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Disenchanting Les Bons Temps
Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
The expression laissez les bons temps rouler—"let the good times roll"—conveys the sense of exuberance and good times associated with southern Louisiana’s vibrant cultural milieu. Yet, for Cajuns, descendants of French settlers exiled from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the mid-eighteenth...
Laura
Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored...
Beyond Repair?
America’s Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
Can the death penalty be administered in a just way—without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists...
Discourse and the Other
The Production of the Afro-American Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1986
The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body of theoretical and conceptual work on media for the first time. The essays address a wide range of topics, including the work of foundational Japanese...
Untimely Bollywood
Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In Untimely Bollywood, Amit S. Rai argues that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood...
by Helen Corbett, Susanne Swibold
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental...
by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter...
Uncivil Youth
Race, Activism, and Affirmative Governmentality
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects. Focusing attention on the relations of power that inform the social and political practices of youth of color, Kwon examines how after-school and community-based programs are often...
The Intimate University
Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—including the large population of Korean American students—come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus’s largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping...
Chineseness across Borders
Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
What happens when Chinese American youths travel to mainland China in search of their ancestral roots, only to realize that in many ways they still feel out of place, or when mainland Chinese realize that the lives of the Chinese abroad may not be as good as they had imagined? By considering programs...
Displacing Whiteness
Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1997
Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness,...
The Darker Side of Western Modernity
Global Futures, Decolonial Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality...
by Jose Joaquin Brunner, Fernando Calderón, Enrique Dussel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1995
Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate...