http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home en-us http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-catholic-women-s-rhetoric-in-the-united-states-ethos-patriarchy-and-feminist-resistance-em-by-elizabethada-a-wright-82-co-editor/view Lexington Books, 2022) Wright, a professor of writing studies at University of Minnesota Duluth, builds on various feminist theories of ethos in this collection that explores how North American Catholic women from various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes have used elements of the group’s positionality to make change Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-gender-in-french-banlieue-cinema-intersectional-perspectives-em-by-claire-mouflard-associate-professor-of-french-and-francophone-studies-co-editor/view Lexington Books, 2024) As the publisher notes, "This edited volume investigates the reconfiguration of gender in French banlieue cinema, interrogating whether the films produced over the last two decades provide new and viable models of resistance to dominant modes of power. Contributors take a critical approach which identifies gender as a marker of both body and identity politics to highlight the need to overcome a binary approach to banlieue aesthetics, which limits inquiry into the basis of conflict. Given that a feminization — and, to some extent, queering — of the once exclusively masculine space is underway, contributors ultimately conclude that the banlieue and its on-screen representations cannot be properly understood unless intersectionality as a systematic approach is applied as an interpretive lens. Scholars of film, gender studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.&quot Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-the-real-ethereal-em-by-katie-naughton-08/view Delete Press, 2024) Poet Dan Beechy-Quick shared this observation about Naughton's book of poetry: "Near the end of her stunning debut, Katie Naughton asks a simple question, not so simple at all: 'and what is mine?' The question tunes the ear to the undergirding ethic these poems explore, a frequency that cancels the static of capital’s all-too-easy 'time is money' to reveal the deeper economy, one that knows the real, letter by letter, is embedded within the ethereal, with an E as the only excess, calling out so quietly the heart’s inner urgent more. More what? More days, more time, more of the honest inheritance that makes a life — for any of us — mine. Naughton is a spare poet of life’s wild abundance, practicing poetry’s oldest motions, the garland and the crown, weaving together inner life with worldly experience, stitching day to day, asking what the hours are in hopes of honoring what the days bring. It is the worthiest kind of work I know, to play us the tune of 'time our oldest song the wind wilt blow.'&rdquo Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-te-he-seguido-em-by-jack-mart-nez-arias-assistant-professor-of-hispanic-studies/view Dendro Ediciones, 2024) In line with Martínez-Arias's research on migration patterns and the barriers migrants face in Latin America, this novel, the author's third, tells the story of two adolescents who migrate to the outskirts of Lima and confront urban violence, poverty, and discrimination Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-a-chargefor-change-em-by-elizabethada-a-wright-82/view Parlor Press, 2023) As the publisher notes, this volume "brings together 18 essays from the Rhetoric Society of America's 20th Biennial Conference, held at the end of the pandemic period. The conference call asked for participants to 'engage with rhetoric's purposes, demands, and energies' as the world moved toward a 'post-pandemic' world Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-a-quiet-book-collaborations-in-writing-and-visual-art-em-by-stuart-kestenbaum-73-and-susan-webster/view Brynmorgen Press, 2024) More than 50 organic collages and hand-crafted musings complement each other as naturally as do their creators, the husband-and-wife team of printmaker Susan Webster and poet Stu Kestenbaum Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-historieta-doble-a-graphic-history-of-participatory-action-research-em-by-joanne-rappaport-k-75-lina-fl-rez-g-and-pablo-p-rez-altais/view University of Toronto Press, 2024) According to the publisher “In the 1970s, new methods of social science research began to flower in Latin America, connecting academic researchers to grassroots social movements. One of these was participatory action research, a method now used by community organizers, educational activists, and social scientists around the world Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/kingdom-of-play-what-ball-bouncing-octopuses-belly-flopping-monkeys-and-mud-sliding-elephants-reveal-about-life-itself-by-david-toomey-78/view Scribner’s, 2024) The author, a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. The publisher notes, “From octopuses on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve? Are the songs and aerial acrobatics of birds the beginning of avian culture? Is fairness in dog play the foundation of canine ethics? And does play direct and possibly accelerate evolution Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-reading-prester-john-cultural-fantasy-and-its-manuscript-contexts-em-by-john-eldevik-professor-of-history/view Arc-Humanities Press, 2024) This book examines the legend of Prester John (from the Latin “presbyter,” meaning priest), which first came to light through a forged letter that surfaced in Western Europe in the late 12th century. This letter, purportedly from Prester John himself to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Komnenos, described his immense power and wealth, generating widespread excitement across Europe — particularly at the prospect that John’s armies could aid fellow Christians in the Crusades.While the legend of Prester John and the famous letter have been studied by medievalists for over a century, Eldevik’s research sheds new light on how the letter was copied and circulated in manuscript collections, often alongside works on geography, history, and apocalyptic theology Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-after-em-by-peter-weltner-64/view Marrowstone Press, 2024) In this book of poems, the last in a four-part series, Weltner follows loss or what remains enduring after time or an era has passed. “It is about memory and what it clings to or holds on to despite all that inevitably, inexorably changes. It is about how new work always follows in the steps of the old toward the future, about influence and inspiration, whatever the source,” he notes. &nbsp Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 EST