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Growing Up Chicago
Second to None: Chicago Stories
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?
Ideas in Unexpected Places
This transformative collection advances innovative scholarly approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power.
Horizon, Sea, Sound
This book imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of the horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations.
The Theater of Narration
This is the first book in English to focus on the Theater of Narration, a genre characterized by narrators who write and perform works that revisit historical events of national importance from local perspectives.
A History of the Chicago Portage
Second to None: Chicago Stories
This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history.
Makeshift Chicago Stages
This book brings together leading historians on the history of theater and performance in Chicago. The essays theorize a regional theater aesthetic that is inherently makeshift and marginal, reflecting the city’s segregation and exposing the transgressive possibilities of performance.
Institutional Theatrics
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state‑subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises.
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty‑first‑century documentary theater in Latin America, demonstrating how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage.
Violence and Indigenous Communities
This interdisciplinary collection of essays recognizes a long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples while emphasizing the agency of Native individuals and communities in genocide’s aftermath. Contributors provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, survival, and healing.
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.

Growing Up Chicago
Second to None: Chicago Stories
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?
Ideas in Unexpected Places
This transformative collection advances innovative scholarly approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power.
Horizon, Sea, Sound
This book imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of the horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations.
The Theater of Narration
This is the first book in English to focus on the Theater of Narration, a genre characterized by narrators who write and perform works that revisit historical events of national importance from local perspectives.
A History of the Chicago Portage
Second to None: Chicago Stories
This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history.
Makeshift Chicago Stages
This book brings together leading historians on the history of theater and performance in Chicago. The essays theorize a regional theater aesthetic that is inherently makeshift and marginal, reflecting the city’s segregation and exposing the transgressive possibilities of performance.
Institutional Theatrics
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state‑subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises.
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty‑first‑century documentary theater in Latin America, demonstrating how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage.
Violence and Indigenous Communities
This interdisciplinary collection of essays recognizes a long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples while emphasizing the agency of Native individuals and communities in genocide’s aftermath. Contributors provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, survival, and healing.
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.