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Book Excerpt! The Outside Thing, By Hannah Roche (introduction) (Feb 14, 2020)
“This theoretically sophisticated reading of three lesbian writers—Stein, Hall, and Barnes—is at once playful and serious. Roche’s insistence on the queerness of desire, romance, and love between women takes feminist modernist studies in an exciting new direction.” ~Laura Doan, author of Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern War To round out our celebration
Alfred Wallace’s Problem: Can the Theory of Evolution Explain Language? By Herbert S. Terrace (Feb 14, 2020)
“With characteristic clarity, [Terrace] gives a convincing account of language evolution in Darwinian terms, without appeal to miracles. This is an important new approach to an old and vexed problem.​” ~Michael Corballis, author of The Truth About Language: What It Is and Where It Came From Herbert S. Terrace, author of Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn
“Not cinema”?: Joker (2019) and the State of the (Superhero) Nation in 2020 By Terence McSweeney and Rebecca Cohen (Feb 14, 2020)
Joaquin Phoenix claimed the Oscar for best actor for his performance in Joker, solidifying the movie’s position at the forefront of current cinema. Terence McSweeney, author of Avengers Assemble!: Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a forthcoming volume on superhero cinema, and Rebecca Cohen, PhD candidate at Solent University, join us on the
Book Excerpt! Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge, By Mao Xiang and Yu Huai, translated and edited by Wai-yee Li (Feb 13, 2020)
“Wai-yee Li’s translations of these famous Chinese memoirs of romantic brio and pathos from the seventeenth century are a marvel of precision, elegance, and wit—a perfect match for the book’s sensual, tragic contents. Her brilliant annotations and supplemental translations help unlock a whole lost historical world of incomparable richness.” ~Judith Zeitlin, University of Chicago We
Book Excerpt! To Fulfill These Rights, by Amaka Okechukwu (Feb 13, 2020)
“I learned something new and interesting on nearly every page. This is an excellent empirical engagement with affirmative action. Amaka Okechukwu’s updated racial formation theory is smart, compelling, and engaging.” ~Ellen Berrey, author of The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice In the 1960s and 1970s, widespread campus

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