Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
Becoming Beside Ourselves
The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing’s Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that...
by Jesús Díaz, Fredric Jameson, Ambrosio Fornet
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jesús Díaz. Born in Havana in 1941, Díaz was a witness to the Revolution and ardent supporter of it until the last decade of his life. In...
The Female Complaint
The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural...
by Rubén Darío
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2004
Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Rubén Darío (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Darío created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered...
Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket
C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary is—among other things—a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal reflection on the history of colonialism and its...
Extra/Ordinary
Craft and Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount...
Latent Destinies
Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has been dramatically lessened by most estimates,...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2006
All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer’s labors, calmed the herder’s flock, and set in motion the spinner’s wheel. Today this tradition continues. Music blares on the shop floor; song accompanies transactions in the retail store; the...
A Date Which Will Live
Pearl Harbor in American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
December 7, 1941—the date of Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites...
Tarrying with the Negative
Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Žižek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted...
Domination without Dominance
Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores...
Welcome to the Dreamhouse
Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television’s changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring postwar U.S....
Queer in Russia
A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that country. After a decade of conducting interviews,...
by Donald M. Lowe, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1995
In The Body in Late-Capitalist USA, Donald M. Lowe explores the varied social practices that code and construct the body. Arguing that our bodily lives are shaped by a complex of daily and ongoing practices—how we work, what we buy and consume—Lowe contends that as a result of the commodification...