Duke University Press: 2463 books
Interior States
Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on U.S. citizens’ democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. Castiglia contends that citizens of the early United States were encouraged to locate this social...
Subjects and Citizens
Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and...
Ontological Terror
Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm...
National History and the World of Nations
Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries, occupying widely different positions...
by Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an...
Writing in the Air
Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Originally published in 1994, Writing in the Air is one of the most significant books of modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism. In this seminal work, the influential Latin American literary critic Antonio Cornejo Polar offers the most extended articulation of his efforts to displace...
A Culture of Stone
Inka Perspectives on Rock
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and...
Idle Fictions
The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926–1934, Expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1993
The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez...
Archiveology
Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers—provides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function...
Rubble
The Afterlife of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón...
Who Counts?
The Mathematics of Death and Life After Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, as well as in Mayan revitalization and grassroots environmental struggles. In the aftermath of thirty-six years of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work...
Tijuana Dreaming
Life and Art at the Global Border
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators,...
The Geographies of Social Movements
Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi, Oslender examines how...