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Modernist Latitudes Series, Columbia University Press, 2020, 2020

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-fury-archives/9780231197113 In the late nineteenth and early tw... more http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-fury-archives/9780231197113

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women’s movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals. Jill Richards argues that these movements were not just socially linked but also deeply interconnected. Each offered the other an experimental language that could move beyond the nation-state’s rights of man and citizen, suggesting an alternative conceptual vocabulary for women’s rights.

Rather than focus on the demand for the vote, The Fury Archives turns to the daily practices and social worlds of feminist action. It offers an alternative history of women’s rights, practiced by female arsonists, suffragette rioters, industrial saboteurs, self-named terrorists, lesbian criminals, and queer resistance cells. Richards also examines the criminal proceedings that emerged in the wake of women’s actions, tracing the way that citizen and human emerged as linked categories for women on the fringes of an international campaign for suffrage.

Recovering a transatlantic print archive, Richards brings together a wide range of activists and artists, including Lumina Sophie, Ina Césaire, Rosa Luxemburg, Rebecca West, Angelina Weld Grimké, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Hannah Höch, Claude Cahun, Paulette Nardal, and Leonora Carrington. An expansive and methodologically innovative book, The Fury Archives argues that the relationship of women’s rights movements and the avant-gardes offers a radical alternative to liberal discourses of human rights in formation at the same historical moment.

Literature Now Series, Columbia UP , 2020

Publishers blurb: Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan no... more Publishers blurb:
Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante’s intense depiction of female friendship and women’s intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together.

In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards strike a tone at once critical and personal, achieving a way of talking about literature that falls between the seminar and the book club. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authors’ lives outside the academy. The Ferrante Letters offers an improvisational, collaborative, and cumulative model for reading and writing with others, proposing a new method the authors call collective criticism. A book for fans of Ferrante and for literary scholars seeking fresh modes of intellectual exchange, The Ferrante Letters offers incisive criticism, insouciant riffs, and the pleasure of giving oneself over to an extended conversation about fiction with friends.

Papers by Juno Jill Richards (they/them)

There is no telling what a militant woman might look like, said Emmeline Pankhurst in a 1913 talk... more There is no telling what a militant woman might look like, said Emmeline Pankhurst in a 1913 talk on her American tour. 1 Class might be written on the body, might be identified through speech and dress in various, familiar ways, but militancy among women is something else, Pankhurst claimed. A gifted orator, no stranger to bravura or sleight of hand, Pankhurst warned her American audience that, were they Englishmen, it might be their very own daughters, daughters assumed to be going outside to post a letter or attend a tennis engagement, who were actually, at that very moment, in the midst of planting a bomb in the letterbox. This is a suggestion meant to strike fear into the hearts of respectable English gentlemen and gall the American audience, certainly. But Pankhurst's larger claim is no less spectacular: the frontlines of the women's war against the government might be anywhere-not just in the factory or in parliament, but on the streets, the golf greens, the racing tracks, and inside the home of a respectable English gentleman.