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 We are working on a new look and new vibe for SDSU Press -- check out our new book pages and let us know what you think on our socials or via email to memo@sdsu.edu! José Alaniz — The Compleat Moscow
Calling José
Alaniz — The Phantom Zone
and Other Stories Frederick
Luis Aldama, ed. — Latinx Comic Book
Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview Mark
Amerika & Lance Olsen, eds. — In Memoriam to
Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop Marta
Bogéa — Two-Way Street:
The Paulista Avenue, Flux and Counter-Flux of
Modernity Juan
Crespí; edited and translated by Alan K. Brown — A Description of
Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First
Expedition into California, 1769–1770 Claudia
Dominguez — More Than Money: A
Memoir Laurie
Edson, ed. — Conjunctions:
Verbal-Visual Relations Darius
S. Gainer — Black
Representation in the World of Animation Arthur
Getis — The Tyranny of
Data Gerald
Janecek — Zaum: The
Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism Richard
Kostelanetz — An ABC of
Contemporary Reading Maria
Cristina da Silva Martins — Humor &
Eroticism in Advertising Dianne
Violeta Mausfeld — Barrio Rap in
Los Angeles: American Made with a Mexican Flow Philadelpho
Menezes — Poetics &
Visuality: A Trajectory of Contemporary Brazilian
Poetry Giovan
Michael, ed. — pacREV 2023: All
Comix, All Graphic Narrative William
Nericcio & Frederick Aldama, eds. — Snapshots:
Teaching Los Bros Hernandez Héctor
Ortega; edited by Manuel Flores — The Comic Trial
of Joseph K.: Text and Context Héctor
Ortega; edited by Manuel Flores — The Comic Trial
of Joseph K.: Text and Context Antonio
Rafele — Representations
of Fashion: The Metropolis & Mediological
Reflection between the Nineteenth and the
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 or buy direct from West Coast Review via PayPal (no Paypal account needed) Only $2 shipping if you use this link: West Coast Review #2 (Spring 2026) from San Diego State University Press Journals Division arrives like a raucous king tide that doesn’t ask permission—restless, sunlit, and a little dangerous. This emerging literary journal captures the West Coast not just as geography, but as condition: migratory, hybrid, and shaped by memory, media, and desire. If Granta offers global polish and The Believer leans edge-city cerebral, West Coast Review is the scrappy coastal bibliophiliac upstart—equal parts seminar room, shoreline, and late-night scroll. Inside this issue: fiction that moves from moonlit beaches and diasporic memory to viral exposure, academic precarity, queer intimacy, and surreal collapse. A character eats sardines on a darkened coast while thinking through migration and class; a professor spirals after becoming the subject of a student’s viral video; desire flickers through apps, bodies, and unstable identities; secrets bind and fracture across families and continents. Featuring work by contributors including Trin Encarnacion, Fredo Gillis, Michael Chin, Reem Faruqi, Willy Conley, Murdoc Kang, Oz Anarchy, Richard Martin, M.E. Macuaga, Sheila Hamilton, Bill Smoot, Lesley Hart Gunn, and others, this issue showcases a wide range of emerging and established voices. Editorial guidance and vision come from a distinguished board including Matt de la Peña, Frederick Luis Aldama, Susan Daitch, Eugene Lim, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Stephen-Paul Martin, Quentin Bailey, William “Memo” Nericcio, Meagan Marshall, Jessica Pressman, and Lance Olsen—helping shape a journal committed to risk, range, and discovery. With
striking cover art (Girls in Ibiza by Fredo Gillis),
West Coast Review #2 signals a journal finding its
voice—raw, ambitious, and unafraid. It’s where the
West Coast speaks in its own unruly register, moving
between archive and algorithm, desert and data
stream, insisting that literature still has a pulse
where the Pacific breaks the frame, and where new
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click to enlarge A landmark study of labor, power, and globalization on the U.S.-Mexico border. Long before "global supply chain" entered the public vocabulary, Edward J. Williams and John T. Passé-Smith were documenting the human consequences of export-led industrialization in northern Mexico. Combining political analysis, field interviews, and worker testimony, they reveal the hidden struggle over unionization in the maquiladora industry—a struggle involving workers, corporations, government officials, and labor leaders competing to shape the future of the border economy. Rich
in empirical detail and strikingly relevant to
contemporary debates about labor rights and global
capitalism, The Unionization of the
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Rap in Los AngelesAmerican Made with a Mexican Flow Dianne Violeta Mausfeld Publisher: San Diego State University Press, with a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation Publication date: April 21, 2026 Edition: First Edition Print length: 338 pages Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-879691-91-9 Or buy direct from SDSU Press via PayPal (no PayPal account necessary) DOMESTIC USA ONLY $28.95 + $2.95 shipping Or buy direct from SDSU Press via PayPal (no PayPal account necessary) INTERNATIONAL ONLY $28.95 + $22.95 shipping Advance word on Barrio Rap: "Dianne
Violeta Mausfeld’s Barrio Rap
is an amazing historical cruise that describes the
rise and evolution of the distinctive Los Angeles
Chicano hip-hop scene in meticulous detail. It
illuminates critical moments, cultural politics,
style and fashion, and media forms behind the
culture and introduces many of the key OG players
who created rap en el barrio. Clear and rigorously
analytical on every page, this is top-shelf,
original scholarship and a most welcome addition to
global hip-hop studies." Murray
Forman  orn in the
barrios of Los Angeles and circulating across
streets, studios, and platforms, barrio rap has
always been hypervisible and under-theorized. In
this immersive, field-driven study, Dianne Violeta
Mausfeld brings together ethnography and cultural
studies to trace a music culture shaped by Mexican
American life, transnational flows, digital
mediation, and urban precarity.Drawing on long-term fieldwork, oral history, and close readings of lyrics, performances, and social media, Mausfeld reframes barrio rap not as a derivative subgenre but as a site of cultural production where identity is negotiated through sound, style, and place. Engaging concepts of hybridity, flow, mediascapes, and affect, the book tracks how artists move between the local and the global, the analog and the digital, the archive and the feed. From DIY studios and informal economies to Instagram as living archive, Barrio Rap in Los Angeles shows how music operates as spatial practice, counter-archive, and mode of belonging in a city structured by racial capitalism, surveillance, and displacement. Mausfeld’s reflexive methodology foregrounds positionality, collaboration, and ethical ethnography, offering a model for research conducted with communities rather than merely about them. At once theoretically agile and narratively alive, Barrio Rap in Los Angeles speaks to scholars of hip-hop studies, Latinx and Chicanx studies, urban studies, media studies, and ethnomusicology. It insists that the barrio is not marginal to American culture—but central to how culture is made, circulated, and felt in the twenty-first century. More Advance notices on Barrio Rap: "An indispensable addition to the history of hip hop in Los Angeles, Barrio Rap offers a rich account of the musical lives and artistic contributions of Latino hip hop artists in the City of Angels. Mausfeld’s extensive interviews lend nuance to an under-explored area of hip hop history, revealing a multiethnic and multiracial network of artistic creators and collaborators in the Los Angeles area and highlighting the complex relationship between music, identity, and the marketplace." Amy Coddington About the Author: Dr. Dianne Violeta Mausfeld (@VioleMaDee) is a historian of hip-hop cultures and the Mexican American diaspora, working at the intersection of archives, barrios, and basslines. Her research traces how Chicano rap and broader hip-hop cultures circulate across the Americas, where Caribbean, Latino, and African American sonic worlds remix history, memory, and identity.
Her work is grounded in extensive fieldwork in Los Angeles and San Diego, alongside archival research at major hip-hop and cultural collections including Rice University, the University of Houston, UCLA, Cornell, and the Schomburg Center in New York. A Hamburg native based in Cologne since 2006, Mausfeld also has a background in Latin American Studies and television editing. She writes on Chicano rap, cholo aesthetics, and the representation of Mexican Americans in music, film, and media. Her work appears in journals and edited volumes, including Remixing the Hip Hop Narrative (2024). Her book BARRIO RAP explores Chicano hip-hop as lived history—swap meets, lowriders, mixtapes, and digital streams—listening to the MCs, DJs, and storytellers who turn memory into rhythm. Or: this isn’t just rap—it’s barrio
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Nicolás Jorge Inzunza & Ralph Inzunza edited by William "Memo" Nericcio Publisher: San Diego State University Press Publication date: January 10, 2026 Edition: First Edition Print length: 192 pages ISBN-10: 193853753X ISBN-13: 978-1938537530 Item Weight: 3 pounds Dimensions: 9.25 x 11 x 1 inches  Three ways to purchase:
 ocumenting the
flashpoints of Chicana/o activism and hard-won
political gains in the early 1970s, Nick and Ralph
Inzunza's MOVIMIENTO EN LA SANGRE erupts as both a
love letter to a fallen ancestor and a searing act
of photographic cultural archaeology. Featuring over
200 never-before-published images, the book
resurrects the visual pulse of Chicana/o social
justice movements at the very moment they refused
erasure—history restored not as nostalgia, but as
pressure, heat, and presence. This paired effort—recovering the traces of Nick Inzunza’s restless, insurgent camera—captures the volatile beauty of a decisive political moment shaped in the streets, schools, and meeting halls of San Diego’s South Bay, where organizing was local, bodily, and inseparable from daily life. These photographs do not observe history from a safe remove; they bleed with it. Such twin gifts are seldom housed in a single body. National City’s Nicholas George Inzunza was no ordinary figure, and the intertwined legacies of his activism and art—born in a borderlands geography where politics was lived, not theorized—finally find their rightful home here. Now entering its seventh decade, San Diego State University Press—the only major university press in the vast California State University system—stands as an internationally recognized engine for Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies. With MOVIMIENTO EN LA SANGRE, SDSU Press reaffirms its role not merely as a publisher, but as a keeper of South Bay–forged cultural memory that refuses to stay buried.   Also, check
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SNAPSHOTS: TEACHING LOS BROS HERNANDEZ edited by William Nericcio & Frederick Aldama Amatl Comix, a San Diego State University Press Imprint date: September 16, 2025 Language: English Print length: 275 pages ISBN-10: 1938537572 ISBN-13: 978-1938537578 Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1 inches $27.95 USA  International customers, please use our Amazon.com link. They will attach egregious charges (of course) but we will reimburse you any overage charges Amazon may pile on! ... or sidestep Jeff Bezos's book mega-shoppe and pay only $28 -- shipping included -- by buying direct from SDSU Press! Hit the "Add to Cart" button and enter the credit card of your choice.  No
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Call Me Border $24.95 USA | €20 EUR |
$450 MXN | $32 CAD San Diego State University Press Call
Me Border is a book that doesn't
behave. It doesn't sit politely in "fiction" or
"memoir," and it sure as hell isn't here to explain
the border to you. What it does do —unapologetically
— is crack open the
U.S./Mexico divide like a fruit left too long in the
sun: overripe, dripping, alive with sweetness and
decay. These fragments, dispatches,and ghost
stories masquerading as prose come from the mind of
Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz —
novelist, essayist, border whisperer.
Advance Word on CALL ME BORDER:
"Many see the border between the United States and Mexico as a scar, rupture, division, liminal space, and unforgiving passage between worlds. Gabriel Trujillo-Muñoz envisions his native territory through symmetries, dissonances, pain, beauty and resistance. In Trujillo-Muñoz's moving, wide-ranging Call Me Border, the U.S. southern border is seen through a powerful microscope to observe the grinding force of the American Empire and its neighbor in this poetic, gripping, fascinating and addictive tale of the fracture in space and time that we call la frontera.”
Naief Yehya Mexican cultural
critic & author of
"Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz (b. Mexicali, Baja California, July 21, 1958) is a literary cartographer of the northern borderlands—a poet, novelist, essayist, and cultural excavator whose work disassembles the usual myths of Mexico's periphery and rewrites them with fever, finesse, and philosophical fire. From his earliest poems in the 1980s—Moridero, Mandrágora, Tras el espejismo—Trujillo Muñoz has written with a gaze that cuts in two directions: outward, toward the burning horizon of bordertowns and restless geographies; and inward, toward the tangled interior where memory collides with myth. His verse is not for the faint of heart—it bristles with urgency, intimacy, and the low thrum of mortality."
William "Memo"
Nericcio
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Reflections from the Inside New Indigenous Scholarship from Brazil in Translation Edited by Kristal Bivona and Manuela Cordeiro Girassol Books, an SDSU Press Imprint SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS APRIL 2025 | $16.95 USA ISBN: 978-1-938537-61-5 Book design by Kristal Bivona Order via our Amazon.com shop: OR New! International Orders! Keywords: INDIGENOUS STUDIES ANTHROPOLOGY BRAZILIAN STUDIES LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES PHOTOGRAPHY
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Steinway on the Beach Wounds and Other Blessings Roger Rosenblatt Illustrations by Fred Newman September 2024 San Diego State University Press $20 | ISBN 9781938537394 Launching September 3, 2024! Pre-order here by clicking our handy "add to cart" button. Free shipping + a modest discount. DOMESTIC ORDER (USA ONLY) INTERNATIONAL ORDERS Available on Amazon 09/03/24 click to enlarge
  In 2023, Roger Rosenblatt’s first book with SDSU Press, Cataract Blues, was an instantaneous bestseller. Pairing the talents of Rosenblatt with Village Voice illustrator-legend Jules Feiffer, ‘Blues was a unique chimera-text fusing poetry, memoir, and music in an aesthetic brew that was both electric and moving. Rosenblatt’s new SDSU Press book, A Steinway on the Beach: Wounds and Other Blessings, fuses his writing with the subtle, moving art of Fred Newman—and this affecting duet’s concerto, focused on the relationship between words and wounds, emerges as a gateway to existential wonder. Sophisticated in measure and movement, Rosenblatt's literary concerto probes the contours of questions that are at the crossroads between poetry, pain, memory, and more: How do we survive our wounds? How do we survive without them? Advance Word on A STEINWAY ON THE BEACH
Grace Schulman Author of Again, The Dawn: New and Selected Poems  "One of the great ongoing
treats for a reader these days is to experience
another Roger Rosenblatt performance, up there on
the high trapeze, flinging shards of journalism
& philosophy & poetry & memoir &
sheer fun and of course himself up there against
the sky, with no net below, and watch them all
somehow tumbling together in a brilliant original
new book such as A Steinway on the
Beach. No
mansion or bungalow should be without one."  "A
Steinway on the Beach, explodes with a firework
display of ideas, feelings, musings, rhythms,
poetry, humor and memories. In this book Roger
Rosenblatt’s voice is pitch perfect. Whether
spending an evening savoring it or meditating on a
few pages, better yet, doing both, a reader’s time
is well spent. This book takes my breath away." "'The two best questions
one can ask: Need a little help? And, what is the
name of that bird?' writes Roger Rosenblatt in this
wise and beautiful book that you can read in one
sitting, but will keep circling back to for days and
weeks. It is lyrical, it is memorable, and it has a
heart of wonder by a mind that has lived on this
planet, here, amongst us. I loved this book."Ilya Kaminsky
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San Diego State University Press Launched: August 10, 2024 Paperback: 394 pages ISBN-10 : 0916304876 ISBN-13 : 978-0916304874 Retail: 29.95 (we discount for course adoptions) Or, direct from SDSU Press $28.95 with Free Shipping! Advance notices for Roll and Flow
Roll and Flow takes the widespread participation of skateboarders and surfers in the Black Lives Matter movement as a catalyst to reconsider the significance of the cultural politics of surfing and skateboarding. It is the first academic volume to bring together leading scholars in the areas of both surfing and skateboarding studies. Edited by Michael Roberts, Kristin Lawler, and David P. Cline, this new critical anthology from SDSU Press uncovers how skateboarding and surfing cultures have a progressive political dimension, a phenomenon that both surprised the journalists who covered the skateboarders and surfers who participated in the BLM movement and remains relatively neglected by academics in our field. Featured authors include Iain Borden, Becky Beal, Aaron James, and Cori Schumacher. Roll and Flow Gallery
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comedy and laughter --> Sickness Suffering and
Death Walk Into a Bar by the "Jon
Stewart of Portugal," Ricardo
Araújo Pereira, and translated by
Lauren Applegate and Ricardo Vasconcelos
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SPLICE The Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship at SDSU's College of Arts and Letters, Volume 7, Spring 2024 ISBN-10 : 193853722X ISBN-13 : 978-1938537226 Paperback :179 pages $16.95 Available Direct from SDSU Press here: Or via Amazon here: 
Splice, The Journal of
Undergraduate Scholarship in SDSU's
College of Arts and Letters, is an anthology
of peer-reviewed publications produced by
undergraduate students in the Splice Collective. The
journal’s goals are to promote research and
creativity while providing a space for CAL students
to build academic publishing skills. Splice accepts
submissions on a rolling (anytime) basis during the
academic year. Members of the Splice Collective
participate in all aspects of the publication
process, including submissions, review process,
developmental editing, copy editing, production, and
marketing. Our latest issue is now "live." Splice, The Journal of Undergraduate Scholarshop at SDSU's College of Arts and Letters. Our Spring 2024 issue of the journal, Volume 7, is wide-ranging and dynamic and includes the following pieces: REBECCA FOX,
“Overworked and Undernourished: Diet Habits of
College Students Reveal Concerning Patterns in Young
Adults Across America” SEMAYAT YOHANES,
“Gender-Based Violence Against Female Students in
Amhara Region of Ethiopia” MACKENZIE KARL,
“‘Certified Sustainable Palm Oil’ Eco-Labels and
Schemes Preventing Rainforest Degradation and
Injustice in Indonesia?” ALEXIS TZIORTZIS,
“Leaving Fear on the Fire Escape” MANDIE CARTER, “The
Street Beneath Our Feet, A Seriation Analysis of
Historic Sidewalk Contractor Stamps in University
Heights San Diego, California” ISABELLA TODD,
Violence Against Women in El Salvador: How Social
Norms and Weak State Capacity Create a Vacuum for
Violence” GRACE DEARBORN,
“Shocking Tales of Domesticity in EC Comics and the
Code that Altered Them” ANISA PROM,
“Innocence” JOAQUIN RAFAEL
RAMOSO, “Indigenous Agroforestry Experiences: Karen
Hill Tribes in Thailand” KAILEE KLINE: “To
the Grave: Determining Gender Through Artifacts and
Bones” AVERY COCHRANE,
“L.A. Times: Unidentified Man Claims He is the Late
Jean-Jacques Rousseau of 18th Century France” GRAYCE HONSA,
“Reproductive Justice & the United States Prison
System” VALERIA GABRIELLI, “The Role of Gender Constructions of Eating Disorders in Men” This issue was
designed by Kennii Ekundayo, MA, MALAS @ SDSU and
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 We are excited to announce the publication of pacREV 2024, the BODY issue. Now available direct from SDSU Press or via Amazon! pacificREVIEW 2024 BODY edited by Helena Westra Publisher SDSU Press (May 6, 2024) Paperback : 134 pages ISBN-10 : 1938537688 ISBN-13 : 978-1938537684 USA $22.00   ody,
the 2024 edition of San Diego State University Press's
oldest literary journal, pacREV, has just been
published. The Body issue was edited by artist Helena
Westra, and her magnificent team of arts
con-conspirators. The full color issue is printed on
archival gloss paper and includes contributions by
poets, writers, photographers, and artists including:
Kitty Knorr,
Jacquelin Molina Guillen & Marcel Mawulorm
Johansen, Kitty Knorr, Jonathan B. Aibel,
Katherine Rinehart, Paul Rabinowitz, Rema Ghassan
Shbaita, Kini Sosa, Mareli Gutierrez, Molly
Lanzarotta, Jonathan B. Aibel, Xochi Cartland,
Justin Hammond, Ren Alexandra McKinnell, Eleanor
Levine, Amorak Huey, Caitlin Stuckey, JC Alfier,
Paul Rabinowitz, Jerl Surratt, Grace Schnapp,
Sofia Dell'Aquila, Corina Villena-Aldama, Abigail
Bitter, Avery Ng, Ethan Chan, Anna Abraham
Gasaway, Destiny Brown, Jake Dennis, Toki Lee,
Bradley Medina, Alexa Ariizumi, Alexa Arizumi,
Avery Ng, Kini Sosa, Antoni Szostak, Al Dawson,
Amanda DiGiovanni, Adele Gaburo, Gracie Moon, Al
Dawson, Hana Foo, Hana Foo, Glenna Trone, Bella
Bonnin, Giovan Michael, Jack Hinzo, Robert Lang,
Leila Dessouky, Paloma Burner, Lucky Dasari,
Cassandra Jordan, Norma Sadler, Neil Kendricks,
Matt Schumacher, Sofia Dell'Aquila, Rebecca
Harooni, Angela Pankosky, Grace Schnapp, Roger
Camp, Maria McLeod, Doreen Beyer, Amy
Small-McKinney, Irina Tall Novikova, Xochi
Cartland, Olivia Prior, Jayne Marek, Xiaoly Li, JC
Alfier, V. Bray, Salem Holden, Roger Camp, Antoni
Szostak, Ryan Hedrick, Miles Sequoia, Reyes
Breanna, "Nana" Rohde, Barbara Hunt, Jules Travis,
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Ralph Inzunza Edited by Nayeli Castañeda-Lechuga 200 pages: Paperback ISBN
9781938537622 | December 2023 $19.95
USA | $365 MEX | €19.00 EURO SAN
DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Keywords:
Young Adult Fiction, Chicano Literature, Latinx
Studies, American Literature. YA Novels No
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 Border
Citizen is the first YA Fiction
title from Xopan Books, a new SDSU Press imprint.
Ralph Inzunza’s novel tells the vibrant story of young
Carlos Reyes growing up along the United States /
Mexico borderlands. There, Carlos witnesses his
Mexican-American family and community struggle in the
Civil Rights Movement of the 1980's. The novel depicts
a community constantly defending their barrio from
harassment and neglect from the local government and
police until tragedy strikes. As a result, they
transform themselves, entering the political arena to
take back their neighborhood. Yet, the fight here is
just as daunting, as Carlos discovers that the
struggle for political power is never given, it must
be taken.Advance word on Border Citizen
William "Memo"
Nericcio
Professor of English and Comparative Literature & Chicana/o/x Studies and Director, The MALAS Cultural Studies MA Program, San Diego State University 
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An Afro-Italian Hip-Hop Memoir by Amir Issaa; edited by Clarissa Clò Launched October 30, 2023 ISBN: 9781938537721; US: $27.95 Buy direct, domestic shipping, USA, from SDSU Press via PayPal (no paypal account necessary) Buy direct, international shipping, from SDSU Press via PayPal (no paypal account necessary) OR--via our SDSU Press Amazon shop:
Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, Issaa chronicles a coming of age tale of life on the margins in an evolving Italian nation, where rap becomes both survival strategy and political language at once. His story unfolds against the backdrop of 1990s Rome, revealing a city rarely visible in official histories: peripheral, migrant, hybrid, and sonically alive. More
than a memoir in translation, this volume is a
collaborative project that brings students,
scholars, and artists into dialogue across Italy and
the United States. Designed with the classroom in mind, the bilingual, side-by-side English/Italian format makes the book an exceptional tool for learning Italian—inviting readers to engage language through lived experience, rhythm, and voice rather than abstraction alone. Essays, annotations, and contextual materials model how translation itself can be a critical practice, linking hip-hop studies, Italian Studies, diaspora and postcolonial studies, and education. Innovative in form and purpose, This Is What I Live For shows how autobiography, music, and pedagogy can converge to rethink national identity, linguistic belonging, and the future of the humanities—on the page, in the classroom, and beyond. 
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Volume 6, Spring 2023
The Undergraduate Research Journal of the SDSU College of Arts and LettersPublished: August 1, 2023 Paperback: 92 pages ISBN-10 : 1938537203 ISBN-13 : 978-1938537202
Issue 6 includes: Aldo Brambila, "A Fresh Perspective on Fascist Studies: Fascism as a Transnational and Transgenerational Phenomenon" Sandra Resurreccion, "Religious State Ties & the Erosion of Reproductive Rights in the U.S.: Hegemonic Protestantism & the Religious Right" Jonna Wallin, "Women, STEM, and the Role of Capitalism" Kailey A. McHale-Vonk, "The Punisher: Media Depictions of Veterans and PTSD" Hadil Salih, "Sharia's Implementation in the Zamfara State of Nigeria, Navigating Gender Norms, and Leaving Room for Interpretation" Mitchell Mullin, "Homosexuality in Western Africa" Pamela Grace de Vega, "Visualizing Musical Instruments in Roman and Etruscan Sequential Art" Toki Lee, "Dead Weight: Narratives of a
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$28.95A Philosopher's Notebook by Published: June 7, 2023 Paperback : 220 pages ISBN-10 : 1938537742 ISBN-13 : 978-1938537745 Or, better priced, $26.95 and with more reasonable $1.05 shipping direct from SDSU Press! New, from San Diego State University Press, a project that is one part memoir, one part photographic diary, one part philosophy, and much more. A collection of essays, fragments, snapshots, and discernments, this book, lovingly crafted over years by Dr. Stephen L. Weber, former President of San Diego State University, 1996-2011, emerges as a vital life tapestry sure to appeal to readers of all types. Advance word on Stephen L. Weber's Reflections in the Mirror of Life: A Philosopher's Notebook "We had an unlikely partnership, the philosopher university president who opened his door to veterans and the Marine who sent them to him. The partnership deepened into a friendship that grew even richer after we both retired. Steve Weber has the rare talent of pondering mankind and nature while affirming the complexity and beauty of life. He brings meaning to the ineffable. If you didn't know him and are meeting him among these pages for the first time, I envy you your good fortune. These essays are gems containing the hard-won wisdom of eight decades. If you want to read one book that is guaranteed to provide a guide for a fulfilled, happier, more productive life, this is it -- the reflections of a remarkable human and the best servant/leader I have ever met." Michael Lehnert Major General, USMC (retired) "Former San Diego State University President Stephen Weber recounts his extraordinary career in higher education and his significant impact on SDSU and the broader community. During his tenure, Weber oversaw record-breaking fundraising campaigns, major campus expansion and rejuvenation projects, and a renewed commitment to student success. He was also a passionate advocate for faculty research and played a key role in shaping SDSU into the economic powerhouse it is today. Weber's unwavering dedication to excellence and his belief in the transformative power of education continue to inspire generations of students and scholars. Filled with personal anecdotes and insights, his memoir coincides with SDSU's 125th anniversary celebration." Adela de la Torre President, San Diego State University "Stephen L. Weber, a charming philosopher whose diverse skill set includes leadership, compassion, and everything from biophilia to benevolence to basketball, has produced a captivating memoir. His Reflections in the Mirror of Life: A Philosopher's Notebook is insightful and heartwarming; it is a delightful showcase of Steve's keen ability at making deep and meaningful connections between ideas, among people, and throughout our world." Seth Mallios San Diego State University Historian and Professor of Anthropology "Rarely does someone come along who can command your respect, display a sophisticated sense of humor, and reflect on a long friendship with Shimon Peres, all in one sitting. Steve Weber is, and should be, revered as a top-tier university President, philosopher, and family man. Not an easy accomplishment. But I know him best as a magnificently caring man: one who greeted me when my cruise ship docked in Bar Harbor, shared views of his beloved Maine, and introduced me to lobster rolls! This memoir reflects all facets of this man's humanity -- always focused, forever cognizant of everything and everyone around him, and deeply emotional. You will meet and enjoy Steve in this fine collection of memories and essays!" Darlene Marcos Shiley President, The Shiley Foundation SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS APRIL 2023 | ISBN: 978-1-938537-74-5 | 28.95 Book design by Guillermo Nericcio García Edited by Ralph Villanueva Subject areas: MEMOIR AUTOBIOGRAPHY UNIVERSITIES PHILOSOPHY HISTORY SDSU AESTHETICS |
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California Mail Art grabs you by the lapels
with a collection of dadazines, the work of
west coast artists, Dada, Pacific style.
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from the zines you can still have a museum
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Garry Trudeau, Author and Illustrator
of Doonesbury “Cataract Blues is a poem, a pastiche, an elegy and a riff—a celebration of life in all its colors and shades, its sweetness, its beauty, its comedy, its pain. A gift from two of our most cherished artists, jamming together - gloriously.” Alice McDermott, Author of Charming
Billy: A Novel “It's a pleasure to watch Roger Rosenblatt's astute and lively mind skip nimbly from vision (in both the physical and metaphorical senses) to music, from poetry to film, from the joys of ordinary life to the inevitable pain of loss—and to marvel at the skill with which he alchemizes all of it into something deeply moving and profound.” Francine Prose, Author of Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth and The Vixen: A Novel As
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charged with covering San Diego -- The San Diego
Union, Tribune, and San Diego Union-Tribune.
Reporter Preston Turegano's page-turning book, The Associated Preston: A
Memoir of Betrayal, War, Reporters,
Gatekeepers, Cynics, Sex Addicts,
Sycophants, Politicians, Kremlinologists,
Arts Insiders, Social Elitists, and more,
as told by a gossipy, sort-of-retired
Journalist introduces
readers to the inside scoop on the paper of
record for "America's Finest City," and, in the
process, introduces the world to an
unprecedented history documenting inner
intrigues at the newspaper, local disputes, and
more. The book unfolds as a rambunctious
tell-all memoir, filled with a reporter's savvy
and a comedian's snarky bite. The Associated
Preston treats readers to a unique history of a
gay reporter, a newspaper, and a city, and
reveals that the heralded paper of record for
San Diego often looked the other way when it
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11, 2022 New! From SDSU Press's Journals Division! ATLANTIS, And Other Lost Places ... pacificREVIEW 2022: A West Coast Arts Review Annual Abigail A. Jones, Editor-in-Chief Editorial Staff: Miya Domingo, Caroline Hendricks, Jamie Kristine Oram, Parker Alex Watson pacificREVIEW: An SDSU Press Journals Division Publication Perfect Paperback: 152 pages ISBN-10: 0916304264 ISBN-13: 978-0916304263 USA $20.95 BUY DIRECT FROM SDSU PRESS--Just hit our handy "Add to Cart" button --> or, if you must make Bezos richer,  hit this button!  Get lost in ATLANTIS. This year pacificREVIEW 2022 (“ATLANTIS and other lost places”) focuses on loss, with works that define and reimainge a concept so familiar and yet still so abstract. The contributors this year come from all over the globe, each contributor contextualizing loss with different mindsets and life experiences. Nonetheless, each piece transcends the geographic separation of the artists and shows us how loss is a universal feeling. “ATLANTIS” shows the pain, the recovery, the comfort, and the whole bittersweet experiences of life's most unavoidable feeling. pacificREVIEW dedicates itself to exploring these links between all human beings. We, the editors of the 2022 edition, hope that this collection of mixed media art, poetry, and prose make the world feel a little smaller and our worldwide community feel a little closer. [Editors] Abigail A. Jones, Caroline Hendricks, Jamie Kristine Oram, Miya Domingo, and Parker Alex Watson. [Contributors] Aaliya Sehar, Abigail Hora, Alessio Zanelli, Amy Barone, Amy Marques, Andrew Mobbs, Ann Calandro, Arlene Tribbia, Audrey Forbes, Dani Kei Jochums, David Sheskin, Diane Gottlieb, D.S. Maolalai, Ellen Austin-Li, Gabino A. Castelán, Hana S. Elysia, Ian Ramsey, Jacqueline Coleman-Fried, J.R. Jacobs, Jill Evans, Joanee Clarkson, John Muro, Kristin Berkey-Abbott, Lance Nizami, Louis Girón, Marisa P. Clark, Matthew Jiménez, Michael Mullen, Michael Washburn, Michelle Melton Cox, Paul Allatson, R.B. Simon, Raychelle Heath, Riley Sara Martinez, Roger Camp, Sharon Mast, Tess Kay, Wendy BooydeGraaff, Xiaoly Li. Wraparound cover image by Ann Calandro. Book design by Abigail A. Jones. Click to enlarge!    |
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LETZLER COLE is Professor of English and
Director of the Concentration in Creative Writing at
Albertus Magnus College. She is the author of The
Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy and the
Performance of Ambivalence; Directors in
Rehearsal: A Hidden World; Playwrights in
Rehearsal: The Seduction of Company; Missing
Alice: In Search of a Mother's Voice; and Serious
Daring: The Fiction and Photography of Eudora
Welty and Rosamond Purcell. She lives in New
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  The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 10 The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers by Ralph R. Greenson, Editor Harry Polkinhorn Psychoanalysis on the Couch Series ISBN: 978-0-916304-23-2 SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS $23.95 USA | $35 CANADA | $600 MEXICO | €22 EURO Designed by Guillermo Nericcio García Paperback – May 9, 2022  New!
From San Diego State University Press, our
10nth volume of the Dr. Ralph R. Greenson
training seminar collection published under
the auspices of our Psychoanalysis on the
Couch book series. Greenson, perhaps most
famously known as Marilyn Monroe's
psychoanalyst, was also a West Coast innovator
and theorist of psychoanalytic practice, a
kind of Freud of the Californias. His
influential work, and that of his students,
continues to impact on patients and clinicians
alike across the country.From the Introduction to Greenson, Volume 10: "The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 10 brings to a conclusion this series of seven volumes of the Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers. Drawn from the cache of unpublished materials housed in the Ralph R. Greenson Memorial Archive at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, the series constitutes another step in the publications begun with Alan  Sugarman,
et al., eds. The Technique and Practice of
Psychoanalysis, 2 (1992) and subsequent
volumes edited by members of SDPC (then SDPSI)
over the years. These works point to the
importance of Greenson as an ongoing seminal
figure in psychoanalysis through illustrating his
engaging integration of theory and clinical
practice, enriched by extensive experiences as a
scholar, teacher, and public spokesman for
psychoanalysis. Always a fresh voice while
simultaneously immersed in the scholarship of the
discipline, Greenson shines through in these
carefully edited volumes as the deeply human
individual that those who knew him said he was." Dr. Harry Polkinhorn
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Expanding the Amatl Comics universe from Sequential Art and Graphic Narrative proper onto the terrain of motion picture animation studies, Darius Gainer’s Black Representation in the World of Animation (Amatl Comix #4) breaks new ground, treating scholars and students alike to a veritable treasure trove of research that lays bare the curious and sometimes disturbing history of illustrated Black bodies on the silver screen. Gainer’s first book is a dynamic critical intervention and a necessary addition to a growing catalog of works concerned with the figuration (and disfiguration) of Ethnic bodies in the American imagination. Advance Word on Gainer’s Book!
John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside; Eisner Award Winning editor and comics illustrator
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But what will Cultural
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next new wave of next-generation developments in
computer science. One might think: “The algorithms
will write future essays.” But that means tenure
for algorithms? Surely not! In this new anthology edited
by Antonio Rafele, Frederick Luis Aldama, and
William Nericcio, you will find essays on Disney,
video games, fashion photography, and more—the
traditional fodder of cultural studies; but you
will also find deep meditations on memes,
Instagram, social media, the border, Mexico, and
more. Sit back and get ready to read some of the
more provocative musings on both sides of the
Atlantic by up-and-coming stars of Ethnic Studies,
Literature, Linguistics, and more.
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My Native Land is Memory: Stories of a Cuban Childhood Oliva Espín ISBN-10 : 0916304191 ISBN-13 : 978-0916304195 Publisher : San Diego State University Press $22.95 retail book launched 30 September 2020  A new memoir by a California-based Professor of Women's Studies, Dr. Oliva Espín. Espín's life and work as a scholar and teacher moves between Cuba and the United States in a moving narrative crafted by a feminist educator who left her mark in the United States and Latin America. Published by the oldest university press in the California State University system, San Diego State University Press. Advance Word on My Native Land is Memory “Reading My Native Land is Memory: Stories of a Cuban Childhood, through my own memories of my teacher, allowed me to discover a new story, something different from the person I knew as a teenager and her student, but fascinating and enriching at the same time. This book helped me discover the brave nakedness of her soul. It made me understand again that each human being can be a source of enlightenment for others if that person is able to write down dreams, losses, weaknesses and triumph. In reading this book I discovered my own life anew, the life I left behind when I left Cuba and I understand.” Virginia
Aponte
Theater Director, Professor Emerita, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela “Right from the beginning, My Native Land is a raw, compelling journey to a Cuba about to be changed forever. Oliva Espín’s unique perspective and powerful writing emotionally captures an immigrant’s story that resonates across countries and is relevant today.” Ronnie
Ramos
Executive Editor - The Daily Memphian “Oliva Espín gives us a personal and moving view of her life as a girl looking for her identity and independence in those difficult days in Cuba. Beautifully written.” Teresita
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January 2020! DRONE VISIONS A Brief Cyberpunk History of Killing Machines Naief Yehya Series: CODE[X] Books Paperback: 152 pages Publisher: Hyperbole Books, an Imprint of San Diego State University Press (2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 1938537785 ISBN-13: 978-1938537783 Purchase for $19.97 via Amazon!
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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.”
Advance word on our
trailblazing new title!
Paul V. Kroskrity Author of Regimes of Language:
Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
Anthony K. Webster Author of The Sounds of Navajo
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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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1st
edition (2019) Available at Amazon or ... “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
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 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. Click below to see two double-page spreads from PROUST IN BLACK:   |
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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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California Edited by Jay Ruby Contributors include 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 Retail Trade Paperback: $25.00 On sale now for $22.95 via the SDSU Press Amazon.com Bookstore Also available direct from SDSU Press for $18.97 with 99¢ shipping! Click this button! (Domestic US sales only)! 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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Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities & Affiliate Faculty Radio-Television-Film, UT Austin  Things We Do Not Talk
AboutExploring Latino/a Literature through Essays and Interviews Daniel A. Olivas Publication Date: June 1, 2014 ISBN-10:193853705X; ISBN-13:978-1-938537-05-9 $21 • paperback • 202 pp  Save on Amazon fees by orderingdirect from SDSU Press with 99¢ shipping! All credit cards accepted, just hit the "Add to Cart" button: 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 Critical notes on Things We Do Not Talk About: “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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Immigration Debate Towards a Humanistic Paradigm Alvaro Huerta photography by Antonio Turok ISBN-10: 1938537033 ISBN-13: 978-1938537035 $18.95 USA | $350 MEX | €18 Via amazon.com or direct from SDSU Press with special $2.05 shipping!  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.  The reviews are in for REFRAMING THE LATINO IMMIGRATION DEBATE! "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
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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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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."
Arturo Aldama |
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 FluxusThe History of an Attitude by Owen F. Smith ISBN 1-879691-51-5 | 1998 trade paperback | 326 pp. | US $27.00 | Second Printing or, buy direct, via PayPal, from SDSU Press, with 99¢ shipping* *Domestic USA only; international, please contact SDSU Press or order via the Amazon.com button above. Fluxus: The History of an
Attitude is based on the Owen
F. Smith's exhaustive archival
research--tracking the physical remains of this
fascinating interdisciplinary and international arts
movement that began in the 1960s.
"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 Futurists, the Dadaists, and the
Surrealists. Some of these same ideas were later
explored after World War II by artists
associated with groups such as Letterism,
International Situationism, Nouveau Realisme,
and Fluxus itself."
The book is provided with a comprehensive bibliography and index. Click here to see the
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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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She
earned her PhD in History from the University of Bern
(2022) and is an Associated Researcher in Iberian and
Latin American History there, as well as at the Center
for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University, where
she has held a postdoc fellowship and continues as
affiliated faculty.
n
Mexican Independence Day, September 16, 2025, San
Diego State University Press and 
"Reading
Roger Rosenblatt’s new book makes me happy to be
alive in a world in which imperfection enables
perfection, failure is a golden opportunity,
and, above all, wounds are a blessing. Rather
than expound on this view, he makes his point
with images, bright and unforgettable -- a
rusted grand piano washed up on shore; a broken
vase glued together with silver and gold at the
seams; a lantern in the dark; “hydrangeas in
their purest triumph.” He persuades with the art
of paradox, truth arising from conditions we
thought opposites; and with personal revelations
we want to cheer and shout and affirm. “Where
heartbreak is, beauty intrudes,” he writes, and
I am with him all the way.
"In their
powerful new collection, Mike Roberts, Kristin
Lawler, and David Cline, together with the
impressive roster of scholars they’ve assembled,
force us to think about surfing and skateboarding in
new and original ways. For them, these pastimes
offer the potential for liberation, not a retreat
into self-absorption. Theoretically sophisticated
and wide-ranging, Roll and Flow is essential reading
for all persons interested in modern board
cultures." 
"Roll
and Flow frames the remarkable transformations
taking place in skateboarding and surfing cultures.
It emerges as an essential collected work for those
invested in two dominant lifestyle sports,
activities that have reshaped popular culture with
their attitude and style and ascended to the realm
of Olympic events. These diverse and elegantly
complementary essays reveal the new political and
social contexts that these sports vocally address
and redress."
Arzu Ozkal
& Mila Waldeck have curated an amazing new
collection focused California-born (and
-borne) avant-garde arts. Cabaret Voltaire
examines a vibrant but under-recognized social
networking movement from the 1960s—the
International Mail Art Movement or
Correspondence Art—focusing on the graphic
minutiae produced by San Diego State
University alumna Ferrara Brain Pan and
tracing how these informal exchange networks
anticipate later digital cultures of
circulation and remix.
About the Author:
An avid gossip since childhood, Preston
Turegano is a retired newspaper reporter who
worked for the Union Tribune Publishing Co. of
San Diego, CA. for 36 years. Before the U-T,
he was a U.S. Navy journalist, beginning with
three years aboard a nonglamorous WWII vintage
rust bucket amphibious assault command ship,
and concluding with a year on the staff of a
Navy newspaper in Vietnam during the U.S. war
there.
“Gainer's
work is painfully necessary and brilliantly
articulated. With the proliferation of animated images
representing people of color, a text of this nature is
vital and Gainer rises to the task.”
“While
mesmerized by ink-lined cells shaking to their own
rhythm and beat, Darius Gainer has written a long
overdue text chronicling an obscure field that is, as
all aspects of Black history are, quintessentially and
joyously American.”
hat is
Cultural Studies!? Oh, we know all about Stuart
Hall and his landmark work and we are hip to the
tune of Marshall Blonsky, Marshall McLuhan, Susan
Sontag, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and John Berger. 
Cultural Studies in the
Digital Age is a remarkable
collection that defines the cutting edge of Cultural
Studies. With essays that range from photography to
emotion, from digitality to architecture, 
it should be required reading for all
students of culture…Cultural Studies in the Digital
Age contains great
work, and it suggests great work lies ahead." 
