Fordham University Press: 585 books
Blackpentecostal Breath
The Aesthetics of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or “otherwise” modes of existence can serve...
The Underside of Politics
Global Fictions in the Fog of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This book argues that during the Cold War modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions of universality—freedom in the West versus social justice in the East—and by a culture of secrecy that tied national identity to national security. Examining post- 1945 American...
Heartbeats in the Muck
The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural...
A Dancer in the Revolution
Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A Cotton Club dancer and Communist Party leader shares the story of his life in arts and activism from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights Era.
Through his extraordinary life, Howard “Stretch” Johnson epitomized the generation of African Americans who broke through boundaries...
Mario Cuomo
Remembrances of a Remarkable Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Governor Mario Cuomo’s life and accomplishments are part of the public record, but in Mario Cuomo: Remembrances of a Remarkable Man, William O’Shaughnessy gives readers an exclusive and a deeply personal, behind-the-scenes look at the liberal Democratic icon. This poignant memoir, based on the...
by Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous objects of study across dominant ethnological...
American Metempsychosis
Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The “transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human.” With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engagement with history....
Fifth Avenue Famous
The Extraordinary Story of Music at St. Patrick's Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Victorian-era divas who were better paid than some corporate chairmen, the boy soprano who grew up to give Bing Crosby a run for his money, music directors who were literally killed by the job—the plot of a Broadway show or a dime-store novel? No, the unique and colorful history of St. Patrick’s...
Standing by the Ruins
Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Since the mid-1970s, Lebanon has been at the center of the worldwide rise in sectarian extremism. Its cultural output has both mediated and resisted this rise. Standing by the Ruins reviews the role of culture in supporting sectarianism, yet argues for the emergence of a distinctive aesthetic of resistance...
Sexagon
Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society’s understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation, and sexuality,...
Classical New York
Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The first book to come out of a national movement of interest in the classical heritage of the United States (including dedicated projects in Philadelphia and Chicago)
Specters of Conquest
Indigenous Absence in Transatlantic Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
This book intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing "America" as not a particular country or continent but a foundational narrative, in which conquerors arrive at a shore intent on overwriting local versions of humanity, culture, and landscape with inscriptions of their...
Tricksters and Cosmopolitans
Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Tricksters and Cosmopolitans is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and their non–Asian American editors and publishers. The volume focuses on the literary production of the cosmopolitan subject, featuring the writers Sui...
Asylum Speakers
Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth...