Books published by State University of New York Press

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.

The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer.

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.

Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.

Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.

A personal voyage of discovery drawing on musicology, literary theory, Jewish studies, and philosophical phenomenology.

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.

Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences' happening.

Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.