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Nyamak Kweyiwpo / From the Introduction by Dr. Margaret Field:  This
collection of Kumeyaay (or Kumiai, in
Spanish orthography) texts is the result of a
decade-long and ongoing collaboration between
fluent Kumiai
speakers living in Baja California, where the
language is still spoken on an everyday basis in
some communities, and researchers from various
fields in both the U.S. and Mexico. Funded
initially with a major grant from the National
Science Foundation1 to linguists Margaret Field
and Amy Miller, the project began in 2009 with
three years of intensive recording in several Baja
Kumiai
communities. The initial goal of our project was
to record as many hours as possible of various
types of naturally-occurring discourse, from
narratives to conversation and instructional talk,
across various communities, to learn more about
the different varieties of Kumiai spoken
in each traditional community. From the beginning
we figured the best way to do this was to allow
community members to choose who and what to
record, so we gave away digital recorders to
community members and encouraged people to record
their elder relatives. Anthropologist Mike
Wilken-Robertson, who has been collaborating with
these same communities for almost three decades
now, and helped in conceptualizing the project,
played a major role in training people to make
recordings and also recorded dozens of hours of
videotaped interaction himself.  This kind
of collaborative approach to fieldwork resulted in
our collecting multiple examples of what Scott
Lyons (2000) has termed “rhetorical sovereignty.”
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trailblazing new title!
Paul V. Kroskrity Author of Regimes of Language:
Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
Anthony K. Webster Author of The Sounds of Navajo
Poetry: A Humanities of Speaking Subject Area Keywords: NATIVE
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to enlarge  TESTIGOS DE AUSENCIAS CUENTOS Y RELATOS DE ESCRITORES DE LA DIASPORA MEXICANA  Edited by José Mario Martin
Flores & José Salvador Ruiz Retail: $24.95 Published: March 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-947921-03-0 New! From a consortium of independent, progressive presses on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, a dynamic, pathbreaking anthology of writings in Spanish. Click the images below to see the complete list of authors! Paperback; San Diego State University Press, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, and Editorial Artificios click to enlarge    |
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   PROUST
IN BLACK Los
Angeles: A Proustian Fiction {Full Color Special Limited Edition} by Fanny Daubigny translated from the French by Bruce Whiteman
$600
MEXICO | €29 EURO
Fanny Daubigny's PROUST IN BLACK fuses French Literature, cultural studies, film noir, film studies, and Los Angeles, the City of Angels, in a dynamic synthesis of imagination and invention that remakes cultural criticism in the here and now. With lucid and evocative readings of Proust, Billy Wilder, Hollywood film noir and more, Daubigny emerges as a literature and film studies critic with a compelling vision and a lyrical prose artistry that tracks manifestations of Proust in and across the dark night of Southern California.
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“A book about Proust and film noir and Los Angeles, yes, but so much more: it is about fear and desire, about guilt and insomnia, about the ‘chiaroscuro of consciousness’ in text and film and culture, about the ‘aesthetics of fear.’ And like a detective searching around dark corners of the city, we are constantly surprised. Buster Keaton joins Robert Wiene and Fritz Lang as an inaugurator of film noir! Pasolini’s debt to Proust! Albertine as femme fatale! It is criticism as detection, criticism as collision, criticism as crime, criticism as confession. It is critique noire.”
Tom Lutz, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Los Angeles Review of Books
“It is a tour de force of dexterous and poetically rendered cross-referencing. In Proust in Black Fanny Daubigny has composed a multi-layered cultural exchange between the country of France and the City of Los Angeles. The polarities, oddly drawn toward each other, will involve, on the French end, the great literary masterpiece of its age, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and from the U.S. seaside dream city, L.A.'s body of films noir, those darkly gorgeous, cheaply made black and white crime movies from the 40s and 50s. At the center of all this is Desire. At the center of all this are the fluid permutations of memory, persistent yet illusive, and (as Elizabeth Bishop once said of another intangible essence, knowledge) ‘flowing and flown.’”
Suzanne Lummis, L.A. Noir Poet
“Fanny Daubigny maps the liminal spaces where Proust’s romanticism collides with the cynical yearning of the film noir, in a Los Angeles that is at once real and cinematic, present and impossibly distant, smoldering-look cool and branding-iron hot. Like a half-remembered dream, her city floats above the smog line and gets caught in the palms.”
Richard Schave,
Founder, Los Angeles Visionary Association
 Fanny Daubigny is a writer, translator, and poet--she's also a Professor of French at CSU Fullerton. She has published many articles on Marcel Proust and is a specialist in the nineteenth and twentieth century literatures of France and the French-speaking countries. She lives in Los Angeles, city of angels. |
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to enlarge  Propellers A New English Translation of Guillermo de Torre's Hèlices by Guillermo de Torre (illustrated) Edited by Willard Bohn Willard Bohn & Danielle Corsi, Translators Retail: $24.95 Advance word on PROPELLERS  In 1923 Guillermo de Torre, a young
Spanish poet born with the new century, published a
revolutionary book of avant-garde poetry, Propellers (Hélices). Drawing
on Italian Futurism, French/Chilean Creationism, and
other literary and artistic movements that flourished
in Europe in the years immediately before and after
the First World War, de Torre proposes a radical new
poetics, in which "Motors sound better than
hendecasyllables," as he declares in one of the poems.
Largely ignored or underrated in its own time, today,
nearly a century later, Propellers returns in English in
Willard Bohn's wily translation. Co-editor  Daniele Corsi reproduces
beautifully the typesetting of the poetic discourse,
recreating the visual impact of the Spanish original.
Perceptive essays by both editors open the volume,
tracing the historical context in which the book first
appeared, while also offering close readings of a
number of the poems.Anthony L. Geist University of Washington SDSU Press furthers its reputation as a leader in Avant-garde scholarship with Willard Bohn's and Daniele Corsi's rendition of Guillermo de Torre's Hèlices entitled PROPELLERS. Propellers turns poems into air-borne machines of transport that alter the Newtonian time/space law of gravity. In this central and poorly understood work of the historical avant-gardes, the young Torre eagerly absorbs and metabolizes his multiple influences, transforming the mere mechanics of poetic experimentation as then practiced into a radical and necessary assertion of the individual then under assault by the ravages of weaponized consumer capitalism at its dangerous and disgusting peak. Board this plane for a dizzying flight into yourself. Paperback; San Diego State University Press Published: September 21, 2018 ISBN-10: 0916304116 ISBN-13: 978-0916304119 More pages from the fully-illustrated volume:      |
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click to enlarge   The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 7 Ralph R. Greenson Harry Polkinhorn, Series Editor (The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars) Paperback – September 1, 2018 Publisher: San Diego State University Press (September 1, 2018) ISBN-10: 1938537505 ISBN-13: 978-1938537509 Retail Price: $21.00 Advance word on Ralph R. Greenson's Training Seminars, "The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 7, the latest in the San Diego State University Press Series, "Psychoanalysis on the Couch." From the Introduction by Jesus Gonzalez: "Greenson's language is a model of brevity and honesty. If he dislikes the individual, he will let us know and why he believes this is so. If he finds the patient attractive, he will also say so. If the patient is boring him or if he forgot relevant information and is asking the patient for it, we will hear about it. Thus, we have composer, conductor, musician, and actor all in one. Greenson is his own opera, and through these seminars he invites us to listen." From Peter Loewenberg, Professor of History Emeritus, UCLA, & Training and Supervising Analyst, Dean Emeritus, for the New Center for Psychoanalysis, LA, CA: "Ralph Greenson was a gifted charismatic teacher of psychoanalytic technique, premiere in his generation. I and many other students of analysis had the privilege of learning from his clear yet scintillating seminars on dreams and clinical practice. The editor has done a major service to all mental health practitioners in providing these brilliant sparkling Greenson seminars, notes, and papers for our benefit."
Keywords: PSYCHOANALYSIS, PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY, CLINICAL PRACTICE, HISTORY OF MEDICINE, HISTORY OF SCIENCE SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS$21 USA | $28 CANADA | $400 MEXICO | 19 EURO ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-50-9 ISBN-10: 1-938537-50-5 Select Pages: Click to enlarge:   |
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to enlarge  More Than Money A Memoir by Claudia Dominguez Claudia Dominguez Paperback – 2018 Sam Cannon (Afterword) Claudia Dominguez (Author, Illustrator) Pamela Jackson (Contributor) Frederick Luis Aldama (Foreword) William Anthony Nericcio (Series Editor) Publisher: Amatl Comix, an imprint of San Diego State University Press (2018) ISBN-10: 1938537122 ISBN-13: 978-1938537127 Retail Price: $24.95 MORE THAN MONEY: A Memoir by Claudia Dominguez is a graphic novel/memoir that recounts the true story of how the author's family recovered their father after he was kidnapped in Mexico City. The reader will feel the helplessness of the kidnapping but also be heartened by the humor and warmth of people who find themselves in a crisis. MORE THAN MONEY is the first issue from Amatl Comix, a new SDSU Press imprint. Amatl Comix publishes all the dynamic, contemporary graphic narratives we can get our hands on! Our first issue showcases the brilliant work of an up and coming Mexican comic book star, Claudia Dominguez. Advance Word on MORE THAN MONEY! "Unlike most
mainstream representations of Latinxs in the Américas
that depict us as only of European descent,
Dominguez's palette celebrates us as mestizo. And
while Dominguez chooses to use the traditional 6-panel
layout sparingly, she does so to great kinetic effect,
conveying the urgency and anxiety as it builds to the
moment of exchanging money for family. She wakes our
hearts and minds to the complex ways that Latinxs live
as a hemispheric population connected through more
than violence."
select pages from the full color graphic
novel--click to expandFrederick Luis Aldama, author of LATINX COMIC BOOK STORYTELLING "As I experienced Claudia's book I felt that it interacted with my sensibilities more on the level of a sequential watercolor mural than a traditional comic book or graphic novel. The opening two-page spread felt more like standing before the harrowing and inspiring murals of David Alfaro Siqueiros or José Clemente Orozco than opening a comic book. Like the Muralists, she illustrates both a broad image of the suffering of the Mexican people as well as their strength and resilience." Sam Cannon, Bruce and Steve Simon Professor of Language & Literature at LSU, Shreveport   |
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enlarge  Redemptions A Translation of Carlos Gagini's El árbol enfermo Carlos Gagini Trade Paperback Edition, 2nd Printing Translation and introduction by E. Bradford Burns New Afterword by Daniel Quirós Paperback: 130 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0916304671 ISBN-13: 978-0916304676 ON SALE VIA THE SDSUPRESS/AMAZON SHOP SDSU Press’s edition of Carlos Gagini's novel "El árbol enfermo" (here translated as "Redemptions") is a classic novel of Costa Rica, first published in 1918. This is the first English translation, and one of the few Central American novels available in English. Set in and around San José during the first years of the twentieth century, when the influence of the United States-economic, political, military, and cultural-was intensifying rapidly, "Redemptions" tells the story of the seduction and betrayal of a young Costa Rican woman (and symbolically of her country and region) by a North American entrepreneur. In the same genre as novels and essays by Uruguayan José Enrique Rodó and Mexican José Vasconcellos, "Redemptions" is a work of cultural nationalism which urges Costa Ricans to value their autonomy, to resist the encroachment of outside forces led by the ubiquitous, for the region, “Uncle Sam,” and to recognize and solve their own problems. Originally published in 1985, it appears now in a second printing trade paperback from the original publisher San Diego State University Press with the original translation and introduction by E. Bradford Burns, and a new afterword by the Costa Rican contemporary novelist and literature professor Daniel Quirós.  “El árbol
enfermo, Redemptions, is, in
fact, considered one of the very first
anti-imperialist novels—the first being
(maybe) El
problema, by Guatemalan author
Máximo Soto Hall. The center of this
discussion is the “conquering” of
Margarita by Mr. Ward, symbolic of Costa
Rica being bullied and seduced by U.S.
intervention and foreign capital. Examples
of this symbolism are abundant in the
novel and have already been discussed
extensively in the introduction. Suffice
it to say that at some point Gagini even
chooses to name the chapter in which Mr.
Ward finally confesses his love to
Margarita at a lavish Fourth of July party
as “Yankee Expansion.” From the new afterword by Dr. Daniel Quirós New 2nd Printing Paperback SDSU Press Hardcover Edition |
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How the West Was Juan Reimagining the U.S./Mexico Border Steven W. Bender Paperback:
182 pagesPublisher: San Diego State University Press; 1st edition (July 24, 2017) ISBN-10: 1938537939 ISBN-13: 978-1938537936 $20 Retail--on sale NOW via the SDSU PRESS Amazon store. ORDER NOW   How the West Was Juan: Reimagining the U.S.-Mexico Border creatively approaches the current political stalemate over border regulation by imagining a different U.S.-Mexico border, one that returns to the early 1800s U.S.-Mexico border, and before that the same border when Spain controlled Mexico. Now part of the United States, the once Spanish/Mexican terrain, which I call Alto Mexico, encompassed the entire current U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, as well as western and southeastern parts of Colorado, a southern portion of Wyoming, a southwestern piece of Kansas, and a slice of the western panhandle of Oklahoma. Had the Alto Mexico region remained in Mexican control, the United States would be missing California and Texas—its two most populous states and economic leaders, as well as seven of its ten most populous cities (Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, and San Jose. ... more Advance word on HOW THE WEST WAS JUAN Imagine the United States losing the 1846 war, ending up a federation of 44 states [bordering] Alto México (with an acute accent over the "e"), one of the world's major economies, Spanglish its lingua franca. Its borders? As abstruse as the ones defeating us today. If you think this is a Leibnitzain universe (or perhaps one of Kellyanne Conway's alternative facts), read Steven W. Bender's prescient How the West Was Juan. It might show us the way out of this perverse prison we call "reality." --Ilan Stavans, author of Quixote: The Novel and
the World
and A Most Imprefect Union (with Lalo Alcaraz) A Pandora's box is opened in the hands of a master of law and cultural studies as well as history. Playful, yet historically and legally researched, How the West Was Juan demarcates a new territory for the physical, psychological, moral, and spiritual borders of our country, as well as deconstructing the inaccuracy of our traditional history books. Bender keeps us entertained with his kneading of geographical facts with history and current events, allowing us to envision a different possible borderlands, and throwing a scholarly wrench into the notion of border and belonging, as well as appropriated spaces. --Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, author of Word Images: New
Perspectives
on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú [A] tightly packed, state by state review of the history, geography, demography, and economy of a confiscated region, Steven Bender's imagined unwinding of the U.S. seizure of 54% of Mexico's territory is excellent and engaging. Raymond Caballero, author of Orozco, The Life and
Death
of a Mexican Revolutionary, Mayor, El Paso TX (2001-03)  About the Author:Steven Bender is a national academic leader on immigration law and policy, as well as an expert in real estate law. Among his honors, the Minority Groups Section of the Association of American Law Schools presented him with the C. Clyde Ferguson, Jr., Award, a prestigious national award recognizing scholarly reputation, mentoring of junior faculty, and teaching excellence. He joined the faculty from the University of Oregon in 2011 and was appointed Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in 2014. He taught at UO for 20 years and served as the James and Ilene Hershner Professor of Law, Director of Portland Programs, Director of the Green Business Initiative, and Co-Director of the Law and Entrepreneurship Center. Professor Bender is a well-published author of many law review articles, a casebook on real estate transactions, a national two-volume treatise on real estate financing, and several acclaimed books. His latest book, "Mea Culpa: Lessons on Law and Regret from U.S. History." will be released by New York University Press Jan. 1, 2015. Among his other books are "Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings," (NYU Press 2012); "Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination, " (NYU Press 2003); "One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity," (Paradigm Publishers 2008), winner of the 2008 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction; "Comprende?: The Significance of Spanish in English-Only Times," (Floricanto Press 2008); and "Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing" (NYU Press 2010). He is co-author of "Everyday Law for Latinos" (Paradigm Publishers 2008). His research interests coincide with his classroom teaching, which encompasses subjects as diverse as Business Associations, Property, Real Estate Transactions, UCC Secured Transactions, Contracts, Externship Seminars, and Latina/os and the Law. ORDER NOW!  |
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 Bohemia in Southern California Edited by Jay Ruby with essays by Jessica Holada, Mark Thompson, Daniel Hurewitz, Genie Guerard, Naima Prevots, Richard Hertz, Katherine Stewart, Pablo Capra, Kristin Lawler, William Mohr, Rachel Rubin, Jay Ruby, & Harry Polkinhorn   click to enlarge Paperback: 262 pagesPublisher: San Diego State University Press (SDSU Press) (2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 1938537106 ISBN-13: 978-1938537103 Retail Trade Paperback: $25.00 On sale now for $19.95 via the SDSU Press Amazon.com Bookstore Are you a bohemian (or a student of the phenomena?). Do you dig bohemian culture, are you obsessed about California history, or a denizen of Southern and Northern California, or a devotee of cultural studies!? All of the above? Then SDSU Press's latest title is going to light your fire. Bohemia in Southern California, edited and with an essay by Jay Ruby, is a critical anthology (and photo album) that explores alternative life styles and artistic endeavors of Bohemians of all stripes in the Southland. Taken collectively, they suggest that when la vie bohéme arrived in the land of sunshine, a unique way of being unconventional was created. The classical Western bohemias of Paris, New York’s Greenwich Village, and the North Beach community of San Francisco were complemented by a rich flowering of individual and group experiments in creative living and the production of art. The fully illustrated book contains essays by scholars in literature, cultural studies, anthropology, librarianship, the book arts, history, psychoanalysis, the performing arts, and others that provide a uniquely multidisciplinary approach. This captivating and wide-ranging volume takes readers on a compelling tour, from the Arroyo Seco and Edendale communities, earlier in the twentieth century, to the beach communities of Malibu; from coffeehouse culture, surfer enclaves, and 1960s counterculture to the explosion of artistic and bohemian scenes several decades later in Venice, Laurel Canyon, downtown Los Angeles, and the Santa Barbara hillsides. Sample Page Spread--click to enlarge  |
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  Latinx Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview  edited by
Frederick Luis AldamaPrologue by Ricardo Padilla Foreword by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste Afterword by Christopher González Paperback: 270 pages Publisher: Hyperbole Books, an imprint of SDSU Press; 1st edition (2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 1938537920 ISBN-13: 978-1938537929 retail: $24.95 Buy it NOW at the SDSU Press Amazon Outlet Mall This outstanding new collection edited by Frederick Luis Aldama represents the cutting edge in Latinx graphic literature! A must have for researchers in Comics, Sequential Art Studies, Visual Studies, American Literature, Latinx Studies! Includes interviews with and full color art by Lalo Alcaraz, José Cabrera, Jaime Crespo, Frank Espinosa, Eric Garcia, Jason González, John González, Raúl Gonzalez the Third, Jaime Hernandez, Javier Hernandez, Andrew Huerta, Alberto Ledesma, Liz Mayorga, Rhode Montijo, Alex Olivas, Daniel Parada, Jimmy Portillo, Jules Rivera, Cristy C. Road, Fernando Rodriguez, Grasiela Rodriguez, Hector Rodriguez, Jason Rodriguez, Octavio Rodriguez, Rafael Rosado, Carlos Saldaña, Wilfred Santiago, Serenity Sersecion, Sam Teer, and Lila Quintero Weaver Advance word on Frederick Luis Aldama's LATINX COMIC BOOK STORYTELLING: The US comic's scene is evolving-along with the rest of the culture-slowly, sometimes painfully, but inexorably towards a greater diversity of readers & creators, of new styles & stories. This book gives us a series of intimate conversations with several generations of Latin@ cartoonists (diverse themselves in their backgrounds and interests) juggling craft and art with heritage and language. These pioneers have their noses to their drawing boards and tablets but they keep their eyes on the larger significance of their work. -Matt Madden, author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style In this timely and transformative collection of interviews, Aldama brings to life the stories, achievements, and creative process of 29 Latino-and Latina!-comic book artists. Jettisoned to new heights of exploration, this vertiginous journey opens us to a world of breathtaking visual-verbal creativity and the embrace of a resplendently diverse and eager community of readers. Latino comic book storytelling, its characters, and wondrous world-makings vitally transform, renew, and replenish the comic's field. They are the revolution-and Aldama's at the frontlines to capture it all. -Jan Baetens, University of Leuven, co-author recently of The Graphic Novel: An Introduction Aldama stretches open a new space of critical thinking about Latinidad and comics in the 21st century. As a living lightning rod, Aldama captures then spins out anew psionic thunderbolts of intellectual and creative insight offered by today's Latino comic book storytellers. With Aldama and his cadre of Fantastic 29 you get the alpha to omega of Latino comics. Prepare yourself. This is the Big Bang! -Ana Merino, The University of Iowa and author of Chris Ware: La secuencia circular and El cómic hispánico |
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 El punto ciego / The Blind Spot Antología de la Poesia Visual Argentina de 7000 a.C. al Tercer Milenio / Argentine Visual Poetry by Jorge Santiago Perednik, Fabio Doctorovich, & Carlos Estévez Series: Bi Sheng/Juan
Pablos Digitovisuo Artifacts Series (Book 3)Mass Market Paperback: 328 pages Publisher: San Diego State University Press (SDSU Press); 1st edition (2016) Language: Spanish (with introduction/front material in English as well) ISBN-10: 1938537084 ISBN-13: 978-1938537080 Regular Trade Paperback Full Color Edition retail price: $34.95 Series: Bi Sheng/Juan
Pablos Digitovisuo Artifacts Series (Book 3)Limted Edition Paperback: 328 pages Publisher: San Diego State University Press (SDSU Press); 1st edition (2016) Language: Spanish (with introduction/front material in English as well) ISBN-10: 1938537955 ISBN-13: 978-1938537950 Special Limited Edition Full Color Archival-stock Paperback Edition retail price: $84.95 Physiologically speaking, "The Blind Spot" (El punto ciego) refers to that area of the eye, the retina, to be precise, where the optic nerve emerges--ironically, sans any light sensitive cells, it cannot "see." From a literary standpoint, then, THE BLIND SPOT reveals itself as a metaphor that contains the main objective of this handsome, full color book of art/literature: more than revealing the modernity, avant garde, or novelty of experimental poetry, it points out the importance of what, until now, has remained in Argentina in that exact position in which the majority of the public has *not seen it, demonstrating that visual poetry has been with us forever. EL PUNTO CIEGO shows this by establishing a "cut" that defines the genre through the works of 70 authors, and the mainstreams of visual poetry in Argentina through the ages. While most of the texts are written in Spanish, the visual poems will be easily enjoyed by readers of any language. This is the third volume in SDSU Press's / Hyperbole Books's Bi Sheng / Juan Pablos Digitovisuo Artifacts Series--a catalogue dedicated to archiving significant works that explore the collusion, complicity, and fusion of word and image in art, literature, film, and beyond. Regular Trade Paperback Full Color Edition {Click the images below for high resolution pictures}   Special Limited Edition Full Color Archival Paper Edition {Click the images below for high resolution pictures}  |
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  Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor by Frederick Luis Aldama & Ilan Stavans From HYPERBOLE BOOKS, an SDSU Press Imprint Advance LAUGHING MATTERS raves: "Two
academics
go into a bar. . . and create one of the most
compelling works on laughter since Bergson. In
this kinetic tête-à-tête, Aldama and Stavans'
conversation weaves effortlessly from the great
thinkers on laughter to today's neurobiological
insights to offer witty, wide-ranging, and
incisive insights into our planet's great
creations."
Peter McGraw, director of The Humor Research Lab (HuRL) "Our authors scour the world of humor from stand-up Jewish comedians to classic writers such as Cervantes and Rabelais to those, like Freud and Bergson, who have sought to account for why we laugh. The conversational format of this book allows its authors a freedom to range that would be impossible in a more conventional mode of discourse." Herbert Lindenberger, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Stanford "A delightful and intellectually engaging conversation, Laughing Matters explores the nature of laughter and humor, questioning and expounding on Western European and Latin American literary works that build humor into their pages. In a decidedly erudite manner they take us on a journey through philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Bergson as well as literary geniuses such as Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Borges." María Herrera-Sobek, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCSB Do you dig humor, comedy, critical theory, literary criticism, philosophy, television, and mass media studies all wrapped up together? Then LAUGHING MATTERS by Latino scholar/writers/artists ILAN STAVANS and FREDERICK ALDAMA is the book for you. Hyperbole Books first volume in the "Chatting Professors/ Catedráticos Charlando" mini-series, LAUGHING MATTERS finds two comedic scholars talking seriously about the ludicrous. Or are they speaking ludicrously about the serious? And does it matter which is which? Available in REGULAR TRADE PAPERBACK, ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-91-2 {click the images below to see our covers in their full glory!}   Series:
Chatting Professors/Catedrático Charlando (Book -1)Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Hyperbole Books, an SDSU Press Imprint; 1st edition (2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 1938537912 ISBN-13: 978-1938537912 $14.95 via Amazon.com SPECIAL LIMITED-EDITION PAPERBACK EDITION, ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-97-4 {click the images below to see our covers in their full glory!}   Series:
Chatting Professors/ Catedráticos Charlando (Book 1)Paperback: 126 pages Publisher: Hyperbole Books, an imprint of SDSU Press; 1st edition (2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 1938537971 ISBN-13: 978-1938537974 $21.00 via Amazon.com |
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via the SDSU Press/Amazon.com online store "Ralph Greenson was a gifted charismatic teacher of psychoanalytic technique, premiere in his generation. I and many other students of analysis had the privilege of learning from his clear yet scintillating seminars on dreams and clinical practice. The editor has done a major service to all mental health practitioners in providing these brilliant sparkling Greenson seminars, notes, and papers for our benefit." Peter Loewenberg Professor of History Emeritus, UCLA Training and Supervising Analyst, Dean Emeritus New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles In the pages of this new, revised edition of Ralph R. Greenson's ASSESSMENT: THE INITIAL CLINICAL INTERVIEWS from San Diego State University Press, readers 'listen in on" the noted West Coast clinician's three introductory seminars that took place in Los Angeles, California in 1959. Perhaps best known as Marilyn Monroe's psychiatrist, Greenson is a force in the history of psychoanalysis--especially that flavor of Freudian theory and practice that prospered on the West Coast after the middle of the last century. Lee Jaffe's newly re-edited and annotated edition emerges as a must-have volume for scholars, students, and psychologists interested in clinical practices, the history of medicine, the history of science, and/or psychoanalysis.  |
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 Things We Do Not Talk AboutExploring Latino/a Literature through Essays and Interviews By Daniel A. Olivas Publication Date: June 1, 2014 ISBN-10:193853705X; ISBN-13:978-1-938537-05-9 $21 • paperback • 202 pp. Things We Do Not Talk About is a natural companion to the study of contemporary Latino/a literature. In this candid and wide-ranging collection of personal essays and interviews, Daniel A. Olivas explores Latino/a literature at the dawn of the 21st century. While his essays address a broad spectrum of topics from the Mexican-American experience to the Holocaust, Olivas always returns to and wrestles with queries that have no easy answers—questions about writing and Chicano identity; literature; and the politics of everyday life, among others. Olivas has explored similar questions through almost a decade’s worth of interviews with Latino/a authors—twenty-eight of these incisive and frank dialogues are now collected in one volume for the first time. Olivas dives deep to discover how these authors create prose and poetry while juggling families, facing bigotry, struggling with writer’s block, and deciphering a fickle publishing industry. This roster of interview subjects is a who’s who of contemporary Latino/a literature including: Aaron A. Abeyta • Daniel Alarcón • Francisco Aragón • Gustavo Arellano • Gregg Barrios • Richard Blanco Margo Candela • Susana Chávez-Silverman • Sandra Cisneros • Carlos E. Cortés • Carmen Giménez Smith • Ray González • Rigoberto González • Octavio González • Reyna Grande • Myriam Gurba • Rubén Martínez • Michael Luis Medrano • Aaron Michael Morales • Manuel Muñoz • Salvador Plascencia • Sam Quiñones • Ilan Stavans • Héctor Tobar • Justin Torres • Sergio Troncoso • Luis Alberto Urrea • Helena María Viramontes Advance notices for Things We Do Not Talk About: “Olivas’s penetrating meditations on all facets of the life of Latino fiction writing, including his own as a Latino lawyer eking out a living in the global conundrum of LA—dazzle! His cornucopia of incisive interviews with many of our great contemporary Latino/a poets, novelists, short story, and non-fiction authors—astound! Wide ranging and yet laser focused, Olivas gives us the total portrait of Latino/a letters today.” —Frederick Luis Aldama, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University and author of The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature “With passion and earnestness Daniel Olivas reveals that the preoccupations of the contemporary Chicana/o writer are vast and complex. Most Chicanas/os and Latinas/os would attest to this, of course, but how often do we see this range in published form? Through personal essays and probing interviews, Olivas tackles not only the craft of writing but also its moral implications. We are lucky to have such a generous author in our midst.” —Maceo Montoya, author of The Deportation of Wopper Barraza  note: The cover of THINGS WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT
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 The Flesh-and-Blood Aesthetics of Alejandro Morales: Disease, Sex, and Figuration Marc García-Martínez Publication Date: August 1, 2014 ISBN-10: 1938537998 ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-99-8 $21 USA | $22.50 CAN | $265 MEX | €15 press release The
Flesh-and-Blood Aesthetics of Alejandro Morales—
Disease, Sex, and Figuration is the first
full-length study in English of Alejandro Morales, a
Chicano writer from East L.A. whose innovative novels
are published internationally. In it, Marc
García-Martínez pursues a bold inquiry into the way
Morales’ post-movimiento oeuvre ought to be read. The
reader is taken on a lively exploration of six
extraordinary novels that is simultaneously insightful
and instructive. The book is a compelling explication
of Morales’ visceral art, which reminds us that in our
overly theoretical, increasingly digital field of
contemporary literary studies that often regards close
reading and fundamental interpretation as démodé,
there is still a much-needed place for both.Advance word on García-Martínez's 'Flesh-and-Blood Aesthetics: “Marc García-Martínez’s in-depth study of Alejandro Morales’ novels elucidates many points critics have only danced around. His persistent critical—“clinical”—eye dissects their Kafkaesque and Dantesque qualities, offering aesthetically coherent textual-thematic explanations. His analyses of Morales’ oeuvre penetrates the obscure, the unfiltered, and the fetishness of a heterotopia that focuses on visceral figurations in order to capture the multilayered density, thus demanding a better understanding of disease, disorders, and decadence. By demystifying abstractions, he leads us to decipher Morales’ narrative artifacts and his tools of storytelling, not only as rich metaphorical instruments but also as arrows and markers of a literary cosmos that oscillates between hyper-realism and infra-realism, and sometimes expressionism. In the process, he invokes a diagnosis of semiotic connotations into the author’s artistry with cardinal points within postmodern ethno-history as well as overlapping symbologies, ranging from Medieval antiquity to Mesoamerican rituals and Judeo-Christian figures and motifs. The result is a detailed composite of Morales’ multiple triads that operate within his novels which ultimately help explain the transcendence of his monsters, graphic or flesh-and-blood imagery, quasi-cybernetic beings, existential characters and apocalyptic overtones. Morales’ genius becomes unveiled thanks to his insistence on conflating technology and science, urban ecology, cultural ruin vs. renaissance, mythology, futuristic conceptualizations, (post)colonialism and self-determined consciousness. Marc García-Martínez masterfully manages to push critical studies on Alejandro Morales into the twenty first century.” Francisco A. Lomelí, Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, editor of Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (with Rudolfo A. Anaya). “Leaving in the dust all those highfalutin’ literary theories of yesteryear, Marc García Martínez digs heels in deep to dig out a radically new aesthetic paradigm. His is a poetics that grows out of the smells, sights, and tastes of the panoply of ever-mutable bodies that populate one of our most extraordinarily inventive of Latino authors: Alejandro Morales. By ripping open Morales’s works García Martínez pulls back flesh and bone to dissect and show how this master storyteller jolts to life those putrid and pulchritudinous bodies that have so enraptured us readers. Flesh-and-Blood is aesthetic theory at the vanguard—and at its best!” Frederick Luis Aldama, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University, author of The Routledge Concise History of Latino / a Literature |
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| Reframing
the Latino Immigration Debate Towards a Humanistic Paradigm Alvaro Huerta photography by Antonio Turok ISBN-10: 1938537033 ISBN-13: 978-1938537035 $16.95 USA | $210 MEX | €13  click to enlarge Brash,
intelligent, and possessed of a searing
rhetorical passion, Alvaro Huerta's Reframing the
Latino Immigration Debate asks
readers to reassess critical political and
cultural issues unfolding along the U.S./Mexico
border. Paired in this volume with the striking
photography of Antonio Turok, Huerta's words move
readers "towards a humanistic paradigm" in a work
that emerges as must-reading for students,
scholars, and policy-makers alike."Alvaro Huerta provides a ground-up view of the most pressing issues facing our nation of immigrants. Drawing on personal and familial experience, and a scholar's understanding of social history and current political dynamics, Huerta offers a human face to issues that have been overwhelmed with heated rhetoric and special interests." CHON A. NORIEGA Director and Professor UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Author of Shot in America "I urge you to read this impassioned defense of immigrants in the United States. Powerful and poignantly personal, Huerta's book humanizes an issue that is so often distorted by opportunistic politicians and crass pundits. He spares neither the Republicans nor President Obama in his critiques, and he makes an irrefutable case for amnesty. Pay attention to Alvaro Huerta: his words pack a punch." MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD Editor, The Progressive Author of You Have No Rights "Dr. Alvaro Huerta provides a compelling antidote to the anti-Latino rhetoric so prevalent in recent decades. His is a personal response to seemingly impersonal policies of detention, stigmatization, and undermining of Latino citizenship and belonging. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the 'other side' of the story about immigrants and their children in our society." LEO R. CHAVEZ Professor, University of California, Irvine Author of The Latino Threat |
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The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 5 The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers Psychoanalysis on the Couch Series Ralph R. Greenson, Author Harry Polkinhorn, Editor, Foreword Trade Paperback November 1, 2014 ISBN-10: 1938537068 ISBN-13: 978-1938537066 Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches $20  The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 5, by Ralph R. Greenson continues the series of publications growing out of the Ralph R. Greenson Archive of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The series editor, Harry Polkinorn, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, and academic programming director for the San Diego Psychoanlytic Center, has worked with archival audio tapes and transcripts to produce a book that makes Ralph Greenson's teaching seminars come alive again. Greenson's dynamic and influential approaches to psychoanalysis mark a crucial moment in the evolution of Psychoanalysis on the U.S. West Coast and, while rooted in the late 20th century, remain vital for theorists and practitioners alike in the 21st century.  |
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 The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 4 The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers Psychoanalysis on the Couch Series Ralph R. Greenson, author Harry Polkinhorn, editor, series editor Trade Paperback January 1, 2013 Perfect Paperback: 186 pages 1ST edition (2013) ISBN-10: 1938537092 ISBN-13: 978-1938537097 Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches cover price $18.95 The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 4 by Ralph R. Greenson continues the series of publications growing out of the Ralph R. Greenson Archive of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. In this second (of seven) volumes of Dr. Greenson’s training seminars, notes, and miscellaneous papers, we listen in on a master clinician working with advanced candidates in psychoanalytic training on topics including empathy and transference. The freshness and vitality of these transcribed seminar discussions complement Greenson’s more formal presentations found in his other published works. “Ralph Greenson was a gifted charismatic teacher of psychoanalytic technique, premiere in his generation. I and many other students of analysis had the privilege of learning from his clear yet scintillating seminars on dreams and clinical practice. The editor has done a major service to all mental health practitioners in providing these brilliant sparkling Greenson seminars, notes, and papers for our benefit.” Peter Loewenberg Professor of History Emeritus, UCLA Training and Supervising Analyst, Dean Emeritus New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles Former Chair, APsaA CORST Committee Chair, IPA China Committee  "According
to
his son Daniel, Ralph Greenson was born on September 20,
1911, in Brooklyn, New York, and died on November 24,
1979, in Los Angeles, California. He was a twin. His
father was a physician, his mother a pharmacist, so he
came from a scientific background. After studying at
Columbia University, and because Jews were still blocked
from some American medical schools, Greenson pursued his
medical training at the University of Bern between 1930
and 1934, where he met Hildi Troesch, whom he later
married and with whom he had two children, Daniel and
Joan. After medical school, Greenson began analytic
training with Wilhelm Stekel in Vienna. Because he was
not satisfied with his initial experiences, Greenson
undertook further training in Los Angeles in 1938, where
he had an analysis with Otto Fenichel. Greenson settled
in Los Angeles and became an important member of the
psychoanalytic community there, eventually achieving
prominence as a scholar, lecturer, and teacher of
analytic candidates and medical students. Greenson used
his charisma and love of psychoanalysis to support
various causes, such as the Center for Early Education,
the Reiss-Davis Clinic, the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic
Society and Institute, and the Anna Freud Foundation. He
also assisted with the founding of the San Diego
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Greenson served on
various editorial boards of important journals in his
field and was a frequent participant at national and
international professional meetings. Greenson served on
the Board of Professional Standards of the American
Psychoanalytic Association and was President and Dean of
the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, as
well as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at U.C.L.A."From the introduction by Dr. Harry Polkinhorn
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 REPRESENTATIONS OF FASHION: The Metropolis and Mediological Reflection between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries (Bi Sheng/Juan Pablos Digitovisuo Artifacts Series) Paperback: 114 pages | Hyperbole Books 1ST edition (2013) ISBN-10: 1938537025 ISBN-13: 978-1938537028  Advance word on REPRESENTATIONS OF FASHION The rest of us interpreters of culture might as well lay pens to rest. Antonio Rafele's rapid injection in the arm spirals us down through rabbit holes where we glimpse with penetrating insight projections of our urban-made psychic selves. As if lucid dreaming, we come to understand how authors such as Poe, Leopardi, and García Márquez offer pit-stops in our otherwise impossibly fast-forward moving, Ritalin-induced life filled to the brim with TV, internet, and videogames. We can reach through this illusion, but choose instead to buy into the discontinuities of fashion that never quite satiate our existential emptiness. Not since Baudrillard, Barthes, McLuhan, and the Wachowski Bros has such a mind come along who can zip open reality to show with such precision the specular and spectacular nature of our existence...Dare if you will to step into this daydream. FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA | Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University "In this provocative and pathbreaking book, Rafele shows us how a mediological approach can radically and productively reframe our understanding of modernist subjectivity. His lyrical meditations on the works of Simmel and Benjamin reveal the extent to which 20th century notions of subjectivity must be understood in relation to 19nth-century concepts of the metropolis and the technology of photography. If you've ever wondered what the 'New' in New Media Studies might actually look like, you'll find a compelling example in this brilliantly-conceived and well-executed study." RYAN SCHNEIDER | Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English and Affiliated Faculty, Program in American Studies, Purdue University |
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| LEARNING FOR
REVOLUTION The Work of Kathy Acker by Spencer Dew Publisher: Hyperbole Books an San Diego State University Press imprint 1ST edition (2011) ISBN-10: 1879691957 ISBN-13: 978-1879691957 $24.00 list price | trade paperback SDSU via amazon sale price: $17.95 Hyperbole Books heralds the release of a new, dynamic title focused on the work of a 20th Century American Original: Kathy Acker.  "An indispensable entry into the annals of Ackerania, Spencer Dew's Learning for Revolution: The Work of Kathy Acker provides a poetic, personal, political, and, above all, pedagogical take on a critical figure whose contributions to finding and teaching imaginative ways of engaging with reality cannot be overstated. A deeply humane and insightful book, this should be on the shelf of anyone interested in "the ability of artistic work to affect change in the world" and who also seeks to find the blood and guts of what it means to interact morally and ethically with other human beings." Kathleen Rooney author of Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object "So often, academics (myself included) have approached Acker as a punk/plagiarist revolutionary without satisfactorily asking why ultimately is she doing this? Alternatively, Spencer Dew's Learning for Revolution applies the secular concept of the Talmudic (Blanchot) to Acker's work, to propose a compelling answer to that question: Acker's writing aspires to the pedagogical, the instructional... I am not declaring this the end of Acker criticism, but Dew certainly has created a strong argument that will reverberate throughout Acker scholarship." Michael Hardin rogue scholar and author of Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker "Progress is
possible; plagiarism implies it. Spencer Dew
offers an excellent guide to Kathy Acker as a
progressive writer, at odds with exploitation
and oppression in all forms. He is a patient
reader of Acker as reader, of Blanchot and
others, for whom friendship is the key to
practicing another kind of life. Not the easiest
person to befriend in life, Dew shows Acker on
the page to be a writer whose generosity borders
the infinite." McKenzie Wark author of A Hacker Manifesto |
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  Thomas Paine: Common
Sense for the Modern EraEdited by Ronald F. King and Elsie Begler Trade Paperback $22.50 Publisher: San Diego State University Press First edition (November 2007) ISBN-10: 1879691876 ISBN-13: 978-1879691872 A definitive contribution for scholars and graduate students researching the life and work of Thomas Paine; from the preface by Ronald F. King: "This volume is the consequence of a conference held at San Diego State University on October 21-22, 2005. It is intended as the first in a series of conference-based volumes focusing on historical individuals whose independent spirit, freethinking, and controversial views have become essential to the definition of the American experience. It is fitting that Paine takes first place within this series. As a revolutionist in three countries- America, Britain, and France-his pen helped shape the emerging liberal democratic world of the late eighteenth century. In America, he gave voice to the Common Sense of colonial discontent and provided needed encouragement at times of Crisis when the democratic Prospect seemed most bleak. In Britain, he challenged hierarchical monarchy and articulated a vision of the basic Rights of Man that resulted in his trial and conviction for seditious libel. In France, he envisioned a dawning of The Age of Reason, was elected as a delegate to National Convention, but spent ten months in the Luxembourg prison at the height of the Terror. Paine was far more than the most visible and eloquent propagandist for the birth era of liberal revolution. He merits our attention, intellectually, by the content of his prose and the depth of his vision." Includes essays by: Eric Foner, Brian McCartin, Susan Jacoby, Harvey Kaye, Seth Cotlar, Timothy Killikelly, Hazel Burgess, Kenneth W. Burchell, Bryson Clevenger, Jr., David M. Robinson, Eric R. Schlereth, Nathalie Caron, Kirsten Fischer, Jason S. Maloy, Drew Maciag, and Aaron Keck. About the Editor: Ron King joined the SDSU faculty in Fall 2003 and spent his first seven years here as Chair of the Political Science Department. He also held the Bruce E. Porteous Endowed Professorship in Political Science and has been awarded the title, “Profesor Onorific,” by the Political Science faculty at Babeş-Bolyai University in Romania He previously taught at Tulane (15 years) and Cornell (9 years). A native of New York City, his undergraduate degree is from the University of Pennsylvania (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and his graduate degrees are from Oxford (B.Phil.) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.). Professor King is the author of four books, including major studies of U.S. taxation policy (published by Yale University Press) and welfare entitlements (published by Georgetown University Press). In addition, he has edited three collections of essays and published more than 30 refereed articles and book chapters, appearing in journals such as: American Political Science Review, Political Science Quarterly, Polity, Politics and Society, Policy Sciences, Journal of Public Policy, European Political Science, Studies in American Political Development, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. |
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 150 YEARS OF EVOLUTION Darwin's Impact on Contemporary Thought and Culture Mark Wheeler, editor, with William Nericcio San Diego State University Press ISBN: 1-879691-94-9 $24.95 U.S. | $23.50 CAN | $288 MXN | 17 Euro Science / Cultural Studies / History of Science / Philosophy In November 2009, scholars representing academic disciplines from across the globe gathered at San Diego State University to celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the sesquicentennial anniversary of the publication of his On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Out of this event now comes 150 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Impact on Contemporary Thought and Culture. Edited by Mark Richard Wheeler with the assistance of William A. Nericcio, this compelling, interdisciplinary anthology features studies of interest to diehard Darwin scholars and to general audiences interested in the consequences of this singular thinker's work. The volume includes new work by Curtis Johnson, Michael T. Ghiselin, Alan C. Love, Matthew Crippen, Richard Weikart, Sandra A. Wawrytko, Julius H. Bailey, Erin McKenna, John Rhea, Ellen Mayock, Donna Yarri & Spencer S. Stober, Mary Trachsel, and Leesa Rittleman. |
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 Homer from Salinas John Steinbeck's Enduring Voice for California William Anthony Nericcio (Editor)
$14.95 list | trade paperback From April to May 2007, some of the most celebrated scholars of American Literature, cultural studies, and California history joined with noted artists, performers, and photographers for a unique John Steinbeck celebration at San Diego State University. Homer from Salinas: John Steinbeck's Enduring Voice for California collects these lectures, screenings, debates, discussions, and visual artifacts into one handy volume that unfolds as a mélange of old school conference proceedings, next-generation, Web 2.0 journalism, and a scrapbook.  The
collection, edited by William A. Nericcio, includes
outstanding pieces by Jeffrey Charles, Charles
Wollenberg, William Deverell, Francisco X. Alarcón,
Hernán Moreno-Hinojosa, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Paul Wong,
Fred Gardaphé, Arturo J. Aldama, Michael Harper,
Joanna Brooks, Arthur Ollman, Louis Hock, and Susan
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Border
Texts:
Writing Fiction From Northern Mexico
Núria Vilanova's new book is about borders and texts . . . Vilanova's dynamic project studies the relationship between the Mexico-U.S. border and some of the fiction produced in the area. What are the different presences of the border within these texts? Is the border so powerful as to permeate the aesthetics and literary discourse of such texts? Can the multidimensional space of the border be determinant in the making of fiction? After a review of border dynamics within the Mexico-U.S. context, with a look at border and Chicano studies, Border Texts explores the fiction of Jesús Gardea and Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. Latin Americanist Núria Vilanova has devoted much of her research to the Mexico-U.S. border from a cultural and literary perspective. After completing her Ph.D. at Liverpool University (1993), Vilanova established herself as an authority on Peruvian literature. She has taught in several universities in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She is the author of The Impact of Social Change upon Literature: Social Change and Literature in Peru (1970-1990) (1998)." "Vilanova's Border Texts is
rich and multifaceted study that blends literary and
cultural studies, economics, history, and the
sociology of immigration studies. This complex and
highly readable study opens a terrain to understand
how Mexican based border writers, theorists, and
cultural producers articulate the ever growing
discourse of those on the Otro Lado (the other side)
of the U.S line of empire and provides a rich and
compelling side of border cultures from South to El
Norte, rather than its reverse. As such, Vilanova's
study brings to the fore voices of Mexican based
border writers and cultural producers adds to the
rich epistemic and political shibboleth of
post-contemporary U.S. border theory and studies."
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 Fluxus: The History of an
Attitude Owen F. Smith ISBN 1-879691-51-5 | 1998 trade paperback | 326 pp. | US $27.00 | Second Printing $19.95 ONLINE SPECIAL! Fluxus: The History of an
Attitude is based on the author's exhaustive
archival research tracking the physical remains of
this fascinating interdisciplinary and international
arts movement that began in the 1960s. Smith, in his
"introduction," says, "Fluxus was once called 'the
most radical and experimental art movement of the
sixties,' but for anyone seeking to learn more about
the historical nature of Fluxus and its conceptual
framework it might more readily seem to be just
plain frustrating rather than radical. This is in
part the case because Fluxus is historically complex
and philosophically difficult to define. This very
ambiguity, however, is an aspect of its radicality.
Fluxus is both an attitude towards art-making and
culture that is not historically limited, and a
specific historical group. As an attitude, Fluxus is
part of a larger conceptual development that is a
significant, although often overlooked, current of
the twentieth-century Western avant-garde. This
attitude is in part traceable to the network of
interrelated ideas about culture, politics, and
society explored earlier in the twentieth century by
the Click here to see the cover and front materials of the book! Click or touch here to learn more about Fluxus via moma.org Click image to enlarge the back cover! |
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 Loreto:
The
Future of the First Capital of the
Californias Loreto: El Futuro de la Primera Capital de las Californias Edited by Paul Ganster, Oscar Arizpe, and Antonina Ivanova Loreto: The Future of the First Capital of the Californias is a bilingual (English and Spanish) collection of 17 essays written by scholars from the United States and Mexico that discusses the historical development as well as challenges that Loreto, Baja California Sur, faces. Six major themes are: (1) natural resources and environment; (2) history, society, and culture; (3) economy and regional development (4) tourism; (5) government and quality of life; and (6) the challenges ahead. $29.50, plus tax (if applicable) and shipping 704 pages (6 x 9 1/4 inches) © 2007 ISBN 0–925613–52–5 San Diego State University Press and Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias |
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 $17.95 via AMAZON.com Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso Steven F. Butterman $22.95 list
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 Now Available Poetry International #9 New U.S poems by Jan Lee Ande, Chris Buckley, Philip Dacey. Ann Fisher-Wirth, Linda Pastan, Charles Harper Webb, and many others | International poems in translation from Mexico, Italy, Spain, China, Columbia, France, Germany, Costa Rica, Italy, and Japan | A special feature celebrating the legacy of William Matthews | The remarkable art of Millicent Tomkins...and much, much, more. CLICK THE COVER OF ISSUE 9 TO BE TRANSPORTED TO THE POETRY INTERNATIONAL HOMEPAGE |
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 Soldier
to Ambassador: D-Day Normandy Landing to the
Persian Gulf WarA Memoir Odyssey by Charles W. Hostler ISBN: 1-879691-71-X 2004 | Paper: 340 pp. 80 plates | 60 color | 20 black & white | $25 list price/trade paper edition
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 Working the Stone: The Natural, Social,
and Industrial History of the Village of Farnams, Town
of Cheshire, County of Berkshire, Commonwealth of
Massachusetts by Paul Metcalf & Lucia Saradoff Foreword by June Nash ISBN: 1-879691-67-1 ISBN:
1-879691-67-1 Working the Stone is a unique work made up of text and images that takes as its focus an abandoned New England limestone quarry. Placed in an extended chronology of the area's archaeology going back 350 million years, Metcalf's and Saradoff's work moves into an orchestrated oral history of the quarry told by people who remember how the enterprise was set up and run. Waves of immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Poland, and Italy occupied villages in the area and worked at the quarry and plant, which was eventually acquired by U.S. Gypsum. Mechanization of the work processes replaced men and their laboriously gained expertise. Farnams then became a ghost town, and only recently has the area begun to experience a revival brought about by young professionals eager to return to the land. The story of the plant, quarry, and its people over the generations grows out of a complex weave of lyrical prose, oral histories, drawings, documents, and historical and contemporary photographs all unified in a testament to the enduring human spirit.
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Tecate Baja California: Realities and Challenges in a Mexican Border Community Edited by Paul Ganster et al. A bilingual publication of 19
essays describing current trends and challenges in
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 BACK IN PRINT Voyage to the End of the WORD Renato Barilli translated by Harry Polkinhorn and Teresa Fiore 1st ed.. San Diego State University Press, 1997 Descript xiii, 109 p. : ill. ; 23 cm $12.95 ISBN 1879691493
Italian poetry and Experimental
poetry by one of Italy's most noted and innovative
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 A Description of Distant Roads
Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770 by Juan Crespí Edited and Translated by Alan K. Brown. San Diego State University Press, 2001. ISBN 1-879691-64- 890 pages || deluxe hard cover edition || $60.00
This volume includes the complete journals of Juan Crespí in Spanish and English. Este tomo incluye los diarios completos de Juan Crespí en español y ingles.
Brown has stitched together the complete journals from different manuscript versions in archives in Europe and the Americas. They are presented by the editor in the original Spanish with detailed annotations and comparisons of alternate versions of sections of the text. As well, Brown provides a new English translation of the full texts. The work includes an extensive introduction by Alan K. Brown that in itself is a valuable contribution to the history of the period and gives a detailed and realistic vision of the life of Crespí. The volume also contains detailed explanatory notes, an index of sites, a general index, and a list of references. What the experts say: "Thanks to the erudition and
detective work of Alan K. Brown and the high scholarly
standards of SDSU Press, we no longer have to depend
on a flawed version of this essential account of the
founding of Spanish California. This is the definitive
edition, in English AND Spanish. David
J. Weber, Dedman Professor of History, Southern
Methodist University, and author of The Spanish
Frontier in North America (1992) and many other books
on the Spanish-Mexican borderlands.
"This work will be an integral
part of any collection of basic California historical
materials. Researchers in related fields such as
anthropology, historical geography, and ethnobotany,
along with history buffs and mission aficionados will
seize upon it as a Îmust read itemâ and it becomes an
instant Îmust possessâ title for any California
library reference collection. Alan K. Brown deserves
immense credit for his monumental research, editing,
and analytical effort that produced this volume.
Harry
W. Crosby, author of Antigua California, Mission
Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, (1994).
"Alan K. Brown has provided
historians, scholars, and researchers with a
tremendous gift. His monumental and authoritative
translation of Crespí's complete journals will quickly
become an indispensable work for all who study the
history of California. The introduction to Brown's
work is, in and of itself, a masterful piece of
research and writing. The extensive and thorough
footnotes attest to Brown's careful attention to
detail and desire to include the latest scholarship in
his work. Brown's translations from the original
Spanish texts are superbly done. They remain faithful
to the Spanish but are "reader-friendly." Having the
Spanish version of the original journals available in
the text for comparison purposes greatly increases the
value of Brown's contribution to researchers. Rose
Marie Beebe, President, California Mission Studies
Association and Professor of Spanish, Santa Clara
University
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 The U.S-Mexican Border Environment: U.S.-Mexican Border Communities in the NAFTA Era Edited by Norris C. Clement This volume is the fourth in the SCERP Monograph Series. It analyzes how the demographic, economic, infrastructure, and environmental characteristics of the border region have changed from the period prior to the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to 2000. ISBN-0-925613-35-5 |
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 The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Economy and Environment for a Sustainable Border Region: Now and in 2020 Edited by Paul Ganster This is the third volume in the
SCERP Monograph series. It comprises the papers and
deliberations presented at Border Institute II, which
upon the discussions during the first Border
Institute. Further, the work explores the challenge of
reinventing the economy to provide a solid base for
achieving development, providing necessary
environmental infrastructure, and enhancing quality of
life in the border communities. ISBN-0-925613-34-7 |
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 Cooperation, Environment, and Sustainability in Border Regions Edited by Paul Ganster Cooperation, Environment, and
Sustainability in Border Regions is based on
papers presented late in 1999 at the San Diego,
California meeting of the Border Regions in Transition
(BRIT) group. An international network of border
specialists, the BRIT group has also convened in
Berlin (1994), Joensuu on the Finnish-Russian border
(1997), and in Chandigarh, India, near the
Indian-Pakistani border (2000). Key themes of this
volume are transborder cooperation, border
environmental concerns, and issues of sustainable
development in border regions, including the
U.S.-Mexican border region, European border regions,
the Baltic region, Russian-Finnish border areas, and
Asian border regions. Also included are essays on
methodological and theoretical approaches to border
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 Tipai Ethnographic Notes A Baja California Indian Community at Mid-Century by William D. Hohenthal, Jr. Edited by Thomas C. Blackburn,with contributions by Margaret Langdon, David Dronenfeld, and Lynn Thomas. Produced as a cooperative
publication of Ballena Press and the Institute for the
Regional Studies of the Californias, this book
provides a richly detailed ethnography, native
toponyms, kin terms, ancient enmities, and traditional
material culture of work that has been obscured for
over 50 years. It is useful both as a primary source
and a compendium of information on the Tiapi/Diegueño
communities of Northern Baja California. An
accompanying map circa 1950 aids the reader in
locating the ethnography in a historical and
geographical setting. ISBN 0-87919-144-9
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 The U.S.-Mexico
Border Environment A Road Map to a Sustainable 2020 Edited by Paul Ganster The U.S.-Mexican Border
Environment: A Road Map to a Sustainable 2020
brings together background papers and ancillary
materials prepared for the Border Institute I, held in
December 1998. The briefing papers, as presented at
Border Institute I and then revised, lay out basic
information and analysis about the population,
economy, environment, and governance of the border
region. They provide the context for discussions of
the environmental sustainability of the region over
the next twenty years or so. The purpose of Border
Institute I was to encourage stakeholders in the
region and elsewhere to redirect their focus from
immediate and urgent current border environmental
issues to the steps that must be taken soon if the
region is to arrive at 2020 with a healthy and
sustainable environment. SCERP, and its partners
in Border Institute I--the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and the Border Trade Alliance--will
convene additional meetings approximately every year
to continue the discussion on key aspects of the
environmental sustainability of the border region.
Each of these institutes will produce a volume for the
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Tijuana 1964  Una Visión Fotográfica e
Histórica
A Photographic and Historic View Harry Crosby, Paul Ganster, David Piñera Ramírez, & Antonio Padilla Corona ISBN 0-925613-31-2 2000 | paper, 58 pp and 42 black-and-white photographs. 12" x 12" | US $18.50 plus shipping, handling & applicable taxes This
bilingual book of 42 black and white photographs and
an interpretive essay with two maps provides a view of
Tijuana in 1964. It is a time in the city that many
people remember, but many never knew. The book
portrays Tijuana when it was still a small city of
235,000, with a clearly defined center. Since
that time, rapid population growth, industrialization,
and urban sprawl have created the huge and complex
city we know today. Tijuana in 1964 was a dual city,
with one part oriented toward tourism activities and
life north of the border. The other part was a totally
Mexican city, with economic, social, and cultural
activities oriented toward national life. Tijuana 1964
effectively depicts this dualism. Click on the ancient
camera to your right to see a selection of plates from
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 San Diego-Tijuana International Border
Area Planning Atlas / Atlas de Planeación del Área
Fronteriza Internacional Tijuana-San Diego
ISBN 0-925613-29-0 2000 paper, 64 pp 14 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches US$44.50 plus shipping, handling & applicable taxes ORDER FORM | PEDIDOS Additional set(s) of unfolded maps available at: $15/set with purchase of Atlas $25/set without Atlas This bilingual Atlas integrates
U.S. and Mexican data to provide a harmonized view of
the binational strip of land that serves as an
interface between San Diego and Tijuana. The Atlas
includes 15 full-color thematic maps of the San
Diego-Tijuana border region and 35 black-and-white
photographs. Detailed thematic essays by experts
provide context and commentary for understanding the
maps. Essay topics include: land use, planned land
use, water, sewage, transportation infrastructure,
population, employment, public facilities, vegetation
and land cover, topography and hydrography, and
others. The Atlas was produced through the
collaboration of San Diego State University's
Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, The
SDSU Department of Geography, the Municipal Planning
Institute of Tijuana (IMPlan), the City of San Diego,
the San Diego Association of Governments and San Diego
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 Federman A to X-X-X-X: A Recyclopedic Narrative Edited by Larry McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, and Doug Rice ISBN 1-879691-53-1 1998 paper, 400 pp. US $27.50 via AMAZON, sale, $12.95
This is a large "casebook" of
materials related to the life and work of Raymond
Federman. A French Jew and Holocaust survivor, one of
the world's leading Beckett scholars, and the author
of over twenty books of fiction, poetry, and
criticism, Federman has also been one of
postmoderism's most radical liteary innovators and
most influential theoreticians. Federman A to X-X-X-X
is the first major critical study devoted to his work
to appear in America. Assembled by editors Larry
McCaffery, Thomas Hartl, and Doug Rice, the volume
unfolds as a series of several hundred alphabetically
arranged entries in double columns forming an
elaborate mock-encyclopedia of the sort Borges or
Nabokov might have imagined. These entries include
over a hundred representative stories, novel excerpts,
essays, poems, and letters by Federman, many of which
are previously unpublished, and hundreds of other
entries by authors, critics, editors, and
correspondents analyzing, criticizing, or often
collaborating with Federman's works. Also included are
individual
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 Modernism Since Postmodernism:
Essays on Intermedia Dick Higgins ISBN 1-879691-43-4 1997 paper, 252 pp. Second Printing 2015 Modernism Since Postmodernism: Essays on Intermedia completed Dick Higgins' critical trilogy that began with A Dialectic of Centuries: Notes Towards a Theory of the New Arts and continued with his Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of Intermedia. A fluxperson, artist, poet, composer and scholar of intermedia, Higgins also authored Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature among numerous other works. He died in October of 1998. Of course kitsch can be fun. Already 125 years ago, Rimbaud recognized this when, in the second section of A Season in Hell, he speaks of liking dumb paintings, door panels, stage sets, backdrops for acrobats, street signs, old-time literature and such-like. Who doesn't?... "Kitschspeak" is the term I use...for the fashionable kitsch language about the arts, sometimes delightful for a while, as with Jacques Derrida, for instance, but ultimately locked so closely into fashion and the world of second-rate and derivative art that it is all but impossible to use with major work and thus destined to pass into academia or oblivion once its novelty has passed....There are, of course, many schools of postmodernism--and they are just that, schools--but for a preliminary discussion there is no need to identify all of them. However, it can be argued that most of them are of two sorts: pop-academic, in which the professors cite each other to build up a lattice of assumptions into a polemic that may or may not have any correspondence with the realities of the arts that lie outside what is known in their trade as "the discussion." The academic trades are known collectively among participants in such discussions as "the profession," much as prostitutes refer to "the life." Dick Higgins from the Foreword to Modernism Since Postmodernism |
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 Borders
and Border Regions in Europe and North America
Edited by Paul Ganster, Alan Sweedler, James Scott, and Wolf Dieter-Eberwein ISBN 0-925-613-23-1 1997 paper, 376 pp. US $15.00 This volume is a collection of
essays on issues affecting the political, economic,
social, and cultural significance of international
borders. It is an undertaking that is particularly
timely due to global events that are so rapidly
changing our understanding of international relations.
The contributors to this book share basic research and
practical interests in deepening understanding of the
multifarious and often contradictory processes that
condition human interaction across international
borders. Published jointly by San Diego State
University Press and The Institute for Regional
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 San Diego State University: A History in Word and Image by Raymond Starr ISBN 1-879691-30-2 Trade paperback: 262 pages; illustrated | $36 plus shipping/handling 1995 | Also available in a Special limited hardback edition ISBN 1-897691-39-6 $100 plus shipping/handling San Diego State University: A
History in Word and Image, by Raymond Starr, is
the first and only comprehensive history of the
largest campus in the California State University
system. Originally conceived as a history through
photographs by the late John Adams, whose generosity
has made possible this publication, the work expanded
to become a full-fledged history of the University.
Separate chapters cover the founding of the
institution in the 1890s in downtown San Diego,
subsequent transfer to its Park Avenue site, then
later relocation to Montezuma Mesa. Special attention
is given to student life, athletics, the growth of
academic programs, and how the institution was
affected by world events such as World War I and World
War II. We are able to see the growth of the school
from its beginnings as a teachers college (or "normal"
school) to its current status as a major public
comprehensive university with an internationally
respected faculty, vital research institutes,
increasingly significant academic ties to Mexico and
the Pacific Rim, and joint doctoral programs. San
Diego State University: A History in Word and
Image underscores the centrality of the
University both to the local community and as a key
player in national and international intellectual
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This volume, which is the result of
some forty years of research by Alan K. Brown, brings
together what Crespí wrote in its entirety. All other
printed and manuscript versions were censored, heavily
edited, condensed, and excerpted by Serra, Palou, and
othersalterations that dropped out critical detail and
valuable information. This edition makes all other
printed versions of Crespí's journals obsolete.
