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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 14h

You can catch @gracelavery.bsky.social, author of "Personal Demons," at @pegasusbooks.bsky.social Berkeley in October, and check out all our author events for the month: buff.ly/d9h0t7o

Cover of Personal Demons: Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism by Grace Lavery. The cover features a painting of a beige cat-like creature caught in branches against a painted black background. The title is written in a beige highly stylized font that incorporates calligraphy like strokes. The subtitle appears at the bottom of the cover in a beige serif font. Below this is the author’s name in the same stylized font in an orange red.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 14h

Great to see this review of Harmony Hammond's "Still Dangerous!" in The Brooklyn Rail. You can catch her signing it at the Leslie-Lohman Museum on 10/29. brooklynrail.org/2026/10/art_...

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Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader | The Brooklyn Rail

This reader presents a spectrum of Hammond’s voice from short gallery texts to lengthy scholarly articles and interviews.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 15h

It's international translation day, so here's the newest translated book originally published by @dukepress.bsky.social. This is the French edition of Jonathan Sterne's Diminished Faculties, published by Philharmonie De Paris Editions.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 15h

We have some great author events in October, including talks with @elimrogers.bsky.social, @crysbaik.bsky.social, and @jcmezo.bsky.social. Hope you can make it to some! buff.ly/d9h0t7o

Covers of Touch of Grey, Miracle Road, The Afric-American Picture Gallery, Making Gay History, How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent, P FKN R, Personal Demons, Still Dangerous!, Degas at the Gas Station, and Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies, arranged in a 5x5 grid.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 15h

Novel, the official journal of the Society for Novel Studies, is devoted to the best new criticism and theory in the field. Issue 59:2 is now available. View the full Table of Contents: buff.ly/Jyp3Zbo Learn more and subscribe: buff.ly/PCFKgPX

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The Massachusetts Review @themassreview.bsky.social · 17h

That's our Executive Editor! Check out Britt's new book today: www.dukeupress.edu/the-afric-am...

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The Afric-American Picture Gallery: William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17h

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Afric-American Picture Gallery" by Britt Rusert, which examines William J. Wilson’s journalistic imagining of a museum that centers African Americans at a time when none existed. buff.ly/8b8fwac

Cover of The Afric-American Picture Gallery: William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art by Britt Rusert. The cover features an installation resembling a Victorian picture display. Floral wallpaper holds framed historical photographs of various shapes. Two decorated tables flank the display and a small deer sculpture rests on the grass below. The title is in green serif at the top, with the author's name printed vertically in purple.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17h

John Brackett @livedeadbook.bsky.social, author of "Touch of Grey," and "Live Dead," continues his tour this month, and many of our other authors have events in October too. buff.ly/d9h0t7o

Cover of Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars by John Brackett. The cover is black and features two edited images in yellow and pink hues. The top right image shows a band of skeletons performing. The image on the bottom left shows the Grateful Dead performing on a set. The title is in a light grey sans serif bold font filling up the cover. ‘Pop stars’ is written in pink. The author’s name is vertical in a serif font.

Cover of Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness by John Brackett. Cover is a photograph of the crowd at a concert. In the foreground are several, tall mic stands pointing up to the stage.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 18h

The oldest journal in its field in the United States, Comparative Literature explores issues in literary history and theory. Issue 78:3 is now available, view the TOC: buff.ly/bvh2PH0 Learn more, sign up for issue alerts, and subscribe: buff.ly/NJh3mJP

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 18h

See below for Very funny lampooning of tv’s takeover by “the Process Genre” as in www.dukeupress.edu/the-process-...

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The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social · 18h

New Medicaid changes go into effect on Oct. 1, affecting eligibility for those with certain immigration statuses. To better understand Medicaid's role in immigrant health, give JHPPL analyses a read, starting with this analysis across immigrant population groups read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

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Public Health Insurance Coverage for Immigrants during Pregnancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Discussion of Relevant Policies and Evidence | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke Universit...

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 19h

This is one of the most amazing books I have ever been honored to work on. Around 40 years of oral & documentary history about Selassie's visit to Jamaica and the Caribbean which transformed the place of Rastafarians in Jamaican society. A historic volume.

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 18h

"This is the book—‘the half that’s yet to be told.’ The visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean captured the hearts of many of my generation and ignited a Rastafari revolution. My life changed when I saw the nail prints in Jah hand... ” - Rita Marley

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19h

The editors of "Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies," @santiaaurora.bsky.social & @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, appear at the Wisconsin Book Festival this month. And check out all our author events in October: buff.ly/d9h0t7o

Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo. The cover is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom. The title is written in a bold sans serif white text in all caps with “Puerto Rican Studies” written larger. Centered on the text is a cut out in the shape of Puerto Rica revealing the background gradient. The editors' names are below in white.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19h

Catch @thomasbeller.bsky.social, author of "Degas at the Gas Station" and "Lost in the Game" at the Louisiana Book Festival next month, and see all our author events for October: buff.ly/d9h0t7o

Cover of Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball by Thomas Beller. Cover is a photograph that shows a small flock of pigeons taking off from in front of an outdoor basketball hoop.

Cover of Degas at the Gas Station by Thomas Beller. The background is a solid mustard yellow with bold, navy blue typography. The title is in large, overlapping serif letters. The author's name is displayed in large, bold letters at the bottom of the page. A horizontal line separates the space between the title and byline. The subtitle, "Essays," appears in capitalized letters in the middle of the space break line.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 20h

In "From Hate to Hallows," Todne Thomas @blkvoicemedium.bsky.social explores the meanings Black people make from Black church arson following a 2015 incident in Thomas' hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Rpq4MTE

Cover of From Hate to Hallows: Reframing Black Church Arson by Todne Thomas. The cover features an orange and red sky scattered with dark flecks above a black silhouetted church with a cross. The title appears in large white letters across the upper half. The subtitle is in spaced white lettering below the church with "Reframing" above "Black Church Arson" and the author's name in gold at the bottom.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 20h

Our authors have in-person and online events around the US and in Canada and Switzerland this October. Hope you can make it to some! buff.ly/d9h0t7o

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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 21h

"What counts as disability." Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @elimrogers.bsky.social & @dukepress.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, Hage explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. 🗓️ 8 October 2026 📍The University of Sydney 🔗 buff.ly/yImDZSx @dukepress.bsky.social @anthroprofhage.bsky.social

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations to @danilynrutherford.bsky.social, whose book "Beautiful Mystery" has been named a co-winner of the 2026 American Ethnological Society @amethno.bsky.social Senior Book Prize. buff.ly/QdtUSef

Cover of Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World by Danilyn Rutherford. Features an image of the author and her daughter treated with a colorful gradient, giving it a blueish tone. The beach and a house are visible in the background.

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John Brackett @livedeadbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tour continues tomorrow at The Next Chapter in Huntington. The fun starts at 7 - see you there!!!

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American Literature has been regarded since its inception as the preeminent periodical in its field. Issue 98:3 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/o5IZWk3 Learn more, sign up for issue alerts, and subscribe: buff.ly/Ixl6fWI

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "Enter the Lion," by John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah, which assembles a vital archive of the history of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie I state visit to Kingston, Jamaica in 1966. buff.ly/69p9RiK

Cover of Enter the Lion: The 1966 State Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean by John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah. Cover features a green, orange, and red gradient imposed on a historical photo of a crowd with signs surrounded by military. The title is bold and white, with the subtitle bottom-center in white and yellow. The authors' names are in yellow across the top of the cover.

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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I cannot wait for this book!!!!!

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Prism ppresents cutting-edge research on modern literary production, dissemination, and reception in China and beyond. Issue 22:2 is now available, view the TOC: buff.ly/8AHWEcX Learn more, sign up for issue alerts, and subscribe: buff.ly/Krk3zjA

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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Grateful to have this oppprtunity to complete Be Real Black for Me: About the Matter of Roberta Flack (@dukepress.bsky.social) with this Fellowship. www.english.utoronto.ca/news/assista...

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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“A Lesbian Media Strategy: This Bridge Called My Back and Persephone Press” is out now in the September issue of American Literature. Read it here: doi.org/10.1215/0002...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Early Modern Antiquarianism," a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly edited by Megan Cook and Ali Madani, is now available. View the TOC and read the introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/q3r4W8y Buy this issue: buff.ly/2GH44oJ

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're in Durham this Thursday 10/1, catch @elimrogers.bsky.social, author of "Sick Work," giving at talk at Duke University: buff.ly/NzUBeOo

Flyer promoting a Sick Work book talk (Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness) with Emily Lim Rogers and Dr. Catherine Clune‑Taylor, Thursday Oct 1 at 10 AM in Rubenstein Library 153 and on Zoom, showing book cover, pill organizer photo, and sponsor logos.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you can't make it to our Centennial exhibit at the Duke University Library, you can watch a video walkthrough. The exhibit will be up in Rubenstein Library through February 2027. #DUP100 buff.ly/sN3b05n

A large paneled room with a carpet and chandelier and tall curtained windows. There are two exhibit stands on the carpet featuring Duke University Press covers and an exhibit window on the back wall with books in it.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ScALE. The Alchemy Lecture. Date: Thursday, Oct. 29 Time: 5 - 8 p.m.; Reception: 5 - 6 p.m. Venue: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, CIBC Lobby Registration now open. In person: dashboard.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/80054/... Online: dashboard.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/80196/... JOIN US!

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sophie Chao delivers 15th Archipelago lecture at KTH Stockholm on Multispecies Justice in Worlds Beyond Bios. Dec 9, 2026. 'How might thinking beyond secular scientific definitions of life open new ways of imagining justice in this age of planetary unraveling?' #envhum www.kth.se/philhist/his...

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW IN STOCK - Explore Sedgwick's art and theory with this richly illustrated volume on queer and trans craft. 📚️ buff.ly/ELuRXmo @dukepress.bsky.social

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Victoria Hesford @vhesford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's happening! My book, Artificial Women, will be out in the world in February 2027 from @dukepress.bsky.social!! Preorder & get 30% off with discount code E27WOMEN. Thank you, @bonniehonig.bsky.social, for such generous comments! Your work was very influential as I was writing the book.

Artificial Women
The 1970s, Mass Culture, and Feminism
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In Artificial Women, Victoria Hesford returns to the culture and politics of the 1970s to offer a new reading on the relationship between feminism and mass media. Considering how mainstream US television & film represented feminism & feminists, Hestord shows that popular culture demonstrated a widespread concern with the artificiality and unpredictability of women—a concern that evidences the larger technological, political, and historical processes through which 1970s feminism was formed. From The Stepford Wives to Maude, Foxy Brown to the SCUM Manifesto, Hesford offers a reframing of 1970s feminism and its representations in popular culture to demonstrate how the Second Wave is coterminous with, rather than distinct from, the poststructural, queer, black, and women of color feminisms of the 1980s and 1990s. Incorporating contemporary confrontations between trans and transphobic feminisms, Artificial Women argues that 1970s feminism, rather than working toward the abolition of gender, instead produced an excess of gender and a too-muchness of women that feminists and mass culture still navigate today.
"As candidates for public office tout their masculinity (often surgically or medically assisted), while opposing gender-affirming care for trans people, Victoria Hesford theorizes feminist futures by tracing media technologies' roles in shaping or constituting 'artificial women.' In this un-put-downable-book, visual culture is a partner in thinking, not just an object for theory to analyze, and feminism is an agonistic politics. A brilliant synthetic account of 20th century feminism, media, and theory." — Bonnie Honig, author of A Feminist Theory of Refusal
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This book celebrated its 5 year birthday yesterday—first milestone. Thanks to everyone who has read, shared and taught 🌺💐

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On the cover the artist Xaviera Simmons
is standing in ankle high water holding a fishing pole with a forest and mountains behind

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did you know Sean Weidman's essay is open access? Read it for free, even if you don't have access to university journal databases! And read what the judges had to say about this excellent essay here: www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/CCIS/

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New book review -- @brentzkaup.bsky.social reads Paige Marie Patchin's "Love in the Time of Zika: Environmental Crisis and the Future of Reproduction" antipodeonline.org/2026/09/28/l... @dukepress.bsky.social

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks to Aya Nassar, Sterling Johnson, Paroj Banerjee and AbdouMaliq Simone for their reviews of For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social in @dialogueshg.bsky.social In my response, I focus on the inner violence of our institutional homes journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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On complicity: Home, the military and the university - Michele Lancione, 2026

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW IN STOCK - Compiling essays, reviews, artist’s statements, presentations, letters, and interviews, Still Dangerous! fleshes out Hammond’s career while providing a valuable resource for scholars and students of contemporary culture. 📚️ buff.ly/ehqUxHf @dukepress.bsky.social

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Weekly Read is “Dorothy Day's Modernist Hospitality” by Sean Weidman. Published in Twentieth-Century Literature, 71:3, it was recently named runner-up for the Modernist Studies Association’s new Contingent and Independent Scholars Essay Prize. Read it for free: buff.ly/UmdyJxA

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today on the blog, Mack Paul, author of "Miracle Road," writes about the history of Research Triangle Park, NC, whose articles of incorporation were signed on this day in 1956. buff.ly/wAC0yeb

Cover of Miracle Road: The Story of Research Triangle Park by Allen Paul and Mack Paul. The cover features a faded map on an orange background. Angular cutout photographs are scattered across the cover, with scientists in laboratories, a modern office building, schoolchildren, and a contemporary public gathering. The title appears in large white serif text at the center, with the subtitle and authors’ names below.

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Scholastica @scholasticahq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To provide nonprofits with coordinated publishing technology and workflow support, The Scholarly Publishing Collective (out of @dukepress.bsky.social), Westchester Publishing Services, and Scholastica have launched Allied Journal Publishing Solutions. Learn more during our webinar: buff.ly/dsBN4bR

This image shows the webinar title, “Intro to Allied Journal Publishing Solutions and Advice for Publishing In-House,” event date, September 29th at 10 AM ET / 2 PM UTC; and Scholastica and ALPSP logos on a light grey background. Beside that are images of the webinar speakers on a dark green background with a lighter green wave below. Speakers from left to right: Tyler Carey, CRO, Westchester Publishing Services; Raymond Lambert, Publishing Services Manager, Duke University Press; Brian Cody, CEO and Co-Founder, Scholastica; Danielle Tillmann, Head of Marketing, Scholastica.

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This conversation is a decade old today. Honored to be there❤️

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICYMI you can read the introduction to my new book GOOD VIBES ONLY: PHENOMENOLOGY & THE BIOPOLITICS OF ALGORITHMIC LEGITIMATION for free on the Duke UP website: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "Worlds Beyond Bios," edited by Sophie Chao, @winterchristine.bsky.social & @dschlosberg.bsky.social, which builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human to offer new ways of thinking toward planetary repair. buff.ly/EAmIgbM

Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg. The cover features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material. The title is written in a bold sans serif font in grey blue aligned left. The subtitle is written in black and all caps above and aligned right. The editors names are in white in the bottom left.

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For Part II of our retrospective on "Specters of Mother India," we present an interview with Mrinalini Sinha. In the late 1920s, Indian feminists found a brief opening for collective political agency as women. Why did this opening emerge—and then get foreclosed? @dukepress.bsky.social

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Universal Rights and the Specters of Indian Feminism, Part II: An Interview with Mrinalini Sinha

In the late 1920s, Indian feminists found a brief opening for collective political agency as women. Why did this opening emerge—and then get foreclosed?...

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Duke University Press. In "Smaddification," Amanda Michelle Reid traces the story of Jamaican decolonization through the journeys of dancer-activists as they define and embody the promise of freedom in a newly independent postcolonial nation. Read the intro for free.

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Duke University Press. "Inhuman Reparations," a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, edited by Kathryn Yusoff, Elsa Noterman, and Archie Davies, is now available. View the TOC, read the Intro, and "Freedom Must Also Die" by Christen Smith, all freely available:

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