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No Apocalypse, No Integration
Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)
What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in...
Against Normalization
Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2001
At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In Against Normalization, however,...
Criticism in the Borderlands
Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1991
This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.
The...
Postmodernity in Latin America
The Argentine Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1994
Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1989
Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western “enlightenment” wealth and power. This...
The Death-Bound-Subject
Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had...
Community Without Unity
A Politics of Derridian Extravagance
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1989
Winner of the 1990 Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association "First Book Award"
Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this award-winning book breaks new ground by challenging traditional concepts of community in political...
The Abyss of Representation
Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
From the Copernican revolution of Immanuel Kant to the cognitive mapping of Fredric Jameson to the postcolonial politics of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, representation has been posed as both indispensable and impossible. In his pathbreaking work, The Abyss of Representation, George Hartley traces the...
The Cinema of Economic Miracles
Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2002
The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes that transformed Italy during the sixties--described as the “economic miracle.” Angelo Restivo argues for...
New Deal Modernism
American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2000
In New Deal Modernism Michael Szalay examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s, and, conversely, what difference this revised modernism made to the New Deal’s famed invention of “Big Government.”
Szalay situates his study within...
Disenchanting Les Bons Temps
Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
The expression laissez les bons temps rouler—"let the good times roll"—conveys the sense of exuberance and good times associated with southern Louisiana’s vibrant cultural milieu. Yet, for Cajuns, descendants of French settlers exiled from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the mid-eighteenth...
Laura
Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored...
Beyond Repair?
America’s Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
Can the death penalty be administered in a just way—without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists...
Discourse and the Other
The Production of the Afro-American Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1986
The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the...