FALL / NORTHWESTERN WINTER UNIVERSITY PRESS 2018–2019 CHICAGO REGIONAL / SPORTS The Breakaway The Inside Story of the Wirtz Family Business and the Chicago Blackhawks

Bryan Smith

When Rocky Wirtz took over the Wirtz Corporation in 2007, including management of the Chicago Blackhawks, the fiercely beloved hockey team had fallen to a humiliating nadir. As chronic losers playing to a deserted stadium, they were worse than bad— they were irrelevant. ESPN named the franchise the worst in all of sports. Rocky’s resurrection of the team’s fortunes was—publicly, at least—a feel-good tale of shrewd acumen. Behind the scenes, however, it would trigger a father, son, and brother-against-brother drama of Shakespearean proportions. The Breakaway reveals that untold story.

Arthur Wirtz founded the family’s business empire during the Depression. From his roots in real estate, “King Arthur” soon expanded into liquor and banking, running his operations with an iron hand. His son Bill expanded the conglomerate, taking the helm of the Blackhawks in 1966. “Dollar Bill” Wirtz demanded OCTOBER unflinching adherence to Arthur’s traditions. 216 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 21 B/W IMAGES Yet when Rocky took the reins after Bill’s death, the organization WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION was out of step with the times and financially adrift. The Hawks CLOTH 978-0-8101-3888-9 $27.95 weren’t only failing on the ice—the precarious state of the team’s E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3889-6 $27.95 finances imperiled every facet of the Wirtz empire. To save the “The Breakaway is much more than a sports book team and the company, Rocky launched a radical turnaround rushed into publication following a team’s champi- campaign. Yet his modest proposal to televise the Hawks’ home onship, which we’ve seen repeatedly in Chicago. This one has good content on a variety of fronts, with a games provoked fierce opposition from Wirtz family insiders, who very readable blend of history, business, and enter- considered any deviation from Arthur and Bill’s doctrines to be tainment. Author Bryan Smith gives readers a great heresy. peek into the privately held Wirtz Corporation.” —Mike Conklin, contributing writer for the Chicago Rocky’s break with the edicts of his grandfather and father led to Tribune and author of Goal Fever! a reversal for the ages—three Stanley Cup championships in six years, a feat Fortune magazine called “the greatest turnaround "It doesn't matter if you are a Chicago Blackhawks fan, in sports business history.” But this resurrection came at a price, a hockey fan or just enjoy stories of family dynasties and incredible business turnarounds, The Breakaway fracturing Rocky’s relationship with his siblings. In riveting is a must-read. Smith paints a picture of the Wirtz prose that recounts a story spanning three generations, The family members, with all their trials, tribulations, Breakaway reveals an insider’s view of a brilliant but difficult faults and fame, that sucks you in the moment you Chicago business and sports dynasty and the inspiring story of start reading." —Dean Plunkett, Managing Editor, perseverance and courage The Hockey Writers

BRYAN SMITH is a senior writer at Chicago magazine and a ALSO OF INTEREST contributing editor for Men’s Health. He is a two-time winner and six-time finalist for the National City and Regional Magazine Association’s Writer of the Year award. His work has been featured in The Best American Sports Writing, The Best American Newspaper Writing, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Second to None: Chicago Stories 1,001 Days in the Bleachers: A Quarter Century of

Harvey Young Chicago Sports SeriesSecond Editor to None: Chicago Stories Ted Cox Harvey Young, Series Editor PAPER 978-0-8101-2868-2 $19.95 www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 1 CHICAGO REGIONAL / FOOD

“There is no more mouth-watering, “Pizza City, USA gives you the more well-researched, more full Monty of delicious authoritative book on pizza than Windy City pizza diversity. Steve Dolinsky’s Pizza City, USA. Deep-dish is just the tip The guy knows pizza like no one of the Willis Tower.” else and is damn convincing as he —Chris Bianco, chef and takes you on his exploration of a owner, Pizzeria Bianco, hundred-plus pizzerias, ultimately and author of crowning Chicago our nation’s Bianco: Pizza, Pasta, Pizza City.” and Other Food I Like —Rick Bayless

“Pizza City, USA is a brilliant gallimaufry of Chicagoland’s finest pies, and proof that you can both deftly silence one of the greatest food arguments in history and start new ones all at the same time.” —Andrew Zimmern, host, Bizarre Foods on Travel Channel

“Pizza City, USA delves deep into pizza culture, celebrating “Steve Dolinsky digs into one of the most flavorful and the Chicago pizza scene popular styles in the world, with the rigor of a scientist Chicago. I don’t know of and the insatiable appetite another book that has rated of a true obsessive.” neighborhood pizzerias and —Julia Kramer, restaurants on this level.” deputy editor, —Tony Gemignani, 12-Time Bon Appétit World Pizza Champion and author of The Pizza Bible

“One of the nice things about being a food person in Chicago is that Steve Dolinsky does the legwork for us . . . I was compelled to go out for pizza twice while reading this book, and will continue to use it as my guide for finding the best ‘cheese lava’ in Chicago.” —Chandra Ram, editor of Plate magazine and coauthor of Korean BBQ www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 2 CHICAGO REGIONAL / FOOD Pizza City, USA 101 Reasons Why Chicago Is America’s Greatest Pizza Town

Steve Dolinsky Foreword by Grant Achatz

There are few things that Chicagoans feel more passionately about than pizza. Most have strong opinions about whether thin crust or deep-dish takes the crown, which ingredients are essential, and who makes the best pie in town.

And in Chicago, there are as many destinations for pizza as there are individual preferences. Each of the city’s seventy-seven neigh- borhoods is home to numerous go-to spots, featuring many styles and specialties. With so many pizzerias, it would seem impossible SEPTEMBER to determine the best of the best. 176 PAGES, 8 × 8.5 INCHES, 122 COLOR IMAGES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION Enter renowned Chicago-based food journalist Steve Dolinsky! PAPER 978-0-8101-3774-5 $24.95 In Pizza City, USA: 101 Reasons Why Chicago Is America’s Greatest E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3775-2 $24.95 Pizza Town, Dolinsky embarks on a pizza quest, methodically testing more than a hundred different pizzas in Chicagoland. Zestfully written and thoroughly researched, Pizza City, USA is Featuring these famous a hunger–inducing testament to Dolinsky’s passion for great, Chicago-area pizzerias and unpretentious food. many more!

This user-friendly guide is smartly organized by location, and by Aurelio's, 18162 Harwood Ave. the varieties served by the city’s proud pizzaioli—including thin, Bonci, 161 N. Sangamon St. artisan, Neapolitan, deep-dish and pan, stuffed, Sicilian, Roman, Burt's Place, 8541 Ferris Ave. and Detroit-style, as well as by-the-slice. Pizza City, USA also Coalfire,1321 W. Grand Ave. includes Dolinsky’s “Top 5 Pizzas” in several categories, a glossary D’Amato’s Bakery, 1124 W. Grand Ave. of Chicago pizza terms, and maps and photos to steer devoted Labriola, 535 N. Michigan Ave. foodies and newcomers alike. Lou Malnati's, 6649 N. Lincoln Ave. STEVE DOLINSKY is a Chicago-based Pat’s, 628 S. Clark St. food reporter. He appears regularly on Spacca Napoli, 1769 W. Sunnyside Ave. Chicago’s WLS-TV as “the Hungry Vito and Nick's, 8433 S. Pulaski Rd. Hound” and is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s daily program For more information on upcoming food The World. He is also a regular feature tours, visit www.stevedolinsky.com. writer for the Chicago Tribune, has

TODD ROSENBERG TODD won twelve James Beard Awards, and cohosts The Feed Podcast with celebrity chef Rick Bayless.

GRANT ACHATZ is one of the best-known chefs in the world. He ALSO OF INTEREST has been named Best Chef in the United States by the James Beard Foundation, honored by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and has lectured on gastronomy and design at conferences and universities around the world. His three–Michelin star restaurant, Alinea, has been named the Best Restaurant in the World by Elite Traveler magazine.

Local Flavor: Restaurants That Shaped Chicago’s Neighborhoods Jean Iversen PAPER 978-0-8101-3671-7 $18.95 www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 3 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / CHICAGO REGIONAL South Side Venus The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs

Mary Ann Cain Foreword by Haki Madhubuti

The extraordinarily productive life of curator, artist, and activist Margaret Burroughs was largely rooted in her work to establish and sustain two significant institutions in Chicago: the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC), founded in 1940, and the DuSable Museum of African American History, founded in her living room in 1961.

As Mary Ann Cain’s South Side Venus: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs reveals, the primary motivations for these efforts were love and hope. Burroughs was spurred by her love for Chicago’s Af- rican American community—largely ill served by mainstream arts organizations—and by her hope that these new, black-run cultural centers would welcome many generations of aspiring artists and art lovers.

This first, long–awaited biography of Burroughs draws on inter- OCTOBER views with peers, colleagues, friends, and family and extensive 216 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 18 B/W IMAGES archival research at the DuSable Museum, the Art Institute of WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION Chicago, and the Chicago Public Library. Cain traces Burroughs’s PAPER 978-0-8101-3795-0 $18.95 multifaceted career, details her work and residency on Chicago’s E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3796-7 $18.95 South Side, and highlights her relationships with other artists and culture makers.

Anchored by the author’s talks with Burroughs as they stroll “Without question, this is the most serious biography through her beloved Bronzeville, and featuring portraits of Bur- of Margaret Burroughs to date, successfully roughs with family and friends, South Side Venus will enlighten narrating the prescient details of her long life. It will anyone interested in Chicago, African American history, social appeal not only to scholars interested in particular cultural and intellectual moments in black Chicago justice, and the arts. history, but to general readers interested in African American history, the city of Chicago, and its cultural

institutions.” —Bill V. Mullen, author of Popular MARY ANN CAIN’s critical work on writing Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural theory and praxis includes a collaborative Politics, 1935–46 book (with Michelle Comstock and Lil Bran- non), Composing Public Space: Teaching Writ- ing in the Face of Private Interests. Her fiction, ALSO OF INTEREST nonfiction essays, and poems have appeared JIM WHITCRAFT JIM in numerous literary journals, including the Denver Quarterly, The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, the Bitter Oleander, and the North American Review. She is currently a professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne where she teaches fic- tion, creative nonfiction, rhetoric, and women’s studies.

HAKI MADHUBUTI is an award-winning poet and essayist and founder and publisher of Third World Press. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and nonfiction, including Yellow- Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America Black: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life and the best-sell- Truman K. Gibson Jr. ing Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The Afrikan American CLOTH 978-0-8101-2292-5 $21.95 Family in Transition.

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 4 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / CHICAGO REGIONAL Sacred Ground The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black

Timuel D. Black Jr. As told to Susan Klonsky Edited by Bart Schultz

Timuel Black is an acclaimed historian, activist, and storyteller. Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black chronicles the life and times of this Chicago legend.

Sacred Ground opens in 1919, during the summer of the Chicago race riot, when infant Black and his family arrive in Chicago from Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the first Great Migration. He recounts in vivid detail his childhood and education in the Black Metropolis of Bronzeville and South Side neighborhoods that make up his “sacred ground.”

Revealing a priceless trove of experiences, memories, ideas, and opinions, Black describes how it felt to belong to this place, even when stationed in Europe during World War II. He relates how African American soldiers experienced challenges and conflicts JANUARY during the war, illuminating how these struggles foreshadowed 200 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 24 B/W IMAGES the civil rights movement. A labor organizer, educator, and activist, WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION Black captures fascinating anecdotes and vignettes of meeting PAPER 978-0-8101-3924-4 $24.95 with famous figures of the times, such as Duke Ellington and E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3925-1 $19.95 Martin Luther King Jr., but also with unheralded people whose lives convey lessons about striving, uplift, and personal integrity.

Rounding out this memoir, Black reflects on the legacy of his “Timuel Black reminds us that we can learn so much friend and mentee, Barack Obama, as well as on his public works from the knowledge and history that are and enduring relationships with students, community workers, generated—and vibrantly live—within the personal stories and lived experiences of the people and and luminaries in Chicago and the world. communities around us.” —Elizabeth Todd-Breland, author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s TIMUEL D. BLACK JR. has spent his life furthering the cause of social justice. His two volumes of oral histories, Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration and Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s Second Generation of Black Migration, published by ALSO OF INTEREST Northwestern University Press, chronicle black Chicago history from the 1920s to the present.

SUSAN KLONSKY is an educator, writer, and community activ- ist. She and her husband, Mike Klonsky, are the authors of Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society.

BART SCHULTZ is a senior lecturer in humanities and director of the Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago. He is Bridges of Memory: Bridges of Memory Volume 2: the author of many works, including Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Chicago’s First Wave Chicago’s Second Generation of Black Migration of Black Migration Universe. Timuel D. Black Jr. Timuel D. Black Jr. PAPER PAPER 978-0-8101-2315-1 978-0-8101-5194-9 $35.00 $35.00

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 5 POETRY Seduction New Poems, 2013–2018

Quincy Troupe

In Quincy Troupe’s Seduction, the “I” becomes the “Eye,” serving as metaphor and witness in a narrative compilation from a master of poetry and music. Elegies and dramatic odes look at the seduc- tion of all things loved or hated. Calling out the names of Trayvon Martin, Aretha Franklin, and Romare Bearden, these poems tell our infatuations and truths. time is a bald eagle, a killer soaring high in the blue, / music to men dodging bullets in speeding cars, / knew death, hoped it’d never come . . .

In this collection we are seduced by Troupe’s opus, and he is our “Eye.” Visions of the transatlantic slave trade, portraits of Ameri- can violence, pop culture, and historical voices are the lyrical relics in Troupe’s masterful verse. One of American literature’s most important rhythmical artists, Troupe has created a chronicle reaching through history for the collective “I/Eye” that is all of us. DECEMBER 128 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-3904-6 $24.95 E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3905-3 $19.95 QUINCY TROUPE is the author of nine volumes of poetry and three children’s books, and the author, coau- thor, or editor of six nonfiction works. “In Quincy Troupe’s new collection Seduction, we He collaborated with Miles Davis on see the evolution of a man who has been steeped

ANH DAO KOLBE DAO ANH in and devoted to the cultural productions of black his autobiography and with Chris artistic life for over five decades. These poems carry Gardner on The Pursuit of Happyness, which spent more than forty with them a sincerity and clarity always imbued in weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was made into a landscape and focused on the questions that shape major motion picture starring Will Smith. Troupe has also written an Africanist humanity. The poems found here are a screenplay for Miles and Me, the memoir of his friendship with intrepid and made nuanced by a vision long fixated Miles Davis. Poetry collections include Transcircularities: New and on liberation. Troupe’s poems are also a welcome reminder that the Black Arts Movement wasn’t Selected Poems, winner of the 2003 Milt Kessler Poetry Award and simply a moment in time, but an unfolding that selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best books of poetry remains ever-present.”—Matthew Shenoda, author of in 2002; The Architecture of Language, winner of the 2007 Pater- Tahrir Suite and coeditor of Bearden’s Odyssey son Award for Sustained Literary Achievement; and Errançities, published in 2012. ALSO OF INTEREST

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www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 6 POETRY Ghost Voices A Poem in Prayer

Quincy Troupe

If we were all willing and brave enough to listen to the voices lost in the slave trade, what would we hear? Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, spokesman for the humanizing forces of poetry, music, and art, parts the Atlantic and rattles the ground built on slavery with Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer. we are crossing, / we are / crossing, / we are crossing in big salt water, // we are crossing, // crossing under a sky of no guilt / we have left home // though we know we will go back / someday, / see our people / as we knew them . . .

Troupe re-creates the history of lost voices between the waters of Africa, Cuba, and the United States. His daring poetics clench transformative narratives spurred on by a relentless, rhythmic language that mimics the foaming waves of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. His personae speak litanies within one epic, sermonic-gospel to articulate our most ancient ways of storytell- DECEMBER ing and survival. 64 PAGES, 4.5 × 7 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-3899-5 $16.95

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QUINCY TROUPE is the author of nine volumes of poetry and three children’s books, and the author, coauthor, or editor of six nonfiction “Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer by master poet Quincy works. He collaborated with Miles Davis on his Troupe is ‘a journey of miracles.’ To read it is to autobiography and with Chris Gardner on The traverse a zig-zagging, profoundly moving Middle Pursuit of Happyness, which spent more than Passage that moves through time and geography to find a new home in a ‘newborn America.’ Troupe forty weeks on the New York Times best-seller elegantly and powerfully dances myth, history, list and was made into a major motion picture religion, and music to gather us up with him in starring Will Smith. Troupe has also written his prayer of reconciliation. Ghost Voices, with its a screenplay for Miles and Me, the memoir of his friendship with haunting rhythms and imagery, is extraordinary and Miles Davis. Poetry collections include Transcircularities: New and worthy of deep attention.”—Angela Jackson Selected Poems, winner of the 2003 Milt Kessler Poetry Award and selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best books of poetry in 2002; The Architecture of Language, winner of the 2007 Pater- ALSO OF INTEREST son Award for Sustained Literary Achievement; and Errançities, published in 2012.

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www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 7 POETRY Anagnorisis Poems

Kyle Dargan

In Anagnorisis: Poems, the award-winning poet Kyle Dargan ignites a reckoning. From the depths of his rapidly changing home of Washington, D.C., the poet is both enthralled and provoked, having witnessed-on a digital loop running in the background of Barack Obama’s unlikely presidency—the rampant state- sanctioned murder of fellow African Americans. He is pushed toward the same recognition articulated by James Baldwin decades earlier: that an African American may never be considered an equal in citizenship or humanity.

This recognition—the moment at which a tragic hero realizes the true nature of his own character, condition, or relationship with an antagonistic entity—is what Aristotle called anagnorisis. Not concerned with placatory gratitude nor with coddling the sensibilities of the country’s racial majority, Dargan challenges America: “You, friends— / you peckish for a peek / at my cloistered, incandescent / revelry—were you as earnest / about my frostbite, my SEPTEMBER burns, / I would have opened / these hands, sated you all.” 96 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION At a time when U.S. politics are heavily invested in the purported PAPER 978-0-8101-3784-4 $18.00 vulnerability of working-class and rural white Americans, these E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3785-1 $18.00 poems allow readers to examine themselves and the nation through the eyes of those who have been burned for centuries.

“The poems in Anagnorisis are weightlifting, repeat- KYLE DARGAN is the author of four collec- edly pushing the burden of current events—the tions of poetry—Honest Engine (2015), Logorrhea gentrification of D.C., the numberless black deaths Dementia (2010), Bouquet of Hungers (2007), at the hands of authority, U.S./global relations, our rapidly altering ecosystem—away from chest, trying and The Listening (2004). For his work, he has to hold them at a distance, only to pull them back received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the and attempt to master the muscle required to survive Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and grants from and write and celebrate in times like these. the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humani- 'Rage would be a word to fit in the mouth / had the MARLENE THOMAS MARLENE HAWTHRONE ties. His books also have been finalists for the mouth not grown small from watching,’ Dargan Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Book Award writes, and does the work of gracefully making room Grand Prize. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Commit- in his poems to get eye-to-eye with a people’s mam- moth rage, and also remind us of the daily, small, and tee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at enduring hopes we must have for a better nation and the White House and Library of Congress. He has worked with and world.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, author of The Poet X supports a number of youth writing organizations, such as 826DC, Writopia Lab, and the Young Writers Workshop. He is currently an ALSO OF INTEREST associate professor of literature and director of creative writing at American University, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine.

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Head Off & Split: Poems Nikky Finney PAPER 978-0-8101-5216-8 $16.95 www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 8 FICTION Spiral of Silence A Novel

Elvira Sánchez-Blake Translated from the Spanish by Lorena Terando

Elvira Sánchez-Blake’s shattering testimonial novel, Spiral of Silence, breaks thirty-year silences about the traumatizing impact of Colombia’s civil war and centers on the experiences of women who move through hoplessness, loss, and grief during this volatile era in Latin American history.

A multigenerational epic, Spiral of Silence (Espiral de Silencios) opens in the early 1980s, as peace and amnesty agreements spark optimism and hope. We meet Norma, a privileged, upper- class woman who is married to an army general; Maria Teresa (Mariate), a young rebel who loves a guerrilla fighter and navigates commitments to motherhood and revolutionary activism; and Amparo, a woman who comes of age later, and carries the confusion and dislocation of a younger generation. Each contends with the consequences of war and violence on her life; each is empowered through community building and working for change. JANUARY Few authors have considered the role of women in Colombia dur- 272 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES ing this wartime period, and Sánchez-Blake’s nuanced exploration WORLDWIDE ENGLISH, FIRST PUBLICATION of gender and sexism—framed by conflict and social upheaval— PAPER 978-0-8101-3916-9 $18.95 distinguishes the novel. Drawing on stories from women who have E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3917-6 $18.95 worked within organizations in Colombia to end state violence, Spiral of Silence celebrates resistance, reinvention, and how women create and protect their families and communities. “Sánchez-Blake’s novel gives both a face and a voice to a segment of the population that has been largely overlooked and undervalued not only in official his- ELVIRA SÁNCHEZ-BLAKE is an associate torical documentation but also . . . in literary production . . . it represents a noteworthy step professor of Spanish in the Department of forward in the breaking of the silence that has long Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan entrapped half the Colombian population.” State University. She is the author of several —Michelle Sharp, coeditor (with Anja Louis) of books of short stories, poetry, and plays. Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author

ROBERT BLAKE ROBERT Among her titles is Latin American Women and Activist and the Literature of Madness: Narratives at the Crossroads of Gen- der, Politics, and the Mind, coauthored with Laura Kanost. ALSO OF INTEREST LORENA TERANDO is an associate profes- sor of translation and interpreting studies, and chair of the Translation and Interpreting Studies Department at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is a leading critical translation scholar, focusing on witnessing in translation,

TRACY BUSS TRACY trauma studies, and the work of Latin American women novelists. She has translated work by Consuelo Avila, Belén Boville, Esther Cross, María Eugenia Vásquez Bogotá: A Novel Perdomo, and Carmen Cecilia Suárez, among others. Alan Grostephan PAPER 978-0-8101-5230-4 $17.95

Curbstone Books www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 9 CHICAGO REGIONAL / DRAMA Ensemble-Made Chicago A Guide to Devised Theater

Chloe Johnston and Coya Paz Brownrigg

Ensemble-Made Chicago brings together the work of a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for cocreating theatrical performance as an ensemble: About Face Youth The- atre, Albany Park Theater Project, Barrel of Monkeys, Every house has a door, FEMelanin, 500 Clown, Free Street Theater, Honey Pot Performance, Lookingglass Theatre, the Neo-Futurists, Second City, Teatro Luna, the Southside Ignoramus Quartet, and the Young Fugitives.

The book’s introduction offers a fascinating overview of the his- tory of cocreated theater in Chicago, defined by the authors as theater that breaks down the traditional roles of writer, director, and performer in favor of a more egalitarian approach in which all participants contribute to the creation of original material. Each chapter offers a short history of a Chicago company, followed by detailed exercises developed and used by that company to build ensemble and generate performance, with special attention to how NOVEMBER activism has shaped the development of this aesthetic in Chicago. 232 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 15 B/W IMAGES Companies included in the book range in age from two to fifty WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION years, represent different Chicago neighborhoods, and represent PAPER 978-0-8101-3878-0 $19.95 both the storefront tradition and established cultural institutions. E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3879-7 $19.95

Assembled from interviews and firsthand observations, the book is written in a lively and accessible style and will serve as an invalu- able guide for students and practitioners alike, as well as an impor- ”Ensemble-Made Chicago is a lively read, with exer- tant archive of Chicago’s vibrant ensemble traditions. Readers will cises that will be of great value to both emerging and long-standing companies and groups. This is a find new creative methods to enrich their own practice and push strong, well-written, and valuable book for multiple their work in new directions. audiences that are interested in the process of theatermaking as a group and theater education.” —Mark Larson, author of Making Conversation: Collaborating with Colleagues for Change CHLOE JOHNSTON is an assistant professor of theater at Lake Forest College. She performs and workshops with the Paper Machete, Write Club, Second Story, and the Neo-Futurists. ALSO OF INTEREST

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COYA PAZ BROWNRIGG is an associate pro- fessor of theater at DePaul University. She is the artistic director of Free Street Theater and cofounder of Teatro Luna, and is a regular commentator on race, media, and pop culture

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Second to None: Chicago Stories

Harvey Young SeriesSecond Editor to None: Chicago Stories Harvey Young, Series Editor www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 10 DRAMA Exit Strategy A Play

Ike Holter

Righteously angry, riotously funny, and wise to the tensions between abstract policy and lived experience, Ike Holter’s play Exit Strategy centers on vivid, unforgettable characters struggling to maintain faith in a vocation that is being determinedly under- mined.

Drawing from the headlines, Exit Strategy is set in Chicago and tells the story of a fictional public high school slated for closure at the end of the year. Despite funding cuts, bureaucrats run amok, apathy, and a rodent infestation, a small, multiracial group of teachers launch a last-minute effort to save the school, and put their careers, futures, and safety in the hands of a fast-talking administrator who may be in over his head. The tenuous situation also raises fears and anxieties among students, and within the volatile neighborhood that is home to the school.

Holter has said that Exit Strategy was inspired by the 2013 mass SEPTEMBER closure of forty-nine Chicago public schools, which displaced 112 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES nearly 12,000 children—the majority of directly impacted students WORLD ENGLISH, FIRST PUBLICATION were African American and Latinx. Hailed as “riveting,” “sharp,” PAPER 978-0-8101-3883-4 $15.00 and “richly metaphoric” by critics, the play indicts how we educate E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3884-1 $15.00 our children in big American cities, and shows why gaps between “haves” and “have nots” continue to grow.

Exit Strategy is one of seven plays in Ike Holter’s cycle of works set “At once poetic, political, sad, funny, timely, complex, in Chicago, or Chicago-inspired, neighborhoods. and compassionate, Ike Holter’s thrilling, beautiful new play Exit Strategy is the story of the desperate

final days of a condemned, crumbling Chicago public school dreading its upcoming prom date with the cruel bulldozers from City Hall.” —Chicago Tribune IKE HOLTER has emerged from Chicago’s independent theater scene as one of American “Exit Strategy is an insightful, humorous, and theater’s most exciting young artists. Born in poignant look into the lives of CPS teachers. The play Minneapolis, Holter had his breakthrough with should be a required lesson for the city. Seeing it will the play Hit the Wall, first presented at Chicago’s build empathy for the noble people behind the school walls.” —The Fourth Walsh Steppenwolf Theatre in 2012. The production established his reputation for exquisitely written dramas featuring multigenerational, multiracial ALSO OF INTEREST casts. His other produced plays include S.L.O.P., Vigilante, Servant, B-Side Studio, Sender, Prowess, and The Wolf at the End of the Block. Holter is a resident playwright at Victory Gardens Theater and the 2017 winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for drama.

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www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 11 DRAMA Two Plays of Weimar Germany Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals

Ferdinand Bruckner Translated from the German by Laurence Senelick

Two Plays of Weimar Germany offers new translations, by the renowned theater scholar and translator Laurence Senelick, of popular works by the playwright Ferdinand Bruckner: Youth Is a Sickness (Krankheit der Jugend) and Criminals (Die Verbrecher).

Though his fame was later eclipsed by peers such as Bertolt Brecht, Bruckner was the celebrity dramatist of his time, and a new generation of readers is discovering his groundbreaking plays known for their strong cultural critique and unflinching portrayals of social ills, outcasts, and misfits. Youth Is a Sickness (1924) explores the lives of Germany’s “lost generation,” those who grew up during and after the cataclysm of the First World War, devoid of hope and ideals, lost in a haze of sex and drugs. Criminals (1926) traces court cases about a failed double suicide, theft, abortion, SEPTEMBER and homosexual blackmail, controversial topics for the audience 184 PAGES, 5 × 8 INCHES of its time and even today. Its innovative staging and interwoven WORLD ENGLISH, FIRST PUBLICATION storylines illuminate the imposed social tensions and legal PAPER 978-0-8101-3772-1 $18.95 injustice faced by the characters. E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3773-8 $18.95

In this expert translation, readers can see Bruckner as a public “Ferdinand Bruckner’s plays deserve to be better intellectual, a man committed to commenting on the fate of known . . . Passionate, intense, and vividly theatrical, they harness a bold dramaturgy to the deep Germany, humane values, and the past, present, and future in his conviction that the theater must engage with the work. With an introduction by the translator, this volume will be world around it.” —Barry Edelstein, Erna Finci the definitive version for readers, actors, playwrights, and schol- Viterbi Artistic Director at The Old Globe Theatre ars. “There isn’t another academic theater historian in the world who combines the talent of translator, critic, FERDINAND BRUCKNER, born Theodor Tagger in 1891, was an dramaturg, theater historian, regisseur, actor, and Austro-German poet, playwright, and theater manager. In 1922, he scholar required to annotate these two plays of Ferdinand Bruckner . . . Laurence Senelick is the founded the Berlin Renaissance Theater. He immigrated to Paris embodiment of Der Theaterprofessor, and as such in 1933, from there to the United States in 1936, and eventually stands alone.” —Sol Gittleman, Alice and Nathan returned to Berlin, where he worked as an adviser to the Schiller Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, Tufts Theater. University

ALSO OF INTEREST LAURENCE SENELICK is Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory at Tufts University. He is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, the most recent being The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History (with Sergei Ostrovsky); Stanislavsky: A Life in Letters; The American Stage: Writing on the American Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner; and Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture. Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies: Gender and Desire in Early Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Novels and Paintings Northwestern World Classics Esther K. Bauer PAPER 978-0-8101-3445-4 $34.95 (S) www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 12 PHILOSOPHY / SLAVIC STUDIES On Life A Critical Edition

Leo Tolstoy Edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya Translated from the Russian by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya

In the summer of 1886, shortly before his fifty-eighth birthday, Leo Tolstoy was seriously injured while working in the fields of his es- tate. Bedridden for over two months, Tolstoy began writing a medi- tation on death and dying that soon developed into a philosophical treatise on life, death, love, and the overcoming of pessimism. Although begun as an account of how one man encounters and laments his death and makes this death his own, the final work, On Life, describes the optimal life in which we can all be happy despite our mortality.

After its completion, On Life was suppressed by the tsars, at- tacked by the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, and then censored by the Stalinist regime. The critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought NOVEMBER into English, based on a study of manuscript pages of Tolstoy’s 264 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 1 B/W IMAGE drafts, and the first scholarly edition of this work in any language. WORLDWIDE - ENGLISH, FIRST PUBLICATION It includes a detailed introduction and annotations, as well as PAPER 978-0-8101-3803-2 $27.95 (X) historical material, such as early drafts, documents related to the CLOTH 978-0-8101-3804-9 $99.95 (S) presentation of an early version at the Moscow Psychological Soci- E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3805-6 $27.95 (X) ety, and responses to the work by philosophers, religious leaders, journalists, and ordinary readers of Tolstoy’s day. “Tolstoy is fifty-eight years old, newly recovered

from a near-fatal injury. In the face of Darwinists, LEO TOLSTOY (1828–1910) is widely regarded as one of the great- positivists, the new science of psychology, and the venerable teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church, est writers of all time. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, and he defines life: the overcoming of pessimism by a philosophical essays and is perhaps best known for War and Peace proper understanding of part to whole, which will and Anna Karenina. make us worthy of happiness. At the time, Tolstoy’s radical ethics was likened to Nietzsche’s. This lucid INESSA MEDZHIBOVSKAYA is an associate professor of liberal and poetic translation, meticulously annotated studies and literary studies at the New School for Social Research and introduced, restores this astonishing text to and Eugene Lang College. its controversial nineteenth-century context and recommends it to our own.” —Caryl Emerson, MICHAEL DENNER is a professor of Russian, East European, and Princeton University Eurasian studies at Stetson University and the editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal. ALSO OF INTEREST

Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century Edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya PAPER 978-0-8101-3880-3 $39.95 (S) www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 13 HIGHER EDUCATION The Humanities in the Age of Information and Post-Truth Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo and Christina Lux

The essays in The Humanities in the Age of Information and Post- Truth represent a defense of the social function of the humanities in today’s society. Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo and Christina Lux, the volume explains different ways in which the humanities and the arts, beyond their intrinsic and nonfunctional value, may be valuable tools in our search for social justice, human empathy, freedom, and peace, all the while helping us answer many of the twenty-first century’s big questions. Some essays explore the ways in which the humanities may help us imagine a different, more just world, and articulate politically effective mechanisms to achieve such goals. Others address the place of the humanities and the arts amid the ontological and epistemological uncertainties constantly produced in a fast-changing world.

While the reader may suspect that these responses are desperate reactions to decreased public funding for the humanities worldwide, a decreased enrollment of students, or anxiety about JANUARY the future of the academy, there is in this volume a coherent 168 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES argument for the continued need, perhaps more now than ever, WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION to invest in humanities education if we are to have informed and PAPER 978-0-8101-3912-1 $34.95 (S) socially conscious citizens rather than just willing consumers CLOTH 978-0-8101-3913-8 $99.95 (S) and obedient workers. Furthermore, the essays prove that the E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3914-5 $34.95 (S) humanities and the arts are, after all, not a luxury but an integral part of a complete scholarly education. “This collection of thought-provoking essays, an example of impeccable scholarship by eminent critics of our time, addresses a timely topic: the IGNACIO LÓPEZ-CALVO is a professor of Latin American litera- role and future of humanities in an increasingly ture at the University of California Merced. His most recent book is corporatized academe that relies heavily on what Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusan in Peru (2014). has been termed by critics as ‘technical legality.’ It effectively makes the case for a humanities that CHRISTINA LUX is the associate director of the Center for the fosters and encourages creativity to enable and aid Humanities at the University of California Merced. our successful functioning in the robotized world of the near future by underlining its complexities.” —Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, coeditor of Global Academe: Engaging Intellectual Discourse CONTRIBUTORS: Kwame Anthony Appiah, David R. Castillo, William Egginton, David Theo Goldberg, Robert Newman, David Palumbo-Liu, Doris Sommer, Mariët Westermann ALSO OF INTEREST

The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time Edited by Charles Altieri and Nicholas D. Nace PAPER 978-0-8101-3605-2 $39.95 (S)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 14 HIGHER EDUCATION / DIGITAL HUMANITIES New Digital Worlds Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy

Roopika Risam

As a new discipline, digital humanities has been heralded for com- mitments to openness, access, and the democratizing of knowl- edge. The field also raises a number of questions about omissions with respect to race, gender, sexuality, disability, and nation. Post- colonial digital humanities offers approaches to uncovering and remedying inequalities in digital knowledge production, which is implicated in an information-age politics of knowledge.

New Digital Worlds traces the formation of postcolonial studies and digital humanities as fields, identifying how they can inter- vene in knowledge production in the digital age. Roopika Risam examines the role of colonial violence in the development of digital archives and the possibilities of postcolonial digital archives for resisting this violence. Offering a reading of the colonialist dimen- sions of global organizations for digital humanities research, she NOVEMBER explores efforts to decenter these institutions by emphasizing the 176 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 7 B/W IMAGES local practices that subtend global formations and pedagogical ap- WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION proaches that support this decentering. Last, Risam attends to hu- PAPER 978-0-8101-3885-8 $34.95 (S) man futures in new digital worlds, evaluating both how algorithms CLOTH 978-0-8101-3886-5 $99.95 (S) and natural language processing software used in digital humani- E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3887-2 $34.95 (S) ties projects produce universalist notions of the “human” and also how to resist this phenomenon. “This book speaks to a vibrant and emerging field, and as such, offers a unique and important contribution ROOPIKA RISAM is an assistant professor of English at Salem to postcolonial studies in engagement with digital State University, where she examines the intersections of postcolo- humanities. This exciting and generative study will nial studies, African diaspora studies, and digital humanities. She instigate new dialogues about the relations between codirects several digital projects, including the Harlem Shadows technology and power, digital worlds and social justice in a global context.” —Kavita Daiya, author of Project, Digital Salem, and the NEH- and IMLS-funded Networking Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National the Regional Comprehensives. Culture in Postcolonial India

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Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens Hosam M. Aboul-Ela PAPER 978-0-8101-3749-3 $34.95 (S)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 15 HIGHER EDUCATION / CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES Teaching with Tension Race, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom

Edited by Philathia Bolton, Cassander L. Smith, and Lee Bebout

Teaching with Tension is a collection of seventeen original essays that address the extent to which attitudes about race, impacted by the current political moment in the United States, have produced pedagogical challenges for professors in the humanities. As a flash- point, this current political moment is defined by the visibility of the country’s first black president, the election of his successor, whose presidency has been associated with an increased visibility of the alt-right, and the emergence of the neoliberal university. Together these social currents shape the tensions with which we teach.

Drawing together personal reflection, pedagogical strategies, and critical theory, Teaching with Tension offers concrete examinations that will foster student learning. The essays are JANUARY organized into three thematic sections: “Teaching in Times and 304 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES Places of Struggle” examines the dynamics of teaching race WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION during the current moment, marked by neoconservative politics PAPER 978-0-8101-3909-1 $34.95 (S) and twenty-first-century freedom struggles. “Teaching in the CLOTH 978-0-8101-3910-7 $99.95 (S) Neoliberal University” focuses on how pressures and exigencies E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3911-4 $34.95 (S) of neoliberalism (such as individualism, customer-service models of education, and online courses) impact the way in which race is taught and conceptualized in college classes. The final section, “Teaching with Tension should be required reading for “Teaching How to Read Race and (Counter) Narratives,” homes all university professors. Writing from diverse in on direct strategies used to historicize race in classrooms perspectives and positions, these teachers and composed of millennials who grapple with race-neutral ideologies. scholars analyze the promises and the perils of teaching race as an academic subject to varied sets of Taken together, these sections and their constitutive essays students in our current movement. Whether you are offer rich and fruitful insight into the complex dynamics of a beginning graduate assistant or a seasoned veteran contemporary race and ethnic studies education. professor, you will find something to improve your pedagogy around issues of race and racism.” —Katy Chiles, author of Transformable Race: PHILATHIA BOLTON is an assistant professor of English at the Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literatures of Early University of Akron. America

CASSANDER L. SMITH is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama and the author of Black Africans in the ALSO OF INTEREST British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World.

LEE BEBOUT is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University and the author of Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies and Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White.

Poetry Like Bread, New Expanded Edition: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press Martín Espada Critical Insurgencies PAPER 978-1-8806-8474-0 $18.95 Michelle M. Wright and Jodi A. Byrd, Series Editors www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 16 AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES / HISTORY New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition Edited by Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer

From well-known intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass and Nella Larsen to often-obscured thinkers such as Amina Baraka and Bernardo Ruiz Suárez, black theorists across the globe have en- gaged in sustained efforts to create insurgent and resilient forms of thought. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition is a collection of twelve essays that explores these and other theorists and their contributions to diverse strains of political, social, and cultural thought.

The book examines four central themes within the black intel- lectual tradition: black internationalism, religion and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice, and black radical- ism. The essays identify the emergence of black thought within multiple communities internationally, analyze how black thinkers shaped and were shaped by the historical moment in which they lived, interrogate the ways in which activists and intellectuals NOVEMBER connected their theoretical frameworks across time and space, and 240 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 6 B/W IMAGES assess how these strains of thought bolstered black consciousness WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION and resistance worldwide. PAPER 978-0-8101-3812-4 $34.95 (S) CLOTH 978-0-8101-3813-1 $99.95 (S) Defying traditional temporal and geographical boundaries, New E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3814-8 $34.95 (S) Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition illuminates the origins of and conduits for black ideas, redefines the relationship between black thought and social action, and challenges long- held assumptions about black perspectives on religion, race, and radicalism. The intellectuals profiled in the volume reshape and “This is a marvelously insightful collection featuring redefine the contours and boundaries of black thought, further contributions by a diverse array of rising stars in our field. In these pages you will learn not only where illuminating the depth and diversity of the black intellectual tradi- Africana Studies is headed, but about Intellectual tion. History more generally.” —Gerald Horne, author of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

KEISHA N. BLAIN teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh. “This volume brings together exciting, cutting edge She is the author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women essays that showcase key intellectual trends and and the Global Struggle for Freedom and the coeditor of Charleston directions in African American history. These historians push the boundaries of knowledge in Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. dynamic and challenging ways.”—Martha Biondi, author of The Black Revolution on Campus CHRISTOPHER CAMERON is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of To ALSO OF INTEREST Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement.

ASHLEY D. FARMER is an assistant professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, the first comprehensive study of black women’s intellectual production and activism in the Black The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in Power era. 1960s Chicago Edited by Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford, and Rebecca Zorach PAPER 978-0-8101-3593-2 $35.00 www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 17 PERFORMANCE STUDIES / INDIGENOUS STUDIES Encounters on Contested Lands Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec

Julie Burelle

In Encounters on Contested Lands, Julie Burelle employs a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-representation in Québec challenge the national and identity discourses of the French Québécois de souche—the French- speaking descendants of white European settlers who understand themselves to be settlers no more but rather colonized and rightfully belonging to the territory of Québec.

Analyzing a wide variety of performances, Burelle brings together the theater of Alexis Martin and the film L’Empreinte, which repositions the French Québécois de souche as métis, with protest marches led by Innu activists; the Indigenous company Ondinnok’s theater of repatriation; the films of Yves Sioui Durand, Alanis DECEMBER Obomsawin, and the Wapikoni Mobile project; and the visual work 224 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES of Nadia Myre. These performances, Burelle argues, challenge WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION received definitions of sovereignty and articulate new ones while PAPER 978-0-8101-3896-4 $34.95 (S) proposing to the province and, more specifically, to the French CLOTH 978-0-8101-3897-1 $99.95 (S) Québécois de souche, that there are alternative ways to imagine E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3898-8 $34.95 (S) Québec’s future and remember its past.

The performances insist on Québec’s contested nature and reframe “Encounters on Contested Lands is a powerful book it as animated by competing sovereignties. Together they reveal presenting, from a performance studies perspective, how the “colonial present tense” and “tense colonial present” oper- a searing indictment of the performed relationship ate in conjunction as they work to imagine an alternative future between Québécois efforts to ground their claims to predicated on decolonization. Encounters on Contested Lands en- nationhood in Indigeneity and Indigenous peoples themselves.”—Ric Knowles, author of Performing the gages with theater and performance studies while making unique Intercultural City and needed contributions to Québec and Canadian studies, as well as to Indigenous and settler-colonial studies.

ALSO OF INTEREST JULIE BURELLE is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California San Diego.

Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Patrick Anderson and Nicholas Ridout, Series Editors Imaginaries Edited by Robert Diaz, Melissa Largo, and Fritz Pinto PAPER 978-0-8101-3651-9 $34.95 (S)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 18 THEATER HISTORY / PERFORMANCE STUDIES Occupying the Stage

The Theater of May ’68

Kate Bredeson

Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May ’68 tells the story of stu- dent and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theater history, and the story of French theater through the lens of May ’68. Based on detailed archival research and original translations, close readings of plays and historical documents, and a rigorous assessment of avant-garde theater history and theory, Occupying the Stage proposes that the French theater of 1959 to 1971 forms a stand-alone paradigm called “The Theater of May ’68.”

The book shows how French theater artists during this period used a strategy of occupation—occupying buildings, streets, language, words, traditions, and artistic processes—as their central tactic of protest and transformation. It further proposes that the Theater of May ’68 has left imprints on contemporary artists and activ- ists, and that this theater offers a scaffolding on which to build a meaningful analysis of contemporary protest and performance in France, North America, and beyond. NOVEMBER 224 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 17 B/W IMAGES At the book’s heart is an inquiry into how artists of the period used WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION theater as a way to engage in political work and, concurrently, PAPER 978-0-8101-3815-5 $34.95 (S) questioned and overhauled traditional theater practices so their CLOTH 978-0-8101-3816-2 $99.95 (S) art would better reflect the way they wanted the world to be. E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3817-9 $34.95 (S) Occupying the Stage embraces the utopic vision of May ’68 while probing the period’s many contradictions. It thus affirms the vital role theater can play in the ongoing work of social change. “Bredeson provides multiple points of entry into her story, and to an impressive degree. The book is written simultaneously for the layperson and a KATE BREDESON is an associate professor of theater at Reed fellow expert, almost magically so. Bredeson has College. accomplished an important feat in 1968 scholarship.” —E. Grace An, Oberlin College

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Aesthetic Citizenship: Immigration and Theater in Twenty-First-Century Paris Emine Fisek¸ PAPER 978-0-8101-3566-6 $34.95 (S)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 19 PHILOSOPHY Merleau-Ponty’s Developmental Ontology David Morris

Merleau-Ponty’s Developmental Ontology shows how the philoso- phy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from its very beginnings, seeks to find sense or meaning within nature, and how this quest calls for and develops into a radically new ontology.

David Morris first gives an illuminating analysis of sense, showing how it requires understanding nature as engendering new norms. He then presents innovative studies of Merleau-Ponty’s The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception, revealing how these early works are oriented by the problem of sense and already lead to difficulties about nature, temporality, and ontology that preoccupy Merleau-Ponty’s later work. Morris shows how resolving these difficulties requires seeking sense through its appearance in nature, prior to experience—ultimately leading to radically new concepts of nature, time, and philosophy.

Merleau-Ponty’s Developmental Ontology makes key issues in OCTOBER 320 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy clear and accessible to a broad audi- ence while also advancing original philosophical conclusions. WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-3792-9 $34.95 (S) CLOTH 978-0-8101-3793-6 $99.95 (S) DAVID MORRIS is a professor of philosophy at Concordia Univer- E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3794-3 $34.95 (S) sity. He is the author of The Sense of Space. “Merleau-Ponty’s Developmental Ontology is simply a great book. Morris’s accounts of life and nature are creative and deeply philosophical. I might be exaggerating a little when I say this, but I think this is the best Merleau-Ponty book I have ever read.” —Leonard Lawlor, author of Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

“This book is unique as a contribution to both Merleau-Ponty scholarship and to a renewed phenomenological ontology . . . Hardly ever has the plea for a radical transcendental empiricism, instead of traditional forms of subjectivism, been made as concretely and convincingly.” —Rudolf Bernet, coauthor of An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology

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Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Anthony J. Steinbock, Series Editor The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History, and Politics Maurice Merleau-Ponty PAPER 978-0-8101-0164-7 $27.95 (X) www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 20 PHILOSOPHY Political Anthropology Helmuth Plessner Translated from the German by Nils F. Schott Edited and with an introduction by Heike Delitz and Robert Seyfert Epilogue by Joachim Fischer

In Political Anthropology (originally published in 1931 as Macht und menschliche Natur), Helmuth Plessner considers whether politics— conceived as the struggle for power between groups, nations, and states—belongs to the essence of the human. Building on and complementing ideas from his Levels of the Organic and the Human (1928), Plessner proposes a genealogy of political life and outlines an anthropological foundation of the political. In critical dialogue with thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Eric Voegelin, and Martin Heidegger, Plessner argues that the political relationships cultures entertain with one other, their struggle for acknowledgment and assertion, are expressions of certain possibilities of the openness and unfathomability of the human.

Translated into English for the first time, and accompanied by an introduction and an epilogue that situate Plessner’s thinking OCTOBER both within the context of Weimar-era German political and social 172 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES thought and within current debates, this succinct book should be WORLDWIDE - ENGLISH, FIRST PUBLICATION of great interest to philosophers, political theorists, and sociolo- PAPER 978-0-8101-3800-1 $34.95 (S) gists interested in questions of power and the foundations of the CLOTH 978-0-8101-3801-8 $99.95 (S) political. E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3802-5 $34.95 (S)

“Political Anthropology is a compelling and luminous HELMUTH PLESSNER (1892–1985) was a leading figure in the introduction to Helmuth Plessner’s philosophical field of philosophical anthropology. He was the author of more anthropology; it is also a timely and urgent response than thirteen books, including The Limits of Community, The Levels to the rampant skepticism about political life now of the Organic and the Human, and Laughing and Crying. current.” —J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research NILS F. SCHOTT is the James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the “It is long overdue that the writings of this most Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a widely published important representative of the German tradition translator of work in the humanities. of philosophical anthropology find their way to the English-speaking intellectual public. The publication HEIKE DELITZ is a Privatdozentin in general sociology and social of Plessner’s Political Anthropology is an extremely theory at the University of Bamberg. valuable step in this process . . . This is a must-read in our dark times.” —Axel Honneth, author of Freedom’s ROBERT SEYFERT is an Akademischer Rat (senior researcher/ Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life lecturer) at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Duisburg- Essen, Germany. ALSO OF INTEREST

JOACHIM FISCHER is an honorary professor of sociology at TU Dresden and president of the Helmuth Plessner Society.

Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem Anthony J. Steinbock, Series Editor Jan Patockaˇ PAPER 978-0-8101-3361-7 $34.95 (X)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 21 LITERARY CRITICISM / SLAVIC STUDIES Everything Has Already Been Written Moscow Conceptualist Poetry and Performance

Gerald Janecek

In this book, Gerald Janecek provides a comprehensive account of Moscow Conceptualist poetry and performance, arguably the most important development in the arts of the late Soviet period and yet one underappreciated in the West. Such innovative poets as Vsevolod Nekrasov, Lev Rubinstein, and Dmitry Prigov are among the most prominent literary figures of Russia in the 1980s and 1990s, yet they are virtually unknown outside Russia. The same is true of the numerous active Russian performance art groups, especially the pioneering Collective Actions group, led by the brilliantly inventive Andrey Monastyrsky.

Everything Has Already Been Written strives to make Moscow Conceptualism more accessible, to break the language barrier DECEMBER and to foster understanding among an international readership 312 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES by thoroughly discussing a broad range of specific works and WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION theories. Janecek’s study is the first in-depth analysis of Moscow PAPER 978-0-8101-3901-5 $39.95 (S) Conceptualist poetry and theory, vital for an understanding of CLOTH 978-0-8101-3902-2 $120 (S) Russian culture in the post-Conceptualist era. E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3903-9 $39.95 (S)

“This book is the first serious attempt to discuss the GERALD JANECEK is professor emeritus of Russian and Eastern poetry and performance of the Moscow Conceptual- ist movement. Written in fluid, accessible language, Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Look Janecek’s book demonstrates vast knowledge of the of Russian Literature: Avant-Garde Visual Experiments, 1900–1930; sources and a deep understanding of the cultural ZAUM: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism; and Sight and context in which the movements emerged and Sound Entwined: Studies of the New Russian Poetry. developed.” —Boris Groys, author of History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism

“This is an exceptionally well-researched book that is clearly years in the making. Pulling together information from hundreds of printed and online sources relating to Moscow Conceptualism, it reflects an author motivated by intellectual passion and unflinching dedication to his endeavor.” —Sarah Pratt, author of Russian Metaphysical Romanticism

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Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Gary Saul Morson, Founding Editor

Uncensored: Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence Ann Komaromi PAPER 978-0-8101-3186-6 $39.95 (S) www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 22 LITERARY CRITICISM / SLAVIC STUDIES Tolstoy and His Problems Views from the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya

Assessing the relevance of Tolstoy’s thought and teachings for the current day, Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays by a group of Tolstoy specialists who are leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

In the broadest sense—with essays on a variety of issues that oc- cupied Tolstoy, such as nihilism, mysticism, social theory, religion, Judaism, education, opera, and Shakespeare—the volume offers a fresh evaluation of Tolstoy’s program to reform the ways we live, work, commune with nature and art, practice spirituality, exchange ideas and knowledge, become educated, and speak and think about history and social change.

INESSA MEDZHIBOVSKAYA is an associate professor of liberal studies and literary studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. NOVEMBER 288 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 3 B/W IMAGES CONTRIBUTORS: Jeff Brooks, Ellen Chances, Michael A. Denner, WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION Caryl Emerson, Stephen Halliwell, Jeff Gordon Love, Inessa PAPER 978-0-8101-3880-3 $39.95 (S) Medzhibovskaya, Daniel Moulin Stozek, Vladimir˙ M. Paperni CLOTH 978-0-8101-3881-0 $120 (S) E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3882-7 $39.95 (S)

“Inessa Medzhibovskaya is to be congratulated on compiling this set of excellent, original essays referencing Tolstoy’s relevance to the present time. I have no doubt that this volume will be an important contribution to Tolstoy scholarship, one used for a long time by researchers and teachers alike.” —Donna Tussing Orwin, author of Consequences of Consciousness: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy

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Tolstoy on Screen Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons and Michael Denner PAPER 978-0-8101-3440-9 $39.95 (S) Gary Saul Morson, Founding Editor

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 23 CULTURAL STUDIES / SLAVIC STUDIES Mapping Warsaw The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar City

Ewa Wampuszyc

Inspired by the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Mapping Warsaw is an interdisciplinary study that combines urban studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, history, literature, and photography. It examines Warsaw’s post–World War II reconstruction through images and language.

Juxtaposing close readings of photo books, socialist-era newsreels called the Polska Kronika Filmowa, the comedies of Leonard Buczkowski and Jan Fethke, the writing and films of Tadeusz Konwicki, and a case study on the Palace of Culture and Science—a “gift” from none other than Stalin—this study investigates the rhetorical and visual, rather than physical, reconstruction of Warsaw in various medias and genres.

Ewa Wampuszyc roots her analysis in the historical context of the postwar decade and shows how and why Poland’s capital became an essential part of a propaganda program inspired by communist OCTOBER ideology and the needs of a newly established socialist People’s 256 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 26 B/W IMAGES Republic. Mapping Warsaw demonstrates how physical space WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION manifests itself in culture, and how culture, history, and politics PAPER 978-0-8101-3789-9 $34.95 (S) leave an indelible mark on places. It points out ways in which we CLOTH 978-0-8101-3790-5 $99.95 (S) take for granted our perception of space and the meanings we E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3791-2 $34.95 (S) assign to it.

“Mapping Warsaw uncovers the dominant narratives EWA WAMPUSZYC is an assistant professor of Polish language that Poland’s Communist regime crafted from the and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ruins of Warsaw to legitimize its political authority. Wampuszyc explores this dynamic in a number of places in Warsaw, but most richly in her highly insightful discussion of the capital’s most famous building—the towering Palace of Culture and Science, Stalin’s gift to Poland. While situated within the field of East European studies, this book makes a broad contribution to the study of how regimes deploy narratives to gain political support and how those narratives collapse when exposed as such.” —Michael Meng, author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland

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Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration Marek Haltof PAPER 978-0-8101-3610-6 $34.95 (S) www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 24 LITERARY CRITICISM / GERMAN STUDIES Kafka and Noise The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism

Kata Gellen

A series of disruptive, unnerving sounds haunts the fictional writ- ings of Franz Kafka. These include the painful squeak in Gregor Samsa’s voice, the indeterminate whistling of Josefine the singer, the relentless noise in “The Burrow,” and telephonic disturbances in The Castle. In Kafka and Noise, Kata Gellen applies concepts and vocabulary from film theory to Kafka’s works in order to account for these unsettling sounds. Rather than try to decode these noises, Gellen explores the complex role they play in Kafka’s larger project.

Kafka and Noise offers a method for pursuing intermedial research in the humanities—namely, via the productive “misapplication” of theoretical tools, which exposes the contours, conditions, and expressive possibilities of the media in question. This book will be of interest to scholars of modernism, literature, cinema, and sound, as well as to anyone wishing to explore how artistic and JANUARY technological media shape our experience of the world and the 272 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 17 B/W IMAGES possibilities for representing it. WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-3893-3 $34.95 (S) CLOTH 978-0-8101-3894-0 $99.95 (S) KATA GELLEN is an assistant professor in the Department of Ger- E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3895-7 $34.95 (S) manic Languages and Literature at Duke University.

“Impeccably argued and thoroughly researched, this book offers a series of original and incisive perspectives on Kafka’s work in general, the role of sound and noise in Kafka’s writing, and the coming of sound to twentieth-century literature. It will clearly add important new scholarship to the field of Kafka research, as well as a masterly contribution to the growing writing on Kafka’s and other modernist writers’ relationships to cinema and modern media culture.” —Lutz Koepnick, author of The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous

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Franz Kafka, the Eternal Son: A Biography Peter-André Alt PAPER 978-0-8101-2607-7 $45.00 (X)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 25 CULTURAL STUDIES / GERMAN STUDIES The Forces of Form in German Modernism Malika Maskarinec

The Forces of Form in German Modernism charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and aesthetic objects as shaped by a contest of conflicting and reciprocally intensifying forces: the force of gravity and a self-determining will to form. Maskarinec thereby discloses, for the first time, German modern- ism’s sustained preoccupation with classical mechanics and with how human bodies and artworks resist gravity.

Considering canonical artists such as Rodin and Klee, seminal au- thors such as Kafka and Döblin, and largely neglected thinkers in aesthetics and art history such as those associated with Empathy Aesthetics, Maskarinec unpacks the manifold anthropological and aesthetic concerns and historical lineage embedded in the idea of form as the precarious achievement of uprightness. SEPTEMBER 280 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 14 B/W IMAGES

The Forces of Form in German Modernism makes a decisive contri- WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION bution to our understanding of modernism and to contemporary PAPER 978-0-8101-3769-1 $34.95 (S) discussions about form, empathy, materiality, and human embodi- CLOTH 978-0-8101-3770-7 $99.95 (S) ment. E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3771-4 $34.95 (S)

MALIKA MASKARINEC is the managing director of eikones: “This book makes a significant contribution to the study of German modernism, and it does so by Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University straddling the fields of art history and literary and of Basel. She is the coeditor of Formbildung und Formbegriff: Das cultural studies. Its balance of theoretical acumen Formdenken der Moderne. and historical erudition is impressive, as is its original, interdisciplinary combination of themes and material.” —Eric Downing, author of The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940

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The Worker: Dominion and Form Ernst Jünger PAPER 978-0-8101-3617-5 $34.95 (X)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 26 LITERARY CRITICISM / GERMAN STUDIES W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption Catastrophe with Spectator

Russell J. A. Kilbourn

Focusing on W. G. Sebald’s four works of prose fiction—The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, and Austerlitz—Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author’s abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. He shows that Sebald’s work stands between modernism’s ironic hopes for redemption and whatever comes after. Out of the spectacle of humankind’s slow-motion self-destruction, a “Sebaldian subject”—masculine, melancholic, ironic, potentially queer–emerges across the four prose narratives.

Alongside Sebald studies’ traditional subjects, which include memory, historiography, Sebald’s critique of an image-based cul- ture, and his highly intermedial poetics, W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption demonstrates Sebald’s relevance for affect theory, new materialism, and the posthuman turn. It critiques the possibility NOVEMBER of metaphysical or eroto-salvific models of redemption, arguing 208 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES against the temptation of psychoanalytic interpretations, as WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION Sebald’s work of memory rejects the discourse of redemption in PAPER 978-0-8101-3808-7 $34.95 (S) favor of restitution. CLOTH 978-0-8101-3810-0 $99.95 (S) E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3811-7 $34.95 (S) In its consideration of Sebald’s place in twentieth-century litera- ture and after, Kilbourn’s book engages with such predecessors as Nabokov, Kafka, Conrad, and Beckett, concluding with compari- “This is a dazzlingly written book of exceptional sons with contemporaries Claudio Magris and Alice Munro. intellectual range and great academic integrity, with beautiful insights into Sebald on almost every page.

W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption will be one of the most important and eagerly awaited publications RUSSELL J. A. KILBOURN is an associate professor of English and on Sebald in years.” —Helen Finch, author of Sebald’s film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. He Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the Unconforming is the author of Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Life Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema.

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Underworlds of Memory: W. G. Sebald’s Epic Journeys through the Past Alan Itkin PAPER 978-0-8101-3480-5 $34.95 (S)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 27 JEWISH & HOLOCAUST STUDIES Lessons and Legacies XIII New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Social History, Representation, Theory

Edited and with an introduction by Alexandra Garbarini and Paul B. Jaskot

A collection of essays representing the forefront of current re- search on the Holocaust in a range of disciplines, Lessons and Legacies XIII explores the social history of the Holocaust, its representation in postwar culture, and new theoretical approaches. Analyses at the most intimate scale—of the individual or of a particular locale—are juxtaposed with broader studies of the war or postwar order. Complementing these different types of analysis are theoretical investigations of individual agency, moral judgment, and the construction of meaning and memory, with implications for the study of the victims of the Holocaust and our understanding of society as a whole.

The thirteen essays in this volume are by an international SEPTEMBER collection of scholars and mirror the contemporary landscape 352 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 22 B/W IMAGES of Holocaust studies, which includes history as well as film and WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION literary studies, philosophy, cultural studies, and religious studies PAPER 978-0-8101-3766-0 $39.95 (S) (among other disciplines). CLOTH 978-0-8101-3767-7 $99.95 (S) E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3768-4 $39.95 (S)

ALEXANDRA GARBARINI is a professor of history at Williams College in Massachusetts. “We live at a time when the Holocaust has entered public consciousness in a major way. This means PAUL B. JASKOT is a professor of art history at Duke University. culture is free to represent, and distort, the Holocaust; witness the growing number of films, novels, and poetic and other artistic expressions CONTRIBUTORS: Martin Dean, Jonathan Druker, Simone Gigliotti, claiming to be ‘inspired’ by the Shoah. The present volume represents the leaven in the lump Dorota Glowacka, Jan Grabowski, Gershon Greenberg, of Holocaust representation. The contributors Lutz Kaelber, Marion Kaplan, Hana Kubátová, are interested in revealing and unpacking Pedro Correa Martín-Arroyo, Brad Prager, Lissa Skitolsky, historical complexities.” —Alan Berger, coauthor Dana Smith of Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, Memory

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Lessons and Legacies

Lessons and Legacies XII: New Directions in Holocaust Research and Education Edited and with an Introduction by Wendy Lower and Lauren Faulkner Rossi PAPER 978-0-8101-3448-5 $39.95 (S) www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 28 CULTURAL STUDIES / JEWISH STUDIES / GERMAN STUDIES The Translated Jew German Jewish Culture outside the Margins

Leslie Morris

The Translated Jew brings together an eclectic set of literary and visual texts to reimagine the transnational potential for German Jewish culture in the twenty-first century. Departing from scholar- ship that has located the German Jewish text as an object that can be defined geographically and historically, Leslie Morris challenges national literary historiography and redraws the maps by which transnational Jewish culture and identity must be read.

Morris explores the myriad acts of translation, actual and meta- phorical, through which Jewishness leaves its traces, taking as a given the always provisional nature of Jewish text and Jewish language. Although the focus is on contemporary German Jew- ish literary cultures, The Translated Jew also turns its attention to a number of key visual and architectural projects by American, British, and French artists and writers, including W. G. Sebald, Anne Blonstein, Hélène Cixous, Ulrike Mohr, Daniel Blaufuks, Paul Celan, Raymond Federman, and Rose Ausländer. SEPTEMBER 248 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 15 BW IMAGES In thus realigning German Jewish culture with European and WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION American Jewish culture and post-Holocaust aesthetics, this book PAPER 978-0-8101-3763-9 $34.95 (S) explores the circulation of Jewishness between the United States CLOTH 978-0-8101-3764-6 $99.95 (S) and Europe. The insistence on the polylingualism of any single E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3765-3 $34.95 (S) language and the multidirectionality of Jewishness are at the very center of The Translated Jew. “The Translated Jew is an innovative and imaginative book that takes as its goal an ambitious project LESLIE MORRIS is an associate professor of German in the to expand the limits of what we in the academy Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Languages at the regard as ‘Jewish text.’ Morris weaves together University of Minnesota. rigorous analyses of an extremely wide range of postwar Jewish texts to stage a powerful theoretical invervention in contemporary debates about what constitutes Jewish literature, and how we should study it today.” —Jonathan M. Hess, author of Deborah and Her Sisters

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Cultural Expressions of World War II Phyllis Lassner, Series Editor Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop Amelia M. Glaser PAPER 978-0-8101-3486-7 $45.00 (S)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 29 PHILOSOPHY A Companion to Ancient Philosophy Edited and with an introduction by Sean D. Kirkland and Eric Sanday

A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the period extending from the pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers.

Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of pre- established positions and themes, these essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively. Indeed, this is a companion volume that takes a very serious and considered approach to its designated task—accompanying readers as they move through the most crucial passages of the infinitely rich and compelling texts of the ancients. Each essay provides a tutorial in close reading and care- ful interpretation. OCTOBER Because it offers foundational treatments of the most important 304 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES works of ancient philosophy and because it, precisely by doing so, WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION arrives at numerous original interpretive insights and suggests PAPER 978-0-8101-3786-8 $39.95 (S) new directions for research in ancient philosophy, this volume CLOTH 978-0-8101-3787-5 $120 (S) should be of great value both to students just starting off reading E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3788-2 $39.95 (S) the ancients and to established scholars still fascinated by philoso- phy’s deepest abiding questions. “A Companion to Ancient Philosophy introduces

ancient texts with a hermeneutic that is both historically grounded and contemporary. It SEAN D. KIRKLAND is an associate professor of philosophy at contains twenty concise yet deep essays on issues DePaul University and the author of The Ontology of Socratic fundamental to Greek thought by some leading Questioning in Plato’s Early Dialogues. scholars in continental philosophy. It is a fresh, insightful introduction to the essential questions ERIC SANDAY is an associate professor of philosophy at the of ancient Greek philosophy and why they are still University of Kentucky and the author of A Study of Dialectic in alive for us today.” —Marina Berzins McCoy, author of Plato’s Parmenides. Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy

CONTRIBUTORS: Ömer Aygün, Claudia Baracchi, Walter Brogan, ALSO OF INTEREST Rose Cherubin, Patricia Fagan, Francisco J. Gonzalez, George Harvey, Phil Hopkins, Drew Hyland, Sean D. Kirkland, Pascal Massie, John McCumber, Robert Metcalf, Marjolein Oele, Eve Rabinoff, Gregory Recco, John Russon, Eric Sanday, Damian Stocking, Michael Wiitala, Gina Zavota

The Emerging Good in Plato’s Philebus Rereading Ancient Philosophy John V. Garner PAPER 978-0-8101-3558-1 $34.95 (S) John Russon, Series Editor

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 30 PHILOSOPHY Philosophy as Agôn A Study of Plato’s Gorgias and Related Texts

Robert Metcalf

In Philosophy as Agôn: A Study of Plato’s Gorgias and Related Texts, Robert Metcalf offers a fresh interpretation of Plato’s dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, nondogmatic, and open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic dialogue.

Metcalf challenges prevailing interpretations according to which the agôn (contest or struggle) between the interlocutors in the dialogues is inessential to Plato’s philosophical purpose, or simply a reflection of the cultural background of ancient Greek life. Instead, he argues that Plato understands philosophy as essentially agonistic—involving the adversarial engagement of others in dialogue such that one’s integrity is put to the test through this engagement, and where the agôn is structured so as to draw adversaries together in agreement about the matters at issue, though that agreement is always open to future contest. OCTOBER Based on a careful reading of the Gorgias and related Socratic 248 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES dialogues, such as Apology and Theaetetus, Metcalf contends that WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION agôn is indispensable to the critique of prevailing opinions, to PAPER 978-0-8101-3797-4 $34.95 (S) the transformation of the interlocutor through shame-inducing CLOTH 978-0-8101-3798-1 $99.95 (S) refutation, and to philosophy as a lifelong training (askêsis) of E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3799-8 $34.95 (S) oneself in relation to others.

“Clearly, a lot of ink has been spilled by scholars about ROBERT METCALF is a professor of philosophy at the University Socratic method and the particular dialogues taken of Colorado, Denver. up in Metcalf’s monograph, but what he has to offer is both new and persuasive. The philosophical and scholarly work that Metcalf does in his introduction is more than many scholars manage in an entire monograph. Refreshingly fruitful and brilliant.” —Jill Gordon, author of Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

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Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics Eve Rabinoff PAPER 978-0-8101-3642-7 $34.95 (S) Rereading Ancient Philosophy John Russon, Series Editor

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 31 FILM STUDIES Aesthetic Spaces The Place of Art in Film

Brigitte Peucker

Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema’s openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own. In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows that when painterly or theatrical conventions are appropriated by the medium of film, the dissonant effects produced open it up to intermedial reflection and tell us a great deal about cinema itself.

The films studied in these chapters include those by Abbas Kiarostami, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean- Luc Godard, Carl Th. Dreyer, Peter Greenaway, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, Lars von Trier, Spike Jonze, Éric Rohmer, Lech Majewski, and others. Where two media are in evidence in these films, there is usually a third, and often theater mediates between film and painting. Aesthetic Spaces interrogates issues of cinematic space and mise-en-scène from different but interconnected theoretical perspectives, organizing its chapters around some of the formal FEBRUARY principles—space, spectator, frame, color and lighting, props, 232 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES, 8 B/W IMAGES décor, and actor—that shape films. WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION PAPER 978-0-8101-3906-0 $34.95 (S) Drawing on the older arts to renew cinema, the films examined de- CLOTH 978-0-8101-3907-7 $99.95 (S) ploy paintings as material: Poussin and Bruegel, Rembrandt, Hals E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3908-4 $34.95 (S) and Klimt, and medieval illustrations and modernist abstractions are used to expand our notions of cinematic space. Peucker shows that when different media come together in film, they create ef- “This book is a meditation on cinema’s hybrid fects of dissonance out of which new modes of looking may arise. or ‘intermedial’ status that proceeds through elegant, finely nuanced and elaborately detailed close readings of canonical films. Refreshingly, BRIGITTE PEUCKER is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of Ger- the book steers clear of fashionable discussions of intermediality and instead makes a case for cinema man and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Yale University. as an inherently, even ontologically intermedial art.” She is the author of The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film —John David Rhodes, author of Spectacle of Property: and Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts, among other The House in American Film books.

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Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks Rick Warner PAPER 978-0-8101-3737-0 $34.95 (S)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 32 FILM STUDIES Cinema of Confinement Thomas J. Connelly

In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer’s relationship to excess.

Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of con- stricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.

THOMAS J. CONNELLY is a visiting assistant professor in the Media Studies Department at Pomona College.

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“In looking at film from a Lacanian angle, Cinema of Confinement makes a strong contribution to the expanding critical literature on Lacan and cinema. The book shows exceptional knowledge of film as a language, inclusive of its unconscious underpinnings. Connelly moves very confidently among different filmic genres and aesthetic registers, demonstrating remarkable analytical skills. A great book with some interpretive gems.” —Fabio Vighi, author of Critical Theory and Film: Rethinking Ideology through Film Noir

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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy Todd McGowan PAPER 978-0-8101-3580-2 $34.95 (S)

www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 33 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / PHILOSOPHY Theory’s Autoimmunity Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy

Zahi Zalloua

Engaging scholars from across humanistic fields grappling with the role and value of theory in our times, Theory’s Autoimmunity argues for reclaiming theory’s skepticism as a value. To cultivate theory’s skeptical impulses is to embrace what Jacques Derrida has termed autoimmunity: a condition of openness to the outside— openness of the self, the community, democracy, or other ideals— that allows for change.

Openness to change comes with risks, and the self-protective temptation to immunize oneself or one’s community against these risks is strong. Yet without such risks, without openness to otherness, no encounter with the new, with difference, can ever take place. Without autoimmunity, theory becomes stagnant and programmatic, unable to receive and respond to the other or the event, to address, revise, and produce new meanings.

Taking up the challenge of thinking theory as skepticism, with and OCTOBER against philosophy, this study turns to literature as an interlocutor, 240 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES investigating the ways theory, like the literary works of Montaigne, WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICAITON Baudelaire, Stendhal, Morrison, or Duras, declines to put on the PAPER 978-0-8101-3778-3 $34.95 (S) interpretive brakes, to stop reading at a point of understanding. CLOTH 978-0-8101-3779-0 $99.95 (S) Undoing and remaking itself, theory—those critical interpretive E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3780-6 $34.95 (S) practices that revel in the creation and proliferation of meaning— becomes autoimmune. “Theory’s Autoimmunity intervenes brilliantly in the field of postcritical theory. By cutting a swath ZAHI ZALLOUA is a professor of French and interdisciplinary through ideology critiques, object-oriented studies at Whitman College. He is the author of Continental ontologies, and subjectless realisms, Zalloua demon- Philosophy and the Palestinian Question, Reading Unruly: strates that theory flourishes by being at odds with itself.” —Jean-Michel Rabaté, author of Crimes of the Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands, and Montaigne and the Future: Theory and Its Global Reproduction Ethics of Skepticism. “Marvelously lucid, joyful, and rigorous, Theory’s Autoimmunity relaunches the impulse to theorize across a broad front, confronting the disastrous impulse to protectionist mastery, dislocating immunity from itself through subtle acts of reading. Zalloua’s book should be essential reading for any course in theory.” —Patrick ffrench, author of After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community

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The Virtual Point of Freedom: Essays on Politics, Aesthetics, and Religion Lorenzo Chiesa PAPER 978-0-8101-3373-0 $34.95 (S) www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 34 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / PERFORMANCE STUDIES The Baroque Night Spencer Golub

In The Baroque Night, authorial idiosyncrasy hybridizes the con- cepts of “baroque” and “noir” across the fields of film, theater, lit- erature, and philosophy, arguing for mental function as form, as an impossible object, a container in which the container itself is the thing contained. The book is an experiment in thinking difference and thinking differently, an ethics of otherness and the abstract. Spencer Golub inverts the unreality of the real and the reality of fiction, exposing the tropes of memory, identity, and authenticity as a scenic route through life that ultimately blocks the view.

The Baroque Night draws upon materials that have not previously been included in studies of either the baroque or film noir, while offering new perspectives on other, more familiar sources. Leib- niz’s concepts of the monad and compossibility provide organiz- ing thought models, and death, fear, and mental illness cast their anamorphic images across surfaces that are deeper and closer than they at first appear. Key characters and situations in the book derive from the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Henri-Georges Clozot, SEPTEMBER Jean-Pierre Melville, Oscar Wilde, Georges Perec, Patricia High- 240 PAGES, 6 × 9 INCHES smith, William Shakespeare, Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille, and WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION Arthur Conan Doyle, among many others. PAPER 978-0-8101-3781-3 $39.95 (S) This is virtuality and reality for the phobic, making it a fascinat- CLOTH 978-0-8101-3782-0 $120 (S) ing and viable document of and episteme for the anxious age in E-BOOK 978-0-8101-3783-7 $39.95 (S) which we (always) find ourselves living, though not yet fully alive. This performance of suspect evidence speaks to and in the ways “The Baroque Night is a fascinating and erudite work we are organically inauthentic, the cause of our own causality and on the question of unreality. It is a great example our own worst eyewitnesses to all that appears and disappears in of how work grounded in performance studies space and time. continues to be a wellspring of original thought for interdisciplinary work on aesthetics, identity, and dynamic form.” —Alanna Thain, author of Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema SPENCER GOLUB is a professor of theater arts and performance studies, Slavic languages, and comparative literature at Brown “Spencer Golub’s The Baroque Night is virtuosic: a University. He is the author of Incapacity: Wittgenstein, Anxiety, dazzling performance of philosophical dexterity . . . A genuine rearticulation of genre.” —Kélina Gotman, and Performance Behavior; Infinity (Stage); The Recurrence of Fate: author of Essays on Theatre and Change: Towards a Theatre and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia; and Evreinov: Poetics Of The Theatre of Paradox and Transformation.

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www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 35 LITERARY CRITICISM Feeling Faint Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance

Giulio J. Pertile

Feeling Faint is a book about human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered at the margins of first-person experience. What would it mean to be conscious without being a first person—to be conscious in the absence of a self?

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BY TITLE BY AUTHOR, EDITOR, OR BY AUTHOR, EDITOR, OR CONTRIBUTOR CONTRIBUTOR (cont’d) Aesthetic Spaces...... 32 Anagnorisis ...... 8 Apollonio, Carol...... 40 Smith, Cassander L...... 16 Baroque Night, The...... 35 Bebout, Lee...... 16 Terando, Lorena...... 9 Breakaway, The ...... 1 Black, Timuel D...... 5 Tolstoy, Leo...... 13 Callbacks...... 42 Blain, Keisha N...... 17 Troupe, Quincy...... 6, 7 Cinema of Confinement...... 33 Blake, Elizabeth A...... 40 Wampuszyc, Ewa ...... 24 Companion to Ancient Blank, Ksana...... 41 Whiteford, M...... 42 Philosophy, A...... 30 Bolton, Philathia...... 16 Wirtz, Rocky...... 1 Cultural Origins of the Socialist Bredeson, Kate...... 19 Zalloua, Zahi...... 34 Realist Aesthetic...... 41 Bruckner, Ferdinand...... 12 Dostoevsky and the Catholic Burelle, Julie...... 18 Underground...... 40 Burroughs, Margaret...... 4 Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin...... 41 Cain, Mary Ann...... 4 Dostoevsky’s Secrets...... 40 Cameron, Christopher...... 17 Encounters on Contested Lands. . 18 Connelly, Thomas J...... 33 Ensemble-Made Chicago...... 10 Dargan, Kyle ...... 8 Everything Has Already Been Delitz, Heike...... 21 Written...... 22 Denner, Michael...... 13 Exit Strategy...... 11 Dolinsky, Steve...... 2-3 Feeling Faint...... 36 Evenson, Brian...... 42 Forces of Form in German Farmer, Ashley D...... 17 Modernism, The...... 26 Fischer, Joachim...... 21 Ghost Voices...... 7 Garbarini, Alexandra...... 28 Good Morning, Aztlán...... 44 Gellen, Kata...... 25 Humanities in the Age of Golub, Spencer...... 35 Information and Gutkin, Irina ...... 41 Post-Truth, The...... 14 Holter, Ike...... 11 Kafka and Noise...... 25 Janecek, Gerald...... 22 Lessons and Legacies XIII . . . . . 28 Jaskot, Paul B...... 28 Mapping Warsaw...... 24 Johnston, Chloe...... 10 Merleau-Ponty’s Developmental Kilbourn, Russell J. A...... 27 Ontology ...... 20 Kirkland, Sean D...... 30 New Digital Worlds...... 15 Klonsky, Susan...... 5 New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition...... 17 López-Calvo, Ignacio...... 14 Occupying the Stage...... 19 Lux, Christina...... 14 On Life ...... 13 Madhubuti, Haki...... 4 Philosophy as Agôn...... 31 Maskarinec, Malika...... 26 Pizza City, USA...... 2–3 Medzhibovskaya, Inessa.. . . .13, 23 Political Anthropology...... 21 Metcalf, Robert...... 31 Sacred Ground ...... 5 Morris, David...... 20 Seduction...... 6 Morris, Leslie...... 29 South Side Venus ...... 4 Paz Brownrigg, Coya...... 10 Spiral of Silence ...... 9 Pérez, Louie...... 44 Teaching with Tension...... 16 Pertile, Giulio J...... 36 Theory’s Autoimmunity...... 34 Peucker, Brigitte...... 32 Tolstoy and His Problems . . . . . 42 Plessner, Helmuth...... 21 Translated Jew, The...... 29 Risam, Roopika...... 15 Two Plays of Weimar Germany . . 12 Sánchez-Blake, Elvira...... 9 W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Sanday, Eric...... 30 Redemption ...... 27 Schott, Nils F...... 21 Schultz, Bart...... 5 Senelick, Laurence...... 12 Seyfert, Robert...... 21 Smith, Bryan...... 1 www.nupress.northwestern.edu Fall/Winter 2018–2019 47 ORDER FORM

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