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. […]
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised
Alice Te Punga Somerville Auckland University Press 2022 Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts, butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this, gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign words’, a friend of the author was advised. In her first book of poetry, […]
Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry
Stephen Guy-Bray London: Anthem Press 2022 This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems. It begins with an introduction summarizing the work that has already been done in this area and demonstrating the […]
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence
J. Logan Smilges University of Minnesota Press 2022 While silence is often linked to voicelessness, complicity, and even death in queer culture, Queer Silence insists that silence can be a generative and empowering mode of survival. Triangulating insights from queer studies, disability studies, and rhetorical studies, J. Logan Smilges explores what silence can mean for […]
Faulkner, Aviation and Modern War
Michael Zeitlin New York: Bloomsbury 2022 Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War frames William Faulkner’s airplane narratives against major scenes of the early 20th century: the Great War, the rise of European fascism in the 1920s and 30s, the Second World War, and the aviation arms race extending from the Wright Flyer in 1903 into the […]
Fashion Nation
Sandra Tomc University of Michigan Press 2021 Fashion Nation argues that popular images of the United States as a place of glitter and lights, of gaudy costumes and dizzying visual surfaces—usually understood as features of technomodernity—were in fact brewed in the rich, strange world of early nineteenth-century British and European folk nationalism when nations were […]
Shakespeare and Queer Representation
Stephen Guy-Bray Routledge 2021 In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s works representation itself becomes queer. Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a […]
Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948
Eva-Marie Kröller University of Toronto Press 2021 Writing the Empire is a collective biography of the McIlwraiths, a family of politicians, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, scientists, and scholars. Known for their contributions to literature, politics, and anthropology, the McIlwraiths originated in Ayrshire, Scotland and spread across the British Empire, specifically North America and Australia, from the mid-nineteenth […]