Duke University Press: 2463 books
Clear Word and Third Sight
Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated...
Pirate Novels
Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1999
In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost...
Buena Vista in the Club
Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced...
by Salim Tamari, Mark LeVine
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on...
Islam and Secularity
The Future of Europe's Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Göle shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles narratives of Western...
Revolution and Its Narratives
China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949–1966
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema,...
Althusser and His Contemporaries
Philosophy's Perpetual War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different periods of Althusser's career have been made available in French since his death in 1990. Based on meticulous...
by Jane Lazarre
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1997
In this compelling memoir by a writer, mother, and feminist, Jane Lazarre confronts the myth of the "good mother" with her fiercely honest and intimate portrait of early motherhood as a time of profound ambivalence and upheaval, filled with desperation as well as joy, the struggle to reclaim...
Desiring China
Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects”...
Global Divas
Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay...
Immigrant Acts
On Asian American Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1996
In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S....
Racial Castration
Managing Masculinity in Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well...
Thiefing Sugar
Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
In Thiefing Sugar, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women. She takes the book’s title from Dionne Brand’s novel In Another Place, Not Here, where eroticism between women...
The Witch's Flight
The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”—not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such...