Duke University Press: 2463 books
Jacques Rancière
History, Politics, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between...
Dark Continents
Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led theorists to reject its relevance for postcolonial...
by Kyung Hyun Kim, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound sociopolitical changes in the country. Since 1980, South Korea has transformed from an insular,...
Envisioning Taiwan
Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in...
Tourist Distractions
Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses hallyu (Korean-wave) cinema as a lens to examine the relationships among tourism and travel, economics, politics, and history in contemporary East Asia. Focusing on films born of transnational collaboration and its networks, Choe shows how the integration...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shorelines, continents,...
Yellow Music
Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion...
Policing Chinese Politics
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores the question of revolutionary violence and the political passion that propels it. “Who are our enemies,...
A Not So Foreign Affair
Fascism, Sexuality, and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2001
In A Not So Foreign Affair Andrea Slane investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. By analyzing an array of films, journalism, scholarly theories, melodrama, video, and propaganda literature, Slane describes...
A World of Words
Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author and reader...
Antinomies of Art and Culture
Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between...
Sovereignty in Ruins
A Politics of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of crisis. Aiming to develop a political vocabulary capable of critiquing and transforming...
Dissident Syria
Making Oppositional Arts Official
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the work of artists and writers, turning works of...
Freedom's Empire
Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying a recurring freedom plot organized around an Atlantic Ocean crossing, Doyle shows how this plot structures...