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A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Pablo Piccato
Author Affiliation: Columbia University
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Political rhetoric often portrays Mexico as an inherently violent nation.
Available now for the first time in English, Pablo Piccato’s essential
work cuts through the noise to contextualize violence as a historical
phenomenon. Piccato shows us that violence is not unique to Mexico
but, just as anywhere else, has erupted there in many forms.
Attending to multiple histories of violence, Piccato reveals how
violence emerges as a resource that people mobilize to various
ends—not an uncontrollable impulse or the simple result of corrupt
political power.

Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Piergiorgio Di Giminiani
Author Affiliation: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
On the conservation frontier of southern Chile, the lives of
smallholding settlers, Indigenous Mapuche farmers, environmental
activists, entrepreneurs, and conservation scientists all grapple with
the enduring impacts of settler-caused environmental depletion,
aspirations for a new ethics of care, and the promises of an
ecotourism boom. Here, the question of what it means to be human is
not simply an existential concern but the reflexive result of
experiences of becoming human through and with nonhuman others
in an increasingly uncertain world.

The Archaeology of American Protests
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: April M. Beisaw and Dania Jordan-Talley
Author Affiliation: Vassar College; Oakland Museum of California
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
In this book, April Beisaw and Dania Jordan-Talley use historical and
contemporary archaeology to explore the past 400 years of American
protest history. This book reveals how ideals such as equality,
prosperity, and self-determination have been challenged and
negotiated through protests, connecting today’s protest movements to
those that came long before.

Becoming St. Louis: Family, Faith, and the Politics of Citizenship, 1820-1920
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Author: Sharon Hartman Strom
Author Affiliation: University of Rhode Island
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
St. Louis was the pivot of the free states and slave states and the
border of the settled East and frontier West. Sharon Hartman Strom
draws on disparate and previously untapped sources to weave the
personal and public lives of women and both free and enslaved
African Americans into city history.

Between Guns and Butter: The Modern Presidency and the Politics of Warfare and Welfare
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Jeremy L. Strickler
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
In Between Guns and Butter, Jeremy Strickler simultaneously
examines two significant developments in the modern presidency: the
rise of the national security presidency and the emergence of the
executive as steward of the public welfare. Strickler calls this pattern
of governance the “warfare-welfare nexus.” Analyzing the
administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, Strickler
shows how each, under the pressure of emergencies both at home
and abroad, navigated their governing environment by expressing
ideas on the relationship between guns and butter.

Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Author: Lev Nachman
Discipline: Asian Studies

Description:
Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Ukraine, Nagorno
Karabakh, and Somaliland find themselves unrecognized or
unwelcomed in today’s international system because another power
claims them as part of their own territory. Representing many of the
world’s critical geopolitical flashpoints, there is a dire need to
understand how the “contested” status of these places, a term
generally reserved for the international sphere, impacts domestic
politics. Political scientist Lev Nachman delves into Taiwan’s political
landscape following the 2014 Sunflower Movement, a watershed
moment for pro-independence activism, to consider how international
and domestic forces have shaped political participation. Blending
quantitative and qualitative material, including interviews with
pro-independence groups, Nachman reveals that when it comes to
what he terms “contested states,” one cannot rely on existing theory to
determine why some social movements become political parties and
others do not.

The Counterrevolutionary Shadow: Race, Democracy, and the Making of the American People
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Michael Gorup
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
Michael Gorup provides a novel account of the relationship between
race and democratic politics in the United States, arguing that racial
politics in the US has always been a politics of peoplehood. Racism is
what he calls a politics of popular enclosure: it limits the scope of
democratic power by circumscribing who is said to belong to “the
people.” In doing so, it contains democratization from within. Racism
is, in short, American democracy’s “counterrevolutionary shadow.”

Decolonisation and Postcolonial Migration: Citizenship and Empire
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Author: Frank Abumere
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
Decolonisation and Postcolonial Migration reconceptualises the
relational approach to global justice to analyse what and why former
colonial states owe their former colonies. While arguments for lifting
restrictions on a former empire’s citizens right to enter the metropolis
are usually based on cosmopolitan egalitarian grounds (the universal
equality of persons) and humanitarian grounds, Abumere’s
postcolonial relational approach bases the argument for lifting such
restrictions on the grounds of: the colonial historical relationship
between former colonial states and their former colonies; and
specifically, the historical injustice that characterised the relationship.

Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Discipline: Cultural Studies

Description:
In Dispelling Fantasies, Joy Sanchez-Taylor examines how authors of
color, such as R. F. Kuang, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Tomi
Adeyemi, Tasha Suri, Aiden Thomas, Nghi Vo, and Marlon James,
among others, offer critical counterpoints to the history of
white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy. The traditional fantasy that
these authors are writing against reinforces Christian virtues and
colonial, white supremacist structures; Sanchez-Taylor argues that its
racial tropes are tied to a history of colonization and Christian
missionary practices, with popular fantasy narratives often depicting
Indigenous groups as primitive, deviant peoples in need of salvation.
Such representations are based on a Western binary of rational
versus magical and are influenced by tenets of Christianity, ultimately
contributing to depictions of “the dark fantastic” or fantasy worlds
where dark and othered characters are implicitly portrayed as evil and
irredeemable.

Dreams of a Young Republic: The American Vincentians in China
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: John J. Harney
Author Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin; Centre College
Discipline: Religion

Description:
In Dreams of a Young Republic, John J. Harney examines the
perceptions and expectations of this group of American Catholic
missionaries between the 1911 revolution that created the Republic of
China and the communist revolution of 1949 that led to the collapse of
that republic on the Chinese mainland. The Vincentians experienced
warlordism, Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek’s partial unification of
the country, Japanese invasion during World War II, and communist
revolution. Through all this they clung to a vision of a free, democratic
China friendly to the West. As Harney contextualizes the Vincentians’
observations and desires, he provides insight into the China that came
to be and offers a history of a Sino-American relationship with much
deeper roots than the antagonisms of the Cold War and the decades
that have followed.

EU Public Construction Law
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Vojtěch Vomáčka
Discipline: Law

Description:
The monograph traces the degree of indirect harmonisation of spatial
planning and planning permission in EU law and the scope of the
relevant requirements. It focuses on the gradual development of EU
law, the relationships, differences and synergies between the different
conditions in order to provide a more comprehensive picture, and then
concentrates on the most critical issues identified, namely the
interpretation of the general concepts used in environmental
legislation and the explanation of the content of the public participation
requirements. It also examines the relationship between the Aarhus
Convention and EU law, highlighting the fundamental guarantees of
participation in decision-making and access to justice. Furthermore,
the monograph analyses the requirements for planning and
construction arising from so-called non-environmental EU policies. It
focuses in particular on the development of cohesion policy and the
urban agenda, maritime spatial planning, the development of the
TEN-T and TEN-E networks, requirements for building materials,
energy efficiency in buildings and the promotion of renewable energy.

Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Author: Marion Quirici
Author Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
Fitness for Freedom explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes
of disability, race, gender, sexuality, class, and religion that justified
imperial rule of Ireland and the forms of oppression that continued
after independence. Marion Quirici identifies, in Irish modernist
literature, models of citizenship and creative autonomy that valorize
vulnerability over ability, and interdependence over independence.
She uncovers a history in which an entire nation, Ireland, was
characterized as disabled and therefore “not fit for freedom.” Beyond
symbolism, the Famine and decades of emigration led to a perception,
in line with degeneration theories of the time, that Ireland’s racial
stocks were depleted, and that those who remained were feeble and
few. The fraught relationship between disability and Irishness provides
context for Quirici’s analysis of modernist Irish literature.

The Forgotten Debate: The Korean War and the Roots of America’s Ideological Divisions
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Dane J. Cash
Discipline: History

Description:
Cash argues that the “forgotten war” in Korea marks the origins of the
current political divisions in the United States between liberals and
conservatives. The factions as we know them today were forged in the
response to that war, with left liberals and hawkish liberals dividing
over foreign policy and conservatives reacting to the perceived timidity
about prosecuting the war.

Kinflix: Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Film
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Marina Fedosik
Discipline: Film Studies

Description:
In this monograph, Marina Fedosik examines adoption and
non-traditional reproduction in 20th and 21st century films,
demonstrating how the persistent thinking about kinship through the
metaphor of the heterocoital family impacts identities of those involved
in non-traditional methods of reproduction and the larger social lives of
everyone else.

Living Through Capitalism: Resisting Devastation Through Communities of Life
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Author: James A. Chamberlain
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
Living Through Capitalism explores how capitalism uses and abuses
life, and presents communities of life as a practical means of
resistance. In particular, the book shows how capitalism exploits life’s
capacity for self-production across myriad species, enlists us in
environmentally damaging behaviour, inflicts immense physical and
mental suffering in unjust and avoidable ways, and undermines the
ethical quality of life for all.

Mother Tongues of the High Andes: Gender, Language, and Indigenous Difference in Peru
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Sandhya K. Narayanan
Author Affiliation: University of Nevada
Discipline: Linguistics

Description:
Anthropologist Sandhya Krittika Narayanan begins with these
challenges, and asks: What does it mean to be a Quechua or Aymara
speaker in Puno today? What does it mean to be an Indigenous ethnic
Quechua or Aymara individual? Mother Tongues of the High Andes
opens with these questions, exploring what Quechua and Aymara
languages and identities mean for Indigenous puneños as they
navigate their past and present. Narayanan argues that understanding
inter-Indigenous linguistic and social differences involves examining
Indigenous gender roles, responsibilities, and linguistic practices,
particularly those of Indigenous puneña women. She shows how
these practices have contributed to the maintenance of Indigenous
multilingualism and continuity in local modes of understanding
Indigenous identity and difference.

Northern Indo-European pre-Christian religions: A critical humanities perspective on Celtic, Germanic and Baltic traditions
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Jan Reichstäter
Author Affiliation: Masaryk University
Discipline: Religion

Description:
The book offers analytical insights into the pre-Christian religions of
the northern Indo-Europeans, meaning the Celtic, Germanic and
Baltic peoples. In three thematic chapters, the author presents,
through the perspectives of archaeology, philology, and ethnology, a
critical synthesis of current knowledge about the pantheons, rituals,
and mythologies that once formed the ‘pillars’ of these religious
cultures. In addition to the possibilities of reconstructing these
systems, rejected by their adherents in late antiquity or in the Middle
Ages with the adoption of Christianity, he attentively addresses the
ambiguities, complexities, and challenges of interpreting their
particular structures or elements. Through this balanced combination
of logical constructivism and critical deconstruction, the book provides
the reader with credible outlines of the archaic traditions that
influenced – as a substratum legacy – not only Western Christianity,
but also the subsequent secularised cultures of northern Europe.

Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Maja Horn
Author Affiliation: Barnard College
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
In this book, Maja Horn examines the evolution of queer Dominican
literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present,
challenging simplistic developmental narratives of LGBTIQ+ progress.
Through an analysis of literature, theater, and activism, Horn traces
how same-sex desire and gender non-conformity have been
negotiated both tacitly and overtly across the years.

The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850-1915
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Author: Trina Leah Hogg
Author Affiliation: Oregon State University
Discipline: African Studies

Description:
The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern
Sierra Leone, 1850–1915 charts the history of protection to tell a new
story about indirect rule in West Africa. Hogg uncovers how promises
of protection on the frontier interacted with African bids for security
and legitimacy, paradoxically producing insecurity and an unstable
framework of colonial law and rule well into the twentieth century.

Philosophy of human rights: Concept and Justification Theories
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Martin Hapla
Author Affiliation: Masaryk University
Discipline: Philosophy

Description:
In practical terms, the concept of human rights is a very successful
one. They are at the centre of discussions among lawyers, politicians
and journalists. In the realm of theory, however, they remain a source
of doubt. In particular, the question arises as to what grounds justify
them. This book seeks to answer this question by linking them to
utilitarian ethics. As controversial as this connection is sometimes
perceived to be, it was already sought by John Stuart Mill and is still
the subject of lively debate today. The book sets these within the
broader framework of human rights theory and the problems
associated with it. In doing so, the book not only introduces the reader
to utilitarianism itself and the various ways in which it can be applied
in this area, but also provides a representative overview and critical
analysis of the most debated approaches to justifying human rights
today.

The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Author: Ping Wang
Author Affiliation: University of Washington
Discipline: Asian Studies

Description:
During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220
CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song
dynasties (618–1279), the shi poetic form embraced new themes and
structure. In this meticulously constructed study, Ping Wang traces the
social conditions that sparked innovation and marked a significant turn
in intellectual history. Segueing among biography, social history, and
literary analysis, she demonstrates how this form came to dominate
classical Chinese poetry, making possible the works of the great poets
of later dynasties and influencing literary development in Korea and
Japan as well. Focusing on the life of the poet Xie Lingyun謝靈運
(385-433), she traces the exile of aristocratic families in the wild south,
which led to their thematic use of “mountains and water” (shanshui)
landscapes over the pastoral ones that had interested earlier writers
and artists.

Raising the Redwood Curtain: Labor Landscapes and Community Violence in a Pacific Littoral
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Author: Michael T. Karp
Author Affiliation: California State University
Discipline: Environmental Studies

Description:
Raising the Redwood Curtain explores how the growth of state power
and the expansion of capitalism promoted migrations across the
Pacific, instances of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and labor struggles in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analyzing the
history of three episodes of labor and racial violence in Humboldt
County, California, Michael T. Karp spans nearly a century in a
detailed examination of the causes and interconnections between the
Indian Island massacre of 1860, the expulsion of Chinese and
Japanese people from the county between 1885 and 1906, and the
killing and persecution of eastern Europeans during the Great Lumber
Strike of 1935.

Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Author: Micah S. Muscolino
Discipline: Asian Studies

Description:
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People explores how terracing,
afforestation, and other management measures undertaken in Gansu,
China, between the 1940s and the 1960s remade the biophysical
environment and the lives of the rural people who depended on water
and soil for their survival. The manuscript focuses on Gansu’s Tianshu
Prefecture, detailing over the course of seven chapters how
environmental changes played out in villages, on farms, and within
households, how the Chinese state imposed the burden of
conservation on these communities, and how their inhabitants
navigated these demands. Based on extensive research in Chinese
archives and oral history interviews conducted with elderly villagers,
historian Micah Muscolino argues that water and soil conservation
altered patterns of control over land and resources in ways that
contributed to the marginalization of China’s rural populace.

Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Allison Caine
Author Affiliation: University of Wyoming
Discipline: Environmental Studies

Description:
This book explores how Quechua alpaca herders in the Peruvian
highlands sense and make sense of climate change through subtle
shifts in their interactions with humans, animals, and landscapes. It
draws our attention to complicated practices of being-in-relation in a
time of global instability. By analyzing climate change from the ground
up, this book asks what the alpaca herders of the Andes can tell us
about the state of the planet.

Sacred Sisterhoods: A Celebration of Black Women’s Friendships on Television and in Film
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Editor: Imani M. Cheers
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
The dramatic expansion of Black women into creative positions in
television and film industries since the 1990s has incorporated a
range of themes in Black women’s lives and friendships previously
invisible in mainstream media. To date, however, neither their work nor
their impact on the Black female audience has been examined in the
academic community. In Sacred Sisterhoods, Imani M. Cheers
gathers an array of analytical essays by scholars and media experts
celebrating Black women’s creative authority that has emphasized
friendships and other themes central to Black women’s lives on
television and film from 1993 to 2023. Each essay centers the
critical-cultural commentary and personal reflections of some of the
Black community’s most informative voices across academia, the arts,
journalism, and activism. The three decades this volume explores in
mainstream media will examine the evolution of Black women content
creators—specifically directors, writers, producers and showrunners.

Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Mali D. Collins
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
In Scrap Theory, Mali D. Collins examines cultural objects and
productions that Black mothers have created to document the
generational trauma of mother-child separation through
state-sanctioned violence. Collins deploys Black feminist
methodologies to elevate what she terms archival scraps, or sources
otherwise thought to be “interstitial, fragmented, or unimportant.” She
focuses on creative work from the late-twentieth century through the
present, including the writings of Toni Cade Bambara, M. NourbeSe
Philip, and Edwidge Danticat, the critical activism of Erica Garner, and
visual/material art by Samaria Rice and Elizabeth Catlett. By taking
seriously the creative scraps of maternal dispossession, the book
brings together archival injustice and reproductive injustice, two rich
areas of inquiry in Black feminist theory that, together, can illuminate
how the archival erasure of Black motherhood is an urgent concern for
the movement for reproductive justice.

Toward a Small Data Archaeology: Otomí, Aztec Imperial, and Spanish Colonial Xaltocan, Mexico
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Author: Lisa Overholtzer
Author Affiliation: McGill University
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
Toward a Small Data Archaeology presents an interpretive and
methodological framework—a “small data” archaeology—elucidated
through a case study at Xaltocan, Mexico. Aligned closely with
Indigenous feminist principles by engaging directly with descendant
communities that resist abstract, large-scale syntheses and instead
emphasize deep, localized understanding of ancestral lives
intertwined with their landscapes, this framework repositions
archaeological inquiry by focusing on individual household contexts.

Transatlantic Majoritarianism: How Murder, Migration, and Modernity Transformed Nineteenth Century Legislatures
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Author: Lauren C. Bell
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
In 1890, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas
Brackett Reed used the authority his position afforded to him to
permanently hobble legislative minorities in the House and to usher in
the practice of simple majority rule. Legislative scholars have long
lauded Reed as a transformational leader, whose singular actions
established majoritarianism as standard in democratic legislatures.
But despite the credit given to Reed, his actions were not entirely of
his own invention; Reed was deeply influenced by the actions of
Speaker of the British House of Commons Henry Bouverie William
Brand, who in 1881 implemented the first closure of debate in the
Commons in response to extreme, obstructive behavior by Irish
members of Parliament. This book explores the questions of why and
how two national legislatures located on two different continents and
established hundreds of years apart were forced to respond to
obstructive behavior within the same decade.

Transnational Humans and Transnationalisms in the Humanities: Crossing Boundaries in the Americas
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Author: Max Paul Friedman, Stefan Rinke, Núria Vilanova
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use
of “transnationalism” in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining
phenomenon. International migration has increased two-thirds since
1980, and the global circulation of capital, media, and culture has
intensified, provoking nationalist political backlash worldwide. This
collection of studies on exile, social science, indigeneity, gender
activism, music and dance, gangs, sex work, narcofiction, and cinema
examines how transnational forces influence racial difference, national
identity, immigrant exclusion, state power, and cultural expression in
the Americas. It explores how the physical and symbolic movement of
humans and their artifacts shapes ideas and challenges accepted
notions of national and conceptual boundaries among them. By
addressing the impact of digital technologies on spatialization, by
challenging emerging conventions on transnationalism, and by
fostering interdisciplinary exchange, the book enriches our
understanding of transnational lives and provides tools for exploring
the transnational turn.

Trauma and Meaning in French Concentration Camp Poetry (1943-1945)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Author: Belle Marie Joseph
Author Affiliation: Australian National University
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
From 1942 to 1944, approximately 160,000 people were deported
from France to concentration camps under the German occupation.
Despite the horrific conditions, some political prisoners deported for
Resistance activities, in addition to a small number of Jewish
prisoners, managed to write poetry secretly in the camps between
1943 and 1945. Concentration camp poetry from over a hundred
French prisoners survives to this day in archives, family collections,
and published books. This book examines the poetry of eight French
prisoners, as well as poems composed and shared within a group of
friends in Ravensbrück. Through close readings, it explores prisoners’
efforts to identify transcendent meaning in their traumatic
circumstances.

Understanding Latin America’s Economy in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Author: Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Latin America’s economic performance is often depicted as a long
sequence of repeated failures, including its contribution to global
financial crises as well as its slow growth and intractable inequalities.
Its experience in the twenty-first century, however, reveals
considerable and underappreciated successes. Understanding those
successes—as well as setbacks—is critical to understanding both the
region’s prospects and the rapidly changing global economic order.
Jeff Dayton-Johnson’s Understanding Latin America’s Economy in the
Twenty-First Century provides a comprehensive, comparative, and
region-wide perspective on Latin American economic development
that spans the last quarter century.

Urban Saniscapes: Slums, Housing and Everyday Sanitation in Accra and Nairobi, 1908-1963
Publisher: MIchigan State University Press
Author: Waseem-Ahmed Bin-Kasim
Author Affiliation: Elon University
Discipline: African Studies

Description:
Urban Saniscapes demonstrates that the slum-like conditions found in
high-density neighborhoods were vital to the development of modern
cities. In this study, Bin-Kasim examines environmental sanitation in
the historical development of Accra and Nairobi, and traces the
approaches to sanitation during colonial rule and urban growth
throughout the first half of the twentieth century and beyond.

Wanderings of Modernism: Errancy, Identity, and Aesthetics in Interwar Modernist Literature
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Author: Yasna Bozhkova, Diane Drouin, and Olivier Hercend
Author Affiliation: Université Paris; Sorbonne Université
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
This volume brings together scholars of English-speaking literary
modernism, around the notion of wandering, both as a spatial concept
and as a broader notion involving the loss of identity and social,
political as well as philosophical questions. It addresses the crucial
importance of wandering after the First World War, at a time of
acceleration in transports and communication, coupled with a sense of
fragmentation and loss, which are posited as a crucial set of
experiences for modernist artists. The collected articles encompass
the material aspects of wandering lifestyles, the social and cultural
institutions of modern travels, from tourism to exile, as well as the
politics of localization and displacement in a world dominated by
imperialism and caught in nationalist and ideological struggles. They
explore the interconnections between these forces, on different
scales, and the personal and artistic trajectories of canonical
modernist figures likes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf or William Carlos
Williams, and others who have received more recent recognition like
Jean Rhys or Katherine Mansfield, as well as lesser-known
movements like the American “Hobohemia.”

Winning Our Wonder: Rhetorical Re/constructions of Women in the American Civil War
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Author: Patty Wilde
Author Affiliation: Washington State University
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
This book examines how public memories inform our understanding of
gender and race in the Civil War and beyond. In Winning Our Wonder
Patricia Wilde traces how Civil War stories involving women have
evolved, charting how depictions of gender and race have been
obscured, augmented, and amplified in print and online. She offers
four case studies that focus on the memories of six women who
feature prominently in popular conversations about the war: Rose
O’Neal Greenhow, Belle Boyd, Harriet Tubman, Sarah Emma
Edmonds, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, and Susie King Taylor. Wilde
argues that these visions of the past inform popular memory of the
war, an event that continues to haunt contemporary social, political,
and cultural contexts.

Writing Groups in the Writing Center: Negotiating Authority and Expertise in Collaborative Learning
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Author: Sara Wilder
Author Affiliation: University of Maryland
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
Through 3 group case studies, Wilder uses qualitative methods to
analyze how students learn together to write in new genres and for
new audiences, theorizing the processes by which writing groups
negotiate authority and expertise in academic writing by centering
group writing.