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January 7, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 Columbia University Press literary studies catalog. The past year was a challenging one on many fronts and we hope the books in this catalog reflect the various ways in...

January 7, 2021

Q&A: Sunny Xiang on Tonal Intelligence

“Tonal Intelligence boldly rethinks race and self-representation by theorizing tone as a way to read racial meaning. Sunny Xiang’s ambitious remit and strikingly original conceptualizations offer a powerful reconfiguration of aesthetics, affect, and the geopolitical.” —Jini Kim Watson, author of...

January 7, 2021

Browse Our MLA Virtual Book Exhibit with Philip Leventhal

Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit for the MLA conference. I am Philip Leventhal, editor for literary studies, and while it is disappointing not to have the opportunity to see everyone in person at MLA this year, I...

December 8, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Vineland Reread, Research Exposed, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Rereadings series Vineland Reread Peter Coviello Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing...

May 28, 2020

COVID-19: War or Virus?
by Sunny Xiang

“Tonal Intelligence is smart and theoretically sophisticated. The book marks a significant contribution to work in Asian American and Asian studies, studies of twentieth-century literature and culture, theories of form and affect, and transpacific studies of late twentieth-century Asia.” ~Denise...

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Tag: Tonal Intelligence

Announcing Our 2021 Literary Studies Catalog

Q&A: Sunny Xiang on Tonal Intelligence

Browse Our MLA Virtual Book Exhibit with Philip Leventhal

New Book Tuesday! Vineland Reread, Research Exposed, and More!

COVID-19: War or Virus? by Sunny Xiang

COVID-19: War or Virus?
by Sunny Xiang