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Fiction

Lifelines New Writing from Bangladesh

Ghuznavi Farah

ISBN: PB: 9789381017845, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The first collection of its kind, "Lifelines" presents new work by young female writers from Bangladesh. Their stories portray multifaceted characters trying to take control of their own destinies, challenging stereotypes that cast the complex countr...

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Music

Making It Up Together The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond

Tilley Leslie A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667607, ISBN: HB: 9780226661131, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 16 halftones, 165 musical exam

Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multipl...

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Poetry

Memoir

Moore Honor

ISBN: PB: 9780887486449, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 24.1x13.9 cm

At the funeral the priest said, our sister enters the gates of paradise in a company of angels. Mom, were you waiting? I have no mother, your mother's gone, and the you that lives on, me, I must learn she is enough. From this room I see snow. Snow. T...

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Political Science

Not in Our Lifetimes The Future of Black Politics

Dawson Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226705347, ISBN: HB: 9780226138626, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 1 halftone, 4 line illus.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, polls revealed that only 20 percent of African Americans believed that racial equality for blacks would be achieved in their lifetime. But following the election of Barack Obama, that number leaped to more than...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Men without Maps Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall

Ibson John

ISBN: PB: 9780226656113, ISBN: HB: 9780226656083, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

In "Men without Maps", John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps – provided by n...

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Contemporary Art

Merce Cunningham After the Arbitrary

Noland Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9780226541242, ISBN: HB: 9780226541105, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 17 colour plates, 54 halftones

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham's work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with t...

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Europe

Merchants, Pirates, and Smugglers Criminalization, Economics, and the Transformation of the Maritime World (1200-1600)

Heeboll-Holm Thomas, Hohn Philipp, Rohmann Gregor

ISBN: PB: 9783593509792, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
431 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 halftone

Maritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before...

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Poetry

Mistress

Sebree Chet'la

ISBN: PB: 9781936970629, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, January 2020
80 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm

This book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the same time demonstrating how little the ways in whic...

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General

Europe

Spartakiads The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia

Petr Roubal

ISBN: PB: 9788024638515, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
350 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring hu...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question

Pojar Milos

ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...

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