New Releases: January 2023

Looking to kick off the new year with a new book? Here’s a complete list of our releases this month. From Aristotelian philosophy to contemporary Canadian cinema, these reads have something for everyone.

The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization
Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference

By Maurice Jr. Labelle

The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization redefines post-Orientalism in a relational and integrative way. Scholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said’s Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang’s recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for the betterment of all.

Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium

Edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman

Over the past two decades Canadian filmmaking has undergone a dramatic transformation. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines the particularities of contemporary Canadian cinema, tracing its eclectic energies across local and global forms and presenting case studies of films, filmmakers, film contexts, and key developments since 2000.

Configurations of a Cultural Scene
Young Writers and Artists in Madrid, 1918–1930

The Failure of Remain
Anti-Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom

By Adam Fagan and Stijn van Kessel

The Failure of Remain offers the first comprehensive study of the UK’s grassroots anti-Brexit movement after the June 2016 referendum. Through first-hand interviews, a survey of anti-Brexit activists, and an analysis of their campaign materials, Adam Fagan and Stijn van Kessel assess the ideology, arguments, and strategies of the movement.

From Big Bang to Big Data
A History of the Media

By Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell, and Pelle Snickars

Beyond newspapers, television, and social networks, media are the means by which any information is shared, from antique graffiti to playlists on Spotify. Cultures are held together as much by bookkeeping and records as they are by stories and myths. From Big Bang to Big Data shows how every society has been a media society, in its own way.

Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910

By Michael J. Connolly

In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain, and later the United States, as resistance to the liberal democracies of Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America. Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910 explores the rise and fall of Anglo-American Jacobitism and the movement’s ideas and concerns.