Liverpool University Press: New Titles

Liverpool University Press: New Titles http://www.press.uchicago.edu/rss/newlup.xml The latest new books from Liverpool University Press en-us erg@press.uchicago.edu French Atlantic http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=6899475 Bill Marshall <br><br><DIV><P><I>The French Atlantic</I> is a compelling and timely contribution to ongoing debates about nationhood, culture, and “Frenchness” that have come to define France and its diaspora in light of the diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq war and other mass cultural events. With interdisciplinary navigation of fields nearly as diverse as the locations he explores, Bill Marshall considers the cultural history of seven different French Atlantic spaces—from Quebec to the southern Caribbean to North Atlantic territory and back to metropolitan France—in this groundbreaking study of the Atlantic world.</P></DIV><br></div> Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553 - 2 vol set http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=6925335 Edited and Translated by Richard Price <br><br><DIV><P>The Council of Constantinople of 553, often called Constantinople II or the Fifth Ecumenical Council, has been described as by far the most problematic of all of the church councils. The methods employed by the Council and the domineering emperor who controlled it included brutality towards opponents and the falsification of documents, among other charges. This timely and detailed translation by acclaimed ecclesiastical scholar Richard Price argues, however, that the theology of the council was both opportune and constructive and that its contributions to Christian unity was well-intentioned and not wholly unsuccessful, as he reevaluates material long neglected by historians of the period.</P></DIV><br></div> American Travel and Empire http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=6925338 Edited by David Seed and Susan Castillo <br><br><DIV><P>In this volume, leading scholars examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and empire. Including both writing about America by visitors and the travel writing of Americans abroad, this collection explores the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized areas shaped our perceptions, as well as other issues related to the American empire, such as the transmission of images and metaphor between colony and metropolis, the portrayal of cultures as primitive or wild, the cultural and economic hegemony underlying American and European travel writing, and the deployment of cultural encounters to reinforce sovereign cultural practices.</P></DIV><br></div> Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=6925356 Lesley Wylie <br><br><DIV><P>This volume offers a new reading of the Spanish-American <I>novela de la selva </I>genre, often interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. Arguing against the commonly held opinion of the genre’s derivative nature, <I>Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks<B> </B></I>examines how <I>novela de la selva<B> </B></I>fiction reimagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective and redefined tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perspectives. Analyzing four emblematic novels of the genre, this book considers the crucial place of the jungle as a locus for the contestation of national and literary identity by post-independence Latin American writers.</P></DIV><br></div> Secularization and the World Religions http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=6925360 Edited by Hans Joas and Klaus Wiegandt <br><br><DIV><P>This volume concerns itself with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. Dealing with the major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social, and political order, as well as offering an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas, <I>Secularization and the World Religions</I> analyzes the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion—as well as the role of the natural sciences—in a global perspective. Contributors include such internationally renowned scholars as Winfried Brugger, José Casanova, Hans Joas, and Hans Kippenberg.</P></DIV><br></div> Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364537 Translated with an Introduction and notes by Peter N. Bell <br><br><DIV><P>This one-volume translation, with commentary and introduction, brings together three important works—<I>Advice to the Emperor, Dialogue on Political Science,</I> and<I> Description of the Hagia Sophia</I>—which cast light on the generally neglected politics and ideology of early Byzantium. No complete modern English translation of any of these three works exists and they each highlight the clash of political and religious ideology of the period. </P></DIV><br></div> Bright Stars http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364547 Richard Marggraf Turley <br><br><DIV><P>The most celebrated poet of his day after Byron, Barry Cornwall, pseudonymous identity of Bryan Waller Procter (1787–1874), was a solicitor, dandy, and pugilist championed by Leigh Hunt, as well as the author of three books of heralded verse. This volume attempts to square Cornwall’s early nineteenth-century popularity with his subsequent neglect, emphatically returning an important and unjustly neglected Romantic author to critical focus, and exploring the fascinating mirror between this own trajectory into celebrity with that of his now better-known contemporary, John Keats.</P></DIV><br></div> Cinematic Fictions http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364551 David Seed <br><br><DIV><P>The phrase “cinematic fiction” generally has been accepted into critical discourse, but usually only in the context of postwar novels. This volume examines the influence of a particular medium, film, on another, the novel, in the first half of twentieth-century American literature. Offering new insights into classics such as <I>The Great Gatsby </I>and <I>The Grapes of Wrath</I>, as well as discussing critical writings on film and active participation in filmmaking by major writers such as William Faulkner, <I>Cinematic Fictions</I> will be compulsory reading for scholars of American film and literature alike.</P></DIV><br></div> Cultured Violence http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364554 Rosemary Jolly <br><br><DIV><DIV><P> </P><P><I>Cultured Violence<B> </B></I>explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent cultural conflict. Drawing on and juxtaposing narratives of profoundly different kinds—the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, public testimony form the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, documents from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s rape trial, and personal interviews among them—in order to illuminate different cultural senses of the “state of the nation” and retrieve otherwise elusive descriptions of South African subjects taken from accounts of their individual lives.</P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> French Postmodern Masculinities http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364563 Lawrence Schehr <br><br><DIV><P>As traditional notions of masculinity have been called into question, representational reactions and articulations have swept postmodern cultures. Certain contemporary French cultural productions illustrate this shift in masculinities and this volume offers up the first comprehensive examination of their development. Acclaimed critic Lawrence R. Schehr analyzes AIDS narratives, mainstream films, popular novels, graphic narratives, and rightist polemics, among other genres, in order to explore the changing meaning of masculinity in French society, making this volume appealing to a broad range of researchers and students in a variety of fields.</P></DIV><br></div> History and Hagiography from the Late-Antique Sinai http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364567 Translated with an Introduction and notes by Daniel Caner <br><br><DIV><P>This volume collects a number of important texts that have never before been translated into a modern language, each of which describes the late antique conditions and experiences on the Sinai peninsula. The texts in translation include Pseudo-Nilus’s <I>Narrationes</I>, Nilus of Ancyrus’s <I>Epistula</I>, and fifty tales attributed to Anastasius of Sinai. All remain important for late antique history, literature, and religion, as well as for their special focus on developments in the Sinai region prior to the Islamic period.</P></DIV><br></div> Postcolonial Eyes http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364576 Aedín Ní Loingsigh <br><br><DIV><P>Over the past two decades, scholarly interest in travel and travel writing has developed significantly. Critical engagement with issues such as imperialism, postcolonialism, ethnography, and cultural anthropology has led to increasingly sophisticated readings of the travel writing genre and a growing acknowledgement of its complex history. This volume is the first of its kind to identify a specifically Sub-Saharan African lineage within the broader tradition of travel writing, and it explores the reason for Africans’ exclusion from the genre, as well as the important relationship between ethnicity and travel in the concerns that define African writers’ approaches to travel.</P></DIV><br></div> Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364580 Edited by Charles Forsdick and David Murphy <br><br><DIV><P>In the late 1990s, postcolonial studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic inquiry, in part due to the emergence of repetitive anthologies and an overemphasis on English-language literatures. In the early twenty-first century, however, the postcolonial began to reveal a new openness towards its comparative dimensions, and French-language contributions to the postcolonial debate—including the work of Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibi—have risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world. This volume, written by scholars working with French-language materials, acknowledges this shift and provides an essential tool for students and scholars seeking a way into the study of Francophone postcolonial debates.</P></DIV><br></div> Racism Postcolonialism Europe http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364587 Edited by Graham Huggan and Ian Law <br><br><DIV><P>This multidisciplinary edited collection turns the postcolonial critical gaze back on Europe itself, arguing that racism is alive and dangerously well and examining a variety of postcolonial criticism in order to understand a variety of racisms: those of false respect, reaction, and surveillance. <I>Racism Postcolonialism Europe</I> wisely suggests that all of these forms of postcolonial racism occur under the guise of representing the interests of the European <I>people</I>— which is a very different entity than the European <I>population</I> as a whole. This volume—which includes contributions from Griselda Pollock, Michel Wieviorka, and Philomena Essed—will  be required reading for scholars and students of race, postcolonial studies, sociology, and cultural studies alike.</P></DIV><br></div> Reparative in Narratives http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364591 Mireille D. Rosello <br><br><DIV><P>The authors studied in this volume represent a Francophone archipelago unfamiliar to any mapmaker, but drawn together through their use of narrators who are survivors and, sometimes, inflictors, of unspeakable acts of violence. These authors, then, Mireille D. Rosello argues, repair trauma through the act of writing. The reparative narratives introduced here require that readers be prepared to accept that healing belongs to a whole realm of potential outcomes—and that exposure and denunciation do not exhaust the victim’s range of possibilities. Rosello contends that this context-specific, yet repeating, pattern constitutes a response to our contemporary understanding of both globalized and extremely localized types of traumatic memories.</P></DIV><br></div> Spanish Screen Fiction http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364598 Paul Julian Smith <br><br><DIV><P>This pioneering volume argues that cinema and television in Spain only make sense when considered together as twin vehicles for the screen fiction that has come to dominate the twenty-first century. Offering comparative readings of films such as Pedro Almodóvar’s classic <I>Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown</I> with his production company’s first foray into television production—a 2006 series called <I>Women—</I>alongside prize-winning workplace dramas watched by thousands on Spanish television, Alejandro Amenábar’s <I>The Sea Inside</I>, and the attempts to establish the dominant Latin American genre of the <I>telenovela</I> in the very different context of Spanish television.</P></DIV><br></div> Titanic and Liverpool http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364605 Alan Scarth <br><br><DIV><DIV><P>On the fateful night of April 14, 1912, if you could have stood behind the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic as she went down in the frigid waters off of the Great Banks of Newfoundland, the last sight that would have flashed before your eyes as the great ship became lost to the sea would have been the word “Liverpool.” The loss of such a storied liner, a national and international tragedy, was also a tragedy for its home port—and this fascinating, first of its kind volume explores the history and myths surrounding the sinking in terms of the extraordinary stories that link Europe’s preeminent port city of Liverpool and its most famous maritime loss.</P><P> </P><DIV>Many of the ship's key officers and crew were either from Liverpool or had strong links with the port, and many of the most colorful tales emerging from the disaster relate to lower-class Liverpudlians who scurried to join the voyage. Using material from the archives of the White Star Line, the extensive holdings of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, rich newly discovered illustrations, and a variety of other topical historical sources, author Alan Scarth unearths the unbelievable back story of key characters, minor crewmen turned unsung heroes, and company officers who, though not on the ship, were intimately connected to the events of that infamous evening. We also find out what happened to the survivors when they went on with their lives following the ship’s sinking.</DIV><P> </P><P>Filled with previously unpublished source material and illustrations, <I>Titanic and Liverpool</I> will be compulsory reading for anyone interested not only in the fateful events of that unforgettable night.</P><P> </P></DIV></DIV><br></div> Underground Writing http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=8364609 David Welsh <br><br><DIV><P>This exciting volume explores the way in which the London Underground (“The Tube”) was mapped by a number of writers, including George Orwell, H. G. Wells, George Gissing, and Virginia Woolf, from the late Victorian era to the end of World War II. Represented diversely as a Dantean underworld, a psychological looking-glass, and a place for safety and security, the Underground is evaluated here as portrayed in fiction, poetry, and art, as well as a borderland for cultural construction in transport history, anthropology, and urban studies. Linking adventurous literature with the actual underground modes of transit, author David Welsh reshapes the metaphorical world of “underground writing” and places it in its proper social and political context.</P></DIV><br></div>