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  • Literary History after the Nation?

    Contributors to this issue of Modern Language Quarterly consider the status of modern literary history and ask a simple question: now that the unspoken national and regional assumptions of literary studies are being challenged, how should we write literary history?

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  • Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i

    “[Detours] seeks to flip travel writing's static script, telling tourists that they are not entitled to all things Hawaiian because the Hawai‘i of their imagination is obliterating the Hawai‘i of Kanaka Maoli."— Bani Amor, Fodor’s Travel

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  • Syllabi from Duke University Press

    At Duke University Press, we see scholarship as a powerful basis for understanding our current sociopolitical climate and working toward a brighter future. With this in mind, we’re glad to present staff-curated syllabi of incisive work on today's most critical issues, from climate change to police violence to immigration.

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    Featuring new books by Margaret Randall, Ashon Crawley, David Grubbs, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jane Bennett, and more.

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New

Necropolitics - New

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

"The appearance of Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics will change the terms of debate within the English-speaking world." — Judith Butler
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco - New

Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco

Savannah Shange

"Progressive Dystopia is scholarship at its finest and an essential contribution." — Aimee Meredith Cox
Radical Histories of Sanctuary - New

Radical Histories of Sanctuary

A. Naomi Paik, Jason Ruiz, and Rebecca M. Schreiber, issue editors

Contributors explore both contemporary and historical invocations of “sanctuary,” paying particular attention to its genealogies in social movements against state violence.
Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback - New

Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback

Kamari Maxine Clarke

"The book captures the complexity of evolving African attitudes toward the ICC like no book before it. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of international justice!" — Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui
The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics - New

The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics

Robin James

"James offers a way to think sound studies, race, and material cultures together." — Ashon T. Crawley
The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives - New

The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives

Harry Harootunian

"The Unspoken as Heritage is a brave text." — David Kazanjian
The Common - New

The Common

Francesco Brancaccio and Carlo Vercellone, issue editors

Contributors explore the common as a third mode of governance and property that complements the traditional typology of public and private goods.
Violence and Policing - New

Violence and Policing

Shamus Khan and Madiha Tahir, issue editors

Contributors examine the discourse and practices of policing, providing insights into how policing transforms societal relationships and develops and maintains order.

Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood - Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

James Baldwin

"A brilliant exploration of black childhood with profound emotional depth, drawn from the grace and struggles of community and reinforcing the truth that no one knows Harlem like Baldwin." —Kirkus
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds
Stolen Life - Best Sellers

Stolen Life

Fred Moten

"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both." —Vulture
Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing - Best Sellers

Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing

Rebecca Dufendach, issue editor

Contributors to this Ethnohistory issue address how Mesoamericans experienced bodily health in the wake of the 16th-century encounter with Europeans.
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure - Best Sellers

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Eli Clare

"A dazzling work of intellectually rigorous and wildly original thinking that challenges our most deeply held beliefs about the nature of cure, exposing its place in the ideologies of domination."—Aurora Levins Morales
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Best Sellers

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. … A searing and brilliant work."—Saidiya Hartman
On Chantal Akerman - Best Sellers

On Chantal Akerman

Patricia White, issue editor

The milestone 100th issue of Camera Obscura recognizes the work and legacy of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture.

Featured Journals

Radical History Review - Featured Journals

Radical History Review

RHR Editorial Collective

Articles in RHR address issues of gender, race, sexuality, imperialism, and class, stretching the boundaries of historical analysis to explore Western and non-Western histories.
Modern Language Quarterly - Featured Journals

Modern Language Quarterly

Marshall Brown, editor

MLQ publishes articles that pay attention to the broader scope of literary history regardless of genre or period.
Critical Times - Featured Journals

Critical Times

Samera Esmeir, editor

Published by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, Critical Times is an open-access online journal seeking to present the multiple forms that critical thought takes today.
Nka - Featured Journals

Nka

Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu, editors

Nka focuses on publishing critical work that examines contemporary African and African Diaspora art within the modernist and postmodernist experience.

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Jonathan Wahl, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Michael Detlefsen and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Syllabi

Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus - Syllabi

Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus

This syllabus features books and journal articles about environmentalism and climate change. Topics include climate change, environmental crisis, climate fiction, and environmental racism.
Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus - Syllabi

Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that tackle feminist and women’s rights topics, including reproductive justice, women’s marches, and transnational feminism.
Global Immigration Syllabus - Syllabi

Global Immigration Syllabus

This syllabus focuses on areas of tension within and between nations over issues of immigration. It examines how sovereignty and humanitarianism intersect with cultural, ethnic, and economic issues.
Police Violence Syllabus - Syllabi

Police Violence Syllabus

Selections in this syllabus explore and criticize police violence in both contemporary and historical contexts. Topics include the militancy of policing, Black Lives Matter, carceral technologies, gender, and more.
Prison and the Carceral State Syllabus - Syllabi

Prison and the Carceral State Syllabus

This syllabus covers life in a society governed by policing and imprisonment. Topics range from women of color abolitionist activism and the militarization of everyday life to intimacy, queerness, and parental rights in prison.
Racial Justice Syllabus - Syllabi

Racial Justice Syllabus

This syllabus features books and journal articles about racial justice. Topics include racial protests, justice movements, and racial justice history.
Trans Rights Syllabus - Syllabi

Trans Rights Syllabus

The articles and books in this syllabus address trans rights and politics on a global scale. Topics include black trans feminism, coalitional models of social justice, surgery, disability, surveillance, and more.
Women's Labor Syllabus - Syllabi

Women's Labor Syllabus

This syllabus features books and journal articles about women's labor. Topics include women labor leaders, gendered labor, gendered power, and reproductive labor.
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