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Race and the Education of Desire

Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

by Ann Laura Stoler
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1995

Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines...

Writing across Cultures

Narrative Transculturation in Latin America

by Angel Rama
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments...

Writing in the Air

Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures

by Antonio Cornejo Polar
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace...

Havana beyond the Ruins

Cultural Mappings after 1989

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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011

In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international...

We Cannot Remain Silent

Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States

by Daniel J. Walkowitz, James N. Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010

In 1964, Brazil’s democratically elected, left-wing government was ousted in a coup and replaced by a military junta. The Johnson administration quickly recognized the new government. The U.S. press and members of Congress were nearly unanimous in their support of the “revolution” and the coup...

Specters of Mother India

The Global Restructuring of an Empire

by Mrinalini Sinha, Daniel J. Walkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2006

Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposé written by the American...
by Robert Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012

It was Christmas Eve 1968. And the astronauts of Apollo 8 - Commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders - were participants in a mission that took them faster (24,000 mph) and farther from the earth (240,000 miles) than any human had ever traveled. Apollo 8 was the mission that broke humanity's...

Pretend We're Dead

Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture

by Annalee Newitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006

In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the...

Rasputin

A Short Life

by Frances Welch
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

Told with humor, intrigue, and a shrewd eye for detail, this riveting short biography sheds much-needed light on the life of nineteenth-century Russian icon Grigory Rasputin. Grigory Rasputin, a Siberian peasant turned mystic and court sage, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played...

Living Up to the Ads

Gender Fictions of the 1920s

by Simone Weil Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000

In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture’s impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood—the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising...
by Luke Bencie
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

Each business day, some 35,000 executives, scientists, consultants and lawyers pass through the nation's airports to destinations across the globe. They carry, along with proprietary documents and computer files, the latest in personal electronic gear. Their goal is to further their interests, improve...

Chinese Circulations

Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia

by Wang Gungwu, Anthony Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011

Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese...

How to Be Danish

A Journey to the Cultural Heart of Denmark

by Patrick Kingsley
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

Part reportage, part travelogue, this is a fascinating introduction to contemporary Danish culture for anyone who wants to know more about the world’s happiest nation. Denmark is the country of the moment. Recently named the happiest nation in the world, it’s the home of The Killing and...

Calamities & Catastrophes

The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History

by Derek Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012

They say that history is written by the winners. Not according to Derek Wilson. In this fascinating, revelatory book, Wilson tells the story from the point of view of the losers – collating a catalogue of calamities and catastrophes that have shaped our world more than historians tend to...
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