Cultural studies Books
Columbia University Press Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East
Book SynopsisToday's discourse on nationalism is engaged by dynamic theoretical models derived from studies in literary criticism, cultural anthropology, socioeconomics, and psychology. This is the first book of its kind to apply this new theoretical framework to the Arab Middle East, with essays by Beth Baron, Fred Halliday, Rashid Khalidi, and Emmanuel Sivan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction, by Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski Part I. Narrativity I: Mechanics of Historiography: How Academics Construct Nationalist History 1. Rethinking the Formation of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East, 1920-1945: Old and New Narratives, by Israel Gershoni 2. The Formation of Yemeni Nationalism: Initial Reflections, by Fred Halliday 3. The Tropes of Stagnation and Awakening in Nationalist Historical Consciousness: The Egyptian Case, by Gabriel Piterberg Part II. Narrativity II: Mechanics of Ideology: How Nationalists Construct Nationalist History 4. The Arab Nationalism of George Antonius Reconsidered, by William L. Cleveland 5. The Imposition of Nationalism on a Non-Nation State: The Case of Iraq During the Interwar Period, 1921-1941, by Reeva S. Simon 6. Nationalist Iconography: Egypt as a Woman, by Beth Baron Part III. Discursive Competitions: The Interplay of Rival Nationalist Visions 7. Nationalizing the Pharaonic Past: Egyptology, Imperialism, and Egyptian Nationalism, 1922-1952, by Donald M. Reid 8. Arab Nationalism in "Nasserism" and Egyptian State Policy, 1952-1958, by James Jankowski Part IV. Polycentrism 9. The Formation of Palestinian Identity: The Critical Years, 1917-1923, by Rashid Khalidi 10. The Palestinians: Tensions Between Nationalist and Religious Identities, by Musa Budeiri 11. Arab Nationalism in the Age of the Islamic Resurgence, by Emmanuel Sivan Part V. Nationalist Diffusion from the Bottom Up: Other Voices 12. The Other Arab Nationalism: Syrian/Arab Populism in Its Historical and International Contexts, by James L. Gelvin 13. Arab Workers and Arab Nationalism in Palestine: A View from Below, by Zachary Lockman 14. The Paradoxical in Arab Nationalism: Interwar Syria Revisited, by Philip S. Khoury Notes Glossary of Arabic Terms Works Cited in the Text Contributors Index
£28.50
Columbia University Press City Reading Written Words Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
Book SynopsisHenkin explores the influential but little-noticed role reading played in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. The "ubiquitous urban texts"--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs to handbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a new kind of public life that emerged first in New York.Trade ReviewA strikingly original account of a new kind of literacy in mid-nineteenth century New York City. -- Konstantin Dierks Journal of the Early RepublicTable of ContentsIntroduction: Public Reading, Public Space Brick, Paper, and the Spectacle of Urban Growth: The Rise of a New Metropolis Commerical Impudence and the Dictatorship of the Perpendicular: Signs of the City Word on the Streets: Bills, Boards, and Banners Print in Public, Public in Print: The Rise of the Daily Paper Promiscuous Circulation: The Case of Paper Money Epilogue: Words of War
£82.80
Columbia University Press City Reading
Book SynopsisHenkin explores the influential but little-noticed role reading played in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. The "ubiquitous urban texts"--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs to handbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a new kind of public life that emerged first in New York.Trade ReviewA strikingly original account of a new kind of literacy in mid-nineteenth century New York City. -- Konstantin Dierks Journal of the Early RepublicTable of ContentsIntroduction: Public Reading, Public Space Brick, Paper, and the Spectacle of Urban Growth: The Rise of a New Metropolis Commerical Impudence and the Dictatorship of the Perpendicular: Signs of the City Word on the Streets: Bills, Boards, and Banners Print in Public, Public in Print: The Rise of the Daily Paper Promiscuous Circulation: The Case of Paper Money Epilogue: Words of War
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Jews in America
Book SynopsisA controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity.Trade ReviewA useful and scrupulously fair account of what is a true American epic. The New York Times Book Review A trenchant history... Arthur Hertzberg is sounding an alarm that no Jew can afford to ignore if he cares about the survival of American Jewry. The Boston Globe [Hertzberg's] book, which is a product of lived experience as well as wide reading, springs from dedication rather than detachment. It is certainly an affectionate narrative of achievements and of the notable Jews identified with them. New York Review of Books
£27.00
Columbia University Press In the Name of Humanity
Book SynopsisAn unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which we are asked to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism. While many people look to humanist ideals as a deterrent to nationalist chauvinism, Finkielkraut challenges the abstract idea of universalism by describing the terrible crimes "civilized" Europe has committed in its name.Trade ReviewTo approach these fundamental questions in Finkielkraut's way, which is argumentative, honest, and yet indirect and evocative, you have to write well...Finkielkraut writes very well, elegantly and yet clearly. -- Adam Morton TLS Finkielkraut musters three millenia of thinkers to grapple with a century of horrors and somehow his account lifts our spirits and helps us find some measure of renewal. -- Richard Weisberg Finkielkraut writes with great skill... often poetic and moving... a significant book. -- Brian C. Anderson First ThingsTable of Contents1. Who Is Like Unto Me? 2. The Glamorous Appeal of the Common Noun 3. The Triumph of the Will 4. The Irony of History 5. Humanitarian Amends 6. Of Angels and Men
£37.50
Columbia University Press The Presence of the Past
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Columbia University Press Differences in the Dark
Book SynopsisThis work demonstrates that the way to understand the distinctions between American and English cultures is to study each country's favourite art form. Therefore it studies America's fascination with movies and stars, and the way Britain is reflected in its relationship with the theatre.Trade ReviewGilmore's lively account raises questions many of us have never thought of--or dared to bring up... One of the more engaging cross-cultural studies in recent years, [it] has major implications for popular culture. Journal of Popular Culture Gilmore sketches profiles of two societies, American and Britain... From this, he works out that film... is predominantly in America, while the theater, which upholds 'customary values against the possible future symbolized by movies,'dominates Britain... The thesis... teases us-toward a comfortable sense of cultural arrangement. -- Stanley Kauffmann New Republic
£37.50
Columbia University Press Female Desires
Book SynopsisDiscusses same-sex desire among women in non-Western cultures. The book explores female eroticism in societies such as India and Polynesia, aiming to dispel ideas that non-Western women are victims of compulsory heterosexuality and that same-sex female desire is rooted in Western culture.Table of Contents1. Introduction, by Saskia E. Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood 2. Sapphic Shadows:Challenging the Silence in the Study of Sexuality, by Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa Indigenous Histories Colonial Legacies 3. The Politics of Identities and Languages:Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India, by Giti Thadani 4. Lesbians, Men-Women, and Two-Spirits:Homosexuality and Gender in Native American Cultures Erotic Intimacies and Cultural Identities 5. "What's Identity Got to Do with It?" Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname, by Gloria Wekker 6. Let Them Take Ecstasy: Class and Jakarta Lesbians, by Alison J. Murray 7. Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia, by Kendall Doing Masculinity:Butches, Female Bodies,and Transgendered Identities 8. Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire, by Evelyn Blackwood 9. Desiring Bodies or Defiant Cultures:Butch-Femme Lesbians in Jakarta and Lima, by Saskia E. Wieringa 10. Negotiating Transnational Sexual Economies: Femaleand Same-Sex Sexuality in "Tahiti and Her Islands", by Deborah A. Elliston Nationalism, Feminism,and Lesbian/Gay Rights Movements 11. How Homosexuality Became "Un-African": The Case of Zimbabwe, by Margrete Aarmo 12. Women's Sexuality and the Discourse on Asian Values:Cross-Dressing in Malaysia, by Tan beng hui 13. Sexual Preference:the Ugly Duckling of Feminist Demands:The Lesbian Movement in Mexico, by Norma Mogro
£28.50
Columbia University Press Darsan
Book SynopsisAlthough the role of the visual is essential to Indian tradition and culture, most attempts to understand its images are laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with tolerance and imagination.Trade ReviewAn explanation of temple worship and the use of Deity images. Darsan will give the Hindu deeper insight into the practices of his own religion, provide explanations for non-Hindu friends, and convey useful konowledge to his children. Hinduism TodayTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Seeing the Sacred A. Darsan B. The Visible India C. Film Images D. The Image of God E. The Polytheistic Imagination The Nature of the Hindu Images A. The Aniconic and the Iconic Images B. The Ritual Uses of the Images C. Creation and Consecration of Images D. Festivals and Images Image, Temple, and Pilgrimage A. The Temple and the Image B. Image and Pilgrimage Afterword: Seeing the Divine Image in America A. America's Murtis and Temples B. Sri Lakshmi Temple: The Process of Divine Embodiment Notes Appendix I. Bibliography Appendix II. Note on Pronunciation Appendix III. Glossary Index
£16.19
Columbia University Press Local Actions
Book SynopsisIllustrates how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism. This book features ten studies that present activist groups across US - from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans.Trade ReviewEngagingly written, the volume will appeal across the readership spectrum, from general readers to professionals...Recommended. All levels and libraries. -- S. Cable Choice The volumes focus on activism and identity provides a compelling image of an activist strategy for advancing social research. -- Elisia L. Cohen Argumentation And Advocacy The strength Checker and Fishman's Local Actions is in its clearly written, accessible case studies of efforts at social change. -- Karen Brodkin Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Local Actions is a welcome volume that represents a (still) rare instance of anthropologists engaging in the study of political processes in western society; it provides us with detail-rich and nuanced understandings of politics as it takes place in practice, and in everyday settings. -- Davide Pero Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsForeword, by Faye Ginsburg Acknowledgments Introduction, by Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman Treading Murky Waters: Day-To-Day Dilemmas in the Construction of a Pluralistic U.S. Environmental Movement, by Melissa Checker Creating Art, Creating Citizens: Arts Education as Cultural Activism, by Maggie Fishman Creating a Political Space for American Indian Economic Development: Indian Gaming and American Indian Activism, by Kate Spilde "The Calculus of Pain": Violence, Anthropological Ethics, and the Category Transgender, by David Valentine We Shall Overcome? Changing Politics and Changing Sexuality in the Ex-Gay Movement, by Tanya Erzen Sins of Our Soccer Moms: Servant Evangelism and the Spiritual Injuries of Class, by Omri Elisha Food Fights: Contesting "Cultural Diversity" in Crown Heights, by Henry Goldschmidt FOBby or Tight? "Multicultural Day" and Other Struggles in Two Silicon Valley High Schools, by Shalini Shankar Gathering "Roots" and Making History in the Korean Adoptee Community, by Eleana Kim Activism and Exile: Palestinianness and the Politics of Solidarity, by Rabab Abdulhadi
£90.00
Columbia University Press Local Actions
Book SynopsisIllustrates how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism. This book features ten studies that present activist groups across US - from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans.Trade ReviewEngagingly written, the volume will appeal across the readership spectrum, from general readers to professionals...Recommended. All levels and libraries. -- S. Cable Choice The volumes focus on activism and identity provides a compelling image of an activist strategy for advancing social research. -- Elisia L. Cohen Argumentation And Advocacy The strength Checker and Fishman's Local Actions is in its clearly written, accessible case studies of efforts at social change. -- Karen Brodkin Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Local Actions is a welcome volume that represents a (still) rare instance of anthropologists engaging in the study of political processes in western society; it provides us with detail-rich and nuanced understandings of politics as it takes place in practice, and in everyday settings. -- Davide Pero Social AnthropologyTable of ContentsForeword, by Faye Ginsburg Acknowledgments Introduction, by Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman Treading Murky Waters: Day-To-Day Dilemmas in the Construction of a Pluralistic U.S. Environmental Movement, by Melissa Checker Creating Art, Creating Citizens: Arts Education as Cultural Activism, by Maggie Fishman Creating a Political Space for American Indian Economic Development: Indian Gaming and American Indian Activism, by Kate Spilde "The Calculus of Pain": Violence, Anthropological Ethics, and the Category Transgender, by David Valentine We Shall Overcome? Changing Politics and Changing Sexuality in the Ex-Gay Movement, by Tanya Erzen Sins of Our Soccer Moms: Servant Evangelism and the Spiritual Injuries of Class, by Omri Elisha Food Fights: Contesting "Cultural Diversity" in Crown Heights, by Henry Goldschmidt FOBby or Tight? "Multicultural Day" and Other Struggles in Two Silicon Valley High Schools, by Shalini Shankar Gathering "Roots" and Making History in the Korean Adoptee Community, by Eleana Kim Activism and Exile: Palestinianness and the Politics of Solidarity, by Rabab Abdulhadi
£27.00
Columbia University Press How to Live Together Novelistic Simulations of
Book SynopsisIn The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containing Barthes's challenge to the classic oppositions of Western thought and his effort to establish new pathways of meaning. How to Live Together predates both of these achievements, a series of lectures exploring solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace. A distinct project that sets the tone for his subsequent lectures, How to Live Together is a key introduction to Barthes's pedagogical methods and critical worldview. In this work, Barthes focuses on the concept of idiorrhythmy, a productive form of living together in which one recognizes and respects the individual rhythms of the other. He explores this phenomenon through five textTrade ReviewThis is Roland Barthes at his inventive and idiosyncratic best: a brilliant and suggestive reader, both of literary texts and the social, psychic, and affective spaces of everyday life. -- Diana Knight, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsForeword Preface Translator's Preface Session of January 12 INTRODUCTION Method? (Method. Culture) - Fantasy - My fantasy: idiorrhythmy - Monarchism Session of January 19 INTRODUCTION (continued) Works - Greek network - Traits AKEDIA / AKEDIA Session of January 26 ANACHORESIS / ANACHORESIS Historically - Metaphorically ANIMAUX / ANIMALS 1. Robinson Crusoe (Phases. History) - 2. Anachorites ATHOS / ATHOS History - Space Session of February 2 ATHOS / ATHOS (continued) Way of Life - Ownership - Power AUTARCHIE / AUTARKY BANC / SCHOOL BEGUINAGES / BEGUINAGES History - Space - Way of Life - Socio-Economics - Power - Conclusion Session of February 9 BUREAUCRATIE / BUREAUCRACY CAUSE / CAUSE Christianity - Other sorts of Telos - Bion - Homeostasis CHAMBRE / ROOM 1. The total space Session of February 16 CHAMBRE / ROOM (continued) 2. The room becomes isolated within the house - 3. The room loses its association with the couple ? Cella - The Magnificenza CHEF / CHIEF Session of March 2 CLOTURE / ENCLOSURE Functions (Protection. Definition) - Extreme-experience COLONIE D'ANACHORETES / COLONY OF ANACHORITES 1. Qumran sect - 2. Monks of Nitria - 3. Carthusians - 4. The Solitaires of Port-Royal Session of March 9 COUPLAGE / PAIRING 1. Principle of pairing - 2. Two examples of strong pairing (Lausaic History DISTANCE / DISTANCE DOMESTIQUES / SERVANTS 1. Need = Desire - 2. Need ? Desire Session of March 16 ECOUTE / HEARING Territory and hearing - Repression and hearing EPONGE / SPONGE EVENEMENT / EVENT FLEURS / FLOWERS IDYLLIQUE / IDYLL Session of March 23 MARGINALITES / MARGINALITIES First margin: coenobitism - Second margin: idiorrhythmy MONOSIS / MONOSIS One / Two - The desire for Two - In praise of One NOMS / NAMES Nicknames Session of March 30 NOMS / NAMES (continued) Caritatism - No Name NOURRITURE / FOOD 1. Rhythms - 2. The foods themselves (the divisions of the forbidden: what's forbidden / what's tolerated). The connotations of food Session of April 20 PROXEMIE / PROXEMICS The notion - The lamp - The bed RECTANGLE / RECTANGLE Civilization of the rectangle - The frame - Subversions? REGLE / RULE Regula - Territory - Rule and Custom - Rule and Law Session of April 27 SALETE / DIRTINESS Noteworthy - Meaning - Tact XENITIA / XENITIA Semantic network - False image - Dereality - Conclusion Session of May 4 UTOPIE / UTOPIA BUT WHAT ABOUT METHOD? 1. Traits. Figures. Boxes - 2. Classification - 3. Digression - 4. Opening a dossier - 5. The supporting-text WHAT IS IT TO HOLD FORTH? RESEARCH ON INVESTED SPEECH Seminar Session of January 12 HOLDING FORTH "So Session of March 23 CHARLUS-DISCOURSE 1. Kinetics - 2. Triggers Session of March 30 CHARLUS-DISCOURSE (continued) 3. Allocutionary authority (Andromache. Charlus-Discourse) - 4. Forces ("Psychology." "Psychoanalysis." Intensities) - To take my leave and fix a new appointment SUMMARY NOTES GLOSSARY OF GREEK TERMS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX NOMINUM INDEX RERUM
£79.20
Columbia University Press Contemporary Japanese Thought
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn admirable, engrossing, and valuable collection. -- Andrew Barshay International Journal of Asian Studies Important for making accessible to Western audiences not only the existence but the richness of the theoretical debates taking place within a non-Western society. -- Chikako Endo, H-Net The book deserves to be widely read beyond (as well as within) the bounds of Japanese studies -- Tessa Morris-Suzuki Japanese Studies [Calichman has] rendered us a tremendous service. This collection makes a powerful first step toward filling a definite need. -- Michael K. Bourdaghs Philosophy East & WestTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction, by Richard F. Calichman 1. Ehara Yumiko The Politics of Teasing A Feminist View of Maruyama Masao's Modernity 2. Kang Sangjung The Imaginary Geography of a Nation and Denationalized Narrative The Discovery of the "Orient" and Orientalism 3. Karatani Ko Jin Overcoming Modernity Soseki's Diversity: On Kokoro 4. Nishitani Osamu The Wonderland of "Immortality" 5. Naoki Sakai Two Negations: The Fear of Being Excluded and the Logic of Self-Esteem 6. Takahashi Tetsuya Japanese Neo-Nationalism: A Critique of Kato Norihiro's "After the Defeat" Discourse From the Hinomaru and Kimigayo to the Symbolic Emperor System 7. Ueno Chizuko In the Feminine Guise: A Trap of Reverse Orientalism Collapse of "Japanese Mothers" 8. Ukai Satoshi Colonialism and Modernity Reflections Beyond the Flag: Why Is the Hinomaru Flag "Auspicious/Foolish"? Glossary List of Contributors Index of Names
£90.00
Columbia University Press The Garden and the Fire Heaven and Hell in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA timely publication, highly recommended for specialists and non-specialists alike. -- Youssef Choueiri Times Higher Education Supplement This gem of a book offers a thorough, evocative study... Essential. Choice A delightful book. -- David Reisman Journal of Islamic Studies A wide-ranging... welcome addition to a small and growing body of scholarship. -- Brannon Wheeler American Historical Review Rustomji has filled a real gap in the secondary literature... [The Garden and the Fire] is one of the best introductions to the Islamic eschatological literature. -- Walid Saleh Journal of the American Academy of Religion Highly useful not only to students and educated lay people but also to comparativists and specialists. -- Frederick S. Colby Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Garden the Fire 2. Visions of the Afterworld 3. Material Culture and an Islamic Ethic 4. Otherworldly Landscapes and Earthly Realities 5. Humanity, by Servants 6. Individualized Gardens and Expanding Fires 7. Legacy of Gardens Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Literature Life and Modernity
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn important book... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Subjectivity, Modernity, and the Uses of Literature 2. Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism: Stoppard's Arcadia 3. Romantic Subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein 4. Attention, Expressive Power, and Interest in Life: Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" 5. The Ends of Literary Narrative: Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" 6. "New Centers of Reflection Are Continually Forming": Benjamin, Sebald, and Modern Human Life in Time Appendix: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" Notes Index
£999.99
Columbia University Press Memory Trauma and History
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRoth rules! A compulsive peeper into the corners of the historical past, he is the visual historian's historian. Not only because Roth is smart, not only because he finds odd things that captured people's attention in the past, not only because he is theoretically sophisticated without being dogmatic, but also because as a thinker and writer he is always able to engage his audience on every topic. -- Sander L. Gilman, Emory University With critical agility and grace, Roth's life-affirming and judicious work urges us to absorb the critical lessons of postmodern irony and resist the lure of cold and superior sophistication in favor of efforts to find meaning in ever renewed inquiries into who we think we are and what we want to be. -- Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University, author of Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust In this excellent work, Roth provides sobering antidotes to recent hyperboles, claiming the most abject forms of victimization and trauma have recently become the ultimate forms of legitimation. A lucid, boldly interdisciplinary book, Roth's work will stimulate exchange among historians, critical theorists, literary critics, students of visual culture, and all readers concerned about the fate of liberal education. -- Dominick La Capra, Cornell University This collection revises our normal conceptions of the relation between 'history' and 'the past.' Roth's essays challenge us to rethink the links among history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the body. -- Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz exceptional and wide-ranging -- Robert Eaglestone Times Higher Education Not only does it stand out as a profound interdisciplinary study on the multilayered facets of (collective) memory and its (re)construction, but it is in itself a valuable record of contemporary discourses on memory, since its essays were written over more than twenty years. -- David Kerler Modern Language Review
£82.80
Columbia University Press Memory Trauma and History
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRoth rules! A compulsive peeper into the corners of the historical past, he is the visual historian's historian. Not only because Roth is smart, not only because he finds odd things that captured people's attention in the past, not only because he is theoretically sophisticated without being dogmatic, but also because as a thinker and writer he is always able to engage his audience on every topic. -- Sander L. Gilman, Emory University With critical agility and grace, Roth's life-affirming and judicious work urges us to absorb the critical lessons of postmodern irony and resist the lure of cold and superior sophistication in favor of efforts to find meaning in ever renewed inquiries into who we think we are and what we want to be. -- Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University, author of Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust In this excellent work, Roth provides sobering antidotes to recent hyperboles, claiming the most abject forms of victimization and trauma have recently become the ultimate forms of legitimation. A lucid, boldly interdisciplinary book, Roth's work will stimulate exchange among historians, critical theorists, literary critics, students of visual culture, and all readers concerned about the fate of liberal education. -- Dominick La Capra, Cornell University This collection revises our normal conceptions of the relation between 'history' and 'the past.' Roth's essays challenge us to rethink the links among history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the body. -- Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz exceptional and wide-ranging -- Robert Eaglestone Times Higher Education Not only does it stand out as a profound interdisciplinary study on the multilayered facets of (collective) memory and its (re)construction, but it is in itself a valuable record of contemporary discourses on memory, since its essays were written over more than twenty years. -- David Kerler Modern Language Review
£25.20
Columbia University Press Globalized Arts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is a detailed and sophisticated analysis of cultural policies and globalization. CHOICE Thought-provoking. -- Susan Bennett Theatre Survey Singh shows how the confrontation between global politics and symbolic creative expression give rise to far-reaching cultural anxieties and politics. Birmingham Magazine Singh has thus made an important and exciting contribution capturing the nuanced debates and complexities surrounding symbolic expressions of identity and cultural politics that necessitate policies to accommodate creative expressions in a globalized society. -- Rekha Datta International Studies Review [Singh] writes ebulliently, and with imagination, deploying an eclectic blend of conceptual frameworks. -- Yudhishthir R. Isar International Journal of Cultural PolicyTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Creative Voice and Cultural Identity 1. Cultural Politics and Global Anxieties 2. Value, Markets, Patronage 3. Culture Wars 4. UNESCO and the Europeans 5. Cultural Patrons in the Developing World 6. Culture by Any Other Name 7. The Creative Voice and Cultural Policy Notes Works Cited Index
£73.60
Columbia University Press Globalized Arts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is a detailed and sophisticated analysis of cultural policies and globalization. CHOICE Thought-provoking. -- Susan Bennett Theatre Survey Singh shows how the confrontation between global politics and symbolic creative expression give rise to far-reaching cultural anxieties and politics. Birmingham Magazine Singh has thus made an important and exciting contribution capturing the nuanced debates and complexities surrounding symbolic expressions of identity and cultural politics that necessitate policies to accommodate creative expressions in a globalized society. -- Rekha Datta International Studies Review [Singh] writes ebulliently, and with imagination, deploying an eclectic blend of conceptual frameworks. -- Yudhishthir R. Isar International Journal of Cultural PolicyTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Creative Voice and Cultural Identity 1. Cultural Politics and Global Anxieties 2. Value, Markets, Patronage 3. Culture Wars 4. UNESCO and the Europeans 5. Cultural Patrons in the Developing World 6. Culture by Any Other Name 7. The Creative Voice and Cultural Policy Notes Works Cited Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Fiction Across Borders
Book SynopsisTrade Review...a rich, learned study that explores the ethics of reading, avoids narrow theoretical adherence, develops a useful notion of the "crowded self," and delivers productive analyses of a wide variety of texts. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Toward an Ethics of Border-Crossing Fiction 1. Crowded Self and Crowded Style 2. Everyday Sentiment 3. Ethnic Reversals 4. Middle Grounds 5. Challenging Language 6. Sacrificing the Self Postscript Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Uncreative Writing
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBrilliant and elegant insight into the exact relation of contemporary literary practices and broader cultural changes, explaining how the technologies of distributed digital media exemplified by the World Wide Web have made possible the flourishing of a particular type of literature. -- Professor Craig Dworkin, author of The Consequence of Innovation: Twenty-First-Century Poetics What Goldsmith argues has significant implications for the world of poetry, poetics, and pedagogy. His book contains brilliant moments of exegesis and archival documentation, and its keen attention to, knowledge about, and currency in artistic practice makes it as much a user's manual as a scholar's tome. -- Adalaide Morris, The University of Iowa In these witty, intelligent essays, Goldsmith brings his encyclopedic knowledge of radical artistic practice to bear on how the rise of the internet has irrevocably changed, or should irrevocably change, our existing conceptions of poetry. Goldsmith's practice as artist and critic is deeply interesting. His book is sure to generate lively debate among poets, artists, literary historians, and media theorists. -- Sianne Ngai, University of California, Los Angeles Multimedia artist and executive manager of words, Goldsmith writes a provocative manifesto for writing in the digital era, with a treasure trove of ideas, techniques, and examples that allow us to make it new-again! -- Marcus Boon, author of In Praise of Copying "...a fascinating collection of essays..." Phi Beta Kappa Goldsmith achieves a very difficult feat with this book: he writes lucidly about complex and avant-garde ideas. As a result, he opens up a vital debate for anyone who cares about literature, between notions of traditional creative writing and the set of practices he labels "uncreative writing". -- Douglas Cowie Times Higher Education Selected writers and their practices are reviewed in a series of accessible essays perfect for college-level writers. Midwest Book Review Good. -- James Franco, actor An invigoratingly different style of writing guide, that reveals how jump-starts to one's imagination can be achieved through what seems (at first glance) to be the unlikeliest of means. Library Bookwatch
£56.00
Columbia University Press The Homoerotics of Orientalism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA masterpiece and rare achievement; a completely new and convincing reading of a body of politicized knowledge that has dominated much of the field in the last thirty years. The entire concept of Orientalism will have to be totally rethought following Boone's book. -- Moshe Sluhovsky, Vigevani Chair in European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem This book offers an erudite and timely interpretation of the phenomenon of homoeroticism in orientalism in the Near and Middle East. Treating a broad range of Western representations of the "Orient", Boone provides an important corrective to Edward Said's Orientalism by addressing the powerful ways in which Europeans writers' and artists' representations of homoeroticism in the "Orient" have covertly enabled the appeal of orientalism as a predominantly male mode of discourse. -- Ali Behdad, John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at UCLA; author of Belated Travelers and A Forgetful Nation. Joseph Boone has opened a triple dialogue between Western perceptions (and fantasies) of Middle-Eastern homoeroticism, queer theory as it has evolved over the past decade, and the growing field of sexual studies in the Islamic world. Read The Homoerotics of Orientalism and discover that Boone has taken the necessary steps in offering oneself up to unsuspected, multiple ways of being. As he says, "how might the terms 'homoeroticism' and 'Orientalism', the two operative words of my title, each find itself refigured, wrenched apart and re-conjoined to create new meanings? -- Richard Howard, Poet, Columbia University A veritable tour de force. Boone's groundbreaking, timely book challenges us to revisit a wide range of orientalist visual and textual artifacts produced over the last four hundred and fifty years in which the recurrence of homoerotic desire contests heterosexual norms, colonial control, and race and gender hierarchies. The wealth of textual and visual materials and the broad selection of figures are, in and of themselves, extraordinary contributions to scholarship. A must read for scholars both of Anglo-European-American and Middle-Eastern and Islamicate gender and sexuality studies. -- Sahar Amer, Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, University of Sydney Orientalism will never be the same after Boone's extraordinary book, which disrupts the heterosexual template implicit in Edward Said's and refashions the cultural traffic between East and West as inescapably reciprocal, dialectical, and multiple-in a word, global. As much an intervention in visual culture as it is a revelatory history of the literatures of both West and East, The Homoerotics of Orientalism with its staggering erudition and critical finesse courageously recasts the stark divide of Occident and Orient that produced Orientalism as mutually constitutive, creative, and informing as it has been destructive, and it does so in the form of a critical gift-a book of utmost generosity, judiciousness, and political imagination- that carries its own charge of love. -- Jennifer Wicke, Professor of English, University of Virginia Boone shatters the old binaries of Western Orientalist discourses AND the field of postcolonial studies and offers much needed insight for the field of sexuality studies in the Muslim world. A remarkable achievement! -- Janet Afary, Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity and Professor of Religious Studies and Feminism, University of California, Santa Barbara Once every decade or so, a book appears that revolutionizes the field of GLBT studies... [The Homoerotics of Orientalism] is a book that post-colonialists will seize immediately and argue over endlessly--but one that will also permeate the wider GLBT intellectual landscape. Every reader will benefit. Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide This remarkable study models an ethics of cross-cultural reading that exposes, with nuance and economy, the crucial role played by the homoerotics of Orientalism in shaping the world as we know it today. -- Christopher Harrity The Advocate [A] substantial and fascinating book. -- Robert Aldrich H-Histsex The Homoerotics of Orientalism is an outstanding and bold intellectual discussion of transgressive sexualities in both the Islamic and the Western worlds... A well-researched book that puts forth a new thinking on Orientalism... Highly recommended. Choice Important and engaging volume. Journal of Modern History Meticulously researched. Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: Re-Orienting Sexuality Part I: Theory and History 1. Histories of Cross-Cultural Encounter, Orientalism, and the Politics of Sexuality 2. Beautiful Boys, Sodomy, and Hamams: A Textual and Visual History of Tropes Part II: Geographies of Desire 3. Empire of 'Excesse,' City of Dreams: Homoerotic Imaginings in Istanbul and the Ottoman World 4. Epic Ambitions and Epicurean Appetites: Egyptian Stories I 5. Colonialism and Its Aftermaths, Gide to Chahine: Egyptian Stories II Part III: Modes and Genres 6. Queer Modernism and Middle Eastern Poetic Genres: Appropriations, Forgeries, and Hoaxes 7. Looking Backward: Homoeroticism in Miniaturist Painting and Orientalist Art 8. Looking Again: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Visual Cultures Notes Index
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Columbia University Press No Country
Book SynopsisNo Country argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of of working-class fiction by considering a range of international and non-canonical texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship.Trade ReviewCaught in the stampede toward globalism, literary scholars have overlooked the rich archives of working-class internationalism. Sonali Perera's study is a bracing corrective to this trend, putting South Asian voices in dialogue with transcontinental interlocutors. Inspired by Raymond Williams, No Country leads us to a world literature that includes its many proletarian offshoots. -- Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language Sonali Perera's No Country offers a powerful new theorizing of working-class literature in a global dimension. Gender inflections are given in unprecedented detail, through deeply learned and meticulously documented close readings of an astonishingly diversified collection of texts. Perera's readings of Marx are relevant to contemporary realities. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University This carefully argued book will interest scholars of contemporary transnational literature, Marxist approaches to literature, and African and South Asian literary studies; to my mind, however, its greatest impact will be on a younger generation of postcolonial critics, including graduate students, whose education has been so saturated with the theoretical truisms of postcolonial theory in its high phase that it is very difficult to imagine fresh readings of new and older texts outside of them. With such as the case I suspect that many younger scholars would rather give up on postcolonial studies altogether, dismissing it, as some have already done, as an outdated theoretical paradigm. This book challenges that claim. -- Ulka Anjaria Contemporary Literature Perera's critical and careful reading of literature is a challenge to all those who read literature politically, and seek to grapple with the larger questions of equality and justice in our uneven and unequal world. -- Ahilan Kadirgamar Himal Southasian Magazine A welcome addition and a worthwhile read. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Perera acknowledges a global workforce of peasants and coolies and garment workers stretching from India, Sri Lanka, and Botswana to the US, forged between the heyday of proletarian literature in the 1930s and contemporary collective forms of writing... Global workingclass writing is at once deeply local (found in micro struggles over land or ethnicity that impel collectivity) and international (vectored through worker solidarity movements and transnational flows of capital, goods, and workers); moreover, according to Perera, its force comes within and through its aporia and interruptions, not in its discursive totality. Thus, working-class culture theorizes new subjects as it expresses them in varied literary forms-novels, poems, magazines, stories, reports. But read together with Marx and Williams, Perera finds that working-class culture describes the broken contours of a discontinuous field: "'interruption' [is] a structural, not aberrational, aspect of a specifically feminist aesthetic and ethic." Discontinuous and in motion, the new working-class writing, like proletarian revolution, "come[s] back ...to begin it afresh." It travels. -- Paula Rabinowitz American Literary History We can also see the future of Working-Class Studies in books like Sonali Perera's No Country: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization, which reads fiction from India, South Africa, and other colonialized regions of the English-speaking world alongside the work of Tillie Olsen. If nothing else, our increased awareness of the global working class should generate a more comparative, or at least a more contextualized, approach to the study of class. -- Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo Journal of Working-Class Studies Globalisation makes novels (especially traditional novels) hard to write. With national working-class publics constantly constituted only to be broken apart, jobs (or bodies) shipped around the globe, neither the room of one's own nor the time presents itself for texts modelled on the great working-class novels of the last two centuries. This is one of the strongest implicit arguments in Perera's book - and, I think, an essential point. -- Nicholas Hengen Fox Race and Class The book's primary enquiry is to examine how working-class writing can remain radical in a world of heightened globalisation where neoliberal capitalism pervades modes of reading and interpreting. In so doing, [Perera] aims to provide readings that challenge a sanitised view of world literature in which working-class positions remain marginalised and provincialised within a market-driven elite cosmopolitan literary culture. -- David Firth Wasafiri No Country could and should change the way that we conceptualize international working-class writing. -- Michelle M. Tokarczyk Canadian Review of Comparative LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization? 1. Colonialism, Race, and Class: Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie as a Literary Representation of the Subaltern 2. Postcolonial Sri Lanka and "Black Struggles for Socialism": Socialist Ethics in Ambalavaner Sivanandan's When Memory Dies 3. Gender, Genre, and Globalization 4. Socialized Labor and the Critique of Identity Politics: Bessie Head's A Question of Power Epilogue: Working-Class Writing and the Social Imagination Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Other Blacklist
Book SynopsisRevealing the formative influence of 1950s leftist radicalism on African American literature and culture.Trade ReviewA wonderful combination of careful research, adept historicizing, and insightful close reading. Mary Helen Washington's book brings needed critical attention to understudied figures and helps readers rethink the careers of others whom they believe they already know. -- James Smethurst, author of The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance and The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s [A] compelling look at artists and writers who became part of the vanguard of the progressive politics and civil rights movement of the 1960s. Booklist (starred review) Groundbreaking...thought-provoking. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Well-thought, highly readable and timely. Huffington Post Washington builds a strong and much-needed case against purely aesthetic interpretations of 1950s African American literature. Highly recommended. CHOICE Insightful, densely researched, and engaging... Washington resoundingly demonstrates the importance of the Black Popular Front to the postwar black literary tradition. Women's Review of Books Washington's brilliant, intimate and highly readable new book capstones an important era of post-Cold War scholarship of the legacy of American Communism and African American literature... no book in recent memory more boldly confronts and dismantles the political apparatus of literary commemoration. Solidarity Washington's excellent book contributes powerfully to a strand of scholarship that is transforming our understanding of post-World War II American intellectual and cultural history... Deeply researched, persuasively argued, and much-needed. Journal of American History As literary and cultural history, Washington's book offers a vast resource... Readers who are eager to place the postwar period in the context of 1930s and '40s historiography of the left as well as the period of black nationalism that followed in the 1960s will rejoice in these pages. The Los Angeles Review of Books Well-researched, informative, illuminating... By challenging the standard Cold War narrative of Communist Party irrelevance and isolation, The Other Blacklist not only promotes radical African American cultural production in the 1950's, it also highlights the very real internal and external pressures faced by communists and their allies. People's World Superbly woven together... A must-read book for those who study and teach literature, women's studies, history, African American studies, American studies, and cultural studies. Womens Studies Quarterly An extraordinary piece of scholarly research and cultural commentary. Science & SocietyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Lloyd Brown: Black Fire in the Cold War 2. Charles White: "Robeson with a Brush and Pencil" 3. Alice Childress: Black, Red, and Feminist 4. When Gwendolyn Brooks Wore Red 5. Frank London Brown: The End of the Black Cultural Front and the Turn Toward Civil Rights 6. 1959: Spycraft and the Black Literary Left Epilogue: The Example of Julian Mayfield Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press The Problem with Pleasure
Book SynopsisA revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period’s formal and ideological innovations.Trade ReviewA tour de force that will be widely and passionately read. Laura Frost has panache, acuity, incisiveness, and pleasure to burn. This is an important and shimmering book, a firework in its own right. -- Jennifer Wicke, University of Virginia Strikingly original both conceptually and in its readings of a diverse array of interwar authors from Joyce and Stein to Huxley and Loos, Laura Frost's revisionary study of literary modernism's relation to the pleasures of vernacular culture changes the terms of the debate concerning modernism and the great divide between high and low culture. Yet her study's implications resonate significantly beyond modernism and are urgently relevant to understanding and assessing our contemporary response to the easy pleasures of the digital. -- John Paul Riquelme, Boston University An original and useful revision to our understanding of modernism. Publishers Weekly Fresh, invigorating, witty and profound, her book impresses on every page... This is criticism at its very best and it deserves to top any reading list on Modernism. Times Higher Education [Frost] is an irreverent, imaginative guide to modernism, and her own writing throughout this impressive study is a pleasure and a delight. -- Linda Simon Los Angeles Review of Books Passionate and provocative... Frost's study of the vicissitudes of modernist unpleasure performs its argument quite well. -- Ryan Chang Biblioklept Laura Frost's The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents offers us an illuminating perspective on modernism. -- Daniel Green Open Letters Monthly With its breezy erudition and fast-flowing, abundantly pleasurable prose, [The Problem with Pleasure] should find and delight a wide audience. -- Judith Brown Novel: A Forum on Fiction Frost's book is a treasure-trove of difficult pleasures. -- Saikat Majumdar James Joyce QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Repudiation of Pleasure 1. James Joyce and the Scent of Modernity 2. Stein's Tickle 3. Orgasmic Discipline: D. H. Lawrence 4. Huxley's Feelies: Engineered Pleasure in Brave New World 5. The Impasse of Pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys 6. Blondes Have More Fun: Anita Loos and the Language of Silent Cinema Coda: Modernism's Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Problem with Pleasure
Book SynopsisA revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period’s formal and ideological innovations.Trade ReviewA tour de force that will be widely and passionately read. Laura Frost has panache, acuity, incisiveness, and pleasure to burn. This is an important and shimmering book, a firework in its own right. -- Jennifer Wicke, University of Virginia Strikingly original both conceptually and in its readings of a diverse array of interwar authors from Joyce and Stein to Huxley and Loos, Laura Frost's revisionary study of literary modernism's relation to the pleasures of vernacular culture changes the terms of the debate concerning modernism and the great divide between high and low culture. Yet her study's implications resonate significantly beyond modernism and are urgently relevant to understanding and assessing our contemporary response to the easy pleasures of the digital. -- John Paul Riquelme, Boston University An original and useful revision to our understanding of modernism. Publishers Weekly Fresh, invigorating, witty and profound, her book impresses on every page... This is criticism at its very best and it deserves to top any reading list on Modernism. Times Higher Education [Frost] is an irreverent, imaginative guide to modernism, and her own writing throughout this impressive study is a pleasure and a delight. -- Linda Simon Los Angeles Review of Books Passionate and provocative... Frost's study of the vicissitudes of modernist unpleasure performs its argument quite well. -- Ryan Chang Biblioklept Laura Frost's The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents offers us an illuminating perspective on modernism. -- Daniel Green Open Letters Monthly With its breezy erudition and fast-flowing, abundantly pleasurable prose, [The Problem with Pleasure] should find and delight a wide audience. -- Judith Brown Novel: A Forum on Fiction Frost's book is a treasure-trove of difficult pleasures. -- Saikat Majumdar James Joyce QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Repudiation of Pleasure 1. James Joyce and the Scent of Modernity 2. Stein's Tickle 3. Orgasmic Discipline: D. H. Lawrence 4. Huxley's Feelies: Engineered Pleasure in Brave New World 5. The Impasse of Pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys 6. Blondes Have More Fun: Anita Loos and the Language of Silent Cinema Coda: Modernism's Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Generation of Postmemory Writing and Visual
Book SynopsisCan we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories--multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large. In these new and revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust and other, related sites of memory, Marianne Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory. The book's chapters, two of which were written collaboratively with the historian Leo Spitzer, engage the work of postgeneration artists and writers such as Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, Eva Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Muriel Hasbun, Anne Karpff, Lily Brett, Lorie Novak, David Levinthal, Nancy Spero and Susan Meiselas. Grappling with the ethicsTrade ReviewMarianne Hirsch's writings provide us with a varied and complex vocabulary for thinking and writing about the long intergenerational legacy of the Holocaust. Her supple writing wrestles with ghosts, images, shadows, survival, loss and all that we project onto the empty canvas of the aftermath. Moving, urgent, and necessary, this book opens up new ways of thinking about family, relationality, kinship, inheritance, and survival in the wake of cataclysmic violence. -- Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure Marianne Hirsch explores the aftermath of genocide as few scholars have. She is both a brilliant reader of texts (photographs, artifacts, literature, and digital images) and an incisive theorist. As she clarifies the fractured forms of post-Holocaust art and literature, she demonstrates the value of imagination as restorative and as rich and layered in its inter-generational complexities. A groundbreaking book that has broad meaning for the study of traumatic memory and its creative aftermath. -- Peter Balakian, author of Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past With her crucial distinction between 'familial' and 'affiliative' postmemory, Marianne Hirsch shows how the transmission of traumatic experiences occurs not only within families but also across a much wider social field. Her emphasis on the role of gender in this mediating process is illuminating. The Generation of Postmemory will be a major reference in Holocaust and genocide studies for years to come. -- Susan Rubin Suleiman, author of Crises of Memory and the Second World War The Generation of Postmemory is Marianne Hirsch's finest and fullest description of her paradigm-changing concept of postmemory. In dialogue with a dazzling array of writers and photographers as well as scholars across the humanities, it shows how the 'hinge generations' that have directly experienced or inherited the traumas of the holocaust and other twentieth-century genocides have sought to conceive and commemorate those staggering losses in the hope of a better future. It also traces Hirsch's own dialectical development as a literary, feminist, visual culture, and Holocaust studies scholar, an intellectual trajectory that she shares with many of the best critics of our time. This book is indispensable. -- Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism And this is precisely where the heuristic value of postmemory comes in: it forces us to question, to mobilize the punctum that launches the relationship between history (with a capital H, of course) and memory, and its artistic representations... -- Sonia Combe La Quinzaine Litteraire significant contributions to Holocaust literature, women's and gender history, and memory studies. -- Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild Women's Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction I. Familial Postmemories and Beyond 1. The Generation of Postmemory 2. What's Wrong With This Picture? with Leo Spitzer 3. Marked by Memory II. Affiliation 4. Surviving Images 5. Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art 6. Projected Memory 7. Testimonial Objects with Leo Spitzer III. Connective Histories 8. Objects of Return 9. Postmemory's Archival Turn Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Columbia University Press Modernism at the Barricades
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewModernism at the Barricades is an erudite, wide-ranging, and provocative exploration of the twentieth-century avant-garde in all of its rich and multifaceted guises and incarnations. As Bronner shows, modernism sought to dash the beautiful illusions of art for art's sake to produce a resurrection of lived experience amid the ruins of a declining bourgeois civilization. If this ambitious aesthetic program 'failed,' it was, as Bronner demonstrates, a magnificent failure from which we stand to learn much today. -- Richard Wolin, Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s A champion of clarity with a style to match, Stephen Eric Bronner has produced a capacious and fascinating survey of some of modernism's greatest achievements. It is also, miraculously, a genealogy and an inspiration for cultural politics today. Bronner's book goes back to basics, enabling us to feel what it felt like when 'make it new' was new. With his trademark verve, ambition, and deep erudition, he not only covers the whole of modernism but also stands up for a beleaguered modernity. -- Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State A work of scope and substance that merits serious attention from modernist scholars everywhere. -- David Weir Modernism/Modernity An unusually compelling and provocative, book that draws on [Bronner's] extensive knowledge of the artistic and political movements of the twentieth century... A smart, engaging, and compelling book... wonderful. -- Simon Stow New Political Science [A] thought-provoking book. -- Sean Sayers H-SocialismsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Modernist Impulse: Subjectivity 2. Modernism in Context: Notes for a Political Aesthetic 3. Experiencing Modernism: A Short History of Expressionist Painting 4. The Modernist Spirit: On the Correspondence Between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky 5. Modernism in Motion: F. T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism 6. Ecstatic Modernism: The Paintings of Emil Nolde 7. Modernism 8. Modernism Changes the World: The Russian Avant-Garde and the Revolution 9. Modernists in Power: The Literati and the Bavarian Revolution 10. Exhibiting Modernism: Paris and Berlin 11. The Modernist Adventure: Political Reflections on a Cultural Legacy Notes Indexix 2/2/2012 05_bron15822_00_toc.doc:
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Columbia University Press Modernism at the Barricades
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewModernism at the Barricades is an erudite, wide-ranging, and provocative exploration of the twentieth-century avant-garde in all of its rich and multifaceted guises and incarnations. As Bronner shows, modernism sought to dash the beautiful illusions of art for art's sake to produce a resurrection of lived experience amid the ruins of a declining bourgeois civilization. If this ambitious aesthetic program 'failed,' it was, as Bronner demonstrates, a magnificent failure from which we stand to learn much today. -- Richard Wolin, Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s A champion of clarity with a style to match, Stephen Eric Bronner has produced a capacious and fascinating survey of some of modernism's greatest achievements. It is also, miraculously, a genealogy and an inspiration for cultural politics today. Bronner's book goes back to basics, enabling us to feel what it felt like when 'make it new' was new. With his trademark verve, ambition, and deep erudition, he not only covers the whole of modernism but also stands up for a beleaguered modernity. -- Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State A work of scope and substance that merits serious attention from modernist scholars everywhere. -- David Weir Modernism/Modernity An unusually compelling and provocative, book that draws on [Bronner's] extensive knowledge of the artistic and political movements of the twentieth century... A smart, engaging, and compelling book... wonderful. -- Simon Stow New Political Science [A] thought-provoking book. -- Sean Sayers H-SocialismsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Modernist Impulse: Subjectivity 2. Modernism in Context: Notes for a Political Aesthetic 3. Experiencing Modernism: A Short History of Expressionist Painting 4. The Modernist Spirit: On the Correspondence Between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky 5. Modernism in Motion: F. T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism 6. Ecstatic Modernism: The Paintings of Emil Nolde 7. Modernism 8. Modernism Changes the World: The Russian Avant-Garde and the Revolution 9. Modernists in Power: The Literati and the Bavarian Revolution 10. Exhibiting Modernism: Paris and Berlin 11. The Modernist Adventure: Political Reflections on a Cultural Legacy Notes Indexix 2/2/2012 05_bron15822_00_toc.doc:
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Columbia University Press Imaginary Ethnographies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThough a series of interrelated essays, this is a powerful book presenting a unified argument...Highly recommended. Choice Imaginary Ethnographies reads, most beautifully, like a literary-critical analogue of science fiction gesturing toward new worlds and new forms Cultural CritiqueTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Writing 1. Another Writing Lesson: Levi-Strauss 2. Traveling Literature 3. Restriction and Mobility: Desire Part II: Cannibals 4. The Melancholic Cannibal: Juan Jose Saer's The Witness and Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar 5. War Children in a Global World: Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul 6. Ethnographies of the Future: Personhood Part III: Coda Cosmographical Meditations on the Inhuman: Samuel Beckett's The Lost Ones Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Metamorphoses of Fat
Book SynopsisTracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.Trade ReviewVigarello offers up a grande bouffe of food for thought, tracing the impact of evolving mores and medicines on society's perception of an often stigmatized condition. Nature Vigarello masterfully traces...the stigmatization of the fat person over time. Times Literary Supplement Overall, a useful resource on the sociology and history of obesity... Choice At once compelling and ground-breaking... this work represents all that is best in new histories of the body. Modern Language Review A brilliant piece of work... A great opening point to the many opaque aspects of the consequences of body size for the fate of individuals and societies for future historians to explore. Social History of Medicine Enjoyable and useful. Vigarello manages to deliver an impresive amount of material in less than two hundred pages... Thought-provoking and entertaining. Bulletin of the History of Medicine The most impressive history of corpulence to date... essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how our modern preoccupations with size, weight, health, beauty, and morality have changed over time. American Historical Review In short, the breadth and detail of the account presented here provides a valuable resource for researchers to begin to understand the multiplicity of approaches to fatness over time. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Exceptionally well organized and presented, The Metamorphoses of Fat is a unique and seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 1. The Prestige of the Big Person 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind 3. The Horizon of Fault 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming Part 2 5. The Shores of Laziness 6. The Plural of Fat 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms 8. Constraining the Flesh Part 3 9. Inventing Nuance 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness 11. Toning Up Part 4 12. The Weight of Figures 13. Typology Fever 14. From Chemistry to Energy 15. From Energy to Diets Part 5 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity 18. The Thin Revolution 19. Declaring "The Martyr" Part 6 Conclusion Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Metamorphoses of Fat
Book SynopsisTracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.Trade ReviewVigarello offers up a grande bouffe of food for thought, tracing the impact of evolving mores and medicines on society's perception of an often stigmatized condition. Nature Vigarello masterfully traces...the stigmatization of the fat person over time. Times Literary Supplement Overall, a useful resource on the sociology and history of obesity... Choice At once compelling and ground-breaking... this work represents all that is best in new histories of the body. Modern Language Review A brilliant piece of work... A great opening point to the many opaque aspects of the consequences of body size for the fate of individuals and societies for future historians to explore. Social History of Medicine Enjoyable and useful. Vigarello manages to deliver an impresive amount of material in less than two hundred pages... Thought-provoking and entertaining. Bulletin of the History of Medicine The most impressive history of corpulence to date... essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how our modern preoccupations with size, weight, health, beauty, and morality have changed over time. American Historical Review In short, the breadth and detail of the account presented here provides a valuable resource for researchers to begin to understand the multiplicity of approaches to fatness over time. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Exceptionally well organized and presented, The Metamorphoses of Fat is a unique and seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 1. The Prestige of the Big Person 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind 3. The Horizon of Fault 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming Part 2 5. The Shores of Laziness 6. The Plural of Fat 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms 8. Constraining the Flesh Part 3 9. Inventing Nuance 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness 11. Toning Up Part 4 12. The Weight of Figures 13. Typology Fever 14. From Chemistry to Energy 15. From Energy to Diets Part 5 16. The Dominance of Aesthetics 17. Clinical Obesity and Everyday Obesity 18. The Thin Revolution 19. Declaring "The Martyr" Part 6 Conclusion Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Critical Pulse
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBoth autobiography and declaration of principle, these credos are dispatches from the trenches of literary criticism. They will inspire future scholars even as they register the uncertainties of an increasingly precarious profession. -- Martin Puchner, Harvard University, author of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy Williams and Steffen's engaging, diverting, and thought-provoking analysis spells out the predicament facing literary criticism today. These essays represent thinking, argument, knowledge, and life experience that should be preserved and kept available for its own sake. -- Brian Lennon, Pennsylvania State University, author of In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States This piquant and welcome volume presents the 'credos' of 36 scholars-reflections on why criticism matters, why and how they do the work they do, and what they hope to accomplish. Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Criticism in a Difficult Time A Critic's Progress 1. The Case for Scholarly Reporting, by Andrew Ross 2. Declarations of Independence, by Amitava Kumar 3. On Critique and Inheritance, by Lisa Lowe 4. What I Believe and Why, by Vincent B. Leitch 5. Hearing Losses and Gains, by Craig Womack 6. Long Island Intellectual, by Jeffrey J. Williams Academic Labor 7. We Work, by Marc Bousquet 8. What Is Criticism on Academic Labor For?, by Katie Hogan 9. "All Things Visible and Invisible": Believing in Higher Education, by Michelle A. Masse 10. Against Heroism, by John Conley 11. Pack Consciousness, by Heather Steffen Declarations of Politics 12. Activism and Curriculum, by Paul Lauter 13. Revolutionary Consciousness, by Cary Nelson 14. Geopolitical Translators, by David B. Downing 15. Critical Credo, by Barbara Foley 16. This I Believed, by Michael Berube 17. "Hope Dies Last": Cultural Studies and Studs Terkel, by Victor Cohen Pedagogical Moments 18. Credo of a Teacher, by Gerald Graff 19. Of Credos and Credibility, by William Germano 20. Teaching Friction, by Ann Pellegrini 21. Coerced Confessions, by Bruce Robbins 22. On Race and Literature, by Kenneth Warren 23. Teaching Theory, by Diana Fuss 24. Affect Is the New Trauma, by Lauren Berlant The Defense of Literature 25. Access to the Universal: Language, Literature, and the Humanities, by Toril Moi 26. Wrestling with the Angel: A Modest Critical Credo, by Morris Dickstein 27. Everyday Aesthetics, by Rita Felski 28. Criticism Is Vital, by David R. Shumway 29. Critical Credo, by Mark Bauerlein 30. Why I'm Still Writing Women's Literary History, by Devoney Looser New Turns 31. Without Evidence, by Stephen Burt 32. All There Is to Use, by Mark Greif 33. Open, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick 34. Timing, by Mark McGurl 35. The Politics of Small Problems, by Frances Negron-Muntaner 36. The Power of Unknowing, by Judith Jack Halberstam List of Contributors
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Columbia University Press The Critical Pulse
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBoth autobiography and declaration of principle, these credos are dispatches from the trenches of literary criticism. They will inspire future scholars even as they register the uncertainties of an increasingly precarious profession. -- Martin Puchner, Harvard University, author of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy Williams and Steffen's engaging, diverting, and thought-provoking analysis spells out the predicament facing literary criticism today. These essays represent thinking, argument, knowledge, and life experience that should be preserved and kept available for its own sake. -- Brian Lennon, Pennsylvania State University, author of In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States This piquant and welcome volume presents the 'credos' of 36 scholars-reflections on why criticism matters, why and how they do the work they do, and what they hope to accomplish. Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Criticism in a Difficult Time A Critic's Progress 1. The Case for Scholarly Reporting, by Andrew Ross 2. Declarations of Independence, by Amitava Kumar 3. On Critique and Inheritance, by Lisa Lowe 4. What I Believe and Why, by Vincent B. Leitch 5. Hearing Losses and Gains, by Craig Womack 6. Long Island Intellectual, by Jeffrey J. Williams Academic Labor 7. We Work, by Marc Bousquet 8. What Is Criticism on Academic Labor For?, by Katie Hogan 9. "All Things Visible and Invisible": Believing in Higher Education, by Michelle A. Masse 10. Against Heroism, by John Conley 11. Pack Consciousness, by Heather Steffen Declarations of Politics 12. Activism and Curriculum, by Paul Lauter 13. Revolutionary Consciousness, by Cary Nelson 14. Geopolitical Translators, by David B. Downing 15. Critical Credo, by Barbara Foley 16. This I Believed, by Michael Berube 17. "Hope Dies Last": Cultural Studies and Studs Terkel, by Victor Cohen Pedagogical Moments 18. Credo of a Teacher, by Gerald Graff 19. Of Credos and Credibility, by William Germano 20. Teaching Friction, by Ann Pellegrini 21. Coerced Confessions, by Bruce Robbins 22. On Race and Literature, by Kenneth Warren 23. Teaching Theory, by Diana Fuss 24. Affect Is the New Trauma, by Lauren Berlant The Defense of Literature 25. Access to the Universal: Language, Literature, and the Humanities, by Toril Moi 26. Wrestling with the Angel: A Modest Critical Credo, by Morris Dickstein 27. Everyday Aesthetics, by Rita Felski 28. Criticism Is Vital, by David R. Shumway 29. Critical Credo, by Mark Bauerlein 30. Why I'm Still Writing Women's Literary History, by Devoney Looser New Turns 31. Without Evidence, by Stephen Burt 32. All There Is to Use, by Mark Greif 33. Open, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick 34. Timing, by Mark McGurl 35. The Politics of Small Problems, by Frances Negron-Muntaner 36. The Power of Unknowing, by Judith Jack Halberstam List of Contributors
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Columbia University Press Killing the Moonlight Modernism in Venice
Book SynopsisTracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clashTrade ReviewA theoretically sophisticated project, far-reaching in its comparativist approach, and methodologically rigorous throughout. Scappettone's work brings to our attention-and patiently walks us through, so as to let us appreciate-the interrelation of imaginary and lived spaces, literary and cultural history, textual and urban terrains. -- Carla Billitteri, University of Maine Troping its object of study, the field of studies of modern(ist) Venice long seemed exhausted. That is, until the arrival of Jennifer Scappettone's superb Killing the Moonlight. From the Bruce Nauman Venice Fountains with which the book opens to its closing valediction on the Las Vegas Venetian Resort Hotel, Scappettone moves among historical epochs with ease and erudition, making a highly original scholarly contribution of uncommon finesse. -- Jeffrey T. Schnapp, director, metaLAB, Harvard University In Killing the Moonlight, a rich and satisfying book, Scappettone offers her own Benjaminian arcades of Venice, replete with seductive phantasmagorias grounded in material culture. Venice attracts modernist impulses negotiating endlessly between the past and modernity exemplified by Henry James, Ezra Pound, John Ashbery, Andrea Zanzotto and even, despite his bluster, by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Demonstrating how floating, porous, and transient archipelagos can replace the hardness of virile utopias, Killing the Moonlight will make you revisit the city once again, bathing its canals, palaces, and monuments in a truly new light. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania Killing the Moonlight is a shimmering, brilliant reflection on Venice's making of a modernist aesthetic, one not simply to be understood as a minor modernism, but one arising on the thresholds of the city's lagoons and lacunae. We here meet an amphibious modernism that emerges out of the very materials and structures, out of the waters and stones of the Serenissima herself. In a tour-de-force reading of John Ruskin, Henry James, Ezra Pound, the Italian Futurists, Massimo Cacciari, Italo Calvino, and Jeanette Winterson, Scappettone has written what will be a classic work on the spaces and times of modernity. -- Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Brown University In Killing the Moonlight, Jennifer Scappettone performs a scholarly quarry of a city fabled in the literary history and cultural memory of Europe. Excavating the social geology of the Venetian site, surveying the layers of archaeological as well as architectural and artistic accumulation, Scappettone's research opens the manifold dimensions of this legacy as a kind of living museum of European dreams. Critically, in a series of focused and revealing readings of its cultural locations, she also demonstrates a long history of such readings: in a process equally self-reflexive and illuminating, she shows how powerfully Venice speaks to the desires of political visionaries and aesthetic revolutionaries alike. -- Modernist Studies Association Book Prize Citation In Killing the Moonlight Modernism in Venice, Jennifer Scappettone seems to reproduce in writing the fluid geography of the city at the center of her study. The scholar offers the reader an erudite travelogue that documents, between spatiotemporal detours, returns, and sudden fallings into the present, the instances in which the romantic myth of Venice has clashed and met with modernity... Scappettone demonstrates with a comparative and interdisciplinary approach how Venice is not necessarily a monstrous other of the modern, a space antithetical to contemporary life in which to find a nostalgic refuge or death, but a laboratory used by numerous artists and writers to make the contradictions, the dangers, and the failures themselves of the modernist ethos and utopianism emerge. -- Gian Maria Annovi alfabeta 2 Killing the Moonlight is a brilliant fusion of literature, art, architecture, politics, and history that challenges and rewards the reader with its voracious and wide-ranging scope... This book makes an important contribution not only to modernist studies but also to wider theoretical debates about the relationship between real and imagined places, the temporal dislocation that characterizes sites of historical memory and how they can be reclaimed for the present. -- Rosa Mucignat Comparative LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Venetian Modernity: A Troubled Present 1. "The Entanglement of Memory": Reciprocal Interference of Present and Past in Ruskin's Venetian Histories 2. Nearer Distances and Clearer Mysteries: Between Patches and Presence in James's "Visitable Past" 3. Adriatic Fantasies: Venetian Modernism Between Decadence 4. From Passeism to Anachronism: Material Histories in Pound's Venice 5. Fabulous Planning: Unbuilt Venices Coda: Laguna/Lacuna Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Visions of Dystopia in Chinas New Historical
Book SynopsisThe epic narratives of modern Chinese fiction feature graphic depictions of sex and violence and dark, raunchy comedy, and these novels deeply reflect China’s turbulent recent historyTrade ReviewA lucid, thought-provoking, and substantial study of several of China's most important creative writers: one that poses crucial questions about the links between fiction, history, and politics in the contemporary People's Republic. -- Julia Lovell, University of London Kinkley's study offers a refreshing comparative perspective on recent works of Chinese historical fiction by classifying them as global dystopian novels with 'Chinese characteristics.' -- Robin Visser, University of North Carolina From his masterful literary biography of Shen Congwen to more recent studies of Chinese political fiction and legal fiction, the interrelation between history and literature has always been an important subtext of Jeffery Kinkley's work. With Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels, Kinkley dives directly into the complex and sometimes murky intersection between history and literature in contemporary China. Along the way, we are introduced to the leading voices in Chinese literature today, including Mo Yan, Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Wang Anyi, and offered nuanced readings of the dystopian undercurrent in their major works. For those interested in delving deeper into the most important Chinese novels of the past quarter century, this is where to start. -- Michael Berry, author of History of Pain and Speaking in Images Following on from his path-breaking studies of contemporary Chinese legal fiction and political novels, Jeffrey Kinkley in his new book. Visions of Dystopia once again displays impressive mastery of a body of Chinese writing that provides us with a unique perspective on the country's turbulent recent history. Engaging with dystopian traditions in literature from South America and elsewhere, Kinkley expertly brings out the uniqueness of the Chinese authors' handling of the past to comment on the present and the future. Identifying himself as a historian, Kinkley at the same time has been and continues to be one of the world's leading scholars of Chinese literataure. -- Michel Hockx, SOAS, University of London In yet another impressive work with impeccable research, Kinkley displays his nuanced understanding of modern and contemporary China through highly readable prose and broad reference to similar works in world literature. A must-read! -- Sylvia Lin, author of Representing Atrocity in Taiwan Jeffrey C. Kinkley has done magnificent work in rethinking the meaning and function of historical dynamics and spatial imaginary in the context of dystopia. He looks into sources drawn from PRC fiction since the New Era, identifies generic and conceptual contestations, and teases out the radical elements in the debate about civil society. Both historically engaged and theoretically provocative, Kinkley's book is a most important source for anyone interested in Chinese and comparative literature and cultural studies. -- David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University This is the best treatment yet of the contemporary PRC historical novel... Highly recommended. Choice An original and penetrating book... [Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels] is an excellent resource for both students and advanced scholars of modern Chinese literature and history. -- Nathaniel Isaacson H-Asia [Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels] is an articulate, thought-provoking, and important contribution to the study of contemporary PRC literature, useful for research and classroom teaching. -- Christopher N. Payne The China Quarterly This is a masterful study of a major genre in recent Chinese literature; it is erudite but readable, strongly comparative, and with both historical and literary perspective. -- Richard King Pacific Affairs By virtue of his knowledge, keen comparative insights, and detailed close readings, Kinkley delivers more than his modest title promises... China scholars in other disciplines will find much of value in this far-reaching magnum opus. Scholars of contemporary Chinese literature will find it indispensable. -- Sabina Knight The China JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Chinese Visions of History and Dystopia 2. Discomforts of Temporal Anomie 3. Projections of Historical Repetition 4. Alienation from the Group 5. Anarchy: Social, Moral, and Cosmic 6. Conclusion: The End of History, Dystopia, and "New" Historical Novels? List of Chinese Characters Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays
Book SynopsisVarying in length from paragraphs to pages, these works also provide moving descriptions of snowy landscapes, foggy London, Ueno Park’s famous cherry blossoms, and the appeal of rainy vistas, and relate the joys and troubles of everyone from desperate samurai to filial children and ailing cats.Trade ReviewThe focused ramble of the traditional Japanese essay format called zuihitsu (literally, 'following the brush') has appealed to writers of both genders, all ages, and every class in Japanese society. Highly personal, these essays contain dollops of philosophy, odd anecdotes, quiet reflection, and pronouncements on taste. In running alongside the main tracks of Japanese literature, this broad collection of zuihitsu brims with idiosyncratic interest. -- Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki and East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir Through the Seasons Savor a copy of The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays, and take a contemplative walk through the Japanese mind, full of poetic turns and pithy longings, ribald humor and lofty aspirations. -- Kris Kosaka The Japan Times Rich and highly enjoyable... This evocative selection serves both as an excellent introduction to the genre for the English-speaking world and as a reminder that, no matter how distant or seemingly different the society, people's individual struggles, aspirations and aesthetics transcend their own times. -- Morgan Giles Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Beginnings 1. The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon 2. Essays in Idleness, by Yoshida no Kenko Part II. The Late Medieval Era 3. Conversations with Shotetsu, by Shotetsu 4. "To Unify the Nation and Restore Civil Society", by Ichijo Kaneyoshi 5. "Cottage of Dreams" and "Three Loves", by Shohaku 6. A Tenbun Miscellany, by The Fujiwara Lay Monk Part III. The Edo Period 7. Laughs to Keep You Awake, by Anrakuan Sakuden 8. "On Ohara", by Kinoshita Choshoshi 9. Haikai Prose, by Matsuo Basho 10. Amusements, by Amenomori Hoshu 11. Window Musings, by Matsuzaki Kanran 12. A Miscellany of Stories, by Morita Morimasa 13. Chats with Myself, by Dazai Shundai 14. Jeweled Comb Basket, by Motoori Norinaga 15. Idle Chats Beneath a Northern Window, by Tachibana Nankei 16. Blossoms and the Moon, by Matsudaira Sadanobu 17. Year by Year: A Miscellany, by Ishiwara Masaakira 18. Behind the Koto, by Murata Harumi 19. Shunparo's Jottings, by Shiba Kokan 20. Unusual People of the Modern Age and Kanden's Crop of Jottings, by Ban Kokei 21. Hoary Stories, by Tadano Makuzu 22. Haikai Prose, by Natsume Seibi 23. Clouds of Floating Grasses Part IV. The Modern Period 24. Autumn Ensemble, by Higuchi Ichiyo 25. Short Works from Long Days, by Natsume Soseki 26. "Snow", by Tokutomi Roka 27. "Desk", by Tayama Katai 28. "Fireworks", by Nagai Kafu 29. "Laughter", by Terada Torahiko 30. "Various Thoughts on the Great Kanto Earthquake" and "My Moral Precepts for Everyday Life", by Kikuchi Kan 31. "Master Hyakken's Idle Fantasies," "Bumpy Road," and "A Long Fence", by Uchida Hyakken 32. "The Image of an Author", by Dazai Osamu 33. "Baby Sparrow," "Turtledoves," and "Morning Glories", by Shiga Naoya 34. Esprit and Humor, by Kawamori Yoshizo 35. "Sleepless Nights" and "A Bed for My Books", by Osaragi Jiro 36. "On Being Down with a Cold", by Kawakami Tetsutaro 37. "The Road", by Shono Junzo 38. "Kitchen," "Raindrops," and "A Memento of the Season", by Koda Aya 39. "On Surgery" and "Rainy Day", by Kono Taeko 40. "Looking for Gloves", by Mukoda Kuniko 41. One, We Count, Then ... , by Takenishi Hiroko 42. Sunday Musings, by Hiraiwa Yumie 43. Not Much of a Book, but Please... and Just Be Sure You're Not a Bother to Anyone, by Dekune Tatsuro 44. "Myna Bird", by Kizaki Satoko 45. "Concerning the Order of Culture", by Shiroyama Saburo 46. "On Zuihitsu", by Sakai Junko
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Columbia University Press The Trouble with PostBlackness
Book SynopsisScholars, novelists, poets, and journalists revisit the idea of “blackness” and whether it is a concept we can--or should--move beyond.Trade ReviewAn excellent collection and a timely intervention in a conversation with important ramifications for scholarship and civic life. There is both breadth and depth in these pieces, and a pleasing and engaging diversity of concerns and writing styles. -- George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness The Trouble with Post-Blackness courageously puts to rest the dangerous, delusory, and fabulous (as in 'fable') claim that we inhabit a post-racial America. Through these critically engaging essays, the concept of 'post-blackness' is indeed troubled, rendered turbid and untenable in an America in which black people continue to face ontological occlusion and existential foreclosure. This text refuses mythopoetic slogans and faddish signifiers, instead ethically grounding us in the temporal now and refusing to mock those black bodies that face an anti-black America that continues to mark them as dangerous, criminal, and existentially nugatory. -- George Yancy, Duquesne University, author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race A thoughtful, if not gentle, scholarly refutation of a controversial claim of a post-racial society. Kirkus Reviews This thoughtful, provocative, and only occasionally heavy-going collection of essays... persuasively argues that what Toure calls 'being like Barack' really just maintains normative whiteness as an untroubled, unanalyzed construct. Publishers Weekly An excellent collection of essays from impressive minds responding openly to what black identity was, is, and perhaps will be... Anyone with an expressed interest in racial history and identity will enjoy this read. Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness-Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance, by K. Merinda Simmons 1. What Was Is: The Time and Space of Entanglement Erased by Post-Blackness, by Margo Natalie Crawford 2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness, by Stephanie Li 3. African Diasporic Blackness Out of Line: Trouble for "Post-Black" African Americanism, by Greg Thomas 4. Fear of a Performative Planet: Troubling the Concept of "Post-Blackness", by Rone Shavers 5. E-Raced: #Toure, Twitter, and Trayvon, by Riche Richardson 6. Post-Blackness and All of the Black Americas, by Heather D. Russell 7. Embodying Africa: Roots-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness, by Bayo Holsey 8. "The world is a ghetto": Post-Racial America(s) and the Apocalypse, by Patrice Rankine 9. The Long Road Home, by Erin Aubry Kaplan 10. Half as Good, by John L. Jackson Jr. 11. "Whither Now and Why": Content Mastery and Pedagogy-a Critique and a Challenge, by Dana A. Williams 12. Fallacies of the Post-Race Presidency, by Ishmael Reed 13. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens), by Emily Raboteau Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes, by Houston A. Baker Jr. List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Trouble with PostBlackness
Book SynopsisScholars, novelists, poets, and journalists revisit the idea of “blackness” and whether it is a concept we can--or should--move beyond.Trade ReviewAn excellent collection and a timely intervention in a conversation with important ramifications for scholarship and civic life. There is both breadth and depth in these pieces, and a pleasing and engaging diversity of concerns and writing styles. -- George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness The Trouble with Post-Blackness courageously puts to rest the dangerous, delusory, and fabulous (as in 'fable') claim that we inhabit a post-racial America. Through these critically engaging essays, the concept of 'post-blackness' is indeed troubled, rendered turbid and untenable in an America in which black people continue to face ontological occlusion and existential foreclosure. This text refuses mythopoetic slogans and faddish signifiers, instead ethically grounding us in the temporal now and refusing to mock those black bodies that face an anti-black America that continues to mark them as dangerous, criminal, and existentially nugatory. -- George Yancy, Duquesne University, author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race A thoughtful, if not gentle, scholarly refutation of a controversial claim of a post-racial society. Kirkus Reviews This thoughtful, provocative, and only occasionally heavy-going collection of essays... persuasively argues that what Toure calls 'being like Barack' really just maintains normative whiteness as an untroubled, unanalyzed construct. Publishers Weekly An excellent collection of essays from impressive minds responding openly to what black identity was, is, and perhaps will be... Anyone with an expressed interest in racial history and identity will enjoy this read. Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness-Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance, by K. Merinda Simmons 1. What Was Is: The Time and Space of Entanglement Erased by Post-Blackness, by Margo Natalie Crawford 2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness, by Stephanie Li 3. African Diasporic Blackness Out of Line: Trouble for "Post-Black" African Americanism, by Greg Thomas 4. Fear of a Performative Planet: Troubling the Concept of "Post-Blackness", by Rone Shavers 5. E-Raced: #Toure, Twitter, and Trayvon, by Riche Richardson 6. Post-Blackness and All of the Black Americas, by Heather D. Russell 7. Embodying Africa: Roots-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness, by Bayo Holsey 8. "The world is a ghetto": Post-Racial America(s) and the Apocalypse, by Patrice Rankine 9. The Long Road Home, by Erin Aubry Kaplan 10. Half as Good, by John L. Jackson Jr. 11. "Whither Now and Why": Content Mastery and Pedagogy-a Critique and a Challenge, by Dana A. Williams 12. Fallacies of the Post-Race Presidency, by Ishmael Reed 13. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens), by Emily Raboteau Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes, by Houston A. Baker Jr. List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Subject of Torture Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisShowcases film and television studies’ singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy itTrade ReviewOne of the clearest signs of the ethical regression that characterizes the last decade is the changed status of torture in public discourse: no longer a taboo, something that is to be done in secret, torture is today a topic of 'rational' legal, ethical, and medical debates. This renormalization of torture would not have been possible without movies and television series that gradually rendered it acceptable. This is why Hilary Neroni's The Subject of Torture reaches well beyond cultural studies and provides a courageous examination of the ongoing moral catastrophe-everyone who cares about our ethical predicament should read it. The book is not only very readable and simultaneously a work of highest academic standards, it is much more: an alarm call that should awaken us all from our moral slumber. -- Slavoj Zizek, author of Less Than Nothing and The Year of Dreaming Dangerously and coauthor of What Does Europe Want? Wonderfully astute, politically timely, and deeply engaging. Hilary Neroni undertakes the pressing task of destroying the logic that sustains contemporary justifications for torture. The Subject of Torture is truly pathbreaking in its lucid engagement with the torture debate from a psychoanalytic perspective. -- Jennifer Friedlander, Pomona College The suffering, tremulous body examined in this excellent book is not that of the torture victim, who must pay in the flesh for our access to truth, but that of the torturer, who conceals his obscene pleasure behind euphemisms such as 'enhanced interrogation' and rationalizations based on false scenarios of imminent threat. Hilary Neroni's expert and detailed readings of the Abu Ghraib photographs, documentary films about the events leading up to them, and the new genre of 'torture porn' that appeared in their wake execute a fine twist, one that completely revises the course of reflections on the body at stake in biopolitics. -- Joan Copjec, Brown University Neroni deftly illuminates the conspicuous uptick of post-9/11 media representations of torture by adopting the neglected but indispensable viewpoint of unconscious motives and distorting fantasies. A valuable contribution. -- Richard Boothby, Loyola University MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs 1. Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject 2. The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films 3. Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw 4. 24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy 5. The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland 6. Alias and the Fictional Alternative to Torture Notes Index
£76.00
Columbia University Press The Subject of Torture
Book SynopsisShowcases film and television studies’ singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy itTrade ReviewOne of the clearest signs of the ethical regression that characterizes the last decade is the changed status of torture in public discourse: no longer a taboo, something that is to be done in secret, torture is today a topic of 'rational' legal, ethical, and medical debates. This renormalization of torture would not have been possible without movies and television series that gradually rendered it acceptable. This is why Hilary Neroni's The Subject of Torture reaches well beyond cultural studies and provides a courageous examination of the ongoing moral catastrophe-everyone who cares about our ethical predicament should read it. The book is not only very readable and simultaneously a work of highest academic standards, it is much more: an alarm call that should awaken us all from our moral slumber. -- Slavoj Zizek, author of Less Than Nothing and The Year of Dreaming Dangerously and coauthor of What Does Europe Want? Wonderfully astute, politically timely, and deeply engaging. Hilary Neroni undertakes the pressing task of destroying the logic that sustains contemporary justifications for torture. The Subject of Torture is truly pathbreaking in its lucid engagement with the torture debate from a psychoanalytic perspective. -- Jennifer Friedlander, Pomona College The suffering, tremulous body examined in this excellent book is not that of the torture victim, who must pay in the flesh for our access to truth, but that of the torturer, who conceals his obscene pleasure behind euphemisms such as 'enhanced interrogation' and rationalizations based on false scenarios of imminent threat. Hilary Neroni's expert and detailed readings of the Abu Ghraib photographs, documentary films about the events leading up to them, and the new genre of 'torture porn' that appeared in their wake execute a fine twist, one that completely revises the course of reflections on the body at stake in biopolitics. -- Joan Copjec, Brown University Neroni deftly illuminates the conspicuous uptick of post-9/11 media representations of torture by adopting the neglected but indispensable viewpoint of unconscious motives and distorting fantasies. A valuable contribution. -- Richard Boothby, Loyola University MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs 1. Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject 2. The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films 3. Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw 4. 24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy 5. The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland 6. Alias and the Fictional Alternative to Torture Notes Index
£22.50
Columbia University Press Measuring Culture
Book SynopsisWritten collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, Measuring Culture provides both the definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.Trade ReviewMeasuring Culture is the canonical text we have been waiting for in the sociology of culture. It is a massive achievement that will be the definitive account on the topic for a long time to come. I'll be thinking with it, teaching with it, and recommending it. -- Clayton Childress, author of Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a NovelAlthough books that emerge from conferences often have little value beyond showing funders some 'product,' Measuring Culture is a brilliant exception. Some of the best and brightest twenty-first century cultural sociologists have both synthesized and extended the state-of-the-art in applying the rigor of scientific inquiry to the fluidity of culture. Measuring Culture is more than valuable; it is vital. -- Wendy Griswold, author of American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Program and the Casting of American CultureDestined to leave its mark on the social sciences, this wonderful book offers phenomenologically-inflected multilevel approaches to analyzing meanings, cultural objects, and relationships. The splendid cast of authors, each of them midcareer stars, combine their distinct strengths to offer an innovative pluralistic state-of-the-art agenda that will appeal to many. -- Michèle Lamont, Harvard UniversityNine coauthors have created one slim, graceful, exhilarating book. An analytic tour de force, Measuring Culture is a theoretical overview of what sociologists of culture might measure, culminating in engrossing narratives of three important research endeavors. We see creative scholars combining interpretation and innovative measurement strategies to deepen cultural analysis. If you’ve wondered whether innovations in measuring culture have a payoff, this book is your answer. Measuring Culture is a perfect tribute to John Mohr’s brilliance, his sparkle, and his humanity. -- Ann Swidler, coauthor of A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in AfricaCan culture be measured—and if so, how? This collectively authored volume develops a learned and critical response to these questions, describing myriad ways sociologists have measured culture at multiple levels. Taking its own full measure of cultural meaning, and managing to reflect intelligently on the meaning of measurement itself, Measuring Culture is astute, open-minded, and eminently readable. -- Robin Wagner-Pacifici, author of What Is an Event?This is a truly excellent book. It’s a reflection of the intellectual firepower the individual authors brought, but all the more so the magic a deep, generous collaboration can release. The core insight of culture is that the outcome of collective activity can exceed the combination of the individuals accomplishing it; this book is, therefore, a prime example of its object and a valuable gift to the next generation of culture scholars. * Social Forces *An impressive achievement and is likely to provide guidance on empirical research in the sociology of culture for a long time to come. While situated in cultural sociology, Measuring Culture tackles questions of great importance to the discipline overall and will benefit readers from other sociology areas too. * Canadian Journal of Sociology *An extraordinary piece of work. The authors managed to incorporate a wealth of insights into a short and highly readablebook, which students can use to navigate the current state of the art in cultural sociology, and which accomplished researchers will admire for the seamless integration of various theoretical and methodological discussions. * Culture Section Newsletter *A well-written, well-researched, and well-conceived volume. It is an engaging read, packed with theoretical and methodological understandings that enrich one another. * Administrative Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Measure Culture?1. Measuring Culture in People2. Measuring Culture in Objects3. Measuring Culture in Social Relationships4. Pivots and Choices in the Process of ResearchConclusion: The Future of Measuring CultureNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Generation Gap Why the Baby Boomers Still
Book SynopsisWhy do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism? In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth Kallman details the combination of social forces and organizational pressures that depoliticizes Peace Corps volunteers, channels their idealism toward professionalization, and leads to cynicism or disengagement.Trade ReviewWith no places to discuss their potentially life-changing experiences with fellow volunteers, and with many rules to follow and forms to fill out, volunteers in the Peace Corps often encounter an organizational void where their political imaginations and hopes might have bloomed. The Death of Idealism confronts the consequences of this void, and makes important contributions to theories of organizations, the history of American volunteering, and the history of the Peace Corps in particular. -- Nina Eliasoph, author of Making Volunteers: Civic Life After Welfare's EndProfessionalization is typically seen as universally good in the worlds of government, nonprofit, and development organizations. Meghan Elizabeth Kallman shows in her insightful study of the U.S. Peace Corps how it can kill idealism and lead to the failure of development. This is a must-read for anyone interested in public service and civic engagement. -- Angela M. Eikenberry, coeditor of Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social ChangeA fascinating account of the conflict between professionalization and idealism in the Peace Corps. Kallman presents an important lesson in how organizational practices affect people’s ideas and values in ways that have long lasting consequences for their lives, professional careers, and, in this case, the trajectory of international development practice in the United States. -- Jennifer E. Mosley, coeditor of Human Service Organizations and the Question of ImpactIs a must-read for all those who have a keen interest in international development and fighting poverty since the two are interdisciplinary in the contemporary world. * Voluntas *This strong critique of the program is also a powerful endorsement of the critical ways that volunteering, in this program and more generally, can shape individuals and their lives. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Peace Corps and Its Volunteers2. The Development of Development: The Peace Corps and USAID3. Ethical and Procedural Professionalization Among Peace Corps Staff4. Volunteers in the Field5. Home Again: Political, Civic, and Occupational Consequences of VolunteeringConclusionAppendix: Book MethodologyNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Not in My Gayborhood
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£25.20
Columbia University Press Think in Public A Public Books Reader Public
Book SynopsisThink in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today's leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change.Trade ReviewThis timely, innovative, and important collection represents the best of public scholarship. The stunning essays in this volume demonstrate the significance of Public Books as a crucial online space for anyone committed to engaging ideas that shape the world in which we live. The sheer brilliance and vitality of this digital platform boldly shine through every page of this book. -- Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for FreedomAn astonishing collection. Eloquent, expansive, provocative, and essential. -- Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorThis book is a call to arms. We must tear down the ivory tower, discard attachments to credentials and prestige, and share ideas across borders, disciplines, and party lines. Think in Public does just this, engaging readers in conversations between today’s top scholars, the works that inspire them, and the watershed issues of our day. -- Lisa Wade, author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on CampusThat splendid cover image underlines the fact that this book is meant for everyone, not just residents of ivory towers. * Toronto Star *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin ZaloomPart I. Ask in PublicOn Accelerationism, by Fred TurnerJustice for Data Janitors, by Lilly IraniAnthropocene and Empire, by Stacey BalkanChanging Climates of History, by J. R. McNeillThe Year of Black Memoir, by Imani PerryPop Justice, by Frances Negrón-MuntanerA Black Power Method, by N. D. B. ConnollySoft Atheism, by Matthew EngelkeWhere Do Morals Come From?, by Philip GorskiThe Alchemy of Finance, by Kim Phillips-FeinHow Gentrifiers Gentrify, by Max HolleranSyria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass”, by Najwa al-QattanThe Mortal Marx, by Jeremy AdelmanWho Segregated America?, by Destin JenkinsThe Invention of the “White Working Class”, by Andrew J. PerrinGoing Deep: Baseball and Philosophy, by Kieran SetiyaThe World Silicon Valley Made, by Shannon MatternPart II. Think in PublicJill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview, by B. R. CohenJames Baldwin’s Istanbul, by Suzy HansenWhen Stuart Hall Was White, by James VernonAn Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French , by Salamishah TilletBlack Intellectuals and White Audiences, by Matthew ClairCan There Be a Feminist World?, by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakThe Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by John PlotzThinking Critically About Critical Thinking, by Christopher SchabergIf You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley, by Eli RosenblattTranslating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin, by Rebecca L. WalkowitzMy Neighbor Octavia, by Sheila LimingStop Defending the Humanities, by Simon DuringPainting While Shackled to a Floor, by Nicole R. FleetwoodPart III. Read in PublicTo Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante, by Rebecca FalkoffWhat Global English Means for World Literature, by Haruo ShiraneThe Stranger’s Voice, by Karl Ashoka BrittoCan’t Stop Screaming, by Judith ButlerThe Model-Minority Bubble, by Joseph Jonghyun JeonFree Is and Free Ain’t, by Salamishah TilletThe Mixed-Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg, by Marah GubarIn the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism, by Anne E. FernaldAfrofuturism: Everything and Nothing, by Namwali SerpellChick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde, by Tess McNultyFeeling Like the Internet, by Mark McGurl The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction, by Nicholas DamesKafka: The Impossible Biography, by Jan MieszkowskiShirley Jackson’s Two Worlds, by Karen DunakReading to Children to Save Ourselves, by Daegan MillerList of Contributors
£62.00
Columbia University Press Think in Public A Public Books Reader Public
Book SynopsisThink in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today's leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change.Trade ReviewThis timely, innovative, and important collection represents the best of public scholarship. The stunning essays in this volume demonstrate the significance of Public Books as a crucial online space for anyone committed to engaging ideas that shape the world in which we live. The sheer brilliance and vitality of this digital platform boldly shine through every page of this book. -- Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for FreedomAn astonishing collection. Eloquent, expansive, provocative, and essential. -- Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorThis book is a call to arms. We must tear down the ivory tower, discard attachments to credentials and prestige, and share ideas across borders, disciplines, and party lines. Think in Public does just this, engaging readers in conversations between today’s top scholars, the works that inspire them, and the watershed issues of our day. -- Lisa Wade, author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on CampusThat splendid cover image underlines the fact that this book is meant for everyone, not just residents of ivory towers. * Toronto Star *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Sharon Marcus and Caitlin ZaloomPart I. Ask in PublicOn Accelerationism, by Fred TurnerJustice for Data Janitors, by Lilly IraniAnthropocene and Empire, by Stacey BalkanChanging Climates of History, by J. R. McNeillThe Year of Black Memoir, by Imani PerryPop Justice, by Frances Negrón-MuntanerA Black Power Method, by N. D. B. ConnollySoft Atheism, by Matthew EngelkeWhere Do Morals Come From?, by Philip GorskiThe Alchemy of Finance, by Kim Phillips-FeinHow Gentrifiers Gentrify, by Max HolleranSyria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass”, by Najwa al-QattanThe Mortal Marx, by Jeremy AdelmanWho Segregated America?, by Destin JenkinsThe Invention of the “White Working Class”, by Andrew J. PerrinGoing Deep: Baseball and Philosophy, by Kieran SetiyaThe World Silicon Valley Made, by Shannon MatternPart II. Think in PublicJill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview, by B. R. CohenJames Baldwin’s Istanbul, by Suzy HansenWhen Stuart Hall Was White, by James VernonAn Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French , by Salamishah TilletBlack Intellectuals and White Audiences, by Matthew ClairCan There Be a Feminist World?, by Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakThe Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, by John PlotzThinking Critically About Critical Thinking, by Christopher SchabergIf You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley, by Eli RosenblattTranslating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin, by Rebecca L. WalkowitzMy Neighbor Octavia, by Sheila LimingStop Defending the Humanities, by Simon DuringPainting While Shackled to a Floor, by Nicole R. FleetwoodPart III. Read in PublicTo Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante, by Rebecca FalkoffWhat Global English Means for World Literature, by Haruo ShiraneThe Stranger’s Voice, by Karl Ashoka BrittoCan’t Stop Screaming, by Judith ButlerThe Model-Minority Bubble, by Joseph Jonghyun JeonFree Is and Free Ain’t, by Salamishah TilletThe Mixed-Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg, by Marah GubarIn the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism, by Anne E. FernaldAfrofuturism: Everything and Nothing, by Namwali SerpellChick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde, by Tess McNultyFeeling Like the Internet, by Mark McGurl The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction, by Nicholas DamesKafka: The Impossible Biography, by Jan MieszkowskiShirley Jackson’s Two Worlds, by Karen DunakReading to Children to Save Ourselves, by Daegan MillerList of Contributors
£19.00
Columbia University Press Minjian
Book SynopsisSebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people—intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere.Trade ReviewA tour de force and an excellent contribution to an important field. -- David Ownby * The PRC History Review *Veg thoughtfully situates these “grassroots intellectuals” in a social history of Chinese thinkers. * Foreign Affairs *The first fully rounded description of the creation of this new class of thinkers, artists, and filmmakers. * New York Review of Books *The book is a timely addition to the growing body of scholarship on intellectuals and intellectual discourse in contemporary China. * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *[Veg] does nothing less than challenge the reader to reconsider who are and how we understand 'intellectuals' in China. -- Timothy Cheek * China Quarterly *Published at a moment when the Chinese government is making increasingly muscular efforts to limit free speech, Veg’s timely and engaging study examines the ways in which Chinese “grassroots intellectuals” use a variety of different media and platforms to comment critically on sociopolitical conditions in contemporary China. -- Carlos Rojas, Duke UniversityMinjian offers a comprehensive study of new types of intellectuals in the age of digital media. Ranging from independent filmmakers and historians to lawyers and journalists, these grassroots intellectuals have transformed public culture and the meaning of being intellectuals in China. Veg tells captivating stories of feisty individuals in the context of broader historical change. An important contribution to China studies and an excellent resource for teaching. -- Guobin Yang, University of PennsylvaniaAt a time of deepening authoritarianism in China and beyond, this book provides important insights into civic resilience in the shadows of a repressive system. The author is uniquely placed to show how independent and critical minjian intellectuals, working in a variety of roles and settings, have resisted control by the system, thereby challenging the Party’s claim to power. -- Eva Pils, King’s College LondonSometimes to the distress of its leaders, China has developed an active sphere of intellectual creativity and political discussion outside the control of the Communist Party. Though unofficial this has considerable influence. Western observers tend to see only fragments. Sebastian Veg provides a major service by offering this overview, with individual biographies and a helpful analysis. -- Craig Calhoun, Arizona State UniversityChinese intellectuals used to focus on the state and “take responsibility for all under heaven.” But commercialization and a government impervious to moral approbation have given rise to a new generation of intellectuals who focus more on the concrete problems of society and distance themselves from the concerns of the state. It is this remarkable change in the ideas and status of intellectuals that Sebastian Veg dissects with such precision in this carefully researched and wonderfully written book. -- Joseph Fewsmith, Boston UniversityAbsolutely indispensable to any student of Chinese politics, society, or contemporary history, a must-read for scholars and students alike. * China Review *[This book] is researched in detail, argued convincingly, and demonstrates a great deal of sympathy for the intellectuals it studies. -- Rogier Creemers * China Journal *Deeply researched and consistently thought-provoking. * Common Knowledge *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Grassroots Intellectuals: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives2. Wang Xiaobo and the Silent Majority: Redefining the Role of Intellectuals After Tiananmen3. Minjian Historians of the Mao Era: Commemorating, Documenting, Debating4. Investigating and Transforming Society from the Margins: The Rise and Fall of Independent Cinema5. Professionals at the Grassroots: Rights Lawyers, Academics, and Petitioners6. Journalists, Bloggers, and a New Public CultureConclusionAppendix: Minibiographies of Thirty Minjian IntellectualsNotesIndex
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