Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
Satire or Evasion?
Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1991
Though one of America’s best known and loved novels, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has often been the object of fierce controversy because of its racist language and reliance on racial stereotypes. This collection of fifteen essays by prominent African American scholars and critics...
On Faulkner
The Best from American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The journal has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of the discipline to the best...
Refracted Visions
Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village;...
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?
Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows...
Gumshoe America
Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront...
by Amelie Hastie, Jane M. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media...
Looking Past the Screen
Case Studies in American Film History and Method
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film...
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park
Activism, Culture, and American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as...
Imitations of Life
Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Imitations of Life views Russian melodrama from the eighteenth century to today as an unexpectedly hospitable forum for considering social issues. The contributors follow the evolution of the genre through a variety of cultural practices and changing political scenarios. They argue that Russian audiences...
The Un-Americans
Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part...
by Charles Taylor, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor...
by H. C. Erik Midelfort, Guy Bedouelle, Scott Hendrix
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990
A distinguished group of authors here illuminate a broad spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. Originally published in 1990, these essays take as their common ground the thesis that the intellectual and religious life of the sixteenth century cannot be understood without attention...
by Rey Chow
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
How might the pornographic be associated with Brecht's and Benjamin's media theories? How are Foucault's and Deleuze's writings on visibilities "postcolonial"? What happens when Rancière's discussions of art are juxtaposed with cultural anthropology? What does a story by Lao She about collecting...
Questions of Travel
Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1996
Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces...