Title Subject Index
African Studies . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Asian Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Caribbean Studies . . . . . . . . . .9
Cinema Studies . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Civil Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
European Studies . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hispanic Studies . . . . . . . . . 8, 9
Human Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Latin American Studies . . . . 5, 7, 8
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6, 9
Photography . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 4
Political Science . . . . . . . . . . .7
Popular Culture . . . . . . . . . . 7, 9
Postwar Studies . . . . . . . . . 1, 6
Regional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 4
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
US History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
on the cover
An edited photograph of
writer Yasuoka Shōtarō,
age six, with his ­father
and mother in 1926,
from Enduring Postwar: ­
Yasuoka Shōtarō and
Literary ­Memory in Japan
(see page 6 for more details).
Image courtesy of Yasuoka
Haruko.
Cover design: Craig Allen
A Message from Our Director
Dear Readers,
It is an honor to join Vanderbilt University Press as the
director effective March 2019. The combination of the
Press’s scholarly rigor, its focus on books for general
audiences, and signs of deep campus e­ ngagement all
drew me to shepherd this program. In the last year
alone, VUP’s books have been featured in the New York
Times, inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, and given
to all 100 members of the United States Senate by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Events have been hosted on campus where authors Eric Etheridge, Patrick
Bellegarde-Smith, and David Barton Smith met their vibrant public audiences.
This is a testament to the ­relevance of the Press’s publishing output and the
­quality of work sponsored by Vanderbilt University, as well as what is possible
when small publishers play to their strengths.
In this catalog, you will see titles in our core lists of Latin American studies,
literary criticism, and studies of empire, as well as our lead trade offering on the
investigation of human rights conditions in the postwar period of the former
Yugoslavia. In partnership with the Frist Museum of Art, we have transformed
the exhibition Connect/Disconnect: Growth in the “It City” from its physical
installation in the Conte Community Arts Gallery to a p­ ermanent print edition.
We have also reissued two important texts by Stephen Daubert in a new dual
edition to serve general audience ­readers in science and conservation. Ignacio
Sánchez Prado’s work offered in Spanish translation is the Press’s first foray in
reaching beyond its core English-language audience. Our range of interests and
interventions in this season are both wide-reaching and d ­ ynamic. We will con-
tinue to push the ­publishing p
­ rogram of Vanderbilt University Press to center on
communities of scholars and readers that turn to us for ­carefully curated content
and beautiful books.
I look forward to sharing our titles and our growth with you in the coming
months.
Gianna F. Mosser
Director, Vanderbilt University Press

Twenty years of on-the-ground reportage in the grassroots struggle for
normalcy and postwar return in the former Republic of Yugoslavia
Surviving the Peace
The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina
PETER LIPPMAN
S
urviving the Peace is a monumental
feat of ground-level reporting describ-
ing two decades of postwar life in
Bosnia, specifically among those fight-
ing for refugee rights of return. Unique
in its breadth and profoundly humani­
tarian in its focus, Surviving the Peace
situates digestible explanations of the
region’s b­ ewilderingly complex recent
history among ­interviews, conversations,
“Once the shooting stops, most reporters
and commentators pack up and go home,
as if everything important is over. Yet, as
Lippman so eloquently shows, for many, an
entirely new life has begun, one they are
not prepared for and have few resources
to manage. Moreover, there appears to be
almost an aversion to reporting on successes,
i.e., former enemies reconnecting and
working together. It does exist and is the
part we should be emphasizing. Lippman
reports both the successes and failures, as
well as the continued challenges faced by
a society torn apart by ethnic hatred. This
book is about this little-addressed aspect
of war—what happens when the shooting
stops—and how ordinary people are critical
in reconstituting community.”
— Judith Armatta, author of Twilight
of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of
Slobodan Milošević
E U R O P E A N S T U D I E S / H U M A N R I G H T S / P O S T WA R S T U D I E S
and t­ ableaus from the lives of everyday
­Bosnians attempting to make sense of what
passes for normal in a postwar society.
Essential reading for students of the
former Yugoslavia and anyone interested
in postwar or post-genocide studies,
­Surviving the Peace is an instant classic of
long-form reporting, an impossible accom- November 2019
plishment without a lifetime of dedication 500 pages, 6 x 9 inches
to a place and people. 2 maps • notes, references, index
cloth $27.95t 978-0-8265-2261-0
ebook $9.99 978-0-8265-2263-4
“This is a highly engaging, well-written,
and factual account of postwar Bosnia-
Herzegovina seen from a grassroots
perspective by a researcher and a cultural
outsider who demonstrates an enviable
understanding of his research field. It is an
exemplar of engaged and informed writing:
moving and informative, evocative and
profound. It is a deeply serious book, but with
the light touch of an accomplished writer.”
— Hariz Halilovich, RMIT University, Melbourne
“A lot of books are written on postwar Peter Lippman, born in Seattle, is a
reconstruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina but journalist and human rights activist.
not from this longitudinal, ethnographic, and A fascination with the ethnography of
bottom-up approach portraying ordinary southeast Europe led him to Yugoslavia
people in the extraordinary struggle to in the early 1980s. He lived and worked
rebuild lives and peaceful living. Most books in Bosnia-Herzegovina for two years
are overly scientific and academic with little after the war and has returned many
voice given to the grassroots human rights times since then. Over more than
two decades, he has closely followed
activists. This book is unique.”
the efforts of grassroots activists to
— Selma Porobić, Palacky University,
return to their prewar homes, to fight
Czech Republic
corruption and discrimination, and to
regain their rights.
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E C O L O G Y / S C I E N C E / E D U C AT I O N
From prehistory to the present, from individual cells to the
dimensions of the cosmos, these vignettes describe the network
of evolutionary ties that bind all organisms to one another
Threads from the Web of Life
Stories in Natural History
AND
The Shark and the Jellyfish
More Stories in Natural History
S T E P H E N D AU B E R T
E
cology, like all literary narrative, has
the potential for turnabout, surprise, ­
lessons learned, and tragedy. The
stories in Threads from the Web of Life
and The Shark and the Jellyfish describe
protagonists, their competitors, and the
habitats that provide the setting for their
interaction—habitats that have become
surprisingly complex with the passage of
evolutionary time.
One niche moves across a world of
flowers that reaches its earliest peak bloom
in the low valleys and then peaks later
among the slopes of the foothills—a rolling
habitat. Another hop-scotches across the
ocean floor, compelling its occupants to
migrate from the fallen body of one dead
“Daubert’s prose is beautifully written
without sacrificing important biological
details, so readers come away with awe
and great respect for the natural world’s
wonders.”
August 2019 — The Sierra Club’s The Green Life
396 pages, 7 x 10 inches
40 b&w illustrations • notes, references, index
paperback $24.95t 978-0-8265-2250-4
“Each of these happenings is a thread in
ebook $9.99 978-0-8265-2251-1 the intricate web of life, and Daubert . . .
demonstrates that these threads are easily
broken by humans. . . . Instructive and
entertaining.”
— Publishers Weekly
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Two
complete
 books in one
tête-bêche
paperback
whale to the next. Yet another appears in the
aftermath of typhoons, requiring its inhabi­
tants to search the tropical coastline for the
latest storm landfall.
These tales are filled with no less intrigue
than other literary works, but they tran-
spire out of the sight of most readers. Once
known only to ecologists, in Threads from
the Web of Life and The Shark and the Jelly­
fish, available for the first time in a ­single
deluxe paperback, these stories become
accessible to everyone with an interest in
natural history.
Dr. Stephen Daubert is a naturalist
writer, a scholar versed in the scientific
method, and an observer familiar with
places in the world where wild diversity
still thrives. His scientific viewpoint shifts
across perspectives—from the molecular
level to the fossil record, all in the context
of an evolving cosmos where planets are
created and destroyed.
“Daubert’s Threads from the Web of Life is
written in the tradition of Aldo Leopold
and Bernd Heinrich. It teaches by drawing
you into the drama, excitement, and
beauty of nature.”
— Don Glass, host of the NPR-syndicated
program A Moment of Science
 PHOTOGR APHY / REGIONAL

A changing Nashville and the state of its future

as photographed by the people who live there

Connect/Disconnect
Growth in the “It” City
Edited by S H AU N G I L E S

T
his exhibition, inspired by a 2017
Tennessean article about how
Nashville has been growing at a
rate of one ­hundred people per day,
­features photographs by Davidson
County residents of diverse ages and
backgrounds, showing how the popu-
lation boom has affected them and the
lives of the people around them.
More than one hundred Davidson
County residents submitted nearly
two hundred images, from which fifty
were chosen by a panel of jurors. The
resulting exhibition explores the rising
connectivity between neighborhoods
and communities, and the potential
for disconnection between people
and s­ ocioeconomic classes as the city
strives to adapt to record growth. The
images represent a range of perspec-
A FRIST ART MUSEUM TITLE
tives, from depictions of friends and
neighbors to old and new homes, August 2019
construction sites, and recognizable 60 pages, 8.5 x 9 inches
landmarks. 50 photographs • introduction, artist interviews
paperback $10.00t 978-0-8265-2267-2
Shaun Giles is the assistant director
of community engagement at the
Frist Art Museum in Nashville.

Clockwise, from above: Kevin Lurey. The Bench, 2018.

Courtesy of the artist. © Kevin Lurey

Carey Rogers. Photo 2, 2018.

Courtesy of the artist. © Carey Rogers

Ramona Wiggins. Growing Pains in the “It City,” 2018.

Courtesy of the artist. © Ramona Wiggins

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 WINNER OF THE GOLDBERG PRIZE

How the Nashville press covered the civil rights struggle

through images

We Shall Overcome
Press Photographs of Nashville during the Civil Rights Era
Edite d by K AT H R Y N E . D E L M E Z
Foreword by J O H N L E W I S

F
ifty years after Martin Luther King
Jr.’s death—and at a time when race
relations and social justice are
again at the forefront of our country’s
A FRIST ART MUSEUM TITLE
consciousness—this book expands on
September 2018 a Frist Art Museum exhibition to pre­
176 pages, 11.5 x 11 inches sent a selection of approximately one
100 exhibition plates, 15 halftone figures hundred photographs that document
essays, timeline, bibliography an important period in Nashville’s
hardcover $35.00t 978-0-8265-2221-4 struggle for racial equality. The images
were taken between 1957, the year that
desegregation in public schools began,
and 1968, when the National Guard
Kathryn E. Delmez is a curator at
the Frist Art Museum in Nashville. was called in to surround the state
capi­tol in the wake of King’s assassi­
nation in Memphis.
Of central significance are photo­
Winner of the 2019
Norman L. and Roselea graphs of lunch counter sit-ins in
J. Goldberg Prize from early 1960, led by a group of students,
­Vanderbilt ­UP for the ­including John Lewis (who contrib-
best book in the area uted the book’s foreword) and Diane
of art or medicine Nash, from local historically black
colleges and universities. The demon-
strations were so successful that King
Selected as one of the stated just a few weeks later at Fisk
“Best Art Books of 2018” University: “I did not come to Nash-
by the New York Times ville to bring inspiration but to gain
inspiration from the great movement
that has taken place in this commu-
nity.” The role that Nashville played in
The book also provides an opportu-
nity to consider the role of images and
the media in shaping public opinion,
a relevant subject in today’s news-­
saturated climate. Photographs from
the archives of both daily newspapers
are included: the Tennessean, which
was the more liberal publication, and
the Nashville Banner, a conservative
paper whose leadership seemed less
interested in covering events related to
racial issues. Some of the photographs
in the exhibition had been selected to
be published in the papers, but many
were not, and their disclosure offers
insight into the editorial process. In
several images, other photojournalists
and news crews are visible, serving
as a reminder of the almost constant
presence of the c­ amera during these
historic times.
“This book, the catalog of an
exhibition at Frist Art Museum in
Nashville, captures a decade of
everyday bravery and trauma as
recorded in photographs, drawn
from city archives, by Nashville
photojournalists.”

— Holland Cotter, New York Times

the national civil rights movement as a
hub for training students in non­violent
protest and as the first Southern city to
integrate places of business is a story
that warrants r­ eexamination.
“There’s a truth in these photographs
that many . . . have likely never seen
before.”
— Margaret Renkl, New York Times

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A decade-by-decade look at literary depictions of revolution
in Latin America from the 1960s to the present
Writing Revolution in Latin America
From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño
J UA N E . D E C A S T R O
I
n the politically volatile period from the
1960s through the end of the twentieth
century, Latin American authors were in
direct dialogue with the violent realities of
their time and place. Writing Revolution
in Latin America is a chronological study
of the way revolution and revolutionary
thinking is depicted in the fiction com-
posed from the eye of the storm.
From Mexico to Chile, the gradual
ideological evolution from a revolutionary
to a neoliberal mainstream was a conse-
quence of, on the one hand, the political
hardening of the Cuban Revolution begin-
ning in the late 1960s, and, on the other,
the repression, dictatorships, and economic
crises of the 1970s and beyond. Not only
was socialist revolution far from the utopia
many believed, but the notion that guer-
rilla uprisings would lead to an easy social-
ism proved to be unfounded. Similarly, the
repressive Pinochet dictatorship in Chile
led to unfathomable tragedy and social
mutation.
“De Castro combines a superb command
of the broad sweep of Latin American
cultural and political history with a
detailed knowledge of specific texts and
the critical debates surrounding them.
This book is an impressive achievement.”
— Maarten van Delden, UCLA
L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S / L I T E R AT U R E
This double-edged phenomenon of revo­
lutionary disillusionment became highly
personal for Latin American authors inside
and outside Castro’s and Pinochet’s domin-
ion. Revolution was more than a foreign
affair, it was the stuff of everyday life and,
therefore, of fiction.
Juan De Castro’s expansive study begins
September 2019
ahead of the century with José Martí in
352 pages, 6 x 9 inches
Cuba and continues through the likes of notes, references, index
Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Gabriel García hardcover $49.95x 978-0-8265-2258-0
Márquez in Colombia, and Roberto Bolaño paperback $24.95x 978-0-8265-2259-7
in Mexico (by way of Chile). The various, ebook $9.99 978-0-8265-2260-3
often contradictory ways the authors convey
this precarious historical moment speaks in
equal measure to the social circumstances
into which these authors were thrust and to
the fundamental differences in the ways they
themselves witnessed history.
“De Castro introduces original topics
such as LGBTQ and Revolution, and
women writers such as Guelfenbein.
This is a scholarly accomplishment, a
groundbreaking work that is well written
and researched, a model for arduous and Juan E. De Castro is an associate
significant contributions to the Latin professor of literary studies at
American studies field, an original way Eugene Lang College of Liberal
to study the twentieth and twenty-first Arts, The New School, where he
centuries with an original approach to the teaches courses in Latin American
concept of insurgency. Indeed, the book is literatures. He is the author of three
a benign revolt that will contribute greatly books: Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race,
and Conformity in Latin American
to this arena of inquiry.”
Literature (2002), The Spaces of
— Martín Camps, University of the Pacific
Latin American Literature: Tradition,
Globalization, and Cultural Produc-
tion (2008), and Mario Vargas Llosa:
Public Intellectual in Neoliberal
Latin America (2011).
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A S I A N S T U D I E S / L I T E R AT U R E / P O S T WA R S T U D I E S
The first career-spanning study of Japanese literary giant
Yasuoka Shōtarō in English
Enduring Postwar
Yasuoka Shōtarō and Literary Memory in Japan
KENDALL HEITZMAN
Y
asuoka Shōtarō (1920–2013) was perfectly
situated to become Japan’s premier
chronicler of the Shōwa period (1926–
89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka pro-
duced stories, novels, plays, and essays, as
well as monumental histories that connected
his own life to those of his ancestors. He
October 2019 was also the only major Japanese writer to
228 pages, 6 x 9 inches live in the American South during the Civil
22 b&w illustrations • references, index Rights Movement, when he spent most of
hardcover $49.95x 978-0-8265-2255-9 an academic year at Vanderbilt University in
paperback $24.95x 978-0-8265-2256-6 Nashville. In 1977, he translated Alex Haley’s
ebook $9.99 978-0-8265-2257-3 Roots into Japanese.
Kendall Heitzman is an assistant
professor of Japanese literature and
culture at the University of Iowa. He
is the author of a number of articles
on contemporary Japanese literature
and has translated into English stories
and essays by a number of prominent
contemporary Japanese writers.
Image courtesy of Yasuoka Haruko
“The erudition of this study distinguishes
it from many books in the field of
Japanese literature and cultural history.
Heitzman writes with a very impressive
grasp of the full sweep of modern
Japanese literary and cultural history.
From the catalog cover: Yasuoka Shōtarō, age six,
It is worth noting that his style is clear,
with his father and mother in 1926.
concise, and largely jargon-free.”
— James Dorsey, Dartmouth College
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For a long period, Yasuoka was at the
center of the Japanese literary establish-
ment, serving on prize committees and
winning the major literary prizes of the
era: the Akutagawa, the Noma, the Yomi-
uri, and the Kawabata. But what makes
Yasuoka fascinating as a writer is the way
that he consciously, deliberately resisted
accepted narratives of modern Japanese
history through his approach to personal
and collective memory.
In Enduring Postwar, the first literary
and biographical study of Yasuoka in
English, Kendall Heitzman explores the
element of memory in Yasuoka’s work in
the context of his life and evolving under-
standing of postwar Japan.
“Heitzman’s close readings of Yasuoka’s
early fiction and nonfiction, his analysis of
the impact the South had on subsequent
writing, and his involvement in another
of the writer’s passions, film, show clearly
how ‘Yasuoka’s work to endure the postwar
has helped ensure that the postwar
will endure.’ Enduring Postwar will be
of interest to scholars of Japan and the
American South.”
— Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington
 E S T U D I O S L AT I N O A M E R I C A N O S / C I E N C I A S P O L Í T I C A S / C U LT U R A P O P U L A R / E S T U D I O S D E C I N E
Ahora por primera vez en español, el clásico estudio
de Ignacio Sánchez Prado sobre el cine mexicano y
su proyección a nivel nacional e internacional
La proyección del neoliberalismo
Las transformaciones del cine mexicano (1988–2012)
I G N AC I O M . S Á N C H E Z P R A D O
C
avernosa, usualmente fría, siempre
oscura, con un ligero olor a palomitas de
maíz en el aire: la experiencia de ir al
cine es universal. No es menos intensa en
México, donde la experiencia ha evolucio-
nado de formas complejas en años recientes.
Películas como Y tu mamá también, El
Mariachi, Amores perros y las obras de los
paradigmáticos Guillermo del Toro y Salma
Hayek, reflejan mucho más un renovado
interés por el cine en México. En La proye­
cción del neoliberalismo, Ignacio Sánchez
Prado explora precisamente los eventos
que tuvieron lugar en la industria del cine
mexicano durante las últimas décadas. Lejos
de ser una simple historia del periodo, La
proyección del neoliberalismo examina cuatro
aspectos esenciales de las transformaciones
ocurridas en la industria del cine mexicano:
la caída del nacionalismo, un nuevo enfoque
en audiencias de clase media, la redefinición
del concepto de cine político y el impacto
de la globalización. Este análisis incluye a
directores y películas que han alcanzado
notoriedad internacional o relevancia en
la construcción de un mercado nacional. December 2019
La proyección del neoliberalismo expone las 304 pages, 6 x 9 inches
consecuencias de una industria del cine for- notes, references, index
zada a encontrar nuevas audiencias entre la hardcover $49.95x 978-0-8265-2264-1
clase media mexicana para poder alcanzar paperback $24.95x 978-0-8265-2265-8
el ansiado éxito económico y la aprobación ebook $9.99 978-0-8265-2266-5
cultural.
“Este libro se encuentra fuera de los ‘estudios
tradicionales sobre México’ al examinar el
cine mexicano como un espacio simbólico
en que la identidad de la post-revolución
en México ha perdido vigencia. En otras
palabras, La proyección del neoliberalismo
considera la producción cultural mexicana
como la arena en la cual se manifiesta por
primera vez esta ruptura con el pasado y
no viceversa. Esta propuesta puede parecer
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado es
riesgosa; sin embargo, también logra revelar profesor de español, estudios
una serie de procesos analíticos que pueden latinoamericanos y estudios de cine
contribuir a la revitalización de los estudios y media. También es director de
sobre México.” estudios de pregrado en el Programa
de Estudios Latinoamericanos y es
— Fernando Fabio Sánchez, autor de   Jarvis Thurston y Mona Van Duyn
Artful Assassins Professor en Humanidades en el
departamento de Artes y Ciencias de
la Universidad de Washington en St.
Louis. Su libro Naciones intelectuales
ganó el premio de la Asociación de
Estudios Latinoamericanos en la
sección de estudios mexicanos en
2010.
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H I S PA N I C S T U D I E S / L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S

An essential volume for understanding the history of globalization

from an Iberian perspective

Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization

Ed i te d by I V O N N E D E L VA L L E , A N N A M O R E , and R AC H E L S A R A H O ’ TO O L E

T
hrough interdisciplinary essays cover- conflictive ­interactions within overarching
ing the wide geography of the Spanish imperial projects. To this end, the essays
and Portuguese empires, Iberian explore how specific products, texts, and
­Empires and the Roots of Globalization people bridged ideas and institutions to
investigates the diverse networks and produce multiple centers within Iberian
­multiple centers of early modern globali­ imperial geographies. Taken as a whole, the
zation that emerged in conjunction with ­authors also argue that despite attempts to
Iberian imperialism. ­reproduce European models, early Iberian
Iberian Empires and the Roots of globalization depended on indigenous
HISPANIC ISSUES SERIES • Volume 44
Nicholas Spadaccini, Editor-in-Chief Globali­zation argues that Iberian empires agency and the agency of people of Afri-
cannot be viewed apart from early mod- can d­ escent, which often undermined or
Hispanic Issues Online ern globalization. From research sites changed these models.
hispanicissues.umn.edu throughout the early modern Spanish The volume thus relays a nuanced
and Portuguese territories and from dis- theory of early modern globalization: the
January 2020 tinct disciplinary approaches, the essays essays outline the Iberian imperial models
328 pages, 6 x 9 inches collected in this volume investigate the that provided templates for future global
notes, references, index economic mechanisms, administrative designs and simultaneously detail the
hardcover $69.95x 978-0-8265-2252-8 hierarchies, and art forms that linked the negotiated and conflictive forms of local
paperback $34.95x 978-0-8265-2253-5
early modern Americas, Africa, Asia, and interactions that characterized that early
ebook $9.99 978-0-8265-2254-2
Europe. I­ berian Empires and the Roots globalization. The essays here offer essen-
of Globalization demonstrates that early tial insights into historical continuities in
globalization was structured through regions colonized by Spanish and Portu-
CONTRIBUTORS
diverse networks and their mutual and guese monarchies.
Jody Blanco
María Eugenia Chaves
Elisabetta Corsi Ivonne del Valle, an associate professor at UC Berkeley, is the author of Escribiendo desde los
Ivonne del Valle márgenes: Colonialismo y jesuitas en el siglo XVIII, and several articles on Loyola and José de
Bruno Feitler Acosta. She co-edited the special journal issue Carl Schmitt and the Early Modern World.
Bernd Hausberger
Raúl Marrero-Fente Anna More, a professor of Hispanic literatures at the Universidade de Brasília, is the author
María Elena Martínez of Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico
Anna More and the editor of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works.
Rachel Sarah O’Toole
Nicholas Spadaccini Rachel Sarah O’Toole, an associate professor at UC Irvine, is the author of Bound Lives:
Charlene Villaseñor Black Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru, and the co-editor of Africans to
Guillermo Wilde Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora.

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Chicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Edited, translated, and with an introduction by
SUE E. HOUCHINS AND BALTASAR FRA-MOLINERO

Black Bride of Christ, the first English translation of the Compendio de la Vida Ejemplar de la
Venerable Madre Sor Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, tells the life story of Chicaba, an African
nun in eighteenth-century Spain. An effort to have Chicaba canonized continues today, as Sue
E. Houchins and Baltasar Fra-Molinero explore in their introduction to the volume.

Published in 2018
324 pages, 7 x 10 inches
14 b&w illustrations • appendixes, references, index
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“Houchins and Fra-Molinero have done us a great service with their careful work and analyses. Scholars of
the African diaspora, of Hispanic studies, of Catholic studies, and of women’s studies will appreciate this
volume, rich in resources.”
— Laura Swan, OSB, Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History
Sue E. Houchins is an associate professor of Africana and gender and sexuality studies at Bates College. She is the
editor of Spiritual Narratives in the Schomburg Series of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers.

Baltasar Fra-Molinero is a professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Bates College.

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Discovering popular culture around the world, and bringing it back to Cuba

Beyond Cuban Waters

África, La Yuma, and the Island’s Global Imagination
PAUL RYER

Focusing on the everyday world of ordinary Cubans, Beyond Cuban Waters examines Cuban
understandings of the world and of Cuba’s place in it, especially as illuminated by two contrasting
notions: “La Yuma,” a distinctly Cuban concept of the American experience, and “África,” the
ideological understanding of that continent’s experience.

“Zeroing in on discourses of race in Cuba, Ryer counterposes two ‘imagined geographies’: the ‘geography of
management’ of the Cuban state, which has insisted on an absence of racial hierarchies and racism, and the
‘geography of desire’ in everyday conversations about racial and national identity and the beckoning yet Published in 2018
forbidden capitalist world beyond the island. Ryer is an endlessly fascinating and sure-footed guide to the 240 pages, 6 x 9 inches
interplay of the global and local in Cuba.” 6 b&w illustrations • notes, references, index
— David Luis-Brown, author of Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, hardcover $59.95x 978-0-8265-2118-7
and the United States paperback $27.95x 978-0-8265-2119-4
ebook $9.99 978-0-8265-2120-0
Paul Ryer is the director of scholar programs at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Lost Delta Found Crossing the Aisle

Rediscovering the Fisk University– How Bipartisanship Brought
Library of Congress Coahoma Tennessee to the Twenty-First
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JOHN W. WORK, LEWIS WADE JONES, KEEL HUNT
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Edited by ROBERT GORDON and Given to all members of the United

BRUCE NEMEROV States Senate by the Bipartisan
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