. His book probes aspects of Italian national identity and memory, offering a new model for analyzing the interactions between national and international images of the Holocaust. This outstanding book fills a critical gap in the literature and has profound significance for the study of Italy and for the memory of the Holocaust.
Marla Stone, Occidental College
304 pp., 2012
320 pp., 17 photos, 2012
Literature & theory
Nelly Sachs, Flight and Metamorphosis

Aris Fioretos
An Illustrated Biography
Translated by Tomas Tranus This richly illustrated biography is the first book in English to chronicle the life of Nelly Sachs (18911970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature. The book follows Sachs from her secluded years in Berlin as the only child of assimilated German Jews, through her last-minute flight from the Nazis in 1940, to her exile in peaceful Swedena time of poverty and isolation, but also of growing fame. Enriched by over 300 images of Sachss manuscripts, photographs, and possessions, Nelly Sachs, Flight and Metamorphosis not only offers detailed insights into the contexts of Sachss formation as a writer, but also looks at themes of trauma and testimony in her central works. Aris Fioretos draws upon many previously unknown manuscripts, documents, medical records, and photos to produce the first reliably detailed narratives of Sachss foundational experiences: her teenage years when she experienced the unrequited love later designated as the source for her entire oeuvre; her involvement with the Jewish Cultural Leagueseven years marked by mounting terror but also by her first public recognition as a writer; and her exposure to the radical Modernism of Swedish poetry in the 1940s.
for some years the time has been ripe for a literary biography of nelly Sachs. now these thorough, thoughtful, deeply studied pages, enlivened by remarkable images, should become a definitive source. Along with her close comrade Paul Celan, though not wholly like him, Sachs draws us into a molten history we forget at our peril.
John Felstiner, author of Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew, and Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems
The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers
Volume Two, 19311939
Edited by James Karman
The 1930s marked a turning point for Robinson Jeffers, both in his career as a poet and in his private life. The letters collected in this second volume of annotated correspondence document Jeffers rising fame as a poet, his controversial response to the turmoil of his time, his struggles as a writer, the growth and maturation of his twin sons, and the network of friends and acquaintances that surrounded him. The letters also provide an intimate portrait of Jeffers relationship to his wife Unaincluding a full account of the 1938 crisis at Mabel Dodge Luhans home in Taos, New Mexico that nearly destroyed their marriage. These letters are crucial to anyone working seriously on Jeffers and his poetry and will deeply reward any reader interested in his work and life.
Tim Hunt, Illinois State University
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The World in Play
Portraits of a Victorian Concept

Matthew Kaiser
Theater of State
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Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenthcentury literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Victorian world cohere and betrayed the illusoriness of that coherence. This is the paradox of modernity. Kaiser gives an account of how certain Victorian misfitsworking-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Bront, free spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wildestruggled to make sense of this new world. In so doing, they discovered the art of modern life.
It has been a long time since I have read any new critic who has made me sit up and take notice with virtually every line, but Matthew Kaiser is such a critic, a new and potentially major voice in literary criticism. The book is brilliantly written, witty without being cute, profoundly sensitive to language, and truly original.
George Levine, Emeritus, Rutgers University
Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England

Chris R. Kyle
This book chronicles the expansion and creation of new public spheres in and around Parliament in the early Stuart period. It focuses on two closely interconnected narratives: the changing nature of communication and discourse within parliamentary chambers and the interaction of Parliament with the wider world of political dialogue and the dissemination of information. Concentrating on the rapidly changing practices of Parliament in print culture, rhetorical strategy, and lobbying during the 1620s, this book demonstrates that Parliament not only moved toward the center stage of politics but also became the center of the postReformation public sphere. frames the demotics, theatrics, and staging of parliamentary speech in terms of the history of communication. no account of early modern politics will be complete without this.
David Cressy, The Ohio State University
Sophisticated, theoretically astute, and unfailingly interesting, The World in Play makes a compelling case for the centrality of play to Victorian conceptions of modernity.
Stephen Arata, University of Virginia
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The Beauty of the Real
What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses

Mick LaSalle
Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talenta Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personalities. Yet virtually no one this side of the Atlantic even knows about them. Viewers who feel shortchanged by Hollywood will be thrilled to discover The Beauty of the Real. This book showcases a range of contemporary French actresses to an audience that will know how to appreciate theman American public hungry for the exact qualities that these women represent. To spend time with them, to admire their flashing intelligence and fearless willingness to depict life as it is lived, gives us what were looking for in movies but so rarely find: insights into womanhood, meditations on the dark and light aspects of lifes journey, revelations and explorations that move viewers to reflect on their own lives. The stories they bring to the screen leave us feeling renewed and excited about movies again.
laSalle understands how women in french movies are allowed to be deeper, older, and more real than most Hollywood characters.
Milton and the Post-Secular Present

Ethics, Politics, Terrorism
Feisal G. Mohamed
Our post-secular present, argues Feisal Mohamed, has much to learn from our pre-secular past. Through a consideration of poet and polemicist John Milton, this book explores current post-secularity, an emerging category that it seeks to clarify and critique. It examines ethical and political engagement grounded in belief, with particular reference to the thought of Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Jrgen Habermas, and Gayatri C. Spivak. This is an impressive work, one in which a powerful intellect grapples with difficult problems and spurs us on to further thought. Mohameds examination of the tensions between pre/post-secular belief and modern liberalism should interest not only literary critics but also theologians, scholars of religious studies, philosophers, and political theorists.
Cultural Memory in the Present
Tyler Roberts, Grinnell College
Roger Ebert
Mick laSalles informal, lucid prose brings alive the magic of french cinema and its brilliant array of female actors, contrasting them with their American equivalents and, in so doing, revealing the distinctive character of french filmmaking. This book is especially valuable for its first-hand interviews with some of frances greatest screen actresses.
Peter Cowie, Film historian, author, and founding editor of the International Film Guide
192 pp., 2011
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The Long and Short of It

From Aphorism to Novel
Gary Saul Morson
Accident Society
Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance

Jason Puskar
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary workswise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questionsGary Saul Morson argues passionately for the importance of these short genres not only to scholars but also to general readers. We are fascinated by how brief works evoke a powerful sense of life in a few words, which is why we browse quotation anthologies and love to repeat our favorites. Arguing that all short genres are short in their own way, Morson explores the unique form of brevity that each of them develops. Apothegms (Heraclitus, Lao Tzu, Wittgenstein) describe the universe as ultimately unknowable, offering not answers but ever deeper questions. Dicta (Spinoza, Marx, Freud) create the sense that unsolvable enigmas have at last been resolved. Sayings from sages and sacred texts assure us that goodness is rewarded, while sardonic maxims (Ecclesiastes, Nietzsche, George Eliot) uncover the self-deceptions behind such comforting illusions. Just as witticisms display the power of mind, witlessisms (William Spooner, Dan Quayle, the persona assumed by Mark Twain) astonish with their spectacular stupidity.
A passionate, imaginative book, full of energy and wisdom. The Long and Short of It is an exciting, horizon-opening essay on literary short forms that provide an interface between literature and philosophy.
Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago
This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design. Automobile collisions and occupational injuries became car accidents and industrial accidents. During the post-Civil War period of racial, ethnic, and class-based hostility, chance was an abstract enemy against which society might unite. Accident Society reveals the extent to which American collectivity has dependedand continues to dependon the literary production of chance. The intellectual range of this book is staggering. each chapter not only shifts the discourse about a particular literary text, finding hidden illuminations, but also radiates new possibilities for understanding the social, philosophical, and political coordinates that situate the texts. It is truly a brilliant book.
Eric Wertheimer, Arizona State University
280 pp., 2012
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After La Dolce Vita

A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconis Italy
Alessia Ricciardi
This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nations literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was a uniquely Italian brand of cultural capital that deliberately avoided any critical questioning of the prevailing order. Ricciardi criticizes the development of this new hegemonic arrangement in film, literature, philosophy, and art criticism. There is no sweetness, lightness, weakness, or softness in Ricciardis indictment, but hard facts and bitter truths piled up to heavy conclusions: Italys intellectual life is the very culprit of a historical process of progressive civic and social degeneration that has led to the catastrophe that many have called berlusconis Italy. A very courageous book.
Roberto M. Dainotto, Duke University
Julian Bell
From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War
Benjamin Widiss Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, Literary studies in the postwar of the Bloomsbury Group, the era have consistently barred most important community of attributing specific intentions British writers and intellectuals to authors based on textual in the twentieth century, which evidence or ascribing textual includes Virginia Woolf (Julians presences to the authors themaunt), E. M. Forster, the econoselves. Obscure Invitations argues mist John Maynard Keynes, and that this taboo has blinded us the art critic Roger Fry. This to fundamental elements of biography draws upon the extwentieth-century literature. panding archives on BloomsWidiss focuses on the particubury to present Julians life more larly self-conscious constructions completely and more personally of authorship that characterize than has been done previously. modernist and postmodernist It is an intense and profound writing, elaborating the narraexploration of personal, sexual, tive strategies they demand and intellectual, political, and literary the reading practices they yield. life in England between the two Obscure Invitations will be world wars. Through Julian, the book provides important insights recognized as a significant intervention in American literary on Virginia Woolf, his mother Vanessa Bell, and other members studies. each of the readings it contains is a tour de force: well of the Bloomsbury Group. researched, elegantly written, An intergenerational conversaand powerfully persuasive. tion, between the younger and Loren Glass, the older Peter Stansky, as well as University of Iowa between Julian bell and his elders An important new assessment of in the bloomsbury Group. A new the place of the author in twentiJulian bell emerges [in this] beau- eth-century American narrative. tiful, tragic book. Mark Maslan,
Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge University of California at Santa Barbara
Peter Stansky and William Abrahams
The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Obscure Invitations
352 pp., 2012
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Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime

Robert Zaller
Constituting American Modernity

Peter Lancelot Mallios
Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to Americas conception of itself and its place in the world. A strikingly original study of cultural influence. Mallios enlarges our understanding of the real cosmopolitanism of our most homegrown literary figures.
Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director, National Humanities Center
Our Conrad
Mimesis and Theory

Essays on Literature and Criticism, 19532005
Ren Girard
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Doran
Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of Ren Girards uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, this anthology offers unique insights into the origin, development, and expansion of Girards mimetic theorya groundbreaking account of human interaction and of the genesis of cultural forms. The essays run the gamut of Western literary culture, from Racine and Shakespeare to Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Stendhal, Proust, and Dostoevsky receive extended treatment, and Girards observations on the changing landscape of literary studies are chronicled in several essays devoted to psychoanalysis, formalism, structuralism, and post-structuralism.
Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime is the most comprehensive and most substantial critical work ever devoted to the major American poet Robinson Jeffers (18871962). Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his own as Frost did New England and Faulkner, Mississippi, and connecting it to the wider tradition of the American sublime in Emerson, Thoreau, and John Muir. The book also links Jeffers to a Puritan sublime in early American verse and explores his response to the Darwinian and Freudian revolutions and his engagement with modern astronomy. This book sets out to be the fullest and most detailed explication of Jeffers large body of poetry and his literary career, and it delivers on that ambition. It is the best single critical book about Jeffers and sets a benchmark that will be difficult to meet, let alone surpass.
Albert Gelpi, Emeritus, Stanford University
Our Conrad is one the most stimulating works of scholarship I have read in some time. [It] will be embraced by scholars in english and American literature and American history, as well as readers outside academia who want to understand the connection of America with the rest of the world during the early twentieth century.
Fred Hobson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
440 pp., 2012
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How Strange the Change
Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms

Marc Caplan
In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenthcentury Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them.
A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry

Alan Mintz
Sanctuary in the Wilderness
Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Sephardism
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Edited by Yael Halevi-Wise
Through comparative readings of narratives by Reb Nakhman of Breslov, Amos Tutuola, Yisroel Aksenfeld, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Isaac Meyer Dik, among others, Caplan demonstrates that these literatures belated relationship to modernization suggests their potential to anticipate subsequent crises in the modernity and post-modernity of metropolitan cultures. A masterpiece in comparative literature that will quickly establish itself as a classic in both Yiddish and African literary studies. 360 pp., 2011
Ato Quayson, University of Toronto
Sanctuary in the Wilderness is a critical introduction to American Hebrew poetry, focusing on a dozen key poets. This secular poetry began with a preoccupation with the situation of the individual in a disenchanted world and then moved outward to engage American vistas and Jewish fate and hope in midcentury. American Hebrew poets hoped to be read in both Palestine and America, but were disap- This book offers a fresh and creative take on the ways that pointed on both scores. Several modern authors have imagined moved to Israel and connected with the vital literary scene there, Sephardic Jews or employed the trope of Sepharad in order to but most stayed and persisted in the cause of American Hebraism. advance various political, moral, or literary projects. This fascinating literary study Julia Phillips Cohen, of twelve Hebrew poets who Vanderbilt University flourished as a virtual community A tour de force in the study of in America about the middle of Jews as other in the modern litthe twentieth century revises erary consciousness....An imporand expands our understanding tant addition to every library. of poetry, modernism, Hebrew, Sander L. Gilman, and, not least, America. It inEmory University vites us to wonder when and 376 pp., 1 figure, 2012 9780804777469 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale under what conditions such an island of Hebrew creativity might surface here again.
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Ruth Wisse, Harvard University
Arguing that the Sephardic experience played a much more vital role in the development of modern nationalism and literary history than has been generally acknowledged, this book demonstrates how modern writers from Europe, the Americas, North Africa, Israel, and India have used Sephardic history to explore the role and status of minorities and dissidents.
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Music from a Speeding Train

Harriet Murav
Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia
The Ladino Memoir of Saadi Besalel a-Levi
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
This book explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universeone in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These writers represented, attacked, reformed, and mourned Jewish life in the pre-revolutionary shtetl as they created new forms of Jewish culture. This pioneering book offers an illuminating interpretation of Soviet Jewish culture, treating this complex phenomenon from a refreshingly new literary perspective. It is the first literary study to cover the entire Soviet period and deal equally expertly with Yiddish and Russian texts.
Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan
Edited by Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein Translation, Transliteration, and Glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi
This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Saadi Besalel a-Levi (18201903), wrote about Ottoman Jews daily life at a time when the long-ascendant fabric of Ottoman society was just beginning to unravel. His vivid portrayal of life in Salonica, a major port in the Ottoman Levant with a majorityJewish population, thus provides a unique window into a way of life before it disappeared as a result of profound political and social changes and the World Wars. This precious historical source is a gripping read and will advance the scholarly agenda of Sephardic studies.
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Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
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The Semblance of Identity
Across Meridians
Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature

Christopher Lee
The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance of Identity argues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather an identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity.
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashitas Alisa Freedman Transnational Novels 352 pp., 16 figures, 3 illustrations, 2 maps, 2010
Jinqi Ling
Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
Tokyo in Transit
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashitas literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of intellectual history, ethnic studies, literary analysis, and critical theory, Lings study goes beyond textual investigation to intervene in larger debates over postmodern representation, spatial materialism, historical form, and social and academic activism. With this intellectually rigorous, original study of the complete fictional oeuvre of Karen Tei Yamashita, Jinqi ling produces the first book-length treatment of a novelist whose audacious, ingenious visions of the Americas and of the contemporary crisscrossed globe have awaited just such rich, sustained attention.
Asian America
Caroline Rody, University of Virginia
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The Semblance of Identity makes an impressive contribution to Asian American studies by providing a fresh look at the fields uneasy relationship with the identity politics from which it was born. lee offers an elegant, theoretically sophisticated picture of what post-identity Asian American studies might look like.
Asian America
Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies

Celine Parreas Shimizu
This book looks to cinematic history to reveal the dynamic ways Asian American men, from Bruce Lee to Long Duk Dong, create and claim a variety of masculinities. Representations of love, romance, desire, and lovemaking show how Asian American men fashion manhoods that negotiate the dynamics of self and other, expanding our ideas of sexuality. The unique ways in which Asian American men express intimacy is powerfully represented onscreen, offering distinct portraits of individuals struggling with group identities. An utterly original examination of Asian American masculinity on the silver screen, Straightjacket Sexualities is a critical tour-deforce that reveals cinema to be an ethical event. It offers a theory of responsibility in the face of vulnerability and persecution to encourage the emergence of new and better forms of manhood.
Asian America
David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
Straitjacket Sexualities
On Uneven Ground
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Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan

Hoyt Long
Text, Context, and Critique
Reading Colonial Japan
The history of literary and artisReading Colonial Japan is a tic production in modern Japan unique anthology that aims to has typically centered on the deepen knowledge of Japanese literature and art of Tokyo, yet colonialism(s) by providing an cultural activity in the countrys eclectic selection of translated regional cities and rural towns Japanese primary sources and was no less vibrant. On Uneven analytical essays that illumiGround recovers pieces of this nate Japans many and varied neglected history through the figure of Miyazawa Kenji (1896- colonial projects. The primary documents highlight how 1933). While alive, he remained central cultural production a mostly unknown and unread and dissemination were to the provincial author whose excolonial effort, while accentuatperiments with narrative fiction, amateur theater, and farmers art ing the myriad ways colonialism permeated every facet of life. reveal an intense determination to reimagine and remake his A splendid collection of conative place, in the northeast of lonial writings in translation, Japan, meaningful. paired with critical essays that address historical and Provides fresh insight into Mitheoretical concerns in original yazawa Kenjis oeuvre, as well and engaging ways. It is an as the complex relationship between the institutions of cultural exceptional achievement and a truly important addition to (re)production and the literary cultural studies, Asian studproduct, thereby destabilizing ies, history, and the study of persistent notions of a singular, colonialism/postcolonialism, monolithic national Japanese migration, and translation. literature.
Edward Mack, University of Washington
Edited by Michele M. Mason and Helen J.S. Lee
Sabine Frhstck, University of California, Santa Barbara
304 pp., 27 halftones, 2012
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The Kingdom and the Glory
The Power of Life

Agamben and the Coming Politics
David Kishik
Giorgio Agambens work develops a new philosophy of life. On its horizon lies the conviction that our form of life can become the guiding and unifying power of the politics to come. Informed by this promise, The Power of Life weaves decisive moments and neglected aspects of Agambens writings over the past four decades together with the thought of those who influenced him most (including Kafka, Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Deleuze, and Foucault). In addition, the book positions his work in relation to key figures from the history of philosophy (such as Plato, Spinoza, Vico, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Derrida).
For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

Giorgio Agamben
The Future and Its Enemies

In Defense of Political Hope
Daniel Innerarity
Translated by Sandra Kingery
In The Future and Its Enemies, Spanish philosopher Daniel Innerarity makes a plea for a new social contract that would commit us to moral and political responsibility with respect to future generations. He urges us to become advocates for the future in the face of enemies who, oblivious to the costs of modernization, press for endless and unproductive acceleration. His accessible book proposes a new way of confronting the unknownone grounded in the calculation of risk. Declaring the classical right-left divide to be redundant, Innerarity presents his hopes for a renewed democracy and a politics that would find convincing ways to mediate between the priorities of the present, the heritage of the past, and the challenges that lie ahead.
Translated by Lorenzo Chiesa (with Matteo Mandarini)

Why has power in the West assumed the form of an economy, that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it?
The greatest novelty to emerge from The Kingdom and the Glory is that modern power is not only government but also glory, and that the ceremonial, liturgical, and acclamatory aspects that Presents new biographical we have regarded as vestiges of material about Agamben, while the past actually constitute the providing a novel and lucid interbasis of Western power. With pretation of his work that focuses this book, the work begun with on its capacity for imagining new Homo Sacer reaches a decisive forms of life and transforming point, profoundly challengour ethical, political, and philoing and renewing our vision of Thanks to its clear analyses and its sophical thought and practice. politics. Matthew Calarco, multiple avenues of inquiry, this Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics California State University, Fullerton essay points the way to a new 328 pp., 2011 144 pp., 2012 democratic lucidity. 9780804760164 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale
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Philosophy
Dawn
Friedrich Nietzsche Translated by Brittain Smith, Afterword by Keith Ansell-Pearson

Dawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete, critical, and annotated English edition of all of Nietzsches work. The edition, organized originally by Ernst Behler and Bernd Magnus, is a translation of the celebrated Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Bnden (1980) edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. The book is the first to appear under the editorial direction of Alan D. Schrift, Keith Ansell-Pearson, and Duncan Large, and to incorporate subsequent corrections to the 1980 edition. Continuing the positivistic turn of Human, All Too Human, Dawn is the second installment in the free spirit trilogy that culminated in The Joyful Science. One of Nietzsches yes-saying books, it marks his first significant confrontation with morality and offers glimpses of many of the signature themes in his mature works. Dawn has come to be admired in recent years for its ethical naturalism, psychological observations, and therapeutic insights. Presented in Nietzsches aphoristic style, it is a text with hidden riches, one that must be read between the lines and one that the discerning reader will admire and cherish.
This series will become the definitive resource for english readers.
Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond
Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5
Releasing the Image
From Literature to New Media
Edited by Jacques Khalip and Robert Mitchell
Releasing the Image understands images as something beyond mere representations of things. Releasing images from that function, it shows them to be self-referential and self-generative, and in this way capable of producing forms of engagement beyond spectatorship and subjectivity. The essays included here cover historical periods from the Romantic era to the present and address a range of topics, from Czannes painting, to images in poetry, to contemporary audiovisual art. They reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and political stakes of the project of releasing images and provoke new ways of engaging with embodiment, agency, history, and technology. A stunning collection of essays by leading philosophers and media theorists who break with notions of the image as frozen or static, and refocus the debate around topics of embodiment, agency, virtuality and temporality.
Tim Lenoir, Duke University
The first volume under the general editorship of Alan D. Schrift and Duncan large, Dawn represents a huge leap forward. We can finally look forward to the completion of this nineteen-volume series, which will be invaluable not only to specialists but also to students and anyone interested in this remarkable thinker.
Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University
304 pp., 16 figures, 2011
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
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PostPostmodernism
Jeffrey T. Nealon
or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism
Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of postmodernism, famously dubbed the cultural logic of late capitalism by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move beyond postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that weve experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of the economic sphere into formerly independent segments of everyday cultural life. If fragmentation was the preferred watchword of postmodern America, intensification is the dominant cultural logic of our contemporary era. Post-Postmodernism surveys a wide variety of cultural texts in pursuing its analyseseverything from the classic rock of Black Sabbath to the post-Marxism of Antonio Negri, from considerations of the corporate university to the fare at the cineplex, from reading experimental literature to gambling in Las Vegas, from Badiou to the undergraduate classroom. Insofar as cultural realms of all kinds have increasingly been overcoded by the languages and practices of economics, Nealon aims to construct a genealogy of the American present, and to build a vocabulary for understanding the relations between economic production and cultural production today.
This is a work of very considerable importance. now perhaps more than at any other time, culture and the economy constitute a seamless whole: everything can be given its price. nealon poses the question: if postmodernism was the cultural logic of late capitalism, what is the cultural logic that has accompanied our current regime of accumulation? His answer is novel and ingenious.
Kenneth Surin, Duke University
The Problem of Distraction

Paul North
We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. The Problem of Distraction corrects this lack of attention. It inquires into the effects of distraction, defined not as the opposite of attention, but as truly discontinuous intellect. Human being has to be reconceived, according to this argument, not as quintessentially thoughtbearing, but as subject to repeated, causeless blackouts of mind. This thoughtful study asks what would be involved in theorizing the interpretive framework through which an interrogation of distraction would first become thinkable.
Gerhard Richter, University of California, Davis
This superb analysis of distraction and our lack of attention to it breaks significant new ground in our critical history.
David Ferris, University of Colorado at Boulder
248 pp., 2011
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Arendt and Adorno Testing the Limit

Political and Philosophical Investigations Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
Translated by Stephen Barker
Appropriation Through Pollution?

Michel Serres
Translated by AnneMarie Feenberg-Dibon
Malfeasance is a welcome introduction to, and an elegant demonstration of, Michel Serress recent work. In the face of pollutions calamities, Serres calls for responsible action, a new social contract, a peaceful compact with the world. Reversing Rousseaus negative commandThis is minehe proffers, This is enough for me.
Malfeasance
Edited by Lars Rensmann and Samir Gandesha
Testing the Limit claims that the textual origins of phenomenology determine, in their temporal rhythms, the nature of the subjectivation on which they focus. The book situates these considerations within the broader picture of the state of contemporary Pierre Saint-Amand, French phenomenology (chiefly Brown University the legacy of Merleau-Ponty), in 104 pp., 2010 order to show that these three 9780804773034 Paper $15.95 $12.76 sale 9780804773027 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale thinkers share a certain family resemblance, the identificanoW in PAPERBAcK tion of which reveals something about the traces of other phenomenological families. It is The Bite of Conscience by testing the limit within the context of traditional phenomHerant Katchadourian enological concerns about the Subtle, generous, and both appearance of subjectivity and informed and informative. The book assembles the most dis- ipseity that Derrida, Henry, and It also has the rare merit of tinguished experts on Arendt and Levinas radically reconsider Adorno. The mutual antipathy be- phenomenology and that French adhering to solid academic standards yet being accessible tween the two thinkers, the study phenomenology assumes its to a general literate audience reveals a surprising affinity, espepresent form. .... Highly recommended. cially with regard to the critique Cultural Memory in the Present H. Oberdiek, and rethinking of modernity. 328 pp., 2012 CHOICE Fred Dallmayr, 9780804772754 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale 392 pp., 2009 University of Notre Dame 9780804772747 Cloth $90.00 $72.00 sale 9780804778718 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 384 pp., 2012
Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, were contemporaries with similar interests, backgrounds, and a shared experience of exile. Yet until now, no book has brought them together. In this first comparative study of their work, leading scholars discuss divergences, disclose surprising affinities, and find common ground between the two thinkers. This pioneering work recovers the relevance of Arendt and Adorno for contemporary political theory and philosophy and lays the foundation for a critical understanding of political modernity: from universalistic claims for political freedom to the abyss of genocidal politics.
Franois-David Sebbah
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