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Poetry

Everything I Kept Todo Lo Que Guarde

Behar Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780997228724, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, May 2018
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, language: English / Spanish, 10 halftones

Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we...

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Performing Arts

Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Fiction

Elephant in the Room Women Draw Their World

ISBN: HB: 9789385932243, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
240 pp., 24.1x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

This book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, and how that is similar and different across cultures. In the striking, surprising, often funny drawings featured he...

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Literary Criticism

Ecology

Beasts at Bedtime Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature

Heneghan Liam

ISBN: HB: 9780226431383, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many childr...

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Fiction

Saga of Satisar

Chandrakanta, Kaul Ranjana

ISBN: PB: 9789381017630, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, "The Saga of Satisar" is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri live...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Cultural Graphology Writing after Derrida

Fleming Juliet

ISBN: PB: 9780226565194, ISBN: HB: 9780226390420, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

"Cultural Graphology" could be the name of a new human science: this was Derrida's speculation when, in the late 1960s, he imagined a discipline that combined psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a commitment to the topic of writing. He never undertoo...

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Fiction

Land of My Fathers

Sherif Vamba

ISBN: HB: 9781908446541, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
242 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The proud Republic of Liberia was founded in the nineteenth century with the triumphant return of freed slaves from America to Africa. Once back "home," however, these Americo-Liberians had to integrate into the resident tribes – who did not necessar...

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Poetry

The Africa List

Naming the Dawn

Waberi Abdourahman A.

ISBN: HB: 9780857425461, Seagull Books, May 2018
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

The poems in this new volume by Abdourahman A. Waberi are introspective and inquisitive, reflecting a deep spiritual bond – with words, with the history of Islam and its great poets, with the landscapes those poets walked, among which Waberi grew up....

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Fiction

Dangerous Recipe

Svasti G.

ISBN: PB: 9786167339825, Prestel Publishing, River Books, April 2018
312 pp., 20.5x14.5 cm, illustrations throughout

Celebrity chef Corran Brook scours the globe for the world's best recipes and foods, for his ambitious compendium, "The Story of Food". But when travelling through Asia and chancing on a rare and extraordinary meal he cannot decipher, his struggle to...

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Literary Criticism

Elusive Brain Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience

Tougaw Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780300221176, Yale University Press, April 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuro...

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