Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Disabled Upon Arrival
Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise...
Migrating Fictions
Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American incarceration,...
by Bryce Traister
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered...
by Anne W. Gulick
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African...
Neoliberal Bonds
Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Fernando A. Blanco’s Neoliberal Bonds: Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature analyzes the sociocultural processes that have reshaped subjectivities in post-Pinochet Chile. By creatively exploring the intersections among memory, gender, post-trauma, sociology, psychoanalysis, and neoliberalism,...
by Richard Dutton, Steven Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
With the inaugural edition of the Early Modern Drama Texts series, Richard Dutton and Steven K. Galbraith illuminate the only surviving work of playwright and actor Thomas Drue. First performed by the Palsgrave’s Men at the Fortune Theater in 1624, The Duchess of Suffolk dramatizes the exile of...
Arms and the Woman
Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
*Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance *by Francesca D’Alessandro Behr focuses on the classical reception in the works of female authors active in Venice during the Early Modern Age. Even in this relatively liberal city, women had restricted access...
Sponsored Migration
The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors affecting...
Drawing the Line
Comics Studies and INKS, 1994–1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and INKS, 1994–1997 collects some of the most important essays from INKS: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted exclusively to comics studies. The volume, edited by Lucy Shelton Caswell, the journal’s founding editor,...
Antiquarian Voices
The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid's Fasti
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Ovid’s Fasti, his poem on the Roman calendar, became especially influential during the fifteenth century as a guide to classical Roman culture. Ovid’s treatment of mythological and astronomical lore, his investigation of anniversaries and customs, and his charting of monuments and history offered...
Secular Scriptures
Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
With Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante, William Franke reexamines the role that literature plays in theological revelation. In the modern world, secularism typically means the exclusion of God from the world. Yet Franke, recognizing that secularity itself is built...
Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic Sexuality, Literature, Archives
Sexuality, Literature, Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives examines one of the most fascinating sexual renegades of the twentieth century and the social, cultural, pedagogical, and erotic projects with which he was engaged. This innovative collection, edited by Debra A. Moddelmog...
by Aaron Ngozi Oforlea
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, Aaron Ngozi Oforlea explores the rhetorical strategies that Baldwin’s and Morrison’s black male characters employ as they negotiate discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. According to Oforlea, these characters...
The Politics of Ecology
Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life...