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University of Georgia Press Fishing for Chickens A Smokies Food Memoir
Book SynopsisA well-seasoned blend of memoir and cookbook, Fishing for Chickens offers the perspective of a Bryson City, North Carolina, native on a particular portion of southern Appalachia - the Smokies.
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University of Georgia Press Wanted A Nation Black Americans and Haiti
Book SynopsisPresents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century.Trade ReviewThis is a terrific book that brings new material and interpretations to a burgeoning field of study surrounding the links between the United States and Haiti and the place of Haiti in African American practice and thought. It places anglophone and francophone writing and scholarship into dialogue in an important and innovative way." - Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
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University of Georgia Press Dynamic Design
Book SynopsisDetails Jay Hambidge and Mary Crovatt Hambidge’s cross-cultural and cross-historical explorations and examines their lasting contributions to twentieth-century art and cultural history.
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University of Georgia Press Islamophobia in France
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed argue that Islamophobia in France is not the result of individual prejudice or supposed Muslim cultural or racial deficiencies but rather arose out of structures of power and control already in place in France.
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University of Georgia Press Green City Rising
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University of Georgia Press Stories Can Save Us Americas Best Narrative
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LUP - University of Georgia Press A Southern Underground Railroad Black Georgians
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John Wiley & Sons Public Archaeology for the TwentyFirst Century
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Liverpool University Press Jazz June A SelfPortrait in Essays
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John Wiley & Sons Aid and Reform in Africa Lessons from Ten Case Studies
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Global Development Finance 2011
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MJ - Ohio University Press Nostos
Book SynopsisIn choosing the winning manuscript for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, judge Andrew Hudgins remarked: “With immense poetic verve, Pelizzon finds flamboyance in places where it has been forgotten and brings it back to vivid life—and she sees it for what it is.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Children in Slavery through the Ages
Book SynopsisSignificant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas.Trade Review“This anthology epitomized the strengths of the new history of slavery: a world-wide perspective that cuts across time and space … and an emphasis on the actual experience of enslavement and on enslaved peoples as active agents with their own distinct voices.”“The new history of slavery has begun to excavate women’s experiences and unpack the gendered nature of enslavement, but Campbell et al. offer the first focus on children, a focus that clearly resonates with international concern about child labor and child sexual abuse in the world today…. This is a path-breaking collection….” * Enterprise & Society *“The aims of (Children in Slavery Through the Ages’s) editors—to uncover the reasons for the purchase of slave children; and to illustrate their experiences—are amply fulfilled…. What is particularly illuminating about these essays is their potential to inform the study of children in contemporary forms of slavery, where here too, poverty is a central feature, deceit is widespread, and children are perceived as more submissive and easier to control.” * Reviews in History *“This excellent collection of studies on children in slavery leaves one looking forward to the second volume, which one hopes will provide a broader discussion of what the study of enslaved children can tell us about slavery (and childhood) more generally.” * Africa: Journal of the IAI *
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Ohio University Press Recasting the Past History Writing and Political
Book SynopsisThe study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa’s thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view.Trade Review“As a group, the contributors and editors of Recasting the Past constitute one of the most impressive cohorts of scholars brought together in a collective volume project in the past three decades. This work will be required reading for any individual venturing into serious study of Africa’s past.”“Collectively the authors of Recasting the Past are to be saluted, as are their editors. As an assertion of the vibrancy of Christian Africa’s history of ideas in the twentieth century, this collection could hardly be richer.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This collection accomplishes what no monograph could because these nuanced inquiries each require deep expertise. The variety of questions posed here suggests many ways that professional historians could appreciate more fully the production of historical knowledge in Africa. Students of African intellectual history will come away better able to appreciate the deep and multiple roots that generate the production of culture in Africa.” * American Historical Review *“Despite the study of Africa’s intellectual history being curiously underdeveloped, the work in (Recasting the Past) confronts the idea that the study of African history is solely the preserve of professional historians.” * Political Studies Review *“This lively volume focuses on what the editors call Africa’s homespun historians: non-professionals who, throughout the twentieth century, devoted passionate and painstaking intellectual labor to recreating the past, often in vernacular languages.…(Recasting the Past) makes a welcome intervention in African intellectual history. In many ways, it is a model of the genre.” * Journal of African History *“These are magnificent essays. What this collection shows with great power and verve is that starting early in the last century Africans constructed their own historical accounts using various methods, frameworks, and analytical tools. It adds a dimension to our understanding of the African past—and the African understanding of the African past—that is long overdue.”
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Ohio University Press Frantz Fanon Toward a Revolutionary Humanism
Book SynopsisA timely and original short biography reintroducing Fanon for a new generation of readers. Written with clarity and passion, Christopher J. Lee’s account argues for the pragmatic idealism of Frantz Fanon and his continued importance today.Trade Review“Lee’s marvelous and careful biographical study is now the go-to book for those seeking to understand Frantz Fanon in his historical and intellectual context. It is, simply put, synthesis and analysis at their best.”“This book provides the reader with an invaluable guide to Fanon’s life and an accessible gateway to those interested in further exploring the intellectual worlds in which he developed his thinking..” * Africa at LSE *“Christopher Lee has written a delightfully compelling introduction to Frantz Fanon. Well-researched and thoroughly grounded, Lee’s study admirably situates Fanon in the broadest historical context, while subtly explaining Fanon’s powerful legacy today. This book taught me many things, revealing in intriguing ways the works of a black thinker from Martinique who so passionately embraced the Algerian Revolution, and so ardently desired to be embraced by it.”“In Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, Christopher J. Lee takes on the task of introducing a complex thinker in a short tract…. [He] provides a whirlwind tour of Fanon’s life, ideas and context…. Lee’s reading of Fanon provides a much needed nuance that is often missing when dealing with Fanon.” * Marx and Philosophy *“This smart and much-needed study persuasively resituates the life and thought of Fanon for a twenty-first-century audience.”
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Ohio University Press A History of Tourism in Africa
Book SynopsisThis book—ideal for African and world history classes, as well as for potential travelers to the continent—takes readers on a journey through the dynamics of Africa’s tourist history from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate and challenge deeply ingrained (mis)perceptions about the continent and its peoples.Trade Review“Ready for adventure under control? Cleveland’s book invites us to explore the experiences and meanings of tourism in Africa and its profound impact on how the continent is imagined. It also provides a different reading of Western modernity as a producer of otherness through one of its most profitable products: tourism, where verbs such as to travel become to explore and to discover, preserving the allure of colonial sagas and developmental missions. Experience of difference, heritage, traditions, nature, wildlife, and community culture, have been and are (re)shaped, tailored, commodified, and contested in complex and conflicting local-global power relations from the nineteenth century under the dynamics of tourism in the continent. Their impact on African lives is a capital ingredient of this journey confronting artificial Africas with the realities that the tourism industry produces.” -- Mónica Inés Cejas, author of Feminismo, cultura y política: El contexto como acertijo (Feminism, Culture and Politics: Context as a Riddle)“Todd Cleveland brings together significant facets of tourist history on the African continent into one engaging read. Whereas many tourist studies focus on the tourist, vitally, A History of Tourism in Africa illuminates the myriad competing desires at play in all tourist sites—those of tourists, governments, laborers, and local communities. By presenting these competing perspectives on tourism within the thematic frames of his chapters, Cleveland reveals the complicated nature of African tourist industries, as well as how, from the start, they have been interwoven with the history of socio-politico-economic developments across the continent.” -- Carol L. Magee, author of Urban Cadence: Street Scenes from Lagos and Johannesburg"A seminal and meticulously presented study … [and] an inherently fascinating and impressively informative history. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, A History of Tourism in Africa is an original and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library collections in African history and cultural anthropology in general, and African hospitality, travel, and tourism supplemental curriculum studies lists in particular. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Touristic Illusions and Realities 1. Initial Touristic Incursions to Africa 2. Hunting in Africa: Invisible Guides, Big Game, and Bigger Egos 3. Profits and Propaganda: Tourism in Colonial Africa 4. Paradoxes of Independence: Modernizing by Promoting Primitivism 5. The Touristic Invention of the African Camera Safari 6. Going Home: The Diasporic Quest for Belonging through “Roots” Tourism 7. Controversial New(er) Forms of Tourism in Africa Study Guide and Selected Readings Notes Index
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Ohio University Press African Leaders of the Twentieth Century Volume
Book SynopsisThis omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Amílcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. African Leaders of the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 complements courses in history and political science and serves as a useful collection for general readers.
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Ohio University Press Spear
Book SynopsisSpanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa’s apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.Trade Review“For those content to see Mandela as nothing more than everyone’s favorite grandpa, this book will make for uncomfortable reading; for those who want to appreciate Mandela in the fullness of his life and of the choices he made with that complex and remarkable life, this humdinger of a book will help them see Mandela in a new and more illuminating light.” -- Jacob S. T. Dlamini, author of Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park and Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle“Landau is rightly incensed with the elite nationalism of the ANC and hints at how its fault lines can be traced back to the sectarian pressure groups within the 1960s struggle movement. The ANC hardly has ‘a good story to tell,’ but something truly fresh, even sympathetic, emerges when the story of the struggle for liberation is not homogenized around their triumphalist mono-narrative tropes. Landau’s book leads the pack here.” -- Rithuli Orleyn * Mail and Guardian *“This retelling of the story of Nelson Mandela’s armed rebellion between 1960 and 1964 is a fresh and exciting reinterpretation of a narrative that too often is told with the distorting effects of hindsight. Paul Landau has drawn upon conversations with a literal army of informed participants, 250 people from the movement that Mandela helped to make, its commanders, its foot-soldiers, and its camp-followers. He has also reread and reinterpreted the compendious archival record. Emerging from this research is a very different Mandela from the kindly patriarch who wrote his memoirs thirty years after these events: radical, tough-minded, and calculating. This is the story of what Nelson Mandela at the time of the rebellion was seeking to achieve, what he was thinking, and what he actually did, day by day. Most importantly, Landau offers new and persuasive explanations for the considerations that shaped Mandela’s decision-making. Spear is an astonishing breakthrough achievement.” -- Tom Lodge, University of Limerick, author of Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and Its Consequences“Paul Landau offers us an outstanding book on Umkhonto we Sizwe, with the figure of Nelson Mandela at the centre of the story. He pays close attention to affective relationships among protagonists, all too rare among male scholars. The book connects biography to strategic political thinking in interesting new ways. Written in Landau’s trademark lucid and engaging style, the study is critical even while appreciative of the heroic ambitions of his subject. This gripping read is a meticulous and pathbreaking contribution to scholarship on revolutionary movements as well as to South African historiography.” -- Shireen Hassim, author of Fatima Meer and The ANC Women's League: Sex, Gender and Politics“Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries is one of the most important books on South Africa to appear in more than a generation. A masterpiece of analysis and careful historical reconstruction, Landau revisits a crucial moment in the country’s modern history, when a group of activists turned revolutionaries led by Nelson Mandela pursued the overthrow of the racist apartheid state. Concentrating on the early 1960s at the very moment South Africa was becoming an authoritarian order, Landau brilliantly reconstructs the world within which Mandela and others around him committed themselves to revolutionary violence—what they read, the debates that unfolded and, crucially, how they understood South Africa in the wider world. Based on unparalleled research, including an extraordinary array of interviews, Spear takes on a range of controversial subjects: the decision to use violence, the fractious struggles within the ANC’s leadership, and Nelson Mandela himself. Empathic and iconoclastic, Landau’s discoveries may unsettle some readers, but no one will be able to look at the early 1960s the way they used to, as well as the ANC’s three decade-old grip on South Africa. This timely and learned book is mandatory reading for anyone interested in South Africa, political violence, and the end of colonialism." -- Clifton Crais, author of Poverty, War, and Violence in South AfricaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Crisis (March 1960) Chapter 2 The Making of the Crisis (The Postwar Era) Chapter 3 Emergency Mobilization (April 1960 to Early 1961) Chapter 4 Persuasion (June 1961 to August 1961) Chapter 5 Mandela’s Bookcase (1961) Chapter 6 Spear (Late 1961) Chapter 7 Dingane’s Day (December 1961 to Early July 1962) Chapter 8 Interruption (Mid-1962) Chapter 9 Big Country (Later 1962) Chapter 10 Operation Mayibuye (November 1962 to June 1963) Chapter 11 In Pieces (Mid-1963 to Mid-1964) Chapter 12 Revolution Displaced (1963/4 Onward) Appendix A Missing Documents Mentioned in This Book Appendix B Mandela, Communist (Nationalist) Notes Sources Index
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Ohio University Press Settling Ohio
Book SynopsisScholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. This volume retells a worn story as one of contested spaces, competing visions of nationhood, and complicated relations with Native American peoples.Trade Review“Provides new and fresh insights into the settlement of the Ohio country.”“An important collection of essays that should find abundant and long-term use in the classroom.”Table of ContentsForeword by M. DUANE NELLIS Introduction by BRIAN SCHOEN PART I: First Nations 1 The True Pioneers: A Brief Overview of Prehistoric Native Americans in Ohio, by JOSEPH A. M. GINGERICH 2 Situating Settlement in Ohio: The Eighteenth Century from Local and Atlantic Perspectives, by CAMERON SHRIVER 3 Who Speaks in the Name of the Miami Nation? by JOHN BICKERS PART 2: American Foundations 4 Ohio, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Constitutional Foundations of the United States, by JESSICA CHOPPIN RONEY 5 Selective Migration and the Production of Ohio’s Regional Cultural Landscapes: A Genealogical Geography, by TIMOTHY G. ANDERSON 6 (Re)tracing Zane: Zane’s Trace and Production of Space in the Ohio Country, by WILLIAM M. HUNTER 7 Ice Water Baths and Rising Waters: Dudley Woodbridge Jr.’s Commercial Connections along the Ohio and Its Tributaries in the Early Republic, by KIM M. GRUENWALD 8 Johnny Appleseed and Apple Cultures in Early Ohio, by WILLIAM KERRIGAN PART 3: ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES 9 What If Manasseh Cutler Were Black? The History of the Diverse Pioneers Who Created Ohio, by ANNA-LISA COX 10 Federalist Failure: Conflict and Disorder in the Northwest Territory, by JOSEPH THOMAS ROSS 11 Public Education in the Old Northwest: Legacies of Ohio’s First Land Grant, by ADAM R. NELSON Conclusion, by TIMOTHY G. ANDERSON Afterword: History vs. Legacy, by CHIEF GLENNA J. WALLACE
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MJ - Ohio University Press Berlin and the Cold War
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Ohio University Press Available Light Omar Badsha and the Struggle for
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MJ - Ohio University Press Virus Research in TwentiethCentury Uganda
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MJ - Ohio University Press Elusive Histories Mozambican Migrant Laborers in
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MJ - Ohio University Press Malaria on the Move Rural Communities and Public
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MJ - Ohio University Press Larks Poems
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MJ - Ohio University Press Slavery and Religious Conversion in Portugals
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MJ - Ohio University Press Yorùbá Metaphysics
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MJ - Ohio University Press For You Id Steal a Goat
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American Mathematical Society Problems and Theorems in Linear Algebra
Book SynopsisPresents the basics of linear algebra, with an emphasis on nonstandard and interesting proofs. This book features about 230 problems with solutions. It is suitable as a supplementary text for an undergraduate or graduate algebra course.Table of ContentsMain notations and conventions Determinants Linear spaces Canonical forms of matrices and linear operators Matrices of special form Multilinear algebra Matrix inequalities Matrices in algebra and calculus Appendix Bibliography Subject index.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Basic Analysis
Book SynopsisIncludes a treatment of exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions, progressions, and induction method, as well as an extensive introduction to differential and integral calculus.Table of ContentsExponential and logarithmic functions Trigonometric functions Progressions Differentiation and its applications Integration and its applications.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Mathematics 2
Book SynopsisCovers basic notions of probability and statistics, vectors, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions, and an introduction to differentiation and integration.Table of ContentsVarious functions Vectors Progressions Differentiation and its applications Integration and its applications Probability Statistics Computers and flowcharts.
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American Mathematical Society Cohomological Analysis of Partial Differential
Book SynopsisFocuses on the fundamentals of a theory, which is an analog of affine algebraic geometry for partial differential equations. This work describes applications of Secondary Calculus ranging from algebraic geometry to field theory, classical and quantum, including areas such as characteristic classes, differential invariants and variational calculus.Table of ContentsFrom symmetries of partial differential equations to Secondary Calculus Elements of differential calculus in commutative algebras Geometry of finite-order contact structures and the classical theory of symmetries of partial differential equations Geometry of infinitely prolonged differential equations and higher symmetries $\mathcal{C}$-spectral sequence and some applications Introduction to Secondary Calculus Bibliography Index.
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American Mathematical Society Representation Theory of Finite Groups Algebra
Book SynopsisRepresentation theory plays important roles in geometry, algebra, analysis, and mathematical physics. This book presents an introduction to the representation theory of finite groups from an algebraic point of view, regarding representations as modules over the group algebra. It is suitable for a year-long graduate course.Table of ContentsDedication page Introduction Semisimple rings and modules Semisimple group representations Induced representations and applications Introduction to modular representations General rings and modules Modular group representations Some useful results Bibliography Index.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Control and Nonlinearity
Book SynopsisPresents methods to study the controllability and the stabilization of nonlinear control systems in finite and infinite dimensions. The emphasis is on specific phenomena due to nonlinearities. In particular, many examples are given where nonlinearities turn out to be essential to get controllability or stabilization.Trade ReviewThis well written book by Jean-Michel Coron, one of the world leading experts in the field, enables the reader to enter the difficult subject and to understand the most important methods used here. A book like this was urgently needed." — Zentralblatt MATH"Throughout of the book, the author gives extensive historical comments and he mentions a great number of additional results." — Mathematical Reviews
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Duke University Press Signs of Borges
Book SynopsisAvailable for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault, Blanchot, and the entire body of Borges scholarship, Sylvia Molloy explores the problem of meaning in Borges''s work by remaining true to the uncanniness that is its foundation. Borges''s sustained practice of the uncanny gives rise in his texts to endless tensions between illusion and meaning, and to the competing desires for fragmentation, dispersal, and stability. Molloy traces the movement of Borges''s own writing by repeatedly spanning the boundaries of genre and cutting across the conventional separations of narrative, lyric and essay, fact and fiction. Rather than seeking to resolve the tensions and conflicts, she preserves and develops them, thereby maintaining the potential of these texts to disturb. At the site of these tensions, Molloy locates the play between meTrade Review"I can think of no other scholar of Latin American literature who enjoys and amply deserves the reputation of Sylvia Molloy. She is a brilliant reader and an elegant writer, the one scholar who makes Borges accessible without making him simple."—Doris Sommer, Amherst CollegeTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 1. Shadow Plays 5 2. Textual Rubrications 26 3. Fragments and Greeks 40 4. Postulating a Reality, Selecting a Reality 58 5. Converting the Simulacrum 77 6. Pleasure and Perplexity 95 7. The Buried Foundation 112 Abbreviations 131 Notes 133 Index 139
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Duke University Press Nothing Happens
Book SynopsisThrough films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. This title presents the study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker.Trade Review“A fine writer and a skilled and gifted critic, Margulies offers many new insights into Akerman’s important work. The readings of Akerman’s films—in particular the contextualization of the work in a wider range of frameworks—are excellent. An impressive book.”—Judith Mayne, Ohio State University“A significant and original contribution, not just to Akerman scholarship, but to film studies generally.”—David James, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chantal Akerman's Films: The Politics of the Singular 1 1. Nothing Happens: Time for the Everyday in Postwar Realist Cinema 21 Charting the Everyday in Postwar Europe 24 A Realism of Surfaces: Bazin and Neorealist Film 27 From Surface to Structure: Barthes, Godard, and the Textualization of Reality 33 Beyond Cinematic Postivism: The Antirescue Cinema of Andy Warhol 36 2. Toward a Corporeal Cinema: Theatricality in the '70s 42 The United States in Real Time: Minimal, Hyperreal, and Structural 48 Quotation Reconsidered: European "Theatrical" Cinema 54 3. The Equivalence of Events: Jeanne DIelman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 65 Excess Description: Robbe-Grillet and Cinematic Hyperrealism 69 Bracketing Drama: The Other Scene 73 The Murder, and, and, and . . . : An Aesthetics of Homogeneity 80 The Automaton: Agency and Causality in Jeanne Dielman 88 4. Expanding the "I": Character in Experimental Feminist Narrative 100 The Lure of Center in Rainer's Work: A Cautionary Tale 104 The Eroded Index: Liminality in Je tu il elle 109 An Alogical, Fitful, Evidence 112 "Here Is": Redundant Description 118 A Mock Centrality: An A-individual Singularity 121 5. "Her" and Jeanne Dielman: Type as Commerce 128 For Example, "Her": Godard and the "Natural" Sign 131 Jeanne Dielman: An Exceptional Typicality 140 6. Forms of Address: Epistolary Performance, Monologue, and Bla Bla Bla 149 Epistolary Performance: News from Home 150 Talk Blocks: Meetings with Anna 154 Postscript: The Man with the Suitcase and A Filmmaker's Letter 161 What is Wrong with Signing? A Filmmaker's Letter 166 7. The Rhythm of Cliché: Akerman into the '90s 171 Eight Times "Oui": Singularity in Toute une nuit 173 Night and Day and Night: The Cycle Revisited 182 So Let's Sing: The Eighties and Window Shopping 185 Echoes from the East: Histoires D'Amérique and D'est 192 To Conclude: It Is Time 204 Filmography 213 Notes 215 Bibliography 247 Index 263
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Duke University Press The Queen of America Goes to Washington City
Book SynopsisFocuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of public life borne in the right-wing agenda of the Reagan revolution.Trade Review“Berlant offers a trenchant genealogy of the imaginary realm of citizenship, resituating cultural contests over sex, race, and nation as conflicts over the defining fantasies of public life. Few cultural critics move with as much skill and insight between debates over the public sphere and how best to read pornography. This text links the analytic concerns of cultural studies with the fugitive struggles over the imaginable bounds of citizenship. A keen and disarming book.”—Judith Butler“Taking her (counter)cue from that celebrated sitcom of American life, ‘The Reagan Years,’ Lauren Berlant makes an exhilarating argument for a theory of ‘comedic’ citizenship. What happens when the collusive myths of the ‘common culture’ become obsessed and estranged by the fraying and freeing of the American people—plurally identified, demographically diverse, sexually ambivalent, culturally mongrel? Berlant’s wit and insight lie in going with the ‘silliness’ of everyday existence, inhabiting its persuasive, popular forms, and then, in ways you least expect, throwing up a devastating picture of the way we live now.”—Homi K. BhabhaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Intimate Public Sphere 1 1 The Theory of Infantile Citizenship 25 2 Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) 55 3 America, "Fat," the Fetus 83 4 Queer Nationality (written with Elizabeth Freeman) 145 5 The Face of America and the State of Emergency 175 6 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva Citizenship 221 7 Outtakes from the Citizenship Museum 247 Notes 261 Bibliography 289 Index 303
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Duke University Press Chinese Poetry 2nd ed. Revised
Book SynopsisCovering the genres of Chinese poetry, this volume provides an introduction to the Chinese poetry. The sections of the volume are introduced by a short essay on the mode or genre of poem and is followed by a comprehensive bibliography. It is aimed at students of Chinese poetry.Trade Review“For three decades now, Wai-lim Yip has been a linking figure between American modernism (in-the-line-of-Pound) and Chinese traditions and practices form which that modernism has long drawn. His two classic American works—in the lovely way that classic, as a word and concept, can still resonate in Chinese context—are his Pound’s Cathay and Chinese Poetry.”—Jerome Rothenberg, from the introduction to Between Landscapes: Poems by Wai-lim Yip“Yip, himself a poet, captures the rhythm of Chinese nature poetry in his characteristically punctuated and contracted imagery. The inclusion of the word-for-word annotations is a feature that distinguishes the book from most anthologies of Chinese poetry in translation.”—Jing Wang, author of The Story of Stone
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MD - Duke University Press Close Encounters of Empire
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Duke University Press Getting Medieval
Book SynopsisExplores how particular sexual practices and identifications were normalized while others were outlawed in medieval England. This work demonstrates how intellectual inquiry into pre-modern societies can contribute invaluably to contemporary issues in cultural studies. It also attempts to make connections between past and present cultures.Trade Review“Getting Medieval is an examination of how fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England has influenced Western sensibilities and sexualities today. Chaucer, Pulp Fiction, and historical documents have, not surprisingly, small degrees of separation between them, and this exhaustively researched and detailed book discusses every line which can be drawn between each.” - Lambda Book Report“[B]reathtaking. . . . Getting Medieval is clearly not your average book of medieval literary or cultural criticism, and it’s not intended only for specialists in those fields. . . [It] is a startling attempt to use aspects of medieval life and thought to make sense of the world we inhabit today and, conversely, to explore new meanings in what we know (or think we know) about life in the Middle Ages. . . . The power of Getting Medieval comes from Dinshaw’s ability—conveyed in engaging, witty, persuasive prose—to shock us into questioning the present day’s notions about the past.” - Michael Bronski, The Gay and Lesbian Review“Getting Medieval is not just for medievalists. . . . Dinshaw’s very personal, highly specific and precisely targeted vision should stimulate consideration of the meanings assigned and assignable to the medieval in the postmodern world.” - Wendy Scase, Times Higher Education Supplement“[A] tour de force in its yoking together of disparate subjects, its imaginative use of small examples to support grand hypotheses, and its exposition of current prejudices. It is a queer patchwork of past and present, marked by numerous subjeadings and a swift movement between a relatively small number of medieval instances, a selection of theoretical works, and personal discussion. It is an intelligent, consciously perverse book – one that would be difficult to imitate successfully and perhaps requires or hopes to create a consciously perverse reader.” - Corinne Saunders, Medium Aevum"Getting Medieval virtually overflows with information and ideas. . . . [Dinshaw] skillfully interweaves dozens of texts. . . . She provides rich social and historical contextualization. . . . Dinshaw makes an impassioned, well-buttressed argument for the importance of locating sexual nonconformists hidden within historical interstices." - Kathy Sisson, Sexuality and Culture“A wonderful book. The things addressed are so heterogeneous—their sheer distance from one another is a kind of elegance.”—Robert Glück, San Francisco State University“Carolyn Dinshaw is preeminent for the subtlety with which she discloses gendered turmoil in historically situated texts. I can hardly wait to have Getting Medieval on my own shelf, to have its adventurous deployments of ‘the touch of the queer’ available for frequent consultation.”—Paul Strohm, University of Oxford“This book has a beautiful range, both among premodern English discourses and in postmodern theory, and Dinshaw really and truly does make these different textualities touch.”—Louise O. Fradenburg, University of California, Santa Barbara“Getting Medieval is an examination of how fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England has influenced Western sensibilities and sexualities today. Chaucer, Pulp Fiction, and historical documents have, not surprisingly, small degrees of separation between them, and this exhaustively researched and detailed book discusses every line which can be drawn between each.” * Lambda Book Report *“Getting Medieval is not just for medievalists. . . . Dinshaw’s very personal, highly specific and precisely targeted vision should stimulate consideration of the meanings assigned and assignable to the medieval in the postmodern world.” -- Wendy Scase * Times Higher Education *“[A] tour de force in its yoking together of disparate subjects, its imaginative use of small examples to support grand hypotheses, and its exposition of current prejudices. It is a queer patchwork of past and present, marked by numerous subjeadings and a swift movement between a relatively small number of medieval instances, a selection of theoretical works, and personal discussion. It is an intelligent, consciously perverse book – one that would be difficult to imitate successfully and perhaps requires or hopes to create a consciously perverse reader.” -- Corinne Saunders * Medium Aevum *“[B]reathtaking. . . . Getting Medieval is clearly not your average book of medieval literary or cultural criticism, and it’s not intended only for specialists in those fields. . . [It] is a startling attempt to use aspects of medieval life and thought to make sense of the world we inhabit today and, conversely, to explore new meanings in what we know (or think we know) about life in the Middle Ages. . . . The power of Getting Medieval comes from Dinshaw’s ability—conveyed in engaging, witty, persuasive prose—to shock us into questioning the present day’s notions about the past.” -- Michael Bronski * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Getting Medieval virtually overflows with information and ideas. . . . [Dinshaw] skillfully interweaves dozens of texts. . . . She provides rich social and historical contextualization. . . . Dinshaw makes an impassioned, well-buttressed argument for the importance of locating sexual nonconformists hidden within historical interstices." -- Kathy Sisson * Sexuality & Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction:Touching the Past 1 Chapter OneIt Takes One to Know One: Lollards, Sodomites, and Their Accusers 55 Chapter TwoGood Vibrations: John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault 100 Chapter ThreeMargery Kempe Answers Back 143 CodaGetting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Foucault, and the Use of the Past 183 Notes 207 Bibliography 305 Index 337
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Duke University Press The Skin of the Film Intercultural Cinema
Book SynopsisHow can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? This book offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema represents embodied experience in a postcolonial, transnational world.Trade Review“The promise of Laura Marks’s The Skin of Film is the promise of thinking and living between critical discourses, experiences and cultures: the willingness to explore an embodied response capable of meeting the ‘hybrid microcultures’ of global modernity; the power to transform the memory of images, things, and the senses into ‘sensuous geographies’ of touch, smell and rhythm that inhabit and drift into a world increasingly divided between the policed frontier and the ‘placeless’ metropolis; and finally, the capacity to dwell in the critical interstice that allows thought to articulate itself on the edge of the unthought. - Tollof Nelson, CiNéMAS“[A] fascinating exploration of the ways that diasporic filmmakers have excavated, rediscovered, and reignited cultural memories through appeals to multisensorial forms of recollection that challenge the Western cinematic reliance on visual imagery . . . . [H]ighly informative and will introduce the reader to many intercultural works that have previously gone unnoticed. Marks’s clear exuberance for her work and passion for the films she discusses also shine through. Highly recommended.” - Avi Santo, The Velvet Light Trap"[A]n important document and substantial treatment of many sometimes ephemeral works of intercultural cinema. . . . Marks draws on a rich and somewhat dazzling array of theoretical sources and disciplinary fields. . . . The Skin of the Film also offers a very rich and extensive archive of intercultural cinematic productions of the eighties and nineties. . . . She manages to cover a vast range of work in an elegant, often moving writing style with curatorial detail. . . . [A]n extremely stimulating and original book. It signals a promising and very welcome move in film theory. . . . It has much to contribute to the emerging literature on affect in political and cultural studies. . . . Like the sound of dripping water or an itch that you don’t feel until you scratch, once your attention is drawn to The Skin of the Film, it becomes impossible to ignore it." - Tamara Vukov, Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies"[A] rich and rewarding read. . . . The Skin of the Film is quite unique. Offering important contributions to the redefinition of aesthetic scholarship, the author simultaneously conducts close readings of filmic works which are not well known, and presents nuanced readings of their significance, within an original theoretical framework." - Melanie Swalwell, Film-Philosophy“A marvelous interweaving of theory and historiography. This is a book that can interest film theorists, film historians, students of performance art, and scholars of postcoloniality and interculturalism. Marks explains—with rich detail—a whole range of recent cultural productions in film and video and makes those works come to life. The Skin of the Film suggests important ways to extend film theory.”—Dana Polan, University of Southern California“Marks’s nuanced reading of a large number of films and videos is based on her deep engagement with the politics of place and displacement that drives the films. This book is a delightful read.”—Hamid Naficy, Rice University“This is a terrific book! Not only does it have a significant argument to make, but it also works with a variety of little-known film/video examples in such a way as to give the reader both a vivid sense of them and a desire to go out and get hold of them.”—Vivian Sobchack, University of California at Los Angeles“[A] fascinating exploration of the ways that diasporic filmmakers have excavated, rediscovered, and reignited cultural memories through appeals to multisensorial forms of recollection that challenge the Western cinematic reliance on visual imagery . . . . [H]ighly informative and will introduce the reader to many intercultural works that have previously gone unnoticed. Marks’s clear exuberance for her work and passion for the films she discusses also shine through. Highly recommended.” -- Avi Santo * The Velvet Light Trap *“The promise of Laura Marks’s The Skin of Film is the promise of thinking and living between critical discourses, experiences and cultures: the willingness to explore an embodied response capable of meeting the ‘hybrid microcultures’ of global modernity; the power to transform the memory of images, things, and the senses into ‘sensuous geographies’ of touch, smell and rhythm that inhabit and drift into a world increasingly divided between the policed frontier and the ‘placeless’ metropolis; and finally, the capacity to dwell in the critical interstice that allows thought to articulate itself on the edge of the unthought. -- Tollof Nelson * CiNéMAS *"[A] rich and rewarding read. . . . The Skin of the Film is quite unique. Offering important contributions to the redefinition of aesthetic scholarship, the author simultaneously conducts close readings of filmic works which are not well known, and presents nuanced readings of their significance, within an original theoretical framework." -- Melanie Swalwell * Film-Philosophy *"[A]n important document and substantial treatment of many sometimes ephemeral works of intercultural cinema. . . . Marks draws on a rich and somewhat dazzling array of theoretical sources and disciplinary fields. . . . The Skin of the Film also offers a very rich and extensive archive of intercultural cinematic productions of the eighties and nineties. . . . She manages to cover a vast range of work in an elegant, often moving writing style with curatorial detail. . . . [A]n extremely stimulating and original book. It signals a promising and very welcome move in film theory. . . . It has much to contribute to the emerging literature on affect in political and cultural studies. . . . Like the sound of dripping water or an itch that you don’t feel until you scratch, once your attention is drawn to The Skin of the Film, it becomes impossible to ignore it." -- Tamara Vukov * Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Memory of Images 2. The Memory of Things 3. The Memory of Touch 4. The Memory of the Senses Conclusion: The Portable Sensorium Notes Bibliography Filmography/Videography Index
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Duke University Press The Ontogeny of Information Developmental
Book SynopsisArgues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them. This title shows that what developmental information" does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available.Trade Review“In the tale of the emperor’s new clothes, the small boy’s genius lay in his naive recognition of the great man’s nudity. Oyama has a similar, if more sophisticated genius: she recognizes the subtle manner in which molecular biologists have allowed metaphors to replace explanations. It is no exaggeration to claim that she has resolved the nature-nurture dispute and provided an altogether new vision of the processes of development and evolution.”—Peter Klopfer, Duke University“The publication of this revised edition of The Ontogeny of Information is timely and welcome, especially given the current dominance of simplistic views about genetic causation, aided by constant misuse of the ideas of information, coding and programming. Oyama’s classic discussion of these concepts combines patient, subtle dissection with bold and novel moves. The Ontogeny of Information is a work of brilliant originality and enduring relevance.”—Peter Godfrey-Smith, Stanford University“This is among the most important books on developmental theory published in the last several decades. It continues to be cited regularly in work from several different disciplines, including developmental biology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and psychology.”—Robert Lickliter, Virginia Polytechnic InstituteTable of ContentsForeword / Richard Lewontin Preface to Second Edition Preface Introduction The Origin and Transmission of Form: The Gene as the Vehicle of Constancy The Problem of Change Variability and Ontogenetic Differentiation Variations on a Theme: Cognitive Metaphors and the Homunculoid Gene The Ghosts in the Ghost-in-the-Machine Machine The Ontogeny of Information Reprise Prospects Afterword to Second Edition Notes References Index of Names Index of Subject
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Duke University Press Edward Said and the Work of the Critic
Book SynopsisAssesses various aspects of Edward Said's work - his contributions to postcolonial theory, his work on racism and ethnicity, his aesthetics and his resistance to the aestheticization of politics, his concepts of figuration, his assessment of the role of the exile in a metropolitan culture, and his work on music and the visual arts.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Paul A. Bove 1 Edward Said talks to Jacqueline Rose / Jacqueline Rose 9 The panic of the visual: a conversation with Edward Said / W. J. T. Mitchell 31 Race before racism: the disappearance of the American / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 51 Criticism between opposition and counterpoint / Jonathan Arac 66 The matter of language / Terry Cochran 78 In responses begins responsibility: music and emotion / Lindsay Waters 97 The sublime lyrical abstractions of Edward W. Said / Jim Merod 114 Uses of aesthetics: after orientalism / Kojin Karatani 139 Edward W. Said and the American public sphere: speaking truth to power / Rashid I. Khalidi 152 Sappers in the stacks: colonial archives, land mines, and truth commissions / Barbara Harlow 165 Counternarratives, recoveries, refusals / Mustapha Marrouchi 187 Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, secular criticism, and the question of minority culture / Aamir R. Mufti 229 Exoticism and orientalism in music: problems for the worldly critic / Ralph P. Locke 257 Notes 283 Index 313
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Duke University Press Raw Material Producing Pathology in Victorian
Book SynopsisAnalyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.Trade Review“Raw Material adds much to the existing literature on the Victorians. With its enlightening case studies and its author’s solid understanding of the state of medical art in the latter half of the nineteenth century, this is a first-rate piece of work.”—Sander L. Gilman, author of Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery“Industry makes it possible to understand the Victorian body, according to Erin O'Connor, as so much raw material. O'Connor's mind is a pleasure to watch at work and Raw Material will make a significant contribution to Victorian studies, to work on the body, and to cultural studies.”—Mary Ann O'Farrell, author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush“The body in distress and deformation—black from cholera, excrescent from breast cancer, monstrous, and repaired through prosthesis—offers a prism through which O’Connor refracts the crisis of the self in the world’s first industrial society. This is a complex, empirically rich, reflective and vigorously argued book that will be welcomed by literary critics, by historians of the body and of the nineteenth century, and by anyone engaged with cultural theory.”—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex : Body and Gender from the Greeks to FreudTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 ONE/ Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race 21 TWO/ Breast Reductions 60 THREE/ Fractions of Men: Engendering Amputation 102 FOUR/ Monsters. Materials, Methods 148 AFTERWORD/ The Promises of Monsters, or, A Manifesto for Academic Futures 209 Notes 219 Works Cited 251 Index 267
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Duke University Press The Cunning of Recognition
Book SynopsisArgues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture.Trade Review“An intelligent, valuable, and absorbing study. Povinelli relentlessly dissects the legal and affective bases of contemporary multicultural liberalism, while bringing the Australian case squarely into an ethics debate that has up to now been dominated by the North American experience.”—James Ferguson, coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology“Elizabeth Povinelli’s The Cunning of Recognition is a breakthrough work that has major implications for redefining the relations between cultural studies and anthropology. With a consistently high level of intellectual excitement and commitment, Povinelli draws together work from a variety of fields in new and provocative ways.”—Benjamin Lee, author of Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity“The Cunning of Recognition is one of the most challenging books I have read in years, a passionate and moving account of what the practice of multiculturalism looks like on the ground. Along the way, Povinelli inventively reframes debates within anthropological theory over kinship, culture, and the state. Without platitudes or readymade postures of critique, she shows us an impasse in liberal thought that stems not from its weaknesses, but from its strongest ethical sense of obligation toward those who are different. This is dialectical thinking at its best, painfully and excitingly honest.”—Michael Warner, author of The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life"Ambitious and bold. . . . Offers much of interest for those understanding the Australian scene and liberal practice and should be read by those interested in Australia and in liberalism more generally." -- Francesca Merlan * Journal of Anthropological Research *"An impressive application of both political and cultural theory to anthropology and makes a decisive contribution to the debate on the cultural politics of multiculturalism." -- Gerard Delanty * American Journal of Sociology *"Povinelli's critique of liberal multiculturalism is relentless and often ingenious." -- Duncan Ivison * Australian Journal of Political Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Critical Common Sense 1. Mutant Messages 2. The Vulva Thieves (Atna Nylkna): Modal Ethics and the Colonial Archive 3. Sex Rites, Civil Rights 4. Shamed States 5. The Poetics of Ghosts: Social Reproduction in the Archive of the Nation 6. The Truest Belief is Compulsion Notes Selected Works Cited Index
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Duke University Press Dark Shamans
Book SynopsisUses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence.Trade Review“An exceptionally fine ethnography of the kanaimà, Dark Shamans will fill a large gap. As an ethnography located in ethnohistory and processes of modernization, this book is an outstanding example of new anthropological work at the leading edge of the discipline.”—Donald Pollock, State University of New York, Buffalo“Ethnographer Neil L. Whitehead enters this realm of reality and mythology, of storytelling and firsthand experience by accident, and his opening tale sustains the horror-filled storytelling power characteristic of such authors as Bram Stoker and Stephen King. As such, the kanaimà, long known to explorers, poets, and ordinary people of northeastern South America, take their place in the history of modernity along with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man.”—Norman Whitten, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Ethnographer's Tale 11 2. Tales of the Kanaima: Observers 41 3. Tales of the Kanaima: Participants 88 4. Shamanic Warfare 128 5. Modernity, Development, and Kanaima Violence 174 6. Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia 202 Conclusion: Anthropologies of Violence 245 Notes 253 Works Cited 285 Index 299
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Duke University Press The Culture of Cursiler237a Bad Taste Kitsch and
Book SynopsisThe Spanish terms cursi and cursileria are not easily translated, but they refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. This book examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture.Trade Review“Noël Valis offers brilliant, innovative insights into a cultural phenomenon that illuminates many aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain. As perhaps one of the most distinguished cultural critics of Hispanic studies today, Valis takes an interdisciplinary approach to expose the links between text, economics, politics, and historical events.”—Harriet S. Turner, University of Nebraska“Noël Valis's writing is powerful and insightful. Her arguments are brilliant, subtle, and carefully textured; they cleverly elucidate the duality of cursi. This is an important, imaginative, fully accomplished book that will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding more fully the cultural and literary realities of Spain a century ago.”—David T. Gies, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. On Origins 2. Adorning the Feminine, or the Language of Fans 3. Salon Poets, the Becquer Craze, and Romanticism 4. Textual Economies: The Embellishment of Credit 5. Fabricating History 6. The Dream of Negation 7. The Margins of Home: Modernist Cursileria 8. The Culture of Nostalgia, or the Language of Flowers 9. Coda: The Metaphor of Culture in Post-Franco Spain Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Feminism without Borders
Book SynopsisBringing together classic and writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, this title addresses some of the pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. It offers a sustained critique of globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist practice toward anti-capitalist struggles.Trade Review“Chandra Talpade Mohanty's illuminating analyses take up some of the most urgent questions facing a transnational feminist practice today. She provides resources for feminist engagements with difference, identity politics, the commodification of knowledge, and globalization and its effects. Shifts in the global political and economic landscape as well as Mohanty's own shifting location enable her to identify exhilarating new directions for feminist theory and practice.”—Sandra Harding, coeditor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society“Over the last two decades, Chandra Talpade Mohanty has produced an extraordinary body of writings on transnational feminism, radically changing the way we think about such categories as ‘third world women,’ ‘women of color’ and ‘globalization.’ This volume combines her now classic essays with new writings that accentuate the centrality of anticapitalist feminist theories and practices to the most expansive and forward-looking version of women's studies today.”—Angela Y. Davis"Chandra Talpade Mohanty is unequivocally one of the most important feminist theorists and scholars writing and publishing today. In this collection, her essays take on new meaning to play important parts in what is both a dynamic full-scale analysis of the complex histories of the exploitation of women within neocolonial capitalism and an elaboration of antiracist pedagogies and anticapitalist solidarity practices."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics”The juxtaposition of these essays brings into sharp focus the theoretical framework Chandra Talpade Mohanty has developed and makes visible the enormity, the force, and the uniqueness of her contribution.”—Ruth Frankenberg, editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural CriticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Decolonization, Anticapitalist Critique, and Feminist Commitments 1 Part One. Decolonizing Feminism 1. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses 17 2. Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism 43 3. What's Home Got to Do with It? (with Biddy Martin) 85 4. Sisterhood, Coalition, and the Politics of Experience 106 5. Genealogies of Community, Home, and Nation 124 Part Two. Demystifying Capitalism 6. Women Workers and the Politics of Solidarity 139 7. Privatized Citizenship, Corporate Academies, and Feminist Projects 169 8. Race, Multiculturalism, and Pedagogies of DissentPart Three. Reorienting Feminism 190 9. “Under Western Eyes" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles 221 Notes 253 Bibliography 275 Index 295
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