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Post*45.......................................... 3-4
Stanford Text
Technologies............................... 4-5
Literary Studies and
Critical Theory........................... 6-7
Square One: First-Order
Questions in the
Humanities................................... 7-8
Cultural Studies........................9-12
Stanford Studies in
Jewish History and
Culture........................................ 12-14
Digital Publishing Initiative..... 15
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2The Point Alma Venus The Novel and the New Ethics Incremental Realism
Manuscripts Dorothy J. Hale Postwar American Fiction,
Preliminary Versions of Happiness, and Welfare-State
For a generation of contemporary Liberalism
The Women at Point Sur
Anglo-American novelists, “Why
Robinson Jeffers write?” has been answered with a Mary Esteve
Edited by Tim Hunt and renewed will to believe in the ethical Mary Esteve offers a bold, revisionist
Robert Kafka value of literature. Examining a literary and cultural history of efforts
broad array of novelist-critics— undertaken by literary realists, public
During the period 1921 to 1927
including J.M. Coetzee, Toni intellectuals, and policy activists to
Robinson Jeffers not only wrote
Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen, advance the value of public institutions
many of his most well-known
Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Fran- and the claims of socioeconomic justice.
lyric poems but also Tamar, The
zen—Dorothy J. Hale investigates
Tower Beyond Tragedy, Roan As Esteve argues, era-defining authors
how the contemporary emphasis on
Stallion, and The Women at Point of realist fiction, including Philip Roth,
literature’s social relevance sparks a
Sur—the long poems that first Gwendolyn Brooks, Patricia Highsmith,
new ethical description of the novel’s
established his reputation as a Paula Fox, Peter Taylor, and Mary
social value that is in fact rooted in
major American poet. Including McCarthy, embraced specific symbols
the modernist notion of narrative
an introduction, chronology, and of happiness and developed narrative
form that Henry James inaugurated.
critical afterword, The Point Alma modes—“incremental realism”—
In Hale’s reading, the art of the novel
Venus Manuscripts gather Jeffers’s that made justifiable the claims of
becomes defined with increasing ex-
four unfinished but substantial disadvantaged Americans on the
plicitness as an aesthetics of alterity
preliminary attempts at what nation-state and promoted a small-
made visible as a formalist ethics. It
became The Women at Point Sur, canvas aesthetics of moderation. With
is this commitment to otherness as
shedding important light on its this powerful demonstration of the
a narrative act which has conferred
composition and themes, and of- way postwar literary fiction linked
on the genre an artistic intensity and
fering necessary context for those the era’s familiar trope of happiness
richness that extends to the novel’s
who wish to clarify Jeffers’s poetic to political arguments about socio-
every word.
development and to reinterpret his economic fairness and individual
practice of narrative poetry. The “Astute and probing.” flourishing, Incremental Realism
Point Alma Venus Manuscripts —Rita Felski,
University of Virginia enlarges our sense of the postwar
call on general and scholarly liberal imagination and its attentiveness
readers alike to reconsider Jeffers’s 360 pages, 2020 to better, possible worlds.
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“Speaks to the priorities and questions
American poetry. of our own time.”
—Bruce Robbins,
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Post*45 3
A series edited by Loren Glass and Kate MarshallA Violent Peace UNESCO and the Fate Networking Print in
Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of the Literary Shakespeare’s England
of Democratization in Cold War Influence, Agency, and
Sarah Brouillette
Asia and the Pacific Revolutionary Change
Shortlisted in the 2020 ASAP Book
Christine Hong Prize, sponsored by the Association Blaine Greteman
for the Study of the Arts of the
This book offers a radical cultural Present (ASAP) In early modern England, printed
account of the midcentury trans- A case study of one of the most books were a technology that con-
formation of the United States into important global institutions of nected an increasingly expansive
a total-war state. As the Cold War cultural policy formation, UNESCO community of printers, publishers,
turned hot, writers—including James and the Fate of the Literary demon- and booksellers. As Greteman
Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. strates the relationship between such reveals, network analysis of the
Du Bois—discerned in U.S. domestic policymaking and transformations nearly 500,000 books printed in
strategies to quell racial protests and in the economy. Focusing on England before 1800 makes it
urban riots the same logic of racial UNESCO’s use of books, Sarah possible to speak once again of a
counterintelligence structuring Brouillette identifies three phases in “print revolution,” identifying a
America’s devastating hot wars in the agency’s history and explores the sudden tipping point at which the
Asia. Hong examines the centrality literary and cultural programming early modern print network became
of U.S. militarism to the Cold War of each. She charts a trajectory that a small world where information
cultural imagination. She assembles might appear to be one of trium- could spread in new and powerful
a transpacific archive—including war phant success—literary tourism and ways. Providing new insights into
writings, Japanese accounts of the U.S. festival programming can be quite canonical literary figures like Milton
atomic bombing of Hiroshima, black lucrative for some people—but is and Shakespeare, data analysis also
radical human rights petitions, Korean uncovers the hidden histories of key
also, under a different light, a story
War-era GI photographs, Filipino figures in this transformation who
of decline.
novels on guerrilla resistance, and have been virtually ignored. Both
“In Brouillette’s impressive and a primer on the power of network
Marshallese critiques of U.S. human bracingly severe account, UNESCO
radiation experiments—and places analysis and a critical intervention
becomes an institutional lens through in early modern studies, the book is
these materials alongside U.S. govern- which we can see the much larger ultimately an extended meditation
ment documents to theorize these and more powerful set of economic
realities that have shaped our sense on agency and the complexity of
works as homologous responses to
of what role literature should play in action in context.
unchecked U.S. war and police power.
the world at large.” “As delightful to read as it is deeply
“A tour de force.” engaged in all the relevant scholarship.”
—Mark McGurl,
—Robin D. G. Kelley, Stanford University —Laura Mandell,
University of California, Los Angeles Texas A&M University
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4 Post*45 Stanford Text Technologies
A series edited by Loren Glass and Kate MarshallNotework The Connected Condition Text Technologies
Victorian Literature and Romanticism and the Dream A History
Nonlinear Style of Communication Elaine Treharne and
Simon Reader Yohei Igarashi Claude Willan
Notework begins with a striking The Romantic poet’s intense yearn- The field of text technologies is a
insight: the writer’s notebook is ing to share thoughts and feelings capacious analytical framework
a genre in itself. Simon Reader often finds expression in a style that that focuses on all textual records
pursues this argument in original thwarts a connection with readers. throughout human history, from the
readings of unpublished writing Yohei Igarashi addresses this earliest periods of traceable commu-
by prominent Victorians, offering paradox by reimagining Romantic nication—perhaps as early as 60,000
a more expansive approach to poetry as a response to the begin- BCE—to the present day. At its core,
literary formalism for the twenty- nings of the information age, and it examines the material history of
first century. Presenting notes in the result is a radical reframing communication: what constitutes
terms of genre allows Reader to of major poets and canonical a text, the purposes for which it is
suggest inventive new accounts poems. Considering Samuel Taylor intended, how it functions, and the
of key Victorian texts, including Coleridge as a stenographer, William social ends that it serves.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, On the Wordsworth as a bureaucrat, Percy
Origin of Species, and Hopkins’s This coursebook can be used to
Shelley amid social networks, and
devotional lyrics, and to reinterpret support any pedagogical or research
John Keats in relation to telegraphy,
these works as meditations on the activities in text technologies, the
Igarashi reveals a shared attraction
ethics of compiling and using data. history of the book, the history of
and skepticism toward the dream of
In this way, Notework recasts infor- information, and textually-based
communication. Bringing to bear
mation collection as a personal and work in the digital humanities. Text
a singular combination of media
expressive activity that comes into Technologies: A History will enable
studies, the history of communica-
focus against large-scale systems of students and teachers to generate
tion, sociology, rhetoric, and literary
knowledge organization. Finding multiple lines of inquiry into how
history, The Connected Condition
resonance between today’s digital communication—its production,
culture and its nineteenth-century shows that the Romantic poets have
form and materiality, and recep-
precursors, Reader honors our most much to teach us about living with
tion—is crucial to any interpretation
disposable, improvised, and fleeting the connected condition and the
of culture, history, and society.
textual gestures. fortunes of literature in it.
“This clear and lucid book has
“Carves out fresh and rewarding “Brilliant, nuanced, and elegantly
ample material for a wide variety
territory in the landscape of written.”
—Alan Liu, of curious readers.”
Victorian studies.” University of California, —Andrew Piper,
—Andrew Stauffer, Santa Barbara McGill University
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Stanford Text Technologies 5
A series edited by Elaine Treharne and Ruth AhnertThe Afterlife of Enclosure Toward the Critique Two Studies of
British Realism, Character, and of Violence Friedrich Hölderlin
the Commons A Critical Edition Werner Hamacher
Carolyn Lesjak Walter Benjamin Edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng
The enclosure of the commons Edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng Two Studies of Friedrich Hölderlin
was an act of “slow violence” that Marking the centenary of Walter shows how the poet enacts a radical
transformed lands, labor, and Benjamin’s influential essay, “Toward theory of meaning that culminates
basic concepts of public life leading the Critique of Violence,” this in a unique and still groundbreaking
into the nineteenth century. The critical edition presents readers with concept of revolution, one that begins
Afterlife of Enclosure examines three a new, fully annotated translation of with a revolutionary understanding
canonical British writers—Charles a classic of modern political theory. of language. The product of an
Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas intense engagement with both Walter
Hardy—as narrators of this history, The volume includes notes and
Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, the
which required new literary forms to fragments by Benjamin along
book presents Werner Hamacher’s
capture the lived experience. with passages from all of the
major attempts at developing a critical
contemporaneous texts to which his
This study boldly reconceives the practice commensurate with the
essay refers: provocative arguments
realist novel as witness to this immensity of Hölderlin’s late writings.
about law and violence advanced
material and environmental dispos- Readers will not only come away with
by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller,
session—and bearer of utopian a new appreciation of Hölderlin’s
Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer;
energies. Illuminating the common poetic and political-theoretical
a new translation of selections
at the heart of the novel—from achievements but will also discover the
from Georges Sorel’s Reflections
common characters to common- motivating force behind Hamacher’s
on Violence; and, for the first time
place events—Carolyn Lesjak reveals own achievements as a literary scholar
in any language, a bibliography
an experimental figuration of a and political theorist.
Benjamin drafted for the expansion
once defining feature of the British of the essay and the development of An introduction by Julia Ng and an
landscape and political imaginary. a corresponding philosophy of law. afterword by Peter Fenves provide
In the face of privatization, climate further information about these studies
change, and the other forms of slow “The most comprehensible version yet
of Benjamin’s compelling and and the academic and theoretical
violence today, this book looks back demanding essay.” context in which they were composed.
to a literature of historical trauma and
—Kevin McLaughlin, “A fitting tribute to Werner Hamacher.”
locates within it a radical path forward. Brown University
—Susan Bernstein,
“Powerful and timely.” 376 pages, June 2021 Brown University
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6 Literary Studies and Critical TheoryClose Reading with Now in Paperback Political Grammars
Computers Failures of Feeling The Unconscious Foundations
Textual Scholarship, Computational Insensibility and the Novel of Modern Democracy
Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Wendy Anne Lee Davide Tarizzo
Cloud Atlas Davide Tarizzo takes up the problem
This book recovers the curious
Martin Paul Eve history of the “insensible” in the of modern democratic, liberal
Age of Sensibility. A fresh take peoples—how to define them, how
Most contemporary digital studies
on emotions in the history of the to explain their invariance over time,
are interested in distant-reading
novel, Failures of Feeling opens up and how to differentiate one people
paradigms for large-scale literary
literary history’s most provocative from another. Tarizzo proposes that
history. This book asks what
cases of unfeeling, from the iconic Jacques Lacan’s theory of the subject
happens when such telescopic enables us to clearly distinguish
techniques function as a microscope scrivener who would prefer not to
and the reviled stock figure of the between the notion of personal
instead, bringing a range of compu- identity and the notion of subjectivity,
tational methods to bear on a single prude, to the heroic rape survivor,
the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and this distinction is critical to
genre-bending novel—Cloud Atlas understanding the nature of nations
(2004)—in a sustained fashion. Pub- and the hard-hearted Jane Austen
whose sense of nationhood does
lished in two very different versions herself. The result is a new theory
not rest on any self-evident identity
worldwide without anyone taking of mind and of the novel predicated
or pre-existent cultural or ethnic
much notice, David Mitchell’s novel on an essential paradox: the very
homogeneity. Introducing the concept
is ideal fodder for a textual-genetic phenomenon that would appear
of “political grammar”—the conditions
publishing history, reflections on to halt feeling and plot actually
of political subjectification that
micro-tectonic shifts in language by compels them. Contrary to the
enable the enunciation of an emergent
authors who move between genres, assumption that fictional investment “we”—Tarizzo argues democracy
and explorations of how we imagine relies on a richness of interior life, flourishes when the opening between
people wrote in bygone eras. With Wendy Anne Lee shows instead subjectivity and identity is maintained.
this important work, Martin Paul that nothing incites the passions As he compellingly demonstrates,
Eve demonstrates a set of methods like dispassion. democracy can be productively
and provides open-source software “Stunningly original.” perceived as a process of never-
tools that others can use in their —Deidre Lynch, ending recovery from a lack of
own literary-critical practices. Harvard University clear national identity.
“An impressive achievement.” 248 pages, 2020 “A brilliant psychoanalytic exploration
—Ted Underwood,
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University of Illinois, —John P. McCormick,
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Literary Studies and Critical Theory Square one: first-order 7
questions in the humanitiesPoetic Thinking Today The Long Public Life of a Ordinary Unhappiness
An Essay Short Private Poem The Therapeutic Fiction of
Amir Eshel Reading and Remembering David Foster Wallace
Thomas Wyatt Jon Baskin
Thinking is much broader than
what our science-obsessed, utilitar- Peter Murphy In recent years, the American fiction
ian culture often takes it to be. Thomas Wyatt didn’t publish writer David Foster Wallace has
More than mere problem solving “They Flee from Me.” It was written been treated as a symbol, as an icon,
or the methodical comprehen- in a notebook, maybe abroad, and even a film character. Ordinary
sion of our personal and natural maybe even in prison. Today it is Unhappiness returns us to the reason
circumstances, thinking may take in every poetry anthology. How we all know about him in the first
the form of a poem, a painting, a did it survive? That is the story place: his fiction. By closely examining
sculpture, a museum exhibition, Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with
or a documentary film. Exploring compelling detail—of the accidents Hideous Men, and The Pale King,
a variety of works by contemporary of fate that kept a great poem alive Jon Baskin points readers to the
artists and writers who exemplify across 500 turbulent years. From the work at the center of Wallace’s
poetic thinking, this book draws deadly, fascinating circles of Henry oeuvre and places that work in
our attention to one of the crucial VIII’s court to the contemporary conversation with a philosophical
affordances of this form of creative classroom, The Long Public Life of a tradition that includes Wittgenstein,
human insight and wisdom: Short Private Poem also introduces Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among
its capacity to help protect and us to a series of worlds. We meet others. What emerges is a Wallace
cultivate human freedom. In an era antiquaries, editors, publishers, who not only speaks to our post-
characterized by the global reemer- anthologizers, and critics whose modern addictions in the age of
gence of authoritarian tendencies, own life stories beckon. And we mass entertainment and McDonald’s
Amir Eshel writes with the future learn how the poem came to be but who seeks to address a quiet des-
of the humanities in mind, urging considered, after many centuries peration at the heart of our modern
the acknowledgment and cultiva- of neglect, a model of the “best” lives. Freud said that the job of the
tion of poetic thinking. English has to offer. therapeutic process was to turn
“This book should be required read- “hysterical misery into ordinary
“Beautifully written and utterly unhappiness.” This book makes a
ing for defenders of the humanities original.”
in our current political moment.” case for how Wallace achieved this
—John Guillory,
—Lital Levy, New York University
in his fiction.
Princeton University
272 pages, 2019
“Persuasive, bold, enterprising,
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200 pages, 2019
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8 Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
A series edited by Paul A. KottmanNothing Happened Divining Nature Before Trans
A History Aesthetics of Enchantment in Three Gender Stories from
Susan A. Crane Enlightenment France Nineteenth-Century France
What does it mean to look at the Tili Boon Cuillé Rachel Mesch
past and to remember that “nothing The Enlightenment remains widely In Before Trans, Rachel Mesch
happened”? Why might we feel associated with the rise of scientific recovers a more complex history of
as if “nothing is the way it was”? progress and the loss of religious gender identity by examining the
This book transforms these utterly faith. In her wide-ranging and richly lives of three French writers who
ordinary observations and redefines illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé expressed their gender in ways that
“Nothing” as something we have questions the accuracy of this nar- did not conform to nineteenth-
known and can remember. By pay- rative by investigating the fate of the century notions of femininity. Jane
ing attention to how we understand marvelous in the age of reason. Dieulafoy, Rachilde, and Marc de
Nothing to be happening in the Exploring the affinities between the Montifaud were each involved in a
present, what it means to “know natural sciences and the fine arts, lifelong effort to articulate a sense
Nothing” or to “do Nothing,” we can Cuillé examines the representation of of selfhood that did not precisely
begin to ask how those experiences natural phenomena, demonstrating. align with the conventional gender
will be remembered. Susan A. Crane responses to the “spectacle of nature” roles of their day. Their intricate,
moves effortlessly between different in eighteenth-century France included personal stories provide vital
modes of seeing Nothing, drawing wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy, historical context for our own
on visual analysis and cultural stud- and the “sentiment of divinity.” These efforts to understand the nature
ies to suggest a new way of thinking “passions of the soul,” traditionally as- of gender identity and the ways in
about history. By remembering how sociated with religion and considered which it might be expressed.
Nothing happened, we can recover antithetical to enlightenment, were “Before Trans is an exceedingly
histories that were there all along. linked to contemporary theorizations well-written, layered, and compel-
“Clever and funny and serious and of the sublime. The marvelous was ling account of three overlapping
illuminating. You won’t want to put not eradicated but instead preserved gender-variant biographies. Rachel
it down.” through the establishment and reform Mesch’sbeautiful braiding of their
of major French cultural institutions. lives and loves, their desires and
—Marita Sturken,
author of Tourists of History
disappointments, offers a fresh and
This book has been made possible in original take on trans history.”
264 pages, January 2021 part by the National Endowment for the
Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. —Jack Halberstam,
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“A remarkable achievement.” 360 pages, 2020
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350 pages, 2020
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Cultural Studies 9A Unified Theory of Cats Minor Transpacific The Peculiar Afterlife
on the Internet Triangulating American, Japanese, of Slavery
and Korean Fictions The Chinese Worker and
E.J. White
David S. Roh the Minstrel Form
The line “the internet is made of
cats” seems to need no explana- There is a tendency to think of Caroline H. Yang
tion. Everyone understands the Korean American literature—and The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery
joke, but few know how it started. Asian American literature writ explores how antiblack racism lived
A Unified Theory of Cats on the large—as a field of study involving on through the figure of the Chinese
Internet is the first book to explore only two spaces, the United States worker in US literature after emanci-
how the cat became the internet’s and Korea. The same rings true with pation. Drawing out the connections
best friend. Bringing together fun Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature between this liminal figure and the
anecdotes, thoughtful analyses, involving only Japan and Korea. formal aesthetics of blackface min-
and hidden history of the com- This book posits that both fields strelsy in literature of the Reconstruction
munities that built the internet, must account for all three spaces: and post-Reconstruction eras,
White shows how japonisme, punk Korean American literature has to Caroline H. Yang reveals the ways
culture, cute culture, and the battle grapple with the legacy of Japanese antiblackness structured US cultural
among different communities for imperialism in the United States, production during a crucial moment
the soul of the internet informed and Zainichi literature must account of reconstructing and re-narrating US
the sensibility of online felines. for American interventions in Japan. empire after the Civil War. Examining
Internet cats thus offer a playful— Working in Japanese and English, texts by major American writers in
and useful—way to understand David S. Roh builds a theoretical the late nineteenth and early twenti-
how culture shapes and is shaped framework for articulating moments eth centuries, Yang’s bold re-reading
by technology. of contact between minority litera- of these authors’ contradictory
tures in a third national space. positions on race and labor sees the
“A definitive overview of one of figure of the Chinese worker as both
online culture’s least understood “A refreshing piece of scholarship that hiding and making visible the legacy
phenomena, and a fascinating ride will advance important conversations
through internet history.” of slavery and antiblackness.
surrounding transnational minor
—Ethan Zuckerman, literature and Korean American “Offering fascinating new insights,
MIT cultural production.” Caroline Yang’s nuanced comparative
—Lisa Yoneyama, analyses enrich by challenging us to
University of Toronto reconceptualize minstrelsy in US
Asian America
literature and our ideas of the ‘West.’”
168 pages, 2020 224 pages, July 2021 —Edlie L. Wong,
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Asian America
296 pages, 2020
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10 Cultural StudiesGiving Form to an Asian Giving Way The Implicated Subject
and Latinx America Thoughts on Unappreciated Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
Dispositions Michael Rothberg
Long Le-Khac
Steven Connor When it comes to historical violence
This book reveals the intertwined
story of contemporary Asian Ameri- In a world that promotes assertion, and contemporary inequality, none of
cans and Latinxs through a shared agency, and empowerment, this us are completely innocent. Arguing
literary aesthetic. Their transfictional book challenges us to revalue a that the familiar categories of victim,
literature creates expansive imagined range of actions and attitudes that perpetrator, and bystander do not
worlds in which distinct stories have come to be disregarded or adequately account for our connec-
coexist, offering artistic shape to dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, tion to injustices past and present,
their linked political and economic resignation, politeness, restraint, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory
struggles. Read together, Asian gratitude, abstinence, losing well, of political responsibility through
American and Latinx literatures apologizing, taking care: today, the figure of the implicated subject.
convey astonishing diversity and such behaviors are associated with Examining a range of cultural texts,
untapped possibilities for coalition negativity or lack. But the capacity archives, and activist movements
within the U.S.’s fastest-growing im- to give way is better understood from such contested zones as tran-
migrant and minority communities. as positive action, at once intricate sitional South Africa, contemporary
As the U.S. population approaches and demanding. Moving from Israel/Palestine, post-Holocaust
a minority-majority threshold, we intra-human common courtesies, Europe, and a transatlantic realm
urgently need methods that can look to human-animal relations, to the marked by the afterlives of slavery,
across the divisions and unequal global civility of human-inhuman Rothberg finds that the processes and
positions of the racial system. ecological awareness, the book’s histories illuminated by implicated
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx argument unfolds on progressively subjectivity are legion in our inter-
America leads the way with a vision larger scales. At a time when it is connected world and articulates how
for the future built on panethnic and confronting our own implication in
on the wane, Giving Way offers a
cross-racial solidarity. difficult histories can lead to new
powerful defense of civility, the
“Long Le-Khac expertly demon- versatile human capacity to deflect forms of internationalism and long-
strates how aesthetic form can reveal aggression into sociability and to distance solidarity.
solidarities within and across ethnic exercise power over power itself.
and racial differences.” “This book’s stakes are as high as
“This book gets to the root of its thinking is subtle, clear, and
—Crystal Parikh, persuasive.”
New York University what it means to be an ethical
human being.” —Marianne Hirsch,
Stanford Studies in Comparative Columbia University
Race and Ethnicity —David Kishik,
Emerson College Cultural Memory in the Present
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Cultural Studies 11Uncle Tom Now in Paperback Jewish Primitivism
From Martyr to Traitor The Re-Enchantment Samuel J. Spinner
Adena Spingarn of the World
Secular Magic in a Rational Age Around the beginning of the
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. twentieth century, Jewish writers
Honorable mention in the 2019 Edited by Joshua Landy and and artists across Europe began
MLA Prize for a First Book Michael Saler depicting fellow Jews as savages or
From his origins as the Christ- This interdisciplinary volume chal- “primitive” tribesmen. Primitivism,
like protagonist of Harriet lenges the long-prevailing view of the European appreciation of
Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, modernity as “disenchanted.” There is and fascination with so-called
Uncle Tom has become a widely of course something to the widespread “primitive,” non-Western peoples
recognized epithet for a black idea, so memorably put into words by who were also subjugated and
person deemed so subservient to Max Weber, that modernity is charac- denigrated, was a powerful artistic
whites that he betrays his race. terized by the “progressive disenchant- critique of the modern world and
Adena Spingarn offers the first ment of the world.” Yet less often was adopted by Jewish writers
comprehensive account of this recognized is that a powerful counter- and artists to explore the urgent
figure in the American imagina- tendency runs alongside this one, an questions surrounding their own
tion, demonstrating his centrality overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum identity and status in Europe as
to American conversations about left by departed convictions, and to do insiders and outsiders. Jewish
race and racial representation from so without invoking superseded belief Primitivism argues that Jewish
1852 to the present. We learn of systems. Modernity produces an array modernists developed a distinct
the radical political potential of the of strategies for re-enchantment, each primitivist aesthetic that challenged
novel’s many theatrical spinoffs, fully compatible with secular rational- prevailing forms of primitivism that
its changing fortunes in the post– ity. It has to, because God has many relied on idea of the threatening
Civil War and Jim Crow eras, and “aspects” and traditional religion offers savage “other” from outside Europe:
how Tom was censored by black so much in so many domains. From in Jewish primitivism, the savage is
cultural figures of the Harlem one thinker to the next, the question already there.
Renaissance. Through Uncle Tom, of just what, in religious enchantment,
needs to be replaced in a secular world “Spinner uncovers the paradoxical
black Americans have contested primitivist yearnings motivating a
the viability of various strategies receives an entirely different answer generation of Jewish visual artists
for racial progress and defined the and these strategies are presented in and writers in Yiddish, German,
most desirable and harmful images this wide-ranging collection. and Hebrew.”
of black personhood in literature “One of those rare books that creates —Gabriella Safran,
Stanford University
and popular culture. a paradigm shift in a topic of real
importance.” 304 pages, July 2021
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12 Cultural StudiesIt Could Lead to Dancing Wild Visionary Writing Occupation
Mixed-Sex Dancing and Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Émigré Voices in
Jewish Modernity Jewish Context Wartime France
Sonia Gollance Golan Y. Moskowitz Julia Elsky
Dances and balls appear throughout Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Among the Jewish writers who
world literature as venues for young Sendak’s life and work in the context emigrated from Eastern Europe to
people to meet, flirt, and form of his experience as a Jewish gay France between the two world wars,
relationships, as any reader of Pride man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard a number chose to switch from
and Prejudice or Romeo and Juliet Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, writing in their languages of origin
can attest. While traditional Jewish romantic, and shockingly funny to writing primarily in French.
law prohibits men and women from truth seeker who intervened in Under the Nazi occupation of France
dancing together, Jewish mixed-sex modern literature and culture. from 1940 to 1944, these Jewish
dancing was understood as the Sendak painted childhood with the émigré writers continued to write in
very sign of modernity—and the dark realism and wild imagination their adopted language, even as the
ultimate boundary transgression. of his own sensitive “inner child,” Vichy regime and Nazi occupiers
In Jewish literature of the long drawing on the queer and Yiddish denied their French identity through
nineteenth century, dance scenes sensibilities that shaped his singular xenophobic and antisemitic laws. In
become a charged and complex voice. Interweaving literary biogra- this book, Julia Elsky considers how
arena for understanding the limits of phy and cultural history, Golan Y. these writers reexamined both their
acculturation, the dangers of ethnic Moskowitz analyzes Sendak’s creativ- Jewishness and their place as authors
mixing, and the implications of ity in relation to the momentous in France. By writing in French, they
shifting gender norms and marriage events that shaped his perspective,
expressed multiple cultural, religious,
patterns. Combining cultural history including the Great Depression,
and linguistic identities, even when
with literary analysis, Sonia Gollance the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis.
their sense of belonging was being
illustrates how mixed-sex dancing Through a deep exploration of
violently denied.
functions as a flexible metaphor for Sendak’s picture books, interviews,
the concerns of Jewish communities and previously unstudied personal “Clearly and gracefully written, Writing
in the face of cultural transitions. correspondence, Wild Visionary Occupation will be of interest to all
offers a sensitive portrait of the most those concerned by the fate of Jews in
“A fascinating exploration of the France, before and after the Second
role of dance in literary representa- beloved and enchanting picture-
World War.”
tions of Jewish modernization and book artist of our time.
—Susan Rubin Suleiman,
secularization.” “Easily the best study of Sendak author of The Némirovsky Question
—Naomi Seidman, to appear, deeply researched and 288 pages, 2020
University of Toronto
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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture 13
A series edited by David Biale and Sarah Abrevaya SteinThe Converso’s Return German as a Jewish Problem Reading Israel,
Conversion and Sephardi History The Language Politics of Reading America
in Contemporary Literature Jewish Nationalism The Politics of Translation
and Culture Marc Volovici between Jews
Dalia Kandiyoti The German language has held an Omri Asscher
Five centuries after the forced conver- ambivalent and controversial place American and Israeli Jews have
sion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the modern history of European historically clashed over the
to Catholicism, stories of conversos’ Jews, representing different—often contours of Jewish identity, and
descendants uncovering long-hidden conflicting—historical currents. their experience of modern Jewish
Jewish roots inspired a wave of The crucial role of German in the life has been radically different.
contemporary writing pointing to a formation of Jewish national culture But what happens when the
past that had been presumed dead and politics in the late nineteenth encounter between American
and buried. The Converso’s Return century has been largely overshad- and Israeli Jewishness takes place
explores the cultural politics and owed by the catastrophic events in literary form—when Jewish
literary impact of this reawakened that befell Jews under Nazi rule. American novels make aliyah, or
interest in converso and crypto-Jewish German as a Jewish Problem tells when Israeli novels are imported
history, and asks what this fascination the Jewish history of the German for consumption by the diaspora?
with lost-and-found heritage can tell language, focusing on Jewish Reading Israel, Reading America
us about how we relate to and make national movements in Central and explores the politics of translation
use of the past. Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel. as it shapes the understandings
Dalia Kandiyoti turns to contem- Marc Volovici considers key writers and misunderstandings of Israeli
porary fiction and memoirs that and activists whose work reflected literature in the United States and
imagine what might be missing from the multilingual nature of the Jewish American Jewish literature in
the historical archive, suggesting that national sphere and the centrality of Israel. Asscher decodes the literary
these works propose an alternative the German language within it. This encounter between Israeli and
historical consciousness that reveals book offers a new understanding of American Jews, provocatively
convergences and solidarities within the language problem in modern untangling cultural relations be-
Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, converso, Jewish history. tween these “rival siblings” of the
and Sabbatean histories. Jewish world.
“A fascinating, superbly told story.”
“With impressive literary sophistica-
“Theoretically sophisticated, histori- —John M. Efron, tion, Asscher reveals how translation
cally rigorous, and superbly written.” University of California, Berkeley
has served not only as a bridge
—Tabea Alexa Linhard, 352 pages, 2020 but as a site of encounter and even
author of Jewish Spain confrontation.”
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14 Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis
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Elaine A. Sullivan
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Black Quotidian
Everyday History in African-American Newspapers
Matthew F. Delmont
Black Quotidian explores everyday lives of African Americans in
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Grave Reform in Modern China
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In the past decade alone, more than ten million corpses have been
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