Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Pramod K. Nayar
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
For two hundred years India was the jewel in the British imperial crown. During the course of governing India – the Raj – a number of words came to have particular meanings in the imperial lexicon. This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and...
The Fornes Frame
Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is...
Rhythms of Race
Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha. In her history of music and race in midcentury America,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of others across a variety of cultural texts, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state’s work of nation building. They helped define official nationalities, and gathered material about traditional customs and suitably heroic folklore, whilst at the same time refraining from work on the reality...
by Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered...
Turning South Again
Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute...
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay
Personal Essays, Public Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection...
Anti-Muslim Prejudice
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection makes a unique contribution to the study of anti-Muslim prejudice by placing the issue in both its past and present context. The essays cover historical and contemporary subjects from the eleventh century to the present day. They examine the forms that anti-Muslim prejudice takes,...
Sentimental Materialism
Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2000
In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and...
The Story of the Origins of the Bura/Pabir People of Northeast Nigeria
Language, Migrations, the Myth of Yamta-Ra-Wala, Social Organization and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A Synopsis of the Bura Project The three major rationale for writing this book are primarily to: through the study of African language family groups trace the origin of the tribe to a more specific location rather than the diffused response of from the East; secondly to investigate why and how the...
The Vernaculars of Communism
Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did...
by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych, Maria G. Rewakowicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The concept of a 'return to Europe' has been integral to the movement for Ukrainian national rebirth since the nineteenth century. While the goal of a more fully reformed politics remains elusive, numerous expressions of Ukrainian culture continue to develop in the European spirit. This wide-ranging...
The Sexual Politics of Time
Confession, Nostalgia, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Philip Roth's Patrimony, the writings of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, and films such as Cinema Paradiso, Susannah Radstone argues that though time has been foregrounded in theories of postmodernism, those theories...