The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self is the first monograph on the emergence of the lyric "I" in East Slavic and Russian poetry of early modernity. Considering poems by male and female authors from Slavia Orientalis (today's Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and parts of Eastern Poland and the Baltic states), Erica Camisa Morale explores the ......
The Russian Departure to Mexico and Southern California, 1900-1965
Los Rusos tells the little-known story of the Russian diaspora in Southern California and Mexico. During the first half of the twentieth century thousands of Russians came to Mexico as refugees, spies, political exiles, and diplomats. These "rusos" included persecuted Russian sectarians who arrived in Los Angeles and migrated to Northern Baja in ......
The Russian Departure to Mexico and Southern California, 1900-1965
Los Rusos tells the little-known story of the Russian diaspora in Southern California and Mexico. During the first half of the twentieth century thousands of Russians came to Mexico as refugees, spies, political exiles, and diplomats. These "rusos" included persecuted Russian sectarians who arrived in Los Angeles and migrated to Northern Baja in ......
Precarious Universality explores the diverse and complex ways that the engagement of Chinese literature with Russia in the twentieth century grappled with universality, both as a challenge to be overcome and as an aspirational ideal. Roy Chan argues that Chinese cultural interest in Russia was not solely due to political expedience but instead ......
How do we remember a seering event that left so little behind? Scattered Steel traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the World Trade Center. When the Towers fell on September 11, 2001, nearly all that remained was pullvarized concrete and contorted steel. Samuel and Max Holleran investigate how fragments of these skyscrapers ......
Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial differences, and the material limits of artwork itself. Departing from philosophies of touch - proposed by such thinkers as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, ......
Finding Treblinka challenges the long-held belief that Treblinka, the second-deadliest extermination camp operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, was completely destroyed. Even though Nazis demolished buildings, exhumed and burned victims' bodies, and planted trees to obscure the site, Caroline Sturdy Colls uncovers what still lies beneath ......
Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Heritage Forensics introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. The volume combines satellite-based spatial analysis with humanistic research and humanitarian concern to document the impact of the protracted conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan on the medieval and modern ......
Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Heritage Forensics introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. The volume combines satellite-based spatial analysis with humanistic research and humanitarian concern to document the impact of the protracted conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan on the medieval and modern ......
