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University of Minnesota Press Cultural Materialism
Book SynopsisFrom the author of "The Order of Mimesis" and "Paris and the Nineteenth-Century", this book provides a collection of essays on Raymond William's theories of cultural materialism.Table of ContentsContributors include: Stanley Aronowitz; John Brenkman; Peter de Bolla; Catherine Gallagher; Stephen Heath; John Higgins; Peter Hitchcock; Cora Kaplan; David Lloyd; Robert Miklitsch; Michael Moriarty; Morag Shiach; David Simpson; Gillian Skirrow; Kenneth Surin; Paul Thomas; Gauri Viswanathan; Cornel West.
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Electronic Elsewheres Media Technology and the
Book SynopsisMedia do not simply portray places that already exist; they actually produce them. In exploring how world populations experience "place" through media technologies, the essays included here examine how media construct the meanings of home, community, work, nation, and citizenship.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Here There, and Elsewhere: Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel I. The Reconfigured Home 1. Domesticating Dis-Location in a World of "New" Technology David Morley 2. Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web Lisa Nakamura 3. The Talking Weasel of Doarlish Cashen Jeffrey Sconce 4. Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production Lynn Spigel II. Electronic Publics 5. New Documentary in China: Public Space, Public Television Chris Berry 6. The Undecidable and the Irreversible: Satellite Television in the Algerian Public Arena Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 7. The Voice of Jacob: Radio's Role in Reviving a Nation Tamar Liebes- Plesnar 8. Violence, Publicity, and Secularism: Hindu-Muslim Riots in Gujarat Arvind Rajgopal 9. Turkish Satellite Television: Towards the Demystification of Elsewhere Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins III. The Mediated City 10. The Elsewhere of the London Underground Charlotte Brunsdon 11. The Image at Ground Zero: Mediating the Memory of Terrorism Marita Sturken 12. Tokyo: Between Global Flux and Neo-Nationalism Shunya Yoshimi Contributors Index
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University of Minnesota Press Small Tech The Culture of Digital Tools
Book SynopsisThe essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments.
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University of Minnesota Press The World Says No to War
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The World Says No to War makes a lasting empirical and methodological contribution to those interested in comparative politics and political sociology."—Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface, Sidney Tarrow, Introduction, Stefaan Walgrave and Dieter Rucht, 1. February 15, 2003: The World Says No to War, Joris Verhulst, 2. Political Opportunity Structures and Progressive Movement Sectors Michelle Beyeler and Dieter Rucht, 3. Politics, Public Opinion, and the Media: The Issues and Context behind the Demonstrations Joris Verhulst and Stefaan Walgrave, 4. Legacies from the Past: Eight Cycles of Peace Protest, Bert Klandermans, 5. New Activists or Old Leftists? The Demographics of Protesters, Stefaan Walgrave, Dieter Rucht, and Peter Van Aelst, 6. Peace Demonstrations or Antigovernment Marches? The Political Attitudes of the Protesters, Bert Klandermans, 7. Paths to the February 15 Protest: Social or Political Determinants?, Donatella della Porta, 8. Boon or Burden? Antiwar Protest and Political PartiesWolfgang Rüdig, 9. Open and Closed Mobilization Patterns: The Role of Channels and TiesStefaan Walgrave and Bert Klandermans, 10. Promoting the Protest: The Organizational Embeddedness of the DemonstratorsMario Diani, 11. Crossing Political Divides: Communication, Political Identification, and Protest Organization W. Lance Bennett, Terri E. Givens, and Christian Breunig, 12. The Framing of Opposition to the War on Iraq, Dieter Rucht and Joris Verhulst, Conclusion: Studying Protest in Context, Stefaan Walgrave and Dieter Rucht, Acknowledgments, Appendix A: Methodology of Protest Surveys in Eight Countries, Appendix B: Media Content Analysis, Contributors, Index
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University of Minnesota Press Animal Capital Rendering Life in Biopolitical
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University of Minnesota Press Citizens Media against Armed Conflict Disrupting
Book SynopsisCitizens’ media countering armed conflict and rebuilding community in Colombia Trade Review"Clemencia Rodríguez has given us an astonishing ethnographic study of ‘citizens’ media’ in Colombia. Remarkably, and with great insight into what uses of such ‘small media’ can accomplish, she offers readers a glimmer of hope in a stark war-torn social landscape, as well as a welcome and original intervention into contemporary theorizations of media worlds in circumstances of violence." —Faye Ginsburg, New York UniversityTable of ContentsContentsLife at the Crossfire: An Introduction to Colombia's Violence and Its Context 1. Drugs, Violence, and the Media of the People in the Colombian Amazon2. Nation-building, One Voice at a Time: Citizens’ Communication in Montes de María3. Radio, Resistance, and War in Madgalena Medio4. Media Pioneers Respond to Armed Conflict5. The Doing Is Everything! Toward a Theory of Citizens' Media in Contexts of WarAcknowledgmentsAcronymsNotesBibliographyIndigenous and Citizens' Media ReferencesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Games of Empire
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Games in the Age of Empire Part I. Game Engine: Labor, Capital, Machine 1. Immaterial Labor: A Workers' History of Videogaming 2. Cognitive Capitalism: Electronic Arts 3. Machinic Subjects: The Xbox and Its Rivals Part II. Gameplay: Virtual/Actual 4. Banal War: Full Spectrum Warrior 5. Biopower Play: World of Warcraft 6. Imperial City: Grand Theft Auto Part III. New Game? 7. Games of Multitude 8. Exodus: The Metaverse and the Mines Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Claiming Others
Book SynopsisHow transracial adoption and its history changes the way we see family, nation, and race.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Transracial Adoption and the Reproduction of Personhood I. On the Borders of Kinship 1. Competing Logics of Possession: Unredeemed Captives in the 1820s 2. Unmanageable Attachments: Slavery, Abolition, and the Transformation of Kinship 3. The Character of Race: Individuation and the Institutionalization of Adoption II. Between Rights and Needs 4. The Right to Belong: Legal Norms, Cultural Origins, and Adoptee Identity 5. Resisting Recognition: Narrating Transracial Adoptees as Subjects 6: Making Family "Look Like Real": Transracial Adoption and the Challenge to Family Formation Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press The Future of Social Movement Research
Book SynopsisAre the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The Future of Social Movement Research asks: How are the dynamics of contention shaped by globalization? By societies that are becoming increasingly more individualized and diverse? By the spread of new communication technologies such as social media, cell phones, and the Internet? Why do some movements survive while others dissipate? Do local and global networks differ in nature? The authors' essays explore such questions with reference to changes in three domains of contention: the demand of protest (changes in grievances and identities), the suTrade ReviewThis is a major, very important work which brings together the leading lights in the international, interdisciplinary, invisible college of social movement scholars. The book combines thoughtful essays on the state of the art in the study of contentious politics with grounded speculation on the many still unanswered or incompletely answered questions. The authors do an excellent job of distinguishing what is based on solid empirical research and what would require additional research to answer with confidence. This does not prevent them from suggesting hypotheses and impressions which are based on reasonable and probable extensions of what we already know.—William Gamson, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Changing Dynamics of ContentionJacquelien van Stekelenburg and Conny RoggebandPart I. Grievances and Identities: The Demand Side of Participation1. The Dynamics of DemandBert Klandermans2. Is the Internet Creating New Reasons to Protest?Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gharrity Gardner, and Alice Motes3. Social Movement Participation in the Global Society: Identity, Networks, and EmotionsVerta Taylor4. “Protest against whom?”: The Role of Collective Meaning Making in PoliticizationMarjoka van Doorn, Jacomijne Prins, and Saskia WelschenDiscussion: Opening the Black Box of Dynamics in Theory and Research on the Demand Side of ProtestMartijn van ZomerenPart II. Organizations and Networks: The Supply Side of Contention 5. The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Questions for DiscussionConny Roggeband and Jan Willem Duyvendak6. Bringing Organizational Studies Back into Social Movement ScholarshipSarah A. Soule7. Organization and Community in Social MovementsSuzanne Staggenborg8. Organizational Fields and Social Movement DynamicsMario Diani9. Social Movement Structures in Action: Conceptual Propositions and Empirical IllustrationDieter RuchtDiscussion: The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Impressions on a ThemeDebra MinkoffPart III. Dynamics of Mobilization10. Changing Mobilization of Individual Activists?Stefaan Walgrave11. Mobilizing for Change in a Changing SocietyJacquelien van Stekelenburg and Marije Boekkooi12. Ethnicity, Repression, and Fields of Action in Movement MobilizationPamela E. Oliver13. Identity Dilemmas, Discursive Fields, Identity Work, and Mobilization: Clarifying the Identity/Movement NexusDavid A. Snow14. Movements of the Left, Movements of the Right ReconsideredSwen Hutter and Hanspeter KriesiDiscussion: Mobilization and the Changing and Persistent Dynamics of Political ParticipationChristopher RootesPart IV. The Changing Context of Contention15. The End of the Social Movement as We Know It?: Adaptive Challenges in Changed ContextsRuud Koopmans16. Social Movements and Elections: Toward a Broader Understanding of the Political Context of ContentionDoug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow17. Social Movements, Power, and Democracy: New Challenges, New Challengers, New Theories?Donatella della Porta18. Recent Trends in Public Protest in the U.S.A.: The Social Movement Society Thesis RevisitedJohn D. McCarthy, Patrick Rafail, and Ashley Gromis19. The “Contentious French” RevisitedNonna MayerDiscussion: Meaning and Movements in the New Millennium: Gendering DemocracyMyra Marx FerreeAfterwordBert KlandermansContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Negotiating Sex Work Unintended Consequences of
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Politics of Sex WorkCarisa R. Showden and Samantha MajicPart I. Sex Work and the Politics of Knowledge Production1. Researching Sexuality: The Politics of Location Approach for Studying Sex WorkMichele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz2. Beyond Prescientific Reasoning: The Sex Worker Environmental Assessment Team StudyAlexandra Lutnick3. Participant-Driven Action Research (PDAR) with Sex Workers in VancouverRaven Bowen and Tamara O’DohertyPart II. Producing the Sex Worker: Law, Politics, and Unintended Consequences4. Demanding Victims: The Sympathetic Shift in British Prostitution PolicyAnnie Hill5. Criminalized and Licensed: Local Politics, the Regulation of Sex Work, and the Construction of “Ugly Bodies”Cheryl Auger 6. Bad Girls and Vulnerable Women: An Anthropological Analysis of Narratives Regarding Prostitution and Human Trafficking in BrazilThaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva7. Raids, Rescues, and Resistance: Women’s Rights and Thailand’s Response to Human TraffickingEdith Kinney8. The Contested Citizenship of Sex Workers: The Case of the NetherlandsJoyce Outshoorn9. Comrades, Push The Red Button! Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden but Not in FinlandGregg Bucken-Knapp, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, and Pia LevinPart III. Negotiating Status: The Promises and Limits of Sex Worker Organizing10. Collective Interest Organization among Sex WorkersGregor Gall11. Sex Work Politics and the Internet: Carving Out Political Space in the BlogosphereValerie Feldman12. Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Education in the Peruvian Amazon: Women Sex Worker Activists Creating CommunityYasmin Lalani13. Sex Worker Rights Organizations and Government Funding in CanadaSarah Beer and Francine TremblayContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Predator Empire Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A compelling account of the geopolitics of the drone as it haunts ‘policing, predation, and planet.’ Ian G. R. Shaw's book is as attentive to the historical and cultural geographies of the unmanned aerial vehicle as it is to the preemptive foreclosure of political futures."—Louise Amoore, author of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability"Predator Empire is an impressive and very timely text. This is a book that everybody concerned with the relationship between technology and security should take the opportunity to read."—LSE Review of Books"Predator Empire is a provocative analysis of the outreach of technology, specifically drones, as new tools to entrench U.S. power globally."—Science"In this timely and historically-engaged text, Shaw offers a distinct approach to the study of the drone in which the technology is apprehended as a more-than-human geopolitical actor, both the product and productive of practices of enclosure, atmospheric security, and policing. The result is a conceptually and contextually rich interrogation of the US drone programme, one yielding insights and analytic frameworks of utility beyond this focus."—Antipode "What sets Shaw’s book apart, and one of its major contributions to the study of the drone, is its emphasis on the human condition."—Society & Space "Predator Empire is one of the most interesting books on drones and drone warfare to date. Its broader (theoretical) claims might require further elaboration, but its value as a theoretically and empirically rigorous book on drones remains evident." —AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding Empire1. The Long March to Human Enclosure2. The Rise of the Predator Empire in the Vietnam War3. Full Spectrum Global Dominance4. The Rule by Nobody 5. Policing EverythingConclusion: The War of All against All NotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Civil Resistance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A major contribution to our understanding of nonviolent social change."—Mobilization"Kurt Schock’s edited volume provides an excellent overview of some of the latest research findings and theoretical developments of the rapidly growing subfield of strategic nonviolent action. Civil Resistance reminds us why the study of civil resistance has become mainstream in political science and related fields."—Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Civil Resistance in Comparative PerspectiveKurt SchockPart I. Dynamics of Civil Resistance1. “We Do Not Work for Peace”: Reframing Nonviolence in Post-Oslo PalestineJulie M. Norman2. Nonviolent Action as the Interplay between Political Context and “Insider’s Knowledge”: Otpor in SerbiaJanjira Sombatpoonsiri3. Youth Mobilization before and during the Orange Revolution: Learning from LossesOlena Nikolayenko4. How Regimes Counter Civil Resistance Movements: The Cases of Panama and KenyaSharon Erickson Nepstad5. From Political Jiu-jitsu to the Backfire Dynamic: How Repression Can Promote MobilizationBrian Martin6. Sources, Functions, and Dilemmas of External Assistance to Civil Resistance MovementsVéronique DudouetPart II. Frontiers of Civil Resistance7. Defending Freedom with Civil Resistance in the Early Roman RepublicDustin Ells Howes8. Making Sense of Civil Resistance: From Theories and Techniques to Social Movement PhronesisSean Chabot9. Four Dimensions of Nonviolent Action: A Sociological PerspectiveStellan Vinthagen10. Overcoming Illusory Division: Between Nonviolence as a Pragmatic Strategy and a Principled Way of LifeChaiwat Satha-Anand11. Civil Resistance in the Twenty-First CenturyKurt SchockAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Mediators Aesthetics Politics and the City
Book SynopsisToward a theory of the city at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics
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University of Minnesota Press Holidays in the Danger Zone Entanglements of War
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Postcards, museums, river steamers, friendly guide books, and sunbathers—Debbie Lisle shows here that each of these can be made to serve military objectives or to reinforce militarized, gendered, and racialized presumptions about this world and our alleged places in it. Holidays in the Danger Zone is sure to spark new conversations and fresh investigations."—Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics"In this fascinating global adventure through historical archives, evocative images, and contemporary accounts of places mundane and exotic, Debbie Lisle takes us across the frontlines from tourism studies to critical war studies (and back, a few times) in order to explore the shared spaces and unexpected engagements between war and leisure."—Waleed Hazbun, author of Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World"Even to specialists, war and tourism seem to be at opposing ends of the spectrum: war means decreased tourism, and increased tourism is the product of peace. Lisle demonstrates that this relationship is much more complex than commonly accepted."—CHOICETable of ContentsContents Introduction: Entanglements of War and Tourism 1. The Double Vision of Empire: The Gordon Relief Campaign, 1884–85 2. Tours of Duty, Tours of Pleasure: Battlefield Journeys and the Rise of Militourism, 1914–45 3. Bipolar Travels: Tourism and Conflict at the Edges of the Cold War 4. Global Interventions: Contested History and the Rise of Dark Tourism 5. Connecting Tourism and Terrorism: Milblogs, Soft Targets, and the Securitization of Travel Conclusion. Touring Otherwise: The Ethical Possibilities of Entanglement Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press A Theory of Argumentation Studies in Rhetoric and
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Ohio University Press Failed States and Fragile Societies A New World
Book SynopsisIn case studies from the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iraq, and Colombia, the contributors argue that early intervention to stabilize social, economic, and political systems offers the greatest promise, whereas military intervention at a later stage is both costlier and less likely to succeed.Trade Review“The issue of state failure and fragility is one of the most important topics, if not the most important topic, in international affairs and international relations today and for the foreseeable future. This new volume succeeds in its stated goal of discussing and exploring the various aspects of [this issue] and brings together a variety of perspectives on a range of related topics by established scholars.”Table of Contents* Introduction Ingo Trauschweizer * Part I: State Failure? * 1. The Future of War: Understanding Fragile States and What to Do about Them David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy * 2. Human Rights and Wrongs in Failed States: Bosnia-Herzegovina, the International Community, and the Challenges of Long-Term Instability in Southeastern Europe T. David Curp * Part II: Using Force? * 3. The Past and Future of Insurgency: Protracted Warfare and Protracted Counterinsurgency Jonathan M. House * 4. "The Lessons of the Last War Are Clear": The Military- Industrial Complex, Private Contractors, and US Foreign Policy James M. Carter * 5. Crime, Low-Intensity Conflict, and the Future of War in the Twenty-First Century Vanda Felbab-Brown * Part III: Systemic Response * 6. Odious and Failed States, Humanitarian Responses Robert I. Rotberg * 7. State Collapse and Local Response in Somalia Ken Menkhaus * Postscript * Contributors * Index
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Ohio University Press Preaching Prevention BornAgain Christianity and
Book SynopsisPreaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to “abstain and be faithful” as a primary prevention strategy in Africa.Trade Review“A fascinating, fresh, original ethnography of born-again Christians in Kampala, Uganda.”“Boyd examines in particular the experiences of Ugandan born-again Christians promoting abstinence and faithfulness programs … PEPFAR spent $278 million [there] in 2014, which was equal to about three-fourths of what the Ugandan government spent on health overall that same year. In other words, Boyd is studying the critical player in public health provision in Uganda. Boyd’s book seems particularly relevant for the newly created LGBT Rapid Response Fund, as it includes a chapter about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.” * Washington Post online *“[A] robust contribution to AIDS discourse in Africa.” * African Studies Quarterly *“This book, in general, is a very fine analysis of Ugandan attitudes to sexual practice, in the light of the AIDS prevention campaign. It is thorough and illuminating. … The book is superb as a sociological/anthropological account of born-again Christianity. … I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it for its penetrating analysis and insight.” * Journal of Church and State *“Boyd places Christian concerns about HIV/AIDS transmission and same-sex unions in Uganda in an ethnographic and historical perspective that will richly enhance discussions of rights and accountability.”
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Ohio University Press Preaching Prevention
Book SynopsisPreaching Prevention examines the controversial U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiative to “abstain and be faithful” as a primary prevention strategy in Africa.Trade Review“A fascinating, fresh, original ethnography of born-again Christians in Kampala, Uganda.”“Boyd examines in particular the experiences of Ugandan born-again Christians promoting abstinence and faithfulness programs … PEPFAR spent $278 million [there] in 2014, which was equal to about three-fourths of what the Ugandan government spent on health overall that same year. In other words, Boyd is studying the critical player in public health provision in Uganda. Boyd’s book seems particularly relevant for the newly created LGBT Rapid Response Fund, as it includes a chapter about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.” * Washington Post online *“[A] robust contribution to AIDS discourse in Africa.” * African Studies Quarterly *“This book, in general, is a very fine analysis of Ugandan attitudes to sexual practice, in the light of the AIDS prevention campaign. It is thorough and illuminating. … The book is superb as a sociological/anthropological account of born-again Christianity. … I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it for its penetrating analysis and insight.” * Journal of Church and State *“Boyd places Christian concerns about HIV/AIDS transmission and same-sex unions in Uganda in an ethnographic and historical perspective that will richly enhance discussions of rights and accountability.”
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Duke University Press Stains on My Name War in My Veins
Book SynopsisDrawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, the author chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, racial, religious, and class identities.Trade Review“This is the best work of Caribbean ethnography to appear in a very long time: it addresses the most important issues of current anthropology with a deep understanding of the way in which nationalism, state formation, racial and ‘ethnic’ conflict operate at the level of everyday practice. . . . A welcome addition to anthropological literature generally and to Caribbean Studies in particular.”—Raymond T. Smith, University of Chicago
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Duke University Press Contracting Colonialism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a significant, original, and engaging book that should find an audience among those concerned with colonialism, discourse, and ideology."—Renato Rosaldo, Stanford University
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MD - Duke University Press In the Name of National Security
Trade Review"Corber's argument is at once clear and rich. He makes clear that Hitchcock's films engage fundamental issues of sexuality and gender identity, and he also makes clear that these issues are in dialogue with the process of ideological struggle, including the mobilization of homophobia, in which Cold War Liberalism won its powerful place in the 1950s. The richness comes in the contexts Corber provides from that struggle and in the lucid imagination with which he reconceptualizes very famous films in relation to those contexts."—Jonathan AracTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Draped in the American Flag: Cold War Liberals and the Resistance to Theory 19 2. Reconstructing Homosexuality: Hitchcock and the Homoerotics of Spectatorial Pleasure 56 3. Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement 83 4. The Fantasy of the Maternal Voice: The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Eroticization of Motherhood 113 5. "There Are Many Such Stories": Vertigo and the Repression of Historical Knowledge 154 6. Hitchcock Through the Looking Glass: Psycho and the Breakdown of the Social 185 Conclusion 219 Notes 227 Index 257
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Duke University Press Muslim Communities Reemerge
Book SynopsisA contribution to a debate of tribal, religious, and national identity among Muslims in former communist states.Trade Review“This volume represents a contribution to an ongoing debate of tribal, religious, and national identity among Muslims in former communist states which has been relatively neglected in the past, but whose importance has become more evident, not just to the scholarly world but also to western governments and the public at large.” —Heide Whelan, Dartmouth College"Muslim Communities Reemerge is particularly timely in light of current speculation that Bosnian style civil war could destroy the stability of the newly independent Central Asian republics. The editors have performed a valuable service by juxtaposing ex-Soviet and ex-Yugoslav Muslims in a comparative context."—James Critchlow, Fellow at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University"Muslim Communities Reemerge provides a remarkably balanced, comprehensive, and up-to-date introduction to the intricacies and multi-layered relationship of the ex-Soviet Islamic peoples to their own history, religion, and culture as well as to their non-Muslim neighbors and fellow citizens. It forces us to rethink our own definition and understanding of contemporary nationalism and federalism, particularly as related to religion, customs, or traditional and modern values."—Marc Raeff, Bakhmeteff Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsCentral Asia Book Series vii Preface to the English-Language Edition xi Introduction / Gerhard Simon 1 The Nationalization of the Uzbeks and Tajiks / Bert G. Fragner 13 Defining the Orient: A 19th Century Russo-Tatar Polemic over Identity and Culture Representation / Edward J. Lazzerini 33 Islam and the Growth of National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan / Tadeusz Swietochowski 46 One or More Tatar Nation? / Azade-Ayse Rorlich 61 Religious and National Signals in Secular Central Asian Drama / Edward Allworth 80 Primordial Ethnicity of Modern Nationalism: The Case of Yogoslavia's Muslims, Reconsidered / Sabrina Petra Ramet 111 Czarist Policy toward the Muslims of the Russian Empire / Andreas Kappeler 141 Soviet Policy toward Islam / Hans Braker 157 The Status of Muslims in the Federative Systems of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia / Georg Brunner 183 Yugoslavia's Communists and the Bosnian Muslims / Wolfgang Hopken 214 "Holy War" against Czarism: The Links between Sufism and Jihad in the Nineteeenth-Century Anticolonial Resistance against Russia / Uwe Halbach 251 Economic Bases of the Basmachi Movement in the Farghana Valley / Richard Lorenz 277 Political Trends in Soviet Islam after the Afghanistan War / Marie Broxup 304 Islamic Movements in Yugoslavia / Alexandre Popovic 322 Appendix: Statistical Tables and Figures 341 Notes on Contributors and Editors 353 Index 357
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Duke University Press Social Science in the Crucible
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As a collective intellectual biography of some of the foremost social science thinkers of the early to mid-century, this book provides perhaps the clearest picture yet of the dilemmas facing the scholar-as-democratic reformer. Smith manages a judicious blend of the personal biography and individual career path with a penetrating account of the subject's main writings and intellectual contributions. His book should be read by a large, interdisciplinary audience."—Leon Fink, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"This is a superb piece of work. There is nothing quite like this book in the available literature and it will nicely supplement the best of previously published accounts of the history of social science in the United States. It is also an important intervention in the current debate about the decline of the public intellectual."—Robert Westbrook, University of RochesterTable of ContentsIntroduction 3 1. American Social Science: Moralism and the Scientific Method 13 2. Wesley Mitchell and the Quantitative Approach 49 3. Charles Merriam and Technical Expertise 84 4. Robert Lynd and Knowledge for What? 120 5. Charles Beard and Activist Social Science 159 6. Harold D. Lasswell and the Lost Opportunity of the Purposive School 212 Conclusion 253 Notes 271 Index 336
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Duke University Press Ethnicity Markets and Migration in the Andes
Book SynopsisTrade Review" A fundamental challenge to established stereotypes of the Andean economy, this book will lead to a rethinking of received ideas. Including work by many of the leading scholars in the field, it will be obligatory reading for those interested in indigenous history and anthropology. It offers a different perspective on the economy by focusing on the indigenous population, and demonstrates conclusively how the Indians succeeded in linking their complex traditional systems with the new opportunities offered by expanded markets."—Nathan Wachtel, College de France"This is an impressive collection of essays [and] a fundamental reference book in Andean studies."—Walter Mignolo, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsList of Maps ix Acknowledgments 1 I. Introduction 3 1. Andean Communities, Political Cultures, and Markets: The Changing Contours of a Field / Brooke Larson 5 II. From Inca to Spanish Rule: The Making of Indians and Markets 55 2. Did Tribute and Markets Prevail in the Andes before the European invasion? / John V. Murra 57 3. The Variety and Ambiguity of Native Andean Intervention in European Colonial Markets / Steve J. Stern 73 4. Exchange in the Ethnic Territories between 1530 and 1567: The Visitas of Huanuco and Chucuito / Carlos Sempat Assadourian 101 5. Exchange and Markets in the Sixteenth Century: A View from the North / Susan E. Ramirez 135 III. Andean Tribute, Migration, and Trade: Remapping the Boundaries of Ethnicity and Exchange 165 6. Indian Migration and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Charcas / Thierry Saignas 167 7. Indians in Late Colonial Markets: Sources and Numbers / Enripe Tandeter, Vilma Milletich, Maria Matilda Olllier, and Beatriz Ruibal 196 8. Markets, Power, and the Politics of Exchange in Tapacari, c.1780 and 1980 / Brooke Larson and Rosario Leon 224 IV. Negotiating the Meanings of Market Exchange: Community and Hierarchy in Three Andean Contexts 257 9. Ethnic Calendars and Market Interventions Among the Ayllus of Lipes during the Nineteenth Century / Tristan Platt 259 10. The Sources and Meanings of Money: Beyond the Market Paradigm in an Ayllu of Northern Potosi / Olivia Harris 297 11. "Women Are More Indian": Ethnicity and Gender in a Community near Cuzco / Marisol de la Cadena 329 V. Conclusion 349 12. Ethnic Identity and Market Relations: Indians and Mestizos in the Andes / Olivia Harris 351 Glossary 391 Selected Bibliography 397 Contributors 419 Index 421
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Duke University Press New Science New World
Book SynopsisExamines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century-modern science and colonialism. This work explores how the newness or 'novelty' of investigating nature is expressed through representations of the New World, including the native, the feminine, the body, and the heavens.Trade Review“New Science, New World breaks new ground in connecting literary form to the advent of modernity as manifested in scientific discourse and colonial exploration. This phenomenally learned book is a real intervention in early modern cultural studies.”—Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University“New Science, New World is a sophisticated account concerning the contradictory pressures at work in the production of modernity. The story of the relations between the scientific and the literary is an original one, and it is told with an elegance that is consistently persuasive.”—Catherine Belsey, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, CardiffTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Making It New: History and Novelty in Early Modern Culture 13 2. Admiring Miranda and Enslaving Nature 59 3. The New Atlantis and the Uses of Utopia 92 4. The Prosthetic Milton; Or, the Telescope and the Humanist Corpus 121 5. Galileo, "Literature," and the Generation of Scientific Universals 148 Conclusion: De Certeau and Early Modern Cultural Studies 186 Notes 193 Works Cited 225 Index 239
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Duke University Press Borders of Chinese Civilization
Book SynopsisD. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and the geographical treatise. In his discussion of the practice of “brushtalk,” in which Chinese scholars communicated with the Japanese by exchanging ideographs, Howland further shows how the Chinese viewed the communication of their language and its dominant modes—history and poetry—as the textual and cultural basis of a shared civilization between the two societies. With Japan’s decision in the 1870s to modernize and westernize, China’s relationship with Japan underwent a crucial change—one that resulted in its decisive separation from ChinTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note ix Introduction 1 I. Encountering Japan 9 1. Civilization from the Center: The Geomoral Context of Tributary Expectations 11 Civilization and Proximity 13 The Bounds of Diplomatic Protocol 15 Japan in the Qing Record 18 An Aside: The Aborted Legacy of the Ming 26 The Matter of International Treaties 28 The Decision to Grant Japan a Treaty (1870) 31 Japanese Incident/Dwarf Intrusion (1874) 35 2. Civilization as Universal Practice: The Context of Writing and Poetry 43 Brushtalking 43 The Written Code: Hanwen/Kanbun 45 The Play of the Code 48 Tong Wen: Shared Writing/Shared Civilization 54 Playing the Code: Occasional Poetry 57 Celebrating Tong Wen: Poetry and History 62 The Value of Civilization in Japan 65 II. Representing Japan 69 Prologue: Geographical Knowledge 71 3. Journeys to the East: The Geography of Historical Sites and Self in the Travelogue 80 Images of the East 81 Recovering History through Geographical Sites 86 Travel Accounts 92 4. The Historiographical Use of Poetry 108 The Poems on Divers Japanese Affairs 110 The Epistemological Basis of the Poetry-History Homology 119 Poetry and Geography 129 Evidential Research 135 5. The Utility of Objectification in the Geographic Treatise 157 The Decade of Geographic Treatises on Japan 158 The Local Treatise as a Model 164 Utility as Means and End 173 Strategies of Objectification 176 III. Representing Japan's Westernization 195 6. Negotiating Civilization and Westernization 197 Analogy and Containment 200 The Precedence of Learning before Action 201 Western Learning and Western Ways 203 Alternative Approaches to World Order 222 Afterword 242 Notes 251 Bibliography 303 Glossary 323 Index 333
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Duke University Press Monsters and Revolutionaries
Book SynopsisAnalyses the complex relationship between the coloniser and colonised on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, this title constructs a political and cultural history of the island's relations with France.Trade Review“A brilliant piece of work. . . . Monsters and Revolutionaries promises to be an important intervention in the fields of political history and postcolonial discourse.”—Ali Behdad, University of California at Los Angeles“[Vergès’s] richly textured exploration of ‘metissage’ as a discursive strategy of identification, assimilation, and resistance is driven by a fluent engagement with concepts drawn from contemporary criticism, history, psychoanalysis, and philosophy and has the broadest implications right across the postcolonial world. A major innovative study that will shape the field.”—Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor, The Open University and Goldsmith’s College, LondonTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface: Bitter Sugar's Island xi Acknowledgments xix The Family Romance of French Colonialism and Métissage 1 Contested Family Romances: Slaves, Workers, Children 22 Blood Politics and Political Assimilation 72 "Oté Debré, rouver la port lenfer, Diab kominis i sa rentré": Cold War Demonology in the Postcolony 123 Single Mothers, Missing Fathers, and French Psychiatrists 185 Epilogue: A Small Island 246 Notes 251 Bibliography 353 Index 389
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Duke University Press The Futures of American Studies
Book SynopsisA state-of-the-art portrait of the field of American studies -- its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the future.Trade Review“The Futures of American Studies shapes a farsighted and richly provocative argument about the intellectual space, time, and politics of the cultures of American studies. It's a millennial work.”—Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism“Fascinating and provocative, this collection is sure to attract wide attention as the latest collective statement of the major directions in which ‘New Americanist’ scholarship is heading.”—Lawrence Buell, author of Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and BeyondTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman 1 Posthegemonic What’s in a Name? / Jan Radway 45 The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique / Lisa Lowe 76 The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia / Jose Esteban Munoz 93 Manifest Domesticity / Amy Kaplan 111 C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies / Donald E. Pease 135 Comparativist Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies / John Carlos Rowe 167 Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller 183 The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism / Winfried Fluck 211 Autobiographies of Ex-White Men: Why Race is Not a Social Construction / Walter Benn Michaels 231 Color Blindness and Acting Out / Carl Gutierrez-Jones 248 Differential Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity / Robyn Wiegman 269 Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” / Lindon Barrett 305 Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz 327 Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel / Nancy Bentley 341 Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children / Gillian Brown 371 American Studies in the “Age of the World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language / William V. Spanos 387 Counterhegemonic Work and Culture in American Studies / Michael Denning 419 “Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements / George Lipsitz 441 Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border, Discourses, and Public Culture(s) / Gunter H. Lenz 461 American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class / Paul Lauter 486 The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies / Eric Cheyfitz 510 Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen / Russ Castronovo 536 Afterword ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson 559 Bibliography 581 Contributors 609 Index 613
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Duke University Press The Color of Liberty
Book SynopsisAddresses four major themes: the evolution of race as an idea in France; representations of "the other" by French writers, artists, and business people; the international dimensions of French racial thinking, particularly in relation to colonialism; and the impact of racial differences on the shaping of the modern French city.Trade Review“‘The French are not racists like the Americans!’ ‘But are they French racists?’ All of us, both French and American observers, have been bedeviled by some variant of this exchange I once had about the homeland of universal equality. This collection of transatlantic essays is the first systematic sounding of the praxis of race in French history. The contributions by American, Caribbean, and European-French specialists are universally fascinating and smart. The Color of Liberty is now the best thing on the subject in any language. We need it.”—Herman Lebovics, author of True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945“According to some observers, color-coded racism is an American problem that the French have, for the most part, managed to avoid. This fine collection of essays raises considerable doubt about that assumption. The authors show that race has been constructed somewhat differently in the two republics, but also demonstrate that the French, like the Americans, have often failed to live up to their own egalitarian principles when it came to relations with people whom they considered nonwhite.”—George M. Fredrickson, author of Racism: A Short History“Enfin! Stovall and Peabody take up the call to place race at the center of French history and enlist a range of skilled scholars to show its tenacious filaments and deeply French roots. This volume gives substance to the diverse genealogies of racisms in the making of France while accounting for their troubling contemporary presence.”—Ann L. Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of ThingsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Foreword / Fred Constant ix Introduction: Race, France, Histories / Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall 1 1. Race: The Evolution of an Idea Francois Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race / Pierre H. Boulle 11 Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbe Gregoire / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 28 Of Monstrous Metis? Hybridity, Fear of Miscegenation, and Patriotism from Buffon to Paul Broca / Claude Blanckaert 42 2. Representations of the Other Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti’s Failed Foundational Fiction: La mulatre comme il y a peu de blanches (1803) / John Garrigus 73 Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles / Laurent DuBois 95 Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhais and Lucienne Favre / Patricia M. E. Lorcin 108 French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic / Dana S. Hale 131 Sambo in Paris: Race and Racism in the Iconography of the Everyday / Leora Auslander and Thomas C. Holt 147 3. Colonial and Global Perspectives The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racism in Colonial Indochine / Michael G. Vann 187 Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830–1920 / Richard Fogerty and Michael A. Osborne 206 Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere / Gary Wilder 237 Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics / Dennis McEnnerney 259 4. Race and the Postcolonial City Identity under Construction: Representing the Colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 / Lynn E. Palermo 285 Who Speaks for Africa? The Rene Maran-Blaise Diagne Trial in 1920s Paris / Alice L. Conklin 302 Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects: Working-Class Militancy and Racial Difference in Postwar Marseille / Yael Simpson Fletcher 338 From Red Belt to Black Belt: Race, Class, and Urban Marginality in Twentieth-Century Paris / Tyler Stovall 351 Contributors 371 Index 377
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Duke University Press Brothers and Strangers Black Zion Black Slavery
Book SynopsisAn account of the rise, fall, and persistence of the 20th century's Black Zionist dream -- the movement's creation of a homeland in Africa.Trade Review“This much needed and long awaited book is a godsend not only for its courageous handling of its controversial subject but also for the more general information that it presents in the field of Liberian history. It is indispensable work for anyone professing an interest in Black Atlantic studies.”—Wilson Jeremiah Moses, editor of Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s and Ferree Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University“An exhaustive study of the Pan-African aspects of Liberia’s history from 1914 to 1940. . . . A prodigious effort. . . . This book should become a standard reference for an important period in Liberia’s Pan-African history.” -- Tony Martin * Journal of African American History *"Brothers and Strangers is an illuminating, politically charged. . . history of ethnic and class conflict in Liberia." -- Minkah Makalani * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"Brothers and Strangers thoughtfully engages the usefulness of diaspora as a theoretical template for deciphering the histories and interests of African peoples long separated by oceans and time." -- Claude A. Clegg III * Journal of American History *"A thoughtful history. . . . It is an honest and frank discussion about the role of race, ethnicity and class in the Pan-African narrative. Its comprehensiveness, its attention to detail, and its clarity of thought make this work a substantial contribution to African, African American, and Atlantic history." -- Lester P. Lee * The Americas *"Writing with the command of a scholar deeply versed in the topics at hand, Sundiata provides a rich and thoughtful assessment of Liberia, black America, and the relationship between these transatlantic communities during a quarter century of contestations over charges of slavery, struggles over black rule, and the nature of transatlantic black linkages.What makes Sundiata’s book such worthwhile reading is that he tackles the topics with incisive interpretation and analysis. The book is thus a powerful commentary on the state of relations among Africans and the diaspora." -- James H. Meriwether * African Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Illustration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Confronting the Motherland 11 2. The Black Zion 48 3. Abuse 79 4. Investigation of an Investigation 97 5. Dollar Diplomacy 140 6. A New Deal for Liberia 170 7. Enterprise in Black and White 211 8. The Literary Mirror 229 9. The "Native Problem" 252 10. Fascism and New Zions 286 11. Postscript: Africa and Human Rights 325 Notes 341 Select Bibliography 407 Index 429
£22.49
Duke University Press Public Affairs
Book SynopsisCollection of essays analyzing political sex scandals and U.S. political culture from a variety of theoretical anglesTrade Review“People interested in political theory, political culture, mass media, and civil liberties will find this a most interesting and provocative volume. Informed by a diversity of theoretical frames, Public Affairs also offers several unifying themes, including the difficulty of drawing bright-line boundaries between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ realms.”—Norman L. Rosenberg, author of Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel“Public Affairs is a lively, timely exploration of sex scandals and their significance to a democratic public. A provocative joining of cultural studies to political science, this collection is especially important to feminist scholars for its examination of the ways that scandals redefine the public/private distinction. It will also challenge scholars of democracy for its stimulating treatment of scandal and citizen agency.”—Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Sex Scandals and Discourses of Power / Paul Apostolidis and Juliet A. Williams 1 1. Sex Scandals in U.S. Politics: Theoretical, Social, and Historical Contexts Normal Sins: Sex Scandal Narratives as Institutional Morality Tales / Joshua Gamson 39 Power and Corruption: Political Competition and the Scandal Market / Theodore J. Lowi 69 Hardly Sallygate: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Sex Scandal That Wasn't / Joshua D. Rothman 101 2. Class, Race, and Gender in the Clinton Scandal On "The Dalliances of the Commander in Chief": Christian Right Scandal Narratives in Post-Fordist America / Paul Apostolidis 137 Narrating Clinton's Impeachment: Race, the Right, and Allegories of the Sixties / George Shulman 167 Sexual Risk Management in the Clinton White House / Anna Marie Smith 185 3. Privacy and Publicity, and the Conditions of Democratic Citizenship Privacy in the (Too Much) Information Age / Juliet A. Williams 213 It Was the Spectacle, Stupid: The Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Affair and the Politics of the Gaze / Jeremy Varon 232 Making (It) Public / Jodi Dean 259 Notes on Contributors 273 Index 275
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Duke University Press Utopia Limited
Book SynopsisDetails the end of the modern and the emergence of the postmodern in 1960s philosophy, literature and popular cultureTrade Review“In a series of wrenching, heretical re-readings of its classics, Marianne DeKoven rescues the decade of the sixties from a false familiarity and restores a sense of its adventurous if fragile alliance between literature and theory, modernist utopian critique and the messy creativity of the postmodern present. Instead of the usual nostalgia and polemic, Utopia Limited delivers intellectual precision and tough love. The story of the sixties has never been told with more rigor or more freshness.”—Bruce Robbins, author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress“Marianne DeKoven has written a blueprint for how to delve deep into the sixties without romantic or cynical nostalgia. She recaptures fully that cultural moment by showing how sixties writers kept sliding back and forth between totalizing dreams of utopia and more private and diverse expressions of their wishes and identities.”—Ann Snitow, coeditor of The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation“Utopia Limited will set in place a new way of understanding the interface between social, cultural, and political impulses in the sixties. Its aim—and its success—is not simply to mark out what we can now see as the emergent postmodern in texts as diverse as The Port Huron Statement and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but to interpret, through attentive close readings, precisely how and where the modern and nascent postmodern are joined in such texts.”—Cora Kaplan, author of Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and FeminismTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii I. Modern to Postmodern Introduction: Modern, Sixties, Postmodern 3 1. Modern to Postmodern in Herbert Marcuse 26 II. Culture Industry to Popular Culture 2. Culture Industry to Popular Culture in Mythologies 57 3. Las Vegas Signs Taken for Wonders 72 4. Loathing and Learning in Las Vegas 86 5. Endnotes I: Sixties, Avant-Garde, Popular Culture 114 III. Participatory Democracy to Postmodern Populism 6. Participatory Democracy in Port Huron 123 7. Paradise Then 143 8. William Burroughs: Any Number Can Play 161 9. Endnotes II: Sixties, Avant-Garde, Popular Culture 183 IV. Subject Politics 10. Politics of the Self 189 11. Laing’s Politics of the Self 200 12. Tell Me Lies about Vietnam 210 13. Fire Next Time or Rainbow Sign 228 14. Personal and Political 249 15. Utopia Limited 270 Conclusion: Post-Utopian Promise 288 Notes 291 Selected Annotated Bibliography Part 1. The Postmodern 323 Part II. The Sixties 334 Index 345
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Duke University Press Look Away
Book SynopsisExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the south hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean. This work presents work by scholars in comparative literature, American studies, and Latin American studies.Trade Review“Look Away! is an important collection that expands the vocabularies and national symbol systems that scholars can deploy to think comparatively about the Americas. It is especially useful in breaking the binary between North and South that has so restricted southern literary and historical studies.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s WritingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities / Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn 1 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN A New World Poetics of Oblivion / George B. Handley 25 Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz 25 Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution / Jane Landers 80 Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity / J. Michael Dash 94 Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janet Velazquez, Cuban Women and Confederate Soldier / Jesse Aleman 110 Citizenship and Identity in the Exile: Autobiographies of Gustavo Perez Firmat / Steven Hunsaker 130 Travel and Transference: V.S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past / Leigh Anne Duke 150 2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION Things Fall Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Real Rock and The Leopard’s Spots / Scott Romine 175 This Race Which Is Not One: The “More Inextricable Compositeness” of William Faulkner’s South / John T. Matthews 201 Richard Wright: From the South to Africa---and Beyond / Richard King 227 Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen 251 American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora 268 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA Wonder and the Wounds of “Southern” Histories / Stephanie Merrim 311 Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Wendy B. Faris 333 Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction / Philip Weinstein 355 "Wherein the South Differs from the North”: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dane Johnson 383 William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing / Helen Oakley 405 William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s “Other” Tradition / Earl Fitz 419 4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH Embodying Greater Mexico: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question / John-Michael Rivera 451 Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel / Vincent Perez 471 POSDATA Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans 495 Contributors 505 Index 511
£92.70
Duke University Press Look Away
Book SynopsisExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the CaribbeanTrade Review“Look Away! is an important collection that expands the vocabularies and national symbol systems that scholars can deploy to think comparatively about the Americas. It is especially useful in breaking the binary between North and South that has so restricted southern literary and historical studies.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s WritingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities / Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn 1 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN A New World Poetics of Oblivion / George B. Handley 25 Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz 25 Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution / Jane Landers 80 Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity / J. Michael Dash 94 Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janet Velazquez, Cuban Women and Confederate Soldier / Jesse Aleman 110 Citizenship and Identity in the Exile: Autobiographies of Gustavo Perez Firmat / Steven Hunsaker 130 Travel and Transference: V.S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past / Leigh Anne Duke 150 2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION Things Fall Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Real Rock and The Leopard’s Spots / Scott Romine 175 This Race Which Is Not One: The “More Inextricable Compositeness” of William Faulkner’s South / John T. Matthews 201 Richard Wright: From the South to Africa---and Beyond / Richard King 227 Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen 251 American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora 268 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA Wonder and the Wounds of “Southern” Histories / Stephanie Merrim 311 Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Wendy B. Faris 333 Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction / Philip Weinstein 355 "Wherein the South Differs from the North”: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dane Johnson 383 William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing / Helen Oakley 405 William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s “Other” Tradition / Earl Fitz 419 4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH Embodying Greater Mexico: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question / John-Michael Rivera 451 Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel / Vincent Perez 471 POSDATA Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans 495 Contributors 505 Index 511
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Duke University Press Watching Jim Crow
Book SynopsisA critical examination of racial discrimination in television broadcasting during the civil rights eraTrade Review“Watching Jim Crow is a highly original, sophisticated, and important piece of scholarship that will undoubtedly influence a variety of fields ranging from legal theory to cultural studies. One of the most striking things about this work is the compelling way it crosses barriers that have blinkered both scholarly and commonsense thinking about law, media, and culture.”—Thomas Streeter, author of Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States“Watching Jim Crow is a powerful blend of memory, history, and careful analysis. For those who lived through the days and years chronicled here, especially those of us who lived in the places Steven D. Classen studies, the memories are painful, the history is precise, the analysis essential. Classen’s strong recognition that television is something people do is a challenge not only for scholars, but for policymakers and citizens who recognize how much remains to be done.”—Horace Newcomb, director of the George Foster Peabody Awards at the University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Reconstruction 1 1: Broadcast Foundations 31 2: Consuming Civil Rights 52 3: Trouble around the Ponderosa 75 4: Programming/Regulating Whiteness 107 5: Blacking out: Remembering TV and the Sixties 140 6: Not Forgetting 174 Appendix: Chronology 197 Notes 205 Bibliography 245 Index 263
£19.79
Duke University Press Tuning Out Blackness
Book SynopsisA look at how blackness is represented in entertainment programming in Puerto Rico.Trade Review“Tuning Out Blackness offers an astute and very well informed analysis of Puerto Rico’s unique ‘racial’ programming, which in turn provides a valuable look at the deep ambivalence at the heart of the country’s sense of national identity in the shadow of U. S. ideological and cultural power.”—Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity“This book not only provides a cultural history of ‘blackness’ in Puerto Rican television, it also locates Puerto Rico as a critical blind spot in both Latin American and U. S. television studies, one that can offer new insights into the televisual representation of race, family, and nation.”—Chon Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema“[M]eticulously researched. . . . Rivero offers a well-written chronology of the ever-changing function of ‘blackness’ and its relationship to the ‘la gran familia puertoriqueña discourse’ (nationalist discourse) that is perpetually being rearticulated on Puerto Rico. . . . I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in issues related to popular culture and race and ethnicity.” -- Amanda V. Branker * Journal of American Ethnic History *“This book contributes a powerful analysis of the dialectics that forge discourses on race and nation in local Puerto Rican televisual productions. . . . Rivero’s book is a well-documented cultural reading of television as an important force in the shaping of localized forms of collective social imagination. This study represents a milestone in media research in Puerto Rico mainly because Rivero’s analysis is articulated from the inside, not the outside.” -- Mirerza González-Vélez * Journal of Communication Inquiry *“Yeidy Rivero’s Tuning Out Blackness provides a well documented cultural history of “blackness” in Puerto Rican television. . . . [S]he makes excellent use of participant observation, interviews, archival research, and textual analysis to critically analyze representations of race in local Puerto Rican television.” -- Dwight E. Brooks * Journalism History *"Ground-breaking and complex. . . . Provocative. . . . A rich, engaging, vital contribution to television history and popular culture studies, Puerto Rican and Latino studies, and racial and ethnic studies. Highly recommended." -- S.A. Vega Garcia * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Translating Televisual “Blackness” 1 1. Caribbean Negritos: Ramon Rivero, Blackface, and Black Voice in Puerto Rico 22 2. Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and the Resurgent Popularity of Blackface 67 3. The CubaRican Space Revisited 115 4. Mi familia: A Black Puerto Rican Televisual Family 147 5. Translating and Representing Blackness 185 Notes 199 Bibliography 235 Index 255
£999.99
MD - Duke University Press Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic
Book SynopsisA comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic worldTrade Review“This anthology links Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States in its analysis of the role of gender in creating new social orders after the end of slavery. Taken together, the essays are clear, compelling, complex, and ultimately unsettling in their evocation of a past filled with hope for great change and largely effective struggles for its containment.”—Eileen Findlay, author of Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920“This innovative volume highlights the quite different ways in which men and women achieved freedom and faced the possibility of citizenship in postemancipation societies. By examining ideologies of gender as well as differences in experiences, the contributing authors broaden our understanding of emancipation as a transformative process. By placing women of color at the center of the analysis, moreover, many of these authors develop a new picture of the dynamics of emancipation.”—Rebecca Scott, author of Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery“[A] must-read for scholars of the Atlantic world, gender history, colonial studies, and comparative slavery and emancipation. The clearly written introduction and tightly edited chapters are suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, while the bibilographic essay is a good starting point to the historiography of some of the major debates.” -- Kerry Ward * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“[A] thought-provoking collection of essays . . . valuable for its discussions of divergent gender ideals among men and women slaves, elites and non-elites, planters, abolitionists, and missionaries. It is most important for its descriptions of the efforts of former slaves to contest and define what it meant to be free and male, versus free and female, in the aftermath of emancipation.” -- Kathleen Higgins * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Maps vii Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully 1 Part I. Men, Women, Citizens 35 Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844 / Pamela Scully 37 Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848 / Sue Peabody 56 Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller 79 Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson 99 A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople / Carol Faulkner 121 Part II. Families, Land, and Labor 141 Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton 143 Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts 162 Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World / Michael Zeuske 181 Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodriguez-Silva 199 Part III. The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation 223 Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton 225 Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888 / Sheena Boa 247 Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890—1920 / Martha Abreu (translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan) 267 The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen 289 Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878 / Marek Steedman 310 Bibliographic Essay / Diana Paton 328 Contributors 357 Index 361
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MD - Duke University Press Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic
Book SynopsisA comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic worldTrade Review“This anthology links Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States in its analysis of the role of gender in creating new social orders after the end of slavery. Taken together, the essays are clear, compelling, complex, and ultimately unsettling in their evocation of a past filled with hope for great change and largely effective struggles for its containment.”—Eileen Findlay, author of Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920“This innovative volume highlights the quite different ways in which men and women achieved freedom and faced the possibility of citizenship in postemancipation societies. By examining ideologies of gender as well as differences in experiences, the contributing authors broaden our understanding of emancipation as a transformative process. By placing women of color at the center of the analysis, moreover, many of these authors develop a new picture of the dynamics of emancipation.”—Rebecca Scott, author of Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery“[A] must-read for scholars of the Atlantic world, gender history, colonial studies, and comparative slavery and emancipation. The clearly written introduction and tightly edited chapters are suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, while the bibilographic essay is a good starting point to the historiography of some of the major debates.” -- Kerry Ward * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“[A] thought-provoking collection of essays . . . valuable for its discussions of divergent gender ideals among men and women slaves, elites and non-elites, planters, abolitionists, and missionaries. It is most important for its descriptions of the efforts of former slaves to contest and define what it meant to be free and male, versus free and female, in the aftermath of emancipation.” -- Kathleen Higgins * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Maps vii Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully 1 Part I. Men, Women, Citizens 35 Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844 / Pamela Scully 37 Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848 / Sue Peabody 56 Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller 79 Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson 99 A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople / Carol Faulkner 121 Part II. Families, Land, and Labor 141 Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton 143 Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts 162 Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World / Michael Zeuske 181 Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodriguez-Silva 199 Part III. The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation 223 Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton 225 Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888 / Sheena Boa 247 Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song: Southeastern Brazil, 1890—1920 / Martha Abreu (translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan) 267 The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen 289 Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878 / Marek Steedman 310 Bibliographic Essay / Diana Paton 328 Contributors 357 Index 361
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Duke University Press Morocco Bound
Book SynopsisAn examination of American Orientalist representations of North Africa from 1942 to 1973Trade Review“Morocco Bound is a powerful meditation on the question of why the circulation of cultural representations matters…. Given its important critical interventions, Morocco Bound should be a required text for a broad range of readers and scholars in the fields of American studies, postcolonialism, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern Studies.” - Ali Behdad, Comparative Literature"Throughout this book it is clear that Edwards views dialogue as a modest corrective to Orientalist tendencies, often pointing out moments when opportunities for exchange were missed. Edwards’s own work is consciously collaborative and dialogic; he acknowledges his debt to Moroccan colleagues. His own experiences in Morocco, the ground on which this book is built, constitutes yet another chapter in the American-Moroccan encounter at an historical moment when the need for dialogue and conversation across the gaping chasm separating the United States and the Arab world is as dire as ever." - Allen Hibbard, Comparative Literature Studies"Not only does Edwards’s book propose a methodology that importantly indicates the material differences between text and context, but it also breaks new scholarly ground in presenting a new area of study for transnational American studies: the orientalist construction of the Maghreb. In doing so, Morocco Bound represents a timely intervention into the epistemological and material violence of the present moment and promises to be a study that will be returned to long after the present conflict (hopefully) has passed." - Christopher Breu, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East"Morocco Bound is an exemplary work of postcolonial American studies scholarship, one acutely sensitive to the importance of the specificities of colonial and imperial relations in the Maghreb. Yet Morocco Bound is no predictable ideological study. Edwards constantly foregrounds the historical complexities of encounter in each text he analyzes while simultaneously presenting nuanced close readings. In the process, he challenges familiar theoretical paradigms and presents us with new possibilities." - Malini Johar Schueller, American Quarterly“Morocco Bound announces a radical departure from contemporary debates on orientalism through an interesting deployment of the concept of circulation in its study of the U.S. encounter with North Africa and through an astute consideration of the ways that American texts translate the North African Arab and Berber other. With this book, postcolonialism, cultural studies, African studies, and American studies will be refreshed and can begin some of the most exciting debates anew.”—Taieb Belghazi, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco“By his commitment to working across languages, treating several disciplines and diverse cultural levels (official, mass, avant-garde), and by his disruptive practice of reading Arabic voices together with Anglophones, Brian Edwards has produced an exemplary performance of what American Studies must become in the twenty-first century.”—Jonathan Arac, author of The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820–1860"As literary studies in the United States founder between America globalizing and the globe Americanizing, Brian T. Edwards's brilliant analysis of how America becomes worldly for others is a model for future work. Here language-based close readings bring literary criticism and the study of cultural politics together as the author guides us with a sure hand from cold war ideology, through 'hippie orientalism' and postcoloniality, onto the threshold of the consequences of globalization seen in a new perspective."—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak“Morocco Bound is a fascinating and insightful account of the multiple ways that Americans engaged Morocco from the 1940s to the 1970s. . . . [A] sophisticated and fascinating work of first-class scholarship that will be of great interest to scholars and students of history, cultural and literary studies, and area studies.” -- Melani McAlister * Journal of American History *"Morocco Bound offers a compelling account both of the Maghreb as an important contact zone in the formation of the United States as a global power and of American orientalism as a formative component in American foreign relations. . . . [T]he power here lies in detailed cultural historiography, and some of the text’s most compelling moments reside in the connective tissue of Edwards’s historicist argumentation." -- Margaux Cowden * GLQ *“Morocco Bound is a powerful meditation on the question of why the circulation of cultural representations matters…. Given its important critical interventions, Morocco Bound should be a required text for a broad range of readers and scholars in the fields of American studies, postcolonialism, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern Studies.” -- Ali Behdad * Comparative Literature *"Morocco Bound is an exemplary work of postcolonial American studies scholarship, one acutely sensitive to the importance of the specificities of colonial and imperial relations in the Maghreb. Yet Morocco Bound is no predictable ideological study. Edwards constantly foregrounds the historical complexities of encounter in each text he analyzes while simultaneously presenting nuanced close readings. In the process, he challenges familiar theoretical paradigms and presents us with new possibilities." -- Malini Johar Schueller * American Quarterly *"Not only does Edwards’s book propose a methodology that importantly indicates the material differences between text and context, but it also breaks new scholarly ground in presenting a new area of study for transnational American studies: the orientalist construction of the Maghreb. In doing so, Morocco Bound represents a timely intervention into the epistemological and material violence of the present moment and promises to be a study that will be returned to long after the present conflict (hopefully) has passed." -- Christopher Breu * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *"Throughout this book it is clear that Edwards views dialogue as a modest corrective to Orientalist tendencies, often pointing out moments when opportunities for exchange were missed. Edwards’s own work is consciously collaborative and dialogic; he acknowledges his debt to Moroccan colleagues. His own experiences in Morocco, the ground on which this book is built, constitutes yet another chapter in the American-Moroccan encounter at an historical moment when the need for dialogue and conversation across the gaping chasm separating the United States and the Arab world is as dire as ever." -- Allen Hibbard * Comparative Literature Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Morocco Bound, 1942–1973 1 Part I: Taking Casablanca 1. American Orientalism: Taking Casablanca 29 2. Sheltering Screens: Paul Bowles and Foreign Relations 78 II. Queer Tangier 3. Tangier(s): The Multiple Cold War Contexts of the International Zone 121 4. Disorienting the National Subject: Burroughs's Tangier, Hitchcock's Marrakech 158 5. Three Serious Writers Two Serious Authors: Jane Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and the Erotics of Collaboration Politics of Translation 198 III. Marrackech Express 6. Hippie Orientalism: The Interpretation of Countercultures 247 Notes 303 Works Cited 335 Index 351
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Duke University Press Econophonia
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Duke University Press Territories and Trajectories
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Territories and Trajectories propose a model of cultural production and transmission based on the global diffusion, circulation, and exchange of people, things, and ideas across time and space.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: On Disciplines and Destinations / Homi K. Bhabha 1 Editor's Introduction: Alternative Geographic Mappings for the Twenty-First Century / Diana Sorensen 13 Part I. Travel and Transmission 1. The Diplomacy of Exoticism: Brazilian Accounts of the Global South / Rosario Hubert 35 2. Hearing Geography in Motion: Processes of the Musical Imagination in Diaspora / Kay Kaufman Shelemay 47 3. A Chinese Fan in Sri Lanka and the Transport of Writing / Xiaofei Tian 68 Part II. Portable Materialities and Crossings 4. The Portability of Art: A Prologomena to Art and Architecture on the Move / Alina Payne 91 5. Genealogies of Whitewash: "Muhammedan Churches," Reformation Polemics, and the Aesthetics of Modernism / Finbarr Barry Flood 110 6. Mobility and Material Culture: A Case Study / Diana Sorensen 151 Part III. Worlding, Rights, and Regimes of Representation 7. World Literature and the Health Humanities: Translingual Encounters with Brain Disorders / Karen Thornber 163 8. In But Not of Europe? The Precarious Rights of Roma in the European Union / Jacqueline Bhabha 185 9. From World History to World Art: Reflections on New Geographies of Feminist Art / Shu-Mei Shih 201 Part IV. Crosscurrents and Displacements 10. Technologies of Uncertainty in the Search for Flight MH370 / Lindsay Bremner 223 Contributors 257 Index 261
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University of Pittsburgh Press Unorganized Women
Book SynopsisAcross a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Black Urban History at the Crossroads
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University of Pittsburgh Press Political Leadership A Source Book Pitt Series in Policy Institutional Studies
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University of Hawai'i Press Potent Landscapes Pa Southeast Asia Politics
Book SynopsisThe Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make places and pathways âœlively,â re-traveling routes between houses and villages and highlighting the advantages of mobility. Through everyday and ritual activities that emphasise âœliveliness,â the land gains a further potency: the power to evoke memories of birth, death, and marriage, to influence human health and fertility. Potent Landscapes is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape and the implications of that power for human needs, behaviour, and emotions. Based on two years of fieldwork in rural Flores, the book situates Manggarai place-making and mobility within the la
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University of Hawai'i Press Intimate Japan Ethnographies of Closeness and
Book SynopsisExplores a broad range of intimate practices in Japan in the first decades of the 2000s to trace how social change is becoming manifest through deeply personal choices. The volume's chapters offer rich and complex portraits of how people balance personal desires with feasible possibilities and shifting social norms.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Colonial New Mexican Families Community Church
Book SynopsisIn villages scattered across the northern reaches of Spain’s New World empire, remote from each other and from the centers of power, family mattered. In this book Suzanne Stamatov skilfully relies on both ecclesiastical and civil records to discover how families formed and endured during this period of contention in the eighteenth century.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. The Setting Chapter Two. Civil Authorities, Civil Law, and Family Chapter Three. The Sacrament of Marriage Chapter Four. Sexuality and Courtship Chapter Five. Marriage Chapter Six. Domestic Life and Discord Conclusion Appendix Notes on Sources Notes Bibliography Index
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