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Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature.

Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature.

Tuesday June 4, 2024

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 […]
Mädchen in Uniform

Mädchen in Uniform

Thursday May 2, 2024

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: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France

Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France

Friday January 12, 2024

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 […]
Su Friedrich

Su Friedrich

Thursday August 3, 2023

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 […]
Meanings of Antiquity : Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan

Meanings of Antiquity : Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan

Monday July 3, 2023

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 […]
Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas

Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas

Wednesday May 3, 2023

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 […]
Thanh điệu tiếng Việt – một phân tích mới (translated from English to Vietnamese “Vietnamese tone – a New Analysis”

Thanh điệu tiếng Việt – một phân tích mới (translated from English to Vietnamese “Vietnamese tone – a New Analysis”

Monday April 3, 2023

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” […]
Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China.

Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks: Daoism and Local Society in Ming China.

Saturday October 1, 2022

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 […]
Nguồn gốc và sự hình thành giọng Quảng Nam – Quang Nam phonology and sound change through contact

Nguồn gốc và sự hình thành giọng Quảng Nam – Quang Nam phonology and sound change through contact

Saturday September 3, 2022

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 […]
Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts.

Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts.

Friday June 3, 2022

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 […]
The Singular Plural of Feminist Film Practice. In Feminist German Studies 38.1

The Singular Plural of Feminist Film Practice. In Feminist German Studies 38.1

Monday January 3, 2022

Special issue co-editor: Barbara Mennel Title: The Singular Plural of Feminist Film Practice. In Feminist German Studies38.1 (2022). (With Angelica Fenner) This special issue responds to an extraordinary, conjunctural moment for women’s filmmaking in Germany unfolding in the early twenty-first century, one in which continuities with post-1968 feminist filmmaking have become visible and resonate within […]
Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday November 23, 2021

Authors: Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts, eds. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2021. Goncharov in the Twenty-First Centurybrings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov’s life and work through a twenty-first century critical lens. Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov’s service career, the complex and understudied manifestation of Realism in […]
Objet et sujet dans les miroirs de la poésie

Objet et sujet dans les miroirs de la poésie

Friday March 12, 2021

Author: Gabriele Belletti Publisher: Al Dante (French) ISBN 978-2-37896-229-6 (Hardback) A singular analysis of Italian poetic modernity and its relationship to reality, by the poet and theorist Gabriele Belletti. For summary and availability, click here
A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites.

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites.

Monday March 1, 2021

Author: Benjamine Hebblethwaite. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, […]
A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites.

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites.

Monday March 1, 2021

Co-editor and translator: Benjamin Hebblethwaite (with Mariana Past) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African […]
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