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We regret that in the ongoing efforts to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we will be unable to meet with you at the 2021 MLA conference. We want to highlight new titles that were scheduled to be featured in our booth and hope you will visit our website for more details.

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Editors Ken Wissoker and Courtney Berger highlight new titles on the Duke Press blog.

Please mark your calendars for these MLA events featuring Duke University Press authors:

MacArthur Fellow Fred Moten, "Presidential Plenary: Poetics of Persistence in Black Life", January 8th from 12:00–1:15pm EST

"Just in Time: Securitization and Its Discontents: Reading Insurgent Aesthetics across Borders", January 9th from 10:15–11:30am EST

Lisa Lowe, "Intimacies as Method in the Long Nineteenth Century", January 10th from 3:30–4:45pm EST

Shane Vogel and Douglas A. Jones, "Race and Performance after Repetition", January 10th from 10:15–11:30am EST

Our Winter catalog of new and forthcoming titles in Literature & Literary Studies is available below or it can be downloaded here.

Black and Blur

Fred Moten
Fred Moten is the recipient of the 2020 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Honor of Newton Arvin for the book Black and Blur. The award is presented by the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Black and Blur

Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

The Sense of Brown

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University

The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics

Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman

Dear Science and Other Stories

Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America

Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights

Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body

Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death

Race and Performance after Repetition

Indigenous Narratives of Territory and Creation: Hemispheric Perspectives

Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker's Spirit

Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage

Dub: Finding Ceremony

The Lonely Letters

The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel

History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene

Category Crossings: Bruno Latour and Medieval Modes of Existence

Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa

Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling

A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being

Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production

Virtual Pedophilia: Sex Offender Profiling and U.S. Security Culture

The Anagonist

Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China

Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance

Are You Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century

Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire

Diary of a Detour

Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming

The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam Beyond Borders

Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving in and beyond the Classroom

Every Day I Write the Book: Notes on Style

A Time of Youth: San Francisco, 1966–1967

Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being