Duke University Press: 2463 books
by Roberto Arlt
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2002
Roberto Arlt, celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American “boom” and “postboom” novelists such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende. Mad Toy, acclaimed by many as Arlt’s best novel, is set against...
by Swanee Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Swanee Hunt’s life has lived up to her Texas-size childhood. Daughter of legendary oil magnate H. L. Hunt, she grew up in a household dominated by an arch-conservative patriarch who spawned a brood of colorful offspring. Her family was nothing if not zealous, and that zeal—albeit for more compassionate...
The Children of 1965
On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 lifted long-standing restrictions on immigration. This new generation...
Metabolic Living
Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by...
En-Gendering India
Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2000
En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts—primarily novels—produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations...
The Republic of Therapy
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen...
Oxford Street, Accra
City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his...
by Olufemi Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship,...
Chinese Poetry, 2nd ed., Revised
An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1997
This is the first paperback edition of a classic anthology of Chinese poetry. Spanning two thousand years—from the Book of Songs (circa 600 B.C.) to the chü form of the Yuan Dynasty (1260–1368)—these 150 poems cover all major genres that students of Chinese poetry must learn.
Newly designed,...
Ariel Dorfman
An Aesthetics of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently...
by Vladimir Jankelevitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankélévitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives....
Bring on the Books for Everybody
How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on...
Averting the Apocalypse
Social Movements in India Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1990
There are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Arthur Bonner, a former New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, conducted interviews...
by Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1998
The Cartesian cogito—the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"—is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woes,...