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Concepts of the World
The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910–1940

Effie Rentzou

“Effie Rentzou roots our contemporary understanding of globalization in the surrealist vision of the world in this groundbreaking study, as a movement founded on universalist principles, based in the reinvention of the concept of the human that originated in Greek antiquity.” —Katharine Conley, author of Surrealist Ghostliness

Black Theater, City Life
African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies

Macelle Mahala

“Mahala’s book moves beyond the microcosm of production history to the macrocosm of community, theater history, and American history.” —Harvey Young, coauthor of Black Theater is Black Life: An Oral History of Chicago Theater and Dance, 1970-2010 (Northwestern, 2014)

Four of the Three Musketeers
The Marx Brothers on Stage

Robert S. Bader

“As far as I’m concerned, the Marx Brothers practically invented comedy. And I love this great new book about them by Robert Bader!” —Jerry Seinfeld

The Idea of Indian Literature
Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method

Preetha Mani

“A must read for anyone interested in how national literature works in a multilingual nation.” —Francesca Orsini, author of The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism

Valor
Stories

Murathan Mungan
Translated by Aron Aji and David Gramling

Winner of the 2021 Global Humanities Translation Prize

“…in Valor Murathan Mungan refreshed the Turkish language drawing on the language of old Turkic tales and masters of modern Turkish radical fiction.” —Selim S. Kuru, University of Washington