Southern Illinois University Press imprint: 153 books
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking
The Courage of Minnie Vautrin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
The Japanese army’s brutal four-month occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as “the rape of Nanking.” As they slaughtered an estimated three hundred thousand people, the invading soldiers raped more than twenty thousand women—some estimates...
Beyond Collapse
Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience...
Chicago Transformed
World War I and the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Winner, ISHS Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award, 2017
It’s been called the “war that changed everything,” and it is difficult to think of a historical event that had a greater impact on the world than the First World War. Events during the war profoundly changed our nation, and...
Casing a Promised Land, Expanded Edition
The Autobiography of an Organizational Detective as Cultural Ethnographer
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1994
H. L. Goodall’s ground-breaking study of what people do with symbols and what symbols do to people explores the lives led by people in organizations. His narratives take on the form of six detective mysteries in which the narrator figures into the plot of the intrigue and then works out its essential...
Craft Obsession
The Social Rhetorics of Beer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Denied access to traditional advertising platforms by lack of resources, craft breweries have proliferated despite these challenges by embracing social media platforms, and by creating an obsessed culture of fans. In Craft Obsession, Jeff Rice uses craft beer as a case study to demonstrate how social...
Vaudeville Humor
The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by comedian Ed Lowry (1896– 1983). Although occasionally found in bits and pieces in anthologies and in...
by Jennifer Richter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Jennifer Richter’s penetrating second collection of poems, No Acute Distress, introduces us to the unspoken struggles and unanticipated epiphanies of illness and motherhood, subjects rarely explored together in contemporary poetry. The first poem of each section borrows from a classic joke form—one...
by Hala Alyan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In her third poetry collection, Hijra, Hala Alyan creates poems of migration and flight reflecting and bearing witness to the haunting particulars in her transnational journey as well as those of her mother, her aunts, and the female ancestors in Gaza and Syria.
The reader sees war, diaspora, and...
Staging Social Justice
Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
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Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a...
The Woman and the Lyre
Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1989
Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.E and ending with Egeria in the fifth century C.E., Snyder profiles ancient Greek and Roman women writers, including lyric and elegiac poets and philosophers and other prose writers. The writers are allowed to speak for themselves, with as much translation...
by Julianna Baggott
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this inventive collection, Julianna Baggott invites readers to reconsider basic assumptions about language, faith, motherhood, and love. With a sharply honed voice featuring parentheticals that often comment on and sometimes undercut what has come before, these poems whirl through contemporary...
Theatre and Cartographies of Power
Repositioning the Latina/o Americas
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
From the colonial period to independence and into the twenty-first century, Latin American culture has been mapped as a subordinate “other” to Europe and the United States. This collection reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have...
by Kristin K. Winet, Abby L. Wilkerson, Winona Landis
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.
Contributors...
Fashioning Lives
Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2018 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Winner, Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship from CCCC, 2018
Winner, Advancement of Knowledge Award from CCCC, 2018
Winner, Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on Community Writing, 2017
Fashioning...