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University Press of Mississippi Proverb Masters Shaping the Civil Rights
Book SynopsisLooking at the autobiographies, biographies, speeches, diaries, letters, and critical texts of Charles W. Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Bob Dylan, Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael, and Septima Clark, the volume analyses how these figures employed proverbs in support of social justice causes and in civil rights struggles.
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University of Minnesota Press How to Talk about Videogames
Book SynopsisLeading critic Ian Bogost posits that game critique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the term games criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea, taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.Trade Review"This is Ian Bogost at his best. Keen intelligence, acid wit, and a restless desire to look beyond the surface and tease out games’ less obvious, more important meanings."—Frank Lantz, director, NYU Game Center"No one else is as wide-ranging, funny, or inspiringly immune to cant or groupthink as Ian Bogost. How to Talk about Videogames is his most accessible and entertaining book yet."—Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives and Apostle*"Ian Bogost can take apart a game’s design and tell you exactly what makes it work and what it means to us personally and to our game-playing society. How to Talk about Videogames has deep insights into a range of current topics we are dealing with or experiencing today. There’s a lot here to learn."—John Romero, veteran game creator"If you want an engaging, enjoyable tour of the video game commentary in 2015 conducted by a smart and entertaining writer, you’d be hard-pressed to do much better than How to Talk about Videogames by Ian Bogost. "—Boston Globe"Whether Bogost is examining old favorites like Ms. Pac-Man or scrutinizing a flash-in-the-pan app like Flappy Bird, his outlook is thoughtful, inquisitive, and amused."—Game On"Bogost embraces the preposterousness and paradox of games as both consumer products and art, and in running with that tension he offers a compelling method of understanding and writing about them."—Gamechurch.com"[How to Talk about Videogames] has already proven indispensable to those of us interested in how video games have become such a vital artistic medium."—Electronic Literature"Ian Bogost’s How to Talk About Videogames isn’t just a book about games—it’s a book about criticism, and where it fits in our wider culture. Bogost is the rare academic writer whose work is as clear and exciting as the best of the mainstream, and whose critical exercises backfire by becoming enormous commercial/popular successes."—Boing BoingTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Nobody Asked for a Toaster Critic: Doing Videogame Criticism1. The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Game Studio: Flow, Flower, Journey3. A Way of Looking: Mirror's Edge4. The Blue Shell is Everything that’s Wrong with America: Mario Kart5. Little Black Sambo, I’m Going to Eat You Up!: Scribblenauts6. Can a Gobbler Have it All?: Ms. Pac-Man7. Racketeer Sports: Farmville, Candy Crush Saga, and Free to Play8. The Haute Couture of Videogames: Hundreds9. Can the Other Come Out and Play?: Between and Way10. Free Speech is not a Marketing Plan: Bully and Medal of Honor11. Shaking the Holocaust Train: Manhunt, Train, and Gestural Control12. The Long Shot: Heavy Rain13. Puzzling the Sublime: Orbital & Drop714. Work is the Best Place to Goof Off: Flight Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator, and the New Simulation15. A Trio of Artisanal Reviews: Proteus16. What is a Sports Videogame?: FIFA, Madden, and More17. The Agony of Mastery: Swing Copters18. The Abyss Between the Human and the Alpine: Mountain19. Word Games Last Forever: Words with Friends20. Perpetual Adolescence: Gone HomeConclusion. Anything But Games: Not Doing Game CriticismNotes
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Fordham University Press Maurice Blanchot
Book SynopsisMaurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note ix Preface xi Part I 1907–1923 1. Blanchot of Quain: Genealogy, Birth, Childhood (1907–1918) 3 2. Music and Family Memory: Marguerite Blanchot in Chalon (1920s) 10 3. The Fedora of Death: Illness (1922–1923) 13 Part II 1920s–1940 4. The Walking Stick with the Silver Pommel: The University of Strasbourg (1920s) 21 5. A Flash in the Darkness: Meeting Emmanuel Levinas (1925–1930) 24 6. There Is: Philosophical Apprenticeship (1927–1930) 29 7. Aligning One’s Convictions: Paris and Far-Right Circles (1930s) 34 8. “Mahatma Gandhi”: A First Text by Blanchot (1931) 41 9. Refusal, I. The Revolution of Spirit: La Revue Française, Réaction, and La Revue du Siècle (1931–1934) 44 10. Journalist, Opponent of Hitler, National- Revolutionary: Le Journal des Débats, Le Rempart, Aux Écoutes, and La Revue du Vingtième Siècle (1931–1935) 51 11. The Escalation of Rhetoric: The Launch of Combat (1936) 62 12. Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety: Combat ( July–December 1936) 67 13. Patriotism’s Breaking Point: L’Insurgé (1937) 71 14. These Events Happened to Me in 1937: Death Sentences (1937–1938) 82 15. On the Transformation of Convictions: A Journalist of the Far Right (1930s) 88 16. From Revolution to Literature: Literary Criticism (1930s) 91 17. Murderous Omens of Times to Come—Writing the Récits: “The Last Word” and “The Idyll” (1935–1936) 101 18. Night Freely Recircled, Which Plays Us: Thomas the Obscure (1932–1940) 111 Part III 1940 –1949 19. The Universe Is to Be Found in Night: Resistance (1940–1944) 121 20. Using Vichy against Vichy: Jeune France (1941–1942) 127 21. Admiration and Agreement: Meeting Georges Bataille (1940–1943) 135 22. In the Name of the Other: Literary Chronicles at the Journal des Débats (1941–1944) 145 23. A True Writer Has Appeared: The Publication and Reception of Thomas the Obscure (1941–1942) 160 24. Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn: The Publication of Aminadab (1942) 163 25. Writers Who Have Given Too Much to the Present: NRF Circles (1941–1942) 170 26. From Anguish to Language: The Publication of Faux pas (1943) 178 27. The Prisoner of the Eyes That Capture Him: Quain (Summer 1944) 182 28. The Disenchantment of the Community: Editorial Activity after Liberation (1944 –1946) 187 29. The Year of Criticism: L’Arche, Les Temps Modernes, and Critique (1946) 192 30. Respecting Scandal: Literary Criticism (1945–1948) 195 31. The Black Stain: Writing The Most High (1946–1947) 208 32. The Passion of Silence: Denise Rollin (1940s) 219 33. The Mediterranean Sojourn: The Writing of the Night (1947) 225 34. Something Inflexible: The Madness of the Day, a New Status for Speech (1947–1949) 229 35. The Turn of the Screw: The Second Version of Thomas the Obscure (1947–1948) 232 36. The Authority of Friendship: The Completion of Death Sentence (1947–1948) 235 37. Quarrels in the Literary World: Publication and Reception (1948–1949) 239 Part IV 1949–1959 38. Invisible Partner: Èze, Withdrawal (1949–1957) 245 39. The Essential Solitude: Writing the Récits (1949–1953) 248 40. The Radiance of a Blind Power: When the Time Comes (1949–1951) 254 41. Are You Writing, Are You Writing Even Now? The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me (1951–1953) 261 42. The Critical Detour: A Few Articles of Literary Criticism (1950–1951) 266 43. The Author in Reverse: The Birth of The Space of Literature (1951–1953) 271 44. Always Already (The Poetic and Political Interruption of Thought): Toward The Book to Come (1953–1958) 280 45. Of an Amazing Lightness: The Last Man (1953–1957) 290 46. Grace, Strength, Gentleness: Meeting Robert Antelme (1958) 297 47. In the Gaze of Fascination: The Return to Paris (1957–1958) 301 48. Refusal, II. In the Name of the Anonymous: The 14 Juillet Project (1958–1959) 303 Part V 1960 –1968 49. Note That I Say “Right” and Not “Duty”: The Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War (1960) 315 50. Invisible Partners: The Project for the International Review (1960–1965) 324 51. Characters in Thought: How Is Friendship Possible? (1958–1971) 336 52. Act in Such a Way That I Can Speak to You: Awaiting Oblivion (1957–1962) 342 53. The Thought of the Neuter: Literary and Philosophical Criticism—the Entretien and the Fragment (1959–1969) 349 54. A First Homage: The Special Issue of Critique (1966) 362 55. Between Two Forms of the Unavowable: The Beaufret Affair (1967–1968) 370 56. The Far Side of Fear: Political Disillusionment (May 1968) 375 Part VI 1969–1997 57. Life Outside: The Step Not Beyond, a Journal Written in the Neuter (1969–1973) 389 58. Friendship in Disaster: Distance, Disappearance (1974 –1978) 403 59. The Last Book: The Writing of the Disaster (1974 –1980) 406 60. Forming the Myth: Readings and Nonreadings (1969–1979) 416 61. Making the Secret Uncomfortable: Blanchot’s Readability and Visibility (1979–1997) 424 62. With This Break in History Stuck in One’s Throat: The Unavowable Community (1982–1983) 435 63. Even a Few Steps Take Time: Literature and Witnessing (1983–1997) 445 Amor: Blanchot since 2003 465 John McKeane Acknowledgments 479 Notes 481 Bibliography 599 Index 605
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Fordham University Press Form and Feeling
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Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Hospital Pharmacy Practice for Technicians
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Johns Hopkins University Press From Music to Mathematics Exploring the
Book SynopsisFrom the first chapter through the last, readers eager to learn more about the connections between mathematics and music will find a comprehensive textbook designed to satisfy their natural curiosity.Trade ReviewOverall, From Music to Mathematics is a pleasing and well-written book that is accessible for everyone who wants to explore the connections between music and mathematics. Gareth Roberts does a great job of making numerous suggestions on how music can be used to illuminate mathematical concepts... From Music to Mathematics is very enjoyable to read - not only for students, but for anyone who loves music and mathematics. Musicae Scientiae Overall, I strongly recommend this as an excellent basis for teaching. MathSciNetTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Rhythm1.1. Musical Notation and a Geometric Property1.1.1. Duration1.1.2. Dots1.2. Time Signatures1.2.1. Musical examples1.2.2. Rhythmic repetition1.3. Polyrhythmic Music1.3.1. The least common multiple1.3.2. Musical examples1.4. A Connection with Sanskrit PoetryReferences for Chapter 12. Introduction to Music Theory2.1. Musical Notation2.1.1. The common clefs2.1.2. The piano keyboard2.2. Scales2.2.1. Chromatic scale2.2.2. Whole-tone scale2.2.3. Major scales2.2.4. Minor scales2.2.5. Why are there 12 major scales?2.3. Intervals and Chords2.3.1. Major and perfect intervals2.3.2. Minor intervals and the tritone2.3.3. Chords2.4. Tonality, Key Signatures, and the Circle of Fifths2.4.1. The critical tonic-dominant relationship2.4.2. Key signatures2.4.3. The circle of fifths2.4.4. Transposition2.4.5. The evolution of polyphonyReferences for Chapter 23. The Science of Sound3.1. How We Hear3.1.1. The magnificent ear-brain system3.2. Attributes of Sound3.2.1. Loudness and decibels3.2.2. Frequency3.3. Sine Waves3.3.1. The sine function3.3.2. Graphing sinusoids3.3.3. The harmonic oscillator3.4. Understanding Pitch3.4.1. Residue pitch3.4.2. A vibrating string3.4.3. The overtone series3.4.4. The starting transient3.4.5. Resonance and beats3.5. The Monochord LabReferences for Chapter 34. Tuning and Temperament4.1. The Pythagorean Scale4.1.1. Consonance and integer ratios4.1.2. The spiral of fifths4.1.3. The overtone series revisited4.2. Just Intonation4.2.1. Problems with just intonation4.2.2. Major versus minor4.3. Equal Temperament4.3.1. A conundrum and a compromise4.3.2. Rational and irrational numbers4.3.3. Cents4.4. Comparing the Three Systems4.5. Strähle's Guitar4.5.1. An ingenious construction4.5.2. Continued fractions4.5.3. On the accuracy of Strähle's method4.6. Alternative Tuning Systems4.6.1. The significance of log2(3/2)4.6.2. Meantone scales4.6.3. Other equally tempered scalesReferences for Chapter 45. Musical Group Theory5.1. Symmetry in Music5.1.1. Symmetric transformations5.1.2. Inversions5.1.3. Other examples5.2. The Bartók Controversy5.2.1. The Fibonacci numbers and nature5.2.2. The golden ratio5.2.3. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta5.3. Group Theory5.3.1. Some examples of groups5.3.2. Multiplication tables5.3.3. Symmetries of the square5.3.4. The musical subgroup of D4References for Chapter 56. Change Ringing6.1. Basic Theory, Practice, and Examples6.1.1. Nomenclature6.1.2. Rules of an extent6.1.3. Three bells6.1.4. The number of permissible moves6.1.5. Example6.1.6. Example6.2. Group Theory Revisited6.2.1. The symmetric group Sn6.2.2. The dihedral group revisited6.2.3. Ringing the cosets6.2.4. ExampleReferences for Chapter 67. Twelve-Tone Music7.1. Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Method of Composition7.1.1. Notation and terminology7.1.2. The tone row matrix7.2. Schoenberg's Suite für Klavier, Op. 257.3. Tone Row Invariance7.3.1. Using numbers instead of pitches7.3.2. Further analysis7.3.3. Tritone symmetry7.3.4. The number of distinct tone rows7.3.5. Twelve-tone music and group theoryReferences for Chapter 78. Mathematical Modern Music8.1. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies8.1.1. Magic squares8.1.2. Some examples8.1.3. The magic constant8.1.4. A Mirror of Whitening Light8.2. Steve Reich8.2.1. Clapping Music8.2.2. Phase shifts8.3. Xenakis8.3.1. A Greek architect8.3.2. Metastasis and the Philips Pavilion8.3.3. Pithoprakta8.4. Final Project8.4. References for Chapter 8CreditsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Vertebrate Biology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsBrief Table of ContentsPreface1. The Vertebrate Story: An Overview2. Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution3. Early Chordates and Jawless Fishes4. Gnathostome Fishes5. Amphibians6. Evolution of Reptiles7. Morphology, Reproduction, and Development of Turtles, Tuataras, Lizards, and Snakes (Testudines and Lepidosauria)8. Morphology, Reproduction, and Development of Crocodilians and Birds (Archosaurs)9. Mammals10. Vertebrate Zoogeography11. Population Dynamics12. Movements13. Intraspecific Behavior and Ecology14. Interspecific Interactions15. Techniques for Ecological and Behavioral Studies16. Extinction and Extirpation: Natural and Human-Caused17. Restoration of Endangered Species18. Regulatory Legislation Affecting Vertebrates19. Wildlife in a Modern World: Threats and Conservation20. Climate Change21. Wildlife Management in a Modern WorldAppendixesGlossaryBibliographyCreditsTaxonomic IndexSubject Index
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American Psychological Association Child and Adolescent Development in Cultural
Book SynopsisThis book examines how culture affects several aspect of human development, such as cognition, emotion, sociolinguistics, peer relationships, family relationships. Table of ContentsPreface: A Note to Instructors Chapter 1. Development and Culture: Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 2. Methods for Studying Development and Culture Chapter 3. Culture and Cognitive Development Chapter 4. Sociolinguistics Chapter 5. Culture and Emotional Development Chapter 6. Culture, Child Development, and Family Relationships Chapter 7. Culture and Peer Relationships Chapter 8. Culture and Conflict Management During Childhood and Adolescence Chapter 9. Development in Cultural Communities and Physical Spaces Chapter 10. Culture and Time Use: Play, Work, School, and Leisure Chapter 11. Culture and Academic Achievement Chapter 12. Culture and Internalizing Symptomology: Shyness, Social Withdrawal, and Depression Chapter 13. Culture and the Development of Aggression, Delinquency, and Substance Use Chapter 14. Prosocial Behavior, Morality, and Positive Youth Development in Cultural Context Chapter 15. Culture and the Transition to Adulthood References Appendix: Resources for Further Research
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Human Kinetics Publishers Essential Bicycle Maintenance Repair
Book Synopsis Keep your bike on the road for the long haul! Whether you're training, competing, or simply riding for fun, a properly tuned bike is essential to performance, efficiency, and safety. That's where Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair comes in. Author Daimeon Shanks takes a straightforward you can do it approach to maintaining and repairing your bike so it's ready to go when you are. Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair provides simple step-by-step instructions, accompanied by up-close photos, illustrations, and advice, for more than 100 repairs. You'll learn these skills and more: Adjust derailleurs and troubleshoot shifting problems. True your wheels and tweak your hubs for a silky-smooth ride. Install caliper, cantilever, or V-brakes. Repair a broken chain on the roadside. Fix flats in no time flat. Maintain pedals and cleats for efficiency and comfort. Install or adjust a headset. Install handlebars, including aero bars and flat bars. Adjust your saddle for a perfect fit. Determine if a triple crankset is right for you. So spend more time in the saddle and less time and money in costly repair shops. Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair is the one guide no cyclist should be without! Trade Review"In Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair, Daimeon Shanks takes a straightforward approach to repair and creates the go-to resource for cyclists." Tom Danielson-- Professional cyclist with team Garmin-Cervelo “Daimeon Shanks belongs to an elite stratum of bicycle mechanics. Seasoned by the triage nature of top professional cycling on the road, trail, and track, Shanks' experience and ability to eloquently advise show through in Essential Bicycle Maintenance & Repair.”Nicholas Legan-- World and Olympic Champion Mechanic, Tech Editor for Velo/VeloNewsTable of Contents Chapter 1 The Modern Road Bike Chapter 2 Basic Maintenance Chapter 3 Frame and Fork Chapter 4 Handlebars and Stem Chapter 5 Saddles and Seatposts Chapter 6 Wheels Chapter 7 Tires Chapter 8 Brakes Chapter 9 Cranks and Chainrings Chapter 10 Shifters and Derailleurs Chapter 11 Chains and Cogsets Chapter 12 Pedals and Cleats Chapter 13 Customizing Your Fit
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Human Kinetics Publishers Beginning Jazz Dance
Book SynopsisBeginning Jazz Dance is the perfect resource for helping students gain a strong foundation of beginning jazz dance techniques. Written by jazz dance choreographer and professor James Robey, this text prepares students to have a successful experience in a beginning jazz dance technique course. It introduces students to the history, artists, significant works, styles, and aesthetics of the genre so they understand dance as a performing art.Beginning Jazz Dance features 80 photos accompanied by descriptions that visually present the beginning jazz dance technique and dance concepts that will reinforce and extend classroom learning. It also has related online resources that include 55 photos and 125 video clips of basic jazz dance technique. Students can access these photos and videos at any time for their study or practice and will benefit from the wealth of other resources including assignments, worksheets, glossary terms with and without definitions, interactive chapter quizzes, and web links to help students develop their basic knowledge and skills. Through the text, students learn these aspects of jazz dance: The core concepts of jazz dance, the value of studying jazz dance, and class expectations The structure of a jazz dance class, the roles of everyone in the studio, and how to be physically and mentally prepared for class Tips on injury prevention, nutrition guidelines, and basic anatomy and kinesiology as applied to movement in jazz dance Basic body alignment and positions in jazz dance Jazz walks, kicks, turns, leaps, and floor work Beginning Jazz Dance provides students with the context, background information, and basic instruction they need in order to understand the genre and appreciate jazz dance as a performing art. This text and companion online resource is ideal for dance majors, dance minors, and general education students enrolled in beginning jazz dance technique courses. It is also suitable for students in performing arts and magnet schools and high school dance programs.Beginning Jazz Dance is a part of Human Kinetics’ Interactive Dance Series. The series includes resources for ballet, modern, tap, jazz, musical theater, and hip-hop dance that support introductory dance technique courses taught through dance, physical education, and fine arts departments. Each student-friendly text has related online learning tools including video clips of dance instruction, assignments, and activities. The Interactive Dance Series offers students a collection of guides to learning, performing, and viewing dance. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with this ebook. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to Jazz Dance Defining Jazz Dance Benefits of Studying Jazz Dance Jazz Class Expectations and Etiquette SummaryChapter 2. Preparing for Class Dressing for Class Attire for Women Carrying Dance Gear Preparing Yourself Mentally and Physically Jazz Dance Class Structure Roles of the Teacher, Musician, and Students SummaryChapter 3. Safety and Health Studio Safety Personal Safety Basic Anatomy and Kinesiology Preventing and Treating Common Dance Injuries Nutrition, Hydration, and Rest SummaryChapter 4. Learning and Performing Jazz Technique Learning Movement Technique Analyzing Movement Skills Honing Musicality and Rhythmic Skills Enhancing Performance in Class Developing a Performance Attitude SummaryChapter 5. Basic Jazz Positions Body Alignment Positions of the Feet Positions of the Arms Hand Positions Positions of the Body Studio and Stage Directions SummaryChapter 6. Basic Jazz Techniques Getting Started Basic Warm-Up Techniques \7 videos\ Basic Isolation Techniques \7 videos\ Basic Coordination Techniques\7 videos\ Basic Conditioning Techniques \15-18 videos\ SummaryChapter 7. In the Center and Across the Floor Exercises in the Center Exercises Across the Floor Types of Combinations SummaryChapter 8 .History of Jazz Dance Development of Jazz Dance as a Performing Art Jazz Dance Forms and Styles Viewing Jazz Dance Performances Summary
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Duke University Press Coral Empire
Book SynopsisAnn Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.Trade Review"Coral Empire’s postcolonial jeremiad also registers the joyful endurance of surrealist visions of the submarine as a deliriously consciousness-altering realm." -- James Delbourgo * TLS *"[This] book shows that interdisciplinarity is possible. Elias combines the history of underwater cinematography and diving with attention to the surrealist art movement, natural history collecting, colonialism, and the history of tourism, and through this rich patchwork traces shifting popular interpretations of coral imagery in the early twentieth century." -- Antony Adler * Environmental History *"Ann Elias’ fascinating book couldn’t come at a better time. . . . Elias focuses on long neglected images from cinema, dioramas from museums, and illustrations from the press. She cleverly articulates them through a set of unexpected global connections that powerfully mobilise all the transforming ideas of empire, race, technology and nature at the time." -- Martyn Jolly * Australian Historical Studies *"This book is well written and the short chapters make it extremely readable. In addition, the book is beautifully printed, with black-and-white images embedded in chapters and their color counterparts inserted in the middle of the book. It is refreshing to see a book that relies on the reading of images paying such close attention to their reproduction in the text." -- Samantha Muka * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Coral Uncanny 1. Coral Empire 15 2. Mad Love 29 Part II. John Ernest Williamson and the Bahamas 3. Williamson and the Photosphere 49 4. The Field Museum—Williamson Undersea Expedition 68 5. Under the Sea 83 6. Williamson in Australia 97 Part III. Frank Hurley and the Great Barrier Reef 7. Hurley and the Floor of the Sea 117 8. Hurley and the Australian Museum Expedition 131 9. Pearls and Savages 147 10. Hurley and the Torres Strait Diver 165 Part IV. Hurley and Williamson 11. Explorers and Modern Media 185 12. Color and Tourism 199 Part V. The Great Acceleration 13. The Anthropocene 217 Conclusion 230 Notes 235 Bibliography 261 Index 277
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Human Kinetics Publishers Swimming
Book SynopsisSwimming: Steps to Success provides progressive instruction on mastering the four basic strokes, starts, turns, and other aquatic skills. Using detailed instruction, full-color photo sequences, drills, and skill assessments, readers will learn to be confident and competent swimmers. Table of Contents Step 1 Floating Step 2 Manipulating the Water Step 3 Freestyle Step 4 Backstroke Step 5 Breaststroke Step 6 Butterfly Step 7 Turns Step 8 Starts Step 9 Open Water and Survival Swimming Step 10 Continuing with Swimming
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University Press of Mississippi Toni Morrison and the Natural World
Book SynopsisCritics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, proved to be steeped in environmental concerns that address elements of the natural world and relate nature to the transatlantic slave trade, plantation labor, and nationhood. Toni Morrison''s work is no exception. Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color is the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate''s novels and brings to the fore an unequaled engagement between race and nature. Morrison''s ecological consciousness holds that human geographies are enmeshed with nonhuman nature. It follows, then, that ecology, the branch of biology that studies how people relate to each other and their environment, is an apt framework for this book. The interrelationships and interactions between individuals and community, and between organisms and the biosphere, are central to this analysis. They highl
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University Press of Mississippi Where Misfits Fit
Book SynopsisAll regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American culture. Studying the Ozarks offers the ability to explore American life through the lens of one of the last remaining cultural frontiers in American society. Perhaps because the Ozarks were relatively isolated from mainstream American society, or were at least relegated to the margins of it, their identity and culture are liminal and oftentimes counter to mainstream culture. Whatever the case, looking at the Ozarks offers insights into changing ideas about what it means to be an American and, more specifically, a special type of southerner. In Where Misfits Fit: Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks, Thomas Michael Kersen explores the people who made a home in the Ozarks and the ways they contributed to American popular culture. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Kersen argues the area attracts and even nurtures people and groups on the margins of the mainstream. T
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University of Minnesota Press Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend
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University of Minnesota Press Fear Of A Queer Planet Queer Politics and Social
Book SynopsisReveals how queer activists and theorists have come to challenge basic assumptions of social and political thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction Michael Warner PART I Get over it: HeteroTheory; PART II Get used to it: the new queer politics
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University of Minnesota Press Metamorphoses Of The Body
Book SynopsisThis investigation of power and the body offers an account of the nature of force as it functions in religious rituals, sorcery, political relations, and other social domains. It should be of interest to those interested in how bodies and power circulate in a range of human contexts and cultures.
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University of Minnesota Press Disagreement
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University of Minnesota Press Monster Theory
Book SynopsisMonsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argues the essays in this wide-ranging collection that asks the question, what happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?Table of ContentsPart 1 Monster theory: Monster culture (seven theses), Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Beowulf as palimpsest, Ruth Waterhouse; Monstrosity, illegibility, denegation: the martyrology after de Man, David L. Clark. Part 2 Monstrous identity: the odd couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb, Anne Lake Prescott; America's united siameses brothers: Chang and Eng and nineteenth century ideologies of democracy and domesticity, Allison Pingree; Liberty, equality, monstrosity: revolutionizing the family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, David Hirsch. Part 3 Monstrous inquiry: No monsters at the resurrection: inside some conjoined twins, Stephen Pender; Representing the cripple: cognition, cripples, and other limp parts, Larry Kritzman; Hermaphrodites newly discovered: the cultural monsters of sixteenth century France, Kathleen Perry Long; Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's monsters of cosmetology, Mary Baine Campbell. Part 4 Monstrous history: Vampire culture, Frank Grady; The alien and the alienated as unquiet dead in the sagas of the Icelanders, Will Sayers; Unthinking the monster: twelfth-century responses to saracen alterity, Michael Uebel; Dinosaurs-R-us: the (un)natural history of Jurassic Park, John O'Neill.
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University of Minnesota Press Manual for Using the MMPI2 as a Therapeutic
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University of Minnesota Press Blush Faces of Shame
Book SynopsisExposes shame as a valuable emotion essential to our humanity.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Shame in love1. Doing shame2. Shame, bodies, places3. The Shamer and the shamed4. Ancestral shame5. Writing shame NotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Invention Of Modern Science
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University of Minnesota Press Against The Romance Of Community
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University of Minnesota Press The Collected Poems Of Édouard Glissant
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The magnificent work of one of the most important contemporary novelists, essayists, and poets in the field of what we in Europe and North America call postcolonial literature."—American Book Review"Reading or re-reading these texts, published over half a century, one is struck by the power of this poetry, the extraordinary persistence in its original inspiration and the manner in which it announces and then exemplifies the theories developed in Poetics of Relation or Caribbean Discourse."—Literature and Arts of the Americas
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University of Minnesota Press The Reification of Desire Toward a Queer Marxism
Book SynopsisThe Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together—formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory—and productively scrutinizes these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies.
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University of Minnesota Press Language and Death
Book SynopsisExplores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.
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University of Minnesota Press Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams
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University of Minnesota Press Into the Universe of Technical Images
Book SynopsisAn examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies.Trade Review"Vilém Flusser’s flashes of brilliant insight, his intuitions about the psychology of gadgets and convergences, his deeply well-read and philosophically grounded investigations of wide-ranging consequences of a new literacy, are widely admired and deserve an Anglophone audience. Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future? are of the first rank in the canon of new media studies and digital culture." —Peter Krapp, author of Déjà Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory"Perhaps a turn to Flusser will change the disregard for media that so characterizes the cultural theory of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. For Flusser, however flamboyant and polemical his writing at times is, thought deeply about the emergence of electronic media and its implications for not only Western but truly global culture." —Mark Poster, from the IntroductionTable of ContentsAn Introduction to Vilém Flusser’s Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future? Mark Poster Into the Universe of Technical Images Warning To Abstract To Depict To Make Concrete To Touch To Envision To Signify To Interact To Scatter To Instruct To Discuss To Play To Create To Prepare To Decide To Govern To Shrink To Suffer To Celebrate Chamber Music Summary Translator’s Afterword and Acknowledgments Nancy Roth Translator’s Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Hegel or Spinoza
Book SynopsisThe first English-language translation of a classic work of French philosophyTrade Review"Pierre Macherey not only demonstrates how Hegel misread Spinoza, but also offers against the backdrop of the Hegelian dialectic an exciting and original interpretation of Spinoza’s thought. The alternative—Hegel or Spinoza—thus becomes a powerful and significant dividing line for politics and thought. And Macherey forces you to choose which side you are on." —Michael Hardt, coauthor of Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth"Hegel or Spinoza is a classic. Both Spinoza and Hegel emerge from Macherey’s work in nearly unrecognizable forms, allowing us to read them in unprecedented ways." —Warren Montag, author of Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His ContemporariesTable of ContentsContentsTranslator’s Introduction: A Dialectics of EncounterTranslator’s Note and AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionThe Alternative1. Hegel Reads Spinoza2. More Geometrico3. The Problem of the Attributes4. Omnis Determinato est NegatioAbbreviationsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The White Possessive
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aileen Moreton-Robinson brilliantly shows how systematically identifying whiteness with possession and dispossession deserves foregrounding in Indigenous studies."—David Roediger, University of Kansas, author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All"The White Possessive showcases the unique intellectual contribution of Aileen Moreton-Robinson, both within Australia and internationally. Prising apart concepts of race, ethnicity, and cultural difference, her book makes visible and accountable to patriarchal white subject of possession that subtends them."—The International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies"Moreton-Robinson provides her readers with an indispensable theoretical analysis with which they can (re)think the way in which the possessive logics of whiteness structure racialised populations, particularly Indigenous subjects, experiences of (non)belonging and displacement in contemporary settler colonial life."—Sociology"Most of the essays in the volume are on Australian Indigenous issues, but have relevance globally. This book provides many thought-provoking insights that could help bridge divides between scholars of indigeneity and those of whiteness."—Tribal College Journal"Moreton-Robinson provides important conceptual tools to think through how we interpret and contest settler sovereignty today and into the future."—AntipodeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty MattersPart I. Owning Property1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness LiteraturePart II. Becoming Propertyless5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision7. Leesa’s Story: White Possession in the Workplace8. The Legacy of Cook’s ChoicePart III. Being Property9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesAfterwordNotesPublication HistoryIndex
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Ohio University Press The Green Archipelago Forestry in Preindustrial
Book SynopsisThis inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman’s widely acclaimed study of Japan’s environmental policies over the centuries.ProfessorTrade Review“This book is a seminal work. It is impassioned, timely history that contributes by its sweep, subject, and approach. Because the author examines a wide variety of factors, including economics, politics, institutions, population, culture, and the environment, the book is a model of sound historical thinking.” * Journal of Asian Studies *
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Ohio University Press The Great Upheaval Women and Nation in Postwar
Book SynopsisIn this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state.Trade Review“Byfield has written a meticulously documented history of women’s political activities during the first half of the twentieth century. The women of Abeokuta played a leading part in the history of economic change, nationalism, and eventual independence in colonial Nigeria, and Byfield’s study is a welcome addition to scholarly analysis of political and economic transformation in Nigeria and Africa in general during this crucial period.”“The Great Upheaval is a brilliant historical sociology of the gendered struggle for ‘a new philosophy of life’ in a colonial context. Judith Byfield reminds us that the erasure of women and gender in nationalist histories of emancipation in Africa diminishes our understanding of the complexity of ‘nation-building,’ including the contradictions of gendered notions of agency and freedom. The author seamlessly interweaves gender and nation with colonial history and political economy in the analysis of how Abeokuta women expanded the vistas of human possibilities in early- to mid-20th century Nigeria.”“Competent, coherent, and captivating, Judith Byfield combines the values of deep research with deep thinking to extend the frontiers of knowledge on gender politics in postwar Nigeria’s late colonial period. City, national, and global ideas converge in The Great Upheaval to locate Yoruba women in complex intersections of economy, politics, and race.”“Judith Byfield has not only shown that women in Abeokuta played important parts in struggles against colonialism and for better social conditions, but that focusing on gender forces us to rethink histories of kingship, urban life, trade, taxation, religion, protest movements, and memorialization—indeed, the entire history of the region and its relationship to Nigeria.”“[A] brilliant book…. Highly recommended.” * Choice *
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Ohio University Press Written Out
Book SynopsisThis biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South Africa and colonial Swaziland (now Eswatini) shows that her posthumous obscurity has been no accident.Trade Review“An honest, sensitive portrayal of a complex, determined woman who deserves recognition.” * Library Journal *“Joel Cabrita’s Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala is that extraordinary work of restoration that restores not just the historical subject herself, but Twala’s entire social milieu. This then allows us to contemplate the vicissitudes of her life and the processes by which she came to her life choices in great and intimate detail. Cabrita has given us an exemplary historical biography that will have ramifications well beyond the boundaries of African history itself.” -- Ato Quayson, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and professor of English at Stanford University“A marvelously clever biography. Cabrita tells the story of Regina Twala’s life while simultaneously writing the tale of her erasure. What a bold, ambitious, and necessary project. Twala’s life is rendered in technicolor and so too are the processes that almost buried her bright, shining light. An important and beautifully told tale of ‘sanctioned forgetting,’ and glorious remembering.” -- Sisonke Msimang, author of The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela“Joel Cabrita has written a deeply compelling narrative that gives Regina Gelana Twala, a pioneering twentieth-century South African intellectual, the honor and recognition that she deserves. Twala incisively intervened in the leading questions raised by a racist and patriarchal society, such as gender relations, the role of custom, mass protests, among many, despite being marginalized and often abused for her status as a woman and outsider.” -- Pamela Scully, author of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf“This is a gem of a story. Joel Cabrita has pulled Regina Twala out of obscurity, showing us a life lived publicly and vigorously. In doing so, she provokes a conversation about what kinds of figures are rendered important in the writing of histories. She upends the notion that women are ignored because their works are obscure. Here, we have a full-blooded tale of a public figure who has, puzzlingly, been forgotten. Read the book to understand why.” -- Shireen Hassim, author of The ANC Women's League: Sex, Gender and Politics“An intriguing work of historical investigation. . . . [Joel Cabrita] tells Twala’s life story in a compelling narrative woven from a rich archive of details drawn from interviews with relatives, a captivating and extensive collection of letters, as well as official sources. She deftly layers the personal and the political dimensions of Twala’s life in ways that make for a deeply moving read. But she goes a step further. She brings Twala’s history to light within the context of her erasure, addressing the archival blind spots that produce these kinds of omissions in the first place. Written Out is a significant contribution to African feminist scholarship and intellectual history. The book is not just a biography. It is an archaeology. In telling Twala’s story, Cabrita lays bare the underlying forces of racism and sexism that conspire to silence black women in history." -- Ainehi Edoro, founder and editor of Brittle PaperA stunning achievement. Cabrita’s powerful rendering of Regina Gelana Twala deserves to be widely read and taught in courses on African history, intellectual history, and gender studies. -- Lynn M. Thomas * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
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Duke University Press Five Faces of Modernity
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 3 The Idea of Modernity Modern Dwarfs on the Shoulders of Ancient Giants 13 The Problem of Time: Three Eras of Western History 19 It Is We Who Are the Ancients 23 Comparing the Moderns to the Ancients 26 From Modern to Gothic to Romantic to Modern 35 The Two Modernities 41 Baudelaire and the Paradoxes of Aesthetic Modernity 46 Modernity, the Death of God, and Utopia 58 Literary and Other Modernisms 68 Comparing the Moderns to the Contemporaries 86 The Idea of the Avant-Garde From Modernity to the Avant-Garde 95 The "Avant-Garde" Metaphor in the Renaissance: A Rhetorical Figure 97 The Romantic "Avant-Garde": From Politics to the Politics of Culture 100 Some Mid-Nineteenth-Century Writers and the Avant-Garde 108 Two Avant-Gardes: Attractions and Repulsions 112 Avant-Garde and Aesthetic Extremism 116 The Crisis of Avant-Garde's Concept in the 1960s 120 Avant-Garde, Dehumanization, and the End of Ideology 125 Avant-Garde and Postmodernism 132 Intellectualism, Anarchism, and Stasis 144 The Idea of Decadence Versions of Decadence 151 From "Decadence" to "Style of Decadence" 157 The Decadent Euphoria 171 Nietzsche on "Decadence" and "Modernity" 178 The Concept of Decadence in Marxist Criticism 195 Il Decadentismo 211 Kitsch Kitsch and Modernity 225 Kitsch, Camp, and High Art 229 Etymology, Contexts of Usage, and the "Law of Aesthetic Inadequacy" 232 Kitsch and Romanticism 237 Bad Taste, Ideology, and Hedonism 240 Some Stylistic Considerations 249 Kitsch and Cultural Industrialization 255 The "Kitsch-Man" 259 On Postmodernism (1986) A New Face of Modernity 265 Epistemology and Hermeneutics: From Modernity to Postmodernity 269 The Silence of the Avant-Garde 275 The Novelty of the Past: The View from Architecture 279 Critiques of Postmodernism 288 Literary Postmodernism: The Shaping of a Corpus 296 Postmodernist Devices and Their Significance 302 Notes 313 Selected Critical Bibliography 365 Index 387
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Duke University Press Specters of the Atlantic
Book SynopsisIn September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of literary and social theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Giovanni Arrighi, Jacques Derrida, and many others, he argues that the tragedy is central not only to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the political and cultural archives of the black Atlantic but also to the history of modern capital and ethics. To apprehend the Zong tragedy, Baucom suggests, is not to come to terms with an isolated atrocity but tTrade Review“Specters of the Atlantic is quite possibly the most provocative scholarly work I have read in a decade. I really cannot praise this book enough.”—Mary Poovey, author of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society“A fantastically stimulating read, Specters of the Atlantic will be an extremely significant book. Its core strength is that it deals in such detail and in such an imaginative way with the primary texts associated with the case of the Zong. Nobody has read those texts in such a careful and stimulating way before, and nobody has used the case to construct such an ambitious historical schema.”—Peter Hulme, author of Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877–1998“This work is a compelling study of the roles of slavery and abolition in the origins of finance capital in the British Atlantic empire. The work is an interdisciplinary tour de force, with superb scholarship on slavery, modernity, the Enlightenment, postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It is one of the finest comparative studies of the philosophy of history and liberation struggles that I have read.” -- Charles C. Verharen * Interventions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One: “Now Being”: Slavery, Speculation, and the Measure of our Time 1. Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century 3 2. “Subject $”; or, the “Type” of the Modern 35 3. “Madam Death! Madam Death!”:Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation 80 4.”Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon”: Modernity and the Truth Event 113 5.”Please decide”: The Singular and the Speculative 141 Part Two: Specters of the Atlantic: Slavery and the Witness 6. Frontispiece: Testimony, Rights, and the State of Exception 173 7. The View from the Window: Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of “Humanity” 195 8. The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness 213 9. The Imaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment 242 10. “To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down”: The Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism 265 11. This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against “History” 297 Part Three: “The Sea is History” 12. “The Sea is History”: On Temporal Accumulation 309 Notes 335 Index 377
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Duke University Press The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
Book SynopsisBorn in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria E Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. Providing a sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldua produced, this book demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work.Trade Review“The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldúa’s writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldúa was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would’ve made Anzaldúa proud.” - Liliana Valenzuela, Texas Observer“Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldúa’s long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldúa Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldúa’sinterests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldúa, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader.” - George Hartley, Southwestern American Literature“This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, ‘autohistoria,’ short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume.” - WATERwheel“The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldúa’s works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldúa’s insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism.” - Xiumei Pu, Feminist Formations“AnaLouise Keating’s compilation of Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘early,’ ‘middle,’ and ‘later’ writings provides a service to scholars; additionally, it is a joy to read Gloria’s voice seeped in ‘shaman aesthetics’ that impel and move us to radical action. Undoubtedly, Anzaldúa’s impact on various levels—including academic fields such as border studies, women’s studies, and American studies—is long-lasting and profound.”— Norma E. Cantú, University of Texas at San Antonio, founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa“Gloria Anzaldúa was a courageous participant in late-twentieth-century decolonial movements. Throughout this reader she insists that academic knowledge must take into account the spirit-body-emotions-mind matrix. Such an accounting would transform academic knowledge, she believed, and make way for emancipatory modes of knowing and for brave, new subjects of history. The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader samples the bold lifework of a woman whose aims were to relieve suffering and to envision a decolonizing social affinity capable of uniting humanity in love.”—Chela Sandoval, author of Methodology of the Oppressed“Keating collects poems, essays, prose and commentaries by Anzaldúa, revealing the public figure the pathbreaking queer Chicana writer as well as a sensual and deeply spiritual iconoclast. Anzaldúa’s voice emerges defiant, mercenary, passionate and unapologetic. . . . . The book is punctuated by Anzaldúa’s simple drawings, exercises in deconstruction and reconstruction of identity. Her writings capturing her relentless fight to avoid being stereotyped and to empower women of color within and without academia are rich and various, exploring everything from gender, memory and oppression to sex in the afterlife.” * Publishers Weekly *“The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldúa’s works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldúa’s insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism.” -- Xiumei Pu * Feminist Formations *“Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldúa’s long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldúa Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldúa’s interests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldúa, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader.” -- George Hartley * Southwestern American Literature *“The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldúa’s writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldúa was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would’ve made Anzaldúa proud.” -- Liliana Valenzuela * Texas Observer *“This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, ‘autohistoria,’ short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume.” * WATER *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Reading Gloria Anzaldúa, Reading Ourselves . . . Complex Intimacies, Intricate Connections 1 Part One. "Early" Writings TIHUEQUE 19 To Delia, Who Failed on Principles 20 Reincarnation 21 The Occupant 22 I Want To Be Shocked Shitless 23 The New Speakers 24 Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers 26 The coming of el mundo surdo 36 La Prieta 38 El paisano is a bird of good omen 51 Dream of the Double-Faced Woman 70 Foreword to the Second Edition (of This Bridge Called My Back) 72 Sexuality, Spirituality, and the Body: An Interview with Linda Smuckler 74 Part Two. "Middle" Writings Enemy of the State 97 Del Otro Lado 99 Encountering the Medusa 101 Creativity and Switching in Modes of Consciousness 103 En Rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras 111 The Presence 119 Metaphors in the Tradition of the Shaman 121 Haciendo caras, una entrada 124 Bridge, Drawbridge, Sandbar, or Island: Lesbians-of-Color Hacienda Alianzas 140 Ghost Trap/Trampa de espanto 157 To(o) Queer the Writer—Loca, escritora y chicana 163 Border Arte: Nepantla, El Lugar de la Frontera 176 On the Process of Writing Borderlands / La Frontera 187 La vulva is una herida abierta / The vulva is an open wound 198 The New Mestiza Nation: A Multicultural Movement 203 Part Three. Gallery of Images 217 Part Four. "Later" Writings Foreword to Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit 229 How to 232 Memoir—My Calling; or, Notes for "How Prieta Came to Write" 235 When I write I hover 238 Transforming American Studies: 2001 Bode-Pearson Prize Acceptance Speech 239 Yemayá 242 (Un)natural bridges, (Un)safe spaces 243 Healing wounds 249 Reading LP 250 A Short Q&A between LP and Her Author (GEA) 274 Like a spider in her web 276 Bearing Witness: Their Eyes Anticipate the Healing 277 The Postmodern Llorona 280 Speaking across the Divide 282 Llorona Coyolxauhqui 295 Disability & Identity: An E-mail Exchange & a Few Additional Thoughts 298 Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño 303 Appendix 1: Glossary 319 Appendix 2: Timeline: Some Highlights from Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's Life 325 Bibliography 337 Index 351
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Duke University Press Feeling Photography
Book SynopsisWith more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive.Trade Review"I found it a fascinating read. To my knowledge, the book is unique in its coverage of this perspective on photography, and I would recommend this book for anyone interested in photography and visual culture on a theoretical level. Very useful for undergraduate and graduate studies in fine arts, visual culture, gender studies, and, obviously, photography." -- Sandra Cowan * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"The collection offers some very useful ways of thinking about the emerging field of affect theory and its applications to the broad domain of photography. … [Brown and Phu's] anthology … substantially broadens the terrain beyond photojournalism and documentary—currently, the core concerns of the literature on photography and the affective turn." -- Susan Best * CAA Reviews *"Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu’s Feeling Photography is an exciting contribution to the field of photography theory.... This collection will be of interest to a very wide range of scholars in the humanities, and not just those that study photography – the book offers a range of ways to think about the function of photography as it often exists unanalyzed at the margins of a variety of social and cultural phenomena." -- Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst * Reviews in Cultural Theory *"This volume presents a significant contribution to photographic criticism and affect theory, adding to recent scholarship...the collection will be of interest to researchers of affect, visual culture and media, with relevance to documentary film." -- Emily Bullock * Media International Australia *"It’s visual studies and affect theory in one space, and with contributors like Kimberly Juanita Brown, Ann Cvetkovich, and Dana Seitler, it’s a powerhouse collection." -- Melissa Chadburn * Literary Hub *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Elspeth H. Brown and Thy Phu 1 Part I. Touchy-Feely 1. Photography between Desire and Grief: Roland Barthes and F. Holland Day / Shawn Michelle Smith 29 2. Making Sexuality Sensible: Tammy Rae Carland's and Catherine Opie's Queer Aesthetic Forms / Dana Seitler 47 3. Sepia Mutiny: Colonial Photography and Its Others in India / Christopher Pinney 71 4. Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography / Elizabeth Abel 93 Part II. Intimacy and Sentiment 5. Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile / Tanya Sheehan 127 6. Anticipating Citizenship: Chinese Head Tax Photographs / Lily Cho 159 7. Regarding the Pain of the Other: Photography, Famine, and the Transference of Affect / Kimberly Juanita Brown 181 8. Accessible Feelings, Modern Looks: Irene Castle, Ira L. Hill, and Broadway's Affective Economy / Marlis Schweitzer 204 Part III. Affective Archives 9. Trauma in the Archive / Diana Taylor 239 10. School Photos and Their Afterlives / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 252 11. Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice / Ann Cvetkovich 273 12. Topographies of Feeling: On Catherine Opie's American Football Landscapes / Lisa Cartwright 297 13. The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship / David L. Eng 325 Epilogue / Thy Phu and Elspeth H. Brown 349 Bibliography 357 Contributors 385 Index 389
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Duke University Press Rubble The Afterlife of Destruction
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research in the foothills of the Argentine Andes, Gastón R. Gordillo reveals the spatial, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. For the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.Trade Review"[I]t is the signal merit of Gordillo’s book to remind us of the value of the loose, but productive and fertile, horizontal connections and communities that make up the network of nodes and constellations that we too easily dismiss as 'mere' rubble." -- Jon Beasley-Murray * Posthegemony blog *“Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction is theoretically dense and richly illustrated with diagrams and photographs. The ethnographic detail is often engrossing, while the overall argument challenges heritage and regional specialists to engage in more penetrating analysis of how historic forces of destruction shape the world and add to the rubble that piles up along the way.” -- Diane Barthel-Bouchier * Journal of Latin American Geography *“Rubble is remarkable because Gordillo does not shy away from complex theorizing while also providing us with rich ethnographic storytelling. The result is a book that is as engaging as it is innovative, and which should capture the interest of a diverse audience. … dealing with the social production of space, racialized and ethnicized relations in Latin and South America, human-environment relationships, and affect theory. If the purpose of a book is to change the way one sees the world, Rubble succeeds.” -- Roberto E. Barr * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Both the idea of rethinking ruins and going deep into the Chaco region are original and a welcome foray into events and people that have been side-lined by official histories. ...Rubble gives us layers of history, of rubble, overlapping stories of indigenous identity and conquering violence.” -- Marcela López Levy * Latin America Bureau blog *“Rubble makes a series of generative interventions into the vast literature on memory and heritage studies in Latin America. Particularly rewarding for historians, anthropologists, and geographers interested in critical perspectives on modernity.” -- Mónica Salas Landa * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Constellations 1 Part One. Ghosts of Indians 1. A Haunted Frontier 31 2. On the Edge of the Void 53 Part Two. Lost Cities The Destruction of Space 77 3. Land of Curses and Miracles 85 4. The Ruins of Ruins 111 Part Three. Residues of a Dream World Treks across Fields of Rubble 125 5. Ships Stranded in the Forest 131 6. Bringing a Destroyed Place Back to Life 153 7. Railroads to Nowhere 169 Part Four. The Debris of Violence Bright Objects 185 8. Topographies of Oblivion 191 9. Piles of Bones 209 10. The Return of the Indians 229 Conclusion: We Aren't Afraid of Ruins 253 Notes 271 References 287 Index 303
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Duke University Press Habeas Viscus
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alexander Weheliye's Habeas Viscus is the latest iteration in the current reinvigoration of black diasporic thought.... Habeas Viscus feeds into this furiously complex joyful noise." -- Dhanveer Singh Brar * New Formations *“It is a book that offers us a meditation for imagining a world where the categorization and organization that produces race, and racialist distinction and hierarchy — where human life — might be organized otherwise than it is.” -- Ashon Crawley * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Habeas Viscus is a work with vast implications for the rereading of canonical works of biopolitics, as well as the reframing of biopolitics from the ‘other’ side. The arguments and techniques provided in the book will not only be of interest to scholars of race, feminism, and biopolitics, but also to those engaged with disability studies, affect theory, and even animal/ity studies. For this last group in particular, Habeas Viscus will be a haunting incantation for reconsidering the meanings and boundaries of human and nonhuman life, where ‘flesh’ is proved liminal, belonging neither to the realm of Man nor beast.” -- Megan H. Glick * Hypatia *“Weheliye’s dual theoretical-political aim of clarifying the operating force of racializing assemblages as well as voicing the necessity and potentiality of alternate political futures is an urgently needed intervention in conversations about the human and humanity. Not satisfied with critiquing the perils of our contemporary condition, he orients us towards new futures. In doing so, Weheliye’s Habeus Viscus offers intellectual victuals not only for the project of black studies, but for all those who study non-white being-in-the-world and are relegated to the conceptual ghetto of ethnographic specificity.” -- Aditi Surie von Czechowski * Borderlines (CSSAAME blog) *“Habeas Viscus is a long-awaited contribution in the slowly awakening critical debates on the place of the concepts of race and racialization within the discourses on biopolitics and bare life underpinning many scholarly debates concerned with political violence, neoliberal capitalism and converging systems of oppression in Western critical theory. More importantly, coming from the standpoint of black studiesand drawing largely from black feminist thought, this critical account of poststructuralist take on the category of the human, promises not only to redraw the blueprints of this prominent theoretical formation, but also to deterritorialise minority discourses, so far relegated to academic peripheries.” -- Marianna Szczygielska * Parallax *"In the age of the Anthropocene, Habeas Viscus helps us hear, feel, and imagine humanities that persist beyond Man’s catastrophic horizons." -- Annie Menzel * Theory & Event *"Weheliye’s book is a major philosophical accomplishment. It expertly dispatches with the fantasy of the liberal subject by making racialization the central problem of the human. It broadens the agenda and intellectual reach of black studies into the realm of humanity. In these endeavors, it makes gender and black feminism central to these investigations, and it brings us back to the all-important question of the body and how to think with and through it. That Weheliye stays attentive to all of these questions while articulating damning critiques about biopolitics, bare life, and racism, is an important feat to behold." -- Amber Jamilla Musser * philoSOPHIA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Now 1 1. Blackness: The Human 17 2. Bare Life: The Flesh 33 3. Assemblages: Articulation 46 4. Racism: Biopolitics 53 5. Law: Property 74 6. Depravation: Pornotropes 89 7. Deprivation: Hunger 113 8. Freedom: Soon 125 Notes 139 Bibliography 181 Index 205
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Duke University Press Dark Matters
Book SynopsisSimone Browne shows how racial ideologies and the long history of policing black bodies under transatlantic slavery structure contemporary surveillance technologies and practices. Analyzing a wide array of archival and contemporary texts, she demonstrates how surveillance reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines.Trade Review"Dark Matters reframes surveillance studies in a way that will spark interrogations regarding the historical, racialized origins of surveillance theory and practice, while presenting a robust entryway to the field’s current debates for new readers. Dark Matters offers a model of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship for media scholars invested in critical race inquiry, visual analysis, and archival study. At a moment when surveillance practices permeate livelihood, Browne’s contribution here is an invaluable resource for examining the contemporary moment of #BlackLivesMatter, police brutality, and strategies for future resistance." -- Racquel M. Gonzales * Feminist Media Studies *"Dark Matters provides an invaluable perspective on surveillance and reminds us that the history of the surveillance of blackness has a unique and important roll to play in our understanding and analysis of contemporary surveillance." -- Jeramie D. Scott * Epic.org *"With Dark Matters, Simone Browne delivers a theoretical tour de force to the field of Surveillance Studies by bringing blackness, black life, and the black subject—dark matter—into focus. . . . Browne's work is a must-read for those interested in examining the complexities of surveillance and attendant ongoing, embodied, political struggles." -- Megan M. Wood * Surveillance & Society *"Through her analyses of maps, newspaper articles, fugitive slave advertisements, slave narratives, personal correspondence, government documents, memoirs, and treaties, Brown exposes how blackness was shaped and produced through surveillance practices during slavery." -- Brandi Thompson Summers * Public Books *"Dark Matters is a powerful book, which stems partly from the subject matter and partly from Browne’s simultaneously lucid and forceful writing. It is also a book that feels increasingly necessary, helping us to ask not only about the policies, processes and technologies that govern civil liberties, but also about whose bodies and freedoms are most controlled and curtailed." -- Jessa Lingel * Catalyst *"Each chapter of Dark Matters presents a different archive of racializing surveillance paired with reflections on black cultural production Browne reads as dark sousveillance. At each turn, Browne encourages us to see in slavery and its afterlife new modes of control, old ways of studying them, and potential paths of resistance." -- Daniel Greene * boundary 2 *"Dark Matters is an invaluable study that showcases how surveillance, historically and contemporarily, is rooted in anti-Blackness. Through utilizing a Black feminist methodology and centering the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the genealogy of surveillance, Browne demonstrates how the workings and technologies of domination, surveillance and governance utilized during slavery pre-figure and haunt the historical present. While the specific technologies have become far more advanced, the brutal fact of anti-Blackness remains the bedrock of surveillance practices to date." -- Tyrone S. Palmer * Souls *"Dark Matters is of great importance not just because it illuminates historical and contemporary surveillance technologies of (anti)blackness, but equally because it opens up a series of questions around geography, race, power, and surveillance." -- Hidefumi Nishiyama * Theory & Event *"Browne’s Dark Matters is a groundbreaking and field-changing study important for cultural criticism broadly and surveillance studies in particular. Moreover, it is especially timely given the ways the issues she raises intersect with debates about police violence and mass surveillance, among others." -- Shaka McGlotten * American Journal of Sociology *"What does Blackness have to do within the modern surveillance state? Beautiful and theoretical, Simone Browne details how Black life from slavery to the present has been subjugated by the constancy of being watched and how Black people have resisted." * Zora, 100 greatest books ever written by African American women *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction, and Other Dark Matters 1 1. Notes on Surveillance Studies: Through the Door of No Return 31 2. "Everybody's Got a Little Light under the Sun": The Making of the Book of Negroes 63 3. B®anding Blackness: Biometric Technology and the Surveillance of Blackness 89 4. "What Did TSA Find in Solange's Fro?": Security Theater at the Airport 131 Epilogue. When Blackness Enters the Frame 161 Notes 165 Bibliography 191 Index 203
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Duke University Press The Ghana Reader History Culture Politics
Book SynopsisCovering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this important West African nation, emphasizing Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations and its ethnic and cultural diversity. Trade Review"Konadu and Campbell have edited a volume that traces the complexity of Ghana, and its overall representation of a stable African state, in a series of short but insightful entries. . . . The editors have done an excellent job in allowing all sections of Ghana, from farmers, slave traders, and intellectuals to imperialists, to speak and thereby represent Ghana’s evolution to a modern nation-state that exemplifies the challenges and opportunities that face not only Ghana, but all of Africa. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." -- T. M. Reese * Choice *"There is no doubt that The Ghana Reader's rare documents and publications are indispensable to the understanding of Ghana's historical, cultural, and political narrative.... The Ghana Reader is a treasure trove of information." -- Kwaku Nti * Journal of Global South Studies *"[A] wonderful introduction to Ghana and its people, stretching all the way back to prehistoric times. Opening this book to virtually any page yields a judiciously selected text that reveals something about Ghana. . . ." -- Nicolas van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *"Overall the selection and presentation of texts works very well in the rich collection. Its readability is strengthened by the editors’ introduction, helpful outlines prior to each of the sub themes, suggestions for further reading, sources, and an index. The collection will appeal to casual readers of cultural or touristic persuasions, who will undoubtedly find something of interest to pursue further, as well as students and scholars of Ghana or sub-Saharan Africa.... [T]he aims of the Reader are accomplished well and it thoroughly succeeds in providing varied and contrasting illuminations of the country we know today as Ghana." -- Paul Stacey * African Studies Quarterly *"A celebration of the dynamism, complexity, and allure of Ghana. . . . The book appeals to a broad range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and is exemplary of the kind of text that can foster transdisciplinary teaching and scholarship. It is written in a style that is accessible to an undergraduate audience but is also appropriate for graduate education, and will appeal to those that seek to better understand a country with a fascinating and multifaceted history, politics, and culture." -- Jacqueline Ignatova * African and Black Diaspora *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I. One Nation, Many Histories 17 II. Between the Sea and the Savanna, 1500–1700 81 III. Commerce and the Scrambles for Africa, 1700–1900 125 IV. Colonial Rule and Political Independence, 1900–1957 207 V. Independece, Coups, and the Republic, 1957–Present 299 VI. The Exigencies of a Postcolony 361 Suggestions for Further Reading 457 Acknowledgments of Copyrights and Sources 461 Index 469
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Duke University Press Undoing Monogamy
Book SynopsisIn Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey analyzes the contemporary science of monogamy, demanding a critical reorientation toward the understanding of monogamy and non-monogamy in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.Trade Review"Undoing Monogamy is an important contribution to feminist and queer studies of science, to feminist materialisms, and to academic studies of non/monogamy.... Undoing Monogamy provides us with an example of how to approach science differently in ways that are grounded more in the lives and needs of a wider variety of diverse humans and nonhumans." -- Kim TallBear * Hypatia *"The value of Undoing Monogamy to scholars of non/monogamy is unquestionable. The careful, historical attention to the way that non/monogamy has been implicated in colonial logics and ongoing projects of racism is a vital contribution to the field." -- Jessica Kean * Australian Feminist Studies *"[Undoing Monogamy] has something to teach everyone: every reader will find something new and unfamiliar in its pages." -- Clare Chambers * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"The thoroughly interdisciplinary methodology, alongside ethical and joyful visions of a ‘dyke science,’ give us all a new way forward, where we do not make easy scapegoats of disciplines, but interrogate and integrate our various disciplines through our deeply naturecultural worlds." -- Banu Subramaniam * Science, Technology and Society *"A richly interdisciplinary book . . . that demonstrates a facility and ease with multiple approaches in feminist science studies. . . . Willey’s really substantive contribution to queer theory and sexuality studies, which is that the idea of monogamy and nonmonogamy as sexual practices—as sex itself—has been obscuring something of value: the expansive social worlds that might emerge if both monogamy and its others were critiqued." -- Kyla Tompkins * American Quarterly *"Undoing Monogamy makes a key theoretical intervention: clarifying ow new materialist approaches can build on, rather than depart from (or at worst, ignore), the insights of feminist science studies. Angela Willey makes a necessary and pointed contribution. . . . This is a scholar to watch for self-reflexive, multidisciplinary, and intersectional feminist research that challenges us all to conceive of critique and world-building as compatible projects." -- Kyla Schuller * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Politics and Possibility: A Queer Feminist Introduction to Monogamy 1 1. Monogamy's Nature: Colonial Sexual Science and Its Naturecultural Fruits 25 2. Making the Monogamous Human: Mating, Measurement, and the New Science of Bonding 45 3. Making Our Poly Nature: Monogamy's Inversion and the Reproduction of Difference 73 4. Rethinking Monogamy's Nature: From the Truth of Non/Monogamy to a Dyke Ethics of "Antimonogamy" 95 5. Biopossibility: Molecular Monogamy and Audre Lorde's Erotic 121 Epilogue. Dreams of a Dyke Science 141 Notes 147 Bibliography 169 Index 191
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Duke University Press Flyboy 2
Book SynopsisFlyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the last thirty years of Greg Tate's influential cultural criticism of contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. These essays, interviews, and reviews cover everything from Miles Davis, Ice Cube, and Suzan Lori Parks to Afro-futurism, Kara Walker, and Amiri Baraka.Trade Review"Tate has been an important if underread critic for the past several decades, and this collection will allow more readers to discover him. Not a fast or simple read, but a worthwhile one for fans of music and culture." -- Craig L. Shufelt * Library Journal *"Flyboy 2 will be like no other collection of writing you will read this year, and probably this decade. Refer back to the original Flyboy book to whet your palate, and to note and compare the evolution of Tate’s voice and his perception of the world and music around him. Take comfort in knowing that there is a Black writer who has no choice but to be real, poised and dignified, denying all pressures to bastardize the class and power of Black arts criticism and literary excellence." -- Jordannah Elizabeth * Amsterdam News *"Whether you are new to his work or a longtime reader, the universe of Black magic lovingly curated in Flyboy 2 will do your soul good." -- Steven W. Thrasher * The Guardian *"Flyboy 2 is an immersive, fluid, and genre-bending collection of commentary, essays, and exposition of the self, a beautiful text solidly grounded in the critical theories of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century academia." -- Patty Comeau * ForeWord Reviews *"What Flyboy 1 and 2 show is that Tate has come a long way in the study of this, the feared black planet and, in so doing, came out a more skilful, more humble man. What his style won’t let me forget is this: we are simultaneously in command of this world, and others." -- Kwanele Sosibo * Mail & Guardian *"What made Tate’s criticism special was his ability to theorize outward from his encounters with genius and his brushes with banality—to telescope between moments of artistic inspiration and the giant structures within which those moments were produced. . . . Tate has a keen sense for the way that both artists and communities discern where they fit in the world, and what is expected of them, and then either go along for the ride or carefully plot their escapes." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"[T]hought-provoking. . . . There's lots to unpack in Tate's writing, challenging us to come along for the ride--if we're up to it." -- David Hershkovits * Paper Magazine *"A Rolling Stone contributor, Greg Tate's ferocious, slang-tinged salvos and deep-rooted historical analysis have inspired readers and intimidated colleagues for decades. This sequel to the 1992 collection Flyboy in the Buttermilk felt particularly acute in the context of 2016's nonstop stream of racial horror, whether Tate is delineating visual artist Kara Walker's unflinching slavery-era silhouettes or eulogizing Richard Pryor and Michael Jackson. . . ." -- Michaelangelo Matos * Rolling Stone *"Greg Tate has been responsible for some of the most erudite and energetic cultural criticism of the past thirty years. . . . The book stands as a testimony to the richness and variety of contemporary Black artistic production, and to Tate’s restless curiosity and learning." -- Michael Lapointe * TLS *“Like all of Greg Tate's work, this is required reading for anyone interested in the last several decades of life and culture in the United States.” -- Charles L. Hughes * Journal of Popular Music Studies *"Flyboy 2 collects more pieces that prove Tate, a Rolling Stone contributor, hasn't lost a step, with riffs on young artists like Azealia Banks ('a freaky-geeky, speed-rapping succubus') and forebears such as Jimi Hendrix ('one of our most agile and adept freedom fighters'). It's a dive into what Tate calls 'Black Cognition,' a cornerstone of the American mind." -- Will Hermes * Rolling Stone *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lust, of All Things (Black) 1 1. The Black Male Show Amiri Baraka 9 Wayne Shorter 16 Jimi Hendrix 24 John Coltrane 41 Gone Fishing: Remembering Lester Bowie 44 The Black Artists' Group 50 Butch Morris 55 Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the History of Our Future 57 Lonnie Holley 68 Marion Brown (1931–2010) and Djinji Brown 71 Dark Angels of Dust: David Hammons and the Art of Streetwise Trancendentalism 73 Bill T. Jones: Combative Moves 78 Garry Simmons: Conceptual Bomber 81 The Persistence of Vision: Storyboard P 83 Ice Cube 91 Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Crusader 102 Thonton Dail: Free, Black, and Brightening Up the Darkness of the World 110 Kehinde Wiley 124 Rammellzee: The Ikonoklast Samurai 127 Richard Pryor: Pryor Lives 136 Richard Pryor 146 Gil Scott-Heron 149 The Man in Our Mirror: Michael Jackson 152 Miles Davis 158 2. She Laughing Mean and Impressive Too Born to Dyke: I Love My Sister Laughing and Then Again When She's Looking Mean, Queer, and Impressive 167 Joni Mitchell: Black and Blond 175 Azealia Banks 177 Sade: Black Magic Woman 180 All the Things You Could Be by Now If Iames Brown Was a Feminist 186 Itabari Njeri 193 Kara Walker 196 Women at the Edge of Space, Time, and Art: Ruminations on Candida Romero's Little Girls 202 Ellen Gallagher 208 To Bid a Poet Black and Abstract 210 "The Gikuyu Mythos versus the Cullud Grrrl from Outta Space": A Wangechi Mutu Feature 213 Come Join the Hieroglyphic Zombie Parade: Deborah Grant 219 Björk's Second Act 223 Thelma Golden 228 3. Hello Darknuss My Old Meme Top Ten Reasons Why So Few Black Women Were Down to Occupy Wall Street Plus Four More 235 What Is Hip-Hop? 239 Intelligence Data: Bob Dylan 242 Hip-Hop Turns Thirty 246 Love and Crunk: Outkast 252 White Freedom: Eminem 254 Wu-Dunit: Wu-Tang Clan 256 Unlocking the Truth vs. John Cage 260 4. Screenings Spike Lee's Bamboozled 265 It's A Mack Thing 270 Sex and Negrocity: John Singleton's Baby Boy 272 Lincoln in Whiteface: Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle in Susan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog 275The Black Power Mixtape 278 5. Race, Sex, Politricks and Belle Lettres Clarence Major 285 The Atlantic Sound: Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound 288 Acocalypse Now: Patricia Hill Collins's Black Sexual Politics; Thomas Shevory's Notorious H.I.V.; Jacob Levenson's The Secret Epidemic 290 Blood and Bridges 292 Nigger-'Tude 296 Triple Threat: Jerry Gafio Watts's Amiri Baraka; Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright; David Macey's Frantz Fanon 299 Bottom Feeders: Natsuo Kirino's Out 306 Scaling the Heights: Maryse Condé's Windward Heights 307 Fear of a Mongrel Planet: Zadie Smith's White Teeth 310 Adventures in the Skin Trade: Lisa Teasley's Glow in the Dark 313 Generous Hexed: Jeffery Renard Allen's Rails under My Back 315 Going Underground: Gayl Jones's Mosquito 317 Judgment Day: Toni Morrison's Love and Edward P. Jones's The Known World 320 Black Modernity and Laughter, or How It Came to Be That N*g*as Got Jokes 322 Kalahari Hopscotch, or Notes toward a Twenty-Volume Afrocentric Futurist Manifesto 330 Sources 343 Index 347
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Duke University Press Eating the Ocean
Book SynopsisMoving away from a simplified food politics that is largely land based, Elspeth Probyn looks at food politics from an ocean-centric perspective by tracing the global movement of several marine species to explore the complex and entangled relationship between humans and fish.Trade Review"Elspeth Probyn wants to eat the ocean. I want to eat her book. It is one of the most profound works I have read on the sea, and the issues with which it presents us, in the 21st century, not least because it dares to digress and move into territories that other writers and academics have hitherto neglected." -- Philip Hoare * Times Higher Education *"Eloquently written, Probyn's vivid detail brings us along her journeys following (and eating many) oysters, swimming with tuna, covertly eating endangered bluefin tuna, and tracking the history of herring quines and women's roles in fishing. . . . I learned so much about the state of our oceans, where our seafood comes from, the danger in always choosing tuna and salmon, and the role of aquaculture (which provides more than half of all seafood consumed by humans!), but most importantly, I was encouraged to think differently about what 'sustainability' means, which I think is so important as a person who works in this sphere." -- Lisa Heinze * Sustainability with Style *"From a policy perspective, where queer and poststructuralist feminisms are completely absent from the framework, Probyn’s intervention is a much needed updating of sustainability discourses and food politics. As such, her account of herring wives and fish women is an important intervention into an environmental politics that either ignores women completely or that constructs them as virtuous consumers or vulnerable victims (105)." -- Reese Simpkins * Angelaki *"Eating the Ocean is fascinating in its emphasis on the interconnections and mutual influences among humans, ocean creatures and the ocean itself." -- Carol J. Pierce Colfer * Agriculture and Human Values *"This slender but ambitious volume offers an excellent overview and discussion of contemporary social science and humanities literature and theorising about the sea and human relations to it.... This is a useful contribution and a significantly better approach than some social science literature about the sea that uses it as a metaphor without proper material engagement." -- Penny McCall Howard * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"This book is like a breath of fresh sea air, cool, briny, and gently laced with the scent of dead things.... In my experience, students love to learn about seafood. And this book provides a unique, and exciting overview of the topic. Meanwhile, it makes meaningful change to the politics of human-fish relations, and of gender in the social sciences more generally. Readers may also find the book an accessible introduction to fisheries research in the humanities, and to more-than-human ethologies in the social sciences." -- L. G. Brown * FoodAnthropology *"Eating the Ocean is a timely and masterfully judged intervention into debates in food studies." -- Laura Colebrooke * Cultural Geographies *"Consistently thought-provoking. . . . Displaying a sophisticated grasp of recent developments in marine biology and drawing on a wide range of perspectives encompassing constructivism, postmodernism, cultural studies, and eco-feminism, Elspeth Probyn develops arguments that reveal the limitations of many simple prescriptions for managing human uses of marine resources and demonstrates the rewards to be derived from diving deeper into the complex forces that govern interactions between a variety of human actors and the physical and biological components of marine systems." -- Oran Young * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This is not a book to be skimmed. Readers will need to work their way through the various connections Probyn draws and think through how they feel about her assumptions. But they will be well rewarded for the time and thinking they invest. . . . Eating the Ocean offers a provocative perspective on how we consume the ocean and how we can do better." -- Patricia M. Clay * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Relating Fish and Humans 1 1. An Oceanic Habitus 23 2. Following Oysters, Relating Taste 49 3. Swimming with Tuna 77 4. Mermaids, Fishwives, and Herring Quines: Gendering the More-than-Human 101 5. Little Fish: Eating with the Ocean 129 Conclusion. Reeling it In 159 Notes 165 References 169 Index 183
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Duke University Press The Revolution Has Come
Book SynopsisIn The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, examining how its internal politics along with external forces such as COINTELPRO shaped the Party's efforts at fostering self-determination in Oakland's black communities.Trade Review"In The Revolution Has Come, her detailed organizational history of the party, the historian Robyn C. Spencer reminds us that for the party’s leaders, it was critical that their platform be accessible, as [Huey P.] Newton put it, to 'the brothers on the block.'" -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *"Unlike other scholarship that has foregrounded a handful of primarily male leaders, Spencer’s account is a well-rounded organizational history. . . . The author deftly weaves together an impressive source base to present a cohesive and accessible narrative of the evolution of the Black Panther Party. Highly recommended." -- A. Ribeiro * Choice *"This book is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the history of the struggle of African Americans to liberate themselves. Spencer’s attention to historical details, with respect to the critical stages and features that marked the short lifespan . . . of the BPP, is breathtaking." -- Kwesi Tsri * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"The author’s crisp, clean, incisive prose proved an eye-opening reading experience that at times left me dumbfounded as to how many myths and assumptions have come to dominate latter-day perceptions of the Panthers." -- Michael Ezra * Black Perspectives *"Spencer’s attention to women and gender provides a much-needed intervention in the historiography of the [Black Panther] Party and of Black Power more broadly. ... Ultimately, her book reveals how the Party and its dynamic women members and gender frameworks offer a roadmap for a new generation of historians, activists, and revolution." -- Ashley Farmer * Black Perspectives *"Robyn C. Spencer’s politically timely and eminently engaging history of the Black Panther Party (BPP) is a must read for anyone interested in Black Power and the history of the African American freedom struggle more broadly. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the BPP’s founding, The Revolution Has Come breaks new ground by presenting a wealth of original source material that sheds new light on the organizational development and the ideological outlook of the Panthers in Oakland." -- Nicholas Grant * Radical Americas *“[Spencer’s] crisp, clean, incisive prose proved an eye-opening reading experience that at times left me dumbfounded as to how many myths and assumptions have come to dominate latter-day perceptions of the Panthers. . . . The Revolution Has Come is a very strong book that I would recommend for high school, undergraduate, and graduate school students as well as general readers. Even seasoned experts on the BPP will likely learn much from this wonderful, new account.” -- Michael Ezra * Journal of Civil and Human Rights *"One of the strengths of Spencer’s book, and what allows it to stand out from the explosion of books on the BPP in the past 10 years, is that she documents with clarity the ideological changes within the party that shaped it in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . Perhaps Spencer’s greatest contribution to Black Panther historiography is her thorough examination of the BPP’s political and ideological changes after 1972." -- Robert Greene II * Public Books *"A much-needed organizational history. . . . Provides greater depth to scholarship on the Black Panther Party." -- Marcia Walker-McWilliams * American Historical Review *"Spencer’s book provides an excellent overview of the birth of the movement, its impact, and importantly the role of women, who comprised more than 60% of the party membership." -- Kehinde Andrews * The Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seize the Time: The Roots of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California 7 2. In Defense of Self-Defense 35 3. Moving on Many Fronts: The Black Panther Party's Transformation from Local Organization to Mass Movement 61 4. Inside Political Repression, 1969–1971 88 5. "Revolution Is a Process Rather Than a Conclusion": Rebuilding the Party, 1971–1974 114 6. The Politics of Survival: Electoral Politics and Organizational Transformation 143 7. "I Am We": The Demise of the Black Panther Party, 1977–1982 177 Conclusion 202 Notes 205 Bibliography 241 Index 253
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Fordham University Press Dear Father Dear Son
Book SynopsisA collection of the letters of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr, tracing the history of the transfer of the Rockefeller fortune over the course of 50 years.Trade Review"A collection of previously unpublished letters between the Rockefeller generations, tracing the history of the transfer of the family's fortune over the course of 50 years. The correspondence sheds light on the family's values that led to the conception of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the restoration of colonial Williamsburg, and other philanthropic projects. " -Book News Inc.
£35.10
Fordham University Press The Disavowed Community
Book SynopsisOver thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community—a book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancy’s early proposal for thinking an “inoperative community”—The Disavowed Community offers a close reading of Blanchot’s text.Trade Review"This is a powerful and important book, in several respects: first, because this is Nancy's first public engagement with Maurice Blanchot's 1983 book The Unavowable Community, bringing to focus decades of research on this issue and shedding exciting new light on the relation between the two thinkers. Second, this work provides the latest elaborations by Jean-Luc Nancy on what has been his longstanding research on being-with and community, issues that have occupied him for the past thirty years. Finally, the analyses proposed are some of the most sophisticated that one can find in Nancy's corpus. As such, they represent a significant contribution to philosophical work and research." -- -Francois Raffoul Louisiana State University
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