University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Mammographies
The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer’s book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category she refers to as mammographies,...
The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law
Unfinished Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The Holocaust, Corporations, and the Law explores the challenge posed by the Holocaust to legal and political thought by examining issues raised by the restitution class action suits brought against Swiss banks and German corporations before American federal courts in the 1990s. Although the suits...
Medieval Jerusalem
Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Medieval Jerusalem examines an old question that has recently surfaced and given rise to spirited discussion among Islamic historians and archeologists: what role did a city revered for its holiness play in the unfolding politics of the early Islamic period? Was there an historic moment when the city,...
The Most Noble of People
Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The Most Noble of People presents a nuanced look at questions of identity in Muslim Spain under the Umayyads, an Arab dynasty that ruled from 756 to 1031. With a social historical emphasis on relations among different religious and ethnic groups, and between men and women, Jessica A. Coope considers...
Passionate Amateurs
Theatre, Communism, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Passionate Amateurstells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and then crosses...
Queer Roots for the Diaspora
Ghosts in the Family Tree
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Employing rootedness as a way of understanding identity has increasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to police identity through a politics of purity—excluding anyone who doesn’t share the same...
Tomorrow Is the Question
New Directions in Experimental Music Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
In recent decades, experimental music has flourished outside of European and American concert halls. The principles of indeterminacy, improvisation, nonmusical sound, and noise, pioneered in concert and on paper by the likes of Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman, can now be found in all...
Taking It to the Bridge
Music as Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The overriding aim of this groundbreaking volume—whether the subject is vocal ornamentation in 19th-century opera or the collective improvisation of the Grateful Dead—is to give new recognition to performance as the core of musical culture. The collection brings together renowned scholars from...
Transgression in Korea
Beyond Resistance and Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Since the turn of the millennium South Korea has continued to grapple with transgressions that shook the nation to its core. Following the serial killings of Korea’s raincoat killer, the events that led to the dissolution of the United Progressive Party, the criminal negligence of the owner and...
Are We There Yet?
Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism connects the Victorian fascination with "virtual travel" with the rise of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first-century experiments in virtual reality. Even as the expansion of river and railway networks in the nineteenth...
Ovid's Women of the Year
Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Roman love-poet Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published in his maturity circa 14 CE, the Fasti presents claims of aetiological, astronomical, and even antiquarian interests, but more importantly...
The Mirror Diary
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
The Mirror Diary tracks the emergence of an original poetic voice and a learned...
by Attelstan Suresh Canagarajah
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The critical approach to L2 writing is arguably one of the most significant recent developments in L2 writing pedagogy. A. Suresh Canagarajah provides a thorough discussion of this topic in Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students.
This volume facilitates teacher self-reflection and enables...
Memories of the Revolution
The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The women’s experimental theater space called the WOW Café (Women’s One World) has been a vital part of New York’s downtown theater scene since 1980. Since that time, WOW has provided a place for feminist and particularly lesbian theater artists to create, perform, and witness a cultural revolution....