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    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of ... Read more

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    "By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera."—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy AnthologyThe modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the ... Read more

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  • Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic

    Literature, Modernity, and Diaspora

    Series series A Modern Fiction Studies Book
    "How African-American artists and intellectuals sought greater liberty in Paris while also questioning the extent of the freedoms they so publicly praised." — American Literary HistoryParis has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black ... Read more

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  • Opus Siniestrus: Selected Plays

    Ghosts, a toy horse, an ostrich egg, and a menagerie of apocalyptic and chimerical beasts feature in these characteristically playful, never-before-collected plays by the legendary surrealist writer and artist Leonora Carrington.Best known for her vivid, dreamlike paintings and darkly humorous prose, Leonora Carrington was also a brilliant playwright whose dramatic works are as subversive and sly ... Read more

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  • The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons

    Series series The Year's Work
    Essays on intellect, passion, alienation, and America's geeky subcultures.What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up? And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the contemporary United States?With recent years bringing us phenomena ... Read more

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  • An Alchemy of Living Culture

    Collected Writings on Double Edge Theatre

    Series series Theatre Makers
    This volume captures the theatrical and cultural practice to have come out of Double Edge Theatre, which Stacy Klein founded in 1982. It showcases the company's dedication to collective artistic creativity, cultural survival and sustained, equitable organization-building, with Klein's artistic and social vision at its centre.Featuring interviews, artists' statements, essays and speeches in which ... Read more

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    Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the woman and the artist behind the iconic persona. He travels between Leonora’s native England and adopted homeland of Mexico, making stops in New York ... Read more

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