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The Witch's Flight
The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”—not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such...
Interventions into Modernist Cultures
Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, Cold...
by June Howard, Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social change,...
All in the Family
On Community and Incommensurability
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is often the scene of intense interpersonal conflict and disagreement. In All in...
by David Simpson, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2001
“Let me tell you where I'm coming from . . .”—so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed by an almost compulsive desire to situate ourselves within a definite matrix of reference points (for example, “as a parent of two children” or “as an engineer” or “as a...
by Antony Tatlow, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations of familiar texts. Through a “textual anthropology”...
Commentary and Ideology
Dante in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah Parker's thorough compendium on the reception...
The Promise of the Foreign
Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent...
Modernism and Colonialism
British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial studies into dialogue with modernist studies, the contributors move beyond depoliticized appreciations...
Alien Capital
Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and...
Radical Representations
Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929–1941
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 1993
In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history...
In the Wake
On Blackness and Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch...
Legal Fictions
Constituting Race, Composing Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence,...
by R. Radhakrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
History, the Human, and the World Between is a philosophical investigation of the human subject and its simultaneous implication in multiple and often contradictory ways of knowing. The eminent postcolonial theorist R. Radhakrishnan argues that human subjectivity is always constituted “between”:...