BOOKS OF THE WEEK 1/27

Straight from sunny San Diego, SDSU Press has Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue!

Music: It Never Rains in Southern California by Albert Hammond

Go back in time to the Mayan cities of Central America with Everett Gee Jackson’s FOUR TRIPS TO ANTIQUITY. Explore the futuristic possibilities of tomorrow with Naief Yehya’s DRONE VISIONS. Review the relationship between body and mind in Noam Chomsky’s MODULAR APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE MIND. And dive into the digital with the collections of essays in CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE edited by Antonio Rafele, Frederick Luis Aldama and William Anthony Nericcio. 

These titles and more can be found on our Amazon Storefront! And follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to stay up to date on all thing SDSU Press. 

SDSU Press and MALAS Along with the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park Present : CARLOS SOLORIO, Beyond Transfronterizo Lens, A Cultural Photo Exhibit

Photographer and cinematographer Carlos Solorio, MALAS Alum and SDSU Press contributing artist, in a one man photography show at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park.

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What's Inside? IMPRINTS, JOURNALS, AND SERIES @ SDSU PRESS

SDSU PRESS HAS IT ALL! 

from comics to culture and everything in between 

San Diego State University Press is serious about having a colorful assortment of topics, genres, and stories in our publications. Whether your interest is psychology, comic books, technology, film noir, culture or art; SDSU Press has something for you! The world inside our doors is vast and ever-growing! 

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A Trilingual Edition of Kumeyaay Storytelling in English, Spanish, and Kumeyaay from SDSU Press

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Did you know!? SDSU Press Publishes Comics, Graphic Narrative Analysis, and Animation Studies Under the Aegis of its AMATL COMIX Imprint

Did you miss #amatlcomix's extraordinary album of Xicano penned comix classics from Jose Alaniz!? No worries, pick up a copy here: https://t.co/0KkdgzXvAq (scroll town a tad!). pic.twitter.com/TVQOyVQkuj

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Here's Another Reason the Follow SDSU Press on Instagram! Breaking News on our Latest Psychoanalysis on the Couch Volume!

Follow us on Instagram! "Greenson was just such a storm that not only brought about my institute literally on the beach...

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New Distribution Collaboration Between SDSU Press and the SDSU Department of Chicana/o Studies!

A new collaboration between the SDSU Chicana and Chicano Studies Department and San Diego State University Press! Now ...

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New! January 1, 2022 --> The Latest Title in our Psychoanalysis on the Couch Series! Greenson 9, Edited by Harry Polkinhorn

Coming January 1, 2022, a new book in our PSYCHOANALYSIS ON THE COUCH SERIES. Here's a teaser look at the wraparound...

Posted by San Diego State University Press on Friday, December 3, 2021

Steven Butterman, Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox

For One Night and One Night Only 

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT 

    SDSU Press published, Steven Butterman is coming to you live through your screens to deliver a book talk on his new book Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox; LGBT Language, New Media, and Visual Cultures in Modern Day Brazil. 

    TUNE IN TONIGHT (Wednesday, December 1st at 8pm) TO THE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM! 

    Register for the event here --> https://miami.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GMkiT7NqR3KMT4GXpa_cQA    

Can't make it tonight? 

No fear, you can pick up Butterman's work through SDSU Press' Amazon. His work Perversions on Parade dives into the work of Glauco Mattoso, a poet who wrote a majority of his work during Brazil's most recent dictatorship. Butterman's book has been featured on SDSU Press' Book(s) of the Week and is a staple SDSU Press publication.

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SDSU PRESS PUBLIC LECTURE (vaxxed and masked!) : Darius Gainer, Public Lecture on BLACK REPRESENTATION IN THE WORLD OF ANIMATION | SDSU Main Campus, GMCS 333 at 11am, Tuesday December 7, 2021.

Help us spread the word! This coming Tuesday something wickedly good our way cometh! Darius Gainer, Public Lecture (vaxxed and masked), SDSU Main Campus, GMCS 333 at 11am, Tuesday December 7, 2021. Thx to my partner in crimes literary & semiotic, Frederick Luis Aldama for initiating this friendship/collaboration! Thx again to John Jennings and Tim Fielder for the book blurbs and to Stanford W. Carpenter for the moving intro/preface. Pick up a copy of BLACK REPRESENTATION IN THE WORLD OF ANIMATION here: amatlcomix.sdsu.edu or here https://amzn.to/3EhQlwS

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SDSU Press's Crack Team of Surveillance Agents Watches Over Our Recent Publications! #sdsupress #amatlcomix #hyperbolebooks

Our precious titles are carefully watched over by a crack team of special agents! SDSU Press, Amatl Comix, and Hyperbole...

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SDSU Press' Feature Presentation

 Lights Go Down...

    in a movie theater and a story unravels in front of you. When the lights come back up, you've been transformed in some way. And pulling yourself away from the seat is nearly impossible. 

Jackson's Drawing of Guacamaya

    That's the same feeling you can get from Everett Gee Jackson's Four Trips to Antiquity. You might know this story, you might remember this history from a high school class--a lecture you heard distantly while staring out a window. 

    Regardless, Jackson's work is something new. It's personal, it's intimate. You aren't just learning about ancient Mayan cities, you are living in them. 

    And in living with them, they speak to us.Through the words of Jackson's book, they plead with us. "Please," they say, "Please don't forget we were here. Don't forget that we are here. Don't forget what we are and certainly don't forget what we once were." 

    Jackson says it best when revisiting one of his favorite sculptures on his final trip, only to find it crumbling;  

 

Jackson's Drawing of Stela P. 

"When I look carefully at Stela P., who is still a lovely young lady to me, I made a sad discovery. The surfaces of the stone figure had become noticeably a bit crumbly. The edges had lost their sharpness. I knew this had not been true of my former visits to the ruins. Later I was to learn that the atmosphere had caused that degeneration. The polluted air of our modern age was finally getting to the ancient sculpture of Central America, just as I had heard it had done to the sculpture of the Acropolis at Athens." 

   

     Jackson didn't simply see these Mayan sculptures, he interacted with them and he got to know them. If you get to know them, what will happen? If you live in this world crafted by Jackson's words for the 173 pages he gives us, what will change in you? Will they effect you the same way they effected Jackson? 

    There is only one way to find out. 

                Time travel with us. 

Four Trips to Antiquity is available for purchases from the SDSU Press Amazon page (which you can access here). The hardcover book features Jackson's drawing is black-and-white and color, as well as the stories of his travels to the Mayan cities. 

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SDSU PRESS BOOK(s) OF THE WEEK

NEED A BOOK?

sdsu press has three

Weather cooling down, or maybe you are in San Diego where it’s warming up? Either way it’s the perfect time to curl up with one of our publications! 

Pick up Splice, An Undergraduate Research Journal straight from SDSU College of Arts and Letters. Looking for a literary deep dive, check out Things We Do Not Talk About by Daniel A. Olivas and explore Latino/a literature in a collection of essays and interviews. Finally explore the past and future in the present with Footsteps From the Past into The Future, a trilingual collection of stories written in Kumeyaay, Spanish, and English edited by Margaret Field.

BOOK(s) OF THE WEEK 11/1

 

TIME CAPSULE 

SDSU PRESS' BOOK(s) OF THE WEEK

    SDSU Press is all about these three books this week; "My Native Land is Memory; Stories of a Cuban Childhood" by Oliva M. Espín, "Four Trips of Antiquity" by Everett Gee Jackson, and "Perceiving & Telling; A Study of Iterative Discourse" By Danièle Chatelain. 
    Travel with Espín as she explores the memories of her adolescence interwoven with political shifts as Cuba changes just as much as the coming of age girl. Following this look back, Chatelain's "Perceiving & Telling" challenges the way language and verbal conventions blur our understanding of time. And to finish off our time oriented books collection, pick up "Four Trips to Antiquity" and joins one artists search for historical ancient Maya sculptures. 

    All these books and more are available on our Amazon page!

    Stay up to date with all things SDSU Press by following our socials (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook) and checking in on the Aztec Paper Blog for new announcements! 

Dance Studies at the Border! An SDSU Press Classic

Still in print! An SDSU Press classic --> amzn.to/31nrM2X A broadly conceived and executed collection of interviews,...

Posted by San Diego State University Press on Monday, November 1, 2021