IU Press scores a CHOICE win among librarians

Ten titles chosen ‘outstanding’ for 2000

By Jayne Spencer

The designation has particular significance because CHOICE is published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. The approximate 7,000 reviews by subject experts published each year aid academic, public and special libraries around the world in their acquisition decisions.

The ten IU winning titles are:

The Companion to African Literatures, edited by Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe;

The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America, by Rayna Green, with contributions by Melanie Fernandez;

Epic Traditions of Africa, by Stephen Belcher;

The Hebrew Folktale, by Eli Yassif, translated from Hebrew by Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum and foreword by Dan Ben-Amos;

Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780-1830, by Anne Mellor;

Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video, edited by Phyllis R. Klotman and Janet Cutler;

Latina Performance, by Alicia Arrizon;

Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920, by Linda Tomko;

Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning, by Martin Heidegger, translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly; and

Metaphysics and Oppression: Heidegger’s Challenge to Western Philosophy, by John McCumber.

Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video, is the work of Klotman, a professor emerita of Afro-American studies, and founder and former director of the Black Film Center/Archive at IUB. The co-author is her daughter , who is a professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

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