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Includes maps of the Mississippi River valley, explanatory notes, glossary, and several documentary appendixes such as Twain's literary working notes, facsimile manuscript pages, facsimile reproductions of the author's revisions for his public reading tours, and contemporary advertisements and announcements.

Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respective expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these tales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture.As native Palestinians, the authors are well-suited to their task. Over the course of several years they collected tales in the regions of the Galilee, Gaza, and the West Bank, determining which were the most widely known and appreciated and selecting the ones that best represented the Palestinian Arab folk narrative tradition. Great care has been taken with the translations to maintain the original flavor, humor, and cultural nuances of tales that are at once earthy and whimsical. The authors have also provided footnotes, an international typology, a comprehensive motif index, and a thorough analytic guide to parallel tales in the larger Arab tradition in folk narrative. Speak, Bird, Speak Again is an essential guide to Palestinian culture and a must for those who want to deepen their understanding of a troubled, enduring people.

"The scholarly interpretations and commentary in this volume represent some of the most prominent voices in the philological and historical study of South Asia--a galaxy of experts in literary analysis and other subfields of South Asian cultural history. This volume beautifully illuminates the generative possibilities of the intimate, context-sensitive mode of reading that David Shulman has engaged in for decades."--Davesh Soneji, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania

"This is a book I have long been looking for. Meticulously conceived and argued, it provides the first comprehensive survey and analysis of what made a church sacred in late antiquity. It will likely become a standard reference on the topic for decades to come."--Wendy Mayer, Australian Lutheran College, University of Divinity

"Nelson provides a groundbreaking account of Brazilian theories and practices of abstraction. By detailing how the emerging museums, biennials, artists, art collectives, and art press maneuvered across the political chessboard of the mid-century, Forming Abstraction offers a major contribution to the oft misunderstood role of abstraction in the art and politics of the Cold War."--Esther Gabara, author and curator of Pop América, 1965-1975 "Nelson brings new archives, actors, and objects to light in this deeply researched study of post-war abstraction and institution building in Brazil. She reveals the political stakes of varied approaches to form, reframing the internationalism of concretismo within local debates over technology and progress, citizenship and alterity, and the nation's modernist genealogy."--Mary K. Coffey, Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College"Nelson brings a refreshing new perspective on abstract art in Brazil. Through meticulous research and rich data, she presents an innovative historical understanding of the introduction of abstractionism in Brazilian art, highlighting the cultural discourse defending abstract art and the modern institutions recently created in Brazil. A must-read for anyone interested in Brazilian modern art and art systems!"--Vera Beatriz Siqueira, Professor of Art History, Rio de Janeiro State University

"A book of enormous ambition, C. F. B. Miller's Radical Picasso questions the most fundamental assumptions about the achievement of Pablo Picasso. This is absolutely a book to be contended with by anyone approaching this body of artistic production."--Charles Palermo, author of Modernism and Authority: Picasso and His Milieu around 1900 "In Miller's Radical Picasso, 'Picasso' names not a person but a heterogenous body of work--one crucial to the history of modernist art yet also constituting an immanent critique of it. Through a form of close writing cannily matched to the complexities of the work, this book recalls us from the domesticated 'Picasso' to which we have become accustomed to the more radical, disruptive, and disorienting aspects lurking within."--Lisa Florman, Professor of History of Art, Ohio State University

What is fire? How are wildfires ignited? How do California's weather and topography influence fire? How did the California Indians use fire? This book answers these questions, helping the Californians and the millions who live near naturally flammable wildlands, to better understand their own place in the state's landscape.

"Christine Guth offers a brilliant new perspective on early modern Japanese craft. She shatters the myth of unchanging traditions by demonstrating how craft communities were innovative, well networked, and responsive to sustainability. This astute and engaging study shifts the focus from elite patrons to bring clarity to the networks, materials, and processes of craftmakers."--Sherry Fowler, Professor of Japanese Art History, University of Kansas "This is a field-shifting work. It reflects the author's immense expertise in the historical study of Japanese visual and material cultures and gives us a richer and more multivalent and multisensory understanding of the often essentialized category of 'craft.'"--Gregory Levine, Professor of Art History, University of California, Berkeley

"Following the thread of language through the entire course of Lorraine O'Grady's extraordinary career, in this impressive monograph Stephanie Sparling Williams charts a rigorous, thrilling line through the work of one of the most significant artists of our time."--Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem "Insightful and compelling, Sparling Williams's analysis reveals the complex interplay between word and image in the groundbreaking career of artist Lorraine O'Grady. Throughout, Sparling Williams's sustained, nuanced, and layered engagement with the artist's use of language reveals its crucial role in pointing out--and strategically opposing--exclusionary practices in the art world, and beyond."--Rebecca Peabody, author of Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race "It is a rare treat to read a work about an iconic black feminist artist and critic written by an outstanding emerging black feminist artist and critic. Sparling Williams's Speaking Out of Turn offers powerful commentary on, and a breathtaking compendium of, Lorraine O'Grady's incomparable artistry. This book is undoubtedly one for the ages."--Reiland Rabaka, author of The Negritude Movement and Forms of Fanonism

"This is arguably the best of the titles so far in the 'Finest Wines' series and the best book about German wines in English for a generation." --John Winthrop Haeger, author of North American Pinot Noir"The author's voice is consistently engaged and enthusiastic, and his book should appeal to a general readership of wine lovers as well as to anyone with a professional interest in German wine." --David Schildknecht, German wine authority for The Wine Advocate and the Oxford Companion to Wine

"A brave and groundbreaking work. Jackson's 'queer' reading of The Tale of Genji--where 'queer' does not index a particular sexual identity or mode of erotic exchange but, rather, provides a provocative critical lens--throws into sharp relief practices of Heian sexual politics. Intimately researched and engagingly written."--Charlotte Eubanks, author of Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan "A Proximate Remove offers a bold and provocative reading of the eleventh-century classic The Tale of Genji. It begins the much-needed task of exposing the ideological limitations that define the parameters of existing premodern Japanese studies."--Atsuko Ueda, author of Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)

"A lucid and richly documented study of cultural hierarchy and of the changing social, institutional, and ideological forces shaping music education in mid-twentieth-century Britain. A very fruitful cross-pollination of musical and cultural histories."--Philip Rupprecht, author of British Musical Modernism "A highly important corrective to the existing narrative of British cultural history. Beautifully researched, insightfully contributing to debates about the nature of cultural hierarchies, the periodization of artistic trends, and the relationships between modernity, modernism, and the status of British music. Guthrie's keen ability as a close reader of both printed words and musical texts shines through."--Joan Shelley Rubin, author of The Making of Middlebrow Culture "Thoroughly researched and lucidly argued, The Art of Appreciation effectively grounds big questions about art music and mass culture in a set of more specific historical debates--about how people should listen and how the new media of mass culture should be harnessed for pedagogical purposes. In showing us how experts sought to manage new forms of musical consumption, it reveals a great deal about the promise they held, as well as the anxieties they provoked."--Heather Wiebe, author of Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

"A magisterial piece of work. David Arnold spins an amazing tale of death, ritual, commemoration, and nation-building in which the Raj is the center of the modern death cosmos as well as the universal exemplar of cremation practice in a global context."--Antoinette Burton, author of The Trouble with Empire "A global history of South Asian cremation practices, Burning the Dead demonstrates the extent to which the corpse straddles the complicated regulatory and religious spaces between the personal, the familial, and the state, contributing to debates about biopolitics and necropolitics in colonial India."--Kama Maclean, Professor of History, South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg

"A comprehensive, thoughtful treatment of the time period before the crystallization of the ancient Greek city states."--William A. Parkinson, Curator and Professor, The Field Museum and University of Illinois at Chicago "An important and must-read account. The strength of this book lies in its close analysis of the important different regional characteristics and evolutionary trajectories of Greece as it transforms into the Archaic and, later, the Classical world."--David B. Small, author Ancient Greece: Social Structure and Evolution "This book reconfigures our understanding of early Greece on a regional level, beyond Mycenaean 'palaces' and across temporal boundaries rarely spanned in current scholarship. Knodell's sophisticated arguments enable a fresh reading of the emergence of early Greek polities, revealing the micro-regions that put to the test over-arching 'Mediterranean' models. His detailed study makes a convincing return to a comparative framework, integrating a 'small world' network and its trajectory with the larger picture of ancient complex societies. The last chapter, 'Why Early Greece Matters, ' offers a frank and refreshing look at what we can learn from ancient failures as well as successes, lessons that point us towards becoming better informed global citizens."--Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, University of California, Los Angeles