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Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket
C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary is—among other things—a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal reflection on the history of colonialism and its...
My Tibetan Childhood
When Ice Shattered Stone
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family...
Art, Activism, and Oppositionality
Essays from Afterimage
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 1998
There is a common perception in the arts today that overtly activist art—often seen to sacrifice an aesthetic pleasure for a subversive one—is no longer in fashion. In bringing together sixteen of the most important essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of Afterimage—one...
The Repeating Island
The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1997
In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely...
Postcolonial Modernism
Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of civil war in 1967. Chika Okeke-Agulu traces...
In Senghor's Shadow
Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet...
Obeah and Other Powers
The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions—such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería—have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico,...
Extra/Ordinary
Craft and Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount...
by Robert Jensen, James Elkins, James Cutting
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Whether it is being studied or critiqued, the art canon is usually understood as an authoritative list of important works and artists. This collection breaks with the idea of a singular, transcendent canon. Through provocative case studies, it demonstrates that the content of any canon is both historically...
The Camera as Historian
Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the groundbreaking...
The Skin of the Film
Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The...
Beautiful at All Seasons
Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–85) is recognized as one of America’s most important gardeners and garden writers. In 1957, Lawrence began a weekly column for the Charlotte Observer, blending gardening lore and horticultural expertise gained from her own gardens in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990
New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s...
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3
The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production...