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Money, Trains, and Guillotines
Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the...
Imagine Otherwise
On Asian Americanist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Imagine Otherwise is an incisive critique of the field of Asian American studies. Recognizing that the rubric "Asian American" elides crucial differences, Kandice Chuh argues for reframing Asian American studies as a study defined not by its subjects and objects, but by its critique. Toward...
Spectacular Digital Effects
CGI and Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem," Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectacular, computer-generated visual effect that gives stunning expression to a film's key themes. Although they elicit feelings...
Storming the Reality Studio
A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create...
New Materialisms
Ontology, Agency, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique join this conversation, evaluating critique's structural, methodological, and political...
On Reason
Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2008
Given that Enlightenment rationality developed in Europe as European nations aggressively claimed other parts of the world for their own enrichment, scholars have made rationality the subject of postcolonial critique, questioning its universality and objectivity. In On Reason, the late philosopher...
by William E. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world whose powers of creative evolution include and exceed the human estate. This is a world composed of multiple interacting systems, including those of climate change, biological evolution, economic practices,...
Clear Word and Third Sight
Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated...
Pirate Novels
Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1999
In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost...
Buena Vista in the Club
Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced...
by Salim Tamari, Mark LeVine
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on...
Islam and Secularity
The Future of Europe's Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Göle shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles narratives of Western...
Revolution and Its Narratives
China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949–1966
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema,...