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    Post*45.......................................... 3-4
    Stanford Text
    Technologies............................... 4-5
    Literary Studies and
    Critical Theory........................... 6-7
    Square One: First-Order
    Questions in the
    Humanities................................... 7-8
    Cultural Studies........................9-12
    Stanford Studies in
    Jewish History and
    Culture........................................ 12-14
    Digital Publishing Initiative..... 15

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The Point Alma Venus                     The Novel and the New Ethics                  Incremental Realism
Manuscripts                              Dorothy J. Hale                               Postwar American Fiction,
Preliminary Versions of                                                                Happiness, and Welfare-State
                                         For a generation of contemporary              Liberalism
The Women at Point Sur
                                         Anglo-American novelists, “Why
Robinson Jeffers                         write?” has been answered with a              Mary Esteve
Edited by Tim Hunt and                   renewed will to believe in the ethical        Mary Esteve offers a bold, revisionist
Robert Kafka                             value of literature. Examining a              literary and cultural history of efforts
                                         broad array of novelist-critics—              undertaken by literary realists, public
During the period 1921 to 1927
                                         including J.M. Coetzee, Toni                  intellectuals, and policy activists to
Robinson Jeffers not only wrote
                                         Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen,              advance the value of public institutions
many of his most well-known
                                         Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Fran-                and the claims of socioeconomic justice.
lyric poems but also Tamar, The
                                         zen—Dorothy J. Hale investigates
Tower Beyond Tragedy, Roan                                                             As Esteve argues, era-defining authors
                                         how the contemporary emphasis on
Stallion, and The Women at Point                                                       of realist fiction, including Philip Roth,
                                         literature’s social relevance sparks a
Sur—the long poems that first                                                          Gwendolyn Brooks, Patricia Highsmith,
                                         new ethical description of the novel’s
established his reputation as a                                                        Paula Fox, Peter Taylor, and Mary
                                         social value that is in fact rooted in
major American poet. Including                                                         McCarthy, embraced specific symbols
                                         the modernist notion of narrative
an introduction, chronology, and                                                       of happiness and developed narrative
                                         form that Henry James inaugurated.
critical afterword, The Point Alma                                                     modes—“incremental realism”—
                                         In Hale’s reading, the art of the novel
Venus Manuscripts gather Jeffers’s                                                     that made justifiable the claims of
                                         becomes defined with increasing ex-
four unfinished but substantial                                                        disadvantaged Americans on the
                                         plicitness as an aesthetics of alterity
preliminary attempts at what                                                           nation-state and promoted a small-
                                         made visible as a formalist ethics. It
became The Women at Point Sur,                                                         canvas aesthetics of moderation. With
                                         is this commitment to otherness as
shedding important light on its                                                        this powerful demonstration of the
                                         a narrative act which has conferred
composition and themes, and of-                                                        way postwar literary fiction linked
                                         on the genre an artistic intensity and
fering necessary context for those                                                     the era’s familiar trope of happiness
                                         richness that extends to the novel’s
who wish to clarify Jeffers’s poetic                                                   to political arguments about socio-
                                         every word.
development and to reinterpret his                                                     economic fairness and individual
practice of narrative poetry. The        “Astute and probing.”                         flourishing, Incremental Realism
Point Alma Venus Manuscripts                                          —Rita Felski,
                                                              University of Virginia   enlarges our sense of the postwar
call on general and scholarly                                                          liberal imagination and its attentiveness
readers alike to reconsider Jeffers’s    360 pages, 2020                               to better, possible worlds.
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                                                                                       “Speaks to the priorities and questions
American poetry.                                                                       of our own time.”
                                                                                                                  —Bruce Robbins,
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                                                                                        Post*45                                  3
                                              A series edited by Loren Glass and Kate Marshall
A Violent Peace                           UNESCO and the Fate                          Networking Print in
    Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures       of the Literary                              Shakespeare’s England
    of Democratization in Cold War                                                         Influence, Agency, and
                                              Sarah Brouillette
    Asia and the Pacific                                                                   Revolutionary Change
                                              Shortlisted in the 2020 ASAP Book
    Christine Hong                            Prize, sponsored by the Association          Blaine Greteman
                                              for the Study of the Arts of the
    This book offers a radical cultural       Present (ASAP)                               In early modern England, printed
    account of the midcentury trans-          A case study of one of the most              books were a technology that con-
    formation of the United States into       important global institutions of             nected an increasingly expansive
    a total-war state. As the Cold War        cultural policy formation, UNESCO            community of printers, publishers,
    turned hot, writers—including James       and the Fate of the Literary demon-          and booksellers. As Greteman
    Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B.        strates the relationship between such        reveals, network analysis of the
    Du Bois—discerned in U.S. domestic        policymaking and transformations             nearly 500,000 books printed in
    strategies to quell racial protests and   in the economy. Focusing on                  England before 1800 makes it
    urban riots the same logic of racial      UNESCO’s use of books, Sarah                 possible to speak once again of a
    counterintelligence structuring           Brouillette identifies three phases in       “print revolution,” identifying a
    America’s devastating hot wars in         the agency’s history and explores the        sudden tipping point at which the
    Asia. Hong examines the centrality        literary and cultural programming            early modern print network became
    of U.S. militarism to the Cold War        of each. She charts a trajectory that        a small world where information
    cultural imagination. She assembles       might appear to be one of trium-             could spread in new and powerful
    a transpacific archive—including war      phant success—literary tourism and           ways. Providing new insights into
    writings, Japanese accounts of the U.S.   festival programming can be quite            canonical literary figures like Milton
    atomic bombing of Hiroshima, black        lucrative for some people—but is             and Shakespeare, data analysis also
    radical human rights petitions, Korean                                                 uncovers the hidden histories of key
                                              also, under a different light, a story
    War-era GI photographs, Filipino                                                       figures in this transformation who
                                              of decline.
    novels on guerrilla resistance, and                                                    have been virtually ignored. Both
                                              “In Brouillette’s impressive and             a primer on the power of network
    Marshallese critiques of U.S. human       bracingly severe account, UNESCO
    radiation experiments—and places                                                       analysis and a critical intervention
                                              becomes an institutional lens through        in early modern studies, the book is
    these materials alongside U.S. govern-    which we can see the much larger             ultimately an extended meditation
    ment documents to theorize these          and more powerful set of economic
                                              realities that have shaped our sense         on agency and the complexity of
    works as homologous responses to
                                              of what role literature should play in       action in context.
    unchecked U.S. war and police power.
                                              the world at large.”                         “As delightful to read as it is deeply
    “A tour de force.”                                                                     engaged in all the relevant scholarship.”
                                                                         —Mark McGurl,
                       —Robin D. G. Kelley,                          Stanford University                            —Laura Mandell,
      University of California, Los Angeles                                                                    Texas A&M University
                                              192 pages, 2019
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4            Post*45                                                                        Stanford Text Technologies
             A series edited by Loren Glass and Kate Marshall
Notework                                      The Connected Condition                    Text Technologies
Victorian Literature and                      Romanticism and the Dream                  A History
Nonlinear Style                               of Communication                           Elaine Treharne and
Simon Reader                                  Yohei Igarashi                             Claude Willan
Notework begins with a striking               The Romantic poet’s intense yearn-         The field of text technologies is a
insight: the writer’s notebook is             ing to share thoughts and feelings         capacious analytical framework
a genre in itself. Simon Reader               often finds expression in a style that     that focuses on all textual records
pursues this argument in original             thwarts a connection with readers.         throughout human history, from the
readings of unpublished writing               Yohei Igarashi addresses this              earliest periods of traceable commu-
by prominent Victorians, offering             paradox by reimagining Romantic            nication—perhaps as early as 60,000
a more expansive approach to                  poetry as a response to the begin-         BCE—to the present day. At its core,
literary formalism for the twenty-            nings of the information age, and          it examines the material history of
first century. Presenting notes in            the result is a radical reframing          communication: what constitutes
terms of genre allows Reader to               of major poets and canonical               a text, the purposes for which it is
suggest inventive new accounts                poems. Considering Samuel Taylor           intended, how it functions, and the
of key Victorian texts, including             Coleridge as a stenographer, William       social ends that it serves.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, On the            Wordsworth as a bureaucrat, Percy
Origin of Species, and Hopkins’s                                                         This coursebook can be used to
                                              Shelley amid social networks, and
devotional lyrics, and to reinterpret                                                    support any pedagogical or research
                                              John Keats in relation to telegraphy,
these works as meditations on the                                                        activities in text technologies, the
                                              Igarashi reveals a shared attraction
ethics of compiling and using data.                                                      history of the book, the history of
                                              and skepticism toward the dream of
In this way, Notework recasts infor-                                                     information, and textually-based
                                              communication. Bringing to bear
mation collection as a personal and                                                      work in the digital humanities. Text
                                              a singular combination of media
expressive activity that comes into                                                      Technologies: A History will enable
                                              studies, the history of communica-
focus against large-scale systems of                                                     students and teachers to generate
                                              tion, sociology, rhetoric, and literary
knowledge organization. Finding                                                          multiple lines of inquiry into how
                                              history, The Connected Condition
resonance between today’s digital                                                        communication—its production,
culture and its nineteenth-century            shows that the Romantic poets have
                                                                                         form and materiality, and recep-
precursors, Reader honors our most            much to teach us about living with
                                                                                         tion—is crucial to any interpretation
disposable, improvised, and fleeting          the connected condition and the
                                                                                         of culture, history, and society.
textual gestures.                             fortunes of literature in it.
                                                                                         “This clear and lucid book has
“Carves out fresh and rewarding               “Brilliant, nuanced, and elegantly
                                                                                         ample material for a wide variety
territory in the landscape of                 written.”
                                                                          —Alan Liu,     of curious readers.”
Victorian studies.”                                          University of California,                             —Andrew Piper,
                       —Andrew Stauffer,                              Santa Barbara                                McGill University
                     University of Virginia   256 pages, 2019                            222 pages, 2019
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                                                                       Stanford Text Technologies                                      5
                                               A series edited by Elaine Treharne and Ruth Ahnert
The Afterlife of Enclosure                  Toward the Critique                        Two Studies of
    British Realism, Character, and             of Violence                                Friedrich Hölderlin
    the Commons                                 A Critical Edition                         Werner Hamacher
    Carolyn Lesjak                              Walter Benjamin                            Edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng
    The enclosure of the commons                Edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng        Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin
    was an act of “slow violence” that          Marking the centenary of Walter            shows how the poet enacts a radical
    transformed lands, labor, and               Benjamin’s influential essay, “Toward      theory of meaning that culminates
    basic concepts of public life leading       the Critique of Violence,” this            in a unique and still groundbreaking
    into the nineteenth century. The            critical edition presents readers with     concept of revolution, one that begins
    Afterlife of Enclosure examines three       a new, fully annotated translation of      with a revolutionary understanding
    canonical British writers—Charles           a classic of modern political theory.      of language. The product of an
    Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas                                                      intense engagement with both Walter
    Hardy—as narrators of this history,         The volume includes notes and
                                                                                           Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, the
    which required new literary forms to        fragments by Benjamin along
                                                                                           book presents Werner Hamacher’s
    capture the lived experience.               with passages from all of the
                                                                                           major attempts at developing a critical
                                                contemporaneous texts to which his
    This study boldly reconceives the                                                      practice commensurate with the
                                                essay refers: provocative arguments
    realist novel as witness to this                                                       immensity of Hölderlin’s late writings.
                                                about law and violence advanced
    material and environmental dispos-                                                     Readers will not only come away with
                                                by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller,
    session—and bearer of utopian                                                          a new appreciation of Hölderlin’s
                                                Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer;
    energies. Illuminating the common                                                      poetic and political-theoretical
                                                a new translation of selections
    at the heart of the novel—from                                                         achievements but will also discover the
                                                from Georges Sorel’s Reflections
    common characters to common-                                                           motivating force behind Hamacher’s
                                                on Violence; and, for the first time
    place events—Carolyn Lesjak reveals                                                    own achievements as a literary scholar
                                                in any language, a bibliography
    an experimental figuration of a                                                        and political theorist.
                                                Benjamin drafted for the expansion
    once defining feature of the British        of the essay and the development of        An introduction by Julia Ng and an
    landscape and political imaginary.          a corresponding philosophy of law.         afterword by Peter Fenves provide
    In the face of privatization, climate                                                  further information about these studies
    change, and the other forms of slow         “The most comprehensible version yet
                                                of Benjamin’s compelling and               and the academic and theoretical
    violence today, this book looks back        demanding essay.”                          context in which they were composed.
    to a literature of historical trauma and
                                                                      —Kevin McLaughlin,   “A fitting tribute to Werner Hamacher.”
    locates within it a radical path forward.                           Brown University
                                                                                                                     —Susan Bernstein,
    “Powerful and timely.”                      376 pages, June 2021                                                  Brown University
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6             Literary Studies and Critical Theory
Close Reading with                              Now in Paperback                            Political Grammars
Computers                                       Failures of Feeling                         The Unconscious Foundations
Textual Scholarship, Computational              Insensibility and the Novel                 of Modern Democracy
Formalism, and David Mitchell’s                 Wendy Anne Lee                              Davide Tarizzo
Cloud Atlas                                                                                 Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem
                                                This book recovers the curious
Martin Paul Eve                                 history of the “insensible” in the          of modern democratic, liberal
                                                Age of Sensibility. A fresh take            peoples—how to define them, how
Most contemporary digital studies
                                                on emotions in the history of the           to explain their invariance over time,
are interested in distant-reading
                                                novel, Failures of Feeling opens up         and how to differentiate one people
paradigms for large-scale literary
                                                literary history’s most provocative         from another. Tarizzo proposes that
history. This book asks what
                                                cases of unfeeling, from the iconic         Jacques Lacan’s theory of the subject
happens when such telescopic                                                                enables us to clearly distinguish
techniques function as a microscope             scrivener who would prefer not to
                                                and the reviled stock figure of the         between the notion of personal
instead, bringing a range of compu-                                                         identity and the notion of subjectivity,
tational methods to bear on a single            prude, to the heroic rape survivor,
                                                the burnt-out man-of-feeling,               and this distinction is critical to
genre-bending novel—Cloud Atlas                                                             understanding the nature of nations
(2004)—in a sustained fashion. Pub-             and the hard-hearted Jane Austen
                                                                                            whose sense of nationhood does
lished in two very different versions           herself. The result is a new theory
                                                                                            not rest on any self-evident identity
worldwide without anyone taking                 of mind and of the novel predicated
                                                                                            or pre-existent cultural or ethnic
much notice, David Mitchell’s novel             on an essential paradox: the very
                                                                                            homogeneity. Introducing the concept
is ideal fodder for a textual-genetic           phenomenon that would appear
                                                                                            of “political grammar”—the conditions
publishing history, reflections on              to halt feeling and plot actually
                                                                                            of political subjectification that
micro-tectonic shifts in language by            compels them. Contrary to the
                                                                                            enable the enunciation of an emergent
authors who move between genres,                assumption that fictional investment        “we”—Tarizzo argues democracy
and explorations of how we imagine              relies on a richness of interior life,      flourishes when the opening between
people wrote in bygone eras. With               Wendy Anne Lee shows instead                subjectivity and identity is maintained.
this important work, Martin Paul                that nothing incites the passions           As he compellingly demonstrates,
Eve demonstrates a set of methods               like dispassion.                            democracy can be productively
and provides open-source software               “Stunningly original.”                      perceived as a process of never-
tools that others can use in their                                       —Deidre Lynch,     ending recovery from a lack of
own literary-critical practices.                                       Harvard University   clear national identity.
“An impressive achievement.”                    248 pages, 2020                             “A brilliant psychoanalytic exploration
                       —Ted Underwood,
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                      University of Illinois,                                                                     —John P. McCormick,
                      Urbana-Champaign                                                                            University of Chicago
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                                 Literary Studies and Critical Theory                         Square one: first-order                     7
                                                                                            questions in the humanities
Poetic Thinking Today                      The Long Public Life of a                  Ordinary Unhappiness
    An Essay                                   Short Private Poem                         The Therapeutic Fiction of
    Amir Eshel                                 Reading and Remembering                    David Foster Wallace
                                               Thomas Wyatt                               Jon Baskin
    Thinking is much broader than
    what our science-obsessed, utilitar-       Peter Murphy                               In recent years, the American fiction
    ian culture often takes it to be.          Thomas Wyatt didn’t publish                writer David Foster Wallace has
    More than mere problem solving             “They Flee from Me.” It was written        been treated as a symbol, as an icon,
    or the methodical comprehen-               in a notebook, maybe abroad,               and even a film character. Ordinary
    sion of our personal and natural           maybe even in prison. Today it is          Unhappiness returns us to the reason
    circumstances, thinking may take           in every poetry anthology. How             we all know about him in the first
    the form of a poem, a painting, a          did it survive? That is the story          place: his fiction. By closely examining
    sculpture, a museum exhibition,            Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and            Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with
    or a documentary film. Exploring           compelling detail—of the accidents         Hideous Men, and The Pale King,
    a variety of works by contemporary         of fate that kept a great poem alive       Jon Baskin points readers to the
    artists and writers who exemplify          across 500 turbulent years. From the       work at the center of Wallace’s
    poetic thinking, this book draws           deadly, fascinating circles of Henry       oeuvre and places that work in
    our attention to one of the crucial        VIII’s court to the contemporary           conversation with a philosophical
    affordances of this form of creative       classroom, The Long Public Life of a       tradition that includes Wittgenstein,
    human insight and wisdom:                  Short Private Poem also introduces         Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among
    its capacity to help protect and           us to a series of worlds. We meet          others. What emerges is a Wallace
    cultivate human freedom. In an era         antiquaries, editors, publishers,          who not only speaks to our post-
    characterized by the global reemer-        anthologizers, and critics whose           modern addictions in the age of
    gence of authoritarian tendencies,         own life stories beckon. And we            mass entertainment and McDonald’s
    Amir Eshel writes with the future          learn how the poem came to be              but who seeks to address a quiet des-
    of the humanities in mind, urging          considered, after many centuries           peration at the heart of our modern
    the acknowledgment and cultiva-            of neglect, a model of the “best”          lives. Freud said that the job of the
    tion of poetic thinking.                   English has to offer.                      therapeutic process was to turn
    “This book should be required read-                                                   “hysterical misery into ordinary
                                               “Beautifully written and utterly           unhappiness.” This book makes a
    ing for defenders of the humanities        original.”
    in our current political moment.”                                                     case for how Wallace achieved this
                                                                       —John Guillory,
                                —Lital Levy,                        New York University
                                                                                          in his fiction.
                        Princeton University
                                               272 pages, 2019
                                                                                          “Persuasive, bold, enterprising,
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8            Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
             A series edited by Paul A. Kottman
Nothing Happened                             Divining Nature                              Before Trans
A History                                    Aesthetics of Enchantment in                 Three Gender Stories from
Susan A. Crane                               Enlightenment France                         Nineteenth-Century France
What does it mean to look at the             Tili Boon Cuillé                             Rachel Mesch
past and to remember that “nothing           The Enlightenment remains widely             In Before Trans, Rachel Mesch
happened”? Why might we feel                 associated with the rise of scientific       recovers a more complex history of
as if “nothing is the way it was”?           progress and the loss of religious           gender identity by examining the
This book transforms these utterly           faith. In her wide-ranging and richly        lives of three French writers who
ordinary observations and redefines          illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé           expressed their gender in ways that
“Nothing” as something we have               questions the accuracy of this nar-          did not conform to nineteenth-
known and can remember. By pay-              rative by investigating the fate of the      century notions of femininity. Jane
ing attention to how we understand           marvelous in the age of reason.              Dieulafoy, Rachilde, and Marc de
Nothing to be happening in the               Exploring the affinities between the         Montifaud were each involved in a
present, what it means to “know              natural sciences and the fine arts,          lifelong effort to articulate a sense
Nothing” or to “do Nothing,” we can          Cuillé examines the representation of        of selfhood that did not precisely
begin to ask how those experiences           natural phenomena, demonstrating.            align with the conventional gender
will be remembered. Susan A. Crane           responses to the “spectacle of nature”       roles of their day. Their intricate,
moves effortlessly between different         in eighteenth-century France included        personal stories provide vital
modes of seeing Nothing, drawing             wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy,              historical context for our own
on visual analysis and cultural stud-        and the “sentiment of divinity.” These       efforts to understand the nature
ies to suggest a new way of thinking         “passions of the soul,” traditionally as-    of gender identity and the ways in
about history. By remembering how            sociated with religion and considered        which it might be expressed.
Nothing happened, we can recover             antithetical to enlightenment, were          “Before Trans is an exceedingly
histories that were there all along.         linked to contemporary theorizations         well-written, layered, and compel-
“Clever and funny and serious and            of the sublime. The marvelous was            ling account of three overlapping
illuminating. You won’t want to put          not eradicated but instead preserved         gender-variant biographies. Rachel
it down.”                                    through the establishment and reform         Mesch’sbeautiful braiding of their
                                             of major French cultural institutions.       lives and loves, their desires and
                        —Marita Sturken,
             author of Tourists of History
                                                                                          disappointments, offers a fresh and
                                             This book has been made possible in          original take on trans history.”
264 pages, January 2021                      part by the National Endowment for the
                                             Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.                     —Jack Halberstam,
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                                                                                                 Cultural Studies                  9
A Unified Theory of Cats                 Minor Transpacific                           The Peculiar Afterlife
 on the Internet                          Triangulating American, Japanese,            of Slavery
                                          and Korean Fictions                          The Chinese Worker and
 E.J. White
                                          David S. Roh                                 the Minstrel Form
 The line “the internet is made of
 cats” seems to need no explana-          There is a tendency to think of              Caroline H. Yang
 tion. Everyone understands the           Korean American literature—and               The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery
 joke, but few know how it started.       Asian American literature writ               explores how antiblack racism lived
 A Unified Theory of Cats on the          large—as a field of study involving          on through the figure of the Chinese
 Internet is the first book to explore    only two spaces, the United States           worker in US literature after emanci-
 how the cat became the internet’s        and Korea. The same rings true with          pation. Drawing out the connections
 best friend. Bringing together fun       Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature        between this liminal figure and the
 anecdotes, thoughtful analyses,          involving only Japan and Korea.              formal aesthetics of blackface min-
 and hidden history of the com-           This book posits that both fields            strelsy in literature of the Reconstruction
 munities that built the internet,        must account for all three spaces:           and post-Reconstruction eras,
 White shows how japonisme, punk          Korean American literature has to            Caroline H. Yang reveals the ways
 culture, cute culture, and the battle    grapple with the legacy of Japanese          antiblackness structured US cultural
 among different communities for          imperialism in the United States,            production during a crucial moment
 the soul of the internet informed        and Zainichi literature must account         of reconstructing and re-narrating US
 the sensibility of online felines.       for American interventions in Japan.         empire after the Civil War. Examining
 Internet cats thus offer a playful—      Working in Japanese and English,             texts by major American writers in
 and useful—way to understand             David S. Roh builds a theoretical            the late nineteenth and early twenti-
 how culture shapes and is shaped         framework for articulating moments           eth centuries, Yang’s bold re-reading
 by technology.                           of contact between minority litera-          of these authors’ contradictory
                                          tures in a third national space.             positions on race and labor sees the
 “A definitive overview of one of                                                      figure of the Chinese worker as both
 online culture’s least understood        “A refreshing piece of scholarship that      hiding and making visible the legacy
 phenomena, and a fascinating ride        will advance important conversations
 through internet history.”                                                            of slavery and antiblackness.
                                          surrounding transnational minor
                     —Ethan Zuckerman,    literature and Korean American               “Offering fascinating new insights,
                                   MIT    cultural production.”                        Caroline Yang’s nuanced comparative
                                                                  —Lisa Yoneyama,      analyses enrich by challenging us to
                                                               University of Toronto   reconceptualize minstrelsy in US
                                          Asian America
                                                                                       literature and our ideas of the ‘West.’”
 168 pages, 2020                          224 pages, July 2021                                               —Edlie L. Wong,
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10       Cultural Studies
Giving Form to an Asian                    Giving Way                                 The Implicated Subject
and Latinx America                         Thoughts on Unappreciated                  Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
                                           Dispositions                               Michael Rothberg
Long Le-Khac
                                           Steven Connor                              When it comes to historical violence
This book reveals the intertwined
story of contemporary Asian Ameri-         In a world that promotes assertion,        and contemporary inequality, none of
cans and Latinxs through a shared          agency, and empowerment, this              us are completely innocent. Arguing
literary aesthetic. Their transfictional   book challenges us to revalue a            that the familiar categories of victim,
literature creates expansive imagined      range of actions and attitudes that        perpetrator, and bystander do not
worlds in which distinct stories           have come to be disregarded or             adequately account for our connec-
coexist, offering artistic shape to        dismissed as merely passive. Mercy,        tion to injustices past and present,
their linked political and economic        resignation, politeness, restraint,        Michael Rothberg offers a new theory
struggles. Read together, Asian            gratitude, abstinence, losing well,        of political responsibility through
American and Latinx literatures            apologizing, taking care: today,           the figure of the implicated subject.
convey astonishing diversity and           such behaviors are associated with         Examining a range of cultural texts,
untapped possibilities for coalition       negativity or lack. But the capacity       archives, and activist movements
within the U.S.’s fastest-growing im-      to give way is better understood           from such contested zones as tran-
migrant and minority communities.          as positive action, at once intricate      sitional South Africa, contemporary
As the U.S. population approaches          and demanding. Moving from                 Israel/Palestine, post-Holocaust
a minority-majority threshold, we          intra-human common courtesies,             Europe, and a transatlantic realm
urgently need methods that can look        to human-animal relations, to the          marked by the afterlives of slavery,
across the divisions and unequal           global civility of human-inhuman           Rothberg finds that the processes and
positions of the racial system.            ecological awareness, the book’s           histories illuminated by implicated
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx         argument unfolds on progressively          subjectivity are legion in our inter-
America leads the way with a vision        larger scales. At a time when it is        connected world and articulates how
for the future built on panethnic and                                                 confronting our own implication in
                                           on the wane, Giving Way offers a
cross-racial solidarity.                                                              difficult histories can lead to new
                                           powerful defense of civility, the
“Long Le-Khac expertly demon-              versatile human capacity to deflect        forms of internationalism and long-
strates how aesthetic form can reveal      aggression into sociability and to         distance solidarity.
solidarities within and across ethnic      exercise power over power itself.
and racial differences.”                                                              “This book’s stakes are as high as
                                           “This book gets to the root of             its thinking is subtle, clear, and
                        —Crystal Parikh,                                              persuasive.”
                     New York University   what it means to be an ethical
                                           human being.”                                                     —Marianne Hirsch,
Stanford Studies in Comparative                                                                             Columbia University
Race and Ethnicity                                                   —David Kishik,
                                                                   Emerson College    Cultural Memory in the Present
264 pages, 2020
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                                                                                              Cultural Studies                 11
Uncle Tom                                Now in Paperback                            Jewish Primitivism
 From Martyr to Traitor                   The Re-Enchantment                          Samuel J. Spinner
 Adena Spingarn                           of the World
                                          Secular Magic in a Rational Age             Around the beginning of the
 Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.                                                   twentieth century, Jewish writers
 Honorable mention in the 2019            Edited by Joshua Landy and                  and artists across Europe began
 MLA Prize for a First Book               Michael Saler                               depicting fellow Jews as savages or
 From his origins as the Christ-          This interdisciplinary volume chal-         “primitive” tribesmen. Primitivism,
 like protagonist of Harriet              lenges the long-prevailing view of          the European appreciation of
 Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel,      modernity as “disenchanted.” There is       and fascination with so-called
 Uncle Tom has become a widely            of course something to the widespread       “primitive,” non-Western peoples
 recognized epithet for a black           idea, so memorably put into words by        who were also subjugated and
 person deemed so subservient to          Max Weber, that modernity is charac-        denigrated, was a powerful artistic
 whites that he betrays his race.         terized by the “progressive disenchant-     critique of the modern world and
 Adena Spingarn offers the first          ment of the world.” Yet less often          was adopted by Jewish writers
 comprehensive account of this            recognized is that a powerful counter-      and artists to explore the urgent
 figure in the American imagina-          tendency runs alongside this one, an        questions surrounding their own
 tion, demonstrating his centrality       overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum        identity and status in Europe as
 to American conversations about          left by departed convictions, and to do     insiders and outsiders. Jewish
 race and racial representation from      so without invoking superseded belief       Primitivism argues that Jewish
 1852 to the present. We learn of         systems. Modernity produces an array        modernists developed a distinct
 the radical political potential of the   of strategies for re-enchantment, each      primitivist aesthetic that challenged
 novel’s many theatrical spinoffs,        fully compatible with secular rational-     prevailing forms of primitivism that
 its changing fortunes in the post–       ity. It has to, because God has many        relied on idea of the threatening
 Civil War and Jim Crow eras, and         “aspects” and traditional religion offers   savage “other” from outside Europe:
 how Tom was censored by black            so much in so many domains. From            in Jewish primitivism, the savage is
 cultural figures of the Harlem           one thinker to the next, the question       already there.
 Renaissance. Through Uncle Tom,          of just what, in religious enchantment,
                                          needs to be replaced in a secular world     “Spinner uncovers the paradoxical
 black Americans have contested                                                       primitivist yearnings motivating a
 the viability of various strategies      receives an entirely different answer       generation of Jewish visual artists
 for racial progress and defined the      and these strategies are presented in       and writers in Yiddish, German,
 most desirable and harmful images        this wide-ranging collection.               and Hebrew.”
 of black personhood in literature        “One of those rare books that creates                               —Gabriella Safran,
                                                                                                             Stanford University
 and popular culture.                     a paradigm shift in a topic of real
                                          importance.”                                304 pages, July 2021
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12        Cultural Studies
It Could Lead to Dancing                       Wild Visionary                                Writing Occupation
Mixed-Sex Dancing and                          Maurice Sendak in Queer                       Jewish Émigré Voices in
Jewish Modernity                               Jewish Context                                Wartime France
Sonia Gollance                                 Golan Y. Moskowitz                            Julia Elsky
Dances and balls appear throughout             Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice            Among the Jewish writers who
world literature as venues for young           Sendak’s life and work in the context         emigrated from Eastern Europe to
people to meet, flirt, and form                of his experience as a Jewish gay             France between the two world wars,
relationships, as any reader of Pride          man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard                 a number chose to switch from
and Prejudice or Romeo and Juliet              Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce,              writing in their languages of origin
can attest. While traditional Jewish           romantic, and shockingly funny                to writing primarily in French.
law prohibits men and women from               truth seeker who intervened in                Under the Nazi occupation of France
dancing together, Jewish mixed-sex             modern literature and culture.                from 1940 to 1944, these Jewish
dancing was understood as the                  Sendak painted childhood with the             émigré writers continued to write in
very sign of modernity—and the                 dark realism and wild imagination             their adopted language, even as the
ultimate boundary transgression.               of his own sensitive “inner child,”           Vichy regime and Nazi occupiers
In Jewish literature of the long               drawing on the queer and Yiddish              denied their French identity through
nineteenth century, dance scenes               sensibilities that shaped his singular        xenophobic and antisemitic laws. In
become a charged and complex                   voice. Interweaving literary biogra-          this book, Julia Elsky considers how
arena for understanding the limits of          phy and cultural history, Golan Y.            these writers reexamined both their
acculturation, the dangers of ethnic           Moskowitz analyzes Sendak’s creativ-          Jewishness and their place as authors
mixing, and the implications of                ity in relation to the momentous              in France. By writing in French, they
shifting gender norms and marriage             events that shaped his perspective,
                                                                                             expressed multiple cultural, religious,
patterns. Combining cultural history           including the Great Depression,
                                                                                             and linguistic identities, even when
with literary analysis, Sonia Gollance         the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis.
                                                                                             their sense of belonging was being
illustrates how mixed-sex dancing              Through a deep exploration of
                                                                                             violently denied.
functions as a flexible metaphor for           Sendak’s picture books, interviews,
the concerns of Jewish communities             and previously unstudied personal             “Clearly and gracefully written, Writing
in the face of cultural transitions.           correspondence, Wild Visionary                Occupation will be of interest to all
                                               offers a sensitive portrait of the most       those concerned by the fate of Jews in
“A fascinating exploration of the                                                            France, before and after the Second
role of dance in literary representa-          beloved and enchanting picture-
                                                                                             World War.”
tions of Jewish modernization and              book artist of our time.
                                                                                                           —Susan Rubin Suleiman,
secularization.”                               “Easily the best study of Sendak                 author of The Némirovsky Question
                       —Naomi Seidman,         to appear, deeply researched and              288 pages, 2020
                     University of Toronto
                                               utterly engaging.”                            9781503613676 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale
                                                                         —Kenneth Kidd,
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                                                    Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture                                    13
                                             A series edited by David Biale and Sarah Abrevaya Stein
The Converso’s Return                       German as a Jewish Problem                 Reading Israel,
 Conversion and Sephardi History             The Language Politics of                   Reading America
 in Contemporary Literature                  Jewish Nationalism                         The Politics of Translation
 and Culture                                 Marc Volovici                              between Jews
 Dalia Kandiyoti                             The German language has held an            Omri Asscher
 Five centuries after the forced conver-     ambivalent and controversial place         American and Israeli Jews have
 sion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews         in the modern history of European          historically clashed over the
 to Catholicism, stories of conversos’       Jews, representing different—often         contours of Jewish identity, and
 descendants uncovering long-hidden          conflicting—historical currents.           their experience of modern Jewish
 Jewish roots inspired a wave of             The crucial role of German in the          life has been radically different.
 contemporary writing pointing to a          formation of Jewish national culture       But what happens when the
 past that had been presumed dead            and politics in the late nineteenth        encounter between American
 and buried. The Converso’s Return           century has been largely overshad-         and Israeli Jewishness takes place
 explores the cultural politics and          owed by the catastrophic events            in literary form—when Jewish
 literary impact of this reawakened          that befell Jews under Nazi rule.          American novels make aliyah, or
 interest in converso and crypto-Jewish      German as a Jewish Problem tells           when Israeli novels are imported
 history, and asks what this fascination     the Jewish history of the German           for consumption by the diaspora?
 with lost-and-found heritage can tell       language, focusing on Jewish               Reading Israel, Reading America
 us about how we relate to and make          national movements in Central and          explores the politics of translation
 use of the past.                            Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel.       as it shapes the understandings
 Dalia Kandiyoti turns to contem-            Marc Volovici considers key writers        and misunderstandings of Israeli
 porary fiction and memoirs that             and activists whose work reflected         literature in the United States and
 imagine what might be missing from          the multilingual nature of the Jewish      American Jewish literature in
 the historical archive, suggesting that     national sphere and the centrality of      Israel. Asscher decodes the literary
 these works propose an alternative          the German language within it. This        encounter between Israeli and
 historical consciousness that reveals       book offers a new understanding of         American Jews, provocatively
 convergences and solidarities within        the language problem in modern             untangling cultural relations be-
 Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, converso,      Jewish history.                            tween these “rival siblings” of the
 and Sabbatean histories.                                                               Jewish world.
                                             “A fascinating, superbly told story.”
                                                                                        “With impressive literary sophistica-
 “Theoretically sophisticated, histori-                             —John M. Efron,     tion, Asscher reveals how translation
 cally rigorous, and superbly written.”            University of California, Berkeley
                                                                                        has served not only as a bridge
                    —Tabea Alexa Linhard,    352 pages, 2020                            but as a site of encounter and even
                    author of Jewish Spain                                              confrontation.”
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 336 pages, 2020                                                                                               —David Myers,
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          A series edited by David Biale and Sarah Abrevaya Stein
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                                        Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis
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                                        Sullivan focuses on how changes in the built and natural environment
                                        affected burial rituals at the temple due to changes in visibility.
           constructingthesacred.org
                                        Black Quotidian
                                        Everyday History in African-American Newspapers
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                                        Grave Reform in Modern China
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                                        In the past decade alone, more than ten million corpses have been
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