Columbia University Press imprint: 2220 books
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...
Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades...
Film Worlds
A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the continental and analytic traditions, as well as classical and contemporary film theory, it weaves...
Between Men
English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not...
by Susan Fraiman
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in common? In Cool Men and the Second Sex, Susan Fraiman identifies them all with "cool masculinity"...
How Novels Think
The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person...
by Deborah Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both...
Journalistic Authority
Legitimating News in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain...
by Victoria Rosner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores...
Writing the Republic
Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's view, our fiction is always informed by the complexities of the American...
In Love and Struggle
Letters in Contemporary Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize
Do you think I can be a feminist mother? Did I make you and your kisses up in my mind? Will you join our military protest at the gate? Will you feed the kids when I'm in prison? Are you able to forgive me for breaking off...