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University of Texas Press Roots of Resistance A Story of Gender Race and
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University of Texas Press Grandmothers on Guard
Book SynopsisAn incisive portrait of nationalism in the United States, Grandmothers on Guard tells the story of older women who found meaning and community in the Minutemen, an anti-immigrant vigilante movement.Trade ReviewThere's...plenty of interesting material to latch onto and grapple with [in Grandmothers on Guard]...In a culture where aging women often feel invisible and undervalued, Johnson’s research explores how the women she interviewed found both a like-minded community and a renewed sense of purpose in life...For journalists, scholars, researchers attempting to study hate groups the Appendix to Johnson’s book presents invaluable insights — what to do, what not to do. When crossing the invisible line between those who share our beliefs and those who do not, the stakes could not be higher. * Sightlines *Johnson...opens with the revelation that, despite being branded by others and themselves as 'male' and 'hypermasculine,' the virulently anti-immigrant Minutemen Project has incorporated women since its inception...Based on in-depth ethnographic work during the 2010s with 17 such women, most of them grandmothers, the author explores their nativist public activism along with their private life experiences...For many Americans, these grandmothers' performance of 'old womanhood' in the context of militant nativism and white supremacy may be offensive, but it leads Johnson, as a scholar and feminist, to seek understanding, if not empathy, for older women who desperately struggle with becoming irrelevant and invisible in a fast-changing society they cannot accept...Recommended. * CHOICE *A scholarly book that reads like watching a fast-paced documentary...Johnson brings a wealth of knowledge of border politics and context to this fascinating book. * BuzzFeed News *Johnson’s ethnography fills a much-needed gap regarding the role of women in far-right groups like the Minutemen...[Grandmothers on Guard] makes an important contribution to understanding how gender and age intersect to define the evolution of the family, people’s relationships with the state, as well as changing forms of political participation. * Mobilization: An International Quarterly *Through this work Johnson helps move the needle of knowledge on far-right ideology, contributes to the broader understanding of the US-based anti-immigrant movement, and also sheds light on how many conservative white Americans experience gender at advanced ages. * Social Forces *[Johnson's] book is a model of how to study a marginalized population...The book has two real and lasting strengths. One is its careful and caring description of how a political issue can offer aging women a way to express themselves and make themselves visible in a society prepared to ignore them. The other important contribution is to lay out, in richly developed terms, a view of citizenship, and particularly civic responsibility, that prioritizes protecting the homeland from social and demographic change. In these turbulent times, such concerns are salient for many Americans, but not particularly for the cosmopolitan elites whom intellectuals know best. This book is an opportunity to get better acquainted with a less welcoming point of view. * Perspectives on Politics *Drawing broadly on multiple areas of social science, this ambitious ethnographic study fills a gap in the border politics literature...Grandmothers on Guard is a significant work of scholarship whose import extends beyond border studies narrowly defined...While this is an academic study and will surely attract the attention of a broad array of social science scholars, the writing invites a broader audience. Johnson skillfully blends academic writing, with journalistic reporting and storytelling. This results in a work that engages the reader and brings the women in the study to life. * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Timely and fascinating...this is an engaging and well-written book that would be an excellent addition to courses on gender, aging, nationalism, or social movements...Grandmothers on Guard adds critical and novel insight into our understanding of the surging interest and participation in extremist activism—this is important work that is sure to appeal to audiences beyond academia. * Contemporary Sociology *A timely, important contribution...Drawing on an impressive 900 hours of participant observation and 25 in-depth interviews with members of the Minutemen movement’s California chapter, Johnson gives readers a rare glimpse into the daily world of organized nativism...Grandmothers on Guard immerses readers in a movement that, arguably, set the stage for Trump’s victory. This reason alone makes the book of interest to political sociologists. Scholars of immigration, politics, gender, race, and aging can also learn a lot from the author’s observations about how grandmotherhood—and I would add white grandmotherhood—can inspire political identity making, collective mobilization, and nativism. That the book is also a pleasurable read will make it appealing to any sociologist. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Border Politics and Invisible Women Chapter 1. Granny Brigades and Political Spectacle at the US-Mexico Border Chapter 2. Doing Old Womanhood at the Edge of the Nation-State Chapter 3. Grandma Grizzlies to the Rescue of Family and Nation Chapter 4. Misogyny Minuteman-Style and Women Tough Enough to Take It Chapter 5. Bringing the Border Back Home Conclusion. From Republican Motherhood to Patriotic Grandmotherhood Appendix. Walking the Line References Index
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University of Texas Press Womens Voices in Digital Media The Sonic Screen
Book SynopsisAn examination of the sound and silence of women in digital media.Trade ReviewAn expansive text that looks to the past in order to look forward, [Women's Voices in Digital Media] closes a critical gap in the theorization of women’s voices by revisiting, challenging, and extending classical conceptions in film studies and critical media studies, carrying them into the digital and transmedia age...O’Meara doesn’t just survey and update theory; she lays out a multifaceted framework for future analysis of the female voice across emerging technological and visual platforms. As rare as it is to find within a mature field like critical media studies a text that delivers a paradigmatic update on a major conceptual framework, Jennifer O’Meara has done just that. This will be the book to read for any and all scholarly work on the gendered voice and its intersections with technology and the screen. * Film Quarterly *This is a timely and impressively researched exploration of the technological landscape of digital media and the 'productive revisions' of women’s voices, real or virtual...The analysis of women’s 'digital communities' and their navigation of new feminist politics offers up a rich new area of enquiry. * British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies *Table of Contents Introduction 1. Film Voices + Time: Excavating Vocal Histories on Digital Platforms 2. The (Post)Human Voice and Feminized Machines in Anomalisa, The Congress, and Her 3. The Expanded and Immersive Voice-Over 4. Karina Longworth and the Remixing of Actresses’ Voices on the You Must Remember This Podcast 5. Meme Girls versus Trump: The Silent Voices of Subtitled Screenshots 6. RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Queered Remediation of Women’s Voices Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Filmography Bibliography Digital Artifacts Index
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University of Texas Press Womens Voices in Digital Media
Book SynopsisIn today's digital era, women's voices are heard everywherefrom smart home devices to social media platforms, virtual reality, podcasts, and even memesbut these new forms of communication are often accompanied by dated gender politics. In Women's Voices in Digital Media, Jennifer O'Meara dives into new and well-established media formats to show how contemporary screen media and cultural practices police and fetishize women's voices, but also provide exciting new ways to amplify and empower them. As she travels through the digital world, O'Meara discovers newly acknowledgedor newly erasedfemale voice actors from classic films on YouTube, meets the AI and digital avatars in Her and The Congress, and hears women's voices being disembodied in new ways via podcasts and VR voice-overs. She engages with dialogue that is spreading with only the memory of a voice, looking at how popular media like Clueless and The Simpsons have been mined for feminist memes, and encounters vocal ventriloquism
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University of Texas Press The Claremont Run
Book SynopsisWinner —2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awardsin Best Academic/Scholarly Work, announced atSan Diego Comic-Con International (2024) A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author’s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. By the time Chris Claremont’s run as author of Uncanny X-Men ended in 1991, he had changed comic books forever. During his sixteen years writing the series, Claremont revitalized a franchise on the verge of collapse, shaping the X-Men who appear in today’s Hollywood blockbusters. But, more than that, he told a new kind of story, using his growing platform to articulate transgressive ideas about gender nonconformity, toxic masculinity, and female empowerment. J. Andrew Deman’s investigation pairs close reading and quantitative analysis to examine gender representation, content, characters, and story structure. The Claremont Run compares several hundTrade ReviewIf you were ever curious how much each X-Man talks or thinks on the page, Deman’s book has cataloged and applied it in an essay written with deep love and admiration. It’s the perfect complement for anyone looking to revisit Claremont’s run or read his enduring stories for the first time. -- Eric Vilas-Boas * Vulture *Deman’s book offers us extended meditations on gender in the X-Men. It is a masterful work on the ways Claremont’s run is not only iconic, but achieves a level of gender subversion at a time when comics stood by traditional masculine and feminine roles . . . this is an excellent work of scholarship showing the ways public and academic scholarship can meet to open up new perspectives on works of popular culture. * International Journal of Comic Art Blog *Table of Contents Foreword. A Danger Room of One’s Own by Jay Edidin Introduction. X-Women to Watch Out For Chapter 1. Jean, Moira, and the Archetypal “Claremont Woman” Chapter 2. Storm: From Mother Goddess to Resolutely Indefinable Chapter 3. Ladies Night and the Second Generation of Claremont Women Chapter 4. She Makes Him Nervous: Cyclops’s Baseline Masculinity and the Exchange of Gender Power Chapter 5. Wolverine as Subversive Masculine Paradigm Chapter 6. A Spectrum of “Men”: Refracting Masculinities through Nightcrawler and Havok Conclusion. A Legacy in Waiting Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press The Right Kind of Suffering
Book SynopsisAn examination of Arab asylum seekers who feel compelled to package their tales of disenfranchisement and suffering to satisfy a deeply reluctant immigration system.Trade ReviewThis timely book humanizes refugees, particularly those from the Arab world, and will interest those studying gender and sexuality, asylum and refugee law, and Arab American studies. * CHOICE *The Right Kind of Suffering is an excellent study about the broken system of asylum for Arabic-speaking people. It would be an eye-opener for students and scholars of legal and gender studies, as well as cultural studies. * Arab Studies Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrow Pathways 1. “I’ve always been looking for my freedom” 2. “My life is a Bollywood film” 3. “I wish it was a happier ending” 4. “Many reasons to leave” Conclusion: Of Stories, Traumas, and Happy Endings Notes Index
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University of Texas Press The Color Pynk
Book Synopsis2023 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQStudies, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA)2023 Honorable Mention, HarryShaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA) A celebration of the distinctive and politically defiant art of Black queer, cis-, and transfemmes, from the work of Janelle Monáe and Janet Mock to that of Indya Moore and Kelsey Lu.The Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment, and ideas. In the first full-length study of Black queer, ci
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University of Texas Press COVID and Gender in the Middle East
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the gendered economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa.Table of Contents Foreword. The Response to COVID—and to Everything—Is Female (Lina AbiRafeh) Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Why Is COVID Female? (Rita Stephan) Part I. Care and Care Work Spheres Chapter 1. COVID-19, Women, and Healthcare (Valentine M. Moghadam) Chapter 2. COVID-19: A Threat to Lebanese Women’s Precarious Condition (Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss and Jana G. Mourad) Chapter 3. The Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Prosperity in the Gulf Countries: Survey Evidence from Bahrain (Omar Al-Ubaydli, Deema Almoayyed, and Ghada Abdulla) Chapter 4. When Inequalities Interconnect: Women Scholars’ Productivity amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (Nermin Allam, Gail J. Buttorff, and Marwa Shalaby) Part II. Social Vulnerabilities Chapter 5. The LGBTIQ+ Community’s COVID Dilemma in Lebanon and Beyond (Lina Abou-Habib and Amina Ali) Chapter 6. The Gendered Impact of the Pandemic on Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan (Oroub El-Abed and Nuseibah Shabaitah) Chapter 7. Violence against Women during and after Lockdown (Rhizlaine Benachir and Sofia Raïs) Chapter 8. Gender Dynamics and Distance Education: Toward a Situational-Interactionist Model of the COVID-19 Contingency Effect on Female University Students in Morocco (Ilham Sadoqi) Part III. A Gender Lens on COVID Impact in the Middle East and North Africa Chapter 9. COVID’s Three-Order Impacts on Women’s Health: A Typology (Rita Stephan) Chapter 10. Women’s Rights and Roles during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Salma Al-Shami, Michael Robbins, and Zach Bampton) Chapter 11. Unmasking Masculinity during COVID in the Middle East and North Africa (Merissa Khurma, Youssef Chouhoud, and Rita Stephan) Part IV. Feminist Responses Chapter 12. COVID-19 and Feminism in the Middle East: Challenges, Initiatives, and Dilemmas (Nadje Al-Ali) Chapter 13. The Power of Bipartisan Mobilization: The Success of Tunisia’s Feminist Movement during the Coronavirus Pandemic (Maro Youssef and Sarah Yerkes) Chapter 14. Harmony of Feminine and Masculine Leadership during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Jordan (Mayyada Abu Jaber) Chapter 15. The Feminist Position: Corona Crisis Management and Its Impact on Palestinian Women (Reham Abu Al-Asal, Nabila Espenoli, Samah Salaima, Nahda Shehadeh, Shahira Shalabi, and Hana Amouri) Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press The Right Kind of Suffering
Book SynopsisAn examination of Arab asylum seekers who feel compelled to package their tales of disenfranchisement and suffering to satisfy a deeply reluctant immigration system.Trade ReviewThis timely book humanizes refugees, particularly those from the Arab world, and will interest those studying gender and sexuality, asylum and refugee law, and Arab American studies. * CHOICE *The Right Kind of Suffering is an excellent study about the broken system of asylum for Arabic-speaking people. It would be an eye-opener for students and scholars of legal and gender studies, as well as cultural studies. * Arab Studies Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrow Pathways 1. “I’ve always been looking for my freedom” 2. “My life is a Bollywood film” 3. “I wish it was a happier ending” 4. “Many reasons to leave” Conclusion: Of Stories, Traumas, and Happy Endings Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Unheard Witness
Book SynopsisUnheard Witness foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.In 1966, Kathy Leissner Whitman was a twenty-three-year-old teacher dreaming of a better future. She was an avid writer of letters, composing hundreds in the years before she was stabbed to death by her husband, Charles Whitman, who went on to commit a mass shooting from the tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Kathy's writing provides a rare glimpse of how one woman described, and sought to change, her short life with a coercive, controlling, and violent partner.Unheard Witness provides a portrait of Kathy's life, doing so at a time when Americans are slowly grasping the link between domestic abuse and mass shootings. Public violence often follows violence in the home, yet such private crimes continue to be treated separately and even erased in the public imagination. Trade ReviewHistorian Scott-Coe (Mass) paints a richly textured portrait of Kathy Leissner Whitman . . . Telling the story in flashbacks and vignettes, Scott-Coe presents this cautionary tale with compassion and sensitivity. The result is an insightful close study of the connection between domestic violence and mass shootings. * Publishers Weekly *Told in vivid detail through an enormous trove of letters that Leissner’s brother kept long after her violent death, the reader plunges immediately, uncomfortably, and intimately into the life and thoughts of a doomed woman . . . She chooses to bring back to vivid life Kathy . . . and Scott-Coe succeeds: This book is an intimate and uncomfortable read that puts the reader deep inside Kathy’s mind. * Texas Observer *Scott-Coe [is] uniquely positioned to approach the story of Whitman's long-suffering wife with expert care and thorough research...The author raises important questions and points out what research has found about intimate partner violence, framing Kathy's story as a cautionary tale, but one that is all too common. Without Whitman, she might be 80 years old today, enjoying retirement from a successful career as a teacher. With him, a promising life was cut short, and his terrorism overshadowed her memory, but this carefully crafted tribute ensures it will not be erased. * The Austin Chronicle *Table of Contents Introduction Danger, 1961 Country Life, Only Daughter Pulled Off-Course Whirlwind Trouble Starts at Home Mapping an Escape Separated and Almost Safe Barometer Dropping Between the Leaves Disturbed Horizons “Back to Normal Soon” Behind the Eyewall Epilogue: Recovery and Response Acknowledgments Questions for Book Groups or Classroom Discussion Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Paid to Care
Book SynopsisAn insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences. Paid domestic work in Latin America is often undervalued, underpaid, and underregulated. Exploring a wave of Latin American cultural texts since the 1980s that draw on the personal experiences of paid domestic work or intimate ties to domestic employees, Paid to Care offers insights into the struggles domestic workers face through an analysis of literary testimonials, documentary and fiction films, and works of digital media. From domestic workers’ experiences of unionization in the 1980s to calls for their rights to be respected today, the cultural texts analyzed in Paid to Care provide additional insight into public debates about paid domestic work. Rachel Randall examines work made in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, anTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Paid Domestic Workers’ Testimonios in Latin America Chapter 2. Labors of Love? Live-in Domestic Workers in Latin American Fiction Film Chapter 3. Immaterial Labors: Spectral Domestic Workers in Brazilian and Argentine Documentary Chapter 4. Domestic Workers in the Digital Domain Conclusion Appendix 1. Latin American Testimonios Exploring (Paid) Domestic Work and Published in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries Appendix 2. Filmography: Latin American Fiction Films Released since 2000 That Feature Paid Domestic Workers in Key Roles Appendix 3. Filmography: Contemporary Latin American Documentaries That Focus on Paid Domestic or Care Workers Appendix 4. Filmography: Other Films or Television Shows Notes References Index
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Duke University Press Camp TV
Book SynopsisQuinlan Miller reframes American television history by tracing a camp aesthetic and the common appearance of trans queer gender characters in both iconic and lesser known sitcoms throughout the 1950s and 1960s.Trade Review"Camp TV offers us theoretical and methodological challenges to presumptions and argumentations common in queer media histories…hence the usefulness here of a new terminology entirely. What the book also offers, however, is an impressive model of full-scale approach to queer media histories." -- Taylor Cole Miller * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"A revelatory historical reassessment of US network sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s.… Miller combines scholarly rigor with the engaged, politicized vivacity of a subversive connoisseur and the banter of a raconteur in order to rewrite dominant histories of the sitcom, camp, and LGBTQIA+ media representation.… A tour de force abounding with compelling and witty textual analyses fueled by painstaking archival research." -- Ken Feil * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"A detailed picture of the production and cultural contexts of queer gender appearance in sitcoms, ranging from non-conforming dress and gestures to critiques of heterosexual marriage." -- Katharine Mussellam * Jump Cut *"[Camp TV] is impressive and provides a necessary re-reading of neglected and devalued texts that cast our present studies of contemporary queerness into provocative question. . . . This book will be a valuable contribution to courses in television history, queer studies and, especially, studies of the queer in popular culture, and will be an antidote to institutional narratives that have solidified unproductively around the ‘newness’ of queer TV." -- Judith Fathallah * Critical Studies in Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Trans Gender Queer: New Terms for TV History 1 1. Camp TV and Queer Gender: Sitcom History 27 2. Queer Gender and Bob Cummings: Hollywood Camp TV 55 3. Marriage Schmarriage: Sex and the Single Person 88 4. Trans Camp TV: Methods for Girl History 131 Conclusion. Around-the-Clock Queer Gender: Digital Camp TV 155 Notes 165 Bibliography 197 Index 211
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Duke University Press Abjection Incorporated
Book SynopsisExamining abjection in a range of visual and material culture, the contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death to theorizing how it has become a means to acquire political and cultural capital in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Passionate, eye-opening, exciting! From Lena Dunham to Amy Schumer to Larry Clark and Louis C. K. (not to mention Mad Magazine), who would have thought that forty years after Kristeva's Powers of Horror so much insight for our times could be discovered through the lens of abjection! Editors Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond have contributed to and guided the production of a timely and unusually cohesive anthology.” -- Linda Williams, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley“Abjection Incorporated makes a strong case for the abject as an important political space for confrontations between identities assigned and performed. Even as many seek to displace the subject as a meaningful category of analysis and action, these essays demonstrate that the fundamental tension between the fragility of self and the abjection of otherness remains a viable and quite possibly unavoidable foundation for cultural theory and criticism.” -- Jeffrey Sconce, author of * The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity *“In an unique way, Abjection Incorporated makes a compelling argument about the concept of abjection as a useful tool to understand our peculiar existences in a sensory and irrational way.... [It] strongly advocates for a more nuanced perspective than the usual post-structuralist binary opposition of pleasure and violence....” -- Éric Falardeau * Jump Cut *“Abjection Incorporated succeeds in offering its readers a significant tool that helps to explain social, political, and cultural forces at work.... [T]he subject matter alone provides an important timely theoretical framework that can help make better sense of the competing reality spheres that have come to dominate the discourse over our present moment.” -- David Morton * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *“Comedy’s need to be miserable deeply complicates its relationship to power. Abjection Incorporated contributes essential scholarship to this historical and present problem.” -- Will Schmenner * Studies in American Humor *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond 1 1. The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer 33 Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality 2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy / Michelle Cho 43 3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo 64 4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer / Maggie Hennefeld 86 Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects 5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang 115 6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta 140 7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith A. Bak 164 8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill 185 9. Why, an Abject Art / Mark Mulroney 208 Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System 10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject / Nicholas Sammond 217 11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eugenie Brinkema 243 12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Shōjo Manga / Thomas Lamarre 268 13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie / Rob King 291 Contributors 321 Index
£98.60
Duke University Press Abjection Incorporated
Book SynopsisExamining abjection in a range of visual and material culture, the contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death to theorizing how it has become a means to acquire political and cultural capital in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Passionate, eye-opening, exciting! From Lena Dunham to Amy Schumer to Larry Clark and Louis C. K. (not to mention Mad Magazine), who would have thought that forty years after Kristeva's Powers of Horror so much insight for our times could be discovered through the lens of abjection! Editors Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond have contributed to and guided the production of a timely and unusually cohesive anthology.” -- Linda Williams, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley“Abjection Incorporated makes a strong case for the abject as an important political space for confrontations between identities assigned and performed. Even as many seek to displace the subject as a meaningful category of analysis and action, these essays demonstrate that the fundamental tension between the fragility of self and the abjection of otherness remains a viable and quite possibly unavoidable foundation for cultural theory and criticism.” -- Jeffrey Sconce, author of * The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity *“In an unique way, Abjection Incorporated makes a compelling argument about the concept of abjection as a useful tool to understand our peculiar existences in a sensory and irrational way.... [It] strongly advocates for a more nuanced perspective than the usual post-structuralist binary opposition of pleasure and violence....” -- Éric Falardeau * Jump Cut *“Abjection Incorporated succeeds in offering its readers a significant tool that helps to explain social, political, and cultural forces at work.... [T]he subject matter alone provides an important timely theoretical framework that can help make better sense of the competing reality spheres that have come to dominate the discourse over our present moment.” -- David Morton * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *“Comedy’s need to be miserable deeply complicates its relationship to power. Abjection Incorporated contributes essential scholarship to this historical and present problem.” -- Will Schmenner * Studies in American Humor *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond 1 1. The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer 33 Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality 2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy / Michelle Cho 43 3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo 64 4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer / Maggie Hennefeld 86 Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects 5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang 115 6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta 140 7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith A. Bak 164 8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill 185 9. Why, an Abject Art / Mark Mulroney 208 Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System 10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject / Nicholas Sammond 217 11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eugenie Brinkema 243 12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Shōjo Manga / Thomas Lamarre 268 13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie / Rob King 291 Contributors 321 Index
£25.19
Duke University Press Camp TV
Book SynopsisQuinlan Miller reframes American television history by tracing a camp aesthetic and the common appearance of trans queer gender characters in both iconic and lesser known sitcoms throughout the 1950s and 1960s.Trade Review"Camp TV offers us theoretical and methodological challenges to presumptions and argumentations common in queer media histories…hence the usefulness here of a new terminology entirely. What the book also offers, however, is an impressive model of full-scale approach to queer media histories." -- Taylor Cole Miller * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"A revelatory historical reassessment of US network sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s.… Miller combines scholarly rigor with the engaged, politicized vivacity of a subversive connoisseur and the banter of a raconteur in order to rewrite dominant histories of the sitcom, camp, and LGBTQIA+ media representation.… A tour de force abounding with compelling and witty textual analyses fueled by painstaking archival research." -- Ken Feil * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"A detailed picture of the production and cultural contexts of queer gender appearance in sitcoms, ranging from non-conforming dress and gestures to critiques of heterosexual marriage." -- Katharine Mussellam * Jump Cut *"[Camp TV] is impressive and provides a necessary re-reading of neglected and devalued texts that cast our present studies of contemporary queerness into provocative question. . . . This book will be a valuable contribution to courses in television history, queer studies and, especially, studies of the queer in popular culture, and will be an antidote to institutional narratives that have solidified unproductively around the ‘newness’ of queer TV." -- Judith Fathallah * Critical Studies in Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Trans Gender Queer: New Terms for TV History 1 1. Camp TV and Queer Gender: Sitcom History 27 2. Queer Gender and Bob Cummings: Hollywood Camp TV 55 3. Marriage Schmarriage: Sex and the Single Person 88 4. Trans Camp TV: Methods for Girl History 131 Conclusion. Around-the-Clock Queer Gender: Digital Camp TV 155 Notes 165 Bibliography 197 Index 211
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Duke University Press Animate Literacies
Book SynopsisNathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy operates at the interface of humans, nonhuman animals, and objects and has been used as a means to define the human in ways that marginalize others.Trade Review“Challenging us to discover, create, and practice modes of literacy that depart from the conventional paths that have disciplined us, Nathan Snaza puts forth significant and bracing provocations about the relationship between reading and the production of Man. In his brilliant formulation, literacy is no longer exclusively human—it happens within a thick web of animating entities that affect and bewilder. An outstanding work.” -- Stacy Alaimo, author of * Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times *“Offering stimulating readings of familiar literary texts, Nathan Snaza recasts literacy within a field of material objects and conditions by weaving new materialism together with postcolonial and posthumanist thought into meditations on literacies within and beyond the human.” -- Carla Freccero, author of * Queer/Early/Modern *"Dovetailing feminist and queer new materialism, posthumanism, affect theory, ecocriticism, and a touch of Marx and Foucault, Animate Literacies demands a lot of its reader, though it almost always, rewards strenuous attention with its rich and energizing combination of love and critique." -- Margaret Mendenhall * Ethnic and Third World Literatures *“This book is delightfully peripatetic, crisscrossing critical fields and literary texts with acuity and grace. Pulled into these movements, we become 'reading things' that cannot but feel the very bewilderment so key to building alternate futures.” -- Erica Fretwell * Studies in the Novel *"Snaza’s book provides a rich ensemble of literary accounts that illustrate his expanded notion of literacy. . . . Animate Literacies is a demonstration of both the vitality and the crisis of the humanities, sitting at a point where different roads cross, as it simultaneously takes on a speculative and a critical approach to the concept of literacy." -- Ana Marques * Expanded Literacies *"[Animate Literacies] can help us to imagine our way out of the colonial structures that order academic libraries and librarianship." -- Melissa Adler * College and Research Libraries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. The Human(ities) In Crisis 1 2. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy 11 3. Haunting, Love, and Attention 19 4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man? 28 5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization 38 6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire 48 7. What Is Literacy? 55 8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control 66 9. Bewilderment 77 10. Toward a Literary Ethology 86 11. What Happens When I Read? 99 12. The Smell of Literature 115 13. Pleasures of the Text 124 14. Those Changeful Sites 134 15. Literacies against the State 145 16. Futures of Anima-Literature 153 Notes 165 References 193 Index 209
£90.10
Duke University Press Latterday Screens
Book SynopsisBrenda R. Weber examines how the mediation of Mormonism through film, TV, blogs, YouTube videos, and memoirs functions as a means to understand conversations surrounding gender, sexuality, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism in the United States.Trade Review“Smart, sassy, and full of provocative insight, this book shines a light on Mormonism, not as a religious tradition but as a ubiquitous cultural trope that is uniquely attuned to queerly mediated notions of sexuality and gender.” -- Dana Heller, editor of * Loving The L Word: The Complete Series in Focus *“Latter-day Screens is an amazing encyclopedic survey of the details of the Mormon Church and the place of Mormons in American popular culture. Drawing on cultural theories of mediation, mass culture, and film studies, Brenda R. Weber draws the reader into everything from aromatherapy oils to South Park parodies. Timely and relevant, and teachable for a range of classes, Latter-day Screens is an exceedingly important and interesting book.” -- Matthew Pratt Guterl, author of * Seeing Race in Modern America *"In Latter-day Screens, gender studies professor Brenda R. Weber examines pop culture’s ongoing fascination with Mormons. Mainstream media has given us a largely one-dimensional view of Mormonism: Sister Wives, Big Love, and even storylines on Love After Lockup present polygamy as the sum total of the religion. But Weber has another story to tell, one that’s about how Mormons are using pop culture—including TV shows, books, and YouTube videos—to find and enact their agency and rethink their conservative religion’s understanding of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, and justice." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch *"A deep, provocative look at mass and social media portrayals of Mormons on the parts of both Mormons and non-Mormons. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- R. L. Saunders * Choice *"With its informative and enriching contextualization of its sources, Latter-day Screens provides a significant critical reading of Mormon media sources while also functioning as an innovative approach to Mormonism." -- Marie-Therese Mäder * Religion *"Weber makes a series of arguments, deeply informed by theories in media studies and gender and sexuality studies, about the interplay among actual Mormons and media characterizations of them. In the burgeoning field of Mormon Studies, this is a fresh approach." -- W. Michael Ashcraft * International Journal of the Study of New Religions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Past as Prologue: Latter-day Screens and History 1 Introduction. "Well, We Are a Curiosity, Ain't We?": Mediated Mormonism 13 1. Mormonism as Meme and Analytic: Spiritual Neoliberalism, Image Management, and Transmediated Salvation 49 2. The Mormon Glow: The Raced and Gendered Implications of Spectacular Visibility 91 3. The Epistemology of the (Televised, Polygamous) Closet: The Cultural Politics of Mediated Mormonism and the Promises of the American Dream 120 4. Polygamy USA: Visability, Charismatic Evil, and Gender Progressivism 162 5. Gender Trouble in Happy Valley: Choice, Affect, and Mormon Feminist Housewives 201 6. "Pray (and Obey) the Gay Away": Conscience and the Queer Politics of Desire 241 Conclusion. Afterthoughts and Latter Days 276 Epilogue. Mormons on My Mind, or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Hegemony I Learned in Mesa, Arizona 284 Notes 309 References 329 Media Archive 345 Index 361
£112.20
Duke University Press Animate Literacies
Book SynopsisIn Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial thought, Snaza theorizes literacy as a contact zone in which humans, nonhuman animals, and nonvital objects such as chairs and paper all become active participants. In readings of classic literature by Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, James Joyce, Toni Morrison, Mary Shelley, and others, Snaza emphasizes the key roles that affect and sensory experiences play in literacy. Snaza upends common conceptions of literacy and its relation to print media, showing instead how such understandings reinforce dehumanizations linked to dominant imperialist, heterosexist, and capitalist definitions of the human. The path toward disrupting such exclusionary, humanist frameworks, Snaza contends, lies in formulating alternative practices of literaTrade Review“Challenging us to discover, create, and practice modes of literacy that depart from the conventional paths that have disciplined us, Nathan Snaza puts forth significant and bracing provocations about the relationship between reading and the production of Man. In his brilliant formulation, literacy is no longer exclusively human—it happens within a thick web of animating entities that affect and bewilder. An outstanding work.” -- Stacy Alaimo, author of * Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times *“Offering stimulating readings of familiar literary texts, Nathan Snaza recasts literacy within a field of material objects and conditions by weaving new materialism together with postcolonial and posthumanist thought into meditations on literacies within and beyond the human.” -- Carla Freccero, author of * Queer/Early/Modern *"Dovetailing feminist and queer new materialism, posthumanism, affect theory, ecocriticism, and a touch of Marx and Foucault, Animate Literacies demands a lot of its reader, though it almost always, rewards strenuous attention with its rich and energizing combination of love and critique." -- Margaret Mendenhall * Ethnic and Third World Literatures *“This book is delightfully peripatetic, crisscrossing critical fields and literary texts with acuity and grace. Pulled into these movements, we become 'reading things' that cannot but feel the very bewilderment so key to building alternate futures.” -- Erica Fretwell * Studies in the Novel *"Snaza’s book provides a rich ensemble of literary accounts that illustrate his expanded notion of literacy. . . . Animate Literacies is a demonstration of both the vitality and the crisis of the humanities, sitting at a point where different roads cross, as it simultaneously takes on a speculative and a critical approach to the concept of literacy." -- Ana Marques * Expanded Literacies *"[Animate Literacies] can help us to imagine our way out of the colonial structures that order academic libraries and librarianship." -- Melissa Adler * College and Research Libraries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. The Human(ities) In Crisis 1 2. Beloved's Dispersed Pedagogy 11 3. Haunting, Love, and Attention 19 4. Humanizing Assemblages I: What Is Man? 28 5. Slavery, the Human, and Dehumanization 38 6. Literacy, Slavery, and the Education of Desire 48 7. What Is Literacy? 55 8. Humanizing Assemblages II: Discipline and Control 66 9. Bewilderment 77 10. Toward a Literary Ethology 86 11. What Happens When I Read? 99 12. The Smell of Literature 115 13. Pleasures of the Text 124 14. Those Changeful Sites 134 15. Literacies against the State 145 16. Futures of Anima-Literature 153 Notes 165 References 193 Index 209
£22.49
Duke University Press Latterday Screens
Book SynopsisBrenda R. Weber examines how the mediation of Mormonism through film, TV, blogs, YouTube videos, and memoirs functions as a means to understand conversations surrounding gender, sexuality, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism in the United States.Trade Review“Smart, sassy, and full of provocative insight, this book shines a light on Mormonism, not as a religious tradition but as a ubiquitous cultural trope that is uniquely attuned to queerly mediated notions of sexuality and gender.” -- Dana Heller, editor of * Loving The L Word: The Complete Series in Focus *“Latter-day Screens is an amazing encyclopedic survey of the details of the Mormon Church and the place of Mormons in American popular culture. Drawing on cultural theories of mediation, mass culture, and film studies, Brenda R. Weber draws the reader into everything from aromatherapy oils to South Park parodies. Timely and relevant, and teachable for a range of classes, Latter-day Screens is an exceedingly important and interesting book.” -- Matthew Pratt Guterl, author of * Seeing Race in Modern America *"In Latter-day Screens, gender studies professor Brenda R. Weber examines pop culture’s ongoing fascination with Mormons. Mainstream media has given us a largely one-dimensional view of Mormonism: Sister Wives, Big Love, and even storylines on Love After Lockup present polygamy as the sum total of the religion. But Weber has another story to tell, one that’s about how Mormons are using pop culture—including TV shows, books, and YouTube videos—to find and enact their agency and rethink their conservative religion’s understanding of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, and justice." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch *"A deep, provocative look at mass and social media portrayals of Mormons on the parts of both Mormons and non-Mormons. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- R. L. Saunders * Choice *"With its informative and enriching contextualization of its sources, Latter-day Screens provides a significant critical reading of Mormon media sources while also functioning as an innovative approach to Mormonism." -- Marie-Therese Mäder * Religion *"Weber makes a series of arguments, deeply informed by theories in media studies and gender and sexuality studies, about the interplay among actual Mormons and media characterizations of them. In the burgeoning field of Mormon Studies, this is a fresh approach." -- W. Michael Ashcraft * International Journal of the Study of New Religions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Past as Prologue: Latter-day Screens and History 1 Introduction. "Well, We Are a Curiosity, Ain't We?": Mediated Mormonism 13 1. Mormonism as Meme and Analytic: Spiritual Neoliberalism, Image Management, and Transmediated Salvation 49 2. The Mormon Glow: The Raced and Gendered Implications of Spectacular Visibility 91 3. The Epistemology of the (Televised, Polygamous) Closet: The Cultural Politics of Mediated Mormonism and the Promises of the American Dream 120 4. Polygamy USA: Visability, Charismatic Evil, and Gender Progressivism 162 5. Gender Trouble in Happy Valley: Choice, Affect, and Mormon Feminist Housewives 201 6. "Pray (and Obey) the Gay Away": Conscience and the Queer Politics of Desire 241 Conclusion. Afterthoughts and Latter Days 276 Epilogue. Mormons on My Mind, or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Hegemony I Learned in Mesa, Arizona 284 Notes 309 References 329 Media Archive 345 Index 361
£27.90
Duke University Press The Black Shoals
Book SynopsisTiffany Lethabo King uses the shoalan offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor seaas metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies and its potential to create new epistemologies, forms of practice, and lines of critical inquiry.Trade Review"Tiffany Lethabo King's concept of the shoal breaks new ground for thinking through the relationships between Indigenous peoples and African Americans and genocide and slavery as well as how they have formed our contemporary politics. Her rigorous engagement with Black and Indigenous studies will create a better dialogue between the two fields." -- Mishauna Goeman, author of * Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations *“In this innovative contribution to both Black and Native studies, Tiffany Lethabo King dares to think the simultaneously distinct yet edgeless relationship between Blackness and Indigeneity. It's the geological formation of the shoal—that zone just offshore, neither land (often reductively linked to the Native) nor sea (often reductively linked to the Black)—that allows King to pull off this ethical project. Indeed, The Black Shoals is Black ethics, where the ethical emerges as that distinct, ever-developing gathering of Black and Native life under shared conditions of settler terror.” -- J. Kameron Carter, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University“King’s scholarship represents a masterful mix of precision and sensitivity in describing the historical Native anti-blackness, as well as the historical cooperation between Africans and the European settlers King identifies as ‘conquistador humans,’ in dispossessing Natives of their land.” -- Darryl Barthé * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“King’s book is an important participant in a small but growing scholarly movement seeking to understand and unravel the logics of settler colonialism and conquest by breaking down scholarly silos between groups that frequently interacted and interact. Moreover, what King has so well begun can be built on by other scholars.” -- Laura Goldblatt * Lateral *“Tiffany King’s poetic and theoretically compelling text is both an invitation and disturbance, or a provocation to be unmoored, to be thrown into chaos and to place one’s feet at the shoal of something other than traditional (normative) notions of sovereignty, nation, and citizenship.” -- Shanya Cordis * GLQ *“A multivocal, wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary project, . . . Tiffany Lethabo King’s book is both timely and prescient. . . . For those who would like to explore Black and Indigenous thought, especially the conceptual and methodological overlaps between the two fields, this book is an exceptional primer.” -- Michael J. Kennedy * The Black Scholar *“The Black Shoals offers a rich analysis of how scholars, activists, and artists have contended with conquest, conquistador-settler epistemologies, and Black-Native relations. . . . King’s ‘shoal’ offers an analytic through which to theorize what ethical and sustained exchanges between Black studies and Native studies might look like.” -- Mary McNeil * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Black Shoals 1 1. Errant Grammars: Defacing the Ceremony 36 2. The Map (Settlement) and the Territory (The Incompleteness of Conquest) 74 3. At the Pores of the Plantation 111 4. Our Cherokee Uncles: Black and Native Erotics 141 5. A Ceremony for Sycorax 175 Epilogue: Of Water and Land 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 263 Index 277
£75.65
Duke University Press Are You Entertained
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and artist statements on topics ranging from music and dance to Black Twitter and the NBA's dress code, the contributors consider what culture and Blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy.Trade Review“Are You Entertained? is a thoughtfully constructed collection of scholarly work on blackness and subjectivity and their constant tensions with popular culture and mass media. Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson do a superb job of weaving together these shards of insightful criticism and analysis into a tapestry of fascinating commentary by some of the most dynamic voices in the field.” -- John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside"The book is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary field of African American studies as well as to literature and sociology and to the overall study of performance, culture, media, and Blackness. Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals." -- T. N. Allen * Choice *“Are you Entertained? is an immensely generative model and guide for doing sharp and powerful work in Black studies. It makes a case for why Black cultural studies matter by pinpointing the liberatory potential of Black popular culture in and for our current lives.” -- Elliott H. Powell * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 I. Performing Blackness 1. "Mutts Like Me": Mixed-Race Jokes and Post-Racial Rejection in the Obama Era / Ralina L. Joseph 29 2. Black Radio: Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and Janelle Monáe / Emily J. Lordi 44 3. Camping and Vamping across Borders: Locating Cabaret Singers in the Black Cultural Spectrum / Vincent Stephens 58 4. The Art of Black Popular Culture / H. Ike Okafor-Newsum 77 5. Interview / Lisa B. Thompson 91 II. Politicizing Blackness 6. Refashioning Political Cartoons: Comics of Jackie Ormes 1938–1958 / Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua 101 7. Queer Kinship and Worldmaking in Black Queer Web Series: Drama Queenz and No Shade / Eric Darnell Pritchard 118 8. Styling and Profiling: Ballers, Blackness, and the Sartorial Politics of the NBA / David J. Leonard 134 9. Interview / Tracy Sharpley-Whiting 153 III. Owning Blackness 10. The Subaltern Is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance / Sheneese Thompson 161 11. Authentic Black Cool?: Branding and Trademarks in Contemporary African American Culture / Richard Schur 175 12. Black Culture without Black People: Hip-Hop Dance beyond Appropriation Discourse / Imani Kai Johnson 191 13. At the Corner of Chaos and Divine: Black Ritual Theater, Performance, and Politics / Nina Angela Mercer 207 14. Interview / Mark Anthony Neal 229 IV. Loving Blackness 15. The Booty Don't Lie: Pleasure, Agency, and Resistance in Black Popular Dance / Takiyah Nur Amin 237 16. He Said Nothing: Sonic Space and the Production of Quietude in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight / Simone C. Drake 252 17. Black Women Readers and the Uses of Urban Fiction / Kinohi Nishikawa 268 18. Interview / Patricia Hill Collins 288 Contributors 301 Index 307
£98.60
Duke University Press Radical Transnationalism
Book SynopsisThis issue of Meridians looks at the expansive domains of transnational feminism, considering its relationship to different regions, historical periods, fields, and methodologies. Through scholarship and creative writing, contributors showcase populations often overlooked in transnational feminist scholarship, including Africa and its diaspora and indigenous people in the Americas and the Pacific. Understanding that transnational feminism emerges from multiple locales across the Global South and North, this group of contributors, working in exceptionally diverse locations, investigates settler colonialism, racialization, globalization, militarization, decoloniality, and anti-authoritarian movements as gendered political and economic projects.Working with manifestos, archives, oral histories, poetry, visual media, and ethnographies from across four continents, the contributors offer a radically expanded vision for transnational feminism. Contributors. Elisabeth Armstrong, Maile Arvin
£15.19
Duke University Press Kwaito Bodies
Book SynopsisIn Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg''s nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito. He shows how kwaito culture operates as an alternative politics that challenges the dominant constructions of gender and sexuality. Artists such as Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza rescripted notions of acceptable femininity and masculinity, while groups like Boom Shaka enunciated an Afrodiasporic politics. In these ways, kwaito culture recontextualizes practices and notions of freedom within the social constraints that the legacies of colonialism, apartheid, and economic inequality place on young South Africans. At the same time, kwaito speaks to the ways iTrade Review“Kwaito Bodies is a much-needed corrective to the history of popular culture in South Africa. With the deft insight of a seasoned ethnographer and through legible prose that suffers nothing by way of sophisticated analytics, Xavier Livermon renders a complicated narrative about how the musical form kwaito holds promise for a whole generation of sexual dissidents in post-apartheid South Africa. This book is a game-changer for African sexuality studies.” -- E. Patrick Johnson, author of * Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women *“Xavier Livermon celebrates the often maligned affect of South African youth by noticing their creative play and their insistence on finding pleasure in the fraught everyday of post-apartheid urban life. His nuanced recognition of kwaito bodies lends insight into the social disjunctures and political failures of the post-apartheid state as well as into the struggles and creative improvisations of black bodies within Afrodiasporic space. Written with appreciation and curiosity, this book leaves the reader with a sense of possibility and hope and a reminder of why we need to party.” -- Louise Meintjes, author of * Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid *“Livermon makes an important contribution to existing studies of kwaito by paying particular attention to embodiment.... Livermon addresses a scope of contradictory, shifting, and misrecognized political tactics that articulate radical self-and world-making possibilities.” -- AB Brown * GLQ *"Livermon successfully ties together twenty years of musical growth with politics and shows how the body itself remains political within the South African framework." -- Debjyoti Ghosh * E3W Review of Books *“In Kwaito Bodies, Xavier Livermon provides a novel perspective on kwaito music and the youth culture it spawned. . . . Livermon skillfully uses kwaito-related incidents, artists, performances, and venues to reveal their larger meaning and significance as black South African youth negotiate their place in the postapartheid social order.” -- Graeme Reid * Journal of African History *“An important contribution in a time when the Black body has (re)gained significant attention across the world, [Kwaito Bodies] provides a visceral investigation into Black youth culture in postapartheid South Africa.” -- William Fourie * Transposition *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Waar Was Jy? Yeoville circa 1996 1 1. Afrodiasporic Space: Refiguring Africa in Diaspora Analytics 29 2. Jozi Nights: The Post-Apartheid City, Encounter, and Mobility 57 3. "Si-Ghetto Fabulous": Self-Fashioning, Consumption, and Pleasure in Kwaito 92 4. The Kwaito Feminine: Lebo Mathosa as a "Dangerous Woman" 122 5. The Black Masculine in Kwaito: Mandoza and the Limits of Hypermasculine Performance 155 6. Mafikizolo and Youth Day Parties: (Melancholic) Conviviality and the Queering of Utopian Memory 188 Coda. Kwaito Futures, Remastered Freedoms 224 Notes 235 Glossary 239 References 243 Index 259
£98.60
Duke University Press Whats the Use
Book SynopsisContinuing the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word and following its historical, intellectual, and political significance, Sara Ahmed explores how use operates as an organizing concept, technology of control, and tool for diversity work.Trade Review“In this close reading of use, Sara Ahmed leads the reader from object to object at a pace that moves with the deliberateness of a philosopher and the grace of a literary scholar. With this and other books, Ahmed has established herself as one of the most important feminist thinkers in the world.” -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson“With characteristic verve and force, Sara Ahmed explores the uses of use. More than a history of an idea and much more than a philosophical investigation of use and value, Ahmed’s book teaches us how to locate use, usefulness, used-upness, used objects, and useful and useless knowledge in relation to time, space, queerness, and more. Read this book; you need it, and more importantly, you will use it. It is useful and useless in equal proportion and compelling precisely because of its mixed-use value. Before you know it, you will get used to use and you will carry it with you always.” -- Jack Halberstam“How lucky we are that feminist killjoy Sara Ahmed takes us on her learned, witty, and insightful journey. With her evocative exasperation at the state of affairs with regard to the (im)possibilities of diversity work and complaint, she dismantles the sexist and racist structures of the modern university. Now as a courageous, independent scholar, Ahmed continues to shine her characteristic phenomenological lights on walls and doors and more. She is still here; she refused to get used to it!” -- Gloria Wekker"By crafting different routes, travelling lesser-known paths, and finding alternate ways of telling stories about use, Ahmed invites her readers to see the world from these non-normative subject positions and to rethink and reshape their own worldviews in the process." -- Sohel Sarkar * AC Review of Books *"A well-written, engaging text. Highly recommended. All readership levels." -- C. R. McCall * Choice *"Ahmed sought to write a text that intervenes in the everyday, that elevates a threadbare backpack to a place of unbound theoretical play. And she has done so. Although some readers may find themselves frustrated by Ahmed’s deflections of tangible directive, that seems to be precisely the point. Accessible and innovative, What’s the Use? will be of serious interest to activists, artists, and academics working at the intersections of queer and critical race studies." -- Caitlin Mackenzie * QED *“Ahmed follows an unexpected and fascinating pathway through the history of use, one that brings together scientific theories, institutional histories, and everyday life.... Ahmed’s explorations are animated by a spirit of reinvention that challenges both the conventions of philosophical practice and the taken-for-granted boundaries of feminist thought.” -- Eden Kinkaid * Feminist Formations *"What’s the Use? combines an intellectual history and a philosophical exploration of the concept of use with ethnographies and personal reflections on institutional diversity work. . . . Ahmed’s paradoxical undertaking reveals one must first subvert institutional diversity practices, in order to truly diversify an institution." -- Velina Manolova * Public Books *“What’s the Use? is a rigorous book with power.... Ahmed’s book wields theory in the right way.... I came away from What’s the Use? feeling equipped with new knowledge and ready to use it.” -- Minhae Shim Roth * Continuum *"Ahmed’s book is an interdisciplinary treasure for scholars that contributes to diverse strands of thought including women’s studies, decolonial studies, disability studies, and queer studies. Furthermore, the 'queer and idiosyncratic' method of the book (19) offers rich resources for 'troublemakers,' student organizers, feminist collectives, and human rights advocates." -- Pallavi Gupta * International Feminist Journal of Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction. A Useful Archive 1 1. Using Things 21 2. The Biology of Use and Disuse 68 3. Use as Technique 103 4. Use and the University 141 Conclusion. Queer Use 197 Notes 231 References 257 Index 271
£72.25
Duke University Press Politics of Rightful Killing
Book SynopsisSima Shakhsari analyzes the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers in the early 2000s—and the ways in which despite being an effective venue for Iranians to pursue their political agendas, it was the site for surveillance, cooptation, and self-governance.Trade Review“Sima Shakhsari has crafted a superb account of the convergence of neoliberal governmentality, social media, and Iranian diasporic cultural productions. A critically compelling and rich narrative by a passionate and brilliant scholar, Politics of Rightful Killing is a significant contribution to the field of gender and sexuality studies, anthropology, and Iranian cyber studies.” -- Minoo Moallem, author of * Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity *“A rich on- and off-line ethnographic account of what is now the artifact of techno-optimism and its post-9/11 deployment to promote imperial democracy. Sima Shakhsari's sharp analysis of rightful killing pursued in the service of freedom is a crucial addition to the biopolitical theorizing of gender, sexuality, and empire.” -- Jasbir K. Puar, author of * The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability *"Sima Shakhsari's innovative new book is a welcome addition to… scholarship, and the most uncompromisingly pessimistic analysis of the politics of the Iranian internet to be published to date." -- Alireza Doostdar * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Mixing an exemplary mastery over theory with rigorous close readings of texts in an understudied area of research, Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing is a highly worthwhile read for anyone interested in the subtle workings of power in cyberspace." -- Mostafa Abedinifard * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Sima Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing is . . . a much-needed contribution to a growing body of scholarship examining the culture, politics, and identity of Iranians living primarily in the West and their relationship to those living in Iran." -- Manijeh Moradian * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Weblogistan and the Iranian Diaspora: Nation and Its Re-territorializations in Cyberspace 32 2. Civil Society (jaame'e-ye madani), Soccer, and Gendered Politics in Weblogistan: The 2005 Presidential Election 72 3. Whores, Homos, and Feminists: Weblogistan's Anti-modern Others 112 4. Weblogistan and Its Homosexual Problem 145 5. The War Machine, Neoliberal Homo Œconomicus, and the Experts 169 Coda. Revolutionary Ends: Weblogistan's Afterlife 195 Appendix 207 Notes 209 Works Cited 257 Index 277
£75.65
Duke University Press Kwaito Bodies
Book SynopsisXavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of Kwaitoa style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.Trade Review“Kwaito Bodies is a much-needed corrective to the history of popular culture in South Africa. With the deft insight of a seasoned ethnographer and through legible prose that suffers nothing by way of sophisticated analytics, Xavier Livermon renders a complicated narrative about how the musical form kwaito holds promise for a whole generation of sexual dissidents in post-apartheid South Africa. This book is a game-changer for African sexuality studies.” -- E. Patrick Johnson, author of * Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women *“Xavier Livermon celebrates the often maligned affect of South African youth by noticing their creative play and their insistence on finding pleasure in the fraught everyday of post-apartheid urban life. His nuanced recognition of kwaito bodies lends insight into the social disjunctures and political failures of the post-apartheid state as well as into the struggles and creative improvisations of black bodies within Afrodiasporic space. Written with appreciation and curiosity, this book leaves the reader with a sense of possibility and hope and a reminder of why we need to party.” -- Louise Meintjes, author of * Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid *“Livermon makes an important contribution to existing studies of kwaito by paying particular attention to embodiment.... Livermon addresses a scope of contradictory, shifting, and misrecognized political tactics that articulate radical self-and world-making possibilities.” -- AB Brown * GLQ *"Livermon successfully ties together twenty years of musical growth with politics and shows how the body itself remains political within the South African framework." -- Debjyoti Ghosh * E3W Review of Books *“In Kwaito Bodies, Xavier Livermon provides a novel perspective on kwaito music and the youth culture it spawned. . . . Livermon skillfully uses kwaito-related incidents, artists, performances, and venues to reveal their larger meaning and significance as black South African youth negotiate their place in the postapartheid social order.” -- Graeme Reid * Journal of African History *“An important contribution in a time when the Black body has (re)gained significant attention across the world, [Kwaito Bodies] provides a visceral investigation into Black youth culture in postapartheid South Africa.” -- William Fourie * Transposition *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Waar Was Jy? Yeoville circa 1996 1 1. Afrodiasporic Space: Refiguring Africa in Diaspora Analytics 29 2. Jozi Nights: The Post-Apartheid City, Encounter, and Mobility 57 3. "Si-Ghetto Fabulous": Self-Fashioning, Consumption, and Pleasure in Kwaito 92 4. The Kwaito Feminine: Lebo Mathosa as a "Dangerous Woman" 122 5. The Black Masculine in Kwaito: Mandoza and the Limits of Hypermasculine Performance 155 6. Mafikizolo and Youth Day Parties: (Melancholic) Conviviality and the Queering of Utopian Memory 188 Coda. Kwaito Futures, Remastered Freedoms 224 Notes 235 Glossary 239 References 243 Index 259
£25.19
Duke University Press Politics of Rightful Killing
Book SynopsisSima Shakhsari analyzes the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers in the early 2000s—and the ways in which despite being an effective venue for Iranians to pursue their political agendas, it was the site for surveillance, cooptation, and self-governance.Trade Review“Sima Shakhsari has crafted a superb account of the convergence of neoliberal governmentality, social media, and Iranian diasporic cultural productions. A critically compelling and rich narrative by a passionate and brilliant scholar, Politics of Rightful Killing is a significant contribution to the field of gender and sexuality studies, anthropology, and Iranian cyber studies.” -- Minoo Moallem, author of * Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity *“A rich on- and off-line ethnographic account of what is now the artifact of techno-optimism and its post-9/11 deployment to promote imperial democracy. Sima Shakhsari's sharp analysis of rightful killing pursued in the service of freedom is a crucial addition to the biopolitical theorizing of gender, sexuality, and empire.” -- Jasbir K. Puar, author of * The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability *"Sima Shakhsari's innovative new book is a welcome addition to… scholarship, and the most uncompromisingly pessimistic analysis of the politics of the Iranian internet to be published to date." -- Alireza Doostdar * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Mixing an exemplary mastery over theory with rigorous close readings of texts in an understudied area of research, Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing is a highly worthwhile read for anyone interested in the subtle workings of power in cyberspace." -- Mostafa Abedinifard * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"Sima Shakhsari’s Politics of Rightful Killing is . . . a much-needed contribution to a growing body of scholarship examining the culture, politics, and identity of Iranians living primarily in the West and their relationship to those living in Iran." -- Manijeh Moradian * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Weblogistan and the Iranian Diaspora: Nation and Its Re-territorializations in Cyberspace 32 2. Civil Society (jaame'e-ye madani), Soccer, and Gendered Politics in Weblogistan: The 2005 Presidential Election 72 3. Whores, Homos, and Feminists: Weblogistan's Anti-modern Others 112 4. Weblogistan and Its Homosexual Problem 145 5. The War Machine, Neoliberal Homo Œconomicus, and the Experts 169 Coda. Revolutionary Ends: Weblogistan's Afterlife 195 Appendix 207 Notes 209 Works Cited 257 Index 277
£20.69
Duke University Press Are You Entertained
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and artist statements on topics ranging from music and dance to Black Twitter and the NBA's dress code, the contributors consider what culture and Blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy.Trade Review“Are You Entertained? is a thoughtfully constructed collection of scholarly work on blackness and subjectivity and their constant tensions with popular culture and mass media. Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson do a superb job of weaving together these shards of insightful criticism and analysis into a tapestry of fascinating commentary by some of the most dynamic voices in the field.” -- John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside"The book is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary field of African American studies as well as to literature and sociology and to the overall study of performance, culture, media, and Blackness. Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals." -- T. N. Allen * Choice *“Are you Entertained? is an immensely generative model and guide for doing sharp and powerful work in Black studies. It makes a case for why Black cultural studies matter by pinpointing the liberatory potential of Black popular culture in and for our current lives.” -- Elliott H. Powell * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 I. Performing Blackness 1. "Mutts Like Me": Mixed-Race Jokes and Post-Racial Rejection in the Obama Era / Ralina L. Joseph 29 2. Black Radio: Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and Janelle Monáe / Emily J. Lordi 44 3. Camping and Vamping across Borders: Locating Cabaret Singers in the Black Cultural Spectrum / Vincent Stephens 58 4. The Art of Black Popular Culture / H. Ike Okafor-Newsum 77 5. Interview / Lisa B. Thompson 91 II. Politicizing Blackness 6. Refashioning Political Cartoons: Comics of Jackie Ormes 1938–1958 / Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua 101 7. Queer Kinship and Worldmaking in Black Queer Web Series: Drama Queenz and No Shade / Eric Darnell Pritchard 118 8. Styling and Profiling: Ballers, Blackness, and the Sartorial Politics of the NBA / David J. Leonard 134 9. Interview / Tracy Sharpley-Whiting 153 III. Owning Blackness 10. The Subaltern Is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance / Sheneese Thompson 161 11. Authentic Black Cool?: Branding and Trademarks in Contemporary African American Culture / Richard Schur 175 12. Black Culture without Black People: Hip-Hop Dance beyond Appropriation Discourse / Imani Kai Johnson 191 13. At the Corner of Chaos and Divine: Black Ritual Theater, Performance, and Politics / Nina Angela Mercer 207 14. Interview / Mark Anthony Neal 229 IV. Loving Blackness 15. The Booty Don't Lie: Pleasure, Agency, and Resistance in Black Popular Dance / Takiyah Nur Amin 237 16. He Said Nothing: Sonic Space and the Production of Quietude in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight / Simone C. Drake 252 17. Black Women Readers and the Uses of Urban Fiction / Kinohi Nishikawa 268 18. Interview / Patricia Hill Collins 288 Contributors 301 Index 307
£25.19
Duke University Press Virtual Pedophilia
Book SynopsisGillian Harkins traces the genealogy of the transformation of cultural construction of the pedophile as a social outcast into the image of normative white masculinity from the 1980s to the present, showing how his “normalcy” makes him hard to identify and stop.Trade Review“The explosive subject of pedophilia too often generates social hysteria. In Virtual Pedophilia Gillian Harkins counters that response with an impressively researched multidisciplinary analysis of the emergence of the cultural figure of ‘the pedophile’ in the late twentieth century. But even more importantly, her lucid, pointed, and politically urgent provocations make this one of the most important books on sexual politics published in the past twenty years.” -- Lisa Duggan, author of * Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed *“It takes a century to not catch a predator: to birth him as a white man we can never net. Why can't we catch him? We can't see him. He's a white needle in a very white haystack. With statistics pooling, information flooding, he more eludes. He becomes ‘virtual,’ which bears devastating racial effects for communities of color. Expect this original, astonishing weave in Gillian Harkins' arresting new book. Tying together racial critique, feminist and sexuality studies, and legal discourse, Harkins proffers razor-sharp claims that challenge several fields—even queer theory. At every turn in this gripping read, I feel the author's crackling intelligence.” -- Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of * The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century *“Virtual Pedophilia is an important and necessary book with far-ranging implications for multiple fields of study as well as for scholarly and activist interventions in cultures of surveillance, mass incarceration, and pathologization.” -- Gabrielle Owen * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Virtual Pedophilia 1 1. Monstrous Sexuality and Vile Sovereignty 29 2. Profiling Virtuality and Pedophilic Data 62 3. Informational Image and Procedural Tone 95 4. Capturing the Past and the Vitality of Crime 128 5. Capturing the Future and the Sexuality of Risk 161 Conclusion. Exceptional Pedophilia and the Everyday Case 194 Notes 209 References 229 Index 263
£98.60
Duke University Press Anaesthetics of Existence
Book SynopsisDrawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Cressida J. Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against them.Trade Review“‘Anaesthetics of Existence,’ writes Cressida J. Heyes, ‘is a book about refusal, exclusion and liminality.’ More than this, it is a book about the unevenness of attention, about the tendency of bodies to flicker in and out of consciousness, and about extreme ordinariness and the increasing ordinariness of the extreme. This book is timely, original, and offers new insights within the philosophy of experience.” -- Jack Halberstam, author of * The Queer Art of Failure *“Incredibly smart, wide ranging, inventive, and timely, Cressida J. Heyes's Anaesthetics of Existence offers a detailed and philosophically rigorous phenomenological exploration of experience. Heyes does not merely report on phenomenology, she does it with an aliveness to her prose and an expansiveness to her thinking that feels fresh, original, and exciting. A marvelous book.” -- Gayle Salamon, author of * The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia *“Without a doubt, Heyes’ Anaesthetics of Existence is a marvelously written, timely, and exciting book. It is both a scholarly feat—impeccably researched and persuasively argued—and a pleasurable read that offers some respite and solace amidst the chaos of postdisciplinary time.” -- Corinne Lajoie * Contemporary Political Theory *“Anaesthetics of Existence is delivered with impressive brevity and wit. . . . Anaesthetics of Existence is a remarkably timely text because, as we desperately hope for an end to pandemic time, we must also critically consider the prepandemic world we’ve missed and how, in light of this disruption, we might establish different habits.” -- Lauren Guilmette * Political Theory *“Anaesthetics of Existence exudes a prescience for our current era unmatched by monographs composed in the period immediately preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. Heyes, a philosopher, undertakes poignant phenomenological case studies into urgent feminist issues, including date rape, the pressures of parenting, and childbirth.” -- Evangeline Holtz-Schramek * Humanities *
£91.80
Duke University Press Virtual Pedophilia
Book SynopsisGillian Harkins traces the genealogy of the transformation of cultural construction of the pedophile as a social outcast into the image of normative white masculinity from the 1980s to the present, showing how his “normalcy” makes him hard to identify and stop.Trade Review“The explosive subject of pedophilia too often generates social hysteria. In Virtual Pedophilia Gillian Harkins counters that response with an impressively researched multidisciplinary analysis of the emergence of the cultural figure of ‘the pedophile’ in the late twentieth century. But even more importantly, her lucid, pointed, and politically urgent provocations make this one of the most important books on sexual politics published in the past twenty years.” -- Lisa Duggan, author of * Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed *“It takes a century to not catch a predator: to birth him as a white man we can never net. Why can't we catch him? We can't see him. He's a white needle in a very white haystack. With statistics pooling, information flooding, he more eludes. He becomes ‘virtual,’ which bears devastating racial effects for communities of color. Expect this original, astonishing weave in Gillian Harkins' arresting new book. Tying together racial critique, feminist and sexuality studies, and legal discourse, Harkins proffers razor-sharp claims that challenge several fields—even queer theory. At every turn in this gripping read, I feel the author's crackling intelligence.” -- Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of * The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century *“Virtual Pedophilia is an important and necessary book with far-ranging implications for multiple fields of study as well as for scholarly and activist interventions in cultures of surveillance, mass incarceration, and pathologization.” -- Gabrielle Owen * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Virtual Pedophilia 1 1. Monstrous Sexuality and Vile Sovereignty 29 2. Profiling Virtuality and Pedophilic Data 62 3. Informational Image and Procedural Tone 95 4. Capturing the Past and the Vitality of Crime 128 5. Capturing the Future and the Sexuality of Risk 161 Conclusion. Exceptional Pedophilia and the Everyday Case 194 Notes 209 References 229 Index 263
£25.19
Duke University Press Revolutionary Positions
Book SynopsisAs the Cuban Revolution reaches its sixtieth anniversary, contributors to this special issue explore the impact of the revolution through the lens of sexuality and gender, providing a social and cultural history that illuminates the Cuban-influenced global New Left. Moving beyond assumptions about the revolutionary left's hypermasculinity and homophobia, the issue takes a nuanced approach to the Cuban Revolution's impact on gender and sexuality. Contributors study Cuban internationalist campaigns, the relationship between cultural diplomacy and mass media, and visual images of revolution and solidarity. They follow the emergence and negotiation of new gender ideals through the transgendering of Che's New Man, the Cuban travels of Angela Davis, calls for sexual revolution in the Dutch Atlantic, and gender representations during the 1964 Campaign of Terror in Chile. In doing so, the authors provide fresh insight into Cuba's transnational legacy on politics and culture during the Cold War
£10.99
Duke University Press Radical Care
Book SynopsisCare has re-entered the zeitgeist. In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, #selfcare exploded across media platforms. Beyond this popular focus on self-care rituals, care has also emerged as a driving force within new collective movements. Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism, contributors to this special issue consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence. They explore how trans activists find resilience and vitality through coalitional labor; argue that social movements should expand mutual aid strategies, focusing on solidarity over charity; discuss a neoliberal university wellness culture that seeks to patch up structural care deficits with quick fixes like meditation apps and yoga classes; and more. As the traditionally undervalued labor of caring becomes recognized as a key element of survival, contributors sho
£11.39
Duke University Press Relative Races
Book SynopsisIn Relative Races, Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is ascribed. Contrary to notions of genealogies by which race is transmitted from parents to children, the examples Fielder discusses from nineteenth-century literature, history, and popular culture show how race can follow other directions: Desdemona becomes less than fully white when she is smudged with Othello''s blackface, a white woman becomes Native American when she is adopted by a Seneca family, and a mixed-race baby casts doubt on the whiteness of his mother. Fielder shows that the genealogies of race are especially visible in the racialization of white women, whose whiteness often depends on their ability to reproduce white family and white supremacy. Using black feminist and queer theories, Fielder presents readings of personal narratives, novels, plays, stories, poems, and images to illustrate how interracial kinship follows non-heteronormative, non-biological, and non-patrilineal models oTrade Review“In Relative Races, Brigitte Fielder enriches our understanding of the cultural landscape of the long nineteenth century. Demonstrating boldness, analytical clarity, and scholarly creativity, Fielder gives us language for the processes of racialization that clearly shape American realities but that we have often failed to name because we lacked a theoretical framework.” -- Koritha Mitchell, author of * From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture *“Brigitte Fielder makes the bold claim that racialization entails neither the annihilation of kin ties nor the simple linearity of descent. Instead, ‘race,’ and blackness in particular, travels unpredictably, transferred from skin to skin, from child to mother, across literary genres, through adoption, via residency, and through sibling relations. In essence, Fielder retheorizes race as the making and breaking of kin ties. After Relative Races, we will not be able to think about race and racialization, kinship, and queer theories of temporality separately again.” -- Elizabeth Freeman, author of * Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century *“Brigitte Fielder’s Relative Races is a sophisticated addition to ongoing discussions of race, kinship, and community.... Fielder’s rereadings of historical episodes of kinship in domestic spaces in the 19th century urge us to revisit the archives, and shed light on stories that have been erased and ignored." -- Mary Rambaran-Olm * Public Books *“Brigitte Fielder’s Relative Races expertly navigates new discussions centering on nineteenth-century representations of racialization in the United States. . . . Fielder’s work has broad-reaching effects and implications for the twenty-first century and beyond.” -- Tabitha Lowery * Early American Literature *“In her reconsiderations of kinship and racialization, Fielder brilliantly constellates important critical emphases central to recent interventions in queer theory . . . and Native studies. . . . Fielder’s work is both a call and an itinerary––a praxis and a map––for productively unsettling normative relations in the U.S.” -- Shelby Johnson * ABO *“[Relative Races] is a text that embodies its arguments about excessive and attenuated kindship ties under slavery, the circulation of ideas about racialization, and the many paths of racialized kinship. . . . This important new book of literary history illustrates alternative genealogies and possible futures to combat anti-Black racism. -- Jolie A. Sheffer * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Genealogies of Interracial Kinship 1 Part I. Romance. Sexual Kinship 1. Blackface Desdemona, or, the White Woman "Begrimed" 29 2. "Almost Eliza": Reading and Racialization 55 Part II. Reproduction. Genealogies of (Re)racialization 3. Mothers and Mammies: Racial Maternity and Matriliny 85 4. Kinfullness: Mama's Baby, Racial Futures 119 Part III. Residency Domestic. Racial Relations 5. Mary Jemison's Cabin: Domestic Spaces of Racialization 161 6. Racial (Re)Construction: Interracial Kinship and the Interracial Nation 195 Conclusion. "Minus Bloodlines": White Womanhood and Failures of Interracial Kinship 229 Notes 245 Bibliography 283 Index
£98.60
Duke University Press Millennials Killed the Video Star
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with industry workers from MTV programs such as The Real World and Teen Mom, Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from music videos to reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s.Trade Review“Amanda Ann Klein's extended interviews with both participants and producers of MTV programming as well as her inspired and enjoyable writing make this book an important, compelling, and lively contribution to the study of media and culture.” -- Brenda R. Weber, author of * Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism *“Amanda Ann Klein's engaging book analyzes a specific phenomenon: MTV's twenty-first-century reality television programming. But her detailed and thoughtful account reveals so much about the history of a transformative television genre, the evolution of an iconic cable channel, and the construction of identity for an entire generation, making it essential reading to understand contemporary American media and culture.” -- Jason Mittell, author of * Television and American Culture *"My mother used to tell me that Jersey Shore would rot my brain; with Millennials Killed the Video Star, Amanda Ann Klein would seem to agree. In this release, the East Carolina University film professor helps make sense of the noise, walking readers through MTV’s evolution from music videos to scripted reality TV—maximizing stereotypes about race, gender, and class along the way, and shaping how an entire generation would come to understand identity." -- Emma Kenfield * IndyWeek *“[Millennials Killed the Video Star] is a fascinating analysis of media construction and presentation of identities, and how audiences respond to or reject those identities.... Klein’s writing is thoughtful and crisp.... Her writing blends an academic perspective and a fan perspective to produce a thoroughly entertaining analysis.” -- Fiona McQuarrie * PopMatters *"Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- C. A. Nadon * Choice *“Through her insightful and engaging writing, Klein successfully weaves together industry studies, media and cultural analysis, interviews, and an entertaining retelling of her own personal encounter with Jersey Shore’s DJ Pauly D. The author successfully crafts a book that would appeal to multiple audiences across disciplines.” -- Abshi Iftin * Journal of Popular Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. What Killed the Video Star? 1 1. "It's Videos, Fool": A Targeted History of MTV (1981–2004) 24 2. "This Is the True Story . . .": The Real World and MTV's Turn to Identity (1992–) 57 3. "She's Gonna Always Be Known at the Girl Who Didn't Go to Paris": Can-Do and At-Risk White Girls on MTV (2004–2013) 89 4. "If You Don't Tan, You're Pale": The Regional and Ethnic Other on MTV (2009–2013) 124 5. "That Moment Is Here, Whether I Like It or Not": When MTV's Programming Fails (2013–2014) 153 Conclusion. Catfish and the Future of MTV's Reality Programming (2012–) 173 Appendix A. MTV Reality Series since 1981 189 Appendix B. Other Television Series Discussed in This Book 193 Notes 197 References 213 Index 233
£72.25
Duke University Press The Small Book of Hip Checks
Book SynopsisErica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip checkan athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off balance and the inspection of racialized genderto consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing.Trade Review“Erica Rand's focus on writing and revising, her nuanced close readings, and her engaging and innovative prose make The Small Book of Hip Checks a unique and inviting book. This is an important contribution to conversations in trans studies, queer studies, and feminist studies of the body.” -- Toby Beauchamp, author of * Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices *“In this wonderful book, hip checks provide the ground for asking urgent questions, the methodology for exploring the questions, and the means for rethinking what we thought we knew. Written by a leading cultural studies theorist, The Small Book of Hip Checks is theoretically brilliant and warmly personal.” -- Eithne Luibhéid, author of * Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant *"In these essays, Rand hip checks the NBA, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, a Burger King ad campaign for the Proud Whopper situated at a Pride parade, blue jeans, a somewhat pornographic moment in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather that was secretly circulated among her classmates, and, toward the end, lavender-colored dildos. She not only asks readers to question their assumptions, she also performs that inquiry through her writing." -- Linda Levitt * Popmatters *"The Small Book of Hip Checks, with its jerking, twisting, and nonlinearity, is a corporeal experience for writer and reader alike. Rand’s wit, empathy, and care for her subjects make the experience both challenging and pleasurable, a text about our role as embodied readers and writers who traverse various social positions. The Small Book of Hip Checks is a piece of scholarship intended not only for scholars of gender, sexuality, and race, but for readers in any field seeking alternative modes of inquiry within their work and writing." -- Eileen DiPofi * Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Hip Check. An Introduction in Four Parts 1 1. If Men Don't Have Hips, How Can They Hip-Check? 2. Showing and Telling: Debi Thomas's Unitard and the Racing of the Obscence 3. Deep into Drivel: A Burger King Pride Stunt, Mundane Racism, and the Rainbow 4. TV Evidence for the Transgender Tipping Point 5. A Lothario in Gendered Jeans 6. Hide and Seek: In the Afterlives of the Dorothy Hamill Haircut 7. Consensual Gender 8. Clocking the Natural 9. Gifts and Givens 10. Page 27 of The Godfather and the Evidence of Memory 11. Queer Indirections 12. Clocking the Unnatural: On the History of the Lavender Dildo 13. Cis-Skeletal 14. It's on the Template Conclusion. Hip-Checked Afterword. Hip-Check Your Writing—An Exercise Notes Index
£67.15
Duke University Press Media Crossroads
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability.Trade Review“Media Crossroads offers a remarkable set of essays that demonstrate the new insights that can emerge when we apply a purposeful intersectional lens in media studies. As we move through screen spaces of different types (past, present, public, private) in different media (television, cinema, video games, social media), we feel the exhilaration of this volume's collective experimental project to identify and interrogate spatialized structures of power across the media landscape.” -- Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, author of * Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity *“Media Crossroads invites scholars to rethink space and intersectionality, including and going beyond the confines of cities, lands, and architectures. Its analysis of commercial, mainstream, and avant-garde film and media as well as its focus on intersectionality makes it an innovative and important contribution to film and media studies.” -- Yeidy M. Rivero, author of * Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950–1960 *"The intersectional lens developed in [Media Crossroads] is original, vigorous, and reflective enough to alter the readers' perspectives towards media texts that they have seen before and the ones they will experience in the future. Its lasting influence will make the readers rethink, reconfigure, and reimagine the potential of intersectional space and identities on and offscreen." -- Da Ye Kim * E3W Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Intersections and/in Space / Paula J. Massood, Angel Daniel Matos, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik 1 I. Digital Intersections 1. "Where Do Aliens Pee?": Bathroom Selfies, Trans Activism, and Reimagining Spaces / Nicole Erin Morse 21 2. The Queerness of Space and the Body in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Series / Angel Daniel Matos 34 3. The Digital Flâneuse: Exploring Intersectional Identities and Spaces through Walking Simulators / Matthew Thomas Payne and John Vanderhoef 50 II. Cinematic Urban Intersections 4. Blurring Boundaries, Exploring Intersections: Form, Genre, and Space in Shirley Clarke's The Connection / Paula J. Massood 67 5. Intersections in Madrid's Periphery: Cinematic Cruising in Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino (1972) / Jacqueline Sheean 82 6. Encounters and Embeddedness: The Urban Cinema of Ramin Bahrani / Amy Corbin 96 7. Perpetual Motion: Mobility, Precarity, and Slow Death Cinema / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 111 III. Urbanism and Gentrification 8. Senior Citizens under Siege: Number Our Days (1976) and Gray Power Activism in Venice / Joshua Glick 127 9. Music City Makeover: The Televisual Tourism of Nashville / Noelle Griffis 141 10. Portland at the Intersection: Gentrification and the Whitening of the City in Portlandia's Hipster Wonderland / Elizabeth A. Patton 155 11. Criminal Properties: Real Estate and the Upwardly Mobile Gangster / Erica Stein 167 IV. Race, Place, and Space 12. Dressing the Part: Black Maids, White Stars in the Dressing Room / Desirée J. Garcia 183 13. "I Do Not Know That I Find Myself Anywhere": The British Heritage Film and Spaces of Intersectionality in Amma Asante's Belle (2013) / Sara Louise Smyth 195 14. Queerness, Race, and Class in the Midcentury Suburb Film Crime of Passion (1956) / Merrill Schleier 206 15. Fair Play: Race, Space, and Recreation n Black Media Culture / Peter C. Kunze 221 V. Style and/as Intersectionality 16. The Toxic Intertwining of Small Town Lives in Happy Valley / Ina Rae Hark 237 17. Tattooed Light and Embodied Design: Intersectional Surfaces in Moana / Kirsten Moana Thompson 250 18. Vaguely Visible: Intersectional Politics in Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama (2016) / Malini Guha 262 Notes 275 Bibliography 303 Contributors 329 Index 335
£75.65
Duke University Press Relative Races
Book SynopsisBrigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is constructed with readings of nineteenth-century personal narratives, novels, plays, stories, poems, and images to illustrate how interracial kinship follows non-heteronormative, non-biological, and non-patrilineal models of inheritance in nineteenth-century literary culture.Trade Review“In Relative Races, Brigitte Fielder enriches our understanding of the cultural landscape of the long nineteenth century. Demonstrating boldness, analytical clarity, and scholarly creativity, Fielder gives us language for the processes of racialization that clearly shape American realities but that we have often failed to name because we lacked a theoretical framework.” -- Koritha Mitchell, author of * From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture *“Brigitte Fielder makes the bold claim that racialization entails neither the annihilation of kin ties nor the simple linearity of descent. Instead, ‘race,’ and blackness in particular, travels unpredictably, transferred from skin to skin, from child to mother, across literary genres, through adoption, via residency, and through sibling relations. In essence, Fielder retheorizes race as the making and breaking of kin ties. After Relative Races, we will not be able to think about race and racialization, kinship, and queer theories of temporality separately again.” -- Elizabeth Freeman, author of * Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century *“Brigitte Fielder’s Relative Races is a sophisticated addition to ongoing discussions of race, kinship, and community.... Fielder’s rereadings of historical episodes of kinship in domestic spaces in the 19th century urge us to revisit the archives, and shed light on stories that have been erased and ignored." -- Mary Rambaran-Olm * Public Books *“Brigitte Fielder’s Relative Races expertly navigates new discussions centering on nineteenth-century representations of racialization in the United States. . . . Fielder’s work has broad-reaching effects and implications for the twenty-first century and beyond.” -- Tabitha Lowery * Early American Literature *“In her reconsiderations of kinship and racialization, Fielder brilliantly constellates important critical emphases central to recent interventions in queer theory . . . and Native studies. . . . Fielder’s work is both a call and an itinerary––a praxis and a map––for productively unsettling normative relations in the U.S.” -- Shelby Johnson * ABO *“[Relative Races] is a text that embodies its arguments about excessive and attenuated kindship ties under slavery, the circulation of ideas about racialization, and the many paths of racialized kinship. . . . This important new book of literary history illustrates alternative genealogies and possible futures to combat anti-Black racism. -- Jolie A. Sheffer * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Genealogies of Interracial Kinship 1 Part I. Romance. Sexual Kinship 1. Blackface Desdemona, or, the White Woman "Begrimed" 29 2. "Almost Eliza": Reading and Racialization 55 Part II. Reproduction. Genealogies of (Re)racialization 3. Mothers and Mammies: Racial Maternity and Matriliny 85 4. Kinfullness: Mama's Baby, Racial Futures 119 Part III. Residency Domestic. Racial Relations 5. Mary Jemison's Cabin: Domestic Spaces of Racialization 161 6. Racial (Re)Construction: Interracial Kinship and the Interracial Nation 195 Conclusion. "Minus Bloodlines": White Womanhood and Failures of Interracial Kinship 229 Notes 245 Bibliography 283 Index
£25.19
Duke University Press The Small Book of Hip Checks
Book SynopsisErica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip checkan athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off balance and the inspection of racialized genderto consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing.Trade Review“Erica Rand's focus on writing and revising, her nuanced close readings, and her engaging and innovative prose make The Small Book of Hip Checks a unique and inviting book. This is an important contribution to conversations in trans studies, queer studies, and feminist studies of the body.” -- Toby Beauchamp, author of * Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices *“In this wonderful book, hip checks provide the ground for asking urgent questions, the methodology for exploring the questions, and the means for rethinking what we thought we knew. Written by a leading cultural studies theorist, The Small Book of Hip Checks is theoretically brilliant and warmly personal.” -- Eithne Luibhéid, author of * Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant *"In these essays, Rand hip checks the NBA, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, a Burger King ad campaign for the Proud Whopper situated at a Pride parade, blue jeans, a somewhat pornographic moment in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather that was secretly circulated among her classmates, and, toward the end, lavender-colored dildos. She not only asks readers to question their assumptions, she also performs that inquiry through her writing." -- Linda Levitt * Popmatters *"The Small Book of Hip Checks, with its jerking, twisting, and nonlinearity, is a corporeal experience for writer and reader alike. Rand’s wit, empathy, and care for her subjects make the experience both challenging and pleasurable, a text about our role as embodied readers and writers who traverse various social positions. The Small Book of Hip Checks is a piece of scholarship intended not only for scholars of gender, sexuality, and race, but for readers in any field seeking alternative modes of inquiry within their work and writing." -- Eileen DiPofi * Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Hip Check. An Introduction in Four Parts 1 1. If Men Don't Have Hips, How Can They Hip-Check? 2. Showing and Telling: Debi Thomas's Unitard and the Racing of the Obscence 3. Deep into Drivel: A Burger King Pride Stunt, Mundane Racism, and the Rainbow 4. TV Evidence for the Transgender Tipping Point 5. A Lothario in Gendered Jeans 6. Hide and Seek: In the Afterlives of the Dorothy Hamill Haircut 7. Consensual Gender 8. Clocking the Natural 9. Gifts and Givens 10. Page 27 of The Godfather and the Evidence of Memory 11. Queer Indirections 12. Clocking the Unnatural: On the History of the Lavender Dildo 13. Cis-Skeletal 14. It's on the Template Conclusion. Hip-Checked Afterword. Hip-Check Your Writing—An Exercise Notes Index
£17.99
Duke University Press Media Crossroads
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability.Trade Review“Media Crossroads offers a remarkable set of essays that demonstrate the new insights that can emerge when we apply a purposeful intersectional lens in media studies. As we move through screen spaces of different types (past, present, public, private) in different media (television, cinema, video games, social media), we feel the exhilaration of this volume's collective experimental project to identify and interrogate spatialized structures of power across the media landscape.” -- Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, author of * Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity *“Media Crossroads invites scholars to rethink space and intersectionality, including and going beyond the confines of cities, lands, and architectures. Its analysis of commercial, mainstream, and avant-garde film and media as well as its focus on intersectionality makes it an innovative and important contribution to film and media studies.” -- Yeidy M. Rivero, author of * Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950–1960 *"The intersectional lens developed in [Media Crossroads] is original, vigorous, and reflective enough to alter the readers' perspectives towards media texts that they have seen before and the ones they will experience in the future. Its lasting influence will make the readers rethink, reconfigure, and reimagine the potential of intersectional space and identities on and offscreen." -- Da Ye Kim * E3W Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Intersections and/in Space / Paula J. Massood, Angel Daniel Matos, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik 1 I. Digital Intersections 1. "Where Do Aliens Pee?": Bathroom Selfies, Trans Activism, and Reimagining Spaces / Nicole Erin Morse 21 2. The Queerness of Space and the Body in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda Series / Angel Daniel Matos 34 3. The Digital Flâneuse: Exploring Intersectional Identities and Spaces through Walking Simulators / Matthew Thomas Payne and John Vanderhoef 50 II. Cinematic Urban Intersections 4. Blurring Boundaries, Exploring Intersections: Form, Genre, and Space in Shirley Clarke's The Connection / Paula J. Massood 67 5. Intersections in Madrid's Periphery: Cinematic Cruising in Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino (1972) / Jacqueline Sheean 82 6. Encounters and Embeddedness: The Urban Cinema of Ramin Bahrani / Amy Corbin 96 7. Perpetual Motion: Mobility, Precarity, and Slow Death Cinema / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 111 III. Urbanism and Gentrification 8. Senior Citizens under Siege: Number Our Days (1976) and Gray Power Activism in Venice / Joshua Glick 127 9. Music City Makeover: The Televisual Tourism of Nashville / Noelle Griffis 141 10. Portland at the Intersection: Gentrification and the Whitening of the City in Portlandia's Hipster Wonderland / Elizabeth A. Patton 155 11. Criminal Properties: Real Estate and the Upwardly Mobile Gangster / Erica Stein 167 IV. Race, Place, and Space 12. Dressing the Part: Black Maids, White Stars in the Dressing Room / Desirée J. Garcia 183 13. "I Do Not Know That I Find Myself Anywhere": The British Heritage Film and Spaces of Intersectionality in Amma Asante's Belle (2013) / Sara Louise Smyth 195 14. Queerness, Race, and Class in the Midcentury Suburb Film Crime of Passion (1956) / Merrill Schleier 206 15. Fair Play: Race, Space, and Recreation n Black Media Culture / Peter C. Kunze 221 V. Style and/as Intersectionality 16. The Toxic Intertwining of Small Town Lives in Happy Valley / Ina Rae Hark 237 17. Tattooed Light and Embodied Design: Intersectional Surfaces in Moana / Kirsten Moana Thompson 250 18. Vaguely Visible: Intersectional Politics in Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama (2016) / Malini Guha 262 Notes 275 Bibliography 303 Contributors 329 Index 335
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Duke University Press The Deconstruction of Sex
Book SynopsisJean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and reconsider our relations to ourselves and others through sex.Trade Review“Happily, no one will leave this book with an understanding of sex. To the contrary, these trenchant and provocative dialogues challenge any construction of sex that relies on a copular verb. As astutely as Irving Goh places sex in a politicophilosophical framework, just as astutely does Jean-Luc Nancy lay out how sex exceeds it. This results in an exemplary enactment of the becoming-word of sex, ‘leaving in us,’ to quote Nancy, ‘a sort of dizziness and bedazzlement’ by comparison with which ‘understanding’ sex can only seem delusional.” -- Lee Edelman, author of * No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive *“In this fascinating dialogue between the renowned continental thinker Jean-Luc Nancy and the critic Irving Goh, the foundational terms of sex are brilliantly deconstructed in ways directly relevant to sensual experience, modalities of affect, intimate co-relationality and the fluid subjects of contemporary gender self-identification. Sexual philosophy, post-Foucault and post-Irigaray, gains a new classic with this indispensable text, topped by the bonus of Claire Colebrook's trenchant afterword on killjoy sex.” -- Emily Apter, Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Sex "Is" Deconstruction / Irving Goh 1 0. The Deconstruction of Sex: Opening Questions 16 1. Troubling Thought(s): Sex and Deconstruction 20 2. On Touching—Sex 35 3. Who Comes before/after Sex? 53 4. S/exscription 70 Afterword: Sex and the Killjoy / Claire Colebrook 83 Acknowledgments 93 Notes 95 Bibliography 105 Index 109
£62.90
Duke University Press Black Gathering
Book SynopsisIn Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or regulation. Drawing together Black feminist theory, critical theories of ecology and ecoaesthetics, and Black aesthetics, Cervenak shows how novelists, poets, and visual artists such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Clementine Hunter, Samiya Bashir, and Leonardo Drew advance an ecological imagination that unsettles Western philosophical ideas of the earth as given to humans. In their aestheticization and conceptualization of gathering, these artists investigate the relationships among art, the environment, home, and forms of Black togetherness. Cervenak argues that by offering a formal and conceptual praxis of gathering, Black artists imagine liberation and alternative ways of being in the world that exist beyond those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and earth as given to enclosure and ownership.Trade Review“Extending her rich study of philosophical praxis and the racial politics of wandering, Sarah Jane Cervenak explores daily practices and real-life social happenings as frames for navigating the discourses of death, subjection, and, most vitally, life. Surely this is a gathering; surely this is a beautiful work in Black aesthetics.” -- Kevin Quashie, author of * Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being *“Foregrounding fugitive existence in the reading of key literary texts and artworks, Black Gathering offers a powerful account of how Blackness (as it signals the without of modern representation) releases humans and nonhumans from their modern aesthetic enclosure (as subject and object of uncommitted contemplation) and juridic-economic misfortune (as subject and object of expropriation and extraction).” -- Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of * Toward a Global Idea of Race *“[Black Gathering], laid out in a captivating manner, moves from engagement with the concept of an earthly home and expands into works which explore the cosmos as well as parallel worlds. . . . This book will be of interest to advanced scholars studying the theory of African American artistic contributions.” -- Laura Christine Haynes * ARLIS/NA *“One of the key strengths of the book is its own ‘gathering’: that is, Cervenak takes up artists and works that either have been understudied or are not typically considered in the same context. . . . [Black Gathering] rewards readers interested in Black women’s (literary and visual) art, questions of form, and Black abstraction.” -- Evie Shockley * ISLE *“Black Gathering’s utopianism bespeaks an investment, inherited from performance studies, in what artworks are as well as what they do. Cervenak approaches Black ecologies not from the perspective of animality but from that of property. . . . Art, for Cervenak, generates a commons of sorts: it holds space for Black life, unenclosed.” -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Another Beginning Part I. Gathering's Art 1. "For a While at Least": Toni Morrison, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and the Ecoaesthetic Shapes of Home 2. The Art of the Matter: Samiya Bashir and Gabrielle Ralambo-Rajerison's Cosmopoetics Part II. The Art of Gathering 3. Arrangements Against the Sentence: Gayl Jones's Early Literature 4. "A Project From Outside": Leonardo Drew's Sculpture Conclusion: Clementine Hunter's Unscalable Field Notes References Index
£72.25
Duke University Press Bigger Than Life
Book SynopsisMary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation.Trade Review“Matching her earlier, masterful treatment of cinematic time, Mary Ann Doane here offers a brilliant probing of cinematic space. She explores cinema’s dynamic use of scale, from the magnification of the face in close-up to new screen technologies ranging from the iPhone to IMAX. Drawing on a range of film styles and practices, including early cinema, avant-garde experiments, and Shanghai cinema of the 1930s, Doane reveals how cinema has shaped a modern abstract and even dematerialized world.” -- Tom Gunning, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago“Mary Ann Doane’s highly innovative, theoretically brilliant, and eloquently incisive consideration of the history of the filmic close-up and its relation to scale will undoubtedly make Bigger Than Life a field-changing work.” -- Maggie Hennefeld, author of * Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes *"Bigger Than Life opens with a unique and crucial examination of the history and historiography of the close-up, its conclusion offers a look at cinema in its biggest and most impactful forms, even cinema beyond cinema itself – this is where Doane’s work becomes truly colossal." -- Harrison Whitaker * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Bigger Than Life’s wide-ranging interrogation of its subject makes for a thrilling and rewarding read. [It] is altogether awe-inspiring and overwhelming in ways appropriate to its subject, constituting an important meditation on the dialogue between new and old media." -- Alicia Byrnes * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Scale, the Cinematic Image, and the Negotiation of Space 1 Part I. Close-Up/Face 1. The Delirium of a Minimal Unit 29 2. The Cinematic Manufacture of Scale, or Historical Vicissitudes of the Close-Up 53 3. At Face Value 89 Part II. Scale/Screen 4. Screens, Female Faces, and Modernities 135 5. The Location of the Image: Projection, Perspective, and Scale 189 6. The Concept of Immersion: Mediated Space, Media Space, and the Location of the Subject 239 Notes 283 Bibliography 325 Index 343
£75.65
Duke University Press Moving Home
Book SynopsisIn Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther played a role in the Christianization of colonial Nigeria. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a formerly enslaved girl 'gifted' to Queen Victoria, traveled the African colonies as the wife of a prominent colonial figure and under the protection of her benefactress. Alongside Nancy Gardiner Prince, Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell, and others, these writers used their mobility as African diasporic and colonial subjects to explore the Atlantic world and beyond while they negotiated the complex intersections between nation and empire. Rather than categorizing theTrade Review“Sandra Gunning’s clear-sighted treatment of the complex political and social worlds in which her subjects found themselves and the multiple strategies through which they negotiated those worlds offers an especially important corrective to universalizing, homogenizing tendencies in much contemporary diasporic scholarship. Gunning argues for a new look at diaspora, particularly as a lens into the process of cultural change. Moving Home offers, in other words, provides a broad theory of the relationship of literature and literary criticism to profound social transformation.” -- Priscilla Wald, author of * Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative *“Moving Home takes a nuanced, intersectional approach to travel writers' construction of gendered identities. . . . Throughout her book, Gunning eschews generalization and accentuates instead the specific politics surrounding each text she discusses." -- Elizabeth A. Bohls * Review 19 *"An important corrective to dominant views of 19th-century Black identities and writings, as well as of travel writing, Gunning’s book will interest all scholars of literature and Black studies. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. E. Magill * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Mary Seacole's West Indian Hospitality 23 2. Home and Belonging for Nancy Prince 55 3. The Repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther 86 4. Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa 120 5. Sarah Forbes Bonetta and Travel as Social Capital 160 Coda 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 227 Index 251
£72.25
Duke University Press The Deconstruction of Sex
Book SynopsisJean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and reconsider our relations to ourselves and others through sex.Trade Review“Happily, no one will leave this book with an understanding of sex. To the contrary, these trenchant and provocative dialogues challenge any construction of sex that relies on a copular verb. As astutely as Irving Goh places sex in a politicophilosophical framework, just as astutely does Jean-Luc Nancy lay out how sex exceeds it. This results in an exemplary enactment of the becoming-word of sex, ‘leaving in us,’ to quote Nancy, ‘a sort of dizziness and bedazzlement’ by comparison with which ‘understanding’ sex can only seem delusional.” -- Lee Edelman, author of * No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive *“In this fascinating dialogue between the renowned continental thinker Jean-Luc Nancy and the critic Irving Goh, the foundational terms of sex are brilliantly deconstructed in ways directly relevant to sensual experience, modalities of affect, intimate co-relationality and the fluid subjects of contemporary gender self-identification. Sexual philosophy, post-Foucault and post-Irigaray, gains a new classic with this indispensable text, topped by the bonus of Claire Colebrook's trenchant afterword on killjoy sex.” -- Emily Apter, Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Sex "Is" Deconstruction / Irving Goh 1 0. The Deconstruction of Sex: Opening Questions 16 1. Troubling Thought(s): Sex and Deconstruction 20 2. On Touching—Sex 35 3. Who Comes before/after Sex? 53 4. S/exscription 70 Afterword: Sex and the Killjoy / Claire Colebrook 83 Acknowledgments 93 Notes 95 Bibliography 105 Index 109
£18.04
Duke University Press Moving Home
Book SynopsisSandra Gunning draws on nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to explore the conditions and possibilities of race, gender, sex, and class that early black Atlantic travel enabled.Trade Review“Sandra Gunning’s clear-sighted treatment of the complex political and social worlds in which her subjects found themselves and the multiple strategies through which they negotiated those worlds offers an especially important corrective to universalizing, homogenizing tendencies in much contemporary diasporic scholarship. Gunning argues for a new look at diaspora, particularly as a lens into the process of cultural change. Moving Home offers, in other words, provides a broad theory of the relationship of literature and literary criticism to profound social transformation.” -- Priscilla Wald, author of * Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative *“Moving Home takes a nuanced, intersectional approach to travel writers' construction of gendered identities. . . . Throughout her book, Gunning eschews generalization and accentuates instead the specific politics surrounding each text she discusses." -- Elizabeth A. Bohls * Review 19 *"An important corrective to dominant views of 19th-century Black identities and writings, as well as of travel writing, Gunning’s book will interest all scholars of literature and Black studies. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- D. E. Magill * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Mary Seacole's West Indian Hospitality 23 2. Home and Belonging for Nancy Prince 55 3. The Repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther 86 4. Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa 120 5. Sarah Forbes Bonetta and Travel as Social Capital 160 Coda 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 227 Index 251
£19.79
Duke University Press Suspicion
Book SynopsisNicole Charles frames the refusal of Afro-Barbadians to immunize their daughters with the HPV vaccine as suspicion, showing that this suspicion is based in concrete histories of government mistrust and coercive medical practices on colonized peoples.Trade Review“Suspicion is a compellingly written and superlatively theorized ethnography of public health, affect, and the persistence of racism in the Caribbean. Nicole Charles uses suspicion to understand the logic behind Black parents' decisions about whether to give their children vaccines, showing that their decisions are rooted not in ignorance and irrationality but within long histories of racial and sexual injury as well as hierarchies related to race, class, color, education, and authority. This is quite simply a remarkable book.” -- Deborah A. Thomas, author of * Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair *“In this empirically rich account of HPV vaccine promotion and refusal in Barbados, Nicole Charles depathologizes and unsettles conventional understandings of vaccine hesitancy through the urgent conceptual framework of suspicion. Deeply informed by and contributing to plural interdisciplinary conversations in Black feminisms, transnational gender studies, science and technology studies, and the history and anthropology of the Caribbean, Charles listens closely to insightful interlocutors in Barbados to illuminate the embodied affective intensity of contemporary vaccine politics.” -- Anne Pollock, author of * Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery *"Charles provides us with a thoroughly researched examination of an important subject at a time when such research is urgently needed in the face of a deadly pandemic. She shows us that parents in Barbados are motivated by genuine fears regarding the health of their children, and reasonable suspicion about the motivations of the state, and of vaccine manufacturers. That is significant for understanding how black Caribbean people evaluate technologies that affect health." -- F.S.J. Ledgister * Caribbean Quarterly *"This interesting, theoretically engaging book explores vaccine hesitancy among adolescents and young women in the English-speaking Caribbean nation of Barbados. Feminist scholars, medical anthropologists, and health-care professionals in the Caribbean and other postcolonial settings will benefit greatly from exposure to the ideas outlined in this book. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers." -- F. H. Smith * Choice *“Suspicion is a richly documented and theoretically ambitious ethnography of HPV vaccination hesitancy in Barbados. . . . Charles persuasively shows that Barbadians’ suspicion toward the HPV vaccination should be taken seriously, as it constitutes a productive tool for social and cultural analysis. . . . [Suspicion] is a theoretically sophisticated book that charts new territory within the literature.” -- Cristina A. Pop * Gender & Society *“This remarkable book . . . makes an important contribution to international scholarship on vaccine hesitancy, linking personal and familial decision-making in Barbados with transnational economic trends, national health and economic policies, and local embodied experiences of postcoloniality. . . . Suspicion offers a necessary correction to current received wisdom about some people’s deeply felt discomfort about vaccines, which inevitably links vaccine hesitancy with irrationality and misinformation.” -- Bernice L. Hausman * Journal of Medical Humanities *“Although numerous studies have been undertaken on vaccine confidence and its social regulators, there has rarely been a work published in this area that provides such depth of feeling to the voiced concerns of a specific community. . . . The result is a beautifully rich understanding of the complexity of human decision-making and a recognition that, at least in the case of Afro-Barbadians, ‘suspicion’ is a far more apt description of collective vaccine response than ‘hesitancy.’” -- Paula Larsson * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Suspicion: An Introduction 1 1. Circles of Suspicion 24 2. Risk and Suspicion: An Archive of Surveillance and Racialized Biopolitics in Barbados 45 3. (Hyper)Sexuality, Respectability, and the Language of Suspicion 66 4. Care, Embodiment, and Sensed Protection 94 5. Suspicion and Certainty 115 Conclusion: Toward Radical Care 148 Notes 155 Bibliography 175 Index 191
£70.55
Duke University Press Reframing Todd Haynes
Book SynopsisThis volume reassesses the film and television work of award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes in light of his longstanding feminist commitments and his exceptional position as a director of women’s films.Trade Review“I love Reframing Todd Haynes. It was an extraordinary experience to fall down the rabbit hole with this book and revisit the films I thought I knew so well! Each chapter brought something fresh and provocative to Todd’s work. I highly recommend it.” -- Christine Vachon“Todd Haynes is one of the most brilliant and innovative filmmakers working today, stretching the limits of genre, film form, and understandings of sexuality. Theresa L. Geller and Julia Leyda have provided us with a collection of incisive and probing essays by exceptional and influential scholars. The chapters trace the intersection of Haynes’s cinematic ‘thinking’ with constantly evolving feminist discourses and reveal the complex interweaving of politics, aesthetic form, affect, and critique that subtends his work.” -- Mary Ann Doane, author of * Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema *“Reframing Todd Haynes sets out to assess the influence of feminism, primarily, on Haynes’s oeuvre. Wide-ranging in its themes, methods, and insights, Geller and Leyda’s collection dispels all doubts that a single-director focus might restrict scholarly ambition. . . . The contributors’ patient interpretations make clear that the most meticulous methods for deriving meaning from art often are the most pleasurable to encounter.” -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * Los Angeles Review of Books *“The essays collected here open a variety of new avenues through which to understand Haynes as a feminist filmmaker as much as he is a queer one. . . . Reframing Todd Haynes shows the benefits of re-engaging with what lies in plain sight. The result is a consistently insightful volume that . . . should leave an indelible mark on future studies of Haynes’s work.” -- Edward Jackson * US Studies Online *"An impressive array of scholars in women’s, gender, cinema, and media studies explore Haynes’s influences, interlocutors, and intersections. . . . This is a solid addition to the literature. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- J. I. Deutsch * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Feminism's Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller 1 Part I. Influences and Interlocutors 1. Lesbian Reverie: Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White 31 2. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda 51 3. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon 72 4. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Chrsitine Vachon's Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller 91 5. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller 111 Part II. Intersections and Interventions 6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist Poison / Jess Issacharoff 137 7. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery 158 8. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis 173 9. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in Safe, Carol, and Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai 200 Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality 10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich 221 11. It's Not TV, It's Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies 243 12. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins 256 13. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika 281 14. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis 299 Filmography 317 References 321 Contributors 341 Index 345
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