Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
by Eben Kirksey
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find possibilities in the wreckage of ongoing disasters,...
House/Garden/Nation
Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1994
How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista’s electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between...
The Tao and the Logos
Literary Hermeneutics, East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1992
Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation—hermeneutics—are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic...
The Structure of World History
From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of...
No More Separate Spheres!
A Next Wave American Studies Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “female private” spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints,...
The Libertine Colony
Creolization in the Early French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a pathbreaking...
by Amitava Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Part reportage and part protest, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussions of the war on terror. At its center are two men convicted in U.S. courts on terrorism-related charges: Hemant Lakhani, a seventy-year-old tried for...
by Rafael Campo
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
In his fifth collection of poetry, the physician and award-winning writer Rafael Campo considers what it means to be the enemy in America today. Using the empathetic medium of a poetry grounded in the sentient physical body we all share, he writes of a country endlessly at war—not only against the...
Governing Indigenous Territories
Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Governing Indigenous Territories illuminates a paradox of modern indigenous lives. In recent decades, native peoples from Alaska to Cameroon have sought and gained legal title to significant areas of land, not as individuals or families but as large, collective organizations. Obtaining these collective...
Aloha America
Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Winner, 2013 Best First Book in Women's, Gender, and/or Sexuality History by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Winner, 2013 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians
Winner, 2013 Congress on Research in Dance Outstanding Publication Award
Aloha America reveals...
by Michael D. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 1995
Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for...
Beyond Settler Time
Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues,...
by Richard Price, Sally Price
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence, hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the community they undertook the work that...
My Tibetan Childhood
When Ice Shattered Stone
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family...