Duke University Press: 2463 books
Erotic Innocence
The Culture of Child Molesting
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 1998
In Erotic Innocence James R. Kincaid explores contemporary America’s preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children. Claiming that our culture has yet to come to terms with the bungled legacy of Victorian sexuality, Kincaid examines how children and images of youth are idealized,...
Autonomy
The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations,...
Reconstituting the American Renaissance
Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving...
by Rafael Campo
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2002
In Landscape with Human Figure, his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America’s most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos Williams, who was also a physician, Campo plumbs the depths of our capacity for empathy. Campo writes...
The Dialectics of Our America
Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1991
Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American...
Trumpets in the Mountains
Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture, artistic performance, and the shift in national identity after 1990, when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The state's response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism,...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dana Seitler
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Long out of print, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The Forerunner in 1910, The Crux tells the story...
From the House to the Streets
The Cuban Woman’s Movement for Legal Reform, 1898–1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
From the House to the Streets is the first study on feminists and the feminist movement in Cuba between 1902 and 1940. In the four decades following its independence form Spain in 1898, Cuba adopted the most progressive legislation for women in the western hemisphere. K. Lynn Stoner explains how a...
by Catherine Ross Nickerson, Metta Fuller Victor
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author—man or woman—of a full-length detective novel. This novel, The Dead Letter, is presented here along with another of Victor’s mysteries, The Figure Eight. Both written in...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte Rich
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. First published serially in Gilman’s magazine The Forerunner in 1909–10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her...
by Michael D. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
In 2002, as Sierra Leone prepared to announce the end of its brutal civil war, the distinguished anthropologist, poet, and novelist Michael Jackson returned to the country where he had intermittently lived and worked as an ethnographer since 1969. While his initial concern was to help his old friend...
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice
Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors...
by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its...
Nobody Does the Right Thing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
A young poet is killed by her lover, a politician, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Soon afterward, across India in Bombay, an idealistic journalist is hired by a movie director to write a Bollywood screenplay about the murdered poet. Research for the script takes the writer, Binod, back to Bihar,...