Fordham University Press: 585 books
The Ville
Cops and Kids in Urban America, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In Brownsville’s twenty-one housing projects, the young cops and the teenagers who stand solemnly on the street corners are bitter and familiar enemies. The Ville, as the Brownsville–East New York section of Brooklyn is called by the locals, is one of the most dangerous places on earth—a place...
Quiet Testimony
A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and...
Prophecies of Language
The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the...
War after Death
On Violence and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing and death.
Recent history demonstrates that body counts are more necessary than ever, but the fact remains that...
At Freedom's Limit
Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
The subject of this book is a new “Islam.” This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at...
The Decolonial Abyss
Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The Decolonial Abyss probes the ethico-political possibility harbored in Western philosophical and theological thought for addressing the collective experience of suffering, socio-political trauma, and colonial violence. In order to do so, it builds a constructive and coherent thematization of the...
A Common Strangeness
Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions—East and West, local and global, common and strange—that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical underpinnings...
Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange
Authorship, Manuscript Culture, and the Making of the 'Vita Nova'
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in Dante’s Vita Nova (ca. 1292–1294). In paying particular attention to complex and multifaceted interactions between different cultures in Italy in the thirteenth century, this...
by Andrew Hui
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length...
Beyond the Mother Tongue
The Postmonolingual Condition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned “mother tongue” about another language (Franz Kafka); mobilizing words of foreign derivation as part of a multilingual constellation within one language (Theodor W. Adorno); producing...
Trials of Arab Modernity
Literary Affects and the New Political
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works...
Thresholds of Illiteracy
Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of “illiteracy” as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. “Illiteracy,” Acosta claims, can offer us a way of talking about what...
Cinepoetry
Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history...
Artists' SoHo
49 Episodes of Intimate History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
During the 1960s and 1970s in New York City, young artists exploited an industrial wasteland to create spacious studios where they lived and worked, redefining the Manhattan area just south of Houston Street. Its use fueled not by city planning schemes but by word-of-mouth recommendations, the area...