Questions of belonging, knowledge, embodiment, and representation run through this month's new books from Ideas on Fire authors, though each arrives at those questions from a strikingly different direction.
Together they span legal history, medieval science, Caribbean cultural studies, and East Asian cinema, demonstrating the breadth of contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship.
Rather than accepting familiar stories about citizenship, scientific progress, sexuality, or violence, these authors return to foundational assumptions and ask how they came to shape the world we inhabit today.
The result is a collection of books that invites readers to see both the past and the present in new ways.
We're proud to have partnered with these scholars throughout the publishing process and are delighted to celebrate their new books.
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Naturalization: A Queer Genealogy of US Citizenship, Race, and Sexuality
Siobhan Somerville
An illuminating genealogy exposing how US citizenship law reinforces settler colonialism through racialized and sexualized definitions of belonging.
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination, 2nd ed.
Rosamond S. King
A multilingual analysis of Caribbean cultural production challenging sexual norms through queer desire, gender transgression, and diasporic creativity.
Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science
E. R. Truitt
University of Pennsylvania Press
A fascinating history of the medieval thinking undergirding modern science and narratives of progress.
The Intimate Violence of South Korean and Japanese Cinema
Se Young Kim
A compelling analysis of intimate violence in South Korean and Japanese cinema from the 1990s to today.
