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Gaspard's Christmas
Zeb Soanes; Illustrated by James Mayhew
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This book critically examines the causes of the increase in
insurgent violence in Balochistan and explores the relations
between the national government of Pakistan and the province of
Balochistan. Based on historical analysis, the book argues that the
national government of Pakistan and the leaders of Balochistan both
use a standard narrative when dealing with each other. According to
the Baloch narrative, Islamabad exploits Balochistan's natural
resources without giving Balochistan its due share and has never
accepted and granted Balochistan equal rights. The centre's
narrative emphasizes the tribal character of the Baloch society and
suggests that the Baloch elite hinder Balochistan's integration
with the federation. This book demonstrates that both narratives
are inherently flawed and presents a precipitous picture of the
problem of insurgent violence. It also shows that the Baloch
leadership is divided along tribal lines and lacks a unified voice
and proposes that the Baloch elite use the narrative of enduring
injustice only as a source of politicization of Baloch ethnicity
when an actual or perceived injustice is taking place. An important
addition to the literature on ethno-political conflicts, this
unique analysis of the importance of narrative in the imagination
of political movements will be of interest to scholars in the
fields of South Asian studies, ethnic conflicts, separatist and
political movements and Asian politics.
The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the
archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer
studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and
knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to
LGBTQ scholarship, politics, and everyday life, they draw upon
accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots,
and everyday repositories of historical memory. The contributors
examine such topics as the everyday life of marginalized queer
immigrants in New York City as an archive; secondhand vinyl record
collecting and punk bootlegs; the self-archiving practices of
grassroots lesbians; and the decolonial potential of absences and
gaps in the colonial archives through the life of a suspected
hermaphrodite in colonial Guatemala. Engaging with archives from
Africa to the Americas to the Arctic, this volume illuminates the
allure of the archive, reflects on that which resists archival
capture, and outlines the stakes of queer and trans lives in the
archival turn. Contributors. Anjali Arondekar, Kate Clark, Ann
Cvetkovich, Carolyn Dinshaw, Kate Eichhorn, Javier
Fernandez-Galeano, Emmett Harsin Drager, Elliot James, Marget Long,
Martin F. Manalansan IV, Daniel Marshall, Maria Elena Martinez,
Joan Nestle, Ivan Ramos, David Serlin, Zeb Tortorici
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Nova: Sam Alexander (Paperback)
Jeph Loeb, Zeb Wells; Illustrated by Ed McGuinness
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The late Chicagoan George Nesbitt could perhaps best be described
as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In
his newly uncovered memoir-written fifty years ago, yet never
published-he chronicles in vivid and captivating detail the story
of how his upwardly-mobile Midwestern Black family lived through
the tumultuous twentieth century. Spanning three generations,
Nesbitt's tale starts in 1906 with the Great Migration and ends
with the Freedom Struggle in the 1960s. He describes his parents'
journey out of the South, his struggle against racist military
authorities in World War II, the promise and peril of Cold War
America, the educational and professional accomplishments he strove
for and achieved, the lost faith in integration, and, despite every
hardship, the unwavering commitment by three generations of Black
Americans to fight for a better world. Through all of it-with his
sharp insights, nuance, and often humor-we see a family striving to
lift themselves up in a country that is working to hold them down.
Nesbitt's memoir includes two insightful forewords: one by John
Gibbs St. Clair Drake (1911-90), a pioneer in the study of African
American life, the other a contemporary rumination by noted Black
studies scholar Imani Perry. A rare first-person, long-form
narrative about Black life in the twentieth century, Being Somebody
and Black Besides is a remarkable literary-historical time capsule
that will delight modern readers.
"Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings" is the second of two themed
issues from Radical History Review (numbers 120 and 122) that
explore the ways in which the notion of the "queer archive" is
increasingly crucial for scholars working at the intersection of
history, sexuality, and gender. Efforts to record and preserve
queer experiences determine how scholars account for the past and
provide a framework for understanding contemporary queer life.
Essays in these issues consider historical materials from queer
archives around the world as well as the recent critical practice
of "queering" the archive by looking at historical collections for
queer content (and its absence). This issue considers how archives
allow historical traces of sexuality and gender to be sought,
identified, recorded, and assembled into accumulations of meaning.
Contributors explore conundrums in contemporary queer archival
methods, probing some of them in essays on the Catholic Church and
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This issue also
includes a series of intergenerational interviews reflecting on
histories of LGBT archives, a roundtable discussion about legacies
of queer studies of the archive, and a closing reflection by Joan
Nestle, a founding figure in the practice of international queer
archiving. Daniel Marshall is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of
Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kevin P. Murphy
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota
and a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective.
Zeb Tortorici is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Languages and Literatures at New York University. Contributors:
Rustem Ertug Altinay, Anjali Arondekar, Elspeth H. Brown, Elise
Chenier, Howard Chiang, Ben Cowan, Ann Cvetkovich, Sara Davidmann,
Leah DeVun, Peter Edelberg, Licia Fiol-Matta, Jack Jen Gieseking,
Christina Hanhardt, Robb Hernandez, Kwame Holmes, Regina Kunzel, A.
J. Lewis, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Maria Elena Martinez, Michael
Jay McClure, Caitlin McKinney, Katherine Mohrman, Joan Nestle, Mimi
Thi Nguyen, Tavia Nyong'o, Anthony M. Petro, K. J. Rawson, Barry
Reay, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Don Romesburg, Rebecka Sheffield, Marc
Stein, Margaret Stone, Susan Stryker, Robert Summers, Jeanne
Vaccaro, Dale Washkansky, Melissa White
The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the
archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer
studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and
knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to
LGBTQ scholarship, politics, and everyday life, they draw upon
accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots,
and everyday repositories of historical memory. The contributors
examine such topics as the everyday life of marginalized queer
immigrants in New York City as an archive; secondhand vinyl record
collecting and punk bootlegs; the self-archiving practices of
grassroots lesbians; and the decolonial potential of absences and
gaps in the colonial archives through the life of a suspected
hermaphrodite in colonial Guatemala. Engaging with archives from
Africa to the Americas to the Arctic, this volume illuminates the
allure of the archive, reflects on that which resists archival
capture, and outlines the stakes of queer and trans lives in the
archival turn. Contributors. Anjali Arondekar, Kate Clark, Ann
Cvetkovich, Carolyn Dinshaw, Kate Eichhorn, Javier
Fernandez-Galeano, Emmett Harsin Drager, Elliot James, Marget Long,
Martin F. Manalansan IV, Daniel Marshall, Maria Elena Martinez,
Joan Nestle, Ivan Ramos, David Serlin, Zeb Tortorici
This book critically examines the causes of the increase in
insurgent violence in Balochistan and explores the relations
between the national government of Pakistan and the province of
Balochistan. Based on historical analysis, the book argues that the
national government of Pakistan and the leaders of Balochistan both
use a standard narrative when dealing with each other. According to
the Baloch narrative, Islamabad exploits Balochistan's natural
resources without giving Balochistan its due share and has never
accepted and granted Balochistan equal rights. The centre's
narrative emphasizes the tribal character of the Baloch society and
suggests that the Baloch elite hinder Balochistan's integration
with the federation. This book demonstrates that both narratives
are inherently flawed and presents a precipitous picture of the
problem of insurgent violence. It also shows that the Baloch
leadership is divided along tribal lines and lacks a unified voice
and proposes that the Baloch elite use the narrative of enduring
injustice only as a source of politicization of Baloch ethnicity
when an actual or perceived injustice is taking place. An important
addition to the literature on ethno-political conflicts, this
unique analysis of the importance of narrative in the imagination
of political movements will be of interest to scholars in the
fields of South Asian studies, ethnic conflicts, separatist and
political movements and Asian politics.
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Nadolig Gaspard (Paperback)
Zeb Soanes; Illustrated by James Mayhew; Translated by Manon Elin James
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This issue offers a theoretical and methodological imagining of
what constitutes trans* before the advent of the terms that
scholars generally look to for the formation of modern conceptions
of gender, sex, and sexuality. What might we find if we look for
trans* before trans*? While some historians have rejected the
category of transgender to speak of experiences before the
mid-twentieth century, others have laid claim to those living
gender-non-conforming lives before our contemporary era. By using
the concept of trans*historicity, this volume draws together trans*
studies, historical inquiry, and queer temporality while also
emphasizing the historical specificity and variability of gendered
systems of embodiment in different time periods. Essay topics
include a queer analysis of medieval European saints, discussions
of a nineteenth-century Russian religious sect, an exploration of a
third gender in early modern Japanese art, a reclamation of Ojibwe
and Plains Cree Two-Spirit language, and biopolitical genealogies
and filmic representations of transsexuality. The issue also
features a roundtable discussion on trans*historicities and an
interview with the creators of the 2015 film Deseos. Critiquing
both progressive teleologies and the idea of sex or gender as a
timeless tradition, this issue articulates our own desires for
trans history, trans*historicities, and queerly temporal forms of
historical narration. Contributors. Kadji Amin, M. W. Bychowski,
Fernanda Carvajal, Howard Chiang, Leah DeVun, Julian Gill-Peterson,
Jack Halberstam, Asato Ikeda, Jacob Lau, Kathleen P. Long, Maya
Mikdashi, Robert Mills, Carlos Motta, Marcia Ochoa, Kai Pyle, C.
Riley Snorton, Zeb Tortorici, Jennifer Louise Wilson
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Gaspard the Fox (Paperback)
Zeb Soanes; Illustrated by James Mayhew
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