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Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire
Creating an Imperial Commons
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë's...
by Jerry G. Gaff, Samuel Schuman, Stanley Hauerwas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This new, revised, and expanded edition of the popular Academic’s Handbook is an essential guide for those planning or beginning an academic career.
Faculty members, administrators, and professionals with experience at all levels of higher education offer candid, practical advice to help...
by Derek Bok
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Since World War II, says the author, industrialized nations have come to depend so heavily on expert knowledge, scientific discovery, and highly trained personnel that universities have become “the central institution in postindustrial society.”
“If universities are so important to society and...
Failing the Future
A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny’s Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century is drawn from the author’s experience as a distinguished teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist thinker, and an innovative administrator...
36 Views of Mount Fuji
On Finding Myself in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make...
The Fruit Machine
Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2000
For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism,...
Listening for Africa
Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J. Herskovits, Katherine Dunham,...
The Empire’s Old Clothes
What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this powerful cultural critique, Ariel Dorfman explores the political and social implications of the smiling faces that inhabit familiar books, comics, and magazines. He reveals the ideological messages conveyed in works of popular culture such as the Donald Duck comics, the Babar children’s...
Turning South Again
Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute...
China’s Avant-Garde Fiction
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1998
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing...
by James Applewhite
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
James Applewhite has produced nine extraordinary books of poetry. This volume is the first anthology of his remarkable oeuvre. It brings together chronologically arranged selections from all of his previous books, from the first, published in 1975, through the most recent, published in 2002. Applewhite’s...
Beautiful at All Seasons
Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–85) is recognized as one of America’s most important gardeners and garden writers. In 1957, Lawrence began a weekly column for the Charlotte Observer, blending gardening lore and horticultural expertise gained from her own gardens in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina,...
Film Blackness
American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the black experience but as a visual negotiation between film as art and the discursivity of race. Gillespie challenges expectations that black...
Empire Burlesque
The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Empire Burlesque traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O’Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing...