Columbia Press: 2357 books
Extraordinary Bodies
Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings...
Theory's Empire
An Anthology of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting...
by Ewa Płonowska Ziarek
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive...
A Materialism for the Masses
Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Nietzsche and Freud saw Christianity as metaphysical escapism, with Nietzsche calling the religion a "Platonism for the masses" and faulting Paul the apostle for negating more immanent, material modes of thought and political solidarity. Integrating this debate with the philosophies of difference...
by Talal Asad
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"-a conceptual...
Contemporary Arab Thought
Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines—nationalist, Marxist, and religious—and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence Arab states,...
Clash of Identities
Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
By revisiting the past hundred years of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. Shattering our assumptions about these two...
Gay Fiction Speaks
Conversations with Gay Novelists
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
Today's most celebrated, prominent, and promising authors of gay fiction in English explore the literary influences and themes of their work in these revealing interviews with Richard Canning. Though the interviews touch upon a wide range of issues—including gay culture, AIDS, politics, art, and...
Socialism Unbound
Principles, Practices, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal"...
The Elements of Academic Style
Writing for the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and...
Resiliency Enhancement
Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to enhance those resiliency factors.
Eric Walrond
A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Eric Walrond (1898–1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring Walrond to his proper place as a luminary of...
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty
Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as...
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films
Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? What can the sentimental tell us about the precarious...