Spring 2024 Seasonal Catalog

Secrets of the Sun

A Memoir

Mako Yoshikawa

2/8/2024

978-0-8142-5893-4

$19.95 T paperback

“In her harrowing, deeply felt new memoir, Mako Yoshikawa creates a haunting portrait of her troubled father, Shoichi, a brilliant scientist who led a fusion research team at Princeton University.…Like Mary Gordon’s The Shadow Man and Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception, this book is an eloquent account of a writer’s quest to understand an impossible, larger-than-life father—and her own conflicting feelings of love and fear, confusion and dismay, and forgiveness.” —Michiko Kakutani

A memoir of an estranged daughter’s mission to understand her Japanese physicist father and the effects of bipolar disorder, violence, racism, and genius on his relationships and career.

Series: 21st Century Essays

Creative Nonfiction, Asian & Asian American Studies

The Translator’s Daughter

A Memoir

Grace Loh Prasad

3/5/2024

978-0-8142-5897-2

$24.95 T paperback

“The Translator's Daughter is a stunning tribute to the complexities of growing up as a third-culture kid, an honest and moving chronicle of the ‘abundance and loss’ of living across languages and continents.” —Shawna Yang Ryan

A Taiwanese American writer unfurls themes of memory, dislocation, language, and loss to tell a unique story about reclaiming one’s heritage while living in a diaspora, and navigating parental illness, death, and grief from continents away.

Series: Machete

Creative Nonfiction, Asian & Asian American Studies

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

Written by Frederick Luis Aldama Illustrated by Oscar Garza

1/19/2024

978-0-8142-5895-8

$17.95 T paperback

“Unforgettable and poignant vignettes that capture young lives transformed by the walls and fences dividing families, people, and nations.” —Emma Pérez

Short comics about immigration and life on the US–Mexico border, each bringing a different perspective on the perils of living on the border.

Series: Latinographix

Comics & Comics Studies, Fiction, Latinx & Latin American Studies

Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

2/14/2024

978-0-8142-5894-1

$16.95 T paperback

“A bold and absorbing debut.” —Linda Gregerson

An elliptical, lyrical debut that explores the pleasures and hazards of ritual, devotion, divination, and illusion, examining what it means to believe.

Series: The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize

Poetry

Scholarly

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins

4/1/2024

978-0-8142-1536-4

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5905-4

29.95 S paperback

“Jenkins persuasively contends that combining Afropessimism and affirmation of Black life in fiction can provide resistance to the deadliness of the racial reality of anti-Blackness.” —Keith Byerman

Examines common monster tropes in Black American horror fiction, arguing that they represent specific ideologies of American anti-Blackness and inspire tactics for combatting real-life anti-Blackness.

Series: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative

Black Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies, American Literature

Refusals and Reinventions

Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman

3/25/2024

978-0-8142-1564-7

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5904-7

29.95 S paperback

“Coleman’s hemispheric and pluriversal approach disrupts expectations about geography, temporality, and resistance, offering invaluable insights for anyone thinking about performance, creativity, activism, land, belonging, and power.” —Karma Chávez

Identifies how people create and exist in many worlds—the pluriverse—and shape intersectional justice struggles through artistic refusals, rebellions, and reinventions of worlds in the face of racialized and gendered violence.

Black Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Latinx & Latin American Studies, Performance Studies

Deformative Fictions

Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

Ashley Hope Pérez

4/8/2024

978-0-8142-1565-4

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5906-1

34.95 S paperback

“Pérez brings a rich genealogy of Latin American literature into the narrative studies tradition, convincingly arguing why we should read works that refuse to offer us comfort.” —Doug P. Bush

Demonstrates the challenges and opportunities of “deformative fictions” by examining Latin American works that have been misread, underread, or fetishized because they depart from literary norms.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Narrative Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Latinx & Latin American Studies

A Nation’s Undesirables

Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era

Tracey Owens Patton

4/15/2024

978-0-8142-1561-6

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5907-8

34.95 S paperback

“[An] invaluable intervention into contemporary discussions of systemic racism and the roles of memory, postmemory, and erasure in the construction of identity. Surrounding a poignant personal narrative is an often-neglected historical account of German anti-Black racism and the ways it operated around the Second World War.” —Kendall Phillips

Blends family history, rhetorical postmemory studies, critical adoption studies, and more to disrupt standard narratives around World War II, Black German experience, race, and adoption.

Series: Intersectional Rhetorics

Rhetoric & Communication, Race & Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Adoption Studies

Trafficking Rhetoric

Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery

Annie Hill

5/6/2024

978-0-8142-1558-6

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5909-2

32.95 S paperback

“Trafficking Rhetoric brings a feminist lens to trafficking studies, migration, rhetoric, and state policy in novel and compelling ways.” —Julietta Hua

Examines the United Kingdom’s antitrafficking agenda through rhetorical-material analysis, revealing how it works in concert with anti-immigrant sentiment to preserve the UK as an Anglo-white space.

Series: New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality

Rhetoric & Communication, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies

Just Kids

Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency

Risa Applegarth

2/12/2024

978-0-8142-1531-9

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5899-6

32.95 S paperback

“Applegarth provides an in-depth study of major contemporary social movements and demonstrates how protesters and advocates often hold the key to understanding social change. Just Kids urges us all to evaluate the history of social movements as well as the methods we use in our research.” —Amanda Nell Edgar

Analyzes cases in which children and teens push back against public discourse that treats them as symbols rather than as effective organizers, speakers, writers, and demonstrators.

Rhetoric & Communication, Cultural Studies, American Studies

Grassroots Activisms

Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts

Edited by Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates

2/5/2024

978-0-8142-1559-3

$129.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5898-9

34.95 S paperback

“Grassroots Activisms offers a compelling, contemporary, polyvocal approach to activism that is both theoretically sharp and pragmatically applicable, while being inclusive in all the best ways.” —Jonathan Alexander

Combines activist profiles and scholarly essays to amplify and analyze the tactics of grassroots activists working locally to intervene in social injustices.

Series: Intersectional Rhetorics

Rhetoric & Communication, Cultural Studies

Human Rights on the Move

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

6/3/2024

978-0-8142-1568-5

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5911-5

34.95 S paperback

“Human Rights on the Move reinvigorates discourses and practices of human rights by expanding their reach. With contributors from academic, activist, and performative arenas, the collection offers dynamic conversations about how human rights, despite their paradoxes, shape a ‘living practice’ of advocacy and possible interdependence.” —Alexandra S. Moore

A cross-disciplinary collection of scholarly essays, interviews, and creative pieces by artists, activists, and scholars examining how human rights recognition operates contextually and relationally.

Series: On Possibility: Social Change and the Arts + Humanities

Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies, Rhetoric & Communication

Haphazard Families

Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption

Eric C. Walker

4/22/2024

978-0-8142-1566-1

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5908-5

36.95 S paperback

“Adding an important new chapter to the history of adoption, Haphazard Families shows how the transfer of children from one home to another shaped British culture. Walker’s absorbing case studies illuminate the development of the Romantics’ valorization of children.” —Sarah Raff

Examines literary and historical adoptions and constructions of childhood in Romantic-era England to reveal their influence on later Western adoption systems.

Series: Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture

19th-Century Literature, British & Irish Literature, Cultural Studies, Adoption Studies

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance

The Victorians and the Song of Songs

Duc Dau

3/4/2024

978-0-8142-1503-6

$69.95 S hardcover

“Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance is a welcome study of one of the most significant and misunderstood books in the Bible. In nuanced and lively readings, Dau makes a compelling case for the Song of Songs as the basis of a radically queer and feminist theological politics.” —Emma Mason

The first major study to explore the Song of Songs in Victorian culture, including how writers and artists adapted it to challenge the era’s romantic, marital, and gender norms.

Series: Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies

Victorian Studies, Religious Studies

Drawing (in) the Feminine

Bande Dessinée and Women

Edited by Margaret C. Flinn

2/19/2024

978-0-8142-1514-2

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5900-9

32.95 S paperback

“From the portrayal of women in comics in relation to environmental concerns and social/political debates over abortion, to women in sub-Saharan African and MENA comics, the scholarship in Drawing (in) the Feminine is at the forefront of current conversations in both gender and comics studies.” —Ann Miller

Celebrates and examines the richness of contemporary women’s production in French and Francophone comics art while questioning the notion that women have been absent from bande dessinée history.

Series: Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Comics & Comics Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, European Literature

Lost Literacies

Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip

Alex Beringer

1/22/2024

978-0-8142-1539-5

$99.95 S hardcover

978-0-8142-5896-5

36.95 S paperback

“Lost Literacies recovers and makes meaningful a large archive of forgotten visual materials from illustrated weeklies, newspapers, and books. By collating this vital prehistory of the comic strip, Beringer reveals fascinating features of nineteenth-century US urban visual culture. An elegant and exciting study.” —Sandra Tomc

As the first full-length study of US comic strips predating Sunday newspaper comics, excavates playful and complex contributions that upend prevailing narratives about comic strip evolution.

Series: Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Comics & Comics Studies, American Literature, 19th-Century Literature

Niobes

Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory

Edited by Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin

2/26/2024

978-0-8142-1563-0

$99.95 S hardcover

“Niobes repeatedly stopped me in my tracks, to think, to re-read, and even to mourn. Each essay is beautiful and devastating. For thoughtful classicists and comparatists, this collection offers a new model of what the study of myth and its reception can achieve.” —Shane Butler

Explores the mythical figure of Niobe and her continuing relevance as a bridge between classical and ancient discourses and contemporary political and cultural questions.

Series: Classical Memories/Modern Identities

Classics, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Literary Theory

Slow Narrative across Media

Edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova

5/20/2024

978-0-8142-1567-8

$79.95 S hardcover

“Slow Narrative across Media offers a comprehensive theory of slowness in narrative flow that privileges complexity over reductionism and reflection over consuming stories for thrills: a ‘time out’ from capitalist cultures of speed. It affords a great deal of textual and cultural context, finding its strength in a nuts-and-bolts approach, rather than a philosophical one, to narrative theory.” —Lalita Pandit Hogan

Draws on cognitive and rhetorical approaches to narrative to analyze how slowness emerges in a variety of storytelling media.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Literary Theory, Narrative Studies

New in paperback

Unnatural Narratology

Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges

Edited by Jan Alber and Brian Richardson

Available 2/2024

978-0-8142-5564-3

39.95 S paperback

“Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges provides entertaining and instructive insights into the issues at stake in consolidating unnatural narratology.” —Paul Dawson

Provides extensions and reconceptions of unnatural narratology, and intervenes in major debates in narratology, critical theory, and narrative analysis.

Series: Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

Literary Theory, Narrative Studies

Narrating Trauma

Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders

Gretchen Braun

Available 1/2024

978-0-8142-5832-3

34.95 S paperback

“Bold and timely, Narrating Trauma offers new ways of thinking about the past and present as critical reflections on each other, forging an inspiring way of combining historicism with the use of modern theory.” —Andrew Mangham

Draws on current theories of trauma to examine the prehistory of those psychic and somatic responses to trauma now known as PTSD and their influence on Victorian fiction.

Victorian Studies

Writing Maternity

Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre

Dara Rossman Regaignon

Available 3/2024

978-0-8142-5789-0

34.95 S paperback

“Writing Maternity offers a detailed and nuanced discussion of the cultural formation of anxious parenting in the nineteenth century. Employing rhetorical genre theory as a critical lens, Regaignon makes an exciting contribution to studies of emotion and of parenting.” —Tamara S. Wagner

Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature, bringing uptake and genre ecology into literary studies.

Gender & Sexuality Studies, Victorian Studies

The Ethics of Persuasion

Derrida’s Rhetorical Legacies

Brooke Rollins

Available 2/2024

978-0-8142-5583-4

34.95 S paperback

“It’s incredibly unusual for anyone to be able to engage compellingly both with deconstruction and with classical texts, but Rollins is a disciplined and insightful reader of both. Amazingly, she makes the collocation of deconstruction and classical rhetoric seem natural.” —Sean Gurd

Challenges the traditional thinking that rhetoric is primarily utilitarian by demonstrating how Derrida’s philosophy prioritizes ethical imperatives even as one is trying to persuade.

Series: Classical Memories/Modern Identities

Classics, Rhetoric & Communication

Journals

Our journals program welcomes submissions to our award-winning journals, which are closely related to many of our books program’s major subject areas. Current content for each journal can be found on its Project MUSE landing page.

Adoption and Culture

Emily Hipchen, Ed.

Adoption & Culture publishes essays on any aspect of adoption’s intersection with culture, including but not limited to scholarly examinations of adoption practice, law, art, literature, ethics, science, life experiences, film, or any other popular or academic representation of adoption. It is the journal of The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture .

American Periodicals

Sarah Salter and Jean Roggenkamp, Eds.

American Periodicals, the journal of the Research Society for American Periodicals, is devoted exclusively to scholarship and criticism relating to American magazines and newspapers of all periods. It includes essays, notes, reviews, bibliographies, and histories on all aspects of American periodicals.

Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society

Qiana Whitted, Ed.

Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, features scholarly research on sequential art, graphic narrative, and cartooning. It brings together scholarly essays, archival materials, and insights from leading comics professionals. It invites essays on all periods of comic history, as well as considering both a US or an international comics focus.

The Journal of Race & Policy

Michael L. Clemons, Ed.

The Journal of Race & Policy provides an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of research on public policy issues including education, employment, health care, political participation, social welfare, and social justice. As an independent, peer-reviewed, scholarly publication, the journal seeks to promote intellectual debate, rigorous investigation, and the development of new ideas on race, ethnicity, diversity, and public policy in American society and the global arena. JRP seeks to bring to academia and policy makers timely perspectives and insights about race and ethnicity and their relevance to policy-related topics.

Narrative

James Phelan, Ed.

Narrative is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Its mission is to publish essays that contribute to both narrative theory and the interpretation of individual narratives. The journal is interested in narrative across disciplines and across media.

North American Journal of Celtic Studies

Joseph Eska, Ed.

The North American Journal of Celtic Studies is the official journal of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. CSANA fosters research in all aspects of Celtic studies—including literature, language, history, law, folklore, art, and archeology. NAJCS provides a forum for publication across all disciplines and all time periods that bear upon Celtic studies.

Victorians

Deborah Logan, Ed.

Victorians welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to Victorian literature and culture and continues to respond to developmental shifts in the discipline of Victorian studies.

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