Wayne State University Press
Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles. The Press disseminates research, advances education, and serves the local community while expanding the international reputation of the Press and the University.
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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
Explores Jewish criminals—alleged and actual—in Medieval Europe and how they’ve been shaped by society.
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ISBN: 9780814345597
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ISBN: 9780814348239
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ISBN: 9780814345603
Archaic Modernism
Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Detailed textual readings evoking the archaic sensibility and modernist style of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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ISBN: 9780814346068
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ISBN: 9780814343104
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ISBN: 9780814343111
Heirs of Yesterday
A reissue of the controversial novel about middle-class Jewish life in Old San Francisco.
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ISBN: 9780814346679
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ISBN: 9780814346686
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ISBN: 9780814346693
Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World
Explores the global dimension and local identity of Chile’s vibrant contemporary cinema.
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ISBN: 9780814346815
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ISBN: 9780814346822
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ISBN: 9780814346839
Stars and Silhouettes
The History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood
Extensive account of the cameo’s production history and how audiences affirm their mastery of celebrity culture.
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ISBN: 9780814346907
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ISBN: 9780814346914
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ISBN: 9780814346921
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
Fairy-Tale Film Truths
Exploration of fairy-tale movies that blur the line between reality and magic.
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ISBN: 9780814347829
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ISBN: 9780814342220
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ISBN: 9780814342237
You Are My Joy and Pain
Love Poems
A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.
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ISBN: 9780814348017
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ISBN: 9780814348024
A Fine Canopy
A collection that focuses on the natural world, these are poems of wilderness and of wildness.
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ISBN: 9780814348062
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ISBN: 9780814348079
A Lincoln Legacy
The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Examines the history of the federal trial courts in Western Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.
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ISBN: 9780814348048
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ISBN: 9780814348055
Communings of the Spirit, Volume III
The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1942-1951
Mordecai Kaplan’s personal reactions to the events of the 1940s.
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ISBN: 9780814347676
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ISBN: 9780814348253
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ISBN: 9780814347683
What the Chickadee Knows
Modern poems conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English.
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ISBN: 9780814347508
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ISBN: 9780814347515

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You're in the Wrong Place
A lyrical deconstruction of postindustrial American life.
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ISBN: 9780814348086
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ISBN: 9780814348093
Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales
A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland’s unique nineteenth-century tales.
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ISBN: 9780814347867
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ISBN: 9780814347850
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ISBN: 9780814347874
Stories of Jewish Life
Casale Monferrato-Rome-Jerusalem, 1876–1985
Segre’s stories of Jewish life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy.
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ISBN: 9780814347652
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ISBN: 9780814347669
"Black People Are My Business"
Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation
Exploration of Bambara’s practices of liberation that encourage resistance to oppression and solidarity.
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ISBN: 9780814346075
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ISBN: 9780814344293
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ISBN: 9780814344316
The Cinema of Ettore Scola
Brings to light Scola’s cinematic style and contextualizes his commentary on Italian society and politics.
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ISBN: 9780814347478
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ISBN: 9780814343791
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ISBN: 9780814343807
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale
Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures
New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe.
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ISBN: 9780814345351
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ISBN: 9780814345368
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ISBN: 9780814345375
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.
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ISBN: 9780814347744
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ISBN: 9780814347737
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ISBN: 9780814347751

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Embodying Hebrew Culture
Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine
Details the creation of a Hebrew cultural aesthetic that was intentionally and distinctly physical.
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ISBN: 9780814348031
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ISBN: 9780814336366
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ISBN: 9780814336373
Invisible Ink
The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.
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ISBN: 9780814347591
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ISBN: 9780814347607
ISBN: 0814347592