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The AMERICAN LITERATURES INITIATIVE is a collaborative book-publishing program, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to create new opportunities for publication in underserved and emerging areas of the humanities.
Created in December 2007, this five-press publishing collaboration—Fordham University Press, New York University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press—confronts the publishing crisis in literature and literary studies, where the annual number of university press books has declined steeply in recent years, placing younger scholars at a disadvantage when writing their first books.
The AMERICAN LITERATURES INITIATIVE is an innovative, entrepreneurial, cooperative effort to expand the number of books published in literary studies and increase audience reach by using common resources available to the five presses through the grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each press continues to acquire and develop titles according to its needs and editorial criteria, looking for high-quality first books by promising scholars and seeking out the best scholarly work about English language literatures of Central and North America and the Caribbean.
For more information on the American Literatures Initiative, visit www.americanliteratures.org or the websites of the participating presses.
TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS
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Bodies of Reform
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
Author: James B. Salazar
New York University Press
304 pages, 15 figures
ISBN: 9780814741313, Paper, $25.00
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ISBN: 9780814741306, Cloth, $75.00
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ISBN: 9780814741320, eBook
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An Ethics of Betrayal
The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture
Crystal Parikh
Winner - MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano
Fordham University Press
256 pages
ISBN: 9780823230433, Paper, $24.00
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ISBN: 9780823230426, Cloth, $65.00
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ISBN: 9780823230440, eBook, $13.00
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Mulan's Legend and Legacy in China and the United States
Lan Dong
Temple University Press
280 pages, 23 illustrations
ISBN: 9781592139712, Paper, $26.95
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ISBN: 9781592139705, Cloth, $68.50
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Traumatic Possessions
The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance
Author: Jennifer L. Griffiths
160 pages
ISBN: 9780813928845, Paper, $19.50
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Urban Underworlds
A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture
Author: Thomas Heise
Rutgers University Press
304 pages, 11 photographs, 2 figures
ISBN: 9780813547855, Paper, $24.95
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ISBN: 9780813547848, Cloth, $72.00
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ISBN: 9780813549811, eBook
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