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The Promise of Language

In this powerful coming-of-age memoir, author, scholar, and linguist Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language.

“Poet, scholar, and essayist Keith Gilyard has dropped a major and critical contribution into the canon of African American experience, language, art, and culture. With honest and poetic storytelling, each page has a breathtaking urgency to the complex, dangerous, and beautiful growing up of a Black boy in the era of Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Arts Movement.” ~Michael Simanga, author of Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People

Return to the Place I Never Left

“Schiff’s book, a Holocaust memoir in verse, excellently translated by Dani James, is a literary discovery.

“Because of the immediacy of the verse, close to the oral tradition, the reader is forced to think about the relationship between text and reality, between the writer as artist and the writer as witness.”     ~Arnon Grunberg, author of Blue Mondays

New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts

Rediscovering a momentous cinema movement, its canonization, and its recasting through global discourse.

“Critically reimagining the historical framework and thematic possibilities of New German Cinema to include less conventional filmmakers, films, topics, forms, and global influences, the stunning collection of essays that spans New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts presents an illuminating return to one of Europe’s most important film movements.”  ~Olivia Landry, Virginia Commonwealth University

The Lives of Jewish Things

“The Lives of Jewish Things speaks with rare and thoughtful eloquence to our own fraught historical moment, a time of heightened awareness of the power of performativity and keen sensitivity to topics such as appropriation, cultural ownership, and identity. … A true gem!”

~Laura Lieber, professor for the transregional history of religion, University of Regensburg

Specters of the Marvelous

A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales.

“Fairy-tale studies has needed this book for a long time. With meticulous historical and narrative analysis, Kimberly J. Lau lays out a consummate reckoning of racism in the European tale tradition.”

~Kay Turner, coeditor of Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (Wayne State University Press), and founder of the What a Witch project