The Third Population

Aurélien Ducoudray and Jeff Pourquié, Translated by Kendra Boileau

Coming October 15th!

“The Third Population is a great missing component to the rich area of comics about mental health, a form of stepping back from the intensely personal aspects and mapping out the universal ones that include many levels of involvement and require planning, organization, patience, and empathy.”—John Seven, The Beat

The Play World

Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood

Patricia Anne Simpson

“Simpson’s book is a welcome addition to discussions of the importance of the domestic sphere, and its artifacts and practices, for questions of cultural nationalism and transnational interplays. It shows the impact of toys and play on narratives of migration, the articulation of middle-class subjectivity, and the role of model childhoods in the self-identity of modern European family structures—and how they influenced European American family structures in their acquisition of racial, ethnic, and national regimes.”—Karin A. Wurst, author of Fabricating Pleasure: Fashion, Entertainment, and Cultural Consumption in Germany, 1780–1830

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

Michael Muhammad Knight

“In Metaphysical Africa, Michael Muhammad Knight demonstrates a substantial grasp of the origins and "inner workings" of the AAC-NIH in a refreshingly fulsome fashion. With a wonderful fusion of journalistic zeal and scholarly rigor, each chapter of this book lends itself to an intriguing, insightful representation of a profoundly dynamic Black religious worldview coming into its own.”—Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, coauthor of The Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Popular Culture

A Weaver-Poet and the Plague

Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London

Scott Oldenburg

“A Weaver-Poet and the Plague interacts expertly with primary sources and secondary literature about the plague, the labor of poor men and women in early modern London, grief and gender. This original book offers a fascinating reading of the weaver William Muggins’s poem London’s Mourning Garment (1603) and a compelling microhistory of this poet in relation to his social network. Oldenburg offers a fresh perspective on a ‘nonaristocratic aesthetics’ of low and middling sorts of poets and prose writers.”—Jennifer C. Vaught, author of Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

Booklist calls The Third Population a ”surprisingly participatory, warmly individualized,even laugh-out-loud, record of mental illness.”

Reading Religion reviews Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art by Ben Schachter: “explores and complicates relationships and relationality that have long been accepted, and yet, unchallenged.”

New Journal!
Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes will join PSU Press in 2021. The journal welcomes articles that reach across the fields of drama, theatre and performance studies.

The Journal of Africana Religions has announced that Professors Monique Bedasse, Danielle Boaz, and Youssef Carter will join Edward Curtis and Sylvester Johnson as general co-editors.

Coptic

A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects

James P. Allen

Unlike previous grammars that focus on just two of the Coptic dialects, this volume, written by senior Egyptologist James P. Allen, describes the grammar of the language in each of the six major dialects. It also includes exercises with an answer key, a chrestomathy, and an. . . (more)

Ramat Raḥel IV

The Renewed Excavations by the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Expedition (2005–2010): Stratigraphy and Architecture

Oded Lipschits, Manfred Oeming, and Yuval Godot

This is the first of a three-volume final report on the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Renewed Excavations at Ramat Raḥel, 2005–2010. It presents the stratigraphy and architecture of the excavation areas, including portions of . . . (more)