University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Embodying Black Experience
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
"Young's linkage between critical race theory, historical inquiry, and performance studies is a necessary intersection. Innovative, creative, and provocative."
---Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College
In 1901, George Ward, a...
Whispered Consolations
Law and Narrative in African American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
African Americans have experienced life under the rule of law in quite different contexts from those of whites, and they have written about those differences in poems, songs, stories, autobiographies, novels, and memoirs. This book examines the tradition of American law as it appears in African American...
The Body of Poetry
Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
The Body of Poetry collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch's germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to hip-hop writers. And her ongoing commitment to women's...
by Shelley Lynn Tremain
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault’s call to question...
Chinese Dreams
Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
China’s profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary journal Tel quel. Chinese Dreams explores the complex, intricate relationship between various “Chinas”—as...
Look at Me!
The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Four million adults in the United States say that becoming famous is the most important goal in their lives. In any random sampling of one hundred American adults, two will have fame as their consuming desire. What motivates those who set fame as their priority, where did the desire come from, how...
This Is My Body
Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
The recipient of the annual Award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, This Is My Body realigns representational practices in the early Middle Ages with current debates on the nature of representation. Michal Kobialkai's study...
The Lying Brain
Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
"The Lying Brain is a study to take seriously. Its argument is timely, clear, and of particular importance to the enlargement of our understanding of the relationships among science studies, literary studies, and technology studies."
---Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma
Real...
by Ruby Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by...
Getting to War
Predicting International Conflict with Mass Media Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
This book shows how to predict wars. More specifically, it tells us how to anticipate in a timely fashion the scope and extent of interstate conflict. By focusing on how all governments--democratic or not--seek to secure public support before undertaking risky moves such as starting a war, Getting...
Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played...
by Lawrence Baum
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best...
Slaves to Fashion
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime, must reading for students of the globalization debate."
---Tom Hayden
"Slaves to Fashion is a remarkable achievement, several books in one: a gripping history of sweatshops, explaining their decline, fall, and return;...
by Barry Ames
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates...