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Making Men
Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1998
Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked—and relocated—to the United States. Incorporating...
by Jack Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1998
Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs...
Prejudicial Appearances
The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2001
In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories...
The Guatemala Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while offering...
The Blood of Guatemala
A History of Race and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The...
The Space In-Between
Essays on Latin American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of “hybridity” and “the space in-between” have been so completely absorbed into current theory that few scholars...
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism
Machado de Assis
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2001
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of “misplaced ideas,” Schwarz...
by Nick Salvato
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato suggests that for those engaged in scholarly pursuits laziness, digressiveness, and related experiences can be paradoxically generative. Rather than being dismissed...
Culture, Power, Place
Explorations in Critical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1997
Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series...
Relative Values
Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a...
The Biopolitics of Feeling
Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary...
Slavery Unseen
Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and...
The Poetics of Transition
Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 1999
The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another...
Exceptional State
Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
Exceptional State analyzes the nexus of culture and contemporary manifestations of U.S. imperialism. The contributors, established and emerging cultural studies scholars, define culture broadly to include a range of media, literature, and political discourse. They do not posit September 11, 2001 as...