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"The scope of the category “Japanese literature” is very differently conceptualized than it was just a generation ago; it now embraces a much broader range of forms and genres, incorporating many more texts written outside Japan, and including works composed by non-Japanese individuals, for example. Perhaps even more fundamentally, there has been a dramatic rise in interest in what is now called kanshibun (Sinitic poetry and prose), works composed in literary Chinese, the shared written language of the Sinographic sphere."—Matthew Fraleigh https://buff.ly/4dqYcds #Poetry #PoetryMonth #JapaneseLiterature #ChinesePoetry

"In the early twentieth century, a young, heterogeneous, and radical movement arose in Europe to drastically challenge the relationship between revolutionary politics, the arts, and beauty itself. And André Colomer, a poet laden with intense sensitivity, would explode onto the scenes this movement offered to grow to be one of the foremost theoreticians of anarchist individualism of his era, never losing sight of his poetic roots."—Oskar De Wolf https://buff.ly/44ghaPM #Poetry #Philosophy #PoetryMonth

INTO THE QUIET AND THE LIGHT offers a glimpse into the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry. In this Q&A, artist Virginia Hanusik discusses her own practice as a photographer and how it evolved through the conversations shared throughout the book. https://buff.ly/3Jy4MRH #EarthMonth #EarthWeek #EarthDay #ClimateCrisis

"When modern Japan’s academic departments of “national literature” were launched in the early 1890s, they defined themselves through an exclusive attention to works written in Japanese, which had then been recently re-conceptualized as Japan’s “national language.” But it is increasingly part of the shared “common sense” of the field that the Sinitic traditions of Japan, so long ignored by modern scholars both in Japan and abroad, are an essential part of the picture"—Matthew Fraleigh https://buff.ly/3Q6YMTo #PoetryMonth #JapaneseLiterature #JapanesePoets

Watch Jan Breman talk about his new book FIGHTING FREE TO BECOME UNFREE AGAIN.

"This art of seeing through the eyes of others, which animates LOST IN IDEOLOGY at every turn, is Blakely’s most valuable contribution."—Mathis Bitton Read the full book review in The Dispatch.

We are pleased to announce that Chin-Hao Huang's POWER AND RESTRAINT IN CHINA'S RISE is an honorable mention of the 2024 T.V Paul Best Book in Global International Relations from the Global International Relations Section of the International Studies Association. https://buff.ly/4d8uNV0

Listen to Adam McKible talk about CIRCULATING JIM CROW on the Beaconites podcast. https://buff.ly/3Umj7XC McKible's new boo examines how The Saturday Evening Post advanced a racist ideology that suppressed Black modernity through dialect fiction authored by white writers. In this iinterview, he talks about his research, the major themes of this book, and the freakish popularity of black minstrelsy in the first half of the 20th century (including in Beacon). #ListenUP #MediaHistory #BlackHistory

Join Rahaab Allana, author of ANOTHER LENS, who will chair a panel at the Camera South Asia II Symposium at 1:15 PM, Saturday, April 27.