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Women Surrounded by Water

A Memoir

Patricia Coral

“Revisiting the history of her ancestras, Patricia Coral tells her own story while also giving voice to the experiences of three generations of women.” —Mayra Santos-Febres

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Me llamo Marcela

My Story as a Heritage Speaker

Written by Marcela T. Garcés, illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés

“A candid rumination on cultural heritage, connection, and determined individuality.” —Kirkus

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Zones of Encuentro

Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

Lillian Gorman

“Gorman provides a corpus of data to show how New Mexico’s ethnoracial and migrant histories have shaped New Mexicans’ views about language and identity.” —Dolores Inés Casillas

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Through Fences

Written by Frederick Luis Aldama, illustrated by Oscar Garza

“The stories of these varied characters come alive on the page … A worthy addition to high school libraries.” —Karin Greenberg, School Library Journal

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Finding Querencia

Essays from In-Between

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

“Elegant and poignant, Finding Querencia animates the conversations about identity, belonging, and other embattled territories.” —Rigoberto González

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New & Forthcoming Titles:

When the World Explodes: Essays book cover

When the World Explodes: Essays

Amy Lee Scott

Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir book cover

Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir

Patricia Coral

Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker book cover

Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker

Written by Marcela T. Garcés
Illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés

The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories book cover

The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories

Miles Harvey

No One Knows Their Blood Type book cover

No One Knows Their Blood Type

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Hazem Jamjoum

A Cleveland State University Poetry Center distributed title

I want to start by saying book cover

I want to start by saying

Samuel Ace

A Cleveland State University Poetry Center distributed title

Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption book cover

Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption

Jieun Lee

On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power book cover

On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power

Michelle Bumatay

Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness book cover

Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness

Erin J. Rand

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States book cover

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

Asha Jeffers

Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix book cover

Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix

Nghana tamu Lewi

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay book cover

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay

Cruz Medina

China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups book cover

China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups

Sheng-mei Ma

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire book cover

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Leah Perry

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space book cover

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space

Donnie Johnson Sackey

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century book cover

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century

Audrey Wu Clark

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race book cover

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett book cover

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Ashley Lawson

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition book cover

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition

Laura Elizabeth Vrana

Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium book cover

Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium

Kate McCullough

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction book cover

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction

Cassandra L. Jones

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico book cover

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

Lillian Gorman

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers book cover

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers

Pamela VanHaitsma

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature book cover

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature

Riya Das

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics book cover

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics

Daniel Worden

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State book cover

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State

Roberta Wolfson

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature book cover

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature

Hasnul Insani Djohar

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir book cover

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir

Grace Loh Prasad

A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era book cover

A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era

Tracey Owens Patton

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas book cover

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman

Haphazard Families: Adoption and Romanticism book cover

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption

Eric C. Walker

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction book cover

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins 

Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir book cover

Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir

Mako Yoshikawa

Softly Undercover book cover

Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs book cover

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs

Duc Dau

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women book cover

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women

Edited by Margaret C. Flinn

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery book cover

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery

Annie Hill

Human Rights on the Move book cover

Human Rights on the Move

Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip book cover

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip

Alex Beringer

Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature book cover

Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

Ashley Hope Pérez

Front cover of Through Fences, Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and Illustrated by Oscar Garza, featuring images of several characters from the interior peeking through openings in a chain link fence.

Through Fences

Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza

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Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie, written by Frederick Luis Aldama and illustrated by Chris Escobar, received an Honorable Mention for the Alma Flor Ada Best Latino Focused Children’s Picture Book Award from the International Latino Book Awards!

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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito and The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland by Agata Izabela Brewer are both on the shortlist for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing! Huge congratulations to both authors!

We welcome Allison L. Rowland as a new series editor for New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality, joining existing editors Christa Teston and Shui-yin Sharon Yam. Thank you to outgoing editor Wendy S. Hesford for all her contributions to the series!

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon is the Winner of the 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize!

Front cover of Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir, by Thomas C. Gannon, featuring illustrations of two ravens with wings outstretched.

V. Jo Hsu’s Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics won the 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition!

Front cover of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V. Jo Hsu.

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed is a Finalist for the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies!

Front cover of The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, by Roger A. Sneed, with the title in very large letters and a photo of bright stars in outer space showing through the letters.

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito is a Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography!

Front cover of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir, by Susan Kiyo Ito, featuring a background of blue fabric with white cranes and an evergreen branch sewn onto it.