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Trumpets in the Mountains
Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture, artistic performance, and the shift in national identity after 1990, when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The state's response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism,...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dana Seitler
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Long out of print, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The Forerunner in 1910, The Crux tells the story...
From the House to the Streets
The Cuban Woman’s Movement for Legal Reform, 1898–1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
From the House to the Streets is the first study on feminists and the feminist movement in Cuba between 1902 and 1940. In the four decades following its independence form Spain in 1898, Cuba adopted the most progressive legislation for women in the western hemisphere. K. Lynn Stoner explains how a...
by Catherine Ross Nickerson, Metta Fuller Victor
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Before Raymond Chandler, before Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie, there was Metta Fuller Victor, the first American author—man or woman—of a full-length detective novel. This novel, The Dead Letter, is presented here along with another of Victor’s mysteries, The Figure Eight. Both written in...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlotte Rich
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
This edition of What Diantha Did makes newly available Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s first novel, complete with an in-depth introduction. First published serially in Gilman’s magazine The Forerunner in 1909–10, the novel tells the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her...
China’s Avant-Garde Fiction
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1998
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing...
by Michael D. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
In 2002, as Sierra Leone prepared to announce the end of its brutal civil war, the distinguished anthropologist, poet, and novelist Michael Jackson returned to the country where he had intermittently lived and worked as an ethnographer since 1969. While his initial concern was to help his old friend...
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice
Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors...
Nobody Does the Right Thing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
A young poet is killed by her lover, a politician, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Soon afterward, across India in Bombay, an idealistic journalist is hired by a movie director to write a Bollywood screenplay about the murdered poet. Research for the script takes the writer, Binod, back to Bihar,...
by Roberto Arlt
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2002
Roberto Arlt, celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American “boom” and “postboom” novelists such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende. Mad Toy, acclaimed by many as Arlt’s best novel, is set against...
by Swanee Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Swanee Hunt’s life has lived up to her Texas-size childhood. Daughter of legendary oil magnate H. L. Hunt, she grew up in a household dominated by an arch-conservative patriarch who spawned a brood of colorful offspring. Her family was nothing if not zealous, and that zeal—albeit for more compassionate...
The Children of 1965
On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 lifted long-standing restrictions on immigration. This new generation...
Metabolic Living
Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by...
En-Gendering India
Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2000
En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts—primarily novels—produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations...