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Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate
A Tale of the Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Not many people know that Walt Whitman—arguably the preeminent American poet of the nineteenth century—began his literary career as a novelist. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times was his first and only novel. Published in 1842, during a period of widespread temperance activity,...
by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary...
Virtual Hallyu
Korean Cinema of the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
“[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade.”—Martin Scorsese, from the foreword
In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international...
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians
A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic),...
by Ruth Behar, David Bleich
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies...
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law
Moving Beyond Legal Realism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law is a field-defining collection of work at the intersection of law, cultural analysis and cultural studies. Over the past few decades the marked turn toward claims and policy arguments based on cultural identity—such as ethnicity, race, or religion—has...
Anthropology and Social Theory
Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive...
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay
Personal Essays, Public Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection...
Hop on Pop
The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers....
Paper Families
Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families, Estelle T. Lau demonstrates how exclusion affected Chinese American communities and initiated the development of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and practices....
The Colombia Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Containing over one hundred selections—most of them published in English for the first time—The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic reports, songs, artwork, poetry, oral histories,...
Victims of the Chilean Miracle
Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Chile was the first major Latin American nation to carry out a complete neoliberal transformation. Its policies—encouraging foreign investment, privatizing public sector companies and services, lowering trade barriers, reducing the size of the state, and embracing the market as a regulator of both...
Cumbia!
Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and...
Sentimental Materialism
Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2000
In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and...