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. […]
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 […]