On December 9th, Bucknell University Press celebrates the release of two highly anticipated titles: the paperback edition of Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina by Silvia R. Tandeciarz, who was featured in our November 10th…
Never Again, Again: Revisiting “Citizens of Memory” in an Age of Forgetting*
As we anticipate next month’s paperback release of Citizens of Memory—first published in the Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory series in 2017—Bucknell University Press revisits a book whose message feels more timely and relevant than ever. Written…
Teaming up against Book Banning
A challenge, in censorship terms, is an attempt to remove or restrict access to material in a public space based on the objections of a person or group. For example, George M. Johnson’s memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue, has been…
International Translation Day and the Gift of Understanding
Early fall marks a time of celebration for translations, translators, and the wealth of languages. August is Women in Translation Month, followed by September’s National Translation Month. Wrapping up September is International Translation Day, a holiday established by the United…
Immigration and Humanistic Inquiry
Bucknell University Press publishes books of global interest in comparative literary and cultural studies, many of which center the topics of immigration and migration within and to the Americas and the Iberian world. As resettlement systems increasingly come under pressure…
Consuming Anxieties: An interview with author Dayne C. Riley
In Consuming Anxieties, Dayne C. Riley traces the satirical treatment of wine, beer, ale, gin, pipe tobacco, and snuff from the beginning of Charles II’s reign, through the boom in tobacco’s popularity, to the end of the Gin Craze in…
Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790: An Interview with the Author
Land ownership—and engagement with land more generally—constituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because political citizenship was restricted to male property owners, women could not wield political power in the way propertied men did. Given its foundational…