TOME@Ohio State Funded Monographs
As funded monographs are published, they will be added to this page.
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Ashley Hope Pérez
The Ohio State University Press, 2024
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814215654
Tapping a rich vein of Latin American literature, Deformative Fictions by Ashley Hope Pérez excavates works that unsettle, defamiliarize, and disrupt access to the conventional pleasures of reading and interpretation. Close readings highlight the nuances of texts that have been misread, underread, or fetishized because they depart from literary norms, including fiction by Roberto Bolaño and Silvina Ocampo. Interweaving rhetorical and narratological analysis with reflections on the ethical stakes of writing, reading, and interpreting deformative fictions and fictional cruelty, Pérez issues a resounding entreaty for us to expand our understandings of the value of narrative beyond the logics of utility and comfort.
Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country
Ryan Thomas Skinner
University of Minnesota Press, 2022
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452967691
The first scholarly monograph in English to focus on the African and Black diaspora in Sweden, Afro-Sweden emphasizes the voices, experiences, practices, knowledge, and ideas of these communities. Its interdisciplinary approach to understanding diasporic communities is essential to contemporary conversations around such issues as the status and identity of racialized populations in Europe and the international impact of Black Lives Matter.
Moving across Differences: How Students Engage LGBTQ+ Themes in a High School Literature Class
Mollie V. Blackburn
SUNY Press, 2022
Open Access Edition:
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7524
Grounded in ethnography and teacher research, Moving across Differences examines how an LGBTQ+-themed literature course enabled high school students to negotiate their differences and engage in ethical encounters. Drawing on the work of queer theorists, Mollie V. Blackburn conceptualizes these encounters as forms of movement across differences of not only gender and sexuality but also identity and ideology more broadly.
Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany
Sarah Neville
Cambridge University Press, 2022
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009031615
Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Highlighting the shifting contingencies and regulations surrounding herbals and English printing during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the book argues that the construction of scientific authority in Renaissance England was inextricably tied up with the circumstances governing print.
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Mytheli Sreenivas
University of Washington Press, 2021
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.6069/9780295748856
In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe.
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics
Wendy S. Hesford
The Ohio State University Press, 2021
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214688
Through iconic images and stories of child migrants, child refugees, undocumented children, child soldiers, and children who are victims of war, terrorism, and state violence, Violent Exceptions illustrates how humanitarian rhetoric turns public attention away from systemic violations against children’s human rights and reframes this violence as exceptional—erasing more gradual forms of violence and minimizing human rights potential to counteract these violations and the precarious conditions from which they arise.
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene
Theodora K. Dragostinova
Cornell University Press, 2021
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.7298/8wmm-d308
In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist state—Bulgaria—and its cultural engagements with the Balkans, the West, and the Third World. Complicating familiar narratives of both the 1970s and late socialism, The Cold War from the Margins places the history of socialism in an international context and recovers alternative models of global interconnectivity along East-South lines.
The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France
Elizabeth Andrews Bond
Cornell University Press, 2021
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.7298/4wdz-2926
Elizabeth Andrews Bond scoured France's local newspapers spanning the two decades prior to the Revolution as well as its first three years, shining a light on the letters to the editor. A form of early social media, these letters constituted a lively and ongoing conversation among readers. The Writing Public offers a novel examination of how French citizens used the information press to form norms of civic discourse and shape the experience of revolution.
The Three Ages of Government: From the Person, to the Group, to the World
Jos C.N. Raadschelders
University of Michigan Press, 2020
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11666501
Jos C.N. Raadschelders provides the information that all citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without it. The Three Ages of Government rises above stereotypical thinking to show the centrality of government in human life.
Music on the Move
Danielle Fosler-Lussier
University of Michigan Press, 2020
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9853855
Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups. It can encourage curiosity and foster understanding. It can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. Above all, music continually changes as it crosses social, linguistic, and political boundaries.
In the above video, Danielle Fosler-Lussier talks about how the TOME@Ohio State initiative at The Ohio State University Libraries helped her to make her latest work Open Access and the multi-media enhancements of her work made possible by the Fulcrum platform at the University of Michigan Press.
Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common
Harmony Bench
University of Minnesota Press, 2020
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452962627
Perpetual Motion argues that dance is a vital part of civil society and a means for building participation, looking at how, after 9/11, it became a crucial way of recuperating the common character of public spaces. It asks how dance brings people together in digital spaces and what dance's digital travels might mean for how we experience and express community.
Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative
Matthew Clark and James Phelan
The Ohio State University Press, 2020
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214282
In Debating Rhetorical Narratology: Matthew Clark and James Phelan provide a model of lively, sharp, and good-natured scholarly exchange. Clark proposes "friendly amendments" to Phelan's theorizing of the synthetic, mimetic, and thematic aspects of narrative, and Phelan responds, often by explaining why he finds Clark's amendments less-than-friendly. Clark rounds off the debate by offering a brief rejoinder.
Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile
Guisela Latorre
The Ohio State University Press, 2019
Open Access Edition:
https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214022
Guisela Latorre’s Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile documents and critically deconstructs the explosion of street art that emerged in Chile after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, providing the first broad analysis of the visual vocabulary of Chile’s murals and graffiti while addressing the historical, social, and political context for this public art in Chile post-1990.
In the above video, Guisela Latorre talks about how the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) project at The Ohio State University Libraries (TOME@Ohio State) helped her to make her latest work on the mural movement in post-dictatorship Chile Open Access.