Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
Shadows of Empire
Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1996
Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move...
Ecologics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of...
The Habit of Lying
Sacrificial Studies in Literature, Philosophy, and Fashion Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2002
Lying appears to be ubiquitous, what Franz Kafka called "a universal principle”; yet, despite a number of recent books on the subject, it has been given comparatively little genuinely systematic attention by philosophers, social scientists, or even literary theorists. In The Habit of Lying...
Murder
A Tale of Modern American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
What exactly is it about murder that claims such a powerful hold on the American imagination? In this book, Sara L. Knox examines postwar America’s preoccupation with this act of violence. Demonstrating how American culture both consumes and produces tales of murder, Knox examines numerous relevant...
Colored Amazons
Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2006
Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women’s crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses...
This Was Not Our War
Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2004
“Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how.”—William Jefferson Clinton
This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following...
Dying Planet
Mars in Science and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity’s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for...
Watching Jim Crow
The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955–1969
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the Today Show content was “network news . . . represent[ing] the views of the northern press.” This was only one part of a larger...
by Sarah Schulman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines,...
Love and Good Reasons
Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Insisting on the vital, productive relationship between ethics and the study of literature, Love and Good Reasons demonstrates ways of reading novels and stories from a Christian perspective. Fritz Oehlschlaeger argues for the study of literature as a training ground for the kinds of thinking on which...
A Revolution for Our Rights
Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
A Revolution for Our Rights is a critical reassessment of the causes and significance of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. Historians have tended to view the revolution as the result of class-based movements that accompanied the rise of peasant leagues, mineworker unions, and reformist political projects...
Continental Crossroads
Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections....
Subcommander Marcos
The Man and the Mask
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion...
River of Hope
Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation...