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American Studies Brochure 2022-23

Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea

Cynthia Franklin

In Narrating Humanity Cynthia G. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the United States about who counts as human. To enable this intervention ...

Group Works

Art, Politics and Collective Ambivalence

Ethan Philbrick

An exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration collectivism and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era.The artist and author Ethan Philbrick’s Group Works re-imagines...

Against the Carceral Archive

The Art of Black Liberatory Practice

Damien Sojoyner

Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “carceral archival project ” offering a distillation of critical theoretical and activist work of prison...

Allergic Intimacies

Food, Disability Desire and Risk

Michael Gill

The first book to explore food allergies in the United States from the perspective of disability and raceAre food allergies disabilities? What structures and systems ensure the survival of some with...

Obscene Gestures

Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

Patrick S. Lawrence

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions nightclub comedy congressional records and cultural theory Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century...

Filipinx American Studies

Reckoning, Reclamation Transformation

Rick Bonus Antonio Tiongson Jr. Angelica Allen Gina Apostol Nerissa Balce Victor Bascara Jody Blanco Alana Bock Sony Coranez Bolton Rick Bonus Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns Richard Chu Gary Colmenar Kim Compoc Denise Cruz Reuben Deleon Josen Diaz Robert Diaz Vernadette Gonzales Theodore Gonzalves Anna Guevarra Allan Punzalan Isaac Martin Manalansan Dina Maramba Cynthia Marasigan Edward Nadurata JoAnna Poblete Anthony Bayani Rodriguez Dylan Rodríguez Evelyn Rodriguez J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez Michael Schulze-Oechtering Sarita Echavez-See Roy Taggueg Antonio Tiongson Jr.

This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements as well...

The Corpse in the Kitchen

Enclosure, Extraction and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War

Adam John Waterman

Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land histories of resource extraction and the literary culture of...

Filipino Time

Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

Allan Punzalan Isaac

This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects multiple networks and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time.

Totality Inside Out

Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital

Kevin Floyd Jen Hedler Phillis Sarika Chandra Brent Ryan Bellamy Sarah Brouillette Sarika Chandra Chris Chen Joshua Clover Tim Kreiner Jen Hedler Phillis Arthur Scarritt Zoe Sutherland Marina Vishmidt

However divergent their analyses may be in other ways some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed...

Shell-Shocked

Feminist Criticism after Trump

Bonnie Honig

A biting funny up-to-the-minute collection of essays by a major political thinker that gets to the heart of what feminist criticism can do in the face of everyday politics.Stormy Daniels offered...

Kubrick's Men

Richard Rambuss

A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick’s work and its focus on masculine desireThe work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past present and future....

Why the Assembly Disbanded

Roberto Tejada

Pushing the boundaries of Latinx literature and what constitutes a borderlands poetics.Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work the renowned poet