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    Now Launched, March 2023! Our latest textual deep dive into
    the rabbit hole of the avant-garde, fluxus, mail art, zines, and more!
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    Cabaret Voltaire
    Fluxus West, San Diego, and Southern California Mail Art
    Edited by Arzu Ozkal &Mila Waldeck

    Hyperbole Books, an Imprint of
    San Diego State University Press
    release date: March 22, 2023
    Paperback: ‎
    350 pages |
    $27.95
    ISBN-10: ‎ 
    1879691337

    ISBN-13: ‎ 
    978-1879691339

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    From the Introduction by Arzu Ozkal

    This book is about a social networking movement from the 1960’s: The International Mail Art Movement or Correspondence Art. It intends to be the first extensive review of the graphic minutiae created by San Diego State University (SDSU) alumna Ferrara Brain Pan focusing on informal art networks and their extension into digital media. Fueled by post-structuralist critiques of meaning, permanency and authorship, this book intends to inspire many cultural producers to learn about artists for whom dialogue and exchange were primary means for art making.

    Advance Word on CABARET VOLTAIRE

    "When was the last time the Three Stooges, an astronaut on a moonwalk with fish, rubber stamps of “Mistakes and Errata,” and Cabvolt Man projecting lightning bolts from his eyes shared a train compartment? Cabaret Voltaire, Fluxus West, and Southern California Mail Art grabs you by the lapels with a collection of dadazines, the work of west coast artists, Dada, Pacific style. With this collection of essays and images from the zines you can still have a museum in your pocket and be transported with every viewing, as if you just happened to pick up your mail and discovered all kinds of treasures waiting for you.

    Susan Daitch, Author of LC and SIEGE OF COMEDIANS

    “Long before we had theories of such as transmedia & convergence culture, there was the late 1970s xerographed, radical mail-art zine, CabVolt. This exquisite reprint of CabVolt along with the exquisite compendia of creative critical work that situates its significance powerfully reminds that even before Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouley published their much-heralded Raw magazine, the international cadre of transmedial zinesters of CabVolt had already planted seeds for the globalization of what we call Alternative Comics. Remarkable!”

    Frederick Luis Aldama, Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, UT Austin













    Cataract Blues
    Running the Keyboard
    by Roger Rosenblatt
    illustrated by Jules Feiffer
    PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 14, 2023
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    In his latest book, award-winning author Roger Rosenblatt charts a journey that is as visual as it is poetic. Cataract Blues, on the surface, is a collection of lyric fragments illustrated by the legendary Jules Feiffer. A careful reading (and viewing) rewards bibliophiles (and optical aficionados) with a nuanced, thoughtful, and magical paper machine that is about seeing, cataracts, mystery, the blues, insight, love, and memory. At once a masterpiece of creative non-fiction and a poetic experiment, ‘Blues invites readers to consider new approaches to the visual and the literary.

    Advance word on Cataract Blues…

    “While everyone around you is seeing red, along comes a happy outpatient who’s just nuts about the color blue. Prompted by his wildly successful eye surgery, Roger Rosenblatt celebrates his new favorite wavelength by letting it wash over everything that matters — nature, history, music, memory, laughter, loss, and love. This is a master, at work and at play.”

    Garry Trudeau, Author and Illustrator of Doonesbury
    and Former Guy: Doonesbury in the Time of Trumpism

    “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
    and What About the Baby?

    “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

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    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

    Preston Turegano 
    San Diego State University Press
    First Edition (August 30, 2022)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1938537211
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1938537219
    Retail: $29.95


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    The letter "A" used as a
                          dropcap for the first word here,
                          "An."n unprecedented memoir that lifts the veil on the very institution 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 came to stories coming from its own newsrooms. 

    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.


    ADVANCE WORD
    "Every newsroom needs a character like Preston Turegano--gossip, gadfly, and to managers, a goad. For nearly four decades Turegano relished that role at San Diego's Evening Tribune and Union-Tribune. In his dishy The Associated Preston, he pulls no punches or opinions about behind the scenes staff and ownership power struggles. But there's plenty to enjoy outside the vanishing world of local journalism in Turegano's chatty book: his tales of being the loved and exasperating son of a warm San Antonio family, a gimlet-eyed gay reporter serving in the Vietnam-era U.S. Navy, and a besotted chronicler of celebrities and the world's ersatz royalty." 

    Anne Marie Welsh
    Veteran San Diego Union-Tribune Arts Critic








    August 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

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    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.

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    They Made a List
    A Memoir Beyond Memory

    by Susan Letzler Cole
    ISBN: 978-1-938537-19-6
    Trade paperback Retail: $24.95
    Cover Design by Isabella Ferrea

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    Inspired by
    Susan Letzler Cole's parents' decision to chronicle their baby's evolving language development, THEY MADE A LIST takes that most humdrum of writing artifacts, the list, and reveals it to be a talisman for memory and a doorway to unresolved fragments from the past. Cole's powerful writing uncovers the haunting power of these language lists, less trivial chronicle than evocative psychic shards that echo meaningfully in the present and on into the future.

    "This is a wonderful piece of work, original and brilliant, as well as full of wonder the wonder of Susan Letzler Cole's parents at their verbal, remarkable daughter for whom they made a list of her first words, and the wonder of the author at her parents' careful attention, of which she made this book. They Made a List will leave you in wonder too, that what began as an intellectual transaction could result in such a beautiful labor of love."

    Roger Rosenblatt
    Author of The Story I Am: Mad About the Writing Life
    and The Book of Love: Improvisations on a Crazy Little Thing

    "Susan Letzler Cole's They Made A List is a stunning exploration of the comprehensive record made by her parents of the author's first words. Examining the list of her first 200 words, Cole begins to unravel an individual's early vocal communication. Her masterful weaving of language development theory, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, ethology, and cultural anthropology is an engaging discourse on individuality in human and animal communication."

    Kyleelise Holmes Thomas, aka KyleeliseTHT
    Author of Even if a Truth Condemns Us
    "This irresistible book grows from an inquiry into Susan Letzler Cole's first 200 words, as recorded by her parents. It broadens into a series of reflections on how children acquire language as they experience the new world into which they are born. And it deepens into a meditation on how our earliest language experiences affect who we are today, and how our primal ties to our parents evolve yet remain as we age. Letzler Cole's intimately personal text speaks to us all."

    John Leubsdorf
    Professor of Law, Rutgers University Author of
    Man in His Original Dignity: Legal Ethics in France

    SUSAN 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 Haven, Connecticut, with her husband, playwright David Cole.


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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
    Greenson Series Editor, SDSU Press
    Director Emeritus, SDSU Press
    Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature, SDSU
    Former President, The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center



    Amatl Comix #4
    Black Representation in
    the World of Animation

    by Darius S. Gainer
    Amatl Comix: An Imprint of SDSU Press
    ISBN: 978-1-879691-98-8 
    USA $24.95 EUR €22 MXN $500 CAD $32


    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!

    “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.”

    John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside; Eisner Award Winning editor and comics illustrator 

    “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.”

    Tim Fielder, author of INFINITUM: An Afrofuturist Tale




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    Cultural Studies
    in the Digital Age
    An Anthology of Interdisciplinary Inquiries, Postulations, and Findings
    Edited by Antonio Rafele, William Nericcio, and Frederick Aldama
    Hyperbole Books, an SDSU Press Imprint (2021)
    ISBN-10 : 1879691310

    ISBN-13 : 978-1879691315

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    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.

    But what will Cultural Studies look like after AI, after COVID, after the 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.

    Contributors include: Frederick Aldama, Brian Frastaci, Federico Tarquini, Antonio Rafele, Tito Vagni, Gwendolyn Kurtz, Kristal Bivona, Luca Acquarelli, William Nericcio, Katie Waltman, Massimo Cerulo, Lorenzo Bruni, Alberto Abruzzese, Jennifer Carter, Ralph Clare, Nello Barile, Katlin Marisol Sweeney, Bonnie Opliger, Matteo Treleani, Vanni Codeluppi, Guerino Bovalino, Agnese Pastorino, Carlos Kelly, and Antonio Rafele.

    Advance word on CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE:

    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."

    Michael P. Ryan
    Professor Emeritus
    Temple University
    Author of
    Literary Theory: An Anthology

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    The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis, 9 
    The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars, Notes, Miscellaneous Papers (Psychoanalysis on the Couch Series)
    Ralph R. Greenson, Edited by Harry Polkinhorn


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    New! From San Diego State University Press, our 9nth 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.

    I do not exactly recall the first time I heard my teachers or supervisors mention Ralph Greenson, perhaps because it occurred often, practically every time anyone talked about the genesis of the psychoanalytic institute in San Diego. Much like a child with no appreciation for the importance of their parents' histories, as a candidate solely focused on my own path, it did not occur to me that whom my supervisors had learned from would make a difference in my training, let alone profoundly influence who I would become as an analyst. Living in San Diego makes analogies of the ocean rather irresistible, so bear with me: it is essential that analytic training, like a storm out over the ocean, stirs up one's internal world and ultimately brings ashore sediments that then remain and become part of the beach upon which the new analyst finds herself walking. Greenson was just such a storm that not only brought about my institute literally on the beach-but also impacted my teachers and supervisors in ways that only now are clear.


    From the Introduction by Mojgan Khademi, PsyD
    Dr. Khademi is the founder and clinical director of the
    Center for Applied Psychology & Services (CAPS) on the
    San Diego campus of Alliant International University



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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  Yániz  de  Arias
    Movimiento de Mujeres | Secretaria Nacional del Plan Alimentario Nutricional Diputada de la República 1999-O4. 2004-O9 | Panama



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    Published July 2020!

    Jose Alaniz's new comix collection! THE PHANTOM ZONE & OTHER STORIES, new from Amatl Comix! More here and here!



    Published 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

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    "Drone Visions demands that we jack-in and mainline an everyday present that has morphed into those terrifying sci-fi dystopias of yesteryear. A cultural studies coyotex  /hacker whose work moves from Fritz Lang's cybertronic Maria and Terminator's Skynet to George Miller's Valhalla War Boys, Naief Yehya punctures psyches to plug us into dystopic sci-fi reels that powerfully anticipate today's planetary fight-to-death struggle to hold fist-tight our last vestiges of humanity."

    Frederick Luis Aldama

    Author of Talking #browntv: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen, & Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University



    Hyperbole Books | SDSU Press | ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-78-3 | $22 USA  | Cover design by Antonio Sacristan Fanjul | Book Design by Guillermo Nericcio García | Also available via Amazon.com




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    Mii Anmak Nyamak Kweyiwpo /
    Jwanya Kumiai Kuwak

    Huellas del pasado hacia el future /
    Cuentos kumiai de baja california

    Footsteps From the Past into the Future /
    Kumeyaay Stories of Baja California

    A Trilingual Collection In Kumeyaay, Spanish, & English
    Edited by Margaret Field
    San Diego State University Press (2019)
    ISBN-10:
     193853784X
    ISBN-13:
     978-1938537844
    Retail: $13.95

    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!

    This wonderful trilingual collection of Kumeyaay Texts /Kumiai Textos is a delight for all concerned with Indigenous oral literature. Traditional stories such as these were told within families to instruct and entertain and the current collection now makes them available to heritage language communities on both sides of the border as well as to students of verbal art and the oral tradition. In a rapidly transforming world, it is especially important to document and preserve these fascinating stories about Coyote, Frog, Wildcat and others, so that they can continue to serve as resources for community identity and nation-building for these groups, and as subjects of scholarly research. Many thanks to the storytellers, translators, and editors for this valuable collection!

    Paul V. Kroskrity

    Author of Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
    Professor of Anthropology, UCLA

    This is an exceptional work, giving us a glimpse of the voices, the artistry, of five Kumeyaay narrators in Kumeyaay with translations into Spanish and English making these voices available for future generations of Kumeyaay. The importance of this book will be felt for years to come. 

    Anthony K. Webster

    Author of The Sounds of Navajo Poetry: A Humanities of Speaking
    Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin

    Subject Area Keywords: 

    NATIVE AMERICANS 
    KUMEYAAY 
    CULTURE 
    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 
    FOLKLORE 
    ANTHROPOLOGY

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    TESTIGOS DE AUSENCIAS
    CUENTOS Y RELATOS DE ESCRITORES DE LA DIASPORA MEXICANA

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                            linkEdited by José Mario Martin Flores
    & José Salvador Ruiz

    Retail: $24.95
    Published: March 2019
    ISBN-13: 978-1-947921-03-0

     
    New! From a consortium of independent, progressive presses on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, a dynamic, pathbreaking anthology of writings in Spanish. Click the images below to see the complete list of authors!

    Paperback
    ; San Diego State University Press, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, and Editorial Artificios

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    Proust in Black: Los Angeles--
    A Proustian Fiction

    by Fanny Daubigny

    translated from the French by Bruce Whiteman

    From HYPERBOLE BOOKS: AN IMPRINT OF SDSU PRESS    


    Proust in Black: Los Angeles--A Proustian Fiction
    Archival Quality Paperback
    Publisher: San Diego State University Press (SDSU Press)

    1st edition (2019)

    ISBN-10 : 1938537815     ISBN-13 : 978-1938537813

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    Proust in Black: Los Angeles--A Proustian Fiction
    Mass Market Paperback
    Publisher: San Diego State University Press (SDSU Press)

    1st edition (2019)
    ISBN-10 : 1938537858     ISBN-13 : 978-1938537851

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    “Fanny Daubigny maps the liminal spaces where Proust’s romanticism collides with the cynical yearning of the film noir, in a Los Angeles that is at once real and cinematic, present and impossibly distant, smoldering-look cool and branding-iron hot. Like a half-remembered dream, her city floats above the smog line and gets caught in the palms.”

     

    Richard Schave, Founder, Los Angeles Visionary Association


    Fanny Daubigny's PROUST IN BLACK fuses French Literature, cultural studies, film noir, film studies, and Los Angeles, the City of Angels, in a dynamic synthesis of imagination, analysis, and invention that remakes cultural criticism in the here and now. With lucid and evocative readings of Proust, Billy Wilder, Hollywood film noir and more, Daubigny emerges as a literature and film studies critic with a compelling vision and a lyrical prose artistry. Her book magically tracks manifestations of Marcel Proust in and across the dark night of Southern California.


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    “A book about Proust and film noir and Los Angeles, yes, but so much more:  it is about fear and desire, about guilt and insomnia, about the ‘chiaroscuro of consciousness’ in text and film and culture, about the ‘aesthetics of fear.’ And like a detective searching around dark corners of the city, we are constantly surprised. Buster Keaton joins Robert Wiene and Fritz Lang as an inaugurator of film noir! Pasolini’s debt to Proust! Albertine as femme fatale! It is criticism as detection, criticism as collision, criticism as crime, criticism as confession. It is critique noire.”

     

    Tom Lutz, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Los Angeles Review of Books

     

    “It is a tour de force of dexterous and poetically rendered cross-referencing. In Proust in Black Fanny Daubigny has composed a multi-layered cultural exchange between the country of France and the City of Los Angeles. The polarities, oddly drawn toward each other, will involve, on the French end, the great literary masterpiece of its age, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and from the U.S. seaside dream city, L.A.'s body of films noir, those darkly gorgeous, cheaply made black and white crime movies from the 40s and 50s. At the center of all this is Desire. At the center of all this are the fluid permutations of memory, persistent yet illusive, and (as Elizabeth Bishop once said of another intangible essence, knowledge) ‘flowing and flown.’”


    Suzanne Lummis, L.A. Noir Poet


    About the author:

    Fanny Daubigny is a writer, translator, and poet--she's also a Professor of French at CSU Fullerton. She has published many articles on Marcel Proust and is a specialist in the nineteenth and twentieth century literatures of France and the French-speaking countries. She lives in Los Angeles, city of angels.


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    Propellers
    A New English Translation of Guillermo de Torre's
    Hèlices by Guillermo de Torre (illustrated)

    Edited by Willard Bohn
    Willard Bohn & Danielle Corsi, Translators
    Retail: $24.95


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    In 1923 Guillermo de Torre, a young Spanish poet born with the new century, published a revolutionary book of avant-garde poetry, Propellers (Hélices). Drawing on Italian Futurism, French/Chilean Creationism, and other literary and artistic movements that flourished in Europe in the years immediately before and after the First World War, de Torre proposes a radical new poetics, in which "Motors sound better than hendecasyllables," as he declares in one of the poems. Largely ignored or underrated in its own time, today, nearly a century later, Propellers returns in English in Willard Bohn's wily translation. Co-editor
    Daniele Corsi reproduces beautifully the typesetting of the poetic discourse, recreating the visual impact of the Spanish original. Perceptive essays by both editors open the volume, tracing the historical context in which the book first appeared, while also offering close readings of a number of the poems.

    Anthony L. Geist
    University of Washington


    SDSU Press furthers its reputation as a leader in Avant-garde scholarship with Willard Bohn's and Daniele Corsi's rendition of Guillermo de Torre's Hèlices entitled PROPELLERS. Propellers turns poems into air-borne machines of transport that alter the Newtonian time/space law of gravity. In this central and poorly understood work of the historical avant-gardes, the young Torre eagerly absorbs and metabolizes his multiple influences, transforming the mere mechanics of poetic experimentation as then practiced into a radical and necessary assertion of the individual then under assault by the ravages of weaponized consumer capitalism at its dangerous and disgusting peak. Board this plane for a dizzying flight into yourself.

    Paperback
    ; San Diego State University Press
    Published: September 21, 2018

    ISBN-10: 0916304116
    ISBN-13: 978-0916304119

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    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 

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    $21 USA | $28 CANADA | $400 MEXICO | 19 EURO
    ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-50-9 
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    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."

    Frederick 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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    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
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    SDSU Press’s edition of Carlos Gagini's novel "El árbol enfermo" (here translated as "Redemptions") is a classic novel of Costa Rica, first published in 1918. This is the first English translation, and one of the few Central American novels available in English. Set in and around San José during the first years of the twentieth century, when the influence of the United States-economic, political, military, and cultural-was intensifying rapidly, "Redemptions" tells the story of the seduction and betrayal of a young Costa Rican woman (and symbolically of her country and region) by a North American entrepreneur. In the same genre as novels and essays by Uruguayan José Enrique Rodó and Mexican José Vasconcellos, "Redemptions" is a work of cultural nationalism which urges Costa Ricans to value their autonomy, to resist the encroachment of outside forces led by the ubiquitous, for the region, “Uncle Sam,” and to recognize and solve their own problems. Originally published in 1985, it appears now in a second printing trade paperback from the original publisher San Diego State University Press with the original translation and introduction by E. Bradford Burns, and a new afterword by the Costa Rican contemporary novelist and literature professor Daniel Quirós.


    “
    El árbol enfermo, Redemptions, is, in fact, considered one of the very first anti-imperialist novels—the first being (maybe) El problema, by Guatemalan author Máximo Soto Hall.  The center of this discussion is the “conquering” of Margarita by Mr. Ward, symbolic of Costa Rica being bullied and seduced by U.S. intervention and foreign capital. Examples of this symbolism are abundant in the novel and have already been discussed extensively in the introduction. Suffice it to say that at some point Gagini even chooses to name the chapter in which Mr. Ward finally confesses his love to Margarita at a lavish Fourth of July party as “Yankee Expansion.”

    From the new afterword by Dr. Daniel Quirós

    New 2nd Printing Paperback

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    How the West Was Juan
    Reimagining the U.S./Mexico Border
    Steven W. Bender
    Paperback: 182 pages
    Publisher: San Diego State University Press; 1st edition (July 24, 2017)
    ISBN-10: 1938537939
    ISBN-13: 978-1938537936
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    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


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    Imagine the United States losing the 1846 war, ending up a federation of 44 states [bordering] Alto México (with an acute accent over the "e"), one of the world's major economies, Spanglish its lingua franca. Its borders? As abstruse as the ones defeating us today. If you think this is a Leibnitzain universe (or perhaps one of Kellyanne Conway's alternative facts), read Steven W. Bender's prescient How the West Was Juan. It might show us the way out of this perverse prison we call "reality."
     
    --Ilan Stavans, author of Quixote: The Novel and the World
    and A Most Imprefect Union (with Lalo Alcaraz)


    A Pandora's box is opened in the hands of a master of law and cultural studies as well as history. Playful, yet historically and legally researched, How the West Was Juan demarcates a new territory for the physical, psychological, moral, and spiritual borders of our country, as well as deconstructing the inaccuracy of our traditional history books. Bender keeps us entertained with his kneading of geographical facts with history and current events, allowing us to envision a different possible borderlands, and throwing a scholarly wrench into the notion of border and belonging, as well as appropriated spaces.

    --Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, author of Word Images: New Perspectives
    on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú


    [A] tightly packed, state by state review of the history, geography, demography, and economy of a confiscated region, Steven Bender's imagined unwinding of the U.S. seizure of 54% of Mexico's territory is excellent and engaging.

    Raymond Caballero, author of Orozco, The Life and Death
    of a Mexican Revolutionary
    , Mayor, El Paso TX (2001-03)



    About the Author:
    Steven Bender is a national academic leader on immigration law and policy, as well as an expert in real estate law. Among his honors, the Minority Groups Section of the Association of American Law Schools presented him with the C. Clyde Ferguson, Jr., Award, a prestigious national award recognizing scholarly reputation, mentoring of junior faculty, and teaching excellence. He joined the faculty from the University of Oregon in 2011 and was appointed Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in 2014. He taught at UO for 20 years and served as the James and Ilene Hershner Professor of Law, Director of Portland Programs, Director of the Green Business Initiative, and Co-Director of the Law and Entrepreneurship Center. Professor Bender is a well-published author of many law review articles, a casebook on real estate transactions, a national two-volume treatise on real estate financing, and several acclaimed books. His latest book, "Mea Culpa: Lessons on Law and Regret from U.S. History." will be released by New York University Press Jan. 1, 2015. Among his other books are "Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings," (NYU Press 2012); "Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination, " (NYU Press 2003); "One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity," (Paradigm Publishers 2008), winner of the 2008 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction; "Comprende?: The Significance of Spanish in English-Only Times," (Floricanto Press 2008); and "Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing" (NYU Press 2010). He is co-author of "Everyday Law for Latinos" (Paradigm Publishers 2008). His research interests coincide with his classroom teaching, which encompasses subjects as diverse as Business Associations, Property, Real Estate Transactions, UCC Secured Transactions, Contracts, Externship Seminars, and Latina/os and the Law.

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    Bohemia in Southern 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


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    Paperback: 262 pages
    Publisher: San Diego State University Press (SDSU Press) (2017)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 1938537106
    ISBN-13: 978-1938537103

    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.


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    Latinx Comic Book Storytelling:
    An Odyssey by Interview


    edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
    Prologue 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

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    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






    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
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    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
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    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.

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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?


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    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
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    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
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    Border Angels:
    The Power of One
    By Enrique Morones, with Richard Griswold del Castillo
    ISBN-10: 1938537904   ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-90-5
    US: $22 | Mexico: $340 | Canada $27 | Euro €20


    In the American Southwest and its borderlands, no other social justice advocate has made a greater impact on the lives of undocumented workers than Enrique Morones. In BORDER ANGELS: THE POWER OF ONE, Morones tells his own story (with noted Chicano historian Richard Griswold del Castillo) and the result is a book that unfolds as the singular memoir of  someone who took the chance to make a difference—a brave activist who (through his outstanding organization, The Border Angels) saves the lives of legions of borderland sojourners--brave, desperate travelers attempting to cross the hot, beautiful, and dangerous deserts that fuse the nations and the peoples of the United States and Mexico.

    “When it comes to immigration, Enrique Morones
    is our moral authority.”

    Assemblyman Gil Cedillo
    Author, California Dream Act


    “Enrique Morones’ story is remarkable and needs to be told. He is a man of conscience who stands up to injustice by simply being on the side of love and human dignity. Let us all rejoice that an angel walks among us in this fight for truth, immigration reform, and justice for all.”

    Josefina Lopez
    playwright and activist
    Author, Real Women Have Curves


    “Enrique Morones is the finest example of the Si Se Puede attitude in service to those who risk their lives in search of a better life.”

    Arturo Rodriguez
    President, United Farm Workers of America


    “My father, Cesar Chavez, led heroic grape workers around Delano, California, in the longest continuing farmworkerstrikeinU.S.historyinaprofoundstatement of non-cooperation with a farm labor system that exploits and impoverishes mostly immigrant farm workers. Today, courageous members of the Border Angels are honoring the legacy of my father by making a powerful statement against inhumanity and oppression endured on our border by innocent immigrants.”

    Paul F. Chavez
    President Cesar Chavez Foundation

    {Note: the first edition of this book, The Power of One: The Story of the Border Angels, appeared in 2012}






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    Assessment: The Initial Clinical Interviews: The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis 3
    (The Ralph R. Greenson Training Seminars)
    Lee Jaffe, Editor, Foreword
    Harry Polkinhorn, Series Editor

    Publication Date: February 1, 2015
    ISBN-10: 1938537076
    ISBN-13: 978-1938537073
    144 pages | cover price: $22

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    "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.







    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker
    Chair in the Humanities & Affiliate
    Faculty Radio-Television-Film, UT Austin

    Things We Do Not Talk About
    Exploring 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


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    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 features the painting, "Coatlique," by Perry Vasquez! Find out more about Vasquez's remarkable art here.



















    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












    Reframing the Latino
    Immigration Debate

    Towards a Humanistic Paradigm
    Alvaro Huerta
    photography by Antonio Turok

    ISBN-10: 1938537033
    ISBN-13: 978-1938537035

    $16.95 USA | $210 MEX |  €13

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    Brash, intelligent, and possessed of a searing rhetorical passion, Alvaro Huerta's Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate asks readers to reassess critical political and cultural issues unfolding along the U.S./Mexico border. Paired in this volume with the striking photography of Antonio Turok, Huerta's words move readers "towards a humanistic paradigm" in a work that emerges as must-reading for students, scholars, and policy-makers alike.

    "Alvaro Huerta provides a ground-up view of the most pressing issues facing our nation of immigrants. Drawing on personal and familial experience, and a scholar's understanding of social history and current political dynamics, Huerta offers a human face to issues that have been overwhelmed with heated rhetoric and special interests."

    CHON A. NORIEGA
    Director and Professor
    UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
    Author of Shot in America


    "I urge you to read this impassioned defense of immigrants in the United States. Powerful and poignantly personal, Huerta's book humanizes an issue that is so often distorted by opportunistic politicians and crass pundits. He spares neither the Republicans nor President Obama in his critiques, and he makes an irrefutable case for amnesty. Pay attention to Alvaro Huerta: his words pack a punch."

    MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD
    Editor, The Progressive
    Author of You Have No Rights


    "Dr. Alvaro Huerta provides a compelling antidote to the anti-Latino rhetoric so prevalent in recent decades. His is a personal response to seemingly impersonal policies of detention, stigmatization, and undermining of Latino citizenship and belonging. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the 'other side' of the story about immigrants and their children in our society."

    LEO R. CHAVEZ
    Professor, University of California, Irvine
    Author of The Latino Threat








































































    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.


     


    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

     


    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








































    LEARNING FOR REVOLUTION
    The Work of Kathy Acker
    by Spencer Dew
    Publisher: Hyperbole Books
    an San Diego State University Press imprint
    1ST edition (2011)
    ISBN-10: 1879691957
    ISBN-13: 978-1879691957
    $24.00 list price | trade paperback
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    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





























































    Thomas Paine: Common Sense for the Modern Era
    Edited 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.


    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.








































    Homer from Salinas

    John Steinbeck's Enduring Voice for California
    William Anthony Nericcio (Editor)
    • San Diego State University Press (2009)
    • ISBN-10: 1879691892
    • ISBN-13: 978-1879691896

    $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 Shillingslaw.




    Border Texts: Writing Fiction From Northern Mexico
    Núria Vilanova
    $22.00 | 2007
    isbn:1-879691-86-5
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    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
    Ethnic Studies
    University of Colorado

     

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    The History of an Attitude
    by Owen F. Smith
    ISBN 1-879691-51-5 | 1998 trade paperback |
    326 pp. | US $27.00 | Second Printing




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    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.

    As Smith writes,

    "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."

    Smith's dynamic book contends that Fluxus is still very much alive today and that "Fluxus is by nature anti-reductivist, for it does not seek the illumination of some end or fact but celebrates participation in a non-hierarchal density of experience." Smith's conclusion is to the point: "In this way Fluxus does not refer to a style or even a procedure as such but to the presence of a totality of social activities. Fluxus seeks to shift from traditional utilitarian-based proscriptions to an open-ended, less evaluative participation in the processes themselves."

    The book is provided with a comprehensive bibliography and index. 

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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
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    Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of
    Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso

    Steven F. Butterman
    $22.95 list

    This is the first book-length scholarly treatment in English of the Brazilian poet Glauco Mattoso's work, some of which was written during Brazil's most recent dictatorship (1964-85). Steven Butterman highlights Mattoso's themes of homosexuality, fetishism, and symbolic sadomasochism within a context of a comparative examination of transgressive literature in the Western canon (Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine et al) with particular emphasis on Luso-Brazilian literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

     


     
    DEVOURING INSTITUTIONS
    The Life Work of Kathy Acker
    Edited by Michael Hardin
    THE FIRST BOOK FROM HYPERBOLE BOOKS, AN SDSUPRESS IMPRINT
    isbn: 1879691701  $22 list price {on sale for 12.95!}


    FROM THE INTRODUCTION 
    BY MICHAEL HARDIN...

    "In April 1996, I organized a conference at which Kathy Acker was the keynote speaker,1 but could not imagine how to introduce such a complex writer and artist, and so I delegated that responsibility; now, however, I do not have such a luxury. I had met Kathy before, but it was while she was at this conference that she received the news that her biopsy had come back positive for breast cancer. Thus, when I heard on Monday, December 1, 1997 that she had died the day before, I felt a great loss. I was shocked-I knew she was a fighter and if anyone could beat cancer, she could-but at the same time, I had not heard from her since August. A few days later, I was informed of the news by the executor of her estate, so I asked how Kathy would have wanted to be remembered, thinking a memorial event in Houston might be nice, but he said, "keep her work alive." That was the germination for this collection, and I can happily state that since then, most of her work has come back into print, Grove released two new collections in fall 2002-The Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker and Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America-and NYU sponsored a conference on Kathy Acker in November, 2002. However, there remains a dearth of critical articles and books on her work, and her fiction is not taught as often as one might expect, given its relevance to contemporary literature and theory. To that end, Devouring Institutions is meant to be an introduction to Kathy Acker, with its essays being merely thirteen ways of looking at one of the most innovative, controversial, and difficult of American writers..."

     

     

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