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Title Author Year Publication typesort descending
Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History Timothy Hampton 2022 Book
Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians Jeroen Dewulf 2022 Book
Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses Niklaus Largier 2022 Book
The Substance of Fiction Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775 Sophie Volpp 2022 Book
Written On Water Translated by Andrew F. Jones 2023 Book

The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

2023

In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.

Life supplies art with its raw materials, but...Read more about The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

In the Shadows of the Big House Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana

2023

In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most prominent and frequently visited

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Written On Water

2023

Eileen Chang is one of the most celebrated and influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. First published in 1945, and just as beloved as her fiction in the Chinese-speaking world, Written on Water collects Chang's reflections on art, literature, war,...Read more about Written On Water

The Word of the Muse

2023

With Coseema off planet, Olive has bought herself some time—but the clock is ticking. After a risky rescue mission, she and her friends make their way to the center of the rebellion against Emperor Burnash, who is desperate to capture Olive and claim her power for his own. Without her

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Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland

2023

Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Funahashi asks: What moves people to work to the...Read more about Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland

Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

2023

In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies, documentary films, photojournalistic essays, graphic novels, and digital spaces, she focuses on the figure of...Read more about Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua

2023

To Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since...Read more about To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

2023

Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon, or the utter amazement when we watch a child walk for the first time? How do you put into words the collective effervescence of standing in a crowd and singing in unison, or the wonder you...Read more about Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

Embodying Peripheries

2022

This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities, and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries. Peripheral communities bear human faces and names, necessitating specific modes of...Read more about Embodying Peripheries

The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

2022

In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor, Víctor González Torres, Hayden...Read more about The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico