Recent Reviews and Media Highlights

Recent Reviews and Media Highlights

By SUNY Press Date: April 27, 2024 Tags: Excelsior Editions, SUNY Press Team, Reviews and Media Highlights, SUNY Press News, Education, Philosophy, Gender and Sexuality, Asian Studies, Religion and Spirituality, Jewish Studies, Literature

Stay up to date with all the news and reviews of SUNY Press books. Here's a list of recent reviews, news articles, and author interviews.

In the News:

The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education, by Rachelle Winkle-Wagner

Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia, by Xue Mo and translated by Fan Pen Li Chen

Feminist Spiritualities: Conjuring Resistance in the Afro-Caribbean and Its Diasporas, by Joshua R. Deckman

SUNY Press News:

How Do Editors Assess Your Book’s ‘Fit’?, by Rebecca Colesworthy - Chronicle of Higher Education

Judging by its Cover, Part 2, by Alix Beeston, Pardis Dabashi, Daniel Morgan, Rochelle Rives, Kartik Nair, Jed Esty, Natalia Cecire, and Rebecca Colesworthy - Modernism/modernity

The State University of New York Press (SUNY) Joins the University Press Library Program at Paradigm Publishing Services - STM Publishing News

SUNY Press Teams with New Books Network on Author-Interview Podcast - Publishers Weekly

Interviews:

Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth, by Lambert Zuidervaart

Calling Wild Places Home: A Memoir in Essays, by Laura Waterman

From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics, by Alexis McGee

Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilization, by Lea Melandri and translated by Antonio Calcagno

The Dybbuk: Its Origins and History, by Morris M. Faierstein

Reviews

Age of Shōjo: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls' Magazine Fiction, by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

  • Reviewed in Japan Review

"…Age of Shōjo is a major contribution to the field of shōjo studies. It speaks equally to scholars of Japanese popular culture (particularly shōjo manga) and Japanese literary studies. The writing style is lucid and engaging and is accessible to scholars and students beyond the field of Japanese studies. It will also appeal to readers interested in girls' studies and gender studies more broadly." — Japan Review

  • Reviewed in East Asian Publishing and Society

"This is an ideal book for those looking to grasp an overview of girls' fiction in Japan … The book is relatively short and the writing is clear and easy to follow, making it suitable for use in the classroom. While the list of works and authors discussed is understandably selective, it succeeds in narrativizing the development of girls' fiction in modern Japan through some of its most important works and figures, offering a balanced mixture of general survey and close reading." — East Asian Publishing and Society

Bedeviled: Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism, by Dunja Rašić

The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds, by Nir Evron

  • Reviewed in Studies in English Literature

"The Blossom Which We Are retains the conceptual ambitions of a comparative study while still grounding its arguments within the historical particularity of a modernity cataloging cultural passing or transformation as first revolution but then extinction—a fact that invites applying The Blossom Which We Are to a global historicist sense of how realist fiction and cultural impermanence present themselves beyond the West." — Studies in English Literature

Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene, by Shawna Ross

  • Reviewed in Studies in English Literature

"Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene is a worthy addition to the growing collection of critical thought on environmental disaster in nineteenth-century studies." — Studies in English Literature

Dear Uncles: The Civil War Letters of Arthur McKinstry, a Soldier in the Excelsior Brigade, edited by Rick Barram

"Barram's skills as a researcher and editor are evident as he contextualizes the material, which breathes life into a regiment off at war. McKinstry's letters are interspersed with 'Other Voices,' which feature letters and reports offering a range of viewpoints that balance the book." — Military Images

Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism, by Deanna P. Koretsky

  • Reviewed in Studies in English Literature

"Deanna P. Koretsky's Death Rights is this year's one notable study encountering Romanticism as the archive of the Middle Passage and British racialism." — Studies in English Literature

Ember Days, by Mary Gilliland

"Gilliland waltzes smoothly between the cheeky and conversational and the lyrical … Across tightly-built lyrics, the poet establishes a levelheaded conversational ease that somehow makes room for celebration of the natural world, the inner world, and a sense of humor. Which is to say that Gilliland is full of surprises; the voice of these poems—whether set perched on a bar stool or while mowing down a cemetery—endures." — Literary Hub

Jazz with a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940–1960, by Tad Richards

"…Richards provides an exhaustively-researched but eminently readable look at this under-explored and under-appreciated flavor of small group/post-Big Band swing, and the new styles it would birth." — NYS Music

The Letchworth State Park Atlas: Exploring Its Nature, History, and Tourism through Maps, by Stephen J. Tulowiecki

"…Tulowiecki has created a very nice, well-researched atlas that should interest any local residents, visitors, and others interested in this unique park." — Cartographic Perspectives

Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice, by Ina C. Seethaler

  • Reviewed in Amerikastudien / American Studies

"…Lives Beyond Borders perhaps offers the most fruitful reading experience when approached as a collection of case studies, as each thematical chapter on its own presents valuable insights into various novel and innovative advances in the field of female migrant life writing, spanning diverse regional and thematic backgrounds." — Amerikastudien / American Studies

Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea: Cohesion and Disarray, edited by Su-Mi Lee & Terence Roehrig

  • Reviewed in Pacific Affairs

"This volume is very helpful in considering how to bring North Korea back to the negotiation table, and what stances the major negotiating parties should maintain in denuclearization negotiations with North Korea." — Pacific Affairs

Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945), by Tom Navon

The Sea Lions: Or, The Lost Sealers, by James Fenimore Cooper

"Schachterle and Elliot provide a detailed, multifaceted historical introduction that greatly enriches the experience of reading The Sea Lions." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)

Self-Cultivation in Early China, by Paul Fischer

Unruly Catholic Feminists: Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith, edited by Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe

"…Unruly Catholic Feminists is a great example of how lived experiences can be utilized to explain complex ideas, such as the intersection between the Catholic faith and feminist ideals. This book is a great resource for a wide variety of readers, whether they are students studying topics like religion or gender studies, or whether they are simply interested in literature and poetry." — Reading Religion

Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century, by Susan E. Cook

  • Reviewed in Studies in English Literature

"Victorian Negatives offers an enjoyably readable overview of photographic technologies' impact on Victorian literature and culture." — Studies in English Literature

 

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