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by Frank Lentricchia, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life—because...
Subalternity and Representation
Arguments in Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it....
Divergent Modernities
Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2001
With a Foreword by José David Saldívar
Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos’s Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernity in the western hemisphere. Available...
Doing What Comes Naturally
Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1989
In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally,...
No Apocalypse, No Integration
Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Winner of the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award in 1997 (Spanish Edition)
What form does the crisis of modernity take in Latin America when societies are politically demobilized and there is no revolutionary agenda in sight? How does postmodern criticism reflect on enlightenment and utopia in...
Against Normalization
Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2001
At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In Against Normalization, however,...
Criticism in the Borderlands
Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1991
This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist.
The...
Postmodernity in Latin America
The Argentine Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1994
Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1989
Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western “enlightenment” wealth and power. This...
The Death-Bound-Subject
Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had...
Community Without Unity
A Politics of Derridian Extravagance
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1989
Winner of the 1990 Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association "First Book Award"
Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this award-winning book breaks new ground by challenging traditional concepts of community in political...
The Abyss of Representation
Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
From the Copernican revolution of Immanuel Kant to the cognitive mapping of Fredric Jameson to the postcolonial politics of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, representation has been posed as both indispensable and impossible. In his pathbreaking work, The Abyss of Representation, George Hartley traces the...
The Cinema of Economic Miracles
Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2002
The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes that transformed Italy during the sixties--described as the “economic miracle.” Angelo Restivo argues for...
New Deal Modernism
American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2000
In New Deal Modernism Michael Szalay examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s, and, conversely, what difference this revised modernism made to the New Deal’s famed invention of “Big Government.”
Szalay situates his study within...