November New Releases

“. . . Given that her analysis is firmly rooted in the historical and socio-political circumstances from which these texts emerge, it affords a deeper understanding of how this recent variant of the historical novel critiques the pernicious effects of neoliberalism in Latin American societies.”
—Adrian Kane, author of Central American Avant-Garde Narrative: Literary Innovation and Cultural Change (1926–1936)

“Golston’s writing is beautifully pitched, alive with a sort of dark excitement. We are, after all, undertaking journeys without a known destination, journeys that can take us deep into the earth’s core or up into the starry void. Golston certainly theorizes these itineraries—Benjamin, Deleuze, Jameson, and others are active presences here—but his expository prose is also braced by popular idiom and by the wild vocabularies his exemplary texts evolve.”
—Peter Nicholls, author of George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism

“The little-known case studies of the journals La Luz and Aurora, of Argentine and Israeli cartoons, as well as the case study of moshav Kochav Sobel, are some of the best parts of the book, illuminating microhistories, which allow us to see the general narrative in a close-up. Krupnik manages to uncover how individual actors benefited from the migration-influenced developments that began to shape their lives.”
—Mariusz Kałczewiak, author of Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture

“Leslie Diane Myrick and Gary Scharnhorst give us not only a comprehensive catalog of Mark Twain caricatures but also the detailed context that informs the visual language at work in each cartoon.”
—Larry Howe, author of Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture

“This is an original account of how one country sings against another country whose musical, imperial, and imaginary influences shaped its national songbook. And by analyzing the image of the United States in Chile’s unique popular poetics, the book stimulates in the reader’s mind and ears other musical dialogues across the region and the world.”
—Pablo Palomino, author of The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History