Dartmouth College Press imprint: 71 books

Materializing New Media

Embodiment in Information Aesthetics

by Anna Munster
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, Munster seeks to “materialize” digital culture by demonstrating that...

American Studies as Transnational Practice

Turning toward the Transpacific

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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

This wide-ranging collection brings together an eclectic group of scholars to reflect upon the transnational configurations of the field of American studies and how these have affected its localizations, epistemological perspectives, ecological imaginaries, and politics of translation. The volume...

Trans/Portraits

Voices from Transgender Communities

by Jackson Wright Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Although transgender people are increasingly represented in academic studies and popular culture, they rarely have the opportunity to add their own voices to the conversation. In this remarkable book, Jackson Shultz records the stories of more than thirty Americans who identify as transgender. They...

Playing with Earth and Sky

Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp

by James Housefield
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

Playing with Earth and Sky reveals the significance astronomy, geography, and aviation had for Marcel Duchamp—widely regarded as the most influential artist of the past fifty years. Duchamp transformed modern art by abandoning unique art objects in favor of experiences that could be both embodied...

Shock and Awe

American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

by William V. Spanos
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary....

Technologies of History

Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past

by Steve F. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011

Technologies of History is an engrossing and innovative consideration of how history is constructed today, exploring our most basic relationship to history and the diverse contributions of visual and computational media to conceptions of the past. Embracing the varieties of history offered by experimental...

Migrant Sites

America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures

by Dalia Kandiyoti
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009

In Migrant Sites, Dalia Kandiyoti presents a compelling corrective to the traditional immigrant and melting pot story. This original and wide-ranging study embraces Jewish, European, and Chicana/o and Puerto Rican literatures of migration and diasporization through the literary works of Abraham Cahan,...

The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen

From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side

by Kate A. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen—the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism—was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon–Khrushchev kitchen debate, Baldwin shows how Nixon turned the kitchen...

The Poster

Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s

by Ruth E. Iskin
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde...

Native Land Talk

Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories

by Yael Ben-zvi
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As...

Thomas Hirschhorn

A New Political Understanding of Art?

by Christina Braun
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

Thomas Hirschhorn, a leading installation artist whose work is owned and exhibited by modern art museums throughout Europe and the United States, is known for compelling, often site-specific and interactive environments tackling issues of critical theory, global politics, and consumerism. His work...

The Imaginary and Its Worlds

American Studies after the Transnational Turn

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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013

The Imaginary and Its Worlds collects essays that boldly rethink the imaginary as a key concept for cultural criticism. Addressing both the emergence and the reproduction of the social, the imaginary is ideally suited to chart the consequences of the transnational turn in American studies. Leading...

New World Courtships

Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage

by Melissa M. Adams-Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

Feminist literary critics have long recognized that the novel’s marriage plot can shape the lives of women readers; however, they have largely traced the effects of this influence through a monolithic understanding of marriage. New World Courtships is the first scholarly study to recover a geographically...

Horizons of Enchantment

Essays in the American Imaginary

by Lene M. Johannessen
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011

Horizons of Enchantment is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen’s subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual, or the reliance on a kind of “modern magic” that can loosely be characterized...
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