Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
by Thomas E. Yingling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Thomas Yingling was a rising star in American studies, a leading figure in gay and lesbian studies, and a prominent theorist of AIDS and cultural politics when he died in 1992. AIDS and the National Body is a brilliant excursion into the mind and heart of Yingling, author of the critically acclaimed...
The Audible Past
Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological...
Statistical Panic
Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture’s scripts for “emotional” behavior and that the accelerating...
Global/Local
Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1996
This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping...
by Sara Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and...
Intimate Activism
The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene...
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom
James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their cachet with straight audiences when they cross over? In Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom Michael DeAngelis responds to these questions with a provocative analysis of three famous...
Civilization and Monsters
Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind...
by Luigi Pirandello
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
One of the twentieth century’s greatest literary artists and winner of the Nobel prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello wrote the novel Her Husband in 1911, before he produced any of the well-known plays with which his name is most often associated today. Her Husband—translated here for the first time...
Theology and the Political
The New Debate, sic v
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2005
The essays in Theology and the Political—written by some of the world’s foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics—analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the relationship between ontology and the political...
Secretaries of the Moon
The Letters of Wallace Stevens and José Rodriguez Feo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that prompted Stevens's poem was the third in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) between the poet and the young Cuban, who quickly became Stevens's "most exciting correspondent." The two shared a Harvard education, both were anxious to see Stevens translated...
Perfect Wives, Other Women
Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women’s bodies—specifically the bodies of wives—in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman became the site of anxious inquiry, Dopico...
Other-Worldly
Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalized in recent decades. In Other-Worldly, Mei Zhan argues that the discourses and practices called “traditional Chinese medicine” are made through, rather than prior to, translocal...
Ordinary Genomes
Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Ordinary Genomes is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. Karen-Sue Taussig’s analysis of the Dutch case illustrates how scientific knowledge and culture are entwined: Genetics may transform society, but society also transforms...