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Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences' happening.

Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.

Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.

A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.

Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.

Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of affectivity in various forms of life.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Analyzes parallel developments in post-Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School's moral and political philosophy, based on the school's founder Nishida Kitarō's metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.