Books of Critical Interest

Adorno, Theodor W. Night Music: Essays on Music 1928 –1962. Trans. Wie-
land Hoban. Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. London: Seagull Books, 2009. 473 pp.
$29.00 (cloth).
Ali, Tariq. The Idea of Communism. New York: Seagull Books, 2009. 126 pp.
$15.00 (cloth).
Allred, Jeff. American Modernism and Depression Documentary. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2009. 272 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
Arondekar, Anjali. For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 216 pp. $21.95 (paper); $74.95 (cloth).
Allain, Paul, ed. Grotowski’s Empty Room. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2009. $29.00 (cloth).
Anzaldúa, Gloria, The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, ed. AnaLouise Keating.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 361 pp. $84.95 (cloth);
$23.95 (paper).
Baker, Mona (ed.). Critical Readings in Translation Studies. New York:
Routledge, 2009. 508 pp. $170.00 (cloth); $44.95 (paper).
Bakken, Gordon Morris and Brenda Farrington. Women Who Kill Men:
California Courts, Gender, and the Press. Lincoln: University of Ne-
braska Press, 2009. 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
Bass, Amy. Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle Over W. E. B. Du Bois.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 199 pp. $24.95 (cloth).
Baudrillard, Jean. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? Trans.
Chris Turner. London: Seagull Books, 2009.
Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara. Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman:
Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2009. $23.95 (paper).

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Beck, John. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American
Literature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 378 pp. $55.00
(cloth).
Benton, Michael. Literary Biography: An Introduction. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 253 pp. $99.95 (cloth).
Berland, Jody. North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 386 pp. $89.95 (cloth);
$24.95 (paper).
Berman, Antoine. Toward a Translation Criticism: John Donne. Trans and
ed. Françoise Massardier-Kennedy. Kent, OH: The Kent State Univer-
sity Press, 2009. 249 pp.
Bernstein, Susan David and Elsie B. Michie, eds. Victorian Vulgarity: Taste
in Verbal and Visual Culture. Burlington: Ashgate, 2009. 259 pp. $99.95
(cloth).
Bérubé, Michael. The Left at War. New York: New York University Press,
2009. 341 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
Bertellini, Giorgio. Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and
the Picturesque. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 464 pp.
$65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Birnbaum, Charles A. and Stephanie S. Foell (eds.). Shaping the American
Landscape. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 446 pp.
$65.00 (cloth).
Bleiker, Roland. Aesthetics and World Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2009. 280 pp. $84.95 (hardcover).
Bould, Mark and China Miéville. Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. 293 pp. $75.00
(cloth); $27.95 (paper).
Butler, Judith. Frames of War: when is Life Grievable? New York: Verso,
2009. 193 pp. $26.95 (cloth).
Burgess, John P. Philosophical Logic. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2009. 153 pp. $19.95 (cloth).
Burt, E.S. Regard For the Other: Autothanography in Rousseau, De
Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde. New York: Fordham University
Press, 2009. 268 pp.
Calleman, Carl Johan. The Purposeful Universe: How Quantum Theory and
Mayan Cosmology Explain the Origin and Evolution of Life. Rochester:
Bear & Co., 2009. 350 pp. $20.00 (paper).
Camiscioli, Elisa. Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and
Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century. Durham, NC: Duke Uni-
versity Press, 2009. 227 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
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Cave, Peter. This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Para-
doxes. London: Continuum, 2009. 232 pp. $100.00 (cloth); $17.95
(paper).
Chiang, Mark. The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy
and Representation in the University. New York: New York University
Press, 2009. 249 pp. $23.00 (paper); $78.00 (cloth).
Clarke, Bruce and Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.). Emergence and Embodiment:
New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory. Durham, NC: Duke Uni-
versity Press, 2009. 285 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).
Clavel, Viviane Huys. Image et discours au XIIe siècle: Les chapiteaux de la
basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine à Vézelay. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009.
278 pp.
Cohen, Ed. A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apo-
theosis of the Modern Body. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
372 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Cohen, Samuel. After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s. Iowa
City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. 250 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Commentale, Edward P. and Aaron Jaffe (eds.). The Year’s Work In
Lebowski Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 491 pp.
$24.95 (paper); $65.00 (cloth).
Constantine, Peter, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley and Karen Van Dyck
(eds.). The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton
& Co., 2009. 692 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Craig, Hugh and Arthur F. Kinney, eds. Shakespeare, Computers, and the
Mystery of Authorship. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
234 pp. $99.00 (cloth).
Crowther, Paul. Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (Even the Frame). Stan-
ford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 252 pp.
Dent, Alexander Sebastian. River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and
Modernity in Brazil. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 297 pp.
$22.95 (paper).
Dorland, Michael. Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for
Holocaust Survival. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England,
2009. 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
Drakulic, Slavenka. Two Underdogs and a Cat. New York: Seagull Books,
2009. 104 pp. $15.00 (cloth).
Earle, David M. All Man! Hemingway, 1950s Men’s Magazines, and the
Masculine Persona Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009. 177 pp.
$29.95 (cloth).
Elden, Stuart. Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty. Min-
neapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 296 pp. $25.00 (paper).
622 Books of Critical Interest
Ellis, Jim. Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 2009. 328 pp. $21.95 (paper).
Field, Douglas. A Historical Guide to James Baldwin. New York: Oxford,
2009. 202 pp. $27.95 (paper).
Gabriele, Alberto. Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia
and Sensationalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 275 pp.
$80.00 (hardcover).
Gannon, Thomas C. Skylark Meets Meadowlark: Reimagining the Bird in
British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Literature. Lin-
coln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 416 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Germana, Michael. Standards of Value: Money, Race, and Literature in Amer-
ica. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. 202 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Gilmore, David D. Misogyny: The Male Malady. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 253 pp. $22.50 (paper).
Gilroy, Paul. Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic
Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 207 pp.
$22.95 (cloth).
Glaser, Leah S. Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, Peo-
ple, & Place. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Gleijeses, Piero. The Cuban Drumbeat. New York: Seagull Books, 2009. 96
pp. $15.00 (cloth).
Granat, Jürgen E. Shaping Words to Fit the Soul: The Southern Ritual
Grounds of Afro-Modernism. Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
2009. 192 pp. $41.95 (cloth); $9.95 (CD).
Grinberg, Lev Luis. Politics and Violence in Israel/Palestine: Democracy Ver-
sus Military Rule. New York: Routledge, 2009. 258 pp. $135.00 (cloth).
Hall, Stephen G. A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical
Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2009. 333 pp. $22.95 (paper).
Harrison, Anthony Kwame. Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Eth-
ics of Racial Identification. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.
$26.95 (paper).
Huffer, Lynne. Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer
Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 304 pp. $84.50
(cloth), $27.50 (paper).
Hunner, Jon. J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Cold War, and the Atomic West.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. 272 pp. $24.95 (cloth).
Hinderliter, Beth et al. eds. Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and
Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 370 pp. $24.95 (paper).
Jameson, Fredric. Valences of the Dialectic. London: Verso, 2009. 625 pp.
$49.95 (cloth).
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Jarman, Derek. Modern Nature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2009. 314 pp. $18.95 (paper).
Johnson, Ann. Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of
Knowledge. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 208 pp. $79.95
(cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Johnstone, Christopher Lyle. Listening to the Logos: Speech and the Coming
of Wisdom in Ancient Greece. Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 2009. 300 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
Jullien, François. The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject
Through Painting. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Chicago: University of Chi-
cago Press, 2009. 263 pp. $48.00 (cloth).
Koopman, Colin. Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James,
Dewey, and Rorty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 288 pp.
$45.00 (cloth).
LeBlanc, Ronald D. Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite
in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction. Durham: University of New
Hampshire Press, 2009. 345 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Lliescu, Sanda. The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture
and Art. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 302 pp.
$55.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper).
Mantzavinos, C. (ed.). Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical The-
ory and Scientific Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2009. 333 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $32.99 (paper).
Marcus, Greil and Werner Sollors (eds.). A New Literary History of Amer-
ica. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2009. 1095 pp.
McKeown, Adam N. English Mercuries: Soldier Poets in the Age Shake-
speare. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. 201 pp. $59.95
(cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Messent, Peter. Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells,
and Rogers Friendships. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 250
pp. $49.95 (cloth).
Miller, Monica L. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black
Diasporic Identity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 408 pp.
$89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Milton, John. Complete Shorter Poems With Original Spelling and Punctu-
ation. Ed. Stella P. Revard. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 577 pp.
$39.95 (paper).
Minnis, Alastair and Ian Johnson, eds. The Cambridge History of Literary
Criticism, vol. 2, The Middle Ages. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2009. 865 pp. $198.00 (cloth); $49.00 (paper).
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Moe, Karine and Dianna Shandy. Glass Ceilings & 100-Hour Couples: What
the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work Family. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2009. 215 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Eter-
nity. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 223 pp. $19.00 (pa-
per); $65.00 (cloth).
Muscatine, Charles. Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the
Twenty-First Century. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,
2009. 165 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
Muyumba, Walton M. The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice,
Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2009. 216 pp. $18.00 (paper).
Noland, Carrie. Agency and Embodiment: Performing, Gestures/Producing
Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 264 pp. $45.00
(cloth).
O’Hara, Daniel T. Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical
Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. 192 pp. $39.95
(cloth); $9.95 (CD).
Pandian, Anand. Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 325 pp. $79.95 (cloth);
$23.95 (paper).
Parikka, Justin and Tony D. Sampson (eds.). The Spam Book: On Viruses,
Porn, and Other Anomalies From the Dark Side of Digital Culture.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009. 320 pp.
Pease, Donald E. The New American Exceptionalism. Minneapolis: Univer-
sity of Minnesota Press, 2009. 264 pp. $22.50 (paper).
Peters, John G. (ed.). A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009. 252 pp. $27.95 (paper).
Plock, Vike Martina. Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity. Gainesville: Univer-
sity Press of Florida, 2009. 192 pp. $69.95 (cloth).
Pound, Francis. The Invention of New Zealand: Art & National Identity,
1930 –1970. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009. 425 pp. $44.95
(cloth).
Protevi, John. Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic. Min-
neapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 241 pp. $15.50 (paper).
Riemenschnitter, Andrea and Deborah L. Madsen (eds.). Diasporic Histo-
ries: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism. Aberdeen, Hong
Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. 285 pp.
Roberts, Timothy Mason. Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to
American Exceptionalism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,
2009. 257 pp. $40.00 (cloth).
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Sartre, Jean-Paul. Portraits. Trans. Chris Turner. New York: Seagull Books,
2009. 686 pp. $30.00 (cloth).
Schwartz, Louis-Georges. Mechanical Witness: A History of Motion Picture
Evidence in U.S. Courts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
$21.95 (paper).
Scialabba, George. What Are Intellectuals Good For? Boston: Pressed Wa-
fer, 2009. 252 pp. $15.00 (paper).
See, Sarita Echavez. The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Per-
formance. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 210
pp. $25.00 (paper).
Sheringham, Michael. Everyday Life: Theories and Practices form Surreal-
ism to the Present. New York: Oxford, 2009. 437 pp. $55.00 (paper).
Sherman, Jennifer. Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality,
and Family in Rural America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2009. 241 pp. $19.95 (paper).
Shouse, Jim. Adam Deceived: Freemasonry: The World’s Greatest Deception.
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009. 87 pp. $11.49 (paper).
Sobol, Valeria. A Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imag-
ination. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 320 pp. $60.00
(cloth), $30.00 (paper).
Stevens, Sharon McKenzie and Patricia M. Malesh. Active Voices: Compos-
ing a Rhetoric for Social Movements. Albany: State University of New
York Press, 2009. 250 pp. $70.00 (cloth).
Stockton, Kathryn Bond. The Queer Child: Or Growing Sideways in the
Twentieth Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 312 pp.
$79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Sugimura, N. K. “Matter of Glorious Trial”: Spiritual and Material Sub-
stance in “Paradise Lost.” New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press,
2009. $55.00 (paper).
Summers, Mark Wahlgren. A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Mak-
ing of Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2009. 344 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Valenza, Robin. Literature, Language and the Rise of the Intellectual Disci-
plines in Britain, 1680 –1820. 239 pp. $85.00 (cloth).
Wagner, Bryan. Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power
After Slavery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 307 pp.
$35.00 (cloth).
Walker, Clarence E. and Gregory D. Smithers. The Preacher and the Poli-
tician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America. Char-
lottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 159 pp. $22.95 (cloth).
626 Books of Critical Interest
Weber, Brenda R. Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 325 pp. $84.95 (cloth);
$23.95 (paper).
Weintraub, Andrew N. and Bell Yung (eds.). Music & Cultural Rights.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 313 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $25.00
(paper).
Whitla, William. The English Handbook: A Guide To Literary Studies. Mal-
den, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 343 pp. $29.95 (paper).
Whitman, Albery Allson. At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose of
Albery Allson Whitman. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2009.
331 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Whitney, Susan B. Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Inter-
war France. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 318 pp. $89.95
(cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Williams, Maria Shaa Tláa, ed. The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture,
Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 416 pp. $94.95 (cloth),
$25.95 (paper).
Wintle, Michael. The Image of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2009. 502 pp. $110.00 (cloth).
Womak, Craig S. Art As Performance: Story As Criticism: Reflections on
Native Literary Aesthetics. Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2009.
405 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Yanne, Andrew and Gillis Heller. Signs of a Colonial Era. Aberdeen, Hong
Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. 208 pp.
Zagar, Monika. Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Brilliance. Seattle: Univer-
sity of Washington Press, 2009. $70.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).
Zapolska, Gabriela. Zapolska’s Women: Three Plays. Trans. Teresa Murjas.
Chicago: Intelect Ltd., 2009. 192 pp. $30.00 (paper).