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by Wen Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the often...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Appearing for the first time in English, the writings in this collection reflect some of the most innovative and influential work by Japanese intellectuals in recent years. The volume offers a rare and much-needed window into the crucial ideas and positions currently shaping Japanese thought (shiso).
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Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945
History, Culture, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical,...
The Birth of Chinese Feminism
Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical...
Extraordinary Bodies
Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings...
Theory's Empire
An Anthology of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting...
by Ewa Płonowska Ziarek
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive...
A Materialism for the Masses
Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Nietzsche and Freud saw Christianity as metaphysical escapism, with Nietzsche calling the religion a "Platonism for the masses" and faulting Paul the apostle for negating more immanent, material modes of thought and political solidarity. Integrating this debate with the philosophies of difference...
by Talal Asad
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"-a conceptual...
Contemporary Arab Thought
Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines—nationalist, Marxist, and religious—and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence Arab states,...
Clash of Identities
Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
By revisiting the past hundred years of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. Shattering our assumptions about these two...
Gay Fiction Speaks
Conversations with Gay Novelists
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
Today's most celebrated, prominent, and promising authors of gay fiction in English explore the literary influences and themes of their work in these revealing interviews with Richard Canning. Though the interviews touch upon a wide range of issues—including gay culture, AIDS, politics, art, and...
Socialism Unbound
Principles, Practices, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time. Treating socialism as an ethic, reinterpreting its core categories, and critically confronting its early foundations, Bronner's work offers a reinvigorated "class ideal"...
The Elements of Academic Style
Writing for the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and...