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Indonesian Notebook
A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and...
Black Atlas
Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism,...
Indian Nation
Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how...
Left of Karl Marx
The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume takes an important step toward the discovery of a common critical heritage that joins the diverse literatures of North America and Latin America. Traditionally, literary criticism has treated the literature of the Americas as “New World” literature, examining it in relation to its...
by Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered...
Only the Road / Solo el Camino
Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come...
Lost in Transition
Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why it is that so many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In December 1987 a group of published novelists, poets, and journalists met in Vienna to participate in the Wheatland Conference on Literature. The writers presented papers addressing their common experience—that of being exiled. Each explored different facets of the condition of exile, providing...
by Kathleen Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject...
by Robyn Wiegman
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
No concept has been more central to the emergence and evolution of identity studies than social justice. In historical and theoretical accounts, it crystallizes the progressive politics that have shaped the academic study of race, gender, and sexuality. Yet few scholars have deliberated directly on...
by Jean Franco
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and...
Battling for Hearts and Minds
Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a...
Terminal Identity
The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1993
Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity—referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television screen--puts to rest any lingering doubts of the significance of science fiction in contemporary...