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Ohio University Press Africanizing Oncology Creativity Crisis and
Book SynopsisCombining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Institute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and actions of health care providers and patients.Trade Review“Mika’s lively history shows how Ugandan physician-scientists used cancer research to build oncology care and infrastructure over five decades of labile national politics, pervasive scarcity, and often ephemeral international partnerships. This engaging account illuminates struggles that shaped both global oncology knowledge and the fates of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans facing cancer diagnoses.” -- Claire L. Wendland, author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School“Based on rich historical and ethnographic research, Africanizing Oncology provides an intimate, and at times harrowing view of the day-to-day activities of care, research, and healing that permitted physicians, researchers, nurses, and patients to survive civil war, structural adjustment, and massive global disparities in health resources to build and sustain an African cancer research institute. The book is a remarkable achievement.” -- Randall M. Packard, author or A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples“In this historically and ethnographically rich book, Marissa Mika shows how African doctors and nurses practice oncology by creating, adapting, and transforming medical infrastructures. Tracing the life of the Uganda Cancer Institute through historical periods of independence, dictatorship, war, structural adjustment, and the HIV pandemic, this powerful book reveals the challenges and opportunities of Africanizing oncology. This is a landmark study on the history—and future—of global oncology.” -- Carlo Caduff, author of The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger“In recounting half a century of research and care at the Uganda Cancer Institute, Marissa Mika tells an unforgettable story of the power of connections and the consequences of their loss. Ugandan physician/researchers and their staff proved the value of therapies because they had made friendships that motivated families to return to Kampala for follow-up, but that knowledge became useless when funders’ priorities changed and international partnerships ended. Mika’s story of UCI shows horrifying wounds—and the possibility of healing—in postindependence Uganda, in global health, and in the way we think about the world.” -- Holly Hanson, author of To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500–2015
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Ohio University Press African Leaders of the Twentieth Century Volume
Book SynopsisThis omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Amílcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. African Leaders of the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 complements courses in history and political science and serves as a useful collection for general readers.
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Ohio University Press Spear
Book SynopsisSpanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa’s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.Trade Review“For those content to see Mandela as nothing more than everyone’s favorite grandpa, this book will make for uncomfortable reading; for those who want to appreciate Mandela in the fullness of his life and of the choices he made with that complex and remarkable life, this humdinger of a book will help them see Mandela in a new and more illuminating light.” -- Jacob S. T. Dlamini, author of Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park and Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle“Landau is rightly incensed with the elite nationalism of the ANC and hints at how its fault lines can be traced back to the sectarian pressure groups within the 1960s struggle movement. The ANC hardly has ‘a good story to tell,’ but something truly fresh, even sympathetic, emerges when the story of the struggle for liberation is not homogenized around their triumphalist mono-narrative tropes. Landau’s book leads the pack here.” -- Rithuli Orleyn * Mail and Guardian *“This retelling of the story of Nelson Mandela’s armed rebellion between 1960 and 1964 is a fresh and exciting reinterpretation of a narrative that too often is told with the distorting effects of hindsight. Paul Landau has drawn upon conversations with a literal army of informed participants, 250 people from the movement that Mandela helped to make, its commanders, its foot-soldiers, and its camp-followers. He has also reread and reinterpreted the compendious archival record. Emerging from this research is a very different Mandela from the kindly patriarch who wrote his memoirs thirty years after these events: radical, tough-minded, and calculating. This is the story of what Nelson Mandela at the time of the rebellion was seeking to achieve, what he was thinking, and what he actually did, day by day. Most importantly, Landau offers new and persuasive explanations for the considerations that shaped Mandela’s decision-making. Spear is an astonishing breakthrough achievement.” -- Tom Lodge, University of Limerick, author of Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and Its Consequences“Paul Landau offers us an outstanding book on Umkhonto we Sizwe, with the figure of Nelson Mandela at the centre of the story. He pays close attention to affective relationships among protagonists, all too rare among male scholars. The book connects biography to strategic political thinking in interesting new ways. Written in Landau’s trademark lucid and engaging style, the study is critical even while appreciative of the heroic ambitions of his subject. This gripping read is a meticulous and pathbreaking contribution to scholarship on revolutionary movements as well as to South African historiography.” -- Shireen Hassim, author of Fatima Meer and The ANC Women's League: Sex, Gender and Politics“Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries is one of the most important books on South Africa to appear in more than a generation. A masterpiece of analysis and careful historical reconstruction, Landau revisits a crucial moment in the country’s modern history, when a group of activists turned revolutionaries led by Nelson Mandela pursued the overthrow of the racist apartheid state. Concentrating on the early 1960s at the very moment South Africa was becoming an authoritarian order, Landau brilliantly reconstructs the world within which Mandela and others around him committed themselves to revolutionary violence—what they read, the debates that unfolded and, crucially, how they understood South Africa in the wider world. Based on unparalleled research, including an extraordinary array of interviews, Spear takes on a range of controversial subjects: the decision to use violence, the fractious struggles within the ANC’s leadership, and Nelson Mandela himself. Empathic and iconoclastic, Landau’s discoveries may unsettle some readers, but no one will be able to look at the early 1960s the way they used to, as well as the ANC’s three decade-old grip on South Africa. This timely and learned book is mandatory reading for anyone interested in South Africa, political violence, and the end of colonialism." -- Clifton Crais, author of Poverty, War, and Violence in South AfricaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Crisis (March 1960) Chapter 2 The Making of the Crisis (The Postwar Era) Chapter 3 Emergency Mobilization (April 1960 to Early 1961) Chapter 4 Persuasion (June 1961 to August 1961) Chapter 5 Mandela’s Bookcase (1961) Chapter 6 Spear (Late 1961) Chapter 7 Dingane’s Day (December 1961 to Early July 1962) Chapter 8 Interruption (Mid-1962) Chapter 9 Big Country (Later 1962) Chapter 10 Operation Mayibuye (November 1962 to June 1963) Chapter 11 In Pieces (Mid-1963 to Mid-1964) Chapter 12 Revolution Displaced (1963/4 Onward) Appendix A Missing Documents Mentioned in This Book Appendix B Mandela, Communist (Nationalist) Notes Sources Index
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Ohio University Press Settling Ohio
Book SynopsisScholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. This volume retells a worn story as one of contested spaces, competing visions of nationhood, and complicated relations with Native American peoples.Trade Review“Provides new and fresh insights into the settlement of the Ohio country.”“An important collection of essays that should find abundant and long-term use in the classroom.”Table of ContentsForeword by M. DUANE NELLIS Introduction by BRIAN SCHOEN PART I: First Nations 1 The True Pioneers: A Brief Overview of Prehistoric Native Americans in Ohio, by JOSEPH A. M. GINGERICH 2 Situating Settlement in Ohio: The Eighteenth Century from Local and Atlantic Perspectives, by CAMERON SHRIVER 3 Who Speaks in the Name of the Miami Nation? by JOHN BICKERS PART 2: American Foundations 4 Ohio, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Constitutional Foundations of the United States, by JESSICA CHOPPIN RONEY 5 Selective Migration and the Production of Ohio’s Regional Cultural Landscapes: A Genealogical Geography, by TIMOTHY G. ANDERSON 6 (Re)tracing Zane: Zane’s Trace and Production of Space in the Ohio Country, by WILLIAM M. HUNTER 7 Ice Water Baths and Rising Waters: Dudley Woodbridge Jr.’s Commercial Connections along the Ohio and Its Tributaries in the Early Republic, by KIM M. GRUENWALD 8 Johnny Appleseed and Apple Cultures in Early Ohio, by WILLIAM KERRIGAN PART 3: ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES 9 What If Manasseh Cutler Were Black? The History of the Diverse Pioneers Who Created Ohio, by ANNA-LISA COX 10 Federalist Failure: Conflict and Disorder in the Northwest Territory, by JOSEPH THOMAS ROSS 11 Public Education in the Old Northwest: Legacies of Ohio’s First Land Grant, by ADAM R. NELSON Conclusion, by TIMOTHY G. ANDERSON Afterword: History vs. Legacy, by CHIEF GLENNA J. WALLACE
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MJ - Ohio University Press Berlin and the Cold War
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Ohio University Press Available Light Omar Badsha and the Struggle for
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MJ - Ohio University Press Virus Research in TwentiethCentury Uganda
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MJ - Ohio University Press Elusive Histories Mozambican Migrant Laborers in
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MJ - Ohio University Press Malaria on the Move Rural Communities and Public
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MJ - Ohio University Press Larks Poems
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MJ - Ohio University Press Slavery and Religious Conversion in Portugals
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Ohio University Press Hornyheads Madtoms and Darters
Book SynopsisCentral Appalachia hosts a dazzling array of fish species that attracts robust scientific and recreational interests. Stuart A. Welsh draws on the work of early modern naturalists to examine central Appalachian fishes in terms of the food chain, conservation, climate change, and more as he considers these important creatures and their waterways.Trade Review“Stuart A. Welsh has produced an excellent contribution … treating a taxonomically broad subsampling of the diverse Appalachian fish fauna in this book. It affords readers an excellent opportunity to get to know these species and the families they represent in up close and personal detail through user friendly discussions and illustrations.” -- Wayne C. Starnes, coauthor of The Fishes of Tennessee“Several states have field guides to fishes that help identify species. Stuart A. Welsh’s book takes the reader to another level by way of his personal experiences with some of the area’s most fascinating species. This exceptionally readable book will appeal to professional biologists as well as lay naturalists.” -- Thomas K. Pauley, coauthor of Amphibians and Reptiles in West Virginia“With reader friendly stories crafted from his own experiences and published research findings, Stuart A. Welsh helps us peek under the surface. Northern Pike hunt from self-created silt screens; Brook Trout benefit from long-term relationships with eastern hemlock trees; and male Fantail Darters sport a dorsal fin with fleshy knobs, which mimic eggs, which attract females. Welsh’s book will appeal to various curious folks—fishers, paddlers, riffle-sitters—who’ll never look at a stream the same way again.” -- George Constantz, author of Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology“This book will help the average person understand and appreciate these enigmatic animals via fabulous photos and illustrations, and a mixture of soft and hard science.” -- Daniel Cincotta, fish biologist, West Virginia University and West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
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MJ - Ohio University Press Orchards of Privilege
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MJ - Ohio University Press At the Palaces of Knossos
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American Mathematical Society Problems and Theorems in Linear Algebra
Book SynopsisPresents the basics of linear algebra, with an emphasis on nonstandard and interesting proofs. This book features about 230 problems with solutions. It is suitable as a supplementary text for an undergraduate or graduate algebra course.Table of ContentsMain notations and conventions Determinants Linear spaces Canonical forms of matrices and linear operators Matrices of special form Multilinear algebra Matrix inequalities Matrices in algebra and calculus Appendix Bibliography Subject index.
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American Mathematical Society Selected Works of Ellis Kolchin with Commentary
Book SynopsisThe work of Joseph Fels Ritt and Ellis Kolchin in differential algebra paved the way for exciting new applications in constructive symbolic computation, differential Galois theory, the model theory of fields, and Diophantine geometry. This book assembles Kolchin's mathematical papers.Table of ContentsPicard-Vessiot theory of partial differential fields The notion of dimension in the theory of algebraic differential equations Part I. The Papers of Ellis Kolchin: On certain ideals of differential polynomials On the basis theorem for infinite systems of differential polynomials On the exponents of differential ideals On the basis theorem for differential systems Extensions of differential fields. I Extensions of differential fields. II Algebraic matric groups The Picard-Vessiot theory of homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations Extensions of differential fields. III Algebraic matric groups and the Picard-Vessiot theory of homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations On certain concepts in the theory of algebraic matric groups Existence theorems connected with the Picard-Vessiot theory of homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations Algebraic groups and differential equations Two proofs of a theorem on algebraic groups Picard-Vessiot theory of partial differential fields Galois theory of differential fields Differential fields and group varieties (First lecture) Differential fields and group varieties (Second lecture) On the Galois theory of differential fields Algebraic groups and the Galois theory of differential fields Rational approximation to the solutions of algebraic differential equations Existence of invariant bases Abelian extensions of differential fields Le theoreme de la base finie pour les polynomes differentiels The notion of dimension in the theory of algebraic differential equations Singular solutions of algebraic differential equations and a lemma of Arnold Shapiro Some problems in differential algebra Algebraic groups and algebraic dependence Differential polynomials and strongly normal extensions Constrained extensions of differential fields Differential equations in a projective space and linear dependence over a projective variety Differential algebraic groups Differential algebraic structures On universal extensions of differential fields Differential algebraic groups A problem on differential polynomials Painleve transcendent Part II. Commentary: Algebraic groups and Galois theory in the work of Ellis R. Kolchin by A. Borel Direct and inverse problems in differential Galois theory by M. F. Singer Les corps differentiellement clos, compagnons de route de la theorie des modeles by B. Poizat Differential algebraic geometry and differential algebraic groups: From algebraic differential equation to Diophantine geometry by A. Buium and P. J. Cassidy.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Basic Analysis
Book SynopsisIncludes a treatment of exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions, progressions, and induction method, as well as an extensive introduction to differential and integral calculus.Table of ContentsExponential and logarithmic functions Trigonometric functions Progressions Differentiation and its applications Integration and its applications.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Mathematics 2
Book SynopsisCovers basic notions of probability and statistics, vectors, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions, and an introduction to differentiation and integration.Table of ContentsVarious functions Vectors Progressions Differentiation and its applications Integration and its applications Probability Statistics Computers and flowcharts.
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American Mathematical Society Cohomological Analysis of Partial Differential
Book SynopsisFocuses on the fundamentals of a theory, which is an analog of affine algebraic geometry for partial differential equations. This work describes applications of Secondary Calculus ranging from algebraic geometry to field theory, classical and quantum, including areas such as characteristic classes, differential invariants and variational calculus.Table of ContentsFrom symmetries of partial differential equations to Secondary Calculus Elements of differential calculus in commutative algebras Geometry of finite-order contact structures and the classical theory of symmetries of partial differential equations Geometry of infinitely prolonged differential equations and higher symmetries $\mathcal{C}$-spectral sequence and some applications Introduction to Secondary Calculus Bibliography Index.
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American Mathematical Society Representation Theory of Finite Groups Algebra
Book SynopsisRepresentation theory plays important roles in geometry, algebra, analysis, and mathematical physics. This book presents an introduction to the representation theory of finite groups from an algebraic point of view, regarding representations as modules over the group algebra. It is suitable for a year-long graduate course.Table of ContentsDedication page Introduction Semisimple rings and modules Semisimple group representations Induced representations and applications Introduction to modular representations General rings and modules Modular group representations Some useful results Bibliography Index.
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American Mathematical Society Large Deviations
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a good source for advanced graduate students and researchers who wish to learn how large deviations appear in questions of probability and statistical physics that are not directly formulated in such terms, as well as several techniques for proving LDPs in concrete situations." — Max Fathi, Mathematical ReviewsTable of Contents Introduction Basic formulation Small noise Large time Hydrodynamic scaling Self-diffusion Nongradient systems Some comments about TASEP Bibliography.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Control and Nonlinearity
Book SynopsisPresents methods to study the controllability and the stabilization of nonlinear control systems in finite and infinite dimensions. The emphasis is on specific phenomena due to nonlinearities. In particular, many examples are given where nonlinearities turn out to be essential to get controllability or stabilization.Trade ReviewThis well written book by Jean-Michel Coron, one of the world leading experts in the field, enables the reader to enter the difficult subject and to understand the most important methods used here. A book like this was urgently needed." — Zentralblatt MATH"Throughout of the book, the author gives extensive historical comments and he mentions a great number of additional results." — Mathematical Reviews
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Duke University Press Tarrying with the Negative
Book SynopsisChallenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle.Trade Review"This new Zizek is as stunning as its predecessors, and breaks new philosophical ground. Not only to Kant and Hegel illuminate Lacan (and vice versa), mass culture and politics illuminate all of them, along with a bonus in an astonishing excursus on opera."—Fredric Jameson“Slavoj Žižek, the Giant of Ljubljana, . . . provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus.” -- Scott Malcolmson * Voice Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 I. Cogito: The Void Called Subject 1. "I or He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks" 9 2. Cogito and the Sexual Difference 45 II. Ergo: The Dialectical Nonsequitur 3. On Radical Evil and Related Matters 83 4. Hegel's "Logic of Essence" as a Theory of Ideology 125 III. Sum: The Loop of Enjoyment 5. "The Wound is Healed Only by the Spear That Smote You" 165 6. Enjoy Your National As Yourself? 200 Notes 239 Index 287
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Duke University Press Signs of Borges
Book SynopsisAvailable for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship, Sylvia Molloy explores the problem of meaning in Borges''s work by remaining true to the uncanniness that is its foundation. Borges''s sustained practice of the uncanny gives rise in his texts to endless tensions between illusion and meaning, and to the competing desires for fragmentation, dispersal, and stability. Molloy traces the movement of Borges''s own writing by repeatedly spanning the boundaries of genre and cutting across the conventional separations of narrative, lyric and essay, fact and fiction. Rather than seeking to resolve the tensions and conflicts, she preserves and develops them, thereby maintaining the potential of these texts to disturb. At the site of these tensions, Molloy locates the play between meTrade Review"I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."—Doris Sommer, Amherst CollegeTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 1. Shadow Plays 5 2. Textual Rubrications 26 3. Fragments and Greeks 40 4. Postulating a Reality, Selecting a Reality 58 5. Converting the Simulacrum 77 6. Pleasure and Perplexity 95 7. The Buried Foundation 112 Abbreviations 131 Notes 133 Index 139
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Duke University Press Tendencies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Because of the polymorphousness of its disciplinary perversity, Tendencies, taken together with Sedgwick's two previous books, virtually defines the new field of queer studies. The opulent availability of an embodied self who also happens to be a brilliant reader marks Sedgwick's effort throughout this volume. It is also what allows one the tutelary space for taking, not only pleasure from her work, but courage from her example."—James Creech, author of Closet Writing/Gay Reading"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is deservedly recognised as the primum mobile of lesbian & gay studies. Yet her real achievement lies not so much in the creation of a new academic discipline, as in the profound implications her work carries for the rest of the academy, and the wider world beyond. For she assigns an absolutely fundamental, constitutive role to homophobia in the construction of Modernity, and its myriad institutions, discourses, pleasures, and pains. Tendencies provides a marvelously exhilarating excursion across the range of her interests and involvements. . . . She is the most consistently intelligent, courageous, perceptive, daring and sensible critic currently writing in the United States. I strongly recommend panic-buying."—Simon Watney, author of Policing DesireTable of ContentsForeword: T Times xi Queer and Now 1 Queer Tutelage Privilege of Unknowing: Diderot's The Nun 23 Tales of the Avunculate: The Importance of Being Earnest 52 Is the Rectum Straight?: Identification and Identity in The Wings of the Dove 73 Memorial for Craig Owens 104 Crossing of Discourses Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl 109 Epidemics of the Will 130 Nationalisms and Sexualities 143 How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys 154 Across Genders, Across Sexualities Willa Cather and Others 167 A Poem Is Being Written 177 Divinity: A Dossier, A Performance Piece, A Little-Understood Emotion (written with Michael Moon) 215 White Glasses 252 Bibliography 267 Index 275
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Duke University Press Shame and Its Sisters A Silvan Tomkins Reader
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shame and Its Sisters will have a major impact on the study of culture in the coming years, and on several fronts. It is a significant contribution to the current rethinking of emotion and affect that promises to explore the limits of Freudian and dialectical models of the self, its pleasures, desires, and projects."—W. J. T. Mitchell, Editor, Critical Inquiry"A fascinating, timely, and richly ‘awry’ contribution to recent work on problems of agency, affect, and the nature/culture debate generally. The introduction is superb, exact, and incisive. Shame and Its Sisters will be of real interest to a wide range of readers in the humanities, including history, literature, psychoanalytic theory, work on the problem of the body and the ‘subject,’ systems theory, and more."—Mark Seltzer, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsShame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank 1 A Note on the Text 29 1 What Are Affects? 33 2 Interest-Excitement 75 3 Enjoyment-Joy 81 4 Surprise-Startle 107 5 Distress-Anguish 109 6 Shame-Humiliation and Contempt-Disgust 133 7 Script Theory and Nuclear Scripts 179 8 Anger 197 9 Fear-Terror 235 10 Perception: The Body Image and Phantom Limbs 241 Silvan S. Tomkins: A Biographical Sketch / Irving E. Alexander 251 Index 265
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Duke University Press Nothing Happens
Book SynopsisThrough films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. This title presents the study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker.Trade Review“A fine writer and a skilled and gifted critic, Margulies offers many new insights into Akerman’s important work. The readings of Akerman’s films—in particular the contextualization of the work in a wider range of frameworks—are excellent. An impressive book.”—Judith Mayne, Ohio State University“A significant and original contribution, not just to Akerman scholarship, but to film studies generally.”—David James, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chantal Akerman's Films: The Politics of the Singular 1 1. Nothing Happens: Time for the Everyday in Postwar Realist Cinema 21 Charting the Everyday in Postwar Europe 24 A Realism of Surfaces: Bazin and Neorealist Film 27 From Surface to Structure: Barthes, Godard, and the Textualization of Reality 33 Beyond Cinematic Postivism: The Antirescue Cinema of Andy Warhol 36 2. Toward a Corporeal Cinema: Theatricality in the '70s 42 The United States in Real Time: Minimal, Hyperreal, and Structural 48 Quotation Reconsidered: European "Theatrical" Cinema 54 3. The Equivalence of Events: Jeanne DIelman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 65 Excess Description: Robbe-Grillet and Cinematic Hyperrealism 69 Bracketing Drama: The Other Scene 73 The Murder, and, and, and . . . : An Aesthetics of Homogeneity 80 The Automaton: Agency and Causality in Jeanne Dielman 88 4. Expanding the "I": Character in Experimental Feminist Narrative 100 The Lure of Center in Rainer's Work: A Cautionary Tale 104 The Eroded Index: Liminality in Je tu il elle 109 An Alogical, Fitful, Evidence 112 "Here Is": Redundant Description 118 A Mock Centrality: An A-individual Singularity 121 5. "Her" and Jeanne Dielman: Type as Commerce 128 For Example, "Her": Godard and the "Natural" Sign 131 Jeanne Dielman: An Exceptional Typicality 140 6. Forms of Address: Epistolary Performance, Monologue, and Bla Bla Bla 149 Epistolary Performance: News from Home 150 Talk Blocks: Meetings with Anna 154 Postscript: The Man with the Suitcase and A Filmmaker's Letter 161 What is Wrong with Signing? A Filmmaker's Letter 166 7. The Rhythm of Cliché: Akerman into the '90s 171 Eight Times "Oui": Singularity in Toute une nuit 173 Night and Day and Night: The Cycle Revisited 182 So Let's Sing: The Eighties and Window Shopping 185 Echoes from the East: Histoires D'Amérique and D'est 192 To Conclude: It Is Time 204 Filmography 213 Notes 215 Bibliography 247 Index 263
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Duke University Press The Repeating Island
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Duke University Press The Queen of America Goes to Washington City
Book SynopsisFocuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution.Trade Review“Berlant offers a trenchant genealogy of the imaginary realm of citizenship, resituating cultural contests over sex, race, and nation as conflicts over the defining fantasies of public life. Few cultural critics move with as much skill and insight between debates over the public sphere and how best to read pornography. This text links the analytic concerns of cultural studies with the fugitive struggles over the imaginable bounds of citizenship. A keen and disarming book.”—Judith Butler“Taking her (counter)cue from that celebrated sitcom of American life, ‘The Reagan Years,’ Lauren Berlant makes an exhilarating argument for a theory of ‘comedic’ citizenship. What happens when the collusive myths of the ‘common culture’ become obsessed and estranged by the fraying and freeing of the American people—plurally identified, demographically diverse, sexually ambivalent, culturally mongrel? Berlant’s wit and insight lie in going with the ‘silliness’ of everyday existence, inhabiting its persuasive, popular forms, and then, in ways you least expect, throwing up a devastating picture of the way we live now.”—Homi K. BhabhaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Intimate Public Sphere 1 1 The Theory of Infantile Citizenship 25 2 Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) 55 3 America, "Fat," the Fetus 83 4 Queer Nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) 145 5 The Face of America and the State of Emergency 175 6 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva Citizenship 221 7 Outtakes from the Citizenship Museum 247 Notes 261 Bibliography 289 Index 303
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Duke University Press Chinese Poetry 2nd ed. Revised
Book SynopsisCovering the genres of Chinese poetry, this volume provides an introduction to the Chinese poetry. The sections of the volume are introduced by a short essay on the mode or genre of poem and is followed by a comprehensive bibliography. It is aimed at students of Chinese poetry.Trade Review“For three decades now, Wai-lim Yip has been a linking figure between American modernism (in-the-line-of-Pound) and Chinese traditions and practices form which that modernism has long drawn. His two classic American works—in the lovely way that classic, as a word and concept, can still resonate in Chinese context—are his Pound’s Cathay and Chinese Poetry.”—Jerome Rothenberg, from the introduction to Between Landscapes: Poems by Wai-lim Yip“Yip, himself a poet, captures the rhythm of Chinese nature poetry in his characteristically punctuated and contracted imagery. The inclusion of the word-for-word annotations is a feature that distinguishes the book from most anthologies of Chinese poetry in translation.”—Jing Wang, author of The Story of Stone
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MD - Duke University Press Close Encounters of Empire
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Duke University Press Experimental Ethnography
Book SynopsisSuitable for visual anthropologists, as well as film scholars interested in experimental and documentary practices, this book focuses on both the avant-garde and visual anthropology. It provides an analyses of more than thirty-five films and videos from the 1890s to the 1990s.Trade Review“The breadth and range of this book is fantastic. Russell tackles many interesting problematics and she does so through an eclectic choice of examples. This will stand out as a major and unique redefinition of the fields of experimental cinema and visual anthropology.”—Ivone Margulies, author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday“This is an extremely important and innovative book. Russell brings together two distinct fields from film studies that have previously remained separate—the avant-garde and ethnographic film—and reconstructs their relationship in such a way that both fields are significantly transformed.”—David E. James, author of Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction to Experimental Ethnography 1. Another Look 2. Surrealist Ethnography Documentary Before Documentary 3. The Body as the Main Attraction 4. Ethnotopias of Early Cinema 5. Playing Primitive The Undisciplined Gaze 6. Zoology, Pornography, Ethnography 7. Framing People: Structural Film Revisited Other Realities 8. Ecstatic Ethnography: Filming Possession Rituals 9. Archival Apocalypse: Found Footage as Ethnography Conclusion 10. Autoethnography: Journeys of the Self Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
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Duke University Press Getting Medieval
Book SynopsisExplores how particular sexual practices and identifications were normalized while others were outlawed in medieval England. This work demonstrates how intellectual inquiry into pre-modern societies can contribute invaluably to contemporary issues in cultural studies. It also attempts to make connections between past and present cultures.Trade Review“Getting Medieval is an examination of how fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England has influenced Western sensibilities and sexualities today. Chaucer, Pulp Fiction, and historical documents have, not surprisingly, small degrees of separation between them, and this exhaustively researched and detailed book discusses every line which can be drawn between each.” - Lambda Book Report“[B]reathtaking. . . . Getting Medieval is clearly not your average book of medieval literary or cultural criticism, and it’s not intended only for specialists in those fields. . . [It] is a startling attempt to use aspects of medieval life and thought to make sense of the world we inhabit today and, conversely, to explore new meanings in what we know (or think we know) about life in the Middle Ages. . . . The power of Getting Medieval comes from Dinshaw’s ability—conveyed in engaging, witty, persuasive prose—to shock us into questioning the present day’s notions about the past.” - Michael Bronski, The Gay and Lesbian Review“Getting Medieval is not just for medievalists. . . . Dinshaw’s very personal, highly specific and precisely targeted vision should stimulate consideration of the meanings assigned and assignable to the medieval in the postmodern world.” - Wendy Scase, Times Higher Education Supplement“[A] tour de force in its yoking together of disparate subjects, its imaginative use of small examples to support grand hypotheses, and its exposition of current prejudices. It is a queer patchwork of past and present, marked by numerous subjeadings and a swift movement between a relatively small number of medieval instances, a selection of theoretical works, and personal discussion. It is an intelligent, consciously perverse book – one that would be difficult to imitate successfully and perhaps requires or hopes to create a consciously perverse reader.” - Corinne Saunders, Medium Aevum"Getting Medieval virtually overflows with information and ideas. . . . [Dinshaw] skillfully interweaves dozens of texts. . . . She provides rich social and historical contextualization. . . . Dinshaw makes an impassioned, well-buttressed argument for the importance of locating sexual nonconformists hidden within historical interstices." - Kathy Sisson, Sexuality and Culture“A wonderful book. The things addressed are so heterogeneous—their sheer distance from one another is a kind of elegance.”—Robert Glück, San Francisco State University“Carolyn Dinshaw is preeminent for the subtlety with which she discloses gendered turmoil in historically situated texts. I can hardly wait to have Getting Medieval on my own shelf, to have its adventurous deployments of ‘the touch of the queer’ available for frequent consultation.”—Paul Strohm, University of Oxford“This book has a beautiful range, both among premodern English discourses and in postmodern theory, and Dinshaw really and truly does make these different textualities touch.”—Louise O. Fradenburg, University of California, Santa Barbara“Getting Medieval is an examination of how fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England has influenced Western sensibilities and sexualities today. Chaucer, Pulp Fiction, and historical documents have, not surprisingly, small degrees of separation between them, and this exhaustively researched and detailed book discusses every line which can be drawn between each.” * Lambda Book Report *“Getting Medieval is not just for medievalists. . . . Dinshaw’s very personal, highly specific and precisely targeted vision should stimulate consideration of the meanings assigned and assignable to the medieval in the postmodern world.” -- Wendy Scase * Times Higher Education *“[A] tour de force in its yoking together of disparate subjects, its imaginative use of small examples to support grand hypotheses, and its exposition of current prejudices. It is a queer patchwork of past and present, marked by numerous subjeadings and a swift movement between a relatively small number of medieval instances, a selection of theoretical works, and personal discussion. It is an intelligent, consciously perverse book – one that would be difficult to imitate successfully and perhaps requires or hopes to create a consciously perverse reader.” -- Corinne Saunders * Medium Aevum *“[B]reathtaking. . . . Getting Medieval is clearly not your average book of medieval literary or cultural criticism, and it’s not intended only for specialists in those fields. . . [It] is a startling attempt to use aspects of medieval life and thought to make sense of the world we inhabit today and, conversely, to explore new meanings in what we know (or think we know) about life in the Middle Ages. . . . The power of Getting Medieval comes from Dinshaw’s ability—conveyed in engaging, witty, persuasive prose—to shock us into questioning the present day’s notions about the past.” -- Michael Bronski * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Getting Medieval virtually overflows with information and ideas. . . . [Dinshaw] skillfully interweaves dozens of texts. . . . She provides rich social and historical contextualization. . . . Dinshaw makes an impassioned, well-buttressed argument for the importance of locating sexual nonconformists hidden within historical interstices." -- Kathy Sisson * Sexuality & Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction:Touching the Past 1 Chapter OneIt Takes One to Know One: Lollards, Sodomites, and Their Accusers 55 Chapter TwoGood Vibrations: John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault 100 Chapter ThreeMargery Kempe Answers Back 143 CodaGetting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Foucault, and the Use of the Past 183 Notes 207 Bibliography 305 Index 337
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Duke University Press The Skin of the Film Intercultural Cinema
Book SynopsisHow can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? This book offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema represents embodied experience in a postcolonial, transnational world.Trade Review“The promise of Laura Marks’s The Skin of Film is the promise of thinking and living between critical discourses, experiences and cultures: the willingness to explore an embodied response capable of meeting the ‘hybrid microcultures’ of global modernity; the power to transform the memory of images, things, and the senses into ‘sensuous geographies’ of touch, smell and rhythm that inhabit and drift into a world increasingly divided between the policed frontier and the ‘placeless’ metropolis; and finally, the capacity to dwell in the critical interstice that allows thought to articulate itself on the edge of the unthought. - Tollof Nelson, CiNéMAS“[A] fascinating exploration of the ways that diasporic filmmakers have excavated, rediscovered, and reignited cultural memories through appeals to multisensorial forms of recollection that challenge the Western cinematic reliance on visual imagery . . . . [H]ighly informative and will introduce the reader to many intercultural works that have previously gone unnoticed. Marks’s clear exuberance for her work and passion for the films she discusses also shine through. Highly recommended.” - Avi Santo, The Velvet Light Trap"[A]n important document and substantial treatment of many sometimes ephemeral works of intercultural cinema. . . . Marks draws on a rich and somewhat dazzling array of theoretical sources and disciplinary fields. . . . The Skin of the Film also offers a very rich and extensive archive of intercultural cinematic productions of the eighties and nineties. . . . She manages to cover a vast range of work in an elegant, often moving writing style with curatorial detail. . . . [A]n extremely stimulating and original book. It signals a promising and very welcome move in film theory. . . . It has much to contribute to the emerging literature on affect in political and cultural studies. . . . Like the sound of dripping water or an itch that you don’t feel until you scratch, once your attention is drawn to The Skin of the Film, it becomes impossible to ignore it." - Tamara Vukov, Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies"[A] rich and rewarding read. . . . The Skin of the Film is quite unique. Offering important contributions to the redefinition of aesthetic scholarship, the author simultaneously conducts close readings of filmic works which are not well known, and presents nuanced readings of their significance, within an original theoretical framework." - Melanie Swalwell, Film-Philosophy“A marvelous interweaving of theory and historiography. This is a book that can interest film theorists, film historians, students of performance art, and scholars of postcoloniality and interculturalism. Marks explains—with rich detail—a whole range of recent cultural productions in film and video and makes those works come to life. The Skin of the Film suggests important ways to extend film theory.”—Dana Polan, University of Southern California“Marks’s nuanced reading of a large number of films and videos is based on her deep engagement with the politics of place and displacement that drives the films. This book is a delightful read.”—Hamid Naficy, Rice University“This is a terrific book! Not only does it have a significant argument to make, but it also works with a variety of little-known film/video examples in such a way as to give the reader both a vivid sense of them and a desire to go out and get hold of them.”—Vivian Sobchack, University of California at Los Angeles“[A] fascinating exploration of the ways that diasporic filmmakers have excavated, rediscovered, and reignited cultural memories through appeals to multisensorial forms of recollection that challenge the Western cinematic reliance on visual imagery . . . . [H]ighly informative and will introduce the reader to many intercultural works that have previously gone unnoticed. Marks’s clear exuberance for her work and passion for the films she discusses also shine through. Highly recommended.” -- Avi Santo * The Velvet Light Trap *“The promise of Laura Marks’s The Skin of Film is the promise of thinking and living between critical discourses, experiences and cultures: the willingness to explore an embodied response capable of meeting the ‘hybrid microcultures’ of global modernity; the power to transform the memory of images, things, and the senses into ‘sensuous geographies’ of touch, smell and rhythm that inhabit and drift into a world increasingly divided between the policed frontier and the ‘placeless’ metropolis; and finally, the capacity to dwell in the critical interstice that allows thought to articulate itself on the edge of the unthought. -- Tollof Nelson * CiNéMAS *"[A] rich and rewarding read. . . . The Skin of the Film is quite unique. Offering important contributions to the redefinition of aesthetic scholarship, the author simultaneously conducts close readings of filmic works which are not well known, and presents nuanced readings of their significance, within an original theoretical framework." -- Melanie Swalwell * Film-Philosophy *"[A]n important document and substantial treatment of many sometimes ephemeral works of intercultural cinema. . . . Marks draws on a rich and somewhat dazzling array of theoretical sources and disciplinary fields. . . . The Skin of the Film also offers a very rich and extensive archive of intercultural cinematic productions of the eighties and nineties. . . . She manages to cover a vast range of work in an elegant, often moving writing style with curatorial detail. . . . [A]n extremely stimulating and original book. It signals a promising and very welcome move in film theory. . . . It has much to contribute to the emerging literature on affect in political and cultural studies. . . . Like the sound of dripping water or an itch that you don’t feel until you scratch, once your attention is drawn to The Skin of the Film, it becomes impossible to ignore it." -- Tamara Vukov * Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Memory of Images 2. The Memory of Things 3. The Memory of Touch 4. The Memory of the Senses Conclusion: The Portable Sensorium Notes Bibliography Filmography/Videography Index
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Duke University Press Blutopia
Book SynopsisSuitable for the students of jazz, American music, African American studies, American culture, and cultural studies, this title studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton.Trade Review“Graham Lock’s Blutopia will stand as a pivotal text in the development of a serious consideration of African American creative music. Lock offers a range of fresh, new materials, and is at the same time approaching the problematic of the black musical intellectual tradition from an extremely exciting and original perspective.”— John Corbett, author of Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein“Graham Lock’s rightly-named book expertly and impeccably attends to the mission African-American music has been on. Its address of a utopic assertion shaded by blue, dystopic truth in the work of Sun Ra, Ellington, and Braxton knowingly shows how distinctly out music ‘in the tradition’ has long been. Entering the discourse advanced by such assertion with exemplary grace and discernment, ever the right tone and touch, it succeeds beautifully in recognizing and furthering the music’s blutopic studies.”—Nathaniel Mackey, University of California, Santa Cruz“Lock is upping the ante on the scholarship of music. He gently leads the reader into largely unknown territory with impressive lucidity and evenhandedness.”—John Szwed, author of Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra“Blutopia is a lucidly written, expansively annotated exposition of ‘an African American visionary future stained with memories.’ ” -- Julian Cowley * The Wire *“Blutopia is a wonderful book. Lock lays out each man’s life and ideas in a readable and informative fashion. In addition, his thorough research and reasonable analysis shed new light on previously unexamined aspects of these artists’ careers. in fact, his chapter on Sun Ra is perhaps the best summation of his philosophy that exists. Additionally, his techniques for uncovering the idea-worlds lurking in the interviews and other effluvia generated by an artist living a public life, point the way for future researchers into the world of jazz studies.” -- John Howard * American Studies International *“[Lock’s] book offers a very fertile line of thought, and he must be right that it could be applied to other African American music from Scott Joplin to Cecil Taylor. There’s copious annotation but while the scholarship is formidable, the presentation is clear and readable. Blutopia is an important and novel addition to the jazz literature.” -- Andy Hamilton * Jazz Review *“[Lock] is a lucid writer, intelligent and incisive, and Blutopia displays the sterling qualities we’ve come to expect from him. . . . Lock should be congratulated for recontextualising the music of Ra, Ellington ,and Braxton, and enhancing our understanding of it by way of social, cultural, and historical perspectives. Blutopia makes their musical philosophy more comprehensible, and their vision seem more profound. That’s no small achievement.” -- Brian Marley * Avant Music News *“It seems odd to lump together the greatest jazz showman, Sun Ra; the greatest Jazz orchestrator, Duke Ellington; and the greatest contemporary Jazz experimentalist, Anthony Braxton. But Lock illuminatingly argues that the three men’s cultural motivations are similar. . . . Explicating music-as-sociology rather than music per se, Lock is utterly enthralling, even in the notes.” -- Ray Olson * Booklist *“Lock deserves praise for his explication of the influence Ellington’s race-conscious secondary school education had on his racial-uplift agenda and epic sense of pageantry; ditto for his comparisons of Ra with the Yoruba trickster god Esu, and for elucidating the mystical content of Braxton’s diagrammatic song titles. . . . Throughout Blutopia, Lock makes the most of his research. . . [He] is good at teasing out the subtle and not so subtle patronizing tone many white observers have taken regarding the highfalutin artistic aspirations of jazz’s African-American experimenters.” -- Greg Tate * Bookforum *“Lock explains [the musicians] from the inside out. His achievement is to take the musicians seriously as theorists in their own right, then to draw them into the meshes of African-American musical and spiritual traditions. . . . ” -- Scott Saul * TLS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Blutopia Part I: Sun Ra: A Starward Eye 1. Astro Black: Mythic Future, Mythic Past 2. Of Aliens and Angels: Mythic Identity Part II: Duke Ellington: Tone Parallels 3. In the Jungles of America: History Without Saying It 4. Zajj: Renegotiating Her Story Part III: Anthony Braxton: Crossroad Axiums 5. All the Things You Are: Legba’s Legacy 6. Going to the Territory: Sound Maps of the Meta-Real Coda: House of Voices, Sea of Music Appendix Notes Works Cited Index of Compositions and Recordings Index
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Duke University Press The Ontogeny of Information Developmental
Book SynopsisArgues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them. This title shows that what developmental information" does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available.Trade Review“In the tale of the emperor’s new clothes, the small boy’s genius lay in his naive recognition of the great man’s nudity. Oyama has a similar, if more sophisticated genius: she recognizes the subtle manner in which molecular biologists have allowed metaphors to replace explanations. It is no exaggeration to claim that she has resolved the nature-nurture dispute and provided an altogether new vision of the processes of development and evolution.”—Peter Klopfer, Duke University“The publication of this revised edition of The Ontogeny of Information is timely and welcome, especially given the current dominance of simplistic views about genetic causation, aided by constant misuse of the ideas of information, coding and programming. Oyama’s classic discussion of these concepts combines patient, subtle dissection with bold and novel moves. The Ontogeny of Information is a work of brilliant originality and enduring relevance.”—Peter Godfrey-Smith, Stanford University“This is among the most important books on developmental theory published in the last several decades. It continues to be cited regularly in work from several different disciplines, including developmental biology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and psychology.”—Robert Lickliter, Virginia Polytechnic InstituteTable of ContentsForeword / Richard Lewontin Preface to Second Edition Preface Introduction The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy The Problem of Change Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine Machine The Ontogeny of Information Reprise Prospects Afterword to Second Edition Notes References Index of Names Index of Subject
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Duke University Press The Invention of Capitalism
Book SynopsisExamines diaries, letters, and the practical writings of the classical economists to show how Adam Smith and the other classical economists appear to have deliberately obscured the nature of the control of labour and how policies attacking the economic independence of the rural peasantry were essentially conceived to foster primitive accumulation.Trade Review“After reading Michael Perelman's excellent book we see our world in different colors. The origin of market capitalism is the product of strategies pursued to take away from people the conditions for developing alternative ways to live and produce. We also discover that classical political economy has been so instrumental in guiding these strategies. The book leaves us to wonder how the same mechanisms are reproduced today. This critical question pervades the book.”—Massimo De Angelis, University of East London“This study is to be admired for its comprehensiveness, scope, and the amount of unearthing and excavation Perelman provides. The indictment of political economists who addressed themselves to the matter of primitive accumulation is masterful.”—H. T. Wilson, York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dark Designs 1. The Enduring Importance of Primitive Accumulation 2. The Theory of Primitive Accumulation 3. Primitive Accumulation and the Game Laws 4. The Social Division of Labor and Household Production 5. Elaborating the Model of Primitive Accumulation 6. The Dawn of Political Economy 7. Sir James Steuart’s Secret History of Primitive Accumulation 8. Adam Smith’s Charming Obfuscation of Class 9. The Revisionist History of Professor Adam Smith 10. Adam Smith and the Ideological Role of the Colonies 11. Benjamin Franklin and the Smithian Ideology of Slavery and Wage Labor 12. The Classics as Cossacks: Classical Political Economy versus the Working Class 13. The Counterattack 14. Notes on Development Conclusion References Index
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Duke University Press The Other Side of Silence Voices from the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The Other Side of Silence is without a doubt one of the most important books ever to be written about the Partition of the Indian subcontinent. More than a history, more than a memoir, it is also an extended reflection on narrative form. Official history has always flinched from acknowledging the full extent of the human cost of Partition. Urvashi Butalia shows us why we cannot afford to forget the suffering, the grief, the pain, and the bewilderment that resulted from the division of the subcontinent. [This] is an extraordinary achievement.”—Amitav Ghosh“Selective amnesia and memory are at the root of the relationship between human beings and their history. This book pierces that amnesia, elicits buried memories, and lays the foundations for a more evolved relationship between human beings on this subcontinent and their histories of gendered and communal violence.”—Kavita Punjabi, Telegraph (Calcutta)“This is a magnificent and necessary book, rigorous and compassionate, thought-provoking and moving. Oral history at its best.”—Salman Rushdie“[L]ays bare the passions of fear and hatred that too often drive the India-Pakistan relationship. . . . The raw horror of it all is mitigated by the author’s skillful prose, which draws the reader into the Indian story.” * Foreign Affairs *“Butalia has collected some fascinating material.” -- Akash Kapur * New York Times Book Review *“Butalia is a pioneer in feminist publishing in India. She is especially alert to the presence—and absence—of marginal voices. . . . [T]he study of popular interpretations of violence as well as the persistence of memory makes this book a critical, self-reflective work. It may seem paradoxical, but the book’s freshness comes also from the fact that it examines wounds that have festered for more than fifty years.” -- Amitava Kumar * The Nation *“Butalia’s book is remarkable for the author’s critical analysis of her own experiences as well as of the existing literature, and for her skillful demonstration of how the memory of Partition continues to affect India today.” * Publishers Weekly *“Butalia’s narratives shed light upon the role of religion in shaping identities of families and communitites.” -- Chandra S. Mallampalli * Books & Culture *“Libraries collecting on genocide, migrations, and freedom struggles definitely need this work.” * Library Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Beginnings 1 2. Blood 21 3. 'Facts' 53 4. Women 85 5. 'Honour' 137 6. Children 195 7. 'Margins' 233 8. Memory 273 Glossary 295 Index 301
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Duke University Press Wake the Town and Tell the People
Book SynopsisJamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. This title presents a comprehensive view of this musical and cultural phenomenon: its growth and historical role within Jamaican society, its economy of star making, and its technology of production.Trade Review“Dancehall is not just about music, it is about a way of life. Norman Stolzoff clearly understands this. I would tell anyone who wants to get a picture of reggae and the Jamaican people to take a read of Wake the Town and Tell the People-it's worth it. ‘Blessed.’ ”—Beenie Man, reigning king of the dancehall and two-time reggae Grammy nominee for Many Moods of Moses and The Doctor“Norman Stolzoff has gone where many fear to tread - to the very heart of the dancehall milieu in the depths of the Kingston ghetto, emerging with the first full, objective look at this fertile birthing ground of Jamaican music. Wake the Town introduces us to many of the prime figures in DJ culture—producers, promoters, selectors and artists—and traces their history back hundreds of years. It is a remarkable work.”—Roger Steffens, co-author of Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer and Old Fire Sticks: The Autobiography of Bunny Wailer“Stolzoff's comprehensive analysis will unquestionably be an important contribution to the growing field of Latin American/Caribbean popular music studies. But beyond its importance as the ‘first’ study of dancehall, this book is outstanding because of its theoretical sophistication, its comprehensive scope, and its firm grounding in extensive fieldwork among dancehall participants.”—Deborah Pacini-Hernandez, author of Bachata: A Social History of Dominican Popular Music“This is the first sustained study of Jamaican dancehall music and culture in all of its aspects. Everyone interested in the island music, and in popular music in general, will find something useful in this book.”—Andrew Ross, author of The Celebration Chronicles“An admirable attempt to change the terms of the debate engaged in by the foreign journalists and tastemakers who have dominated the discourse on Jamaican music. . . . Stolzoff’s historical analysis of dancehall culture, particularly how it grew out of the gang rivalry sponsored by Jamaica’s two main political parties, effectively maps the socio-political onto the music. . . His fieldwork and reportage of numerous yard dances is a crucial contribution to the literature.” -- Peter Shapiro * The Wire *“An engaging anthropological study of dancehall.” -- Aaron Cohen * DownBeat *“The first comprehensive study of a largely misunderstood and underestimated phenomenon.” * Publishers Weekly *“We are indebted to [Stolzoff] for his time and effort in putting together what must be, essentially, the most academic work on dancehall culture so far. . . . A very interesting and attractive book, it ought to be a watershed for how the music is studied in the future: As being much more than just music and dance and dubplates and deejays, but an intrinsic cultural force which has obviously influenced our society much more than many of us want to admit.” -- Balford Henry * Jamaica Gleaner *“Delivering an illuminating profile of an undeniably infectious form, Stolzoff weaves his strands of interdisciplinary research into a focused depiction of social struggle and ghetto stardom. . . . Wake the Town takes its rightful place at the top of a growing list of hands-on reggae analyses.” -- Jeff Gibson * Bookforum *“Norman Stolzoff seems to be the ideal chronicler. . . . Calling Wake the Town one of the best books written about Jamaican music is of course faint praise. . . . Armchair travelers will be rewarded with a visit to a place armchair travelers almost never go. Not the least of this book’s virtues is its title, which is taken from a tune by U Roy. In like fashion my summary paraphrases King Stitt: ‘No matter what the people say—this book leads the way.’ ” -- Michael Turner * Beat *"An extremely important piece of scholarship and an enormous contribution to studies of popular culture, both in Jamaica and beyond. . . . The first sustained analysis of dancehall culture that I know of, and the first analysis of any kind that is so holistic in its coverage. . . . Impressive. . . . Should generate considerable debate in the field of cultural studies." -- Belinda Edmondson * interventions *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv 1 Dancehall Culture in Jamaica: An Introduction 1 2 "From Way Back When": The Dancehall from Slavery to World War II 20 3 "Talking Blues": The Rise of the Sound System 41 4 "Get Up, Stand Up": The Dancehall in Post-Independence Jamaica 65 5 The Dub Market: The Recording Studio and the Production of Dancehall Culture 115 6 "I'm Like a Gunshot Heading Toward a Target": The Career Trajectory of the Dancehall Entertainer 151 7 "Run Come Inna the Dance": The Dancehall Performance 193 8 The Politics of Dancehall Culture: A Conclusion 227 Notes 249 Bibliography 273 Index 285
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Duke University Press Edward Said and the Work of the Critic
Book SynopsisAssesses various aspects of Edward Said's work - his contributions to postcolonial theory, his work on racism and ethnicity, his aesthetics and his resistance to the aestheticization of politics, his concepts of figuration, his assessment of the role of the exile in a metropolitan culture, and his work on music and the visual arts.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Paul A. Bove 1 Edward Said talks to Jacqueline Rose / Jacqueline Rose 9 The panic of the visual: a conversation with Edward Said / W. J. T. Mitchell 31 Race before racism: the disappearance of the American / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 51 Criticism between opposition and counterpoint / Jonathan Arac 66 The matter of language / Terry Cochran 78 In responses begins responsibility: music and emotion / Lindsay Waters 97 The sublime lyrical abstractions of Edward W. Said / Jim Merod 114 Uses of aesthetics: after orientalism / Kojin Karatani 139 Edward W. Said and the American public sphere: speaking truth to power / Rashid I. Khalidi 152 Sappers in the stacks: colonial archives, land mines, and truth commissions / Barbara Harlow 165 Counternarratives, recoveries, refusals / Mustapha Marrouchi 187 Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, secular criticism, and the question of minority culture / Aamir R. Mufti 229 Exoticism and orientalism in music: problems for the worldly critic / Ralph P. Locke 257 Notes 283 Index 313
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Duke University Press Haunted Media
Book SynopsisExamines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media - from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers - with paranormal or spiritual phenomena.Trade Review“Death, desire and distance are Jeffrey Sconce's companions in this truly spooky journey through the ‘troubling afterlife of modernity.’ His brilliant and beautifully written history of the uncanny powers ascribed to the electronic media is a wonderful catalogue of popular fantasies. But more profoundly it is a symptomatology of media theory too. In fact and fiction alike we are caught up in wild imaginings that seek transcendance in transmission, from the ether to the Internet. Where redemption is sought from the ‘liveness’ of technology, Sconce advises caution. Or, as one of the quirky spirits he unearths implores via radio, ‘bring a halibut!’ ”—John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology“Sconce offers an original and productive examination of the diverse social responses to 150 years of electronic communication. The result is an important and evocative book, notable for both its insights and its engaging style.”—William Boddy, author of Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics“This is a powerful, compelling, and historically informed analysis of popular representations of electronic presence. Sconce has a rare ability to write about complex cultural phenomena in a poetic fashion, offering the reader a fascinating counterpart to existing scholarship in this area.”—Michael Curtin, author of Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Mediums and media The voice from the void Alien ether Static and stasis Simulation and psychosis Notes; Bibliography
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Duke University Press Raw Material Producing Pathology in Victorian
Book SynopsisAnalyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.Trade Review“Raw Material adds much to the existing literature on the Victorians. With its enlightening case studies and its author’s solid understanding of the state of medical art in the latter half of the nineteenth century, this is a first-rate piece of work.”—Sander L. Gilman, author of Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery“Industry makes it possible to understand the Victorian body, according to Erin O'Connor, as so much raw material. O'Connor's mind is a pleasure to watch at work and Raw Material will make a significant contribution to Victorian studies, to work on the body, and to cultural studies.”—Mary Ann O'Farrell, author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush“The body in distress and deformation—black from cholera, excrescent from breast cancer, monstrous, and repaired through prosthesis—offers a prism through which O’Connor refracts the crisis of the self in the world’s first industrial society. This is a complex, empirically rich, reflective and vigorously argued book that will be welcomed by literary critics, by historians of the body and of the nineteenth century, and by anyone engaged with cultural theory.”—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex : Body and Gender from the Greeks to FreudTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 ONE/ Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race 21 TWO/ Breast Reductions 60 THREE/ Fractions of Men: Engendering Amputation 102 FOUR/ Monsters. Materials, Methods 148 AFTERWORD/ The Promises of Monsters, or, A Manifesto for Academic Futures 209 Notes 219 Works Cited 251 Index 267
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Duke University Press Complexities
Book SynopsisAsks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.Trade Review“Extremely timely, important, and well-defined, this book is precisely on target in focusing on heterogeneous studies that treat knowledge as local. The types of science and technology discussed are diverse and well-balanced.”—David Stump, coeditor of The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contests, and Power"Complexities would be an excellent supplemental text in upper-division undergraduate or graduate courses in logic, philosophy, political science, global human-resource management, or cultural diversity. The real-world nature of the essays and the lack of clear conclusions make the selections in this book an excellent starting point for class discussions and reflective practice exercises. Used effectively, this book should aid students in demonstrating competence in synthesizing, evaluating, and judging the advantages and disadvantages of courses of behavior." -- Cheryl Crozier Garcia * International Social Science Review *"This volume begins to address a theme of increasing importance within sociology. Although it is produced form within the field of science and technology studies, it should have a broader appeal among other social scientists, including those who are interested in social theory, cultural studies, communications, management, and organizational research." -- Anne Gatensby * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsComplexities: An Introduction / Annemarie Mol and John Law Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences / Chunglin Kwa Which Road to Follow? The Moral Complexity of an “Equipped” Humanity / Laurent Thevenot On Space and Depth / Marilyn Strathern On Hidden Heterogeneities: Complexity, Formalism, and Aircraft Design / John Law In the Middle of the Network / Andrew Barry When Elephants Stand for Competing Philosophies of Nature: Amboseli National Park, Kenya / Charis Thompson Writing and (Re)writing Devices as Tools for Managing Complexity / Michel Callon Cutting Surgeons, Walking Patients: Some Complexities Involved in Comparing / Annemarie Mol The Disposal of Fear: Childhood, Trauma, and Complexity / Nick Lee and Steven D. Brown Contributors Index
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