How Reading is Written: 
A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein by Dr Astrid Lorange and Turbo Folk-Music and Cultural
 Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia by Dr Uros Cvoro will be launched by Professor Jill Bennett and Associate Professor Anna Munster at UNSW Art & Design on Thursday, 12 February.

How Reading is Written (Wesleyan University Press) is a critical guide to the poetics and philosophy of Gertrude Stein. In a series of linked essays, the book considers a set of questions associated with reading Gertrude Stein today, in particular, how we can read a body of work that is largely resistant to conventional and interpretation-based models of literary criticism. 

Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) is a new account of popular music that has been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over two decades. Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, Cvoro explores the cultural and political paradoxes of turbo-folk: described as ‘backward’ music, whose misogynist and Serb nationalist iconography represents a threat to cosmopolitanism.