Author: Christopher Smith Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory […]
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Author: Barbara Mennel New York City: Bloomsbury, 2024. Blurb: Leontine Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women’s agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Christa Winsloe’s lesbian play, the story follows Manuela, an orphan in a boarding school for impoverished Prussian nobility. When she […]
Impressions from Paris studies the contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris during the Interwar Years, from the 1920s to 1940. The “Roaring Twenties” constituted years of experimentation and freedom to test new techniques and lifestyles at a time affected by serious political changes leading to World War II. Their trajectories […]
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Author: Barbara Mennel Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. With acclaimed films like Sink or Swim and The Odds of Recovery, Su Friedrich’s body of work stands at the forefront of avant-garde and Queer cinema. Barbara Mennel examines the career of an experimental auteur whose merger of technical innovation and political critique connects with both […]
Author: Matthieu Felt. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2023. Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts Kojiki and Nihon shoki, changed in meaning and significance between 800 and 1800 CE. Generations of Japanese scholars and students have turned to these two texts […]
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Co-editors: Benjamin Hebblethwaite and Silke Jansen Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and cultural expanses, including Canada, the United States, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. Using interdisciplinary research methods, this collection of original […]
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Author: Andrea Hoa Pham Thanh điệu tiếng Việt – một phân tích mới (translated from English to Vietnamese “Vietnamese tone – a New Analysis” Pham 2003, Routledge). Ho Chi Minh City: Dan Tri and Khai Tam Publisher, 2023. This book is a Vietnamese translation of Pham, A. H. 2003 “Vietnamese tone – a New Analysis” […]
Author: Richard G. Wang Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. 400 pp. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674270961 Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating between local networks—biological lineages, territorial communities, temples, and festivals—and the state. They did this through their organization […]
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Author: Andrea Hoa Pham. Title: Nguồn gốc và sự hình thành giọng Quảng Nam – Quang Nam phonology and sound change through contact, written in Vietnamese with Table of Contents and English summary for each chapter. Danang city: Danang Publishing House, 2022. This book accounts for sound changes in Vietnamese, focusing on many peculiar rhymes […]
Author: Rori Bloom. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022 At a moment when France was coming to new prominence in the production of furniture and fashion, the fairy tales of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (1652–1705) and Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670–1716) gave pride of place to richly detailed descriptions of palaces, gardens, clothing, and toys. Through close readings […]