New Books in French Studies

Laura Kalba, “Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art” (Penn State UP, 2018)

Laura Kalba
Color in the Age of Impressionism
Commerce, Technology, and Art
Penn State University Press, 2018

New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Technology New Books Network June 14, 2018 Roxanne Panchasi

When you imagine the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, what colors do you see? Whatever comes to mind, Laura Kalba’s, Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art (Penn State University Press, 2018) will change the way you… Read More

Bruno Chaouat
Is Theory Good for the Jews?
French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism
Liverpool University Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Critical Theory New Books in French Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network June 11, 2018 Daveeda Goldberg

“Is Theory Good for the Jews?” asks author Bruno Chaouat, professor of French at the University of Minnesota, in Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism (Liverpool University Press, 2017) .… Read More

Yoav Di-Capua, “No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization” (U Chicago Press, 2018)

Yoav Di-Capua
No Exit
Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in World Affairs New Books Network May 31, 2018 David Gutherz

Yoav Di-Capua‘s new book, No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization (University of Chicago Press, 2018) is narrative intellectual history at its best: a tale of friendship and betrayal, of missed connections and surprising syntheses, of unfinished revolutions,… Read More

Catherine Soussloff, “Foucault on Painting” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)

Catherine M. Soussloff
Foucault on Painting

University of Minnesota Press, 2017

New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in French Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network May 22, 2018 Kirstin L. Ellsworth

In Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Catherine Soussloff discusses an area of Foucault’s development that has remained largely overlooked: his engagement with painting. Indeed Foucault, we learn, described himself as a painter. Throughout his career, he examined… Read More

Kate Skinner, “The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-2014” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

Kate Skinner
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland
Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-2014
Cambridge University Press, 2015

New Books in African Studies New Books in British Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network May 15, 2018 Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina

In her book, The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-2014 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Kate Skinner examines the history behind the failed project that sought the reunification of Togoland. At the end of the nineteenth… Read More

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