Lexington Books: 3858 books
France's Lost Empires
Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
France's Lost Empires brings together ten essays that collectively investigate the historical, cultural, and political legacies of French colonialism and, specifically, the endings of the French empire(s). Combining analyses of three "lost" territories (Canada, India, and Saint Dominigue)...
Apocalypse and Post-Politics
The Romance of the End
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Mary Manjikian’s Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End advances the thesis that only those who feel the most safe and whose lives are least precarious can engage in the sort of storytelling which envisions erasing civilization. Apocalypse-themed novels of contemporary America and...
Music, Theater, and Society in the Comedies of Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1833-1846)
Amidst the Lundu, The Aria, and the Alleluia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book clarifies the musical dramaturgy of comedy writer and musician Luiz Carlos Martins Penna (1815-48) – a notion that encompasses both the theatrical text and its performance. The corpus for this analysis is composed of twelve comedies by Martins Penna written between 1833 and 1846, divided...
Constructing the Stalinist Body
Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Constructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to elucidate the complex problem of individual authorship within the context of Stalinist ideology of the 1930s and '40s. Author Keith A. Livers examines the...
Words for a Small Planet
Ecocritical Views
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial...
Migrant Revolutions
Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial_and anti-globalization_politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary modernity, it traces the themes of slavery, labor...
by Michael Brodski, Juanita But, Lucia Rabello de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege...
Bootstrap New Urbanism
Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Joseph A. Rodriguez critically examines the urban design and revitalization initiatives undertaken by both the government and the people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1990s, New Urbanists followed a city tradition of using urban design to solve problems while seeking to elevate the city’s national...
by Jo Aiken, Russell W. Belk, Arundhati Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book offers keen insight and useful lessons underscoring the value of practice to theory. Conceived by two anthropologists who lead consulting practices, McCabe and Briody selected contributors to explore how cultural change happens in a variety of consumer and organizational contexts. The 12...
Nationalizing Judaism
Zionism as a Theological Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This new book by historian David Ohana analyzes Zionism and the Israeli state as a theological ideology. The book pursues this provocative end by showing the dialectical tension between Judaism and Zionism. How has Zionism molded perceptions and images that were formed in the Jewish past, and to what...
Pockets of Change
Adaptation and Cultural Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The twelve essays collected in Pockets of Change locate adaptation within a framework of two overlapping, if not simultaneous, creative processes: on the one hand, adaptation is to be understood as an acknowledged transposition of an existing source-that is, the process of adapting from; on the other...
Sustainability and the City
Urban Poetics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics contributes to third-generation discourse on sustainable development by considering, through a humanistic lens, theories and practices of sustainability in a wide range of urban cultures. It demonstrates cities’ inextricability from discussions...
by Giorgio Baratta, Derek Boothman, Lucia Borghese
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
This anthology brings together key articles translated into English for the first time from Italian debates concerning Antonio Gramsci's writings on language and translation as central to his entire social and political thought. It includes recent scholarship by Italian, German and English-speaking...