Books published by The University of Michigan Press

The influence of Zen Master Ikky (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. His work is allusion rich, and, as is common to his Tang poetic models, his verse makes frequent allusion to elements from the full range of China's cultural history and literature. He draws as well from a variety of Buddhist texts in Chinese, including its koans.

Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations. Through analysis of work by filmmakers Michael Haneke, Fatih Akin, and Alfonso Cuaron, In Permanent Crisis contemplates the way mass media depictions become invoked by film to frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe.