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Souls Against the Concrete, Allah, Khalik ...... 4 contents Ghostnotes, Cross, Brian “B+” ...... 8 Books .for the. .Trade ...... 4–52 The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, Books .for Scholars...... 56–121 Dyer, Geoff ...... 12 Series Announcements ...... 57, 63, 101 Under Surveillance, Lewis, Randolph ...... 16 Dopers in Uniform, Hoberman, John ...... 18 Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, Lomax, John A. . . . . 20 La India Maria, Tropical Travels, 69 95 Country Music U.S.A., Rohrer, Seraina ...... Shaw, Lisa ...... Malone, Bill C...... 22 Comic Book Film Style, The Independent Republic of Arequipa, Love, Thomas . . . 96 Red Hot Mama, Skarloff . . . 25 Jeffries, Dru ...... 70 Promiscuous Power, Cineaste On Film Criticism, Not Your Average Zombie, Nesvig ...... 97 Programming, and Preserva- Kee, Chera ...... 71 tion in the New Millennium, Spectatorship, Kuxlejal Politics, Lucia & Hamid ...... 26 Samer, Roxanne ...... 72 Mora, Mariana ...... 98 Speaker Jim Wright, The New Gay For Pay, From Strangers To Neighbors, Flippen, J. Brooks ...... 28 Himberg, Julia ...... 73 . Alaniz, Ryan ...... 99 Banking on Beauty, Monitoring The Movies, Delirious Consumption, Arenson, Adam ...... 31 Fronc, Jennifer ...... 74 Delgado Moya, Sergio . . . . 100 Depositions, The Comedy Studies Reader, The Senses of Democracy, Masiello, Francine . . . . . 102 Seavitt Nordenson ...... 34 Marx ...... 75 A Library For The Americas, A Thirsty Land, McGraw . . . 38 The Many Cinemas Montelongo ...... 104 Books Are Made Out of Books, of Michael Curtiz, Palmer . . .76 Crews, Michael ...... 40 Wal-Mart in the Global South, Where No Black Woman Munoz ...... 106 Woman Walk The Line, Has Gone Before, 107 Gleason, Holly ...... 42 Mafe, Diana Adesola ...... 78 Life In Oil, Cepek, Michael . . Words of Passage, Dick . . 108 Every Day We Live Is the A Place of Darkness, Future Haynes, Douglas . . . . 44 Phillips ...... 79 They Came to Toil, Garza, Melita ...... 109 The Red Caddy Screening Stephen King, Bowden, Charles ...... 46 Brown, Simon ...... 80 Chicana Movidas, Espinoza ...... 110 Red Line, Evolving Images, Bowden, Charles ...... 48 Glickman, Nora ...... 81 Remex, Carroll, Amy Sara . . 112 Desierto, The Cinema Texas Program The Mexican Mahjar, Pastor De Maria ...... 113 Bowden, Charles ...... 49 Notes, Black, Louis ...... 82 Bad Girls of the Arab World, How To Suppress Women’s Misinformation And Mass Yaqub/Quawas ...... 114 Writing, Russ ...... 50 Audiences, Two Prospectors, Southwell, Brian ...... 84 Believing Women In Islam, Barlas ...... 115 Shepard, Sam / Lettered Artists and the 52 Dark, Johnny ...... Languages Of Empire, Confronting Qur’anic Patriarchy, Nuevo South, Webster, Susan ...... 86 . Guerrero, Perla ...... 56 Barlas/Finn ...... 116 Creating Patzcuaro, Creating Palestinian Cinema in the Street Occupations, Mexico, Acerbi, Patricia ...... 58 Days of Revolution, Jolly, Jennifer ...... 88 Yaqub ...... 117 Framing a Lost City, The Vanishing Frame Cox Hall, Amy ...... 59 The Chora of Metaponto 7, Di Stefano ...... 90 Carter, Joseph Coleman . . . . 118 Power Moves, Shelton, Kyle ...... 60. . Public Pages Demosthenes, Speeches 23–26, Harris, Edward . . . . 119 Recovering Inequality, Schwartz, Marcy ...... 91 Kroll-Smith ...... 61 Substance and Seduction, Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century, Perlman, Paula . . . . 120 Eugenics In The Garden, Sampeck, Kathryn ...... 92 Lopez-Duran, Fabiola . . . . . 62 Andean Cosmopolitans, Homer in Performance, Ready ...... 121 The Design of Protest, De La Puente Luna, Jose . . . . 93 Hatuka ...... 64 Pushing in Silence, Cordova, Making Plans, Isabel ...... 94 Steiner, Frederick ...... 65 Hysterical!, Copyright © 2017 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Mizejewski, Linda ...... 66 Front .and .back .cover .photos: From Ghostnotes by Brian “B+” Cross. Catalog .design by Simon Renwick. books for the trade 2017

Souls Against the Concrete

By Khalik Allah

This volume presents a gallery of raw and beautiful portraits created in Harlem by the acclaimed young photographer Khalik Allah, producer of the award-winning documentary Field Niggas and a cinematographer for Beyoncé’s visual albumLemonade

Khalik .Allah .is .a .New .York–based .photographer .and . filmmaker whose work has been described as “street opera.” His photography has been acclaimed by the New York Times, TIME Light Box, the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Village Voice, the BBC, and the Boston Globe. Since 2012, Allah has been photo- graphing people who frequent the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem. Shooting film at night with only the light pouring from storefront windows, street lights, cars, and flashing ambulances, he captures raw and intimate portraits of “souls against the concrete.” This volume presents 120 portraits that invite viewers to look deeply into the faces of people living amid poverty, drug addiction, and police brutality but also leading everyday lives. Allah seeks to dispel fears, capture human dignity, and bring clarity to a world that outsiders rarely visit.

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University of Texas Press | fall 2017 5 KHALIK ALLAH Long .Island, New. .York Allah is a New York–based filmmaker and photographer. His award-winning documentary film Field Niggas chronicles summer nights on the corner of 125th and Lexington Avenue in the heart of Harlem. Allah’s eye for daring documentary por- traiture takes us into a world in which beauty, bleakness, and raw spirit all intersect. From his early photographs of Wu-Tang Clan to his cinematography for Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade, Allah’s profoundly personal work delves deep into the visual stream of consciousness that is Harlem. release date | october 12 x 7¾ inches, 208 pages, 107 color photos

ISBN 978-1-4773-1314-5 $50.00 hardcover Photographer controls the rights to all photos.

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Ghostnotes Music of the Unplayed

By B+ Introduction by Jeff Chang B+ and the Rhythm of Vision by Greg Tate Terra Space Division by Dave Tompkins

This mid-career retrospective of the world’s preeminent hip-hop/rap photographer offers a unique visual mix tape of hip-hop artists, producers, and record dealers from the West Coast to the global African musical diaspora

Brian . “B+” . Cross . is . one . of . the . most . prominent . hip- hop/rap photographers working today. He has photographed more than one hundred album covers for artists such as DJ Shadow, J Dilla, Q-Tip, Eazy-E, Flying Lotus, Mos Def, David Axelrod, Madlib, Dilated Peoples, Damian Marley, and Compa- ny Flow. B+ was the director of photography for the Academy Award–nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, and he has made music videos for DJ Shadow, Moses Sumney, Thundercat, Quantic, Ondatropica, and Kamasi Washington. His photos have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and the Wire.

Clockwise .from .top .left: Q-Tip, New York, 1999; Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 2009; Axelrod home, North Hollywood, CA, 1999; David Axelrod, North Hollywood, CA, 1999.

Ghostnotes presents a mid-career retrospective of B+’s pho - tography of hip-hop music and its sources. Taking its name from the unplayed sounds that exist between beats in a rhythm, the book creates a visual music, putting photos next to each other to evoke unseen images in the spaces between them. Like a DJ seamlessly overlapping and entangling disparate musics, B+ brings together LA Black Arts poetry and Jamaican dub, Bra- zilian samba and Ethiopian jazz, Cuban timba and Colombian cumbia. He links vendors of rare vinyl with iconic studio wiz- ards ranging from J Dilla and Brian Wilson to Leon Ware and George Clinton, from David Axelrod to Shuggie Otis, Bill With- ers to Ras Kass, Biggie Smalls to Timmy Thomas, DJ Shadow to Eugene McDaniels, DJ Quik to Madlib. In this unique photographic mix tape, an extraordinary web of associations becomes apparent, revealing unseen connections between people, cultures, and their creations.

release date | october 7 x 7 inches, 336 pages, 200 color photos

ISBN 978-1-4773-1390-9 $45.00 hardcover Only reprint, translation and periodical rights

10 University of texas Press | [email protected] “B+’s pictures suggest bodies moving in common time across vast stretches of history and geography, ecstatic gath- erings in soon to be forgotten, perhaps soon to be gentrified places, pulsing and throbbing endlessly, at once in de- fiance and in dismissal of the matrix of power that, engulfing all records of freedom, of connection, of possibility, is connected by and through the ghost

notes that appear.” —Jeff Chang from the introduction

B+ Los .Angeles, .California Brian “B+” Cross is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego and cofounder of Mochilla Production Company, whose output includes feature-length music documen- taries, music videos, advertising, music, and photography. A former editor of the music magazine Wax Poetics from 2004 to 2010, he has worked in hip-hop culture as a photographer and filmmaker for over twenty years. B+’s 1993 book on the LA hip-hop scene, It’s Not About a Salary, was on “best book of the year” lists for Rolling Stone and NME magazines, and Vibe named it one of the top ten hip-hop books of all time.

Clockwise .from .top .left: Art Laboe, Original Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA, 2010; George Miller, Los Angeles, CA, 2010; Record dealer, Richmond, VA, 2001; Record dealer, Detroit, MI, 2001.

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 11 2018 | photography | Collections and Criticism

In the tradition of John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, award-winning author Geoff Dyer writes one hundred essays about one hundred photographs, including previously unpublished color work, by renowned street photographer Garry Winogrand

The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand

By Geoff Dyer

Garry .Winogrand—along .with .Diane .Arbus .and .Lee . Friedlander—was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world’s foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has GEOFF DYER Los .Angeles, .California admired Winogrand’s work for many years. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, The Street Philosophy of Garry Dyer’s many books include The Ongoing Moment (winner of the Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred International Center of Photogra- photographs from the Winogrand phy’s prestigious Infinity Award archive at the Center for Creative for Writing/Criticism), But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Photography, with each image ac- Maugham Prize), Out of Sheer companied by an original essay. Rage (shortlisted for a National Dyer takes the viewer/read- Book Critics Circle Award), and the essay collection Otherwise er on a wildly original journey Known as the Human Condi- through both iconic and unseen tion (winner of a National Book images from the archive, including Critics Circle Award). His latest book is White Sands: Experiences eighteen previously unpublished from the Outside World. Dyer color photographs. The book en- is currently writer-in-residence compasses most of Winogrand’s at the University of Southern California. themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronolog- release date | march ical and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to 10 x 12 inches, 240 pages, 22 color and 90 b&w photos the photographs are unorthodox, eye-opening, and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer, ISBN 978-1-4773-1033-5 $60.00 images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrand’s hardcover photography—an education in seeing.

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University of Texas Press | spring 2018 13 “Dyer has cracked open a window on Winogrand that’s always been there but never been opened.” —Jeffrey Fraenkel Praise for Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

The Street “Geoff Dyer is so open to every aspect of art that when he turns his eyes and heart to the photography of Garry Winogrand we Philosophy of get the full benefit of his education, his insight, and the trans- parency of his prose, and we cherish the fact that his voice lives in our head for a moment to intensify and elucidate—but never Garry Winogrand explain—why these images mean so much.” —Matthew Weiner creator of Mad Men

“I can’t think of any other book “Geoff Dyer has created “This handsome collection quite like this one: an entirely a kind of Rosetta Stone, amounts to an exten- new, and quite unfamiliar, the key to deciphering sive tour of Winogrand’s take on Winogrand and a Winogrand . . . how photographs conducted welcome addition to the work Winogrand becomes by a savvy, observant, and on this iconic photographer. Winogrand. This book is highly entertaining guide. I found the book to be a a revelatory pleasure from No longer still, Winogrand’s terrifically good read, as well beginning to end, a lesson in images are animated here as a refreshing and innovative the pleasure of seeing. It is by the turns and jumps of take on an artist whose work I a smart book, but it’s a wise Geoff Dyer’s lively commen- thought I knew well.” book, too.” —Alex Harris tary.” —Billy Collins —Corey Keller Duke University, former Poet Laureate of curator of photography, San coeditor of Arrivals and the United States Francisco Museum of Modern Art Departures: The Airport Photographs of Garry Winogrand University of Texas Press | spring 2018 15 2017 | american studies |

Tackling one of today’s most timely issues from a broad, humanistic perspective, this book explores the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living under constant surveillance in post-9/11 American society

Under Surveillance Being Watched in Modern America

By Randolph Lewis

Never .before .has .so .much .been .known .about .so .many . . CCTV cameras, TSA scanners, NSA databases, big data mar- keters, predator drones, “stop and frisk” tactics, Facebook al- gorithms, hidden spyware, and even old-fashioned nosy neighbors—surveillance has become so ubiquitous that we take its presence for granted. While many types of surveillance are pitched as ways to make us safer, almost no one has examined the unintended consequences of living under constant scrutiny and how it changes the way we think and feel about the world. In Under Surveillance, Randolph Lewis offers a highly original look at the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living with surveillance in America since 9/11. Taking a broad and humanistic approach, Lewis explores the growth of surveillance in surprising places, such as childhood and nature. He traces the rise of businesses designed to provide surveillance and security, including one that caters to the Bi- RANDOLPH LEWIS ble Belt’s houses of worship. And he peers into the dark side of Austin, .Texas playful surveillance, such as eBay’s online guide to “Fun with Lewis is a professor of Ameri- Surveillance Gadgets.” A worried but ultimately genial guide to can studies at the University of this landscape, Lewis helps us see the hidden costs of living in Texas at Austin. He has written a “control society” in which surveillance is deemed essential to extensively on how visual culture shapes our sense of the nation, of- governance and business alike. Written accessibly for a general ten focusing on people who work audience, Under Surveillance prompts us to think deeply about outside the cultural mainstream. what Lewis calls “the soft tissue damage” inflicted by the culture His previous books include Na- vajo Talking Picture: Cinema on of surveillance. Native Ground.

16 University of texas Press | [email protected] From the book Also of This is not a book about Edward interest Snowden’s revelations, nor the inner workings of the NSA, FBI, or Google, nor the constant peer scrutiny that drives our online lives on Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and similar apps. Instead, I’m Conspiracy Theory in America chasing something far more slip- By Lance deHaven-Smith ISBN .978-0-292-75769-1 pery but no less consequential: the $17.95 paperback ISBN .978-0-292-74910-8 ethical, aesthetic, and emotional $17.95 e-book undercurrents that course through a high-tech surveillance society. What are the implications of living with these rapidly proliferating surveillance technologies and practices? What are the hidden costs of living in a society in which surveillance is deemed essential to gov-

release date | november ernance, business, and ordinary 6 x 9 inches, 276 pages social life? What are the emotional ISBN 978-1-4773-1243-8 $27.95 burdens and benefits of living in a hardcover ISBN 978-1-4773-1381-7 $27.95 surveillance-obsessed culture? e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 17 2017 | american studies | Sociology

Breaking down the “Blue Wall of Silence,” this landmark book investigates the widespread, illegal use of anabolic steroids in major urban police departments and how it contributes to excessive violence in American policing

Dopers in Uniform The Hidden World of Police on Steroids

By John Hoberman

The . recorded . use . of . deadly . force . against . unarmed . suspects and sustained protest from the Black Lives Matter movement, among others, have ignited a national debate about excessive violence in American policing. Missing from the debate, however, is any discussion of a factor that is almost certain- ly contributing to the violence—the use of anabolic steroids by police officers. Mounting evidence from a wide range of credible sources suggests that many cops are abusing testosterone and its synthetic derivatives. This drug use is illegal and encourages a JOHN HOBERMAN “steroidal” policing style based on aggressive behaviors and hulk- Austin, .Texas ing physiques that diminishes public trust in law enforcement. Hoberman is a social and medical Dopers in Uniform offers the first assessment of the dimensions historian at the University of and consequences of the felony use of anabolic steroids in major Texas at Austin. His books include urban police departments. Marshalling an array of evidence, John Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvena- tion, Aphrodisia, Doping. Hoberman refutes the frequent claim that police steroid use is limited to a few “bad apples,” explains how the “Blue Wall of Silence” Terry .and .Jan .Todd . . stymies the collection of data, and introduces readers to the broad- Series .on .Physical . . Culture and. .Sports er marketplace for androgenic drugs. He then turns his attention to the people and organizations at the heart of police culture: the release date | november police chiefs who often see scandals involving steroid use as a dis- 6 x 9 inches, 372 pages traction from dealing with more dramatic forms of misconduct ISBN 978-0-292-75948-0 and the police unions that fight against steroid testing by claim- $29.95 hardcover ing an officer’s “right to privacy” is of greater importance. Hober- man’s findings clearly demonstrate the crucial need to analyze and ISBN 978-1-4773-1398-5 $29.95 expose the police steroid culture for the purpose of formulating a e-book public policy to deal with its dysfunctional effects.

18 University of texas Press | [email protected] From the book Major urban police departments in the United States are out of control in two ways. The more notorious form of lawlessness is the use of unjustified deadly violence against suspects or bystanders, which is tolerated by police commanders and almost never results in disciplinary action. The second, virtually unpublicized form of lawlessness is felony anabolic steroid use, which is tolerated by police commanders and almost never prosecut- ed. Cops on steroids, like the great majority of hyperviolent cops, are above the law. American law enforcement has accepted police steroid culture as a fact of life that it will not oppose in any effective way. . . . The result is a hidden police steroid culture that will inevitably contribute to “excessive violence” incidents and unjustified police killings of citizens.

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 19 2017 | american studies | Music, Autobiography

Now back in print with a new foreword and photographs, this is the classic 1947 autobiography by pioneering folklorist John A. Lomax, who recorded and preserved thousands of American folk ballads for posterity

Dolph .Briscoe .Center for. .American .History Adventures of a Ballad Hunter

By John A. Lomax Foreword by John Lomax III, John Nova Lomax, and Anna Lomax Wood

JOHN A. LOMAX Growing .up .beside .the .Chisholm .Trail, .captivated .by . the songs of passing cowboys and his bosom friend, an Afri- Lomax (1867–1948) recorded classics such as “Home on the can American farmhand, John A. Lomax developed a passion Range” and “Goodnight Irene” for American folk songs that ultimately made him one of the and with son Alan helped launch foremost authorities on this fundamental aspect of Americana. the musical careers of Leadbelly and Pete Seeger. His extensive Across many decades and throughout the country, Lomax and recordings and papers are housed his informants created over five thousand recordings of Ameri- in the Library of Congress and the ca’s musical heritage, including ballads, blues, children’s songs, Dolph Briscoe Center for Ameri- can History at the University of fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious Texas at Austin. dramas, spirituals, and work songs. He acted as honorary curator of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, Focus .on .American . . History .Series directed the Slave Narrative Project of the WPA, and cofounded The Dolph Briscoe Center for the Texas Folklore Society. Lomax’s books include Cowboy Songs American History and Other Frontier Ballads, American Ballads and Folk Songs, University of Texas at Austin Don Carleton, Editor Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Leadbelly, and Our Singing Coun- try, the last three coauthored with his son Alan Lomax. release date | september Adventures of a Ballad Hunter is a memoir of Lomax’s event- 6 x 9 inches, 292 pages, 24 b&w ful life. It recalls his early years and the fruitful decades he spent photos on the road collecting folk songs, on his own and later with son ISBN 978-1-4773-1371-8 Alan and second wife Ruby Terrill Lomax. Vibrant, amusing, $18.95 paperback often haunting stories of the people he met and recorded are the gems of this book, which also gives lyrics for dozens of songs. ISBN 978-1-4773-1373-2 $18.95 Adventures of a Ballad Hunter illuminates vital traditions in e-book American popular culture and the labor that has gone into their English language rights only preservation.

20 University of texas Press | [email protected] | american studies | Music, Autobiography “At long last, John Lomax’s account of his efforts to elevate folk songs to the realm of high literature is back in print. It’s a story of one man’s struggle to get singers to sing for him, scholars to pay attention, and for all Americans to hear their own history unfold before them in song. A true

American odyssey.” —John Szwed author of Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World

“If anybody ever did, John Lomax really

heard America singing.” — New York Times

Left: Stavin’ Chain singing “Batson,” Lafayette, LA; right: Lolo Mendoza and Chico Real, Kingsville, TX.

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 21 2018 55,000 copies sold

“Fifty years after its ﬁrst publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as an indispensable guide in making our PBS documentary; you should, too.” KEN BURNS & DAYTON DUNCAN, Country Music: An American Family Story

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION COUNTRY MUSIC USA Bill C. Malone & Tracey E. W. Laird

Country Music USA 50th Anniversary Edition

By Bill C. Malone and Tracey Laird

The .essential .companion .to .the .2019 .Ken .Burns .documentary . on country music in which Bill Malone appears as a featured historian, this fiftieth-anniversary edition ofCountry Music USA traces the music from the early days of radio into the new millennium. Malone has revised every chapter to offer new information and fresh insights. Coauthor Tracey Laird tracks developments in country music in the new millennium, exploring the relationship between the current music scene and the traditions from which it emerged.

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“Fifty years after its first publication,Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as an indispensable guide in making our PBS

documentary; you should, too.” —Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, Country Music: An American Family Story

“Considered the definitive history BILL C. MALONE Madison, .Wisconsin of American country music.” On the fortieth anniversary of — Los Angeles Times the publication of Country Music USA in 2008, Malone received a Lifetime Achievement Award “If anyone knows more about from the Society for American Music. His other books include Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’: the subject than [Malone] does, Country Music and the Southern Working Class, Southern Music/ God help them.” —Larry McMurtry American Music, and Sing Me from In a Narrow Grave Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Music.

“With Country Music USA, Bill Malone TRACEY LAIRD wrote the Bible for country music histo- Atlanta, .Georgia Laird is the author or editor of four ry and scholarship. This groundbreaking books, including Louisiana Hay- ride: Radio and Roots Music Along work, now updated, is the definitive chron- the Red River, Austin City Limits: A History and Austin City Limits: A icle of the sweeping drama of the country Monument to the Music, the latter coauthored with Brandon W. Laird. music experience.” —Chet Flippo She is a professor of music at Agnes former editorial director, CMT: Scott College. Country Mu sic Television and CMT.com release date | june “Country Music USA is the definitive history of coun- 6 x 9 inches, 000 pages, 63 b&w photos try music and of the artists who shaped its fascinat- ISBN 978-1-4773-1535-4 ing worlds. Malone shows the reader why country $27.95 music touches the hearts of its music fans throughout paperback ISBN 978-1-4773-1534-7 the world and is truly a national treasure.” $45.00 —William Ferris, hardcover University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former chairman of the National Endowment for ISBN 978-1-4773-1537-8 the Humanities and coeditor of the Encyclopedia $27.95 of Southern Culture e-book

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This entertaining biography of the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” reveals how Sophie Tucker became one of the most powerful women in show business, blazing a trail for performers such as Judy Garland, Carol Channing, and Bette Midler

Red Hot Mama The Life of Sophie Tucker

By Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

The . “First . Lady . of . Show . Business” . and . the . “Last . of . the Red Hot Mamas,” Sophie Tucker was a star in vaudeville, radio, film, and television. A gutsy, song-belting stage performer, she entertained audiences for sixty years and inspired a host of younger women, including Judy Garland, Carol Channing, and Bette Midler. Tucker was a woman who defied traditional expec- LAUREN REBECCA tations and achieved success on her own terms, becoming the SKLAROFF first female president of the American Federation of Actors and Columbia, .South .Carolina winning many other honors usually bestowed on men. Dedicat- A leading scholar of American ed to social justice, she advocated for African Americans in the cultural history, Sklaroff is an associate professor of history at entertainment industry and cultivated friendships with leading the University of South Carolina. black activists and performers. Tucker was also one of the most She is the author of Black Culture generous philanthropists in show business, raising over four mil- and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt lion dollars for the religious and racial causes she held dear. Era and the recipient of an NEH Drawing from the hundreds of scrapbooks Tucker compiled, public scholars fellowship. Red Hot Mama presents a compelling biography of this larger- than-life performer. Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff tells an engrossing release date | april story of how a daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants set her 6 x 9 inches, 300 pages, 25 b&w photos sights on becoming one of the most formidable women in show business and achieved her version of the American dream. More ISBN 978-1-4773-1236-0 $27.95 than most of her contemporaries, Tucker understood how to keep hardcover her act fresh, to change branding when audiences grew tired and, ISBN 978-1-4773-1634-4 . most importantly, how to connect with her fans, the press, and en- $27.95 tertainment moguls. Both deservedly famous and unjustly forgot- e-book ten today, Tucker stands out as an exemplar of the immigrant expe- All rights except film and rience and a trailblazer for women in the entertainment industry. periodical rights

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 25 2017 | film, media, and popular culture | Industry & Production

Collecting some of the most frequently request- ed articles from one of the most influential publications on film, this volume explores the paradoxical ways that digital technology and the Internet have transformed film criticism, programming, and preservation

Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming, and Preservation in the New Millennium

Edited by Cynthia Lucia and Rahul Hamid

Digital . technology . and . the . Internet . have . revolu- tionized film criticism, programming, and preservation in deeply paradoxical ways. The Internet allows almost everyone CYNTHIA LUCIA New .York, New. .York to participate in critical discourse, but many print publications and salaried positions for professional film critics have been Lucia has served on Cineaste’s editorial board for more than eliminated. Digital technologies have broadened access to film- two decades. making capabilities, as well as making thousands of older films available on DVD and electronically. At the same time, however, RAHUL HAMID fewer older films can be viewed in their original celluloid for- New .York, New. .York mat, and newer, digitally produced films that have no “material” Hamid has been an editor at Cineaste for ten years. prototype are threatened by ever-changing servers that render them obsolete and inaccessible. release date | november Cineaste, one of the oldest and most influential publications 6 x 9 inches, 352 pages, 20 b&w focusing on film, has investigated these trends through a series photos of symposia with the top film critics, programmers, and preser- ISBN 978-1-4773-1341-1 vationists in the United States and beyond. This volume com- $29.95* paperback piles several of these symposia. It also includes interviews with the late, celebrated New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael and the ISBN 978-1-4773-1340-4 $90.00* critic John Bloom (“Joe Bob Briggs”), as well as interviews with hardcover the programmers/curators Peter von Bagh and Mark Cousins

ISBN 978-1-4773-1343-5 and with the film preservationist George Feltenstein. $29.95* e-book

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Editors’ Introduction. The Philippines: Noel Vera Part II. The Art of Reper- Cynthia Lucia and Russia: Lev Karakhan tory Film Exhibition and Rahul Hamid South Africa: Leon van Digital-Age Challenges Nierop Part I. Film Criticism in Thailand: Kong Rithdee Repertory .Film .Programming: . the New Millennium Tunisia: Tahar Chikhaoui A .Critical .Symposium .(2010) United Kingdom: Jonathan John Ewing Film Criticism. .in .America .Today: . Romney John Gianvito A .Critical Symposium. .(2000) Uruguay: Jorge Jellinek Bruce Goldstein David Ansen Haden Guest Jay Carr Film .Criticism .in .the .Age . . Jim Healy Godfrey Cheshire of .the .Internet: .A .Critical . Kent Jones Mike Clark Symposium .(2008) Laurence Kardish Manohla Dargis Zach Campbell Marie Losier David Denby Robert Cashill Richard Peña Morris Dickstein Mike D’Angelo James Quandt Roger Ebert Steve Erickson David Schwartz David Edelstein Andrew Grant Adam Sekuler Graham Fuller J. Hoberman Dylan Skolnick J. Hoberman Kent Jones Tom Vick Stanley Kauffmann Glenn Kenny Stuart Klawans Robert Koehler Utopian .Festivals .and . Todd McCarthy Kevin B. Lee Cinephilic .Dreams: .An . Peter Rainer Karina Longworth Interview .with .Peter .von . Jonathan Rosenbaum Adrian Martin Bagh .by .Richard .Porton .(2012) Andrew Sarris Adam Nayman Richard Schickel Theodoros Panayides The .(Cinematic) .Gospel . Lisa Schwarzbaum Jonathan Rosenbaum According .to .Mark: .An . John Simon Dan Sallitt Interview .with .Mark .Cousins . David Sterritt Richard Schickel by .Declan .McGrath .(2013) Peter Travers Campaspe Kenneth Turan Girish Shambu Part Iii. Film Preservation Armond White Michael Sicinski in the Digital Age Amy Taubin International .Film .Criticism . Andrew Tracy Film .Preservation: .A .Critical . Today: .A .Critical .Symposium . Stephanie Zacharek Symposium .(2011) (2005) Schawn Belston Argentina: Quintin Film .Criticism: . .The .Next . Margaret Bodde (Eduardo Antin) Generation .(2013) Paolo Cherchi Usai Australia: Adrian Martin Ben Kenigsberg Grover Crisp Austria: Christoph Huber Gabe Klinger Dennis Doros and Amy Heller Brazil: Pedro Butcher Michael Koresky Jan-Christopher Horak China: Li Hongyu Kiva Reardon Annette Melville France: Michel Ciment Andrew Tracy Michael Pogorzelski France: Jean-Michel Frodon Katie Trainor Germany: Olaf Möller “I Still Love Going to the Mov- Daniel Wagner Greece: Angelike Contis ies”: An Interview with Pauline Hong Kong: Li Cheuk-to Kael by Leonard Quart (2000) 11 . MOD .Man: .An .Interview . India: Meenaakshi Shedde with .George .Feltenstein .by . Italy: Tullio Kezich Cult Films, Commentary Tracks, Robert .Cashill .(2011) Italy: Roberto Silvestri and Censorious Critics: An Japan: Tadao Sato Interview with John Bloom by Mexico: Leonardo Gary Crowdus (2003) García Tsao

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 27 2018 | history | United States, Texas, Biography, Politics Speaker Jim Wright Drawing on the author’s unprecedented access power, scandal, to Jim Wright before his death, this biography and the birth of modern politics reveals how the former US House majority

j. brooks leader and speaker shaped the political culture flippen of Congress that endures today, some three decades after his fall from power

Speaker Jim Wright Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics

By J. Brooks Flippen

Jim .Wright .made .his .mark .on .virtually .every .major . public policy issue in the later twentieth century—energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations, among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central America and in the Camp David Accords, and he was the first American politician to speak live on Soviet television. A Democrat repre- J. BROOKS FLIPPEN senting Texas’s twelfth district (Fort Worth), Wright served in Durant, .Oklahoma the US House of Representatives from the Eisenhower adminis- Flippen is a professor of history tration to the presidency of George H. W. Bush, including twelve at Southeastern Oklahoma State years (1977–1989) as majority leader and speaker. His long con- University. His previous books gressional ascension and sudden fall in a highly partisan ethics are Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the scandal spearheaded by Newt Gingrich mirrored the evolution Religious Right, Conservative of Congress as an institution. Conservationist: Russell E. Train Speaker Jim Wright traces the congressman’s long life and ca - and the Emergence of American Environmentalism, and Nixon reer in a highly readable narrative grounded in extensive interviews and the Environment. with Wright and access to his personal diaries. A skilled connector who bridged the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic release date | april party while forging alliances with Republicans to pass legislation, 6 x 9 inches, 510 pages, 34 b&w photos Wright ultimately fell victim to a new era of political infighting, as well as to his own hubris and mistakes. J. Brooks Flippen shows ISBN 978-1-4773-1514-9 $35.00 how Wright’s career shaped the political culture of Congress, from hardcover its internal rules and power structure to its growing partisanship, even as those new dynamics eventually contributed to his political ISBN 978-1-4773-1632-0 $35.00 demise. To understand Jim Wright in all his complexity is to un- e-book derstand the story of modern American politics.

28 University of texas Press | [email protected] Speaker Jim Wright Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics

By J. Brooks Flippen 30 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | history | Architecture, American Studies

Banking on Beauty Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California

By Adam Arenson

Expansively researched and illustrated, this lively history recounts how the extraordinary partnership of financier Howard Ahmanson and artist Millard Sheets produced outstanding mid-century modern architecture and art for Home Savings and Loan

“I . want . buildings . that . will . be . exciting . seventy- . five years from now,” financier Howard Ahmanson told visual artist Millard Sheets, offering him complete control of design, subject, decoration, and budget for his Home Savings and Loan branch offices. The partnership between Home Savings—for decades, the nation’s largest savings and loan—and the Millard Sheets Studio produced more than 160 buildings in California, Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri over the course of a quarter century. Adorned with murals, mosaics, stained glass, and sculptures, the Home Savings (and Savings of America) branches displayed a celebratory vision of community history and community values that garnered widespread acclaim.

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 31 ADAM ARENSON Banking on Beauty presents the first history of this remark- New .York, New. .York able building program. Drawing extensively on archival materi- Arenson is an associate professor als, site visits, and oral history interviews, Adam Arenson tells of history and director of the urban a fascinating story of how the architecture and art were creat- studies program at Manhattan Col- lege. He has written or coedited three ed, the politics of where the branches were built, and why the previous books on the history of the Sheets Studio switched from portraying universal family scenes American West and the politics and to celebrating local history amid the dramatic cultural and po- culture of US cities, including the award-winning The Great Heart litical changes of the 1960s. Combining urban history, business of the Republic: St. Louis and the history, and art and architectural history, Banking on Beauty Cultural Civil War. reveals how these institutions shaped the corporate and cultural

32 University of texas Press | [email protected] landscapes of Southern California, where many of the branches were located. Richly illustrated and beautifully written, Bank- ing on Beauty builds a convincing case for preserving these outstanding examples of Midcentury Modern architecture, which release date | february 8 x 10 inches, 368 pages, 329 currently face an uncertain future. color and 4 b&w photos

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University of Texas Press | spring 2018 33 2018 | architecture | Latin America

Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx’s “depositions,” this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country’s military dictatorship

Depositions Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship

By Catherine Seavitt Nordenson

Roberto . Burle . Marx . (1909–1994) . is . internationally . known as one of the preeminent modernist landscape architects. He designed renowned public landscapes in Brazil, beginning with small plazas in Recife in the 1930s and culminating with large public parks in the early 1960s, most significantly the Parque do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. Depositions explores a pivotal moment in Burle Marx’s career—the years in which he served as a member of the Federal Cultural Council created by the military dictatorship in the mid-1960s. Despite the inherent conflict and risk in working with the military regime, Burle CATHERINE SEAVITT NORDENSON Marx boldly used his position to advocate for the protection of New .York, New. .York the unique Brazilian landscape, becoming a prophetic voice of caution against the regime’s policies of rapid development and A registered architect and landscape architect, Seavitt Nor- resource exploitation. denson is an associate professor Depositions presents the first English translation of eigh - at the City College of New York. teen environmental position pieces that Burle Marx wrote for She coauthored On the Water: Palisade Bay and coedited Water- the journal Cultura, a publication of the Brazilian Ministry of proofing New York. Education and Culture, from 1967 through 1973. Catherine Seavitt Nordenson introduces and contextualizes the deposi- release date | april tions by analyzing their historical and political contexts, as 7 x 10 inches, 294 pages, 161 b&w photos, 20 maps well as by presenting pertinent examples of Burle Marx’s earlier public projects, which enables a comprehensive reading of the ISBN 978-1-4773-1573-6 $45.00* texts. Addressing deforestation, the establishment of national hardcover parks, the place of commemorative sculpture, and the unique

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history of the Brazilian cultural landscape, Depo- sitions offers new insight into Burle Marx’s out - standing landscape oeuvre and elucidates his transition from prolific designer to prescient counselor.

“Burle Marx created a new and modern grammar for international landscape design .” —Lauro Cavalcanti, quoted in the New York Times

36 University of texas Press | [email protected] “The real creator of the modern garden .”

—American Institute of Architects

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 37 2018 | history | Environmental History

Joining the debates begun by Cadillac Desert and Water Is For Fighting Over, A Thirsty Land ranges from epic struggles over water usage in the face of climate change and population growth to innovative technologies for increasing the supply

The Making of an American Water Crisis SEAMUS McGRAW A Thirsty Land The Making of an American Water Crisis

By Seamus McGraw

“America’s .Future .Is .Texas,” .a .recent .New Yorker .article by Lawrence Wright proclaimed. As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more fu- rious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Tex- as has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there be enough water for everyone? Is there the will to take the steps necessary to defend ourselves against the sea? Is it in the nature SEAMUS MCGRAW of Americans to adapt to nature in flux? Northeastern .Pennsylvania The most comprehensive—and comprehensible—book on McGraw is the author of contemporary water issues, A Thirsty Land delves deep into the The End of Country: Dispatches challenges faced not just by Texas but by the nation as a whole, from the Frack Zone and Betting as we struggle to find a way to balance the changing forces of -na the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate ture with our own ever-expanding needs. Part history, part sci- Change. His award-winning ence, part adventure story, and part travelogue, this book puts writing has also appeared in a human face on the struggle to master that most precious and the New York Times, Huffington Post, Playboy, Popular Mechan- capricious of resources, water. Seamus McGraw goes to the tap- ics, and Reader’s Digest. roots, talking to farmers, ranchers, businesspeople, and citizen activists, as well as to politicians and government employees. release date | may 6 x 9 inches, 252 pages Their stories provide chilling evidence that Texas—and indeed the nation—is not ready for the next devastating drought, the ISBN 978-1-4773-1031-1 $27.95 next catastrophic flood. Ultimately, however, A Thirsty Land hardcover delivers hope. This deep dive into one of the most vexing chal-

ISBN lenges facing Texas and the nation offers glimpses of the way $27.95 forward in the untapped opportunities that water also presents. e-book All rights except periodical rights

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This is a book about water. And Texas. But it’s more than that. If Texas is unique—and it is—that is not because the challenges it faces are necessarily peculiar to Texas. What makes Texas unique is the fact that virtually all the maddeningly complicated Also by Seamus elements in an increasingly complex and unstable world can be found there, from McGraw its parched deserts and its over-bur- dened rivers, to the high plains in danger of running out of groundwater, to its storm-prone coastal lowlands. Those challenges seem clearer in Texas, perhaps, because it is a place of Betting the Farm extremes, a place where it’s often hard on a Drought Stories from the Front to ignore the whims of nature. And the Lines of Climate Change lessons that can be learned from that go ISBN .978-0-292-75661-8 $24.95 way beyond Texas as well. Texans have hardcover ISBN .978-1-4773-0383-2 always struggled to rise to that challenge, $24.95 sometimes succeeding, often failing, but e-book usually doing it first, while the rest of the nation takes notes. . . . And so, this book is about much more than water, and much more than Texas. It’s about dwindling resources and the battle over them in a world that is growing by leaps and bounds. But mostly, this is a book about us.

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 39 2017 | literature | Essays and Criticism

This groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy’s literary archive draws on his own extensive notes to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers whose work has influenced this Pulitzer Prize–winning author

Books Are Made Out of Books A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences

By Michael Lynn Crews

Cormac . McCarthy . told . an . interviewer . for . the . New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy is well aware of literary tradition, respectful of the canon, and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University acquired McCarthy’s literary archive in 2007. In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy’s published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men, and McCarthy’s correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy’s papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This MICHAEL LYNN CREWS groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy’s literary influences— Virginia .Beach, .Virginia impossible to undertake before the opening of the archive—vastly Crews is an assistant professor expands our understanding of how one of America’s foremost of English at Regent University. authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and lan- He specializes in American and contemporary literature. guage of other thinkers and made them his own.

40 University of texas Press | [email protected] Also of interest “This compendium of Cormac McCarthy’s sources is remarkably complete. Any student

of one of the great living Notes on Blood Meridian Revised and Expanded Edition by john sepich American novelists Foreword .by .Edwin .T . .Arnold

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Southwestern .Writers . for the masterpiece Collection .Series The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University Blood Meridian.” Steven L. Davis, Editor

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University of Texas Press | fall 2017 41 2017 | music |

In this collection of personal essays, a diverse group of women music writers pay tribute to the female country artists who have inspired them, including Brenda Lee, June Carter Cash, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Lucin- da Williams, and Taylor Swift

Woman Walk the Line How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives

Edited by Holly Gleason

Full-tilt, . hardcore, . down-home, . and . groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift— these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for HOLLY GLEASON women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Nashville, .Tennessee Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Gleason is a music critic, Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious super- academic, and artist develop- star, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. ment consultant. Her work has Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers appeared in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, the New York on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Times, HITS, Musician, CREEM, Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the Oxford American, No Depres- the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Week- sion, and Paste. ly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem American .Music .Series “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s David Menconi, Editor unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris of- release date | september 5∏ x 8∏ inches, 236 pages fers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. ISBN 978-1-4773-1391-6 $24.95 Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of coun- hardcover try, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them,

ISBN 978-1-4773-1490-6 . Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from $24.95 some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the e-book ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various All rights except periodical rights states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music trans- forms not just the person making it, but also the listener.

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“These personal Maybelle .Carter by Caryn Rose stories—from Lil .Hardin by Alice Randall women, about Wanda .Jackson by Holly George-Warren Hazel Dickens. by Ronni Lundy women and June .Carter .Cash by Rosanne Cash the way music Brenda .Lee by Taylor Swift impacts lives— Bobbie .Gentry by Meredith Ochs are entertaining, Loretta .Lynn by Madison Vain thought-provoking, Dolly Parton. by Nancy Harrison and, most of all, Emmylou .Harris by Ali Berlow Barbara .Mandrell by Shelby Morrison memorable.” —Reba McEntire Tanya .Tucker by Holly Gleason Rita Coolidge. by Kandia Crazy Horse “Woman Walk the Linda .Ronstadt by Grace Potter Line is tender, tough, Rosanne .Cash by Deborah Sprague raw, informative, The .Judds by Courtney E. Smith and emotionally k .d . .Lang by Kelly McCartney Lucinda .Williams . . intelligent, carefully by Lady Goodman framing twenty-sev- Mary .Chapin .Carpenter by Cynthia Sanz en of country music’s Patty .Loveless by Wendy Pearl most evocative and Shania Twain. by Emily Yahr enduring artists. It Alison .Krauss by Aubrie Sellers delivers truth and Terri .Clark beauty on every page. by Amy Elizabeth McCarthy Taylor .Swift by Elysa Gardner I bow in earnest.” —Rodney Crowell Kacey .Musgraves author of Chinaberry Sidewalks by Dacey Orr Rhiannon .Giddens by Caroline Randall Williams Patty .Griffin by Kim Ruehl

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 43 2017 | latin american studies | Politics and Economics

Surviving in a City of Disasters Reminiscent of Katherine Boo’s bestseller, E V E R Y D A Y Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this vivid, W E cautionary tale of urban inequality and the LIVE I S human suffering caused by climate change T H E recounts the true stories of two Nicaraguan FUTURE families’ quests to survive in one of the world’s most disaster-prone cities DOUGLAS HAYNES

Every Day We Live Is the Future Surviving in a City of Disasters

By Douglas Haynes

When .she .was .only .nine, .Dayani .Baldelomar .left .her . Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Mana- gua in the 1980s and 1990s. After years of homelessness, Dayani landed in a shantytown called The Widows, squeezed between a drainage ditch and putrid Lake Managua. Her neighbor, Yadira Castellón, also migrated from the mountains. Driven by hope for a better future for their children, Dayani, Yadira, and their husbands invent jobs in Managua’s spreading markets and DOUGLAS HAYNES dumps, joining the planet’s burgeoning informal economy. But Madison, .Wisconsin a swelling tide of family crises and environmental calamities Haynes is an essayist, journal- threaten to break their toehold in the city. ist, and poet whose work has Dayani’s and Yadira’s struggles reveal one of the world’s biggest appeared in Orion, Longreads, challenges: by 2050, almost one-third of all people will likely live Virginia Quarterly Review, Huffington Post, Boston Review, in slums without basic services, vulnerable to disasters caused by and many other publications. He the convergence of climate change and breakneck urbanization. To teaches writing at the University tell their stories, Douglas Haynes followed Dayani’s and Yadira’s of Wisconsin Oshkosh. families for five years, learning firsthand how their lives in the city release date | october are a tightrope walk between new opportunities and chronic in- 6 x 9 inches, 262 pages, 8 b&w security. Every Day We Live Is the Future is a gripping, unforget- photos, 2 maps table account of two women’s herculean efforts to persevere and ISBN 978-1-4773-1312-1 educate their children. It sounds a powerful call for understanding $27.00 hardcover the growing risks to new urbanites, how to help them prosper, and why their lives matter for us all. ISBN 978-1-4773-1418-0 $27.00 e-book

44 University of texas Press | [email protected] | latin american studies | Politics and Economics “This is a vivid and gritty account of life in the kind of urban shantytown where a huge percentage of humanity lives out a lifetime. Surviving there is hard and getting harder, as a changing environment multiplies the misery—and demands

real action from all of us. A crucial read.” —Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy

“In this soulful book about what it means to exist on the polluted-crowded-dirty- colorful-vibrant-loving margins of a twenty-first- century metropolis, Douglas Haynes clarifies the complex issues affecting families in such cities—at once describing with elegance and insight the world as it is now, and as it increasingly

From .back .to .front: Xiomara, Ana Teresa, everywhere may be.” Jason, Byron, and María outside their home in —Paul Bogard, The Widows, 2012, photo by Elizabeth Kay. author of The End of Night and The Ground Beneath Us

“For the valiant women of this book, climate change isn’t a theory but a battle waged daily. Douglas Haynes recreates their stories in luminous prose that conveys a deep sense of empathy.

An urgent and necessary read.” —Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 45 2018 | literature | Biography/Memoir CHARLES BOWDEN THE RED CADDY The first literary biography of Edward Abbey

Into the Unknown with ED ABBEY in a generation, this thoughtful memoir serves as a meditation on the writing life, the cult of

Foreword by LUIS ALBERTO URREA readers, reputation, and the literary afterlife of a well-known writer

The Red Caddy Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey

By Charles Bowden Foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea

A .passionate .advocate .for .preserving .wilderness .and . fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would de- stroy it, Edward Abbey (1927–1989) wrote fierce, polemi- cal books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up “what he CHARLES BOWDEN really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.” (1945–2014) The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden in- and US-Mexico border issues, stead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom Bowden was a contributing editor liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically for GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, and Mother Jones and also wrote “launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground” that for the New York Times Book Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputa- Review, High Country News, and tion and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry Lannan Literary Award for that has grown up around Abbey’s writing, smoothing off Nonfiction, and the Sidney its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking “anecdotes, Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True and economic justice. He wrote Old Pickup Truck.” Asserting that the real essence of Ab- The Red Caddy in 1994, but it bey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The remained unpublished until it was discovered on his computer Red Caddy still catches gleams of “the fire that from time to time after his death. causes a life to become a conflagration.”

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It’s very depressing to know and like someone and then have them die and be made into a saint. It is like watching them being buried alive. . . . And people start asking strange questions. What did he eat? And you say testily, food. Where did he live? In a house. . . . I order a coffee and fall back into my dour mood. I feel some kind of . . . guilt? sin? I can’t put my finger on it. They want to know what can be known but they do not want to know what can’t be known. They want anecdotes, little intimacies, clues to habits and dress, pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck. But they do not want to know who he really was, that core part each of us carries that others can only guess at and never really comprehend or possess—that we ourselves cannot fully understand. The most important part of a person remains unknown even to the person. . . . Where the light comes from and why. Why this book? And after that, why that book? Why the books at all? Why all this effort and pain? That is the part we seldom if ever get to know about ourselves. We are usually afraid to ask, but should we be of unusual courage, our questioning will normally avail us very little. It is much easier to find out who someone slept with than to discover what animated their waking hours and rode roughshod through the dreams that filled their nights. Such things almost always remain mysteries for a very simple reason. We do not know in any very convincing fashion why we are alive or why life itself exists.

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Literature

Author of many acclaimed books about the American Southwest and US-Mexico border issues, CHARLES BOWDEN (1945–2014) was a contributing editor for GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, and Mother Jones and also wrote for the New York Times Book Review, High Country News, and Aperture. His honors included a PEN First Amendment Award, Lannan Literary Award for Non ction, and the Sidney Hillman Award for outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice.

“At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book.” —David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Charles Bowden’s Red Line is a look at America through the window of the Southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, but in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look and Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.” —Jim Harrison “Charles Bowden is our new poet laureate of hunger and its dark everlasting mysteries. He is our best chronicler of the hot and restless nights of violence, the unendangered wickedness that roams the badlands of the Southwest, the formless dreams of postmodern America.” —Bob Shachochis with a newforeword

University of Texas Press www.utexaspress.com 800.252.3206 US $00.00 ISBN Printed in USA Design Mark Todd Photography Krystal Todd TEXAS

Red Line By Charles Bowden With a new foreword

“At its best, Red Line can read “Charles Bowden’s Red Line is a look at America like an original synthesis through the window of the southwest. His vision is of Peter Matthiessen and as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness William Burroughs . . . a rather than consolation, but in order to do anything brave and interesting book.” about our nightmares we must take a cold look and —David Rieff Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.” Los Angeles Times Book Review —Jim Harrison

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CHARLES BOWDEN

Desierto Memories of the Future

FOREWORD BY WILLIAM deBUYS

Desierto Memories of the Future

By Charles Bowden With a new foreword by William deBuy

“A compelling and wonderfully “Where most ecologically minded writers poetic book. . . . [Charles Bowden draw a clean line in the sand between man is] a forthright and thrillingly and nature, Bowden stomps all over the sanctimonious boundary, in the process good writer.” —Ron Hansen merging history and natural history into a New York Times Book Review spooky and seamless narrative.” — Esquire

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University of Texas Press | spring 2018 49 2017

A landmark feminist critique with a new foreword by Jessa Crispin, author of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, this provocative book surveys the forces that work against women who dare to write

SHE DIDN’T WRITE IT. BUT IF IT’S CLEAR, SHE DID THE DEED . . . SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE SHOULDN’T HAVE. (IT’S POLITICAL, SEXUAL, MASCULINE, FEMINIST.) SHE WROTE IT, BUT LOOK WHAT SHE WROTE ABOUT. (THE BEDROOM, THE KITCHEN, HER FAMILY. OTHER WOMEN!) SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE WROTE ONLY ONE OF IT. (“JANE EYRE. POOR DEAR, THAT’S ALL SHE EVER . . .”) SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE ISN’T REALLY AN ARTIST, AND IT ISN’T REALLY ART. (IT’S A THRILLER, A ROMANCE, A CHILDREN’S BOOK. IT’S SCI FI!) SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE HAD HELP. (ROBERT BROWNING. BRANWELL BRONTË. HER OWN “MASCULINE SIDE.”) SHE WROTE IT, BUT SHE’S AN ANOMALY. (WOOLF. WITH LEONARD’S HELP . . .) SHE WROTE IT BUT . . . How to Suppress W o m e n ’s W r i t i n g Joa n n a Russ With a new foreword by JESSA CRISPIN author of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

How to Suppress Women’s Writing

By Joanna Russ With a new foreword by Jessa Crispin

Are . women . able . to . achieve . anything . they . set . their . minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or be- little women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful feminist critique.

50 University of texas Press | [email protected] | literature | Essays and Criticism

“What is it going to take to break apart these rigidities? Russ’s book is a formidable attempt. It is angry without being self-righteous, it is thorough without being exhausting, and it is serious without being devoid of a sense of humor. But it was published over thirty years ago, in 1983, and there’s not an enormous difference between the world she describes and the world we inhabit.” —Jessa Crispin, from the foreword “A book of the most profound JOANNA RUSS and original clarity. Like all (1937–2011) Hugo and Nebula award–winning author Russ was a widely clear-sighted people who look respected feminist science fiction writer best known for the novel The Female Man. She was also and see what has been much a professor of English at the University of Washington who mystified and much lied published several collections of essays and literary criticism. about, Russ is quite exciting- JESSA CRISPIN Kansas .City, .Missouri ly subversive. The study of Crispin is the founder and editor of Bookslut.com. She is the author literature should never be the of The Dead Ladies Project and Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto. same again.” —Marge Piercy release date | april 5½ x 8½ inches, 166 pages

ISBN 978-1-4773-1625-2 “Joanna Russ is a brilliant $19.95 paperback writer, a writer of real moral ISBN 978-1-4773-1629-0 $19.95 passion and high wit.” —Adrienne Rich e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 51 2018

A compelling portrait of a complex, decades-long friendship, these deeply honest letters and candid family photographs offer the most intimate glimpse we may ever get into the life, personal philosophy, and creative process of America’s leading dramatist.

Two Prospectors The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark

Edited by Chad Hammett

A . compelling . portrait . of . a . complex, . decades-long . friendship, these deeply honest letters and candid family photographs offer the most intimate glimpse we may ever get into the life, personal philosophy, and creative process of America’s leading dramatist.

52 University of texas Press | [email protected] | biography | Memoir

“The volume has the feel of an earlier age. . . . The correspondence . . . is rich with allusions to Kerouac and Beckett.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Fascinating . . . four decades of letters, taped conversations, and photos . . . resulting in a fascinating study of friendship and artistic pursuit.” — Cowboys and Indians

“A beautiful volume. . . . The book circles around family life, the challenges of writing and aging, the search for inspiration.” — Los Angeles Magazine

CHAD HAMMETT “Since Shepard has said San .Marcos, .Texas Hammett teaches at Texas State that he is not interested in University, from which he received an MFA in fiction. writing his memoirs, this Southwestern .Writers . Collection Series. collection of letters may be The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University the only primary written Steven L. Davis, Editor release date | november 2017 record of the esteemed play- 6 1/8 x 9¼ inches, 399 pages, 46 color photos, 31 facsimiles wright’s life.” — Library Journal ISBN 978-0-292-76196-4 $19.95 paperback

ISBN 978-0-292-75422-5 $19.95 e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 53 books for scholars

Timbiquí River, Cauca, Colombia, September 2009, from Ghostnotes by Brian “B+” Cross 2017 | history | Latina/o Studies, American Studies

latinas/os, asians, and the reMakinG of Place This unique comparative study of Latina/o and Asian immigration to the American NUEV South investigates how migrants, immi- O grants, and refugees—and reactions to them— SOUTH are transforming regional understandings of race and place

Perla M. Guerrero

Nuevo South Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place

By Perla M. Guerrero

Latinas/os . and . Asians . are . rewriting . the . meaning . and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequently defined the region since before the Civil War. Arriving in southern communities as migrants or refugees, Latinas/os and Asians have experienced both begrudging acceptance and prejudice as their presence confronts PERLA M. GUERRERO and troubles local understandings of race and difference—under- College .Park, .Maryland standings that have deep roots in each community’s particular Guerrero is an assistant professor of American studies and US Lati- racial history, as well as in national fears and anxieties about race. na/o studies at the University of Nuevo South offers the first comparative study showing how Maryland, College Park. Latinas/os and Asians are transforming race and place in the con-

Historia .USA temporary South. Integrating political, economic, and social anal- Luis Alvarez, Carlos Kevin ysis, Perla M. Guerrero examines the reception of Vietnamese, Cu- Blanton, and Lorrin Thomas, bans, and Mexicans in northwestern Arkansas communities that Series Editors were almost completely white until the mid-1970s. She shows how release date | november reactions to these refugees and immigrants ranged from reluctant 6 x 9 inches, 268 pages, 5 b&w acceptance of Vietnamese as former US allies to rejection of Cu- photos, 1 map bans as communists, criminals, and homosexuals and Mexicans ISBN 978-1-4773-1444-9 as “illegal aliens” who were perceived as invaders when they began $29.95* to establish roots and became more visible in public spaces. Guer- paperback rero’s research clarifies how social relations are constituted in the ISBN 978-1-4773-1364-0 labor sphere, particularly the poultry industry, and reveals the leg- $90.00* hardcover acies of regional history, especially anti-Black violence and racial cleansing. Nuevo South thus helps us to better understand what ISBN 978-1-4773-1366-4 $29.95* constitutes the so-called Nuevo South and how historical legacies e-book shape the reception of new people in the region.

56 University of texas Press | [email protected] Announcing a New Series Historia USA Luis Alvarez, Carlos Kevin Blanton, and Lorrin Thomas, Series Editors

Changing demographics and a growing awareness of the interconnectedness of the peoples of the Americas across several centuries have made Latinas/os central to the future of the United States’s polity, society, and its many cultures. No longer can Chicana/o history be separated from Puerto Rican history or Cuban history. Latina/o history is not an exception to the American story. It is not a footnote. It is the nation’s history. This is what Historia USA means. This new series advances the interpretive and methodological innovations that are generating vibrant new historical narratives about Latina/o communities in the United States. Historia USA prioritizes histories constructed within broad, interdisciplinary frameworks rather than discrete studies focused on a single group or discipline. The series also values historical narratives that account for the hemispheric and transnational dimensions of the US Lati- na/o experience. The most important new scholarship today maps the experience of Latina/o groups around the nation and traces their complicated histories far beyond standard and separate narratives.

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 57 2017 | history | Latin America

Urban Vending Street in Rio de Janeiro, Occupations 1850–1925 Offering new perspectives on informal commerce and citizenship, this history explains how the transition from slavery to freedom both empowered and constrained the poor, black, and immigrant street vendors of Rio de Janeiro

Patricia acerbi

Street Occupations Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850–1925

By Patricia Acerbi

Street . vending . has . supplied . the . inhabitants . of . Rio . de Janeiro with basic goods for several centuries. Once the province of African slaves and free blacks, street commerce became a site of expanded (mostly European) immigrant participation and shifting state regulations during the transition from enslaved PATRICIA ACERBI to free labor and into the early post-abolition period. Street Oc- Washington, DC. cupations investigates how street vendors and state authorities Acerbi teaches history at George negotiated this transition, during which vendors sought greater Mason University and at the Latin freedom to engage in commerce and authorities imposed new American Youth Center. Her research has been published in regulations in the name of modernity and progress. the edited volume Street Vending Examining ganhador (street worker) licenses, newspaper in the Neoliberal City: A Global reports, and detention and court records, and considering the Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized emergence of a protective association for vendors, Patricia Acerbi Economy and in the Journal of reveals that street sellers were not marginal urban dwellers in Rio Urban History. but active participants in a debate over citizenship. In their strug-

release date | october gles to sell freely throughout the Brazilian capital, vendors assert- 6 x 9 inches, 242 pages, 12 b&w ed their citizenship as urban participants with rights to the city photos, 2 maps and to the freedom of commerce. In tracing how vendors resisted ISBN 978-1-4773-1356-5 efforts to police and repress their activities, Acerbi demonstrates $29.95* the persistence of street commerce and vendors’ tireless activity paperback in the city, which the law eventually accommodated through mu- ISBN 978-1-4773-1355-8 nicipal street commerce regulation passed in 1924. $90.00* hardcover

ISBN 978-1-4773-1358-9 $29.95* e-book

58 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | history | Latin America, Art and Visual Studies

Drawing on science and technology studies, FRAMING A LOST CITY this book explores how photography transformed an Incan archaeological ruin into “Machu Picchu,” a world heritage site and crown jewel of Peruvian national patrimony

SCIENCE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE MAKING OF MACHU PICCHU

AMY COX HALL

Framing a Lost City Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu

By Amy Cox Hall

When .Hiram .Bingham, .a .historian .from .Yale .Univer- sity, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed by a few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO world heritage site vis- AMY COX HALL ited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable Amherst, .Massachusetts transformation began with the photographs that accompanied Cox Hall is a visiting assistant Bingham’s article published in National Geographic magazine, professor of anthropology at Amherst College and a research which depicted Machu Picchu as a lost city discovered. Focusing associate at the Five College on the practices, technologies, and materializations of Bingham’s Women’s Studies Research Center. three expeditions to Peru (1911, 1912, 1914–1915), this book makes Joe .R . .and .Teresa .Lozano . a convincing case that visualization, particularly through the Long .Series in. .Latin . camera, played a decisive role in positioning Machu Picchu as American and. .Latino Art. . both a scientific discovery and a Peruvian heritage site. and .Culture Amy Cox Hall argues that while Bingham’s expeditions relied on release date | november the labor, knowledge, and support of Peruvian elites, intellectuals, 6 x 9 inches, 316 pages, 19 b&w and peasants, the practice of scientific witnessing, and photography photos specifically, converted Machu Picchu into a cultural artifact fash- ISBN 978-1-4773-1368-8 ioned from a distinct way of seeing. Drawing on science and technol- $29.95* paperback ogy studies, she situates letter writing, artifact collecting, and photography as important expeditionary practices that helped shape ISBN 978-1-4773-1367-1 the way we understand Machu Picchu today. Cox Hall also demon- $90.00* hardcover strates that the photographic evidence was unstable, and, as images circulated worldwide, the “lost city” took on different meanings, es- ISBN 978-1-4773-1370-1 $29.95* pecially in Peru, which came to view the site as one of national pat- e-book rimony in need of protection from expeditions such as Bingham’s.

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 59 2017 | history | United States, Texas

Adding an important new chapter to the history of postwar metropolitan development, this book investigates how struggles over transportation systems have defined both the physical and political landscapes of Houston

Power Moves Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston

By Kyle Shelton Since .World .War .II, .Houston .has .become .a .burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis—and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. To- day, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles KYLE SHELTON of highways, and a third major loop is under construction Houston, .Texas nearly thirty miles out from the historic core. Highways have Shelton is the director of strategic driven every aspect of Houston’s postwar development, from partnerships and a fellow at Rice University’s Kinder Institute the physical layout of the city to the political process that has for Urban Research. His writing transformed both the transportation network and the balance on transportation and urban of power between governing elites and ordinary citizens. development has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Power Moves examines debates around the planning, con- Times, Journal of Urban History, struction, and use of highway and public transportation systems in Nature, and CityLab. Houston. Kyle Shelton shows how Houstonians helped shape the release date | january city’s growth by attending city council meetings, writing letters to 6 x 9 inches, 342 pages, 16 b&w the highway commission, and protesting the destruction of homes photos, 9 maps to make way for freeways, which happened in both affluent and ISBN 978-1-4773-1465-4 low-income neighborhoods. He demonstrates that these assertions $29.95* of what he terms “infrastructural citizenship” opened up the trans- paperback portation decision-making process to meaningful input from the ISBN 978-1-4773-1429-6 public and gave many previously marginalized citizens a more pow- $90.00* erful voice in civic affairs.Power Moves also reveals the long-last - hardcover ing results of choosing highway and auto-based infrastructure over ISBN 978-1-4773-1467-8 other transit options and the resulting challenges that Houstonians $29.95* e-book currently face as they grapple with how best to move forward from the consequences and opportunities created by past choices.

60 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | sociology |

This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history RECOVERING INEQUALITY Hurricane Katrina, lays bare the social inequality inherent in the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster racially arranged, capital-based economies Steve Kroll-Smith

Recovering Inequality Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earth- quake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

By Steve Kroll-Smith

A .lethal .mix .of .natur al .disaster, .dangerously .flawed . construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Fran- STEVE KROLL-SMITH cisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the Greensboro, .North .Carolina built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastro- Kroll-Smith is currently a profes- phes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm were sor of sociology at the University disproportionately among the thousands who perished. These of North Carolina at Greensboro striking similarities in the impacts of cataclysms separated by a and was formerly a research professor of sociology at the Uni- century impelled Steve Kroll-Smith to look for commonalities in versity of New Orleans. He is the how the cities recovered from disaster. In Recovering Inequality, coauthor of Left to Chance: Hurri- cane Katrina and the Story of Two he builds a convincing case that disaster recovery and the rees- New Orleans Neighborhoods. tablishment of social and economic inequality are inseparable. Kroll-Smith demonstrates that disaster and recovery in New The .Katrina .Bookshelf Orleans and San Francisco followed a similar pattern. In the im- Kai Erikson, Series Editor mediate aftermath of the flooding and the firestorm, social bound- release date | month aries were disordered and the communities came together in ex- 6 x 9 inches, 194 pages, 21 b&w pressions of unity and support. But these were quickly replaced by photos other narratives and actions, including the depiction of the poor as ISBN 978-1-4773-1611-5 looters, uneven access to disaster assistance, and successful efforts $27.95* paperback by the powerful to take valuable urban real estate from vulnerable people. Kroll-Smith concludes that inexorable market forces ISBN 978-1-4773-1610-8 $85.00* ensured that recovery efforts in both cities would reestablish the hardcover patterns of inequality that existed before the catastrophes. The ISBN 978-1-4773-1613-9 major difference he finds between the cities is that, from a mar- $27.95* ket standpoint, New Orleans was expendable, while San Francisco e-book rose from the ashes because it was a hub of commerce.

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 61 2018 | architecture | Latin America

The first book to link eugenics with urban planning and the built environment, this

EUGENICS volume traces how the “science” of race IN THE GARDEN improvement spread from medicine to Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity

FABIOLA LÓPEZ-DURÁN architecture as Latin Americans pursued a utopian project of modernization

Eugenics in the Garden Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity

By Fabiola López-Durán

As .Latin .American .elites .strove .to .modernize .their . cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted FABIOLA LÓPEZ-DURÁN the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environ- Houston, .Texas ment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on López-Durán is an assistant Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired professor of modern art and characteristics,” this strain of eugenics empowered a utopian architectural history at Rice University. project that made race, gender, class, and the built environment the critical instruments of modernity and progress. Lateral .Exchanges: . Through a transnational and interdisciplinary lens, Eugenics in Architecture, .Urban . Development, .and . the Garden reveals how eugenics, fueled by a fear of social degener- Transnational Practices. ation in France, spread from the realms of medical science to archi- Felipe Correa and Bruno Carval- tecture and urban planning, becoming a critical instrument in the ho, Series Editors crafting of modernity in the new Latin world. Journeying back and release date | march forth between France, Brazil, and Argentina, Fabiola López-Durán 7 x 10 inches, 312 pages, 132 b&w uncovers the complicity of physicians and architects on both sides of photos the Atlantic, who participated in a global strategy of social engineer- ISBN 978-1-4773-1496-8 ing, legitimized by the authority of science. In doing so, she reveals $29.95 the ideological trajectory of one of the most celebrated architects of paperback the twentieth century, Le Corbusier, who deployed architecture in ISBN 978-1-4773-1495-1 what he saw as the perfecting and whitening of man. The first in- $90.00 hardcover depth interrogation of eugenics’ influence on the construction of the modern built environment, Eugenics in the Garden convincingly ISBN 978-1-4773-1498-2 $29.95 demonstrates that race was the main tool in the geopolitics of space, e-book and that racism was, and remains, an ideology of progress.

62 University of texas Press | [email protected] Announcing a New Series Lateral Exchanges Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices

Felipe Correa and Bruno Carvalho, Series Editors

Lateral Exchanges is devoted to architecture and urban- ism in the context of international development and glo- balization. Publishing research on historical and contemporary issues in design and the built environment, unrestricted by geographic focus, the series will cover several interrelated fields, including architecture, environmental humanities, history, landscape architecture, media and visual studies, planning, and urban studies. Above all, the series will investigate the role of architects and architecture in historical and international development; the circulation of architectural and urban-planning models; and the ways that the concepts and techniques of architecture and planning have instigated cultural and intellectual exchanges beyond disciplinary boundaries and in the context of persistent global asymmetries. In these and other ways, Lateral Exchanges will examine the rich intellectual, social, and technical contributions that architects and architecture have made to an increasingly globalized world.

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 63 2018 | architecture | Middle Eastern Studies, Latin American Studies

Presenting case studies from around the world, this book offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a designed event that uses public space to challenge the distance between institutional power and everyday life

The Design of Protest Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space

By Tali Hatuka

Public .protests .are .a .vital .tool .for .asserting .griev- ances and creating temporary, yet tangible, communities as the world becomes more democratic and urban in the twenty-first century. While the political and social aspects of protest have been extensively studied, little attention has been paid to the TALI HATUKA Tel .Aviv, .Israel physical spaces in which protests happen. Yet place is a crucial aspect of protests, influencing the dynamics and engagement An architect and urban planner, Hatuka founded and directs the patterns among participants. In The Design of Protest, Tali Laboratory of Contemporary Ur- Hatuka offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest ban Design in the Department of as a design: that is, a planned event in a space whose physical Geography and Human Environ- ment at Tel Aviv University. She geometry and symbolic meaning are used and appropriated by is the author of Violent Acts and its organizers, who aim to challenge socio-spatial distance be- Urban Space in Contemporary tween political institutions and the people they should serve. Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments. Presenting case studies from around the world, including Tian- release date | august anmen Square in Beijing; the National Mall in Washington, DC; 7 x 10 inches, 328 pages, 112 b&w Rabin Square in Tel Aviv; and the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, photos, 3 illustrations, 3 maps Hatuka identifies three major dimensions of public protests: the ISBN 978-1-4773-1576-7 process of planning the protest in a particular place; the choice of $55.00* spatial choreography of the event, including the value and mean- hardcover ing of specific tactics; and the challenges of performing contem- ISBN 978-1-4773-1578-1 porary protests in public space in a fragmented, complex, and $55.00* e-book conflicted world. Numerous photographs, detailed diagrams, and plans complement the case studies, which draw upon interviews All rights except for Hebrew language rights with city officials, urban planners, and protesters themselves.

64 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | architecture |

This frank, first-person account of developing plans for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus offers a practical primer on MAKING community and regional planning by one of PLANS HOW TO ENGAGE WITH LANDSCAPE, the leading experts in the field DESIGN, AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT frederick r. steiner

Making Plans How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment

By Frederick R. Steiner

“Community .and .regional .planning .involve .thinking . ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can FREDERICK R. STEINER lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places for us and Philadelphia, .Pennsylvania other species to live. We can also plan for places that are more Steiner is dean of the School of just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain Design and Paley Professor at what we value but also to transcend sustainability by creating the University of Pennsylvania. He has more than four decades of truly regenerative communities, that is, places with the capac- planning experience throughout ity to restore, renew, and revitalize their own sources of energy the world. His many books include Design for a Vulnerable Planet. and materials. In Making Plans, Steiner offers a primer on the planning Roger .Fullington .Series . . process through a lively, firsthand account of developing plans in Architecture. for the city of Austin and the University of Texas campus. As release date | may dean of the UT School of Architecture, Steiner served on plan- 6½ x 9 inches, 198 pages, 13 color ning committees that addressed the future growth of the city and 1 b&w photos, 1 illustration, and the university. As he walks readers through the planning 19 maps processes, Steiner illustrates how large-scale planning requires ISBN 978-1-4773-1431-9 setting goals and objectives, reading landscapes, determining $27.95* paperback best uses, designing options, selecting courses for moving forward, taking actions, and adjusting to changes. He also demon- ISBN 978-1-4773-1430-2 $80.00* strates that planning is an inherently political, sometimes hardcover messy, act, requiring the intelligence and ownership of the af- ISBN 978-1-4773-1433-3 fected communities. $27.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 65 2017 | film, media, and popular culture | Gender & Sexuality

Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women’s comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to contemporary multimedia

Hysterical! Women in American Comedy

Edited by Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant Foreword by Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

Amy .Schumer, .Samantha .Bee, .Mindy .Kaling, .Melissa . McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren’t funny. LINDA MIZEJEWSKI But today’s funny women aren’t a new phenomenon—they have Columbus, .Ohio generations of hysterically funny foremothers. Fay Tincher’s dare- Mizejewski is a professor of wom- devil stunts, Mae West’s linebacker walk, Lucille Ball’s manic slap- en’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the Ohio State University. stick, Carol Burnett’s athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres’s tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg’s sly twinkle, and Tina Fey’s acerbic wit VICTORIA STURTEVANT all paved the way for contemporary unruly women, whose comedy Norman, .Oklahoma upends the norms and ideals of women’s bodies and behaviors. Sturtevant is an associate profes- Hysterical! Women in American Comedy delivers a lively survey sor of film and media studies and associate dean of the College of of women comics from the stars of the silent cinema up through the Arts and Sciences at the University multimedia presences of Tina Fey and Lena Dunham. This antholo- of Oklahoma. gy of original essays includes contributions by the field’s leading au-

release date | december thorities, introducing a new framework for women’s comedy that an- 6 x 9 inches, 484 pages, 66 b&w alyzes the implications of hysterical laughter and hysterically funny photos performances. Expanding on previous studies of comedians such as ISBN 978-1-4773-1452-4 Mae West, Moms Mabley, and Margaret Cho, and offering the first $34.95* scholarly work on comedy pioneers Mabel Normand, Fay Tincher, paperback and Carol Burnett, the contributors explore such topics as racial/ ISBN 978-1-4773-1451-7 ethnic/sexual identity, celebrity, stardom, censorship, auteurism, $95.00* cuteness, and postfeminism across multiple media. Situated within hardcover the main currents of gender and queer studies, as well as American ISBN 978-1-4773-1454-8 studies and feminist media scholarship, Hysterical! masterfully $34.95* demonstrates that hysteria—women acting out and acting up—is a e-book provocative, empowering model for women’s comedy.

66 University of texas Press | [email protected] Carol Burnett as Eunice Higgins, The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978). CBS/Photofest. © CBS.

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 67 María Elena Velasco in La presidenta municipal (1975). Diana Internacional Films, S.A. de C.V.

68 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | film, media, and popular culture | Latin America, Gender & Sexuality

Drawing on extensive interviews with the late actress and other film industry professionals, this book surveys the work of performer, director, and producer María Elena Velasco and her central place in Mexploitation cinema

La India María Mexploitation and the Films of María Elena Velasco

By Seraina Rohrer

La . India . María—a . humble . and . stubborn . indigenous . Mexican woman—is one of the most popular characters of the Mexican stage, television, and film. Created and portrayed by María Elena Velasco, La India María has delighted audiences since the late 1960s with slapstick humor that slyly critiques dis- crimination and the powerful. At the same time, however, many SERAINA ROHRER critics have derided the iconic figure as a racist depiction of a Zürich, .Switzerland negative stereotype and dismissed the India María films as ex- Rohrer heads the Solothurn Film ploitation cinema unworthy of serious attention. By contrast, La Festival, one of Switzerland’s India María builds a convincing case for María Elena Velasco as leading cultural events. She holds an artist whose work as a director and producer—rare for women a PhD in film studies from the University of Zurich and has been in Mexican cinema—has been widely and unjustly overlooked. a visiting scholar at the Chicano Drawing on extensive interviews with Velasco, her family, Studies Research Center of UCLA, and film industry professionals, as well as on archival research, where she conducted her research for this book. Seraina Rohrer offers the first full account of Velasco’s life; her portrayal of La India María in vaudeville, television, and sixteen release date | december feature film comedies, including Ni de aquí, ni de allá [Neither 6 x 9 inches, 254 pages, 87 b&w here, nor there]; and her controversial reception in Mexico and photos the United States. Rohrer traces the films’ financing, produc- ISBN 978-1-4773-1345-9 tion, and distribution, as well as censorship practices of the $29.95* paperback period, and compares them to other Mexploitation films produced at the same time. Adding a new chapter to the history ISBN 978-1-4773-1344-2 $90.00* of a much-understudied period of Mexican cinema commonly hardcover referred to as “la crisis,” this pioneering research enriches our ISBN 978-1-4773-1347-3 appreciation of Mexploitation films. $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 69 2017 | film, media, and popular culture | Industry & Production, Comics

Emphasizing films such asBatman: The Movie that have received little scholarly attention, this book presents a new and more coherent definition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than a genre

Comic Book Film Style Cinema at 24 Panels per Second

By Dru Jeffries

Superhero . films . and . comic . book . adaptations . domi- nate contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, and it is not just the storylines of these blockbuster spectacles that have been influenced by comics. The comic book medium itself has profoundly influenced how movies look and sound today, as well as how viewers approach them as texts. Comic Book Film Style DRU JEFFRIES explores how the unique conventions and formal structure of Toronto, .Ontario comic books have had a profound impact on film aesthetics, so Jeffries teaches comics studies at Wilfrid Laurier University that the different representational abilities of comics and film and has taught film at Concordia are put on simultaneous display in a cinematic work. University and the University of With close readings of films including Batman: The Movie, Toronto. He has published scholarship on film and comic books in American Splendor, Superman, Hulk, Spider-Man 2, V for Ven- Porn Studies, Quarterly Review detta, 300, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Watchmen, The Losers, of Film and Video, Cinephile, and and Creepshow, Dru Jeffries offers a new and more cogent defi- several edited volumes. nition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than release date | september a genre, repositioning the study of comic book films from adap- 6 x 9 inches, 308 pages, 116 b&w tation and genre studies to formal/stylistic analysis. He discuss- photos es how comic book films appropriate comics’ drawn imagery, ISBN 978-1-4773-1450-0 vandalize the fourth wall with the use of graphic text, dissect $29.95* the film frame into discrete panels, and treat time as a flexible paperback construct rather than a fixed flow, among other things. This ISBN 978-1-4773-1325-1 cinematic remediation of comic books’ formal structure and $90.00* hardcover unique visual conventions, Jeffries asserts, fundamentally challenges the classical continuity paradigm and its contemporary ISBN 978-1-4773-1327-5 $29.95* variants, placing the comic book film at the forefront of stylistic e-book experimentation in post-classical Hollywood.

70 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | film, media, and popular culture | Genre, Race

Analyzing humanized zombies in popular culture across nearly a century, this innovative book discloses how the “extraordinary” undead mediate our fears of losing agency in the world of the living

Not Your Average Zombie Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks

By Chera Kee

The . zombie . apocalypse . hasn’t . happened—yet—but . zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a CHERA KEE powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee Detroit, .Michigan offers an innovative answer by looking at zombies that don’t Kee is an assistant professor of conform to the stereotypes of mindless slaves or flesh-eating film and media studies in the cannibals. Zombies who think, who speak, and who feel love can Department of English at Wayne be sympathetic and even politically powerful, she asserts. State University. Her essays on zombies have been published in Kee analyzes zombies in popular culture from 1930s depic- the Journal of Popular Film and tions of zombies in voodoo rituals to contemporary film and Television and the edited volume television, comic books, video games, and fan practices such Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human. as zombie walks. She discusses how the zombie has embodied our fears of losing the self through slavery and cannibalism and release date | september shows how “extra-ordinary” zombies defy that loss of free will 6 x 9 inches, 254 pages, 24 b&w by refusing to be dehumanized. By challenging their masters, photos falling in love, and leading rebellions, “extra-ordinary” zombies ISBN 978-1-4773-1330-5 become figures of liberation and resistance. Kee also thoroughly $27.95* paperback investigates how representations of racial and gendered identities in zombie texts offer opportunities for living people to gain ISBN 978-1-4773-1317-6 $85.00* agency over their lives. Not Your Average Zombie thus deepens hardcover and broadens our understanding of how media producers and ISBN 978-1-4773-1319-0 consumers take up and use these undead figures to make politi- $27.95* cal interventions in the world of the living. e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 71 2017 | film, media, and popular culture | Gender & Sexuality

Designed for classroom use, this anthology of influential articles fromSpectator , the highly regarded film studies journal published by

Shifting Theories of Gender, USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, offers histori- Sexuality, and Media

EDITED BY ROXANNE SAMER AND WILLIAM WHITTINGTON cal perspectives on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and media spectatorship

Spectatorship Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media

Edited by Roxanne Samer and William Whittington

Media .platforms .continually .evolve, .but .the .issues . surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. Spectator: The University of ROXANNE SAMER Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism Los .Angeles, .California has published groundbreaking articles on gender and sexuali- Samer is a postdoctoral scholar– ty, including some that have become canonical in film studies, teaching fellow at the University since the journal’s founding in 1982. This anthology collects of Southern California. She edited Spectator 37.2 (Fall 2017.) seventeen key articles that will enable readers to revisit foundational concerns about gender in media and discover models of WILLIAM WHITTINGTON analysis that can be applied to the changing media world today. Los .Angeles, .California Spectatorship begins with articles that consider issues of Whittington is the assistant chair spectatorship in film and television content and audience re- of cinema and media studies at the University of Southern Cali- ception, noting how media studies has expanded as a field and fornia. He has been the managing demonstrating how theories of gender and sexuality have adapt- editor of Spectator since 2002. ed to new media platforms. Subsequent articles show how new release date | october theories emerged from that initial scholarship, helping to de- 6 x 9 inches, 298 pages, 10 b&w velop the fields of fandom, transmedia, and queer theory. The photos most recent work in this volume is particularly timely, as the ISBN 978-1-4773-1376-3 distinctions between media producers and media spectators $29.95* grow more fluid and as the transformation of media structures paperback and platforms prompts new understandings of gender, sexuali- ISBN 978-1-4773-1349-7 ty, and identification. Connecting contemporary approaches to $90.00* media with critical conversations of the past, Spectatorship thus hardcover offers important points of historical and critical departure for ISBN 978-1-4773-1378-7 discussion in both the classroom and the field. $29.95* e-book

72 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | film, media, and popular culture | Television, Gender & Sexuality

Taking a bottom-up approach through interviews with numerous industry workers, this book deepens our understanding of the intri- cate processes behind the creation of the LGBT representations that appear on television

Spectatorship The New Gay for Pay Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media The Sexual Politics of American Edited by Roxanne Samer and William Whittington Television Production

By Julia Himberg

Television .conveys .powerful .messages .about .sexual . identities, and popular shows such as Will & Grace, Ellen, Glee, Modern Family, and The Fosters are often credited with building support for gay rights, including marriage equality. At the same time, however, many dismiss TV’s portrayal of LGBT characters and issues as “gay for pay”—that is, apolitical and ex- ploitative programming created simply for profit. In The New Gay for Pay, Julia Himberg moves beyond both of these positions to investigate the complex and multifaceted ways that tele- JULIA HIMBERG vision production participates in constructing sexuality, sexual Tempe, .Arizona identities and communities, and sexual politics. Himberg is an assistant professor Himberg examines the production stories behind explicitly of film and media studies at LGBT narratives and characters, studying how industry work- Arizona State University. ers themselves negotiate processes of TV development, produc- release date | october tion, marketing, and distribution. She interviews workers whose 6 x 9 inches, 244 pages, 10 b&w views are rarely heard, including market researchers, public re- photos lations experts, media advocacy workers, political campaigners ISBN 978-1-4773-1360-2 designing strategies for TV messaging, and corporate social $29.95* paperback responsibility department officers, as well as network execu- tives and producers. Thoroughly analyzing their comments in ISBN 978-1-4773-1359-6 $90.00* the light of four key issues—visibility, advocacy, diversity, and hardcover equality—Himberg reveals how the practices and belief systems of industry workers generate the conceptions of LGBT sexuality ISBN 978-1-4773-1362-6 $29.95* and political change that are portrayed on television. e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 73 2017 | history | Film and Media Studies, American Studies

This deeply researched history investigates how Progressive-era activists sought to encourage the creation and consumption of high-quality films while lobbying against state-supervised motion picture censorship

Monitoring the Movies The Fight over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century Urban America

By Jennifer Fronc

As . movies . took . the . country . by . storm . in . the . early . twentieth century, Americans argued fiercely about whether municipal or state authorities should step in to control what people could watch when they went to movie theaters, which seemed to be springing up on every corner. Many who opposed the governmental regulation of film conceded that some entity— JENNIFER FRONC boards populated by trusted civic leaders, for example—needed Amherst, Massachusetts. to safeguard the public good. The National Board of Review of Fronc is an associate professor Motion Pictures (NB), a civic group founded in New York City of history at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She is in 1909, emerged as a national cultural chaperon well suited to the author of New York Under- protect this emerging form of expression from state incursions. cover: Private Surveillance in the Using the National Board’s extensive files, Monitoring the Progressive Era. Movies offers the first full-length study of the NB and its cam- release date | november paign against motion-picture censorship. Jennifer Fronc traces 6 x 9 inches, 272 pages, 15 b&w the NB’s Progressive-era founding in New York; its evolving set photos of “standards” for directors, producers, municipal officers, and ISBN 978-1-4773-1393-0 citizens; its “city plan,” which called on citizens to report screen- $29.95* ings of condemned movies to local officials; and the spread of paperback the NB’s influence into the urban South. Ultimately,Monitoring ISBN 978-1-4773-1379-4 the Movies shows how Americans grappled with the issues that $90.00* hardcover arose alongside the powerful new medium of film: the extent of the right to produce and consume images and the proper scope ISBN 978-1-4773-1395-4 of government control over what citizens can see and show. $29.95* e-book

74 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | film, media, and popular culture | Genre

Surveying comedic texts and performers from The Jack Benny Program to Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, and Stephen Colbert, this classroom-ready anthology offers a first-ever overview of the field of comedy studies The Comedy Studies Reader

edited by Nick Marx & Matt Sienkiewicz

The Comedy Studies Reader

Edited by Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz

From .classical .Hollywood .film .comedies .to .sitcoms, . recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader. NICK MARX This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent Fort .Collins, .Colorado works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and Marx is an assistant professor approaches for studying comedic media—the carnivalesque, of media studies at Colorado comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, State University. race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and glo- MATT SIENKIEWICZ balization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Chestnut .Hill, . Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the Massachusetts leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the Sienkiewicz is an associate profes- volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field— sor of communication and international studies at Boston College. first, comedy’s development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular commen- release date | march tators to characterize the present as a “comedy zeitgeist”; and 6 x 9 inches, 310 pages, 12 b&w second, comedy studies’ new focus on the ways in which comedy photos increasingly circulates in “serious” discursive realms, including ISBN 978-1-4773-1600-9 politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power. $29.95* paperback

ISBN 978-1-4773-1599-6 $90.00* hardcover

ISBN 978-1-4773-1602-3 $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 75 2018 | film, media, and popular culture | Directors & Stars

Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films includeCasa - blanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce

The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz

Edited by R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance

Director .Michael .Curtiz .was .the .mastermind .behind . some of the most iconic films of classical Hollywood—Casablan- ca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce, to name only a few. The most prolific and con- sistently successful Hollywood generalist with an all-embracing interest in different forms of narrative and spectacle, Curtiz R. BARTON PALMER made around a hundred films in an astonishing range of genres: Atlanta, .Georgia action, biopics, melodramas/film noir, musicals, and westerns. Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Pro- But his important contributions to the history of American film fessor of Literature at Clemson University in Clemson, South have been overlooked because his broadly varied oeuvre does Carolina, and author or editor not present the unified vision of filmmaking that canonical crit- of many books, including Holly- icism demands for the category of “auteur.” wood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America Exploring his films and artistic practice from a variety of and After Hitchcock: Influence, angles, including politics, gender, and genre, The Many Cine- Imitation, Intertextuality. mas of Michael Curtiz sheds new light on this underappreciat- MURRAY POMERANCE ed cinematic genius. Leading film studies scholars offer fresh Toronto, .Ontario appraisals of many of Curtiz’s most popular films, while also Pomerance is Professor of Sociol- paying attention to neglected releases of substantial histori- ogy at Ryerson University. He cal interest, such as Noah’s Ark, Night and Day, Virginia City, is the author or editor of many Black Fury, Mystery of the Wax Museum, and Female. Because books, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Moment of Curtiz worked for so long and in so many genres, this analysis Action: Riddles of Cinematic of his work becomes more than an author study of a notable di - Performance, and The Eyes Have rector. Instead, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz effectively It: Cinema and the Reality Effect. He is also the editor or coeditor of adds a major chapter to the history of Hollywood’s studio era, several book series in film studies.

76 University of texas Press | [email protected] | film, media, and popular culture | Directors & Stars

including its internationalism and the significant contributions release date | july of European émigrés. 6 x 9 inches, 316 pages, 35 b&w photos

ISBN 978-1-4773-1555-2 $29.95* paperback

ISBN 978-1-4773-1554-5 $90.00* hardcover

ISBN 978-1-4773-1557-6 $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 77 2018 | film, media, and popular culture | Race, Gender & Sexuality, Genre WHERE NO BLACK WOMAN With in-depth explorations of six contempo- HAS GONE rary American and British films and shows, BEFORE this pioneering volume spotlights black female characters who play central, subversive roles in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

Subversive Portrayals Diana in Speculative Adesola Film and TV Mafe Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV

By Diana Adesola Mafe

When Lieutenant. Uhura. took. her. place. on. the. bridge. . of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nich- ols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began DIANA ADESOLA MAFE playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science fiction, fantasy, Granville, Ohio. and horror) film and television—a troubling omission, given that Mafe is an associate professor of these genres offer significant opportunities for reinventing social English at Denison University. constructs such as race, gender, and class. Challenging cinema’s She is the author of Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African history of stereotyping or erasing black women on-screen, Where and American Literature: No Black Woman Has Gone Before showcases twenty-first-century Coloring Outside the (Black and examples that portray them as central figures of action and agency. White) Lines. Writing for fans as well as scholars, Diana Adesola Mafe looks release date | march at representations of black womanhood and girlhood in American 6 x 9 inches, 192 pages, 26 b&w and British speculative film and television, including28 Days Lat- photos er, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Children of Men, Beasts of the Southern ISBN 978-1-4773-1523-1 Wild, Firefly, and Doctor Who: Series 3. Each of these has a subver- $27.95* sive black female character in its main cast, and Mafe draws on crit- paperback ical race, postcolonial, and gender theories to explore each film and ISBN 978-1-4773-1522-4 show, placing the black female characters at the center of the analysis $85.00* hardcover and demonstrating their agency. The first full study of black female characters in speculative film and television,Where No Black Wom- ISBN 978-1-4773-1525-5 $27.95* an Has Gone Before shows why heroines such as Lex inAVP and Zoë e-book in Firefly are inspiring a generation of fans, just as Uhura did.

78 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | film, media, and popular culture | Genre

Analyzing films fromLa manoir du Diable to Dracula and Frankenstein, as well as their promotion and critical reception, this book reveals how tales of horror are intimately bound to questions of nationhood and na- A Place of tional identity Darkness The Rhetoric v Horror in Early American Cinema

Kendall R. Phillips A Place of Darkness The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema

By Kendall R. Phillips

Horror .is .one .of .the .most .enduringly .popular .genres . in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty kinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A KENDALL R. PHILLIPS Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre Syracuse, .New .York by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed Phillips is a professor of commu- in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” nication and rhetorical studies Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early at Syracuse University. He is films but also the promotional materials for them and critical author of several books, including Projected Fears: Horror Films responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the por- and American Culture and Dark trayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social ten- Directions: Romero, Craven, sions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film. American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions release date | march and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was 6 x 9 inches, 268 pages, 14 b&w photos pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements ISBN 978-1-4773-1551-4 were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, $29.95* paperback humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the sys- ISBN 978-1-4773-1550-7 $90.00* tem of American certainty and opened a space for the reemer- hardcover gence of Old World gothic within American popular discourse ISBN 978-1-4773-1553-8 in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled $29.95* fans ever since. e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 79 2018 | film, media, and popular culture | Genre

SCREENING Surveying adaptations of Stephen King’s work across four decades, this volume links the evolution of King’s “brand” to the

ADAPTATION AND THE HORROR GENRE IN FILM AND TELEVISION changing preoccupations and industrial SIMON BROWN contexts of the horror genre in film and TV since the seventies

Screening Stephen King Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television

By Simon Brown

Since .the .1970s, .the .name .Stephen .King .has .been .syn- onymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer’s work has been adapted over a long period within a single genre and SIMON BROWN across a variety of media—and what that can tell us about King, Kingston .Upon .Thames, . about adaptation, and about film and TV horror. Starting from United .Kingdom the premise that King has transcended ideas of authorship to be- Brown is an associate professor come his own literary, cinematic, and televisual brand, Screening of film and television at Kingston University. His previous books Stephen King explores the impact and legacy of over forty years of include Cecil Hepworth and the King film and television adaptations. Rise of the British Film Industry Simon Brown first examines the reasons for King’s literary 1899–1911. success and then, starting with Brian De Palma’s Carrie, ex- release date | february plores how King’s themes and style have been adapted for the big 6 x 9 inches, 250 pages, 16 b&w and small screens. He looks at mainstream multiplex horror ad- photos aptations from Cujo to Cell, low-budget DVD horror films such ISBN 978-1-4773-1492-0 as The Mangler and Children of the Corn franchises, non-horror $29.95* films, including Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, paperback and TV works from Salem’s Lot to Under the Dome. Through ISBN 978-1-4773-1491-3 this discussion, Brown identifies what a Stephen King film or $90.00* hardcover series is or has been, how these works have influenced film and TV horror, and what these influences reveal about the shifting ISBN 978-1-4773-1494-4 $29.95* preoccupations and industrial contexts of the post-1960s horror e-book genre in film and TV.

80 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | jewish studies | Film, Media, and Popular Culture, Latin American Studies

With critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, this is the first volume devoted to Jewish filmmaking and films with Jewish themes and characters in Latin America

EDITED BY NORA GLICKMAN AND ARIANA HUBERMAN

Evolving Images Jewish Latin American Cinema

Edited by Nora Glickman and Ariana Huberman

Jews . have . always . played . an . important . role . in . the . NORA GLICKMAN generation of culture in Latin America, despite their relative- New .York, .New .York ly small numbers in the overall population. In the early days Glickman is a professor of Latin of cinema, they served as directors, producers, screenwriters, American literature at Queens composers, and broadcasters. As Latin American societies be- College and at the Graduate Center, CUNY. came more religiously open in the later twentieth century, Jew - ish characters and themes began appearing in Latin American ARIANA HUBERMAN films and eventually achieved full inclusion. Landmark films by Haverford, .Pennsylvania Jewish directors in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, which are Huberman is an associate pro- home to the largest and most influential Jewish communities in fessor of Spanish at Haverford Latin America, have enjoyed critical and popular acclaim. College. Evolving Images is the first volume devoted to Jewish Latin Exploring .Jewish .Arts . . American cinema, with fifteen critical essays by leading schol- and .Culture ars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Isra- Robert H. Abzug, Series Editor Director of the Schusterman el. The contributors address transnational and transcultural Center for Jewish Studies issues of Jewish life in Latin America, such as assimilation, integration, identity, and other aspects of life in the Diaspora. release date | december 6 x 9 inches, 272 pages, 34 photos Their discussions of films with Jewish themes and characters show the rich diversity of Jewish cultures in Latin America, as ISBN 978-1-4773-1471-5 $29.95* well as how Jews, both real and fictional, interact among them- paperback selves and with other groups, raising the question of how much ISBN 978-1-4773-1426-5 their ethnicity may be adulterated when adopting a combined $90.00* identity as Jewish and Latin American. The book closes with hardcover a groundbreaking section on the affinities between Jewish ISBN 978-1-4773-1428-9 themes in Hollywood and Latin American films, as well as a $29.95* comprehensive filmography. e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 81 2018 | film, media, and popular culture |

CinemaTexas Written to accompany movies screened by NOTES the Radio-Television-Film Department at the The Early Days of Austin Film Culture University of Texas, the CinemaTexas Notes Edited by LOUIS BLACK with COLLINS SWORDS open a fascinating window on the early Aus- tin film scene and the rise of film studies

CinemaTexas Notes The Early Days of Austin Film Culture

Edited by Louis Black and Collins Swords

Austin’s .thriving .film .culture, .renowned .for .international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, ex- tends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran LOUIS BLACK a film programming unit that screened movies for students and Austin, .Texas the public. Dubbed CinemaTexas, the program offered viewers Black was one of the original a wide variety of films—old and new, mainstream, classic, and writers of the CinemaTexas Pro- gram Notes. He cofounded The cult—at a time when finding and watching films after their first Austin Chronicle, where he was run was very difficult and prohibitively expensive. For each film, the editor for thirty-six years, RTF graduate students wrote program notes that included pro- and SXSW, where he is a director, and was a founding board duction details, a sampling of critical reactions, and an original member of the Austin Film Soci- essay that placed the film and its director within context and ety. He has written extensively explained the movie’s historical significance. Over time, Cine- on film, music, and politics. In 2016, he and Karen Bernstein maTexas Program Notes became more ambitious and were dis- directed the documentary Rich- tributed around the world, including to luminaries such as film ard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, critic Pauline Kael. which made its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival. This anthology gathers a sampling of CinemaTexas Program Notes, organized into four sections: “USA Film History,” “Hol- COLLINS SWORDS lywood Auteurs,” “Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents,” and “Amer- Austin, .Texas ica’s Shadow Cinema.” Many of the note writers have become A recent MA graduate of the prominent film studies scholars, as well as leading figures in the Department of Radio-Televi- sion-Film at the University of film, TV, music, and video game industries. As a collection,Cin - Texas at Austin, Swords is a emaTexas Notes strongly contradicts the notion of an effortlessly creative assistant to Louis Black, formed American film canon, showing instead how local film with whom he works in project development, promotion, outreach, cultures—whether in Austin, New York, or Europe—have for- editing, and archival research. warded the development of film studies as a discipline.

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VOL. 13, NO. 4 DECEMBER 7, 1977

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) produced and directed by tobe hooper

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Courtesy of Tobe Hooper.

What’s it like to have a nightmare from which you can’t wake up? There have exactly what they were getting. People screamed and fainted and continued been films that explored nightmares (The Manchurian Candidate, for one), but to go to the theaters. Part of the advertising campaign for the original Fran- they always let up when things get rough. Texas Chainsaw does not let up—it kenstein (1931) announced that there would be a nurse in the lobby. Having just keeps on getting worse. What’s more, it captures nightmare syntax with oneself scared half to death can be a surprisingly pleasurable experience. astonishing fidelity. Fine photography and editing, and an amazing electronic The society changed and the film form with it. There was World War II score, add to the impact. Last year the Museum of Modern Art Film Library and Nazis and ovens with people mass-murdering other people. The ritual- put on a special screening of Texas Chainsaw. They were right. | michael ization of war that allowed us to cope with disguised genocide broke down goodwin, Take One, Vol. V, No.1 and we were forced to confront a new kind of horror. Still there is the scene in Roger Corman’s Bloody Mama where the crowd arrives with picnic baskets to watch the police slaughter the Barker family. It is an image replicat- TWENTY-FIVE REASONS WHY I DON’T WANT TO SEE TEXAS ing the scene at the first battle of Bull Run, where the Washington DC elite CHAINSAW MASSACRE drove out from the city with picnic baskets to watch the anonymous boys in 1. Avoidance of pain has always been one of my major priorities. blue slaughter the anonymous boys in grey. But when the tables were turned Massacre is not so much gross as terrifying and not so much hor the elite hurried home. They didn’t really want to be involved; they only rible as agonizing. It may not be the quintessence of pain, but it wanted to watch. Audiences are allowed such privileges. comes real close. We are the audience with those privileges, fascinated by watching humans slaughtering humans. We are the audience watching Alain

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Reasons why I don’t want to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre

• Avoidance of pain has always been one of my major priorities. • Like one of the characters in the film, I like meat. • Like the gas station attendant, killing is not something I get much pleasure from. release date | february • I’m afraid of the dark. 6 x 9 inches, 332 pages, 29 b&w • I dislike cutting myself. photos • Dead bodies bother me. ISBN 978-1-4773-1544-6 • It’s hard to reason with a homicidal maniac. $29.95* • I don’t know for sure what goes into sausage. paperback • I have a very vivid imagination, and I don’t need fresh material. ISBN 978-1-4773-1543-9 • After about ten minutes I got a little tired of hearing a girl $90.00* scream hysterically. hardcover

• No one will convince me that “it’s just a movie” is any kind of ISBN 978-1-4773-1546-0 real comfort. $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 83 2017 | information studies | Film, Media, and Popular Culture

Addressing one of the most important but least-reported aspects of mass communication, this timely volume considers both the perils of misinformation and the possibilities for reme- dying its detrimental effects

Misinformation and Mass Audiences

Edited by Brian g. Southwell, Emily a. Thorson, and Laura Sheble

Lies . and . inaccurate . information . are . as . old . as . humanity, but never before have they been so easy to spread. Each BRIAN g. SOUTHWELL moment of every day, the Internet and broadcast media purvey directs the Science in the Public misinformation, either deliberately or accidentally, to a mass au- Sphere Program in the Center for Communication Science at RTI dience on subjects ranging from politics to consumer goods to sci- International in Durham, North ence and medicine, among many others. Because misinformation Carolina. now has the potential to affect behavior on a massive scale, it is EMILY a. THORSON urgently important to understand how it works and what can be is an assistant professor of politi- done to mitigate its harmful effects. cal science at Boston College. Misinformation and Mass Audiences brings together evi - LAURA SHEBLE dence and ideas from communication research, public health, is the Margolis Fellow in Data psychology, political science, environmental studies, and in- Science at the Robert J. Margolis, formation science to investigate what constitutes misinfor- MD, Center for Health Policy at Duke University. mation, how it spreads, and how best to counter it. The expert contributors cover such topics as whether and to what extent Information audiences consciously notice misinformation, the possibilities Andrew Dillon, Series Editor for audience deception, the ethics of satire in journalism and release date | january public affairs programming, the diffusion of rumors, the role of 6 x 9 inches, 312 pages, 13 illus- Internet search behavior, and the evolving efforts to counter- trations act misinformation, such as fact-checking programs. The first ISBN 978-1-4773-1456-2 comprehensive social science volume exploring the prevalence $29.95* and consequences of, and remedies for, misinformation as a paperback mass communication phenomenon, Misinformation and Mass ISBN 978-1-4773-1455-5 Audiences will be a crucial resource for students and faculty re- $90.00* hardcover searching misinformation, policymakers grappling with questions of regulation and prevention, and anyone concerned about ISBN 978-1-4773-1458-6 this troubling, yet perhaps unavoidable, dimension of current $29.95* e-book media systems.

84 University of texas Press | [email protected] | information studies | Film, Media, and Popular Culture Announcing a New Series Information Andrew Dillon, Series Editor

The Information series comprises cutting-edge books that will chart and shape the rapidly changing landscape of information technology. Our information age is not a story of incremental progress—this is a new Gutenberg era that is changing the .world quickly, permanently, and in ways that we cannot easily control. The series explores and explains the emergence of the new socio-technical world in which we work and play, make purchases and perform services, learn and communicate, create and share, without pause or concern for distance. Placing emphasis on human and social concerns, the Information series will serve as a focal point for interdisciplinary and intellectually deep work that addresses the most pressing information issues of our time.

Recently Forthcoming in published the series

Don Fallis on lying and information • James Cortada on information as history • Kenneth Fleischmann on ethics and values

Theory Development in the Information Sciences edited by diane h. sonnenwald

ISBN .978-1-4773-0906-3 $29.95* paperback ISBN .978-1-4773-0826-4 $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 85 2017 | latin american studies | Art and Visual Studies, History

Using extensive and largely unpublished archival documentation, this major new work recovers the first century of artistic practice in colonial Quito, one of colonial South Ameri- ca’s most important artistic centers

Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito

By Susan Verdi Webster

Quito, .Ecuador, .was .one .of .colonial .South .America’s . most important artistic centers. Yet the literature on painting in colonial Quito largely ignores the first century of activity, reduc- ing it to a “handful of names,” writes Susan Verdi Webster. In this major new work based on extensive and largely unpublished archival documentation, Webster identifies and traces the lives of more than fifty painters who plied their trade in the city between 1550 SUSAN VERDI WEBSTER and 1650, revealing their mastery of languages and literacies and Williamsburg, .Virginia the circumstances in which they worked in early colonial Quito. Webster is the Jane Williams Overturning many traditional assumptions about early Mahoney Professor of Art His- Quiteño artists, Webster establishes that these artists—most of tory and American Studies at whom were Andean—functioned as visual intermediaries and the College of William & Mary. She has published extensively in multifaceted cultural translators who harnessed a wealth of spe- both English and Spanish on the cialized knowledge to shape graphic, pictorial worlds for colonial history of painting, sculpture, audiences. Operating in an urban mediascape of layered languag- architecture, and visual culture in Spain, Ecuador, and Mexico. es and empires, Quiteño painters dominated both the pen and the brush. Webster demonstrates that the Quiteño artists enjoyed release date | september fluency in alphabetic literacy, sophisticated scribal conventions, 7 x 10 inches, 416 pages, 35 color and specialized knowledge of pictorial languages: the materials, and 54 b&w photos, 5 b&w illustrations, 1 map technologies, and chemistry of painting, in addition to perspective, proportion, and iconography. This mastery enabled artists ISBN 978-1-4773-1328-2 $50.00* to deploy languages and literacies to obtain power and status in hardcover early colonial Quito.

86 University of texas Press | [email protected] Anonymous, Virgin Tota Pulchra with Augustinian Saints, second half of the seventeenth century. Recoleta de San Diego, Quito. Photo: Hernán L. Navarrete. 2017 | latin american studies | Art and Visual Studies, History

Presenting extensive archival research in a lively narrative, this study reveals how celebrated Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas mobilized cultural patronage and tourism in a project of nation building during the 1930s

Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico Art, Tourism, and Nation Building under Lázaro Cárdenas

By Jennifer Jolly

In .the .1930s, .the .artistic .and .cultural .patronage .of . celebrated Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas transformed a JENNIFER JOLLY small Michoacán city, Pátzcuaro, into a popular center for na- Ithaca, .New .York tional tourism. Cárdenas commissioned public monuments and Jolly is an associate professor of archeological excavations; supported new schools, libraries, and art history at Ithaca College. Her a public theater; developed tourism sites and infrastructure, in- essays on David Alfaro Siqueiros cluding the Museo de Artes Populares e Industriales; and hired and Josep Renau have been published in edited volumes and the artists to paint murals celebrating regional history, traditions, Oxford Art Journal. and culture. The creation of Pátzcuaro was formative for Mexico; not only did it provide an early model for regional economic and Joe .R . .and .Teresa .Lozano . Long .Series .in Latin. . cultural development, but it also helped establish some of Mexi- American .and Latino. .Art . co’s most enduring national myths, rituals, and institutions. and .Culture In Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico, Jennifer Jolly argues

release date | january that Pátzcuaro became a microcosm of cultural power during the 6 x 9 inches, 370 pages, 11 color 1930s and that we find the foundations of modern Mexico in its and 92 b&w photos creation. Her extensive historical and archival research reveals ISBN 978-1-4773-1420-3 how Cárdenas and the artists and intellectuals who worked with $29.95* him used cultural patronage as a guise for radical modernization paperback in the region. Jolly demonstrates that the Pátzcuaro project helped ISBN 978-1-4773-1419-7 define a new modern body politic for Mexico, in which the popu- $90.00* lation was asked to emulate Cárdenas by touring the country and hardcover seeing and embracing its land, history, and people. Ultimately, by ISBN 978-1-4773-1422-7 offering Mexicans a means to identify and engage with power and $29.95* privilege, the creation of Pátzcuaro placed art and tourism at the e-book center of Mexico’s postrevolutionary nation building project.

88 University of texas Press | [email protected] | latin american studies | Art and Visual Studies, History

Paul Strand, Woman, Pátzcuaro, 1933. From The MexicanPortfolio, 1940. © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive. 2018 | latin american studies | Literature, Art and Visual Studies

EUGENIO CLAUDIO DI STEFANO Examining the works of writers and artists such as Roberto Bolaño, Fernan- do Botero, Pablo Larraín, and Alejandro

THE VANISHING FRAME Zambra, this pathfinding book challenges postdictatorial aesthetics by focusing on the concept of aesthetic autonomy as a cri- LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE AND THEORY IN THE POSTDICTATORIAL ERA tique of economic inequality

The Vanishing Frame Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era

By Eugenio Di Stefano

In .the .postdictatorial .era, .Latin .American .cultural . production and criticism has been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader by eliminating the EUGENIO DI STEFANO division between art and life. The Vanishing Frame argues against Omaha, .Nebraska this conception of freedom, demonstrating how it is based on a poli- Di Stefano is an associate profes- tics of human rights complicit with economic injustices. Presenting sor of Spanish at the University of a provocative counternarrative, Eugenio Di Stefano examines liter- Nebraska at Omaha. ary, visual, and interdisciplinary artists who insist on the autonomy Border .Hispanisms of the work of art in order to think beyond the politics of human Jon Beasley-Murray, Alberto rights and neoliberalism in Latin American theory and culture. Moreiras, and Gareth Williams, Series Editors Di Stefano demonstrates that while artists such as Diamela Eltit, Ariel Dorfman, and Albertina Carri develop a concept of release date | may justice premised on recognizing victims’ experiences of torture 6 x 9 inches, 242 pages or disappearance, they also ignore the injustice of economic in- ISBN 978-1-4773-1619-1 equality and exploitation. By examining how artists such as Ro- $29.95* berto Bolaño, Alejandro Zambra, and Fernando Botero not only paperback reject an aesthetics of experience (and the politics it entails) but ISBN 978-1-4773-1618-4 also insist on the work of art as a point of departure for an anti- $90.00* hardcover capitalist politics, this new reading of Latin American cultural production offers an alternative understanding of recent devel- ISBN 978-1-4773-1621-4 opments in Latin American aesthetics and politics that puts art $29.95* e-book at its center and the postdictatorship at its end.

90 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | latin american studies | Literature

The first broad survey of contemporary print culture in Latin America, this study demonstrates how public reading programs invite civic participation and promote social integration as the region becomes increasingly democratic

Reading along the Latin American Streetscape Marcy Schwartz Public Pages Reading along the Latin American Streetscape

By Marcy Schwartz

Public . reading . programs . are . flourishing . in . many . MARCY SCHWARTZ Latin American cities in the new millennium. They defy the con- New .Brunswick, .New Jersey. ception of reading as solitary and private by literally taking liter- Schwartz is the chair of the ature to the streets to create new communities of readers. From Department of Spanish and institutional and official to informal and spontaneous, the read- Portuguese and affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies ing programs all use public space, distribute creative writing to a at Rutgers University–New Bruns- mass public, foster collective rather than individual reading, and wick. Her previous books include provide access to literature in unconventional arenas. Writing Paris: Urban Topogra- phies of Desire in Contemporary The first international study of contemporary print culture Latin American Fiction and in the Americas, Public Pages reveals how recent cultural policy Invenciones urbanas: ficción y and collective literary reading intervene in public space to pro- ciudad latinoamericanas. mote social integration in cities in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Joe .R . .and .Teresa .Lozano . Mexico, and Chile. Marcy Schwartz looks at broad institutional Long .Series in. .Latin . programs such as UNESCO World Book Capital campaigns and American and. .Latino Art. . and .Culture the distribution of free books on public transportation, as well as local initiatives that produce handmade books out of recy- release date | may cled materials (known as cartoneras) and display banned books 6 x 9 inches, 304 pages, 74 b&w photos at former military detention centers. She maps the connection between literary reading and the development of cultural citi- ISBN 978-1-4773-1518-7 zenship in Latin America, with municipalities, cultural centers, $29.95* paperback and groups of ordinary citizens harnessing reading as an activity both social and literary. Along with other strategies for re- ISBN 978-1-4773-1517-0 $90.00* claiming democracy after decades of authoritarian regimes and hardcover political violence, as well as responding to neoliberal economic ISBN 978-1-4773-1520-0 policies, these acts of reading collectively in public settings in- $29.95* vite civic participation and affirm local belonging. e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 91 2017 | latin american studies | History, Anthropology, Food Studies

Substance This interdisciplinary anthology reveals how & Seduction the consumption of seductive ingestibles, such ingested commodities in early modern mesoamerica as chocolate, pulque, and peyote, illuminates

Edited by stacey e. schwartzkopf key linkages between colonization and com- and kathryn sampeck modification in Mesoamerica

Substance and Seduction Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica

Edited by Stacey Schwartzkopf and Kathryn E. Sampeck

Chocolate . and . sugar, . alcohol . and . tobacco, . peyote . and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances STACEY SCHWARTZKOPF have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Me- is an assistant professor of anthropology at Hendrix College soamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances in Conway, Arkansas seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them KATHRYN E. SAMPECK is an associate professor of before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions anthropology at Illinois State across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the University. individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cul- The .William .and .Bettye . tural, economic, and political forces. Nowlin .Series .in .Art, . Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, the chapters in History, .and .Culture .of . Substance and Seduction trace three key links between coloniza - the .Western .Hemisphere tion and commodification. First, as substances that were taken release date | november into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and 6 x 9 inches, 228 pages, 20 b&w drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of pro- photos, 10 illustrations, 5 maps duction and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, ISBN 987-1-4773-1387-9 forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities devel- $27.95* oped in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, paperback each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its abil- ISBN 987-1-4773-1386-2 ity to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, $85.00* hardcover social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplin- ISBN 987-1-4773-1389-3 $27.95* ary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and e-book profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.

92 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | latin american studies | History

Shifting the focus of Atlantic World studies to the Iberian peninsula, this volume reveals how Andean travelers to the Spanish royal court helped to construct, maintain, and transform transoceanic networks of power

Andean Cosmopolitans Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court

By José Carlos de la Puente Luna

After . the . Spanish . victories . over . the . Inca . claimed . Tawantinsuyu for Charles V in the 1530s, native Andeans un- dertook a series of perilous trips from Peru to the royal court in JOSÉ CARLOS DE LA Spain. They shared a conviction that the sovereign’s absolute au- PUENTE LUNA thority would guarantee that justice would be done and service San .Marcos, .Texas would receive its due reward. As they negotiated their claims with De la Puente is an associate imperial officials, Amerindian peoples helped forge the connec- professor of history at Texas State tions that sustained the expanding Habsburg realm’s imaginary University. He is the author of Los curacas hechiceros de Jauja: and gave the modern global age its defining character. Batallas mágicas y legales en Andean Cosmopolitans recovers these travelers’ dramatic ex- el Perú colonial and coeditor of El quipu colonial: estudios y periences, while simultaneously highlighting their profound in- materiales. fluences on the making and remaking of the colonial world. While Spain’s American possessions became Spanish in many ways, the release date | january Andean travelers (in their cosmopolitan lives and journeys) also 6 x 9 inches, 416 pages, 9 b&w photos helped to shape Spain in the image and likeness of Peru. De la Pu- ente brings remarkable insights to a narrative showing how pre- ISBN 978-1-4773-1486-9 $29.95* viously unknown peoples and ideas created new power structures paperback and institutions, as well as novel ways of being urban, Indian, ISBN 978-1-4773-1443-2 elite, and subject. As indigenous people articulated and defended $90.00* their own views regarding the legal and political character of the hardcover “Republic of the Indians,” they became state-builders of a special ISBN 978-1-4773-1488-3 kind, cocreating the colonial order. $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 93 2017 | latin american studies | History

This history of evolving birthing practices in Puerto Rico reveals how dramatic transformations in childbirth resulted from broader economic, political, and cultural shifts toward a model of industrial nationhood

Pushing in Silence Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth

By Isabel M. Córdova

As .Puerto .Rico .rapidly .industrialized .from .the .late . 1940s until the 1970s, the social, political, and economic landscape changed profoundly. In the realm of heath care, the development of medical education, new medical technologies, and a new faith in science radically redefined childbirth and its practice. What had traditionally been a home-based, family-oriented process, assisted by women and midwives and “accomplished” by mothers, became a medicalized, hospital-based procedure, “ac- ISABEL M. CÓRDOVA complished” and directed by biomedical, predominantly male, Rochester, .New .York practitioners, and, ultimately reconfigured, after the 1980s, into a Córdova is an associate professor technocratic model of childbirth, driven by doctors’ fears of mal- in the Department of History practice suits and hospitals’ corporate concerns. and Political Science at Nazareth College. Pushing in Silence charts the medicalization of childbirth in Puerto Rico and demonstrates how biomedicine is culturally release date | december constructed within regional and historical contexts. Isabel M. 6 x 9 inches, 274 pages, 1 map Córdova traces how midwifery almost completely disappeared ISBN 978-1-4773-1412-8 as state programs led by scientifically trained experts and orga- $29.95* nized by bureaucratic institutions restructured and formalized paperback birthing practices. Only after cesarean rates skyrocketed in the ISBN 978-1-4773-1363-3 1980s and 1990s did midwifery make a modest return through $90.00* hardcover the practices of five newly trained midwives. This history, which mirrors similar patterns in the United States and elsewhere, ISBN 978-1-4773-1414-2 $29.95* adds an important new chapter to the development of medicine e-book and technology in Latin America.

94 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | latin american studies | History, Film and Media

Examining a range of popular cultural production, from music and dance to theater and film, this book explores how transatlantic and inter-American artistic exchanges redefined Brazilian identity, especially the perception of “race”

Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race

Lisa s haw

Tropical Travels Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race

By Lisa Shaw

Brazilian . popular . culture, . including . music, . dance, . theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits—inter-American and transatlantic—from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for cultur- LISA SHAW al production in France, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, and Liverpool, .England elsewhere. These transnational exchanges also helped construct new Shaw is a reader in Portuguese ideas about, and representations of, “racial” identity in Brazil.Tropi - and Brazilian studies at the cal Travels fruitfully examines how perceptions of “race” were nego- University of Liverpool. tiated within popular performance in Rio de Janeiro and how these Joe .R . .and .Teresa .Lozano . issues engaged with wider transnational trends during the period. Long .Series in. .Latin . Lisa Shaw analyzes how local cultural forms were shaped American and. .Latino Art. . and .Culture by contact with imported performance traditions and transnational vogues in Brazil, as well as by the movement of Brazilian release date | january performers overseas. She focuses specifically on samba and the 6 x 9 inches, 288 pages, 26 b&w photos maxixe in Paris between 1910 and 1922, teatro de revista (the Brazilian equivalent of vaudeville) in Rio in the long 1920s, and ISBN 978-1-4773-1479-1 . $29.95* a popular Brazilian female archetype, the baiana, who moved to paperback and fro across national borders and oceans. Shaw demonstrates ISBN 978-1-4773-1278-0 that these transnational encounters generated redefinitions of $90.00* Brazilian identity through the performance of “race” and eth- hardcover nicity in popular culture. Shifting the traditional focus of At- ISBN 978-1-4773-1279-7 lantic studies from the northern to the southern hemisphere, $29.95* Tropical Travels also contributes to a fuller understanding of e-book inter-hemispheric cultural influences within the Americas.

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 95 2017 | latin american studies | Anthropology, History

T he IND e P e NDe NT R e PUBLIC o F This anthropological history traces the devel-

Making Regional Culture in the Andes opment of a distinctive regional culture in Thomas F. Love Peru’s second largest city, which constitutes one of the earliest central Andean examples of the emergence of a broadly mestizo identity

The Independent Republic of Arequipa Making Regional Culture in the Andes

By Thomas F. Love

Arequipa, .Peru’s .second .largest .city, .has .the .most .intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipeños fiercely conceive of themselves as exceptional and distinctive, yet also broadly representative of the nation’s overall hybrid nature—a THOMAS F. LOVE blending of coast (modern, “white”) and sierra (traditional, McMinnville, .Oregon “indigenous”). The Independent Republic of Arequipa investi- Love is a professor of anthropolo- gates why and how this regional identity developed in a boom gy at Linfield College. of cultural production after the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) Joe .R . .and .Teresa .Lozano . through the mid-twentieth century. Long .Series .in Latin. . Drawing on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, Thomas American .and Latino. .Art . F. Love offers the first anthropological history of southwest- and .Culture ern Peru’s distinctive regional culture. He examines both its release date | november pre-Hispanic and colonial altiplano foundations (anchored in 6 x 9 inches, 332 pages, 26 b&w continuing pilgrimage to key Marian shrines) and the nature photos, 6 maps of its mid-nineteenth century “revolutionary” identity in cross- ISBN 978-1-4773-1459-3 class resistance to Lima’s autocratic control of nation-building $29.95* in the post-Independence state. Love then examines Arequipa’s paperback early twentieth-century “mestizo” identity (an early and unusual ISBN 978-1-4773-1392-3 case of “browning” of regional identity) in the context of raging $90.00* hardcover debates about the “national question” and the “Indian problem,” as well as the post-WWII development of extravagant displays ISBN 978-1-4773-1461-6 $29.95* of distinctive bull-on-bull fighting that now constitute the very e-book performance of regional identity.

96 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | latin american studies | History

Using the rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories of the local officials and settlers who first colonized Mexico, this iconoclastic book reveals the inherent difficulties of imposing a PROMISCUOUS colonial order in the Americas POWER

AN UNORTHODOX HISTORY OF NEW SPAIN

MARTIN AUSTIN NESVIG

Promiscuous Power An Unorthodox History of New Spain

By Martin Austin Nesvig

Scholars . have . written . reams . on . the . conquest . of . Mexico, from the grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquista- dors, and inquisitors to the myriad ways that indigenous peoples contested imperial authority. But the actual work of establishing the Spanish empire in Mexico fell to a host of local agents— magistrates, bureaucrats, parish priests, ranchers, miners, sugar producers, and many others—who knew little and cared less MARTIN AUSTIN NESVIG about the goals of their superiors in Mexico City and Madrid. Miami, .Florida Through a case study of the province of Michoacán in western Nesvig is an associate professor Mexico, Promiscuous Power focuses on the prosaic agents of co- of history at the University of Miami. He is the author of lonialism to offer a paradigm-shifting view of the complexities Ideology and Inquisition: The of making empire at the ground level. World of the Censors in Early Presenting rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories from the ar- Mexico and editor of three volumes on religion in Mexico, chives, Martin Austin Nesvig reveals that the local colonizers of Mi- including Religious Culture in choacán were primarily motivated by personal gain, emboldened Modern Mexico and Forgotten by the lack of oversight from the upper echelons of power, and thor- Franciscans: Writings from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, oughly committed to their own corporate memberships. His find- and an Inquisitional Deputy. ings challenge some of the most deeply held views of the Spanish colonization of Mexico, including the Black Legend, which asserts release date | july that the royal state and the institutional church colluded to produce 6 x 9 inches, 268 pages, 6 b&w photos, 5 maps a powerful Catholicism that crushed heterodoxy, punished cultural difference, and ruined indigenous worlds. Instead, Nesvig finds ISBN 978-1-4773-1582-8 $45.00* that Michoacán—typical of many frontier provinces of the empire— hardcover became a region of refuge from imperial and juridical control and ISBN 978-1-4773-1585-9 formal Catholicism, where the ordinary rules of law, jurisprudence, $45.00* and royal oversight collapsed in the entropy of decentralized rule. e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 97 2017 | latin american studies | Anthropology, Politics and Economics

This work of activist anthropology investigates the decolonializing cultural practices that the Zapatistas of Chiapas employed to resist the racialized policies of the Mexican neoliberal state and assert their autonomy

Kuxlejal Politics Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

By Mariana Mora

Over .the .past .two .decades, .Zapatista .indigenous .community members have asserted their autonomy and self-deter- mination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a spe- MARIANA MORA cific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mexico .City, .Mexico Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity Mora is an associate professor work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and Tojolabal community mem- and researcher at the Cen- bers helping to design and evaluate her fieldwork. The result ter for Research and Higher of that collaboration—a work of activist anthropology—reveals Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS). She coedited the book how Zapatista kuxlejal (or life) politics unsettle key racialized Luchas “muy otras”: Zapatismo effects of the Mexican neoliberal state. y autonomía en comunidades Through detailed narratives, thick descriptions, and testi- indígenas de Chiapas. monies, Kuxlejal Politics focuses on central spheres of Zapa - release date | december tista indigenous autonomy, particularly governing practices, 6 x 9 inches, 296 pages, 21 b&w agrarian reform, women’s collective work, and the implemen- photos, 2 maps tation of justice, as well as health and education projects. Mora ISBN 978-1-4773-1447-0 situates the proposals, possibilities, and challenges associated $27.95* with these decolonializing cultural politics in relation to the ra- paperback cialized restructuring that has characterized the Mexican state ISBN 978-1-4773-1446-3 over the past twenty years. Her findings allow her to critically an- $85.00* alyze the deeply complex and often contradictory ways in which hardcover the Zapatistas have reconceptualized the political and contested ISBN 978-1-4773-1449-4 the ordering of Mexican society along lines of gender, race, eth- $27.95* e-book nicity, and class.

Presenting case studies of two Honduran resettlements that have experienced very different outcomes, this book identifies the type and quality of support that resettlements need in order to become successful communities

From Strangers to Neighbors Post-Disaster Resettlement and Community Building in Honduras

By Ryan Alaniz

Natural . disasters, . the . effects . of . climate . change, . and political upheavals and war have driven tens of millions of people from their homes and spurred intense debates about how governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should respond with long-term resettlement strategies. Many resettlement efforts have focused primarily on providing infra- RYAN ALANIZ structure and have done little to help displaced people and com- San .Luis .Obispo, .California munities rebuild social structure, which has led to resettlement Alaniz is an assistant professor failures throughout the world. So what does it take to transform a of sociology at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. resettlement into a successful community? He is also affiliated with the This book offers the first long-term comparative study of -re United Nations University settlement social outcomes through a case study of two Hondu- and the Resilient Communities Research Institute. ran resettlements built for survivors of Hurricane Mitch (1998) by two different NGOs. Although residents of each resettlement release date | december arrived from the same affected neighborhoods and have similar 6 x 9 inches, 236 pages, 5 b&w photos, 2 maps demographics, twelve years later one resettlement wrestles with high crime, low participation, and low social capital, while the ISBN 978-1-4773-1409-8 other maintains low crime, a high degree of social cohesion, par- $29.95* paperback ticipation, and general social health. Ryan Alaniz demonstrates that these divergent resettlement trajectories can be traced back ISBN 978-1-4773-1383-1 $90.00* to the type and quality of support provided by external organiza- hardcover tions and the creation of a healthy, cohesive community culture. ISBN 978-1-4773-1411-1 $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 99 2017 | latin american studies | Art and Visual Studies, Literature consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo delirious Looking at several of the leading figures in consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumption consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo postwar Latin American letters and art, this consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo aesthetics consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo and consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo volume offers an enlarged understanding of consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumer consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo capitalism consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo the way art is produced in, and responds to, consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo in consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo mexico consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo and the age of consumer culture consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo brazil consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo sergio consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo delgado consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo moya consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo consumoconsumoconsumoconsumo Delirious Consumption Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil

By Sergio Delgado Moya

In .the .decades .following .World .War .II, .the .creation . and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many SERGIO DELGADO MOYA Cambridge, .Massachusetts avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we Delgado Moya is an associate professor of romance languag- perceive the world, place ourselves in it, and make sense of it via es and literatures at Harvard perception and emotion. University. Delirious Consumption focuses on the two largest cultural Border .Hispanisms economies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and analyzes how Jon Beasley-Murray, Alberto their artists and writers both embraced and resisted the spirit of Moreiras, and Gareth Williams, development and progress that defines the consumer moment in Series Editors late capitalism. Sergio Delgado Moya looks specifically at the work release date | october of David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian concrete poets, Octavio 6 x 9 inches, 340 pages, 19 b&w Paz, and Lygia Clark to determine how each of them arrived at photos, 8 illustrations forms of aesthetic production balanced between high modernism ISBN 978-1-4773-1435-7 and consumer culture. He finds in their works a provocative posi- $29.95* tioning vis-à-vis urban commodity capitalism, an ambivalent po- paperback sition that takes an assured but flexible stance against commodi- ISBN 978-1-4773-1434-0 fication, alienation, and the politics of domination and inequality $90.00* hardcover that defines market economies. In Delgado Moya’s view, these poets and artists appeal to uselessness, nonutility, and noncom- ISBN 978-1-4773-1437-1 $29.95* munication—all markers of the aesthetic—while drawing on the e-book terms proper to a world of consumption and consumer culture.

100 University of texas Press | [email protected] | latin american studies | Art and Visual Studies, Literature Announcing a New Series Border Hispanisms Jon Beasley-Murray, Alberto Moreiras, and Gareth Williams, Series Editors . Border Hispanisms promotes scholarship concerned with how social transformations alter and renew historical understanding. It promotes sustained attention to Hispanist work on Latin America, US Latino/Bor- der Studies, and peninsular Spain, fostering comparative and integrative approaches in a theoretically oriented transhemispheric, transcontinental, and transatlantic vein. The series explores the critical and scholarly fron - tiers of Hispanist discourse through modernity and up to the present, as well as other borders, differences, and encounters in the neoliberal present. Border Hispanisms is interested in contributing to the formation and development of a critical discourse that could potentially transform the status of Hispanisms within the Humanities and beyond. Recently published

Infrastructures of Race Culture and Revolution Concentration and Biopolitics Violence, Memory, and the Making in Colonial Mexico of Modern Mexico by daniel nemser by horacio legrás

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University of Texas Press | fall 2017 101 2018 | latin american studies | Literature, History, Art and Visual Studies

THE Tracing the evolution of “sense work” in OF DEMOCRACY literary texts, the visual arts, periodical Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America FRANCINE R. MASIELLO culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change

The Senses of Democracy Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America

By Francine R. Masiello

In . The Senses of Democracy, . Francine . R . . Masiello . traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book along with an original and provocative thesis: when the discourse on democracy is altered—when nations fall into crisis or the increased weight of modernity tests minds and nerves—the representation of our sensing bodies plays a crucial role in explaining order and rebellion, cultural innova- tion, and social change. The .William .and .Bettye . Taking a wide arc of materials—periodicals, memoirs, polit- Nowlin .Series .in .Art, . ical proclamations, and travel logs, along with art installations History, .and .Culture .of . and fiction—and focusing on the technologies that supplement the .Western .Hemisphere and enhance human perception, Masiello looks at the evolution release date | may of what she calls “sense work” in cultural texts, mainly from Lat- 6 x 9 inches, 352 pages, 24 color in America, that wend from the heights of romantic thought to and 16 b&w photos the startling innovations of modernism in the early twentieth ISBN 978-1-4773-1504-0 century and then to times of posthuman experience when cyber $29.95* bodies hurtle through globalized space and human senses are paperback reproduced by machines. Tracing the shifting debates on per- ISBN 978-1-4773-1503-3 ceptions, The Senses of Democracy offers a new paradigm with $90.00* hardcover which to speak of Latin American cultural history and launches a field for the comparative study of bodies, experience, pleasure, ISBN 978-1-4773-1506-4 $29.95* and pain over the continental divide. In the end, sense work e-book helps us to understand how culture finds its location.

102 University of texas Press | [email protected] | latin american studies | Literature, History, Art and Visual Studies

FRANCINE R. MASIELLO Berkeley, .California

Masiello is the Sidney and Mar- American Culture and Neoliberal garet Ancker Professor Emerita Crisis, which were both awarded of Spanish and Comparative the Modern Language Associa- Literature and professor of the tion’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Graduate School at the University Prize for outstanding book in the of California at Berkeley. Her field of Hispanic studies, and El many books include Between cuerpo de la voz (poesía, ética, Civilization and Barbarism: cultura), which received the Latin Women, Nation, and Literary American Studies Association Culture in Modern Argentina Southern Cone Prize for best book and The Art of Transition: Latin in the humanities.

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 103 2018

This sumptuously illustrated volume presents the treasures of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Aus- A LibrAry for thE AmEricAs tin—one of the world’s great librar- ——— The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection ——— ies for the study of Latin America and Latinas/os in the United States

EditEd by Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo

The .University .of .Texas .Libraries A Library for the Americas The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection

Edited by Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo

Founded . in . 1921, . the . Nettie . Lee . Benson . Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin has become one of the world’s great libraries for the study of Latin America, as well as the largest university library collection of Latin American materials in the United States. Encompassing all areas of the Western Hemisphere that were ever part of the Spanish or Portuguese empires, the Benson Collection documents Latin American history and culture from the first European contacts to the current activities of Latinas/os in the United States. Scholars, students, and members of the public from around the world regularly use the multifaceted, multimedia resources of the Benson. Showcasing the incredible depth, diversity, and history of the Benson Collection, A Li- brary for the Americas presents rare books and manuscripts, maps, photographs, music, oral histories, art and objects dating from around 1500 to the present. Images of and captions for

104 University of texas Press | [email protected] | latin american studies | Latina/o Studies, Art and Visual Studies

these materials are paired with a series of essays and reflec- tions by distinguished scholars of Latin American and Lati- na/o studies, who describe the role that the Benson Collection has played in the research and intellectual contributions that have defined their careers. As a whole, the book celebrates the remarkable place for learning that is the Benson Collection, while not shying away from larger questions about what it means to have a monumental library and archive devoted to Latin America in the United States. Joe .R . .and .Teresa .Lozano . Long .Series in. .Latin . American and. .Latino Art. . and .Culture

JULIANNE gILLAND JOSÉ MONTELONGO release date | august Austin, .Texas Austin, .Texas 9 x 12 inches, 229 pages, 192 color and 4 b&w photos Gilland is the director of the Nettie Montelongo is the Mexican Lee Benson Latin American Col- studies librarian at the Nettie ISBN 978-1-4773-1511-8 lection at the University of Texas Lee Benson Latin American $50.00* at Austin. Collection. hardcover

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 105 2018 | latin american studies | Sociology, Politics and Economics

With empirical case studies of Walmart’s entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world’s largest private employer has had to adapt its labor practices and supply chain operations to meet local conditions

EDITED BY Carolina Bank Muñoz Bridget Kenny Antonio Stecher

Walmart in the Global South Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains

Edited by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Bridget K e n n y, and Antonio Stecher

CAROLINA BANK MUÑO As . the . largest . private . employer . in . the . world, . is a professor of sociology Walmart dominates media and academic debate about the global at Brooklyn College and the expansion of transnational retail corporations and the working Graduate Center of the City University of New York. conditions in retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart BRIDGET KENNY is an must confront and adapt to diverse policies and practices pertain- associate professor of sociology ing to regulation, economy, history, union organization, preexist- at the University of the ing labor cultures, and civil society in every country into which it Witwatersrand in South Africa. enters. This transnational aspect of the Walmart story, including ANTONIO STECHER is a the diversity and flexibility of its strategies and practices outside professor and dean of the School the United States, is mostly unreported. of Psychology at Universidad Walmart in the Global South presents empirical case stud - Diego Portales in Chile. ies of Walmart’s labor practices and supply chain operations in release date | may a number of countries, including Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Nica- 6 x 9 inches, 280 pages, 5 b&w photos ragua, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand. It assesses the sim- ISBN 978-1-4773-1568-2 ilarities and differences in Walmart’s acceptance into varying $29.95* national contexts, which reveals when and how state regulation paperback and politics have served to redirect company practice and to ISBN 978-1-4773-1567-5 what effect. The volume’s contributors show how and why foreign $90.00* workers have successfully, though not uniformly, driven changes hardcover in Walmart’s corporate culture. This makes Walmart in the Glob- ISBN 978-1-4773-1570-5 al South a practical guide for organizations that promote social $29.95* e-book justice and engage in worker struggles.

Revealing how the key fuel of the global era affects the communities where petroleum is extracted, this beautifully written ethnography describes how the Cofán people are surviving at the center of the Ecuadorian oil industry

Life in Oil Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia

By Michael L. Cepek Photographs by Bear Guerra

Oil .is .one .of .the .world’s .most .important .commodities, . MICHAEL L. CEPEK but few people know how its extraction affects the residents of petro- San .Antonio, .Texas leum-producing regions. In the 1960s, the Texaco corporation dis- Cepek is an associate professor of covered crude in the territory of Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán nation. anthropology at the University Within a decade, Ecuador had become a member of OPEC, and the of Texas at San Antonio. He is a board member of the Cofán Sur- Cofán watched as their forests fell, their rivers ran black, and their vival Fund, a US nonprofit that bodies succumbed to new illnesses. In 1993, they became plaintiffs supports the Fundación Sobrevi- in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit that aims to compensate them for vencia Cofán, a Cofán-directed environmental and human rights the losses they have suffered. Yet even in the midst of a tragic toxic organization, and the author of disaster, the Cofán have refused to be destroyed. While seeking rep- A Future for Amazonia: Randy arations for oil’s assault on their lives, they remain committed to the Borman and Cofán Environmen- tal Politics. survival of their language, culture, and rainforest homeland. Life in Oil presents the compelling, nuanced story of how the release date | april Cofán manage to endure at the center of Ecuadorian petroleum 5½ x 8½ inches, 280 pages, 45 extraction. Michael L. Cepek has lived and worked with Cofán b&w photos, 3 maps people for more than twenty years. In this highly accessible ISBN 978-1-4773-1508-8 book, he goes well beyond popular and academic accounts of $27.95* paperback their suffering to share the largely unknown stories that Cofán people themselves create—the ones they tell in their own lan- ISBN 978-1-4773-1507-1 $85.00* guage, in their own communities, and to one another and the hardcover few outsiders they know and trust. Their words reveal that life ISBN 978-1-4773-1510-1 in oil is a form of slow, confusing violence for some of the earth’s $27.95* most marginalized, yet resilient, inhabitants. e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 107 2018 | latin american studies | Anthropology, Latina/o Studies

This innovative ethnography analyzes the discourse about Mexican-US migration in both a sending and a receiving community and shows how this discourse affects the lives and sense of national belonging of nonmigrants Words OF PASSAGE NATIONAL LONGING AND THE IMAGINED LIVES OF MEXICAN MIGRANTS Hilary Parsons Dick Words of Passage National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants

By Hilary Parsons Dick

Migration . fundamentally . shapes . the . processes . of . national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico— even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or HILARY PARSONS DICK others’ lives in “El Norte,” generates generic images of migrants Glenside, Pennsylvania. that range from hardworking family people to dangerous law- Dick is an associate professor of breakers. These imagined lives have real consequences, howev- international studies at Arcadia er, because they help to determine who can claim the resources University. She investigates Mexico-US migration from the that facilitate economic mobility, which range from state-spon- perspectives of discourse anal- sored development programs to income earned in the North. ysis; the political economies of Words of Passage is the first full-length ethnography that language; and gender, class, and ethno-racial relations. examines the impact of migration from the perspective of people whose lives are affected by migration, but who do not them- release date | may selves migrate. Hilary Parsons Dick situates her study in the 6 x 9 inches, 328 pages small industrial city of Uriangato, in the state of Guanajuato. ISBN 978-1-4773-1402-9 She analyzes the discourse that circulates in the community, $29.95* from state-level pronouncements about what makes a “proper” paperback Mexican to working-class people’s talk about migration. Dick ISBN 978-1-4773-1401-2 shows how this migration discourse reflects upon and orders so- $90.00* hardcover cial worlds long before—and even without—actual movements beyond Mexico. She demonstrates that migration is not the re- ISBN 978-1-4773-1404-3 $29.95* sult of the failure of the Mexican state but rather an essential e-book part of nation-state building.

108 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | latina/o studies | History, Cultural Studies

Recounting a forgotten episode in the Long Civil Rights Movement, this book analyzes how news reporting of forced deportations of Mexicans in the 1930s created representations of Mexican Americans that endure today

They Came to Toil Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression

By Melita M. Garza

As .the .Great .Depression .gripped .the .United .States .in . the early 1930s, the Hoover administration sought to preserve jobs for Anglo-Americans by targeting Mexicans, including MELITA M. GARZA long-time residents and even US citizens, for deportation. Mex- Fort .Worth, Texas. icans comprised more than 46 percent of all people deported between 1930 and 1939, despite being only 1 percent of the US A media historian and jour- nalist, Garza is a Pulitzer Prize population. In all, about half a million people of Mexican de- nominee and a former staff writer scent were deported to Mexico, a “homeland” many of them had for Bloomberg news, the Chicago never seen, or returned voluntarily in fear of deportation. Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, and Los Angeles Times. She is They Came to Toil investigates how the news reporting of currently an assistant professor this episode in immigration history created frames for repre- of journalism at Texas Christian senting Mexicans and immigrants that persist to the present. University’s Bob Schieffer College of Communication. Melita M. Garza sets the story in San Antonio, a city central to the formation of Mexican American identity, and contrasts release date | february how the city’s three daily newspapers covered the forced depor- 6 x 9 inches, 264 pages, 10 b&w photos tations of Mexicans. She shows that the Spanish-language La Prensa not surprisingly provided the fullest and most sympa- ISBN 978-1-4773-1405-0 $29.95* thetic coverage of immigration issues, while the locally owned paperback San Antonio Express and the Hearst chain-owned San Antonio ISBN 978-1-4773-1406-7 Light varied between supporting Mexican labor and demoniz- $90.00* ing it. Garza analyzes how these media narratives, particularly hardcover in the English-language press, contributed to the racial “other- ISBN 978-1-4773-1408-1 ing” of Mexicans and Mexican Americans. $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 109 2018 | latina studies | Chicana Studies, History

EDITED BY DIONNE ESPINOZA MARÍA EUGENIA COTERA MAYLEI BLACKWELL This groundbreaking anthology brings CHICANA together generations of Chicana scholars and activists to offer the first wide-ranging account of women’s organizing, activism, and leadership in the Chicano Movement

MOVIDASNEW NARRATIVES of ACTIVISM and FEMINISM in the MOVEMENT ERA Chicana Movidas New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Edited by Dionne Espinoza, Maylei Blackwell, and María Cotera

With . contributions . from . a . wide . array . of . scholars . and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas: New Narra- tives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the in - tersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance. These are the technologies of resistance documented in Chicana Movidas, a volume that brings together critical biographies of Chicana activists and their bodies of work; essays that focus on understudied organizations, mobilizations, regions, and subjects; examinations of emergent Chicana archives and the politics of collection; and

110 University of texas Press | [email protected] DIONNE ESPINOZA Los .Angeles, .California Espinoza is a professor in the Department of Liberal Studies and the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Califor- nia State University, Los Angeles.

MAYLEI BLACKWELL Los .Angeles, .California Blackwell is an associate professor in the Departments of Chi- cana and Chicano Studies and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

MARÍA COTERA Ann .Arbor, .Michigan Cotera is an associate professor in the Departments of Women’s Stud- ies and American Culture and the Program in Latina/o Studies at the University of Michigan.

release date | june 7 x 10 inches, 592 pages, 13 color and 25 b&w phtos scholarly approaches that challenge the temporal, political, het- ISBN 978-1-4773-1559-0 eronormative, and spatial limits of established Chicano move- $35.00* paperback ment narratives. Charting the rise of a field of knowledge that crosses the boundaries of Chicano studies, feminist theory, and ISBN 978-1-4773-1558-3 $105.00* queer theory, Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim hardcover and Feminism in the Movement Era offers a transgenerational ISBN perspective on the intellectual and political legacies of early Chi- $35.00* cana feminism. e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 111 2018 | latina/o studies | Art and Visual Studies, Border Studies, Latin American Studies

Featuring dozens of compelling images, this transformative reading of borderland and Mexican cultural production—from body art to theater, photography, and architecture— draws on extensive primary research to trace more than two decades of social and political response in the aftermath of NAFTA

REMEX Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era

By Amy Sara Carroll

REMEX .presents .the .first .comprehensive .examina- AMY SARA CARROLL tion of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the Ithaca, .New .York North American Free Trade Agreement (1994–2008). Marshaling Carroll, a 2017–2018 Society Fellow over a decade’s worth of archival research, interviews, and partici- in Cornell University’s Society for pant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico–US borderlands, the Humanities, is the author of two poetry collections, SECESSION Amy Sara Carroll considers individual and collective art practices, and FANNIE + FREDDIE/The recasting NAFTA as the most fantastical inter-American allegory Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornog- of the turn of the millennium. Carroll organizes her interpreta- raphy, chosen by Claudia Rankine for Fordham University’s Poets Out tions of performance, installation, documentary film, built envi- Loud Prize. ronment, and body, conceptual, and Internet art around three key coordinates—City, Woman, and Border. She links the rise of 1990s This book is a part of the Latin American and Caribbean Arts Mexico City art in the global market to the period’s consolidation of and Culture publication initia- Mexico–US border art as a genre. She then interrupts this transna- tive, funded by a grant from the tional art history with a sustained analysis of chilanga and Chicana Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. artists’ remapping of the figure of Mexico as Woman. release date | december A tour de force that depicts a feedback loop of art and public pol- 6 x 9 inches, 386 pages, 24 color icy—what Carroll terms the “allegorical performative”—REMEX and 50 b&w photos adds context to the long-term effects of the post-1968 intersection ISBN 978-1-4773-1137-0 of D.F. performance and conceptualism, centralizes women artists’ $29.95* embodied critiques of national and global master narratives, and paperback tracks post-1984 border art’s “undocumentation” of racialized and ISBN 978-1-4773-1064-9 sexualized reconfigurations of North American labor pools. The $90.00* hardcover book’s featured artwork becomes the lens through which Carroll rereads a range of events and phenomenon from California’s Prop- ISBN 978-1-4773-1103-5 $29.95* osition 187 to Zapatismo, US immigration policy, 9/11 (1973/2001), e-book femicide in Ciudad Juárez, and Mexico’s war on drugs.

112 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | middle eastern studies | Diaspora, Latin American History

Drawing extensively on French colonial archives and historical ethnography, this book offers the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Latin America and the creation of Arab, French, and Mexican transnational networks CAMILA PASTOR The M e x i c a n M a h j a r

Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate

The Mexican Mahjar Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate

By Camila Pastor

Migration . from . the . Middle . East . brought . hundreds . of thousands of people to the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the time the Ottoman political system collapsed in 1918, over a third of the population of the Mashriq, i.e. the Levant, had made the transatlantic journey. CAMILA PASTOR This intense mobility was interrupted by World War I but re- Mexico City,. .Mexico sumed in the 1920s and continued through the late 1940s under A historical anthropologist the French Mandate. Many migrants returned to their home- exploring transnationalism, lands, but the rest concentrated in Brazil, Argentina, the United mediation, and subalterns in colonial settings, Pastor is a States, Haiti, and Mexico, building transnational lives. profesor investigador in the Di- The Mexican Mahjar provides the first global history of Mid- visión de Historia of the Centro dle Eastern migrations to Mexico. Making unprecedented use de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. of French colonial archives and historical ethnography, Cami- la Pastor examines how French colonial control over Syria and release date | december Lebanon affected the migrants. Tracing issues of class, race, and 6 x 9 inches, 374 pages, 6 b&w photos, 1 map gender through the decades of increased immigration to Mexico and looking at the narratives created by the Mahjaris (migrants) ISBN 978-1-4773-1462-3 $29.95* themselves in both their old and new homes, Pastor sheds new paperback light on the creation of transnational networks at the intersection of Arab, French, and Mexican colonial modernisms. Re- ISBN 978-1-4773-1445-6 $90.00* vealing how migrants experienced mobility as conquest, dias- hardcover pora, exile, or pilgrimage, The Mexican Mahjar tracks global ISBN 978-1-4773-1464-7 history on an intimate scale. $29.95* e-book

University of Texas Press | fall 2017 113 2017 | middle eastern studies | Gender & Sexuality

This interdisciplinary collection of writings by and about Arab women is the first that focuses explicitly on Arab women’s often-fraught engagement with the boundaries that shape their lives in the twenty-first century

Bad Girls of the Arab World

Edited by Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas

Women’s . transgressive . behaviors . and . perspectives . are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled “bad” as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious social ills such as patriarchy and economic exploitation, or as they im- NADIA YAQUB Chapel .Hill, .North .Carolina pose new restrictions on women’s behavior in response to un- certainty and change in society. Bad Girls of the Arab World elu- Yaqub is an associate professor of Arabic language and culture in cidates how both intentional and unintentional transgressions the Department of Asian Studies make manifest the social and cultural constructs that define at the University of North Caroli- proper and improper behavior, as well as the social and political na at Chapel Hill. policing of gender, racial, and class divisions. RULA QUAWAS The works collected here address the experiences of women Amman, Jordan. from a range of ages, classes, and educational backgrounds who Quawas is a professor of Ameri- live in the Arab world and beyond. They include short pieces in can literature and feminist theo- which the women themselves reflect on their experiences with ry at the University of Jordan. transgression; academic articles about performance, represen- release date | september tation, activism, history, and social conditions; an artistic inter- 6 x 9 inches, 234 pages, 10 b&w vention; and afterwords by the acclaimed novelists Laila al-At- photos rash and Miral al-Tahawy. The book demonstrates that women’s ISBN 978-1-4773-1336-7 transgression is both an agent and a symptom of change, a site $27.95* of both resistance and repression. Showing how transnational paperback forces such as media discourses, mobility and confinement, glo- ISBN 978-1-4773-1335-0 balization, and neoliberalism, as well as the legacy of colonial- $85.00* hardcover ism, shape women’s badness, Bad Girls of the Arab World offers a rich portrait of women’s varied experiences at the boundaries ISBN 978-1-4773-1338-1 of propriety in the twenty-first century. $27.95* e-book

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Islamic studies; women’s studies; Middle Eastern studies Beli e

“This is an original and, at times, groundbreaking piece of scholarship. . . . Barlas “ ” ving squarely addresses issues of sexism, patriarchy, misogyny, tradition, and reform, BelievingWomen Now revised with two new chapters anddrawing on a divers e gadditionalroup of scholars but establishing her own voice and distinctive scholarly and Islamic position. . . . Her findings alternatively support and

challenge the positions of a broad range of scholars and religious leaders, man- W aging to avoid the pitfalls and excesses of religious and social ideologues, apolo-

gists, and polemicists.” omen material throughout, this paradigm-shifting— John L. Esposito, University Professor and Director of the Center for in Islam Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University

” U P in Does Islam call for or sanction the oppression of women, gender, and patriarchy, allowing them to book develops a believer’s readingwomen? Nofon-Muslims thepoint to the subjugation Qur’an of understand Islam through its most sacred scrip- I ’ women that occurs in many Muslim countries, ture, rather than through Muslim cultural practices Islam especially those that claim to be “Islamic,” while or Western media stereotypes. many Muslims read the Qur’an in ways that seem Asma Ba r l a s is Professor and Program to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patri- Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, archy. Taking a wholly different view in this book, Race, and Ethnicity at Ithaca College. that demonstrates the radically egalitarianAsma Barlas develops a believer’s reading of the and Qur’an that demonstrates the radically egalitarian Translation of the front cover Arabic verse: and antipatriarchal nature of its teachings. Beginning with a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how Mus- Those who listen lims came to read inequality and patriarchy into To the Word, the Qur’an to justify existing religious and social And follow antipatriarchal nature of its teachingsstructures and demonstrates that the patriarchal meanings ascribed to the Qur’an are a function of The best (meaning) in it: who has read it, how, and in what specific contexts. Those are the ones

She goes on to reread the Qur’an’s position on a Whom God has guided, and those 

wide variety of issues in order to argue that its Are the ones endued   teachings do not support patriarchy in theory or practice. To the contrary, Barlas convincingly as- With understanding serts that the Qur’an affirms the complete equality The Qur’an (39:18)

of the sexes, thereby offering an opportunity to  theorize radical sexual equality from within the  framework of its teachings. This new view takes readers into the very heart of Islamic teachings on

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For . this . revised . edition . of . “Believing Women” in Is- lam, Asma Barlas has written two new chapters—“Abraham’s Sacrifice in the Qur’an” and “Rereading Patriarchy into the Qur’an: Secular/Feminist Critiques”—as well as a new preface, an extended discussion of the Qur’an’s “wife-beating” verse and ASMA BARLAS of men’s presumed role as women’s guardians, and other up- Ithaca, .New .York dates throughout the book. Barlas is a professor of politics at Ithaca College. Her books “This is an original and, at times, groundbreak- include Re-understanding Islam: A Double Critique and Islam, ing piece of scholarship.” —John L. Esposito, Muslims, and the US: Essays on University Professor and Founding Director Religion and Politics. of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University release date | july 0 x 0 inches, 000 pages, 000 illustrations “[A] brilliantly executed work. . . . A new ISBN 978-1-4773-1592-7 generation of scholar-activists . . . will take cues $00.00 from such a study to open up interpretations paperback ISBN 978-1-4773-1591-0 and modes of Islamic praxis that will $00.00 resonate with the avowedly non-repressive hardcover divine intentions for Muslim and other faith ISBN 978-1-4773-1594-1 $00.00 communities worldwide.” — Arab Studies Journal e-book

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This inviting book presents a simplified ver- Qur’anic sion of “Believing Women” in Islam: Unread- ConfrontingPatriarchy ing Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an that will help general readers and students understand its argument for women’s equality

Asma Barlas and David Finn

Confronting Qur’anic Patriarchy

By Asma Barlas and David Raeburn Finn

Is . women’s . inequality . supported . by . the . Qur’an? . Do . men have the exclusive right to interpret Islam’s holy scripture? In her best-selling book “Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an, Asma Barlas argues that, far from supporting male privilege, the Qur’an actually ASMA BARLAS encourages the full equality of women and men. She explains Ithaca, .New .York why a handful of verses have been interpreted to favor men and Barlas is a professor of politics at Ithaca College. Her other books shows how these same verses can be read in an egalitarian way include Re-understanding Islam: that is fully supported by the text itself and compatible with the A Double Critique and Islam, Qur’an’s message that it is complete and self-consistent. Muslims, and the US: Essays on Religion and Politics. Confronting Qur’anic Patriarchy presents the arguments of “Believing Women” in a simplified way that will be accessible DAVID RAEBURN FINN and inviting to general readers and undergraduate students. Nanoose .Bay, .British . The authors focus primarily on the Qur’an’s teachings about Columbia women and patriarchy. They show how traditional teachings Finn is a Canadian philosopher about women’s inferiority are not supported by the Qur’an but and student of Islam. He currently writes on Pashtun anthropology, were products of patriarchal societies that used it to justify their gender and Islam, American for- existing religious and social structures. The authors’ hope is that eign policy, and politics, as well as by understanding how patriarchal traditionalists have come to fiction for children and adults. exercise so much authority in today’s Islam, as well as by reread- release date | july ing some of the Qur’an’s most controversial verses, adherents of 0 x 0 inches, 000 pages, 000 the faith will learn to question patriarchal dogma and see that illustrations an egalitarian reading of the Qur’an is equally possible and, for ISBN 978-1-4773-1588-0 myriad reasons, more plausible. $19.95 paperback

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116 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | middle eastern studies | Film, Media, and Popular Culture; Palestinian Studies

السينماBringing to light the origins of an important PALESTINIAN الفلسطينية national cinema, this book examines Palestinian filmmaking during the long CINEMA IN يف OF أيام1970s and how it sustained a revolution and THE DAYS الثورةcontinues to inspire in a new century REVOLUTION NADIA YAQUB Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution

By Nadia Yaqub

Palestinian .cinema .arose .during .the .political .cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, though modest, film effort within the national liberation campaign of a stateless people. Filmmakers working within the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and through other channels filmed the revolution as it unfolded, including the Israeli bombings of Palestinian refugee camps, the Jordanian and Lebanese NADIA YAQUB civil wars, and Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, attempting Chapel .Hill, .North .Carolina to create a cinematic language consonant with the revolution and its Yaqub is an associate professor needs. They experimented with form both to make effective use of of Arabic language and culture and chair of the Department of limited material and to process violent events and loss as a means Asian Studies at the University of sustaining active engagement in the Palestinian political project. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution presents an in- She coedited Bad Girls of the Arab World with Rula Quawas. depth study of films made between 1968 and 1982, the filmmakers and their practices, the political and cultural contexts in which the release date | july films were created and seen, and their afterlives among Palestinian 6 x 9 inches, 312 pages, 50 b&w refugees and young filmmakers in the twenty-first century. Nadia photos Yaqub discusses how early Palestinian cinema operated within ISBN 978-1-4773-1596-5 emerging public-sector cinema industries in the Arab world, as $29.95 paperback well as through coproductions and solidarity networks. Her findings aid in understanding the development of alternative cinema ISBN 978-1-4773-1595-8 $90.00 in the Arab world. Yaqub also demonstrates that Palestinian film- hardcover making, as a cinema movement created and sustained under con- ISBN 978-1-4773-1598-9 ditions of extraordinary precarity, offers important lessons on the $00.00 nature and possibilities of political filmmaking more generally. e-book

University of Texas Press | spring 2018 117 2017 | classics | Archaeology

The seventh volume in the Institute of Classi- The Chora of Metaponto 7 The Greek SancTuary cal Archaeology’s series on rural settlements aT PanTanello

Joseph Coleman Carter and Keith Swift in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto adds much to the study of Greek religion and to the picture of the ancient Greek countryside

The Chora of Metaponto 7 The Greek Sanctuary at Pantanello

By Joseph Coleman Carter and Keith Swift

The .seventh .volume .in .the .Institute .of .Classical .Ar- chaeology’s series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metapon- to is a study of the Greek sanctuary at Pantanello. The site is the first Greek rural sanctuary in southern Italy that has been JOSEPH COLEMAN CARTER fully excavated and exhaustively documented. Its evidence—a is director of the Institute of massive array of distinctive structural remains and 30,000-plus Classical Archaeology and artifacts and ecofacts—offers unparalleled insights into the de- Centennial Professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of velopment of extra-urban cults in Magna Graecia from the sev - Texas at Austin. enth to the fourth centuries BC and the initiation rites that took place within the cults. KEITH SWIFT Of particular interest are the analyses of the well-preserved is a research fellow for the Insti- tute of Classical Archaeology at botanical and faunal material, which present the fullest record the University of Texas at Austin. yet of Greek rural sacrificial offerings, crops, and the natural -en vironment of southern Italy and the Greek world. Excavations Copublished with the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University from 1974 to 2008 revealed three major phases of the sanctu- of Texas at Austin, and the ary, ranging from the Archaic to Early Hellenistic periods. The Packard Humanities Institute structures include a natural spring as the earliest locus of the release date | january cult, an artificial stream (collecting basin) for the spring’s out- 3 volumes, 8½ x 11 inches, 1,800 flow, Archaic and fourth-century BC structures for ritual dining pages, 1,525 color and 1,525 b&w and other cult activities, tantalizing evidence of a Late Archaic photos Doric temple atop the hill, and a farmhouse and tile factory that ISBN 978-1-4773-1423-4 postdate the sanctuary’s destruction. The extensive catalogs of $200.00* hardcover material and special studies provide an invaluable opportunity to study the development of Greek material culture between the ISBN 978-1-4773-1425-8 $200.00* seventh and third centuries BC, with particular emphasis on vo- e-book tive pottery and figurative terracotta plaques.

118 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2017 | classics | Law & Oratory

       •   The final volume in The Oratory of Classical Greece series presents four speeches by or falsely ascribed to the most renowned of the ancient Greek orators, Demosthenes, which have not been translated in recent times demosthenes, p 23–26 Translated by Edward M. Harris

Demosthenes, Speeches 23–26

Translated by Edward M. Harris

This .is .the .fifteenth .volume .in .the .Oratory .of .Clas- sical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries bc in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs EDWARD M. HARRIS Athens, Greece. and interests of today’s undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Harris is an emeritus professor of ancient history at Durham Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of an- University and honorary profes- cient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek sorial fellow at the University of moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social Edinburgh. He is the author of Aeschines and Athenian Politics, ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian Democracy and the Rule of Law culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: in Classical Athens: Essays in women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Law, Society, and Politics, and The Rule of Law in Action in This volume provides introductions, translations, and notes Democratic Athens. for four speeches found in the Demosthenic corpus that have not been translated in recent times. Against Aristocrates deals with The .Oratory .of . . Classical .Greece matters of foreign policy involving a mercenary general, Charide- Michael Gagarin, Series Editor mus, and is a valuable source for Athenian homicide law. Against Timocrates involves domestic politics and provides important in- release date | january 5½ x 8½ inches, 306 pages formation about Athenian procedures for enacting legislation. In both speeches, the litigants stress the importance of the rule of ISBN 978-1-4773-1352-7 $24.95* law in Athenian democracy and emphasize key ideas, such as the paperback monopoly of legitimate force by the state, the need for consistency ISBN 978-1-4773-1351-0 in statutes, and the principle of no punishment without a writ- $55.00* ten law. The remaining two speeches, Against Aristogeiton, are hardcover forgeries composed in the Hellenistic period, as Edward Harris ISBN 978-1-4773-1354-1 demonstrates conclusively through a study of laws and legal pro- $24.95* cedures and an analysis of style and vocabulary. e-book

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EDITED BY Paula Perlman Eleven essays by leading scholars chart new directions for the study of ancient Greek law, including fresh assessments of key debates, new methodological approaches, Ancient and an argument for the ongoing relevance Greek Law of teaching Greek law in the 21st Century Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century

Edited by Paula Perlman

The . ancient . Greeks . invented . written . law . . Yet, . in . contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, reflecting the daily realities of managing society. To understand Greek law, then, requires looking into extant PAULA PERLMAN legal, forensic, and historical texts for evidence of the law in ac- Austin, .Texas tion. From such study has arisen the field of ancient Greek law Perlman is a professor of classics as a scholarly discipline within classical studies, a field that has at the University of Texas at come into its own since the 1970s. Austin. Her books are The Laws of This edited volume charts new directions for the study of Ancient Crete, c.650–400 BCE, coauthored with Michael Gagarin, Greek law in the twenty-first century through contributions and City and Sanctuary in Ancient from eleven leading scholars. The essays in the book’s first sec- Greece: The Theorodokia in the tion reassess some of the central debates in the field by look- Peloponnese. ing at questions about the role of law in society, the notion of Ashley .and .Peter .Larkin . “contracts,” feuding and revenge in the court system, and legal Series .in Greek. .and . . Roman .Culture protections for slaves engaged in commerce. The second section breaks new ground by redefining substantive areas of law such release date | march as administrative law and sacred law, as well as by examining 6 x 9 inches, 204 pages, 4 b&w sources such as Hellenistic inscriptions that have been compar- photos atively neglected in recent scholarship. The third section eval- ISBN 978-1-4773-1521-7 uates the potential of methodological approaches to the study $45.00* hardcover of Greek law, including comparative studies with other cultures and with modern legal theory. The volume ends with an essay ISBN 978-1-4773-1572-9 that explores pedagogy and the relevance of teaching Greek law $45.00* e-book in the twenty-first century.

120 University of texas Press | [email protected] 2018 | classics | Literature and Language

Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisci- plinary volume examines both the rhapsodes who performed the poems and the narrators and characters within them

Homer in Performance Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters

Edited by Jonathan L. Ready and Christos C. Tsagalis

Before .they .were .written .down, .the .poems .attribut- ed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (sing- JONATHAN L. READY ers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed Bloomington, Indiana. a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Ready is an associate professor Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the of classical studies at Indiana University. His books include poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they The Homeric Simile in Compara- recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and tive Perspectives: Oral Traditions the characters. These different acts—performing the poem from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia. and narrating and speaking in character within it—are seldom CHRISTOS C. TSAGALIS studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground Thessaloniki, .Greece by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the perfor- Tsagalis is a professor of Greek mance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters. at Aristotle University. His The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the books include Early Greek Epic rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Fragments: Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic. Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Ho- Ashley .and .Peter .Larkin . meric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates Series in. .Greek .and .Roman . Culture their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance stud- release date | november ies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the 6 x 9 inches, 402 pages, 8 b&w photos, 4 maps ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, ISBN 978-1-4773-1603-0 $55.00* from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines rang- hardcover ing from classical studies to folklore. ISBN 978-1-4773-1605-4 $55.00* e-book

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