Teeth
Dallas Hunt Pender Harbour: Harbour Publishing 2024 This is a book about grief, death and longing. It’s about the gristle that lodges itself deep into one’s gums, between incisors and canines. Teeth details not only the symptoms of colonization, but also the foundational and constitutive asymmetries that allow for it to proliferate and reproduce itself. […]
The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter: Anthropology Upside Down
Richard Cavell Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 2024 Edmund Snow Carpenter (1922-2011), shaped by an early encounter with Marshall McLuhan, was a renegade anthropologist who would plumb the connection between anthropology and media studies over a thoroughly unconventional career. As co-conspirators in the founding of the legendary journal Explorations (1953-59), Carpenter and McLuhan established the groundwork […]
Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France
edited by Nancy M. Frelick and Edith Benkov Toronto: ITER Press 2024 Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France brings together seventeen essays by established and emerging scholars to honour the exceptionally rich contributions and career of Colette H. Winn. The essays explore multiple perspectives on early modern women, including their writings, translations, reception, […]
Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English
Mo Pareles Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2024 Early English culture depended on a Judaism translated away from Jews. Revealing the importance of Jewish law to the workings of early Christian England, Nothing Pure presents a Jewish revision of the history of English Bible translation. The book illuminates the paradoxical process by which the abjection […]
On Cuddling Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace
Phanuel Antwi London: Pluto Press 2023 Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship’s hold to the racist encoding of ‘cuddly’ toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy. Informed by Black feminist and queer poetics, Phanuel Antwi focuses his […]
Pragmatics in the History of English
Laurel Brinton Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2023 How were you and thou used in Early Modern England? What were the typical ways of ordering others in Early Medieval England? How was the speech of others represented in the nineteenth-century novel? This volume answers these questions and more by providing an overview of the field of […]
Crip Negativity
J. Logan Smilges U of Minnesota Press 2023 Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as activists and politicians had hoped. In Crip Negativity, J. Logan Smilges shows […]
Landbridge: life in fragments
Y-Dang Troeung Knopf Canada 2023 In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to relocate to Canada. As the final arrivals, their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the PM shaking Y-Dang’s father’s hand, reaching out to […]
Refugee Lifeworlds
Y-Dang Troeung Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2022 Cambodian history is Cold War history, asserts Y-Dang Troeung in Refugee Lifeworlds. Constructing a genealogy of the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, Troeung mines historical archives and family anecdotes to illuminate the refugee experience, and the enduring impact of war, genocide, and displacement in the lives […]
The Masculinities of John Milton
Elizabeth Hodgson London: Cambridge University Press 2022 The Masculinites of John Milton is the first published monograph on Milton’s men. Examining how Milton’s fantasies of manly authority are framed in his major works, this study exposes the gaps between Milton’s pleas for liberty and his assumptions that White men like himself should rule his culture. […]