Duke University Press: 2463 books
by Lee D. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
In the late nineteenth century, if ethnologists in the United States recognized African American culture, they often perceived it as something to be overcome and left behind. At the same time, they were committed to salvaging “disappearing” Native American culture by curating objects, narrating...
Male Call
Becoming Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1996
When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes the nature of his appeal by closely...
Remote Avant-Garde
Aboriginal Art under Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent...
Vampires, Mummies and Liberals
Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1996
Nearly a hundred years after its debut in 1897, Dracula is still one of the most popular of all Gothic narratives, always in print and continually adapted for stage and screen. Paradoxically, David Glover suggests, this very success has obscured the historical conditions and authorial circumstances...
The Pariahs of Yesterday
Breton Migrants in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Beginning in the 1870s, a great many Bretons—men and women from Brittany, a region in western France—began arriving in Paris. Every age has its pariahs, and in 1900, the “pariahs of Paris” were the Bretons, the last distinct group of provincials to come en masse to the capital city. The pariah...
Recognition Odysseys
Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
In Recognition Odysseys, Brian Klopotek explores the complicated relationship between federal tribal recognition policy and American Indian racial and tribal identities. He does so by comparing the experiences of three central Louisiana tribes that have petitioned for federal acknowledgment: the Tunica-Biloxi...
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks;...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism—an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the demise of its original domain. This expanded edition of a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly...
Punishment in Paradise
Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century...
by Fred Moten
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
In...
by Fred Moten
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
In...
Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert)
Performance Pieces, 1979–2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art. Her uninhibited performances are celebrations of beauty, sensuality, eroticism, and pleasure. Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert), which features eighteen of her essential...
After Sex?
On Writing since Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments,...
by Lauren Berlant
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the...