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Re-Collecting Black Hawk
Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
Nicholas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse
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he name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper
Midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything
from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk
Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to “Black Hawk,”
surrendered in 1832 after hundreds of his fellow tribal members were
slaughtered at the Bad Axe Massacre.
Re-Collecting Black Hawk examines the phenomena of this
appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments
it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers.
Nearly 170 original photographs are presented and juxtaposed with texts
that reveal and complicate the significance of the imagery. Contributors
include tribal officials, scholars, activists, and others, such as George
Thurman, the principal chief of the Sac and Fox Nation and a direct
descendant of Black Hawk. These image-text encounters offer visions of
both the past and present and the shaping of memory through landscapes
that reach beyond their material presence into spaces of cultural and
political power. As we witness, the evocation of Black Hawk serves as a
painful reminder, a forced deference, and a veiled attempt to wipe away
the guilt of past atrocities. Re-Collecting Black Hawk also points toward the
future. By simultaneously unsettling and reconstructing the Midwestern
landscape, Re-Collecting Black Hawk envisions new modes of peaceful and
just coexistence and suggests alternative ways of inhabiting the landscape.
Contents
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Architectural History …………………………………………………………………………26
Asian American Studies………………………………………………………………………17
Geography ……………………………………………………………………………………………2–3
History of Science…………………………………………………………………………………25
Latin American History…………………………………………………………………19, 20
Latin American Studies ………………………………………………………………………18
Literacy …………………………………………………………………………………………………17
Literary Criticism…………………………………………………………………………………18
Native American Studies …………………………………………………………………2–3
Philosophy……………………………………………………………………………………………6–7
Photography…………………………………………………………………………………………2–3
Polish History ………………………………………………………………………………4–5, 23
Political Science……………………………………………………………………………………21
Poetry …………………………………………………………………………………………………8–16
Rhetoric …………………………………………………………………………………………………17
Postcolonial Studies ……………………………………………………………………………19
Russian History ………………………………………………………………………22, 23, 24
Russian Studies ………………………………………………………………………………21, 25
Sports ……………………………………………………………………………………………………20
Recent and Bestsellers …………………………………………………………………28–29
Index ………………………………………………………………………………………………………30
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“Re-Collecting Black Hawk is an important and exciting work of cultural
geography and Native studies. Featuring a fascinating photo-essay and
foregrounding the voices of tribal administrators, Native scholars and artists, this
innovative book will be accessible and valuable to a diverse range of readers
interested in memory and landscape in the American Midwest.”
—Bill Anthes, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges
“Through an original and highly provocative pairing of image and text, Brown
and Kanouse explore the complicated legacy of white colonization of an
indigenous world. Now called the American Midwest, that world bears the
imprint of its previous inhabitants as filtered through the conquerors. The book’s
brilliance resides in the incessant questioning of that legacy—why it’s selectively
remembered and forgotten. Re-Collecting Black Hawk will change how readers
make their own memories of this place.”
—Steven Hoelscher, University of Texas at Austin
“The decade’s smartest and most destabilizing book on Indians, Americans,
amnesia, and memory. This book unsettles conventional wisdom of all kinds.
Straightforward images document the massive and mysterious project by
citizens of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois to inscribe the name of a nineteenthcentury Indian leader on a staggering variety of stores, parks, bars, nursing
homes, teams, and schools. An instant classic, in the tradition of Michael Lesy’s
Wisconsin Death Trip.”
—Paul Chaat Smith, author of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
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Nicholas A. Brown is a visiting assistant
professor in the American Indian and
Native Studies program at the University
of Iowa.
Sarah E. Kanouse is an associate
professor in the school of art and art
history at the University of Iowa.
With contributions by George Thurman,
Johnathan Buffalo, Sandra Massey,
Yolanda Pushetonequa, Dylan A.T. Miner,
and Waziyatawin
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Kaleidoscope of Poland
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Oscar E. Swan with Ewa Kołaczek
Foreword by Adam Zamoyski
“Kaleidoscope of Poland is a book that will give you a basic yet very
authentic knowledge of Poland, without being in any way dry. It will also
impress you with its detailed information on the contemporary culture of
the country, so you’ll quickly discover who’s who in Poland and even
familiarize yourself with the country’s celebrities. Its many entries on
Poland’s rich history and the Poles’ passionate drive for freedom through
often turbulent times make it a must-read for anyone wanting to learn
about Poland.”
—Mariusz Siara, PROLOG Polish Language School, Kraków
“This book is full of insights into the Polish state of mind. As such, it is an
absolute must for anyone meaning to visit the country, do business there
or gain some idea of what has been going on in that part of the world for
centuries—in an accessible and pleasurable way. But its usefulness is by
no means confined to novices. Even after decades of living with and
struggling to understand what ‘Poland’ really is, I will be quietly dipping
into it to find out things I never got round to enquiring about.”
—Adam Zamoyski, from the foreword
aleidoscope of Poland is a highly readable volume containing
short articles on major personalities, places, events, and
accomplishments from the thousand-year record of Polish history
and culture. Featuring approximately 900 compact text entries and
600 illustrations, it will be a handy reference at home, a perfect
supplement to traditional guide books when traveling, an aid to
language study, or simply browsed with enjoyment from cover to
cover by anyone with an interest in Poland.
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The entries describe essential features of Poland from the
mundane to the sublime. Whether it is bagels or the Bug River,
Chopin or Madame Curie, the authors offer colorful and often witty
snapshots of significant individuals, customs, folklore, historic events,
phrases, places, geography, and much, much more. Beginning with
the emergence of the Polish state in 966 under Mieszko I, to the
resurrection of present-day Poland within the European Union, it’s
also a sweeping account of the tumult and triumphs the nation has
witnessed through much of its history.
This highly entertaining yet informative book is essentially a
“cultural dictionary”—offering a knowledge base that can be
referred to time and time again. Kaleidoscope of Poland will be
welcomed by readers of Polish descent, students of Polish, or anyone
planning to visit Poland—anyone seeking a greater insight into this
fascinating land.
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Oscar E. Swan is
professor of Slavic
Languages and
Literatures at the
University of
Pittsburgh. The
author of over fifteen
books, Swan was the
first American selected for the
Thesaurus Poloniae Award from the
Center of International Culture, Kraków.
He is also the recipient of the Polonicum
Award from the University of Warsaw for
the outstanding promulgation of Polish
language, literature, and culture outside
of Poland, among other honors.
Ewa Kołaczek is a graduate of Polish
studies at the Jagiellonian University in
Kraków. She paints, teaches Polish to
foreigners, and is the author of Polish
language-learning materials. Her special
interests include the culture of Młoda
Polska (Young Poland), the flora and
fauna of the Podhale (High Tatras), and
the history of the kresy (former Eastern
Poland).
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Wooden church in Bączal Dolny.
Architektura Drewniana (wooden architecture). Poland, and southern Poland
in particular, is a repository of some of the best examples of monumental
wooden architecture in Europe. In practice this usually means churches, taverns,
manor houses, windmills, and other structures, the oldest of which survive from
the fourteenth century. Various regions of Poland have their own szlak
architektury drewnianej (trail of wooden buildings) for tourists. The movement
in Poland to preserve old wooden buildings is among the most active in Europe.
Many historic wooden structures are preserved in skanseny, i.e., outdoor building
museums; others are slowly rotting where they stand. The wooden architecture
of southern Poland as a collective is on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites.
Faktorowicz, Maksymilian (Max Factor, 1875 or 1877–1938). A Łódź-born
Jewish cosmetologist, hair stylist, wig-maker, and pioneer of the modern
cosmetics industry, credited with coining the word makeup. After serving for a
while as cosmetics expert to the Russian royal family, in 1904 he emigrated to
the United States, changed his name to Max Factor, and ended up in Los Angeles
where he developed theatrical greasepaint specifically adapted to the needs of
the emerging film industry. He became known as cosmetician to the stars,
including the actresses Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, and Jean Harlow, among
many others. Factor received an honorary Oscar in 1929 for his contributions to
the film industry, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His
cosmetics are still among the most popular in the industry.
Max Factor applying his product to Renée Adorée.
Krakowiak. The krakowiak (cracovienne) is a lively Polish folk dance from the
environs of Kraków, set for several couples. Its meter is a syncopated 2/4 and
said to imitate the movement of horses. The krakowiak rhythm was adopted by
various composers, both serious and popular. It is often danced to a song sung by
the lead male dancer and the jingling of metal disks on the men’s belts. The word
itself means “resident of Kraków,” where the regional folk costume is the nation’s
most recognized. Dolls in Krakowiak outfits are a big seller in Cepelia stores.
The folk dance troupe Mazowsze in a krakowiak.
Przysięga Kościuszki. (Kościuszko’s Oath to the Polish Nation). On March 24,
1794, in the Rynek Główny (main market square) in Kraków, on a spot marked
today by a commemorative stone slab, Tadeusz Kościuszko proclaimed an armed
insurrection against tsarist Russian rule, giving his oath to the Polish nation that
he would not use his military power for any personal gain but only to defend the
territorial integrity of Poland. He thereby assumed the position of the sole leader
of the rebellion. The vow is reenacted yearly by the Polish military as part of the
celebration of Święto Wojska Polskiego (Polish Armed Forces Day, August 15).
Wojciech Kossak, Przysięga Kościuszki.
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A Journey through Philosophy
in 101 Anecdotes
Nicholas Rescher
“Rescher’s A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes is just that—
and much more. The book is immensely wide-ranging, highly instructive,
and a delight for anyone interested in ideas, intellectual puzzles, and the
breadth of philosophical imagination. The engaging narrative style invites
reading for pleasure; the range gives the book relevance to scores of
philosophical topics; and the sketches themselves contribute ideas on
major issues.”
—Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame
“Rescher has culled from the entire history of philosophy its most
pungent stories, puzzles, and paradoxes. The result is a satisfying tapasstyle introduction to the main periods and ideas of Western thought.
Wherever you dip into this book, whether you’re new to philosophy or an
experienced scholar, you’re assured a burst of intellectual stimulation.”
— Scott Samuelson, author of The Deepest Human Life: An
Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
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philosophical concern: questions of meaning, truth, knowledge,
value, action, and ethics. Rescher’s anecdotes touch on a wide
range of themes—from logic to epistemology, ethics to
metaphysics—and offer much insight into the breadth and depth
of philosophical inquiry. This book illustrates the various ways
philosophers throughout history have viewed the issues in their
field, and how anecdotes can work to inform and encourage further
philosophical thought.
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Nicholas Rescher is
Distinguished
University Professor
of Philosophy at the
University of
Pittsburgh and
chairman of the
Center for
Philosophy of Science. A member of the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, he has served as president of
the Eastern Division of the American
Philosophical Association, the Leibniz
Society of North America, the Charles S.
Peirce Society, the American Catholic
Philosophical Association, and the
Metaphysical Society of America.
Rescher is the author or editor of more
than one hundred books, including
Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the
Face of Inconsistency, Ignorance (On the
Wider Implications of Deficient
Knowledge), and Philosophical Inquiries:
An Introduction to Problems of
Philosophy.
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“With this extraordinary collection we are reminded of
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covered help reveal both Leibniz’s interests and times and the
enormous value of the rigor of Rescher’s scholarship.”
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Philosophical Inquiries
An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy
"The topic selection is impressive . . . Each of the chapters
carefully guides readers past confused and mistaken views to sort
out the best conclusion. . . . The overall impression is that one is in
possession of a complete philosophical system. For those already
favorable toward a nonproductive and neo-Kantian pragmatism,
this book is valuable for reading and teaching."
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The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life
“Using the tools of conceptual analysis and explanation, Mr.
Rescher clarifies a great deal about the baffling phenomenon, all
the while insuring that we do not forget the utter randomness
and unpredictability of luck’s superb surprise.”
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“Rescher's style is very straightforward and focuses closely
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The State of the Art
A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014
David Lehman
“David Lehman’s forewords are exceedingly insightful about the state of
contemporary poetry and serve as mini courses in what poets have said
about poetry and the times in which they lived. He discusses these poets
through anecdote and analysis, for the benefit of the general reader as well
as poetry lovers. He writes eloquently about the ‘dumbing down’ of culture
without ever ‘dumbing down’ poetry to us. Instead, he is illuminating,
provocative, and ecumenical. American poets couldn’t have asked for a
better advocate.”
—Denise Duhamel, from the foreword
“Obituaries for poetry are perishable. So are many poems that will slide
into oblivion without needing a push. But the activity of writing them
redeems itself even if it is only a gesture toward what we continue to need
from literature and the humanities: an experience of mind—mediated by
memorable speech—that feeds and sustains the imagination and helps us
make sense of our lives.”
—David Lehman, from the introduction
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various matters facing poets and their readers today. This book
retrospective “Best of the Best” volumes for the tenth and twentyfifth anniversaries.) Beginning with a new introduction by Lehman
and a foreword by poet Denise Duhamel (guest editor for The Best
American Poetry 2013), the collection conveys a sense of American
poetry in the making, year by year, over the course of a quarter of
a century.
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David Lehman’s
books of poetry
include New and
Selected Poems,
Yeshiva Boys, When
a Woman Loves a
Man, The Evening
Sun, The Daily Mirror, and Valentine
Place. He has edited The Oxford Book of
American Poetry. A Fine Romance:
Jewish Songwriters, American Songs,
the most recent of his six nonfiction
books, won the Deems Taylor Award
from the American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers
(ASCAP) in 2010. Lehman teaches in
the graduate writing program of the
New School in New York City.
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Praise for The Best American Poetry series
“Every year, the annual Best American Poetry anthology
arrives like the gift that keeps giving.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“This indispensable volume, with its rich mix of voices, forms and
techniques, serves as a melting pot of contemporary American verse.”
—Book Page
“A ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title.”
—Chicago Tribune
“A year’s worth of the very best.”
—People
“An essential purchase.”
—Washington Post
“A concentrated, high-caliber, and exhilarating overview of the intensity
and artistry that have made American poetry so splendidly varied and vital
since 1988. . . . This is an anthology of broad scope, serious pleasure,
and invaluable illumination.”
—Booklist
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Do Not Rise
Beth Bachmann
“Fiercely distilled and haunted by the cruelties of war, Do Not Rise is
compressed, imperative, disquieting, and compassionate.”
—Edward Hirsch
“The collection’s conceptual center—and its most insistent word—is
“open.” . . . The resulting gaps open the poem to a meaningful range of
pauses, hesitations, delays, sonic mutations, reconsiderations. . . . There is
so much seeing in its listening.”
—Elizabeth Willis
“Beth Bachmann’s Temper was the last time [in forty years] I remember
reading a first book by a poet so prodigally and—the word that came to my
mind was—severely gifted. The new poems in Do Not Rise are a quantum
leap forward with all the metaphorical leaps, adumbrations, dizzyings,
deft, brief knottings that make the poems in Temper so dazzling. A
remarkable young talent, and a scary one.”
—Robert Hass
why your room has a door
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It’s not the shore; it’s the ocean
mountain
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that opens. Devil, make a
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of me for the water to dwell against. I became aware of my methods
and the methods
It’s what the door is for—
on the floor.
hesitation—a hand that wants
to be a mouth panting pasture, food, an ear
that dogs a woman. Water: hammer;
parting, I insist
wrap your wrist. At
you call me by my first name.
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Beth Bachmann’s
previous poetry
book, Temper,
received the Donald
Hall Prize in Poetry
and the Kate Tufts
Discovery Award. Do
Not Rise received the
Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di
Castagnola Award. Her poems have
appeared in the American Poetry
Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie
Schooner, Boston Review, and Southern
Review and have been anthologized in
The Best New Poets 2005 and 2007. Her
honors also include the American Poet
Prize and fellowships from the
Tennessee Arts Commission, Bread
Loaf, and the Sewanee Writer’s
Conference. Bachmann teaches
creative writing at Vanderbilt
University.
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
“In this bright book of life, Ross Gay lopes through the whole alphabet of
emotions, from anger to zest. Merely considering the letter ‘R,’ for
example, these poems are by turns racy, rollicking, reflective,
rambunctious, raunchy, and rhapsodic. Praise and lamentation rub
shoulders, along with elegy and elation, and every page is dazzling.”
—Scott Russell Sanders, author of Earth Works: Selected Essays
“Ross Gay offers up a muscled poetry of a thousand surprises, giving us a
powerful collection that fireworks even the bleakest nights with ardency
and grace. Few contemporary poets risk singing such a singular
compassion for the wounded world with this kind of inimitable
musicality, intelligence, and intoxicating joy.”
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“These poems are shout-outs to earth’s abundance: the fruits, blooms,
meals, insects, waters, conversations, trees, embraces, and helping
hands—the taken-for-granted wonders that make life worth living, even
in the face of death. Lyric and narrative, elegy and epithalamion,
intoxicated and intoxicating—expansive, but breathlessly uttered, urgent.
Ross Gay has much to say to you—yes, dear reader, you—and you
definitely want to hear it.”
—Evie Shockley
Becoming a Horse
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It was dragging my hands along its belly,
loosing the bit and wiping the spit
from its mouth made me
a snatch of grass in the thing’s maw,
a fly tasting its ear. It was
touching my nose to his made me know
the clover’s bloom, my wet eye to his
made me know the long field’s secrets.
But it was putting my heart to the horse’s that made me know
the sorrow of horses. The sorrow
of a brook creasing a field. The maggot
turning in its corpse. Made me
forsake my thumbs for the sheen of unshod hooves.
And in this way drop my torches.
And in this way drop my knives.
Feel the small song in my chest
swell and my coat glisten and twitch.
And my face grow long.
And these words cast off, at last,
for the slow honest tongue of horses.
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Ross Gay is assistant
professor of English
at Indiana University
and author of the
poetry collections
Against Which and
Bringing the Shovel
Down. His poems
have appeared in
American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review,
Harvard Review, Gulf Coast, Margie: The
American Journal of Poetry, and
Ploughshares, among other publications.
Gay also teaches in the low-residency
MFA program at New England College
and is a Cave Canem fellow.
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Loose Strife
Quan Barry
Past praise for Water Puppets:
“The vocabulary [Barry] employs . . . is stark and stunning, a victory
against these brutal themes. There can be no denial: the winner of the
2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry is a demanding, worthwhile read.”
—TriQuarterly
“Above all, [Barry] forces us to remember what we don’t want to see, to
hold our inhumanity up against the ‘shards of beauty’ in the world, so that
we may not forget what it is that gives our lives meaning.”
—Iowa Review
“Some will find Barry’s subjects—genocidal war, pornography, the
slaughter of Thanksgiving turkeys—disconcerting, but she treats them
with a candor, persistence, and tonal control that aims to question and
comprehend rather than simply indict or dismiss. An engrossing
collection.”
—Library Journal
loose strife
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Some critics say the reader has nothing in common with MacBeth
who in Act 1 Scene 1 has just gutted a man as if stripping a fish
of its innards, the writing
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like a blood smear on the very first page, but I say who hasn’t
been warped by the power of suggestion, the way some people will
willingly open themselves
like the leaves of a sacred book and say I’m ready to become that
when a voice reaches out to anoint them by a name
that has yet to exist?
Sadly it is easier to become like matter than to become like light.
Just look at me. Someone who is now dead once told me
I was the kind of woman
who gets better with age and to my great misfortune
I chose to believe it.
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Quan Barry is the author of three
previous poetry collections: Asylum,
winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett
Poetry Prize; Controvertibles; and Water
Puppets, winner of the Donald Hall Prize
in Poetry. She is also the author of the
novel She Weeps Each Time You’re Born.
Barry has received two fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts in
both poetry and fiction. She is professor
of English at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
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More Money than God
Richard Michelson
“These poems demonstrate what a pleasure it is to read a thoroughly
social poet. Even when Michelson isn’t laughing, he stands in a noble
tradition: the Jewish spiritual comedian. An open-hearted, deeply
engaged book.”—Mark Doty
“Some poets wrestle with ghosts. Richard Michelson invites them to sit at
the kitchen table, crack jokes, give advice, live and die all over again. By
turns philosophical, political, tender, outraged, and funny as hell, Richard
Michelson is a poet to remember.”—Martín Espada
“Dramatic encounters with the past, such as what you behold here in
Michelson’s poetry, often lead to exquisite confessions that ennoble a life.
A sparkling treatise about poetry and memory.”—Major Jackson
“Dazzling, smart, and original, More Money than God mixes up the angels
and devils of history and hope into realms of greater being. There’s
something huge going on nearly all the time—as well as something
intricately tender too.”—Naomi Shihab Nye
“Michelson asks with urgent eloquence how the sweetness of life can be
sheltered from the terrors of our time, and what art can make of such a
world as ours. His poems are artful, humane, and true.”
—Richard Wilbur, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
More Money than God
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plated knocker (we still banged fists) or my own lust
to own the autographed edition or the waxed bronze bust.
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It is not only the idea—which should hold all the pleasure—
above the memorized poem. And so I fan my flushed face,
signaling the fast-talking auctioneer, who has traced
the provenance, and picks up the pace, multiplying offers.
And who now does my father’s bidding? Heaven’s coffers,
perhaps, are for the destitute; but why did he have to die
to escape the shitty crime-ridden, never-to-be-gentrified
neighborhood of both our births? The cost of living,
he would argue, is not the worth of being alive.
But still he checked each lottery ticket which littered
the empty lot next door, praised their silver latex glitter,
praying to the beautiful unscratched, like little gods.
Money talks, he taught me. But nobody beats the odds.
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but the poet’s pencil marks on paper which we treasure
Richard Michelson
is the author of the
poetry collections
Battles & Lullabies and
Tap Dancing for
Relatives. His many
children’s books have
been named among
the 10 Best Books of
the Year by the New York Times,
Publishers Weekly, and the New Yorker,
and among the 12 Best Books of the
Decade by Amazon.com. Michelson has
been a finalist for the Massachusetts
Book Award, the National Jewish Book
Award, the Phillis Wheatley Award, and
he is the only author to receive both the
Sydney Taylor Gold and Silver Medal
from the Association of Jewish
Librarians. Michelson owns R. Michelson
Galleries, hosts a poetry radio program,
and is the current Poet Laureate of
Northampton Massachusetts.
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The Republics
Nathalie Handal
“The Republics is a startling piece of work. It’s tight and lyrical and
surprising and, when it needs to be, heartbreaking. Nathalie Handal’s
signature comes through loud and clear. It’s one of the most inventive
books I’ve read by one of today’s most diverse writers.”—Patricia Smith
“These ‘flash reportages’ by Nathalie Handal offer us new ways to
think about both poetry and journalistic documentation. A dialogue
of observers as they share a voice for the space of the poem. I love
how it is the constant questioning that seems to hold the narratives
together. Entrancing.”
—Noam Scheindlin, in Warscapes
“Nathalie Handal is a singular creature: An international nomad
whose work explores the innermost quadrants of the self and has a
genius for letting all voices, however discordant, be heard. This is
poetry of the most original and rigorous kind.”—Lorraine Adams
“The Republics is a massively brilliant new work, a leap in literature
we have not seen. It’s gripping, harrowing, and at times horrific while
its form paradoxically is fresh, luscious, and original. Bypassing pity
and transforming pain into language Handal stars. She has recorded
like Alice Walker, Paul Celan, John Hershey, and Carolyn Forché
some of the worst civilization has offered humankind and somehow
made it art.”—Sapphire
Ta’bien Negra
POETRY
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lips. Acércate, come closer, I repeat. Her brown eyes smile and she places her
index finger on her lips, Shh, she says, aquí, es una tierra sin frontera, sin prisa.
She is a refrain. She is all the twilights this island has ever seen. A bachata
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is playing. A violin not far. I forget if I’m in Puerto Plata or Cabarete. If I
ever opened a pawn shop or paid the rent. Fool, I tell myself, don’t you know
the heart has no words for goodbye after you’ve desired a woman this much? A silver
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pink light on the sheets. She is now closer. I can’t help myself, I motion to
move faster, tell her, You are unfinished worlds. Shh, she responds. Ta’bien
Negra, ta’bien. Like an electrified city, she writes her tune, in cursive, all over
my body—don’t blink, so you can walk wearing nothing but flame.
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Nathalie Handal
is the author of Poet
in Andalucía, Love
and Strange Horses,
a Gold Medal
Independent
Publisher Book
Award winner, and
is coeditor of Language for a New
Century: Contemporary Poetry from
the Middle East, Asia & Beyond. She is a
Lannan Foundation Fellow, recipient
of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in
Literature, the Pen Oakland Josephine
Miles Book Award, and an Honored
Finalist for the Gift of Freedom Award,
among other honors. She teaches at
Columbia University and is the editor
of “The City and the Writer” for Words
without Borders magazine.
Spring & Summer 2015
Immigrant Model
Mihaela Moscaliuc
“The poems of Immigrant Model embody robust and sizzling magic—
Mihaela Moscaliuc transports readers through vivid, multilayered scenes,
richly startling images, and a mesmerizing gift for narrative. Here, a
haunting world we would never otherwise see—our sense of history and
terrain is altered forever.”—Naomi Shihab Nye
“To paraphrase Norman Mailer, when history becomes absurd and
fraught the poet must take over for the historian. Moscaliuc is such a poet.
She takes on Ceauşescu’s Romania as well as the aftermath of Chernobyl
with a surreal, sensuous ferocity. Mouth, lips, tongue (some of the most
frequently repeated words in the book) are means of survival; they devour
and indict. The book’s sustained power is extraordinary.”—Stephen Dunn
Past praise for Mihaela Moscaliuc
“Moscaliuc can compress plot worthy of a novel into a one- to-two page
poem that flaunts that skill often. Most impressively, she manages this
compression without ever sounding prosaic, sacrificing little of the
elegant, studied lyricism practiced in most of these poems. It’s a music
that seems deceptively plain at times, but one that lingers, growing fuller
and richer with each read.”
—Martin Woodside, Poetry International
Alien Resident
POETRY
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cradles them to her employer’s kitchenette.
On a leather barstool that spins into night, she pits and pits,
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keeps pace with the vermicular fanfare, bitter blood
On the trenches of dawn, crushed flesh dissolves in the sugar bath
as she nods, on one elbow, to the squeals of bedroom doors.
She spoons coffee, keeping count aloud, and pours milk for kids’ pancakes
as instructed, with a measuring cup. The perfect scale of her eyes
she wastes on homespun sanitizers —2/3 vinegar 1/3 peroxide—
for sinks, counters, her Eager Beaver, his dumbbells.
She jogs through the day in bark slippers, elm
embossed with perfectly knifed hearts.
What’s she doing here, my mother, in a toddler cot,
apron pockets lined with shriveled fruit worms, jars of preserve
ticking under the mattress like hand grenades.
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under nails, petite castanets cackling in the dry mouth.
Mihaela Moscaliuc
is the author of the
poetry collection
Father Dirt and
translator of Carmelia
Leonte’s The Hiss of
the Viper. Her poems,
reviews, and
translations of
Romanian poetry have appeared in
American Poetry Review, the Georgia
Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner,
TriQuarterly, and Mississippi Review,
among others. Moscaliuc is the recipient
of two Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner
Awards and a fellowship from the New
Jersey Arts Council. She is an assistant
professor of English at Monmouth
University and teaches in the lowresidency MFA program in poetry and
poetry in translation at Drew University.
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Brain Camp
Charles Harper Webb
“Charles Harper Webb delights in disorder; no byte of arcane data is offlimits to his hyper-creative imagination as he performs linguistic feats of
mind-stretching magnitude. He delights in order as well. In Brain Camp he
expertly weaves together personal anecdote, pop culture, and high lyric
emotion with seemingly inexhaustible insight into the human condition as
we daily experience it.”
— Laurence Goldstein, author of Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the
Essential Poems of the City
“Charles Harper Webb remains a dynamo of high spirits, a poet whose
steadfast exuberance suggests a kind of poetic ease. But anyone who has
read Webb knows his enthralling poems are always shaped by an
intelligence that is both disciplined and intrepid. The title Brain Camp, of
course, implies as much. Imaginative, sly, and perceptive: these new poems
show why Webb is one of our great wisecracking wise men, ‘a prophet whose
best answer is, ‘We'll see.’ This is a terrific collection.”
—Terrance Hayes
“As it turns out, there is a poetry equivalent to Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Charles
Harper Webb’s poems zig and zag through real and imaginary constructs,
with language as the vehicle that hurdles the reader through experience in
all its gorgeous weirdness. Webb constantly threatens to throw back the
motorcar’s restraining bar, because there is no safety, in his world, from the
vagaries of passion, joy, and fear. His poems fling the reader into realms of
heaven and hell, and there is Webb, saying: I was here.”—Patty Seyburn
The Good Survives
POETRY
FEBRUARY
Not the time Jane threw a coffeepot at Don,
but the time they swam with turtles in Puako Bay.
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but handing him your #20 Adams, that's caught fish all day.
Einstein intuited this law, but couldn't prove it:
Not his mad son and ruined marriage—E = mc2.
Not Colly Cibber—Dryden, Swift, and Pope.
Not Sweet Rebel Sword—Moby Dick.
If not in heaven, then in mind, Auschwitz evaporates;
the orchid's purple stays. Not the boy drowned
in a backyard pool, the girl's heart missing beats,
then lying still. The way she'd lift her arms up
from her crib, and say, "Kiss. Kiss.” The way he'd throw
open the bedroom door, and say, "Daddy, it’s day."
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Webb is the author
of numerous poetry
collections,
including Reading
the Water, Liver,
Tulip Farms and
Leper Colonies, Hot
Popsicles, Amplified Dog, Shadow Ball:
New and Selected Poems, and What
Things Are Made Of. His poems have
appeared in Best American Poetry, the
Pushcart Prize, and Poets of the New
Century. Webb has received the Morse
Prize, Kate Tufts Discovery Award,
Pollak Prize, and Saltman Prize, the
Whiting Writer's Award, and a
Guggenheim fellowship, among other
honors. He is professor of English at
California State University, Long Beach,
and teaches in the MFA in creative
writing program there.
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Not the father's snarl and hissing belt—
the time he played catch for an hour, sick with flu.
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Writing against Racial Injury
The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric
Haivan V. Hoang
“Hoang offers an insightful thick description of Asian American
activism rhetoric at the sites of language and literacy production.
It teaches us to rethink what we mean by ‘student writing’ and the
‘teaching of writing’ in light of a broad range of self-sponsored,
extracurricular rhetorical acts by Asian American activists.”
—Min-Zhan Lu, University of Louisville
“Hoang’s major intervention is her development and retheorization of
Asian American ethos and the uses of memory to create rhetorical
situations that challenge racism. Hoang is able to develop an argument
that not only has breadth (for its wider discussion of the politics of race
and language) but also depth for its rhetorical reading of Asian
American student activism.”
—Morris Young, University of Wisconsin
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riting against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian
American student rhetoric at the site of language and
literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the
Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history:
conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider racial
tensions. Bringing together language and literacy studies, Asian
American history and rhetoric, and critical race theory, Hoang uses
historiography and ethnography to explore the politics of Asian
American language and literacy education: the growth of Asian
American student organizations and self-sponsored writing; the
ways language served as thinly veiled trope for race in the
influential Lau v. Nichols; the inheritance of a rhetoric of injury on
college campuses; and activist rhetorical strategies that rearticulate
Asian American racial identity. These fragments depict a troubling
yet hopeful account of the ways language and literacy education
alternately racialized Asian Americans while also enabling
rearticulations of Asian American identity, culture, and history. This
project, more broadly, seeks to offer educators a new perspective
on racial accountability in language and literacy education.
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Haivan V. Hoang is associate professor
of English at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst.
OF RELATED INTEREST:
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Race, Racism, and University Writing
Instruction in the Post–Civil Rights Era
Steve Lamos
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Chica Lit
Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization
in the Twenty-First Century
Tace Hedrick
“Hedrick argues that chica lit novels negotiate a fine line between selling
ethnicity and not seeming too ethnic or threateningly so; the lesson of
chica lit is assimilable Americanness to which being Latina merely adds
flavor without presenting conflict or critique.”
—Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
“Chica Lit is the first comprehensive study of an understudied genre.
Hedrick analyzes the implications of how such texts convey a
middle-class Latina identity along with a reach toward other
seemingly contradictory ethnic identity markers.”
—Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University
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Tace Hedrick is
associate professor of
English and women’s
studies at the
University of Florida.
She is the author of
Mestizo Modernism:
Race, Nation, and
Identity in Latin
American Culture,
1900-1940.
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Narrating Narcos:
Culiacán and Medellín
Gabriela Polit-Dueñas
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Chilean Culture, Economics, and the
Neoliberal Transition
Alessandro Fornazzari
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n Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the
Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses
of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification
shape the genre of “chica lit,” popular fiction written by Latina
authors with Latina characters. She argues that chica lit is
produced and marketed in the same ways as contemporary
romance and chick lit fiction, and aimed at an audience of twentyto thirty-something upwardly mobile Latina readers. Its stories
about young women’s ethnic class mobility and gendered
romantic success tend to celebrate twenty-first century neoliberal
narratives about Americanization, hard work, and individual
success. However, Hedrick emphasizes, its focus on Latina
characters necessarily inflects this celebratory mode: the
elusiveness of meaning in its use of the very term “Latina”
empties out the differences among and between Latina/o and
Chicano/a groups in the United States. Of necessity, chica lit also
struggles with questions about the actual social and economic
“place” of Latinas and Chicanas in this same neoliberal landscape;
these questions unsettle its reliance on the tried-and-true formulas
of chick lit and romance writing. Looking at chica lit’s marketdriven representations of difference, poverty, and Americanization,
Hedrick shows how this writing functions within the larger arena of
struggles over popular representation of Latinas and Chicanas.
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Inca Garcilaso and
Contemporary World-Making
Edited by Sara Castro-Klarén
and Christian Fernández
“An indispensable tool for scholars across disciplines, especially those
interested in Latin American and indigenous pasts. It is also strongly
recommended reading for early modern researchers focused on other
languages, for they may not be familiar with Inca Garcilaso—an author
that should definitely be part of their canon.”
—Gustavo Verdesio, University of Michigan
“An excellent collection of essays on one of the first Latin American
writers to elaborate a sophisticated reflection on the pre-Columbian
past and the colonial experience in dialogue with Europe’s Renaissance
and classical cultural traditions. Each essay brings a new dimension to
Garcilaso’s texts, the importance and complexity of which are evident.”
—Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas
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To the contributors, Inca Garcilaso’s Royal Commentaries of the Incas
presented an early counter-hegemonic discourse and a reframing of the
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history of native non-alphabetic cultures that undermined the colonial
rhetoric of his time and the geopolitical divisions it purported. Through
his research in both Andean and Renaissance archives, Inca Garcilaso
sought to connect these divergent cultures into one world.
This collection offers five classical studies of Royal Commentaries
previously unavailable in English, along with seven new essays that cover
topics including Andean memory, historiography, translation, philosophy,
trauma, and ethnic identity. This cross-disciplinary volume will be of
interest to students and scholars of Latin American history, culture,
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comparative literature, subaltern studies, and works in translation.
Sara Castro-Klarén
is professor of Latin
American culture and
literature in the
department of
German and Romance
Languages and
Literatures at The
Johns Hopkins University. In 1988, she
cofounded the program in Latin
American studies at Johns Hopkins, and
has twice been the director of the
program. She is the author of The Narrow
Pass of Our Nerves: Writing, Coloniality
and Postcolonial Theory and editor of A
Companion to Latin American Literature
and Culture.
Christian Fernández
is associate professor
of Latin American
studies at Louisiana
State University,
where he has twice
served as director of
Hispanic studies. He is
the author of Inca Garcilaso: Imaginación,
memoria e identidad.
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Sports Culture in
Latin American History
Edited by David M. K. Sheinin
“Sports Culture in Latin American History captured my attention and
expanded my sense of Latinidad by exposing under-analyzed, vastly
hybrid histories and sporting practices. Extending key works in sport
studies, each chapter offers a broad geopolitical lens on the role of sport
in nation building, settlement, community activism, and social
hierarchies. The collection offers a much-needed corrective to a U.S.
practice of over-reliance on a European-centered historical and cultural
landscape for theorizing sport.”
—Katherine Jamieson, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
“For those looking to expand their knowledge of sports as social
phenomena, this book exposes the complex and diverse foundations of
physical culture in today's Latin America. From the cholitas luchadoras
bringing their indigenous roots to wrestling rings in Bolivia to the
transformation of once repressed Afro-Brazilian capoeira into a
highlighted national sport, the chapters in this collection illustrate the
ever emerging connection between sports and culture.”
— Jay Coakley, professor emeritus of sociology, University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs
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erhaps no other activity is more synonymous with passion,
identity, bodily ideals, and the power of place than sport. As
the essays in this volume show, the function of sport as a historical
and cultural marker is particularly relevant in Latin America. From
the late nineteenth century to the present, the contributors reveal
how sport opens a wide window into local, regional, and national
histories. The essays examine the role of sport as a political
vehicle, in claims to citizenship, as a source of community and
ethnic pride, as a symbol of masculinity or feminism, as allegorical
performance, and in many other purposes.
Sports Culture in Latin American History juxtaposes analyses
of better-known activities such as boxing and soccer with first
peoples’ athletics in Argentina, Cholita wrestling in Bolivia, the
African-influenced martial art of capoeira, Japanese Brazilian
gateball, the “Art Deco” body ideal for postrevolutionary Mexican
women, Jewish soccer fans in Argentina and transgressive
behavior at matches, and other topics. The contributors view the
local origins and adaptations of these athletic activities and their
significance as insightful narrators of history and culture.
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history at Trent University in Ontario,
Canada, and a member of the Argentine
National Academy of History. He is the
recipient of the 2013 Arthur P. Whitaker
Award from the Middle Atlantic Council
of Latin American Studies for his book
Consent of the Damned: Ordinary
Argentinians in the Dirty War. He
coedits the University of Georgia Press’s
United States and the Americas book
series.
OF RELATED INTEREST:
Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin
America and the Caribbean
Alejandra Bronfman and
Andrew Grant Wood, eds.
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in Latin America:
A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transgender Rights
Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny, eds.
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Authoritarian Russia
Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes
Vladimir Gel’man
“With this book, Vladimir Gel’man brings together his deep knowledge of
the dynamics of the Russian regime and his serious grounding in political
science to provide an interpretation of the evolution of the regime since
1991. The result is a masterful synthesis.”
—Thomas Remington, Emory University
“This book is a very useful contribution to the debate on ‘what went
wrong’ in Russia. Gel’man has a coherent, theoretically informed, and
empirically grounded take on the issue, one which is quite distinct from
the prevailing literature. The argument is authoritative, well informed,
and convincing.”
—Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
R
ussia today represents one of the major examples of the
phenomenon of “electoral authoritarianism” which is
characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions
(such as elections, political parties, and a legislature) and enlisting
the service of the country’s essentially authoritarian rulers. Why
and how has the electoral authoritarian regime been consolidated
in Russia? What are the mechanisms of its maintenance, and what
is its likely future course? This book attempts to answer these
basic questions.
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Vladimir Gel’man examines regime change in Russia from
the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present day,
systematically presenting theoretical and comparative
perspectives of the factors that affected regime changes and the
authoritarian drift of the country. After the fall of the Soviet Union,
Russia’s national political elites aimed to achieve their goals by
creating and enforcing of favorable “rules of the game” for
themselves and maintaining informal winning coalitions of cliques
around individual rulers. In the 1990s, these moves were only
partially successful given the weakness of the Russian state and
troubled post-socialist economy. In the 2000s, however, Vladimir
Putin rescued the system thanks to the combination of economic
growth and the revival of the state capacity he was able to
implement by imposing a series of non-democratic reforms. In the
2010s, changing conditions in the country have presented new
risks and challenges for the Putin regime that will play themselves
out in the years to come.
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Vladimir Gel’man
is professor of
political science at
the European
University at St.
Petersburg, Russia,
and Finland
Distinguished
Professor at the
Aleksanteri Institute, University of
Helsinki. He is the author or editor of
more than twenty books in Russian and
English, including Resource Curse and
Post-Soviet Eurasia: Oil, Gas, and
Modernization and The Politics of
Sub-National Authoritarianism in
Russia.
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Between Europe and Asia
The Origins, Theories, and Legacies
of Russian Eurasianism
Edited by Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov,
and Marlene Laruelle
“A superb collection and brilliant achievement. Each chapter builds on
previous ones to provide an original and pathbreaking study of the very
complex movement that we call ‘Eurasianism.’ Undoubtedly a landmark
publishing event in the field.”
—Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
“An innovative, well-rounded volume that will certainly occupy a
prominent place in the literature on the Eurasianist movement.”
—Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall University
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etween Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and
development of Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that
proclaimed the existence of Eurasia, a separate civilization
coinciding with the former Russian Empire. The essays in the
volume explore the historical roots, the heyday of the movement
in the 1920s, and the afterlife of the movement in the Soviet and
post-Soviet periods. The first study to offer a multifaceted account
of Eurasianism in the twentieth century and to touch on the
movement’s intellectual entanglements with history, politics,
literature, or geography, this book also explores Eurasianism’s
influences beyond Russia.
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The Eurasianists blended their search for a primordial essence
of Russian culture with radicalism of Europe’s interwar period. In
reaction to the devastation and dislocation of the wars and
revolutions, they celebrated the Orthodox Church and the Asian
connections of Russian culture, while rejecting Western
individualism and democracy. The movement sought to articulate
a non-European, non-Western modernity, and to underscore
Russia’s role in the colonial world. As the authors demonstrate,
Eurasianism was akin to many fascist movements in interwar
Europe, and became one of the sources of the rhetoric of
nationalist mobilization in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This book
presents the rich history of the concept of Eurasianism, and how it
developed over time to achieve its present form.
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Mark Bassin is research professor of
the history of ideas in the Center for
Baltic and East European Studies at
Södertörn University, Stockholm. He is
the author of Imperial Visions:
Nationalist Imagination and
Geographical Expansion in the Russian
Far East, 1840-1865 and co-edited Soviet
and Post-Soviet Identities and Space,
Place, and Power in Modern Russia:
Essays in the New Spatial History.
Sergey Glebov is assistant professor of
Russian history at Smith College and
Amherst College. Glebov is the founding
editor of Ab Imperio: Studies in
Nationalism and New Imperial History
in the Post-Soviet Space.
Marlene Laruelle is director of the
Central Asia Program and a research
professor of international affairs at the
Institute for European, Russian, and
Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School
of International Affairs at The George
Washington University. She is the author
of Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of
Empire, In the Name of the Nation:
Nationalism and Politics in
Contemporary Russia, and Russia’s
Strategies in the Arctic and the Future of
the Far North.
Spring & Summer 2015
White Spots—Black Spots
Difficult Matters in Polish-Russian Relations,
1918–2008
Edited by Adam Daniel Rotfeld
and Anatoly V. Torkunov
“A remarkable book. Analyzes most of the big issues between the
countries, from the Polish-Soviet war following the Bolshevik revolution,
through the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in September 1939, the
mass murder of thousands of Polish officers by Soviet security forces at
Katyn in 1940, all the way to relations between Putin’s Russia and today’s
Poland, a leading member of NATO and the EU. . . . This is a specific
Polish-Russian story, but we all have our difficult matters—whether in a
country, a community, a company, or a family. As in this example, the
search for historical truth is both cause and symptom of better political
understanding.”
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RUSSIAN HISTORY / POLISH HISTORY
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oland and Russia have a long relationship that encompasses
centuries of mutual antagonism, war, and conquest. The
twentieth century has been particularly intense, including world
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communist rule—for both countries. Since the collapse of
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grips with this difficult legacy.
This pioneering study, prepared by the officially sanctioned
Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, is a comprehensive effort
to document and fully disclose the major conflicts and interrelations
between the two nations from 1918 to 2008, events that have often
been avoided or presented with a strong political bias. This is the
English translation of this major study, which has received acclaim
for its Polish and Russian editions.
The chapters offer parallel histories by prominent Polish and
Russian scholars who recount each country’s version of the event in
question. Among the topics discussed are the 1920 Polish-Russian
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the infamously shrouded Katyn massacre, the communization of
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Uncertain World. He is the former Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Poland and former
director of the Stockholm International
Peace Research Initiative (SIPRI). He has
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Aspen Ministers Forum, Euro-Atlantic
Security Initiative and European Leadership
Network. Rotfeld is a professor of
humanities at the University of Warsaw.
Anatoly V. Torkunov is the rector of
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Russian International Studies Association,
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Contemporary International Relations and
Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation.
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Crossing Borders
Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia
and the Soviet Union
Michael David-Fox
“Crossing Borders provides an indispensable foundation for new studies
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universal traits, the roles of ideology in a Soviet-type social order, and
Communist-era cultural history in general. David-Fox proves himself a
mature scholar of Russian/Soviet history, impressively knowledgeable,
ambitious, and empirically meticulous. He’s also a conceptually daring
and innovative thinker.”
—György Péteri, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
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merely another form of conventional modernity. David-Fox instead
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Michael David-Fox is professor at the
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Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning
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Soviet Space Mythologies
Public Images, Private Memories, and the
Making of a Cultural Identity
Slava Gerovitch
“Soviet Space Mythologies makes a major contribution to the history of
Soviet space flight and culture. It places the story of Russian space
conquest into the broader history of space flight—including references to
pioneering scholars in the history of NASA. This is also the first book to
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how both the myths of Soviet official history and privately
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evolving cultural image of the space age in popular Soviet
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Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers,
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The Progressive Architecture of
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Martin Aurand
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