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Duke University Press
Indiana University Press
McGill University Press
University Of Nebraska Press
University Of Illinois
University Of Texas Press
University of Washington Press
Temple University Press
New York University Press
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Black Venus 2010
Deb Wills, on Black Venus 2010 and why Sarah Baartman is still such a figure of cultural significance today.

“Readers may ask one of the most obvious questions surrounding the interest in Baartman —why her? She was neither the first nor the only African woman on display in Europe. Some of the writers in this volume noted that at least one other African woman was exhibited as a “Hottentot Venus” after Baartman’s death. We have only to look at contemporary culture to see the way in which Sarah Baartman’s image continues to be recycled as fashion in the works of some contemporary photographers. The anthology also examines the lives of women who were and still are iconic figures in the twentieth century, such as Josephine Baker.” - Deb Willis, editor of Black Venus 2010

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Seth L. Sanders Finalist in 2009 National Jewish Book Awards The Invention of Hebrew

The Invention of Hebrew came runner up in the Scholarship category at the 2009 National Jewish Book Awards.

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The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent findings on the use of the Hebrew alphabet as a deliberate and meaningful choice. Seth L. Sanders connects the Bible's distinctive linguistic form - writing down a local spoken language - to a cultural desire to speak directly to people, summoning them to join a new community that the text itself helped call into being.

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Haitian Literature To Appear in New York Times ReviewStreet of Lost Footsteps

Street of Lost Footsteps and Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot, the founder of the Haitian Writers Association, depict the culture and chaos of life on Haiti.


Street of Lost Footsteps is a harrowing Novel depicting a night of bliazing violence of Port-au-Prince, and recalling hundreds of years of violence stretching back even before the birth of Haiti in the fires of revolution.

“Lyonel Trouillot’s novel Children of Heroes is a real tour de force. Set in Haiti,it is a story about surviving the vulnerabilities of childhood. Beautifully written and beautifully translated, its images linger.” - Rose M. Réjouis, winner of the American Translators’ Association Prize
The Guantanamo Lawyers has received a passionate review from Truthout


"At once shocking, frustrating and inspiring, the book chronicles the courageous and hard-working lawyers who took time from law firms, small and large, human rights organizations and military assignments to step up and provide legal aid to people whom the Bush administration was calling "the worst of the worst" after 9/11." - Stephen Rhode, Truthout

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Torah Queeries  has received a positive review in the Jerusalem Post

"The Editors of Torah Queeries have gathered together many leading rabbis and scholars to provide a perspective through what they call a "bent lens." This exceptional collection brings together the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gay-friendly writers, including some of the best-known names in the Jewish world, from all of the major denominations, including Orthodox. … [Torah Queeries] should appeal to those who wish to read the Torah with an open mind and the willingness to look at the words from 3,000 years ago with new, and often jarring, perspectives…. this is a volume that I would describe as a must for the Jewish bookshelf."

- Andrew Sacks, director of the Rabbinical Assembly in Israel

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This Months Highlights
Hold On To Your Dreams reviewed in The Guardian

“There's a certain Keats-like romance in "discovering" an artist who died before their time, before their gifts were truly appreciated. And so it is with Arthur Russell who, thanks to a series of posthumous releases of and on his music, has in the last few years come to more widespread – and deserving – attention. The latest of these eulogies comes from Tim Lawrence, whose recently released biography, Hold on to Your Dreams, adds flesh to the basic facts of Russell's life...” – The Guardian


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Quietus has just announced that Arthur’s Landing, a collective of musicians and collaborators who originally worked with Arthur Russell, will perform their debut UK gig on 20th February at the ICA to coincide with the launch of Hold On to Your Dreams, Tim Lawrence’s critically acclaimed biography of Arthur Russell.


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Sky Train Receives Air TimeSky Train

Canyon Sam, author of Sky Train, will be on Diane Rehm's nationally aired NPR show in the USA on February the 23rd 2010

 
"Canyon Sam's Sky Train powerfully moves the heart, as it brings to life deep truths about our world today, about Tibet, the land and people and especially its outstanding women. Just as important is the author's own revelatory discovery of 'Tibet' as a compassionate, wise, and down to earth state-of-mind essential to the survival of the whole world. Words cannot express how wonderful is this honest, generous, and perceptive book." -Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University

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Black Venus 2010, edited by Deborah Willis has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly

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Her name was Sarah Baartman. Born in South Africa in 1789, she died in Paris in 1815—after five years of being displayed (sometimes in a cage) for entertainment and “scientific study.... During her period of fame and exploitation, she was known as the “Hottentot Venus.” Willis offers a comprehensive, inclusive, and coherently organized anthology that embraces “scholarly and lyrical, historical and reflexive” responses to Baartman.... The book moves from Baartman's life and times to an assessment of the figure of the “Hottentot Venus” in contemporary art and a broader consideration of the historic public display of black women.This remarkable volume satisfies the academic reader with scholarly essays and moves the general reader with its creative expression, making it fascinating and accessible to any one."

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Nadirs

Nadirs’ author accepts Noble Prize for Literature

“ German novelist Herta Müller, who received death threats in her native Romania after she refused to become an informant for the secret police during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, has become only the 12th woman in 108 years to win the Nobel prize for literature.   Praised by the Nobel judges for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose", Müller returns constantly to the oppression, dictatorship and exile of her own life in her novels, essays and poems.” 

- Alison Flood, The Guardian

 

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