Old Is Gold

In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space. From Chicano-inspired street murals to the architecture of restaurants and shops, Herrera shows...

The "Pittsburgh Renaissance," an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city's downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh's...

Drawing upon interviews, correspondence, and nearly 2000 pages of never-before-used prison records, Malcolm Before X is the definitive examination of the prison years of civil rights icon Malcolm X. In February 1946, when 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in...

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.Author: Deborah SuttonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 09/01/2024Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438499208This title is not returnable

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.Author: Danielle RosvallyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 275Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438498348This title is not returnable

Shannon Draucker is Assistant Professor of English at Siena College.Author: Shannon DrauckerPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781438498416This title is not returnable

An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.Author: Tom NavonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 312Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438495910This title is not returnable

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.Author: Ángel RamaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 388Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438494494About the AuthorJosé Eduardo González is Associate Professor...

Examines literary depictions of "mannish" pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.Author: Aimee Armande WilsonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781438495590This title is...

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.Author: Renia KukielkaPublisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoPublished: 11/01/2023Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781438494784This title is not returnable

Romantic Immanence examines literary examples of an alternative experience of otherness-an experience of alterity the Romantics understood as an embodied, immanent encounter with raw reality. The Romantics' enthusiasm for encounters in nature and the imagination that exceeded the limits of rational thought is well...

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.Author: Allison E. CareyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 278Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438493558About the AuthorAllison E. Carey is Professor...

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland's transforming global identity.Author: Shirley Lau WongPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 246Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438493824About the...

An "all-you-can-eat" tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.Author: Elizabeth AldrichPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 392Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781438493060About the AuthorElizabeth Aldrich is Curator Emeritus of Dance at...

A classic work on the history of New York City written by one of America's greatest politicians.Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoPublished: 03/01/2023Pages: 178Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781438492391About the AuthorWilliam N. Tilchin was a full-time history...

The Eight tells the story of Lemmon v. New York-or, as it's more popularly known, the Lemmon Slave Case. All but forgotten today, it was one of the most momentous civil rights cases in American history. There had been cases in which the enslaved...

Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial face of claims to rationality. McGinnis and Smyth consider how the mocking and parodying of ritual often associated with modern rationalism...

Does literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind? Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Samuel Beckett's narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative...

Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and astronomical sources which Wordsworth...

Author: Margot TudorPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/14/2023Pages: 310Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781009264921This title is not returnable