November 2006

After Blanchot; literature, criticism, philosophy; edited by Leslie Hill, Brian Nelson, and Dimitris Vardoulakis. University of Delaware Press 2006 277p pa $30.00
ISBN 0-87413-946-5; LC 2006-46680
Contributors discuss how Maurice Blanchot’s works of fiction, book reviews, and literary and philosophical essays influenced literary, philosophical, political, and ethical issues of the twentieth century.

After the fall of the wall; life courses in the transformation of East Germany; edited by Martin Diewald, Anne Goedicke, and Karl Ulrich Mayer. Stanford Univ. Press 2006 (Studies in social inequality) 380p $65.00
ISBN 0-8047-5208-7; LC 2006-9399
Essays assess the social and economic impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 incurred by German society in such areas as employment and education, as well as East Germany’s transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Allen, Brooke
Moral minority; our skeptical founding fathers. Ivan R. Dee 2006 235p $24.95
ISBN 1-56663-675-2; LC 2006-8160
Investigating the religious lives of Franklin,Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton, the author presents findings of these founding fathers as skeptical intellectuals and theorizes that the United States was not founded on Christian principles but from Enlightenment ideas.

Colacurcio, Michael J.
Godly letters; the literature of the American Puritans. University of Notre Dame Press 2006 650p $50.00
ISBN 0-268-02290-9; LC 2006-12839
The author examines the meaning behind works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans, including William Bradford, Thomas Hooker, John Winthrop, and John Cotton, in rhetorical, theological, and political terms.

Critical affinities; Nietzsche and African American thought; edited by Jacqueline Scott and A. Todd Franklin; foreword by Robert Gooding-Williams. State University of N.Y. Press 2006 (SUNY series, Philosophy and race) 265p $74.50, pa $24.95
ISBN 0-7914-6861-5; 0-7914-6862-3; LC 2005-29978
Contributors, contemplating the relationship between the philosophy of Nietzsche and various concerns of African American thought, examine race relations and conceptions of racial identity.

Cross-cultural collaboration; Native peoples and archaeology in the northeastern United States; edited by Jordan E. Kerber; with a foreword by Joe Watkins. University of Neb. Press 2006 379p $59.95, pa $24.95
ISBN 0-8032-2765-5; 0-8032-7817-9; LC 2005-36079
This collection of essays explores the ethical, theorietical, and practical significance of the relationship between archaeologists and Native American tribes in the Northeast. Special focus is given to ways to improve the process as well as voluntary efforts in education, research, and museum-related projects.

Crucible of the Civil War; Virginia from secession to commemoration; edited by Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget. University of Va. Press 2006 226p $35.00
ISBN 978-0-8139-2552-3; LC 2006-2243
Studying various aspects of wartime Virginia, scholars examine such issues as the war’s effect on slavery in the state, the relationship between race and religion, the development of Confederate nationalism, and how Virginians chose to remember the war after its end.

Culler, Jonathan
The literary in theory. Stanford Univ. Press 2007 (Cultural memory in the present) 276p $55.00, pa $21.95
ISBN 0-8047-5373-3; 0-8047-5374-1; LC 2006-17967
Studying the role and place of literary analysis in theory, the author explores concepts of text, sign, interpretation, the performative, and omniscience within various disciplinary practices.

Depth of field; Stanley Kubrick, film, and the uses of history; edited by Geoffrey Cocks, James Diedrick, and Glenn Perusek. The University of Wisconsin Press 2006 (Wisconsin film studies) 330p $60.00, pa $27.95
ISBN 0-299-21610-1; 0-299-21614-4; LC 2005-22821
In this analysis of Kubrick’s whole body of work, screenwriters and scholars examine such films as Dr. Strangelove, 2001: a space odyssey, A clockwork orange, The shining, and Eyes wide shut within such contexts as film history, the history of psychoanalysis, and the sociology of sex and power.

Doctorow, E. L.
Creationists: selected essays, 1993-2006. Random House 2006 176p $24.95
ISBN 1-4000-6495-3; LC 2006-45210
Presenting essays on the nature of imaginative thought, the author considers creativity in various forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. Among the figures studied are Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Harpo Marx, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and W. G. Sebald.

Eating in Eden; food and American utopias; edited by Etta M. Madden and Martha L. Finch. University of Neb. Press 2006 (At table series) 291p $34.95
ISBN 0-8032-3251-9; LC 2005-36474
This collection of essays explores the ways Americans have produced, consumed, and marketed food and food-related products in order to promote such ideals as gender, social class, taste, nonviolence, and environmentalism.
 

Glover, Susan Paterson
Engendering legitimacy; law, property, and early eighteenth-century fiction. Bucknell Univ. Press 2006 (The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture) 231p $49.50
ISBN 0-8387-5604-1; LC 2005-29456
The author discusses the interrelationship of law, land, property, and gender in the narrative fiction of Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe.

Hegel and language; edited by Jere O’Neill Surber. State University of New York Press 2006 (SUNY series in Hegelian studies) 259p $75.00
ISBN 0-7914-6755-4; LC 2005-15255
In this assessment of Hegel’s linguistic thought, contributors consider the possibility of systematic philosophy, truth and objectivity, and the relation of Hegel’s thought to analytic and postmodern approaches to language.

In search of the Black Panther Party; new perspectives on a revolutionary movement; Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, editors. Duke Univ. Press 2006 390p $84.95, pa $23.95
ISBN 0-8223-3837-8; 0-8223-3890-4; LC 2006-10439
Scholars in the fields of political science, English, criminal justice, and sociology examine the present-day legacy of the Black Panthers in terms of radical ideology, urban politics, revolutionary violence, popular culture, and the media.

Indigenous resurgence in the contemporary Caribbean; Amerindian survival and revival; edited by Maximilian C. Forte. Peter Lang 2006 298p pa $33.95
ISBN 0-8204-7488-6; LC 2005-12816
Investigating the resurgence of native identification by indigenous communities in such areas as Belize, the Dominican Republic, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Puerto Rican diaspora, contributors discuss such issues as the struggle for rights, relations with the nation-state, and globalization.

Japan after Japan; social and cultural life from the recessionary 1990s to the present; edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry Harootunian. Duke Univ. Press 2006 (Asia-Pacific) 447p $94.95, pa $25.95
ISBN 0-8223-3787-8; 0-8223-3813-0; LC 2006-8053
Exploring transformations in Japan since the early 1990s, essays reflect on the relationship between Japan and the United States, the legacy of Japanese colonialism, the role of children in society, the effects of reality tv shows, the creation and reception of Pokemon, and the zealous fans of anime.

Lawrence, Deborah
Writing the trail; five women’s frontier narratives. University of Iowa Press 2006 158p $29.95
ISBN 1-58729-509-6; LC 2006-45612
In this analysis of Susan Magoffin’s Down the Santa Fe trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce’s A frontier lady, Louise Clappe’s The Shirley letters, Eliza Farnham’s California, in-doors and out, and Lydia Spencer Lane’s I married a soldier, the author studies how women’s adaptation to the wilderness differed from men’s.

Literary couplings; writing couples, collaborators, and the construction of authorship; edited by Marjorie Stone and Judith Thompson. The University of Wisconsin Press 2006 373p $60.00
ISBN 0-299-21760-4; LC 2005-33030
Essays examine texts by such literary partnerships as the Sidneys, Boswell and Johnson, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as well as lesser-known collaborators Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland, in terms of recent conceptions of authorship and textuality.

Menke, Christopher
Reflections of equality; translated by Howard Rouse and Andrei Denejkine. Stanford Univ. Press 2006 (Cultural memory in the present) 226p $65.00, pa $24.95
ISBN 0-8047-4473-4; 0-8047-4474-2; LC 2006-11774
The author explores the limitations and problems raised by Anglo American perspectives of equality and liberalism in the works of such thinkers as Habermas, Derrida, Adorno, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Schmitt.

New media poetics; contexts, technotexts, and theories; edited by Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss. The MIT Press 2006 425p $38.88
ISBN 0-262-13463-2; LC 2005-57658
This collection of essays addresses how poetry composed, disseminated, and read on computers illuminates the role of the computer as an expressive medium via a lineage of print and sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural abstraction, and conceptual art.

Northern constellations: new readings in Nordic cinema; edited by C. Claire Thomson. Norvik Press (dist. by Dufour Eds.) 2006 245p pa $36.95
ISBN 1-87004-63-1; LC 2006-283648
Cinema studies scholars and Scandinavian specialists from the UK, the U.S., and the Nordic world explore the potential of cinema to define space, body, and community.

Roisman, Joseph
The rhetoric of conspiracy in ancient Athens. University of Calif. Press 2006 198p $49.95
ISBN 0-520-24787-6; LC 2005-29593
The author considers the cultural, psychological, and rhetorical significance of how classical orators in Athens frequently filled their speeches with charges of conspiracy against the government as well as against the public interest.

Self-representational approaches to consciousness; edited by Uriah Kriegel and Kenneth Williford. The MIT Press 2006 560p $80.00, pa $40.00
ISBN 0-262-11294-9; 0-262-61211-9; LC 2005-56118
In this collection of essays, contributors offer a range of perspectives on the self-representational theory of consciousness and its connection to such philosophical issues as knowledge, attention, and the nature of propositional attitudes.

Tiffany, Grace
Love’s pilgrimage; the holy journey in English Renaissance literature. University of Del. Press 2006 217p $43.50
ISBN 0-87413-948-1; LC 2006-5921
The author examines literary adaptations of the Catholic pilgrimage in the Protestant poetry and prose of William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Edmund Spenser, and John Bunyan.

Transnational cinema, the film reader; edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden. Routledge 2006 (In focus¾Routledge film readers) 213p $130.00, pa $43.95
ISBN 0-415-37157-0; 0-415-37158-9; LC 2005-16520
Essays assess the significance of films that fashion narratives that appeal to more than one national or cultural community given the influence of advanced capitalism, new media technologies, and an interconnected world-system. Africa, India, France, Asia, and Latin America are among the regions studied.