Lesley Stern, Diary of a Detour | José Esteban Muñoz, The Sense of Brown | Jack Halberstam, Wild Things | Maya Stovall, Liquor Store Theatre | Lorraine O’Grady, Writ- ing in Space, 1973–2019 | Arlene Dávila, Latinx Art | Sujatha Fernandes, The Cuban Hustle | Emily J. Lordi, The Meaning of Soul | Maureen Mahon, Black Diamond Queens | Katina L. Rogers, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work | Lori A. Flores and Jocelyn H. Olcott,The Academic’s Handbook, Fourth Edition | R. A. Judy, Sentient Flesh | Kath- erine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories | La Marr Jurelle Bruce, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind | Soy- ica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones Jr., and Shane Vogel, Race and Performance after Repetition | Diana Taylor, ¡Presente! | Catherine Besteman, Militarized Global Apartheid | Leisy J. Abrego and Gene- vieve Negrón-Gonzales, We Are Not Dreamers | Vanessa Díaz ,Manufacturing Ce- lebrity | Ren Ellis Neyra, The Cry of the Senses | Erin Manning, For a Pragmatics of the Useless | Ian Baucom, History 4° Celsius | T. J. Demos, Beyond the World’s End | Ricardo Montez, Keith Haring’s Line | Jillian Hernandez, Aesthetics of Excess | Ba- kirathi Mani, Unseeing Empire | Françoise Vergès, The Wombs of Women | Hagar Kotef, The Colonizing Self | Samantha Pinto, Infamous Bodies | Cait McKinney, Information Activism | David L. Eng and Jasbir K. Puar, Left of Queer | Christopher Chitty, Sexual Hegemony | Joseph Masco, The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making | Noah Tamarkin, Genetic Afterlives | Matthew C. Watson, Afterlives of Affect | Hannah Knox, Thinking Like a Climate | Andrew Bickford, Chemical Heroes | Sarah B. Horton and Josiah Heyman, Paper Trails | Lyle Fearnley, Virulent Zones | Ab- igail A. Dumes, Divided Bodies | Dwaipayan Banerjee, Enduring Cancer | Saiba Varma, The Occupied Clinic | Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, The Globally Familiar | Andrew Alan Johnson, Mekong Dreaming | Christina Schwenkel, Building Socialism | Franck Billé, Voluminous States | Mimi Sheller, Island Futures | Peter Szendy, Narratives of Debt | Roberto M. Dainotto and Fredric Jameson, Gramsci in the World | Mark Driscoll, The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven | Sabu Kohso, Radiation and Revolution | Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Traffic in Asian Women | Alessandro Russo, Cultural Revolution and Revolu- tionary Culture | Lingzhen Wang, Revisiting Women’s Cinema | Jie Li, Utopian Ruins | Prathama Banerjee, Elementary Aspects of the Political | Anustup Basu, Hindutva as Political Monotheism | Bruce B. Lawrence, The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader | Daisuke Miyao, Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema | Charles R. Acland, American Blockbuster | Shane Denson, Discorrelated Images | Chris Ingraham, Gestures of Concern | Delinda Collier, Media Primitivism | Monica Popescu, At Penpoint | Brigitte Fielder, Relative Races | Erica Fretwell, Sensory Experiments | Rosemary-Claire Collard, Animal Traffic | Antoinette Burton and Renisa Mawani, Animalia | Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla, Indigenous Textual Cultures | Brandi Clay Brimmer, Claiming Union Widowhood | Mark Bray, Jessica Namakkal, Giulia Riccò, and Eric Roubinek, Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945 | Laura Doyle, Inter-imperiality | Joseph Pug- liese, Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human | Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt | Anna Watkins Fisher, The Play in the System | Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals | Ama- lia Leguizamón, Seeds of Power | Bret Gustafson, Bolivia in the Age of Gas | Vanessa Freije, Citizens of Scandal | Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López, Pe- ripheral Nerve | Melissa Brough, Youth Power in Precarious Times | Joanne Rappaport, Cowards Don’t Make History | Johana Lon- doño, Abstract Barrios | Allison Caplan and Lisa Sousa, Birds and Feathers in the Ancient and Colo- nial Mesoamerican World | Jona- than Oberlander, The ACA at 10 Duke University Press Fall & Winter 2020 contents 1 Diary of a Detour Stern 31 Building Socialism Schwenkel 2 The Sense of Brown Muñoz 31 Voluminous States Billé 3 Wild Things Halberstam 32 Island Futures Sheller 4 Liquor Store Theatre Stovall 32 Narratives of Debt Szendy 5 Writing in Space, 1973–2019 O’Grady 33 Gramsci in the World Dainotto and Jameson 6 Latinx Art Dávila 33 The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Driscoll 7 The Cuban Hustle Fernandes 34 Radiation and Revolution Kohso 8 The Meaning of Soul Lordi 34 Traffic in Asian Women Kang 9 Black Diamond Queens Mahon 35 Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture Russo 10 Putting the Humanities PhD to Work Rogers 35 Revisiting Women’s Cinema Wang 11 The Academic’s Handbook, Fourth Edition Flores and Olcott 36 Utopian Ruins Li 12 Sentient Flesh Judy 36 Elementary Aspects of the Political Banerjee 13 Dear Science and Other Stories McKittrick 37 Hindutva as Political Monotheism Basu 14 How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind Bruce 37 The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader Lawrence 14 Race and Performance after Repetition Colbert, 38 Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema Miyao Jones, and Vogel 38 American Blockbuster Acland 15 ¡Presente! Taylor 39 Discorrelated Images Denson 16 Militarized Global Apartheid Besteman 39 Gestures of Concern Ingraham 16 We Are Not Dreamers Abrego and Negrón-Gonzales 40 Media Primitivism Collier 17 Manufacturing Celebrity Díaz 40 At Penpoint Popescu 17 The Cry of the Senses Ellis Neyra 41 Relative Races Fielder 18 For a Pragmatics of the Useless Manning 41 Sensory Experiments Fretwell 19 History 4° Celsius Baucom 42 Animal Traffic Collard 20 Beyond the World’s End Demos 42 Animalia Burton and Mawani 20 Keith Haring’s Line Montez 43 Indigenous Textual Cultures Ballantyne, Paterson, 21 Aesthetics of Excess Hernandez and Wanhalla 21 Unseeing Empire Mani 43 Claiming Union Widowhood Brimmer 22 The Wombs of Women Vergès 44 Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945 Bray, Namakkal, 22 The Colonizing Self Kotef Riccò, and Roubinek 23 Infamous Bodies Pinto 44 Inter-imperiality Doyle 23 Information Activism McKinney 45 Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Pugliese 24 Left of Queer Eng and Puar 45 Spacing Debt Harker 24 Sexual Hegemony Chitty 46 The Play in the System Fisher 25 The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes 46 Resource Radicals Riofrancos in Radioactive World-Making Masco 47 Seeds of Power Leguizamón 25 Genetic Afterlives Tamarkin 47 Bolivia in the Age of Gas Gustafson 26 Afterlives of Affect Watson 48 Citizens of Scandal Freije 26 Thinking Like a Climate Knox 48 Peripheral Nerve Birn and López 27 Chemical Heroes Bickford 49 Youth Power in Precarious Times Brough 27 Paper Trails Horton and Heyman 49 Cowards Don’t Make History Rappaport 28 Virulent Zones Fearnley 50 Abstract Barrios Londoño 28 Divided Bodies Dumes 50 Birds and Feathers in the Ancient and Colonial 29 Enduring Cancer Banerjee Mesoamerican World Caplan and Sousa 29 The Occupied Clinic Varma 51 The ACA at 10 Oberlander 30 The Globally Familiar Dattatreyan 52 Journals 30 Mekong Dreaming Johnson 54 Selected Backlist ON THE COVER Lorraine O’Grady, The Faces of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, 1981/2019. Diptych artist sketch, composed of digital images of cropped dukeupress.edu and adjusted performance documents. © 2019 Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. From Writing in Space, b 1973–2019 by Lorraine O’Grady, page 5. memoir | cancer Lesley Stern Diary of a Detour LESLEY STERN “Diary of a Detour is such a great book, excessive like Lesley Stern’s own intense appetite for life that includes her wide knowledge about the intricacies of disease. It’s the most pleasurable cancer book imaginable. I was riveted, the specificity of the writing is a drug. Stern has written a wonderful, stirring, magnificent book. Oh World, you are the love object of this hardworking, self-deprecating extravagant genius.” —EILEEN MYLES, author of Evolution Diary of “Diary of a Detour is wonderful on so many levels. Besides being an extraordinary writer, Lesley Stern is emotionally and intellectually sophisticated in such subtle and deep ways. She outlines the stakes of learning to live and feel in the grip of inescap- able finitude and mortality, together with others of many kinds and species, but also a Detour alone, as irreducibly this vulnerable person and no other. I love this book.”—DONNA J. HARAWAY, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern’s memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily expe- Lesley Stern rience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels—down the street to her meditation center, across the border to September 372 pages, 20 illustrations Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited paper, 978-1-4780-0967-2 $24.95tr/£19.99 with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic cloth, 978-1-4780-0881-1 $104.95/£87.00 reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, Lesley Stern is Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly. the University of WRITING MATTERS! California, San A series edited by Lauren Berlant, Saidiya Hartman, Erica Rand, and Kathleen Stewart Diego, author of Dead and Alive: The Body as Cinematic Thing, The Smoking Book, and The Scorsese Connection, and coeditor of Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance. Announcing a new series Writing Matters! Edited by LAUREN BERLANT, SAIDIYA HARTMAN, ERICA RAND, and KATHLEEN STEWART Writing Matters! seeks to expand the tone, reach, claims, and attitudes of conceptual critical writing. It is grounded in queer, women of color, autotheory, feminist, and fictocritical traditions and poetics that lead with voice, texture, density, rhythm, and atmosphere.