Thus, Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance demonstrates its premise through close readings considering how performance must be read in tandem with the whole.
Through this poetic adventure, Dawn and the mermaid unearth a deeper understanding of sisterhood and the significance of growing up together, making sense of the world together, and fighting to stay together.
Adler examines the schools' curriculum, teachers, financing, students, and educational innovation and demonstrates how each of these aspects evolved over time to provide new opportunities.
Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit
by Julia Marie Robinson Moore
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9780814351437
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: October 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
226 Pages
Bradby's efforts as an activist and "race leaderby examining the role the minister played in high-profile events, such as the organizing of Detroit's NAACP chapter, the Ossian Sweet trial of the mid-1920s, the Scottsboro Boys trials in the 1930s, and the controversial rise of the United Auto Workers in Detroit in the 1940s.
Your Comrade, Avreml Broide offers an enticing mix of fact and fiction to demonstrate the personal risks, revolutionary dreams, and heartaches of Yiddish-speaking American Communists.
Both timely and timeless, this work is an address to history and the contemporary moment, relevant to Jews, diasporic scholars, and all exploring ethical relationships with history and with other humans.
Alongside sage insight into the difficulties and decline of traditional media, Gallagher's experience and advice inspire hope, often underscoring and celebrating the surprising and happy reinvention of heartland cities like Detroit.
Eating in the Wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
by Candice Goucher
Price: $26.99
ISBN: 9780814351543
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: September 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
276 Pages
Drawing on themes from Indigenous knowledge and the African American experience to labor activism and women's history, this tantalizing chronicle offers a taste of Americana, seasoned by the changing global forces of industrialization, transportation, immigration, tourism, war, and climate.
Edited by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger and Ruth von Bernuth
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814350454
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: December 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
330 Pages
Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.
These poems not only evoke a sense of spirit that transcends boundaries but they bear traditional knowledge, notions of the seasons, and conceptions of how the spirit is shaped by nature.
Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale
by Kimberly J. Lau
Series edited by Anne E. Duggan
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814341346
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: December 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
242 Pages
Here, Lau provides a new framework for understanding European fairy tales in the milieux in which they were created, bringing distant and ethereal worlds back to earth.
Edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler and Howard Lupovitch
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9780814349670
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
480 Pages
These investigations illuminate the entangled experiences of Jews who sought to balance the pull of communal, religious, and linguistic traditions with the demands and allure of full participation in European life.
Examining the resounding artistry of iconic musicians such as Scott Joplin, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Mahalia Jackson, this work offers an alternative register in which these musicians and composers are heard as public intellectuals, consciously invested in crafting rhetorical projects they knew would influence the public sphere.
Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
by Miriam Eve Mora
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780814349625
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
404 Pages
Tracing Jewish masculinity through major themes and events including both World Wars, the Holocaust, American Zionism, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day War, this work establishes that the struggle of this process can shed light on the changing dynamics in religious, social, and economic American Jewish life.
Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History
Edited by Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan and Ashley Walters
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780814349854
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
404 Pages
Collectively, contributors reframe Jewish American literary history through feminist approaches that have revolutionized the field, from intersectionality and the #MeToo movement to queer theory and disability studies. Examining both canonical and lesser-known texts, this collection asks: what happens to conventional understandings of Jewish American literature when we center women's writing and acknowledge women as dominant players in Jewish cultural production?
Michigan was the first state to ratify the amendment on April 10, 1933, and soon the Detroit River was returned to pleasure boats and fishing and commercial vessels whose holds no longer carried illegal liquor.
This powerful and structurally innovative work lends new categories of meaning to those who would strive to find their place, hope, and sense of belonging in efforts to fight against systemic racism and lead lives characterized by openness and love.
Complementing an ecological understanding of events, this narrative details the significance of the fishery and its loss as experienced by the townspeople whose lives it touched.
The Transformation of the St. Clair Maritime Landscape, 1640–2000
by Daniel F. Harrison
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9780814349472
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: April 2024
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
280 Pages
Viewed over time, the region forms a microcosm of the interplay of environment, culture, and technology that characterized the gradual shift from nature to an industrial society and a built environment optimized for global waterborne transport.
Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
by Felicia B. George
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9780814350768
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: March 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
272 Pages
In succinct and engrossing chapters, George explores issues of community, race, politics, and the scandals that sprang up along the way, discovering how "playing the numbersgrew from a state-proclaimed crime to an encouraged legal activity.
In conversation with Islamic studies, Jewish studies, and queer theory, this collection explores the interrelated experiences and representations of Jewish and Muslim minorities in Europe while triangulating the Jewish-Muslim dyad with a third variable: queerness.
This work provides a guide for creative action and ritual making throughout the seasons, an exploration of anti-Zionist Judaism, and spiritual-cultural invitation to embody and expand decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist Jewish practice.
The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days
by Ulrich Marzolph
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9780814351154
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: February 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
162 Pages
This fascinating compilation of tales is being presented for the first time to an English language audience along with a comprehensive survey of its history, as well as detailed summaries and extensive comparative annotations to the tales that will be of interest to literature and folklore scholars.
This evocative entanglement of life and death, joy and horror, natural and artificial processes and particles offers an intriguing lyrical and poetic quality as well as unique perspectives through the lenses of feminist, queer, and disability studies.
Though many of the poems pay tribute to the genius of contemporary musicians who have won popular acclaim, the entire collection reminds of a persistent African ancestral legacy.
Telotte illuminates Science Fiction Theatre as a touchstone for understanding the development of science fiction media and the dynamic nature of early television broadcasting.
Drawing on a depth of emotion, wit, and reverence for nature, this striking new collection captures the beautiful and often poignant complexities of the human experience.
How Foodways Create and Sustain Orthodox Jewish Communities
by Jody Myers
Foreword by Matt Goldish
With Jane Myers
Price: $36.99
ISBN: 9780814349540
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
386 Pages
This rich exploration of kosher Orthodox foodways and their meanings demonstrates the inadequacy of limited or simple definitions of Orthodox Jewishness and offers insight into the religious diversity in American communities.
The journey to this unlikely outcome is an engrossing tale of outside forces that shape racial and cultural identity, the importance of mentorship and friendship, and the lasting impact of an unstable and often heartbreaking family dynamic.
A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.
Israeli literary representations of eastern European Jewry strive, sometimes successfully, to recuperate eastern European Jewish pre-Holocaust culture for the edification of an audience that might feel responsible for the silencing and extinction of that culture.
By virtue of this exploration, Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film's particular form of "magicmay be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.
When Lions Were Kings is a lively portrait of the golden age of professional football in Detroit that will delight younger fans and inform die-hard followers of one of the NFL's oldest franchises.
Students, scholars, and readers of Jewish history, Italian history, and fiction with an autobiographical thread will find themselves captivated by Segre's stories.
Bringing this entire spectrum into focus, Hecker ultimately considers how Kabbalists use the oral cavity and stomach, and even the emotions associated with festive meals, to produce the soul of the mystical saint.
Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century
by Melissa Weininger
Price: $27.99
ISBN: 9780814350591
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
232 Pages
This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.
In negotiating protocols of network television and the desires of audiences both gay and straight, this trailblazing series remains simultaneously haunted by and liberated from longstanding queer stereotypes.
Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation
Edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Stephanie Shonekan and Stephanie G. Adams
Foreword by Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Afterword by Tracy Sharpley-Whiting
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9780814350744
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
200 Pages
The collective's works, including this volume, serve as tools for faculty interested in administration, current chairs seeking mentorship, and upper-level administrators working to diversify their ranks.
Titles like "The Death of Olympiaand "The Three Sulasset the tone for this collection to manifest a Pan-Africanist poetics entwined with themes of Classical Romanticism.
Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy
by Cathy Yue Wang
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9780814348628
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
248 Pages
Beyond the content of these individual stories, Wang ties these narratives together across time using cognitive literary criticism, especially affective narratology, to shed new light on the adaptation of literary and cultural texts and their sociopolitical contexts.
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