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The Nation's Tortured Body
Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh “Diaspora”
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence...
Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow
Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art.
Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here,...
Citizenship from Below
Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship...
Strange Affinities
The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the “strange affinities,” afforded by nuanced comparative analyses...
Haunted by Empire
Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the...
Cradle of Liberty
Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In Cradle of Liberty Caroline F. Levander proposes that this opposition is crucial to American political thought and the literary cultures that surround and help produce it. Levander argues that...
Third World Studies
Theorizing Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power—notably, imperialism and oppression. The administration responded by institutionalizing an ethnic studies...
Hemispheric Imaginings
The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for democracy. Over the next century, these ideas—which came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine—provided...
Waves of Decolonization
Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization...
Imagining Our Americas
Toward a Transnational Frame
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North...
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4
The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production...
by Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe...
What Is a World?
On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory...
Perpetual War
Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment...