Examining contemporary Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history. Rather than providing escapism or purely imaginary alternatives, they have created a space—outer and artistic—in which their lives matter.
Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future, this volume focuses on six of today’s most celebrated poets: Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey, A. Van Jordan, Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, and Camille T. Dungy.
Fog is a new translation of the Modernist Spanish author Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla. First published in 1914, Fog is considered an influential and enduring classic of European modernism.
Explores the cultivation of weak subjectivity through modes such as gender subversion, queer holy foolishness, intoxication, madness, and... Læs mere
Shining new light on our understanding of cinema’s ways of political thinking, this volume places modern political theory in conversation with... Læs mere
A kaleidoscopic whorl of characters, language, music, and Black experience, this saga follows Joubert Jones for one week in 1966 as he pursues the lore and legends of fictional Forest County, a place resembling Chicago’s South Side.
Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991) was a classically trained cellist who rose to fame in the 1960s as a performance artist. Her archive resides at the NU Library, and she will be the... Læs mere
Richard Kearney is widely recognized for his work in the areas of philosophical and religious hermeneutics, theory and practice of the imagination, and political thought. This study reflects the range and impact of Kearney's extensive contributions to contemporary philosophy.
Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and in... Læs mere