July 2006

After collapse: the regeneration of complex societies; edited by Glenn M. Schwartz and John J. Nichols. University of Arizona 2006 289p $50.00
ISBN: 0-8165-2509-9; LC 2005-28813
Bronze age Syria, classical Greece, ancient Cambodia, and the Incas are among the societies discussed.

Berglund, Jeff
Cannibal fictions: American explorations of colonialism, race, gender, and sexuality. University of Wisconsin Press 2006 233p “A Ray and Pat Browne book” $65.00
ISBN 0-299-21590-9; LC 2005-22820
Includes discussions on how cannibalism perpetuated or subverted racist, sexist and homophobic ideologies rooted in earlier times.

Censoring culture: contemporary threats to free expression; edited by Robert Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva; published in conjunction with the National Coalition Against Censorship. The New Press 2006 353p $19.95
ISBN: 1-59558-097-2; 1-59558-050-6
Examines private censorship, copyrights, economic foundations of censorship, and other topics.

Communication ethics, media, and popular culture; edited by Phyllis M. Japp, Mark Meister, Debra K. Japp. Lang, P. 2005 309p (Popular culture and everyday life; v.9) pa $29.95
ISBN 0-8204-7119-4
Essays address popular mediated constructions of ethical and unethical communication in news, sports, advertising, film, television, and the internet, with an emphasis on the consumption of popular culture messages, as well as how auditors make moral sense out of what they read, hear, and observe.

Critical essays on John Edgar Wideman; edited by Bonnie TuSmith and Keith E. Byerman. University of Tennessee Press 2006 275p $32.00
ISBN: 1-57233-469-X; LC 2005-19801
Works analyzed include Brothers and keepers, Fatheralong, Hurry home, and Two cities.

Critical Inuit studies: an anthology of contemporary Artic ethnography; edited by Pamela Stern and Lisa Stevenson. University of Nebraska Press 2006 302p pa $29.95
ISBN: 0-8032-9348-8; LC 2005-28939
Topics include the development of circumpolar research policy, Inuit identity, translation in oral history, and the importance of place names.

Discipline and the other body: correction, corporeality, colonialism; edited by Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao. Duke University Press 2006 354p pa $23.95; $84.95
ISBN: 0-8223-3743-6; 0-8223-3731-2; LC 2005-30740
The Dutch East India Company, colonial Louisiana, footbinding in China, and postcolonial Northern Nigeria are among the topics analyzed.

Emerson bicentennial essays; edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. Massachusetts Historical Society 2006 473p (Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture; no. 10) $60.00
ISBN: 0-934909-89-X; LC 2006-7013
Contributors discuss Emerson’s views on slavery, women’s rights, civil rights, nature, and other topics.

Inside Shakespeare: essays on the Blackfriars stage; edited by Paul Menzer. Susquehanna University Press 2006 244p $52.50
ISBN: 1-57591-077-2; LC 2005-21269
Essays explore theatrical conventions, stage dynamics, textual studies, and performance history.

Jacques-Louis David: new perspectives; edited by Dorothy Johnson. University of Delaware Press 2006 178p il (Studies in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century art and culture) $57.50
ISBN: 0-87413-930-9; LC 2005-29461
Contributors discuss paintings such as The oath of the Horatii and The lictor’s returning to Brutus the bodies of his sons, as well as topics like modern neoclassicism, Napoleonic painting, the Roman influence, revolution, and literature.

Landscape and race in the United States; edited by Richard H. Schein. Routledge 2006 262p pa $26.95; $90.00
ISBN: 0-415-94994-7; 0-415-94995-5
Essays examine the black/white divide, as well as other social landscapes including Chinatowns, Latino landscapes in the Southwest, and white suburban landscapes.

The landscape of Hollywood westerns: ecocriticism in an American film genre; edited by Deborah A. Carmichael. University of Utah Press 2006 248p pa $21.95
ISBN: 0-87480-866-9; LC 2006-10190
Films analyzed include Grapes of wrath, Pale rider, Northwest passage, and Stagecoach.

Lyon, John B.
Crafting flesh, crafting the self: violence and identity in early nineteenth-century German literature. Bucknell University Press 2006 280p $52.50
ISBN: 0-8387-5631-X; LC 2005-29451
Holderlin’s Hyperion, Brentano’s Godwi, von Kleist’s The broken pitcher, and Buchner’s Danton’s death are the works discussed.

Narrating architecture: a retrospective anthology; edited by James Madge and Andrew Peckham. Routledge 2006 496p il pa $48.95; $135.00
ISBN: 0-4153-7435-9; 0-4153-8564-4
Contributors discuss such topics as design, architecture and science, materiality, sociology and architecture, and identity of place.

Politics and culture of the Civil War era: essays in honor of Robert W. Johannsen; edited by Daniel McDonough and Kenneth W. Noe. Susquehanna University Press 2006 346p $60.00
ISBN: 1-57591-101-9; LC 2005-21726
Jacksonian thought, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, the Smithsonian Institution, and manifest destiny are among the topics analyzed.

The politics of past evil: religion, reconciliation, and the dilemmas of transitional justice; edited by Daniel Philpott. University of Notre Dame Press 2006 250p (Kroc Institute series on religion, conflict, and peace building) pa $25.00; $50.00
ISBN: 0-268-03889-2; 0-268-03890-2; LC 2006-8039
Essays explore reconciliation in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Germany, and Argentina.

Renaissance drama [2005]. Northwestern Univ. Press 2006 (New series 34) 210p $64.95

Robert Louis Stevenson: writer of boundaries; edited by Richard Ambrosini and Richard Dury. University of Wisconsin Press 2006 377p pa $24.95; $60.00
ISBN 0-299-21220-3; 0-299-21224-6; LC 2005-11165
Contributors examine such works as Treasure Island, The master of Ballantrae, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The wrong box, as well as subjects such as the Scots in the British colonies and the reception of Stevenson’s writings in North America.

Said, Edward W.
On late style: music and literature against the grain; foreward by Mariam C. Said; introduction by Michael Wood. Pantheon Books 2006 176p $25.00
ISBN 0-375-42105-X; LC 2005-51029
The author discusses the works of Beethoven, Mozart, Jean Genet, Glenn Gould, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Luchino Visconti, Thomas Mann, and Benjamin Britten.

Self-determination: the other path for Native Americans; edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson and Thomas E. Flanagan. Stanford University Press 2006 332p $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-8047-5441-5; LC 2006-6595
This collection of essays examines such subjects as the buffalo economy, property rights in the Hudson Bay Region, salmon fisheries in British Columbia, Indian casinos, and Indian reservations.

Studies in contact linguistics: essays in honor of Glenn G. Gilbert; edited by Linda L. Thornburg and Janet M. Fuller. Lang, P. 2006 334p $79.95
ISBN 0-8204-7934-9
Creolistics, African American English, bozal Spanish, Afrikaans, and German language varieties spoken in different periods and regions of the United States are among the languages analyzed.

Toni Morrison and the Bible: contested intertextualities; edited by Shirley A. Stave. Lang, P. 2006 259p (African-American literature and culture; v. 12) pa $29.95
ISBN: 0-8204-6935-1
This collection of essays examines such works as Sula, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Paradise, and The bluest eye.

Toure
Never drank the kool-aid: essays. Picador 2006 402p pa $15.00
ISBN: 0-312-42578-3; LC 2005-54631
The author includes profiles of Eminem, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, Wynton Marsalis, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and Condoleezza Rice.

Weingarten, Marc
The gang that couldn’t write straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism revolution. Crown Publishers 2006 325p $25.00
ISBN: 1-4000-4914-8; LC 2005-15378
The author traces the development of the New Journalism from the Herald Tribune and Esquire to such writers and editors as Clay Felker, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and Hunter S. Thompson.

Wolin, Richard
The Frankfurt School revisited: and other essays on politics and society. Routledge 2006 307p pa $24.95; $95.00
ISBN: 978-0-415-95356-6; 978-0-415-95357-3; LC 2005-31279
Essays examine Frankfurt School thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Herbert Marcuse, as well as religious fundamentalism, the dislocations of globalization, and the prospect of global democracy.