Books for Understanding How We Got Here

American Catastrophe

Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump

Luke Winslow

“Luke Winslow has posed and answered a very provocative and important question: How are we to make sense of people in the civic square who seem to be embracing chaos?”—Christina Foust

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Books for Understanding How We Got Here

Apocalypse Man

The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood

Casey Ryan Kelly

“An ambitious, disturbing, and ultimately necessary project that helps us make sense of our current, popular, political moment.” —Joshua Gunn

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Books for Understanding How We Got Here

A History of Hate in Ohio

Then and Now

Michael E. Brooks and Bob Fitrakis
Introduction by Marilyn K. Howard

Presents the first comprehensive study of white supremacy and hate groups in the Buckeye State, from the colonial era to the present day.

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Books for Understanding How We Got Here

Awful Archives

Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence

Jenny Rice

“Awful Archives is well-positioned to avoid duplicating familiar arguments; in breaking new ground, it joins rhetoric and archival work in a way that we really need right now in our current political climate.” —Kelly Ritter

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Reality Bites

Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

Dana L. Cloud

“Dana Cloud’s marvelous new book … provides just the sort of deep understanding and practical guidance needed for thoughtful and effective political engagement in the Trump era.”—Jason Hannan, Lateral

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Ecologies of Harm

Rhetorics of Violence in the Unites States

Megan Eatman

“Ecologies of Harm is a dynamic study of organized public violence that gives focused attention to the relationship between violence and spectacle.” —Ersula Ore

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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays book cover

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

Jerald Walker

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a more perfect Union

Teri Ellen Cross Davis

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Art for the Ladylike: An Autobiography through Other Lives

Whitney Otto

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The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child's Memory Book

Megan Culhane Galbraith

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The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here

Susanne Paola Antonetta

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The Age of Discovery and Other Stories

Becky Hagenston

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United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel

Giannina Braschi

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Sign Here If You Exist and Other Essays

Jill Sisson Quinn

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Dark Tourist: Essays

Hasanthika Sirisena

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Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir of a Day

Sonya Huber

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Like Love

Michele Morano

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Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays

Steve Fellner

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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology

Edited by
Alex Hernandez
Matthew David Goodwin
and Sarah Rafael García

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Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy

Edited by Matthew David Goodwin
Introduction by Frederick Luis Aldama

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A History of Hate in Ohio: Then and Now

Michael E. Brooks and Bob Fitrakis
Introduction by Marilyn K. Howard

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Boomtown Columbus: Ohio’s Sunbelt City and How Developers Got Their Way

Kevin R. Cox

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Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan

Edited by Yetta Howard

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Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century

Alyson K. Spurgas

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Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability

Eszter Szép

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Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field

Edited by Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John A. Lynch, and Cynthia Ryan

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American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump

Luke Winslow

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Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime

Dana M. Olwan

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Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia

Lorena Cuya Gavilano

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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek

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Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection

Michelle Zerba

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Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Wendy Hesford

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Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation

John Murillo III

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Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka

Jean-Philippe Marcoux

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Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval Scotland

Katherine H. Terrell

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Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis

Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell

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Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel

Alexandra Valint

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Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic StripsThe Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Susan Kirtley

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Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre

Dara Rossman Regaignon

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Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood

Casey Ryan Kelly

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Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England

Marisa Libbon

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Vaccine Rhetorics

Heidi Yoston Lawrence

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