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Tomorrow's Parties
Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2013
1119 kr
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Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award Finalist for the 2013 LAMBDA LGBT Studies Book Award In nineteenth-century America—before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public emergence of categories like homo- and heterosexuality—what were the parameters of sex? Did …
Tomorrow's Parties
Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2013
445 kr
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Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award Finalist for the 2013 LAMBDA LGBT Studies Book Award In nineteenth-century America—before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public emergence of categories like homo- and heterosexuality—what were the parameters of sex? Did …
Sites Unseen
Architecture, Race, and American Literature
Inbunden, 2011
1037 kr
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Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader …
Sites Unseen
Architecture, Race, and American Literature
Häftad, 2011
445 kr
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Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader …
Bonds of Citizenship
Law and the Labors of Emancipation
Inbunden, 2013
1002 kr
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In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor. Bonds of Citizenship …
Bodies of Reform
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
Inbunden, 2010
1119 kr
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable "stuff," has had a long and …
Bodies of Reform
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
Häftad, 2010
493 kr
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable "stuff," has had a long and …
American Arabesque
Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary
Häftad, 2012
445 kr
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, …
Idle Threats
Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America
Inbunden, 2012
1002 kr
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The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and "gentlemen of refinement" capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with …
Racial Indigestion
Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
Inbunden, 2012
1119 kr
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Winner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationWinner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book AwardPart of the American Literatures Initiative Series The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes …
Racial Indigestion
Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
Häftad, 2012
493 kr
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Winner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationWinner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book AwardPart of the American Literatures Initiative Series The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes …
Bonds of Citizenship
Law and the Labors of Emancipation
Häftad, 2013
398 kr
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In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor. Bonds of Citizenship …
Racial Innocence
Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Inbunden, 2011
973 kr
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2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association 2012 Runner-Up, John …
Racial Innocence
Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Häftad, 2011
427 kr
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2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association 2012 Runner-Up, John …
Idle Threats
Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America
Häftad, 2012
442 kr
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The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and "gentlemen of refinement" capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with …
American Arabesque
Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary
Inbunden, 2012
1037 kr
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, …
Neither Fugitive nor Free
Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
Inbunden, 2009
1413 kr
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic …
Neither Fugitive nor Free
Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
Häftad, 2009
493 kr
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic …
Shadowing the White Man's Burden
U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
Inbunden, 2010
1119 kr
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During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man's Burden." While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling's satirical talents at work and read it as condemnation. …
Shadowing the White Man's Burden
U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
Häftad, 2010
493 kr
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During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man's Burden." While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling's satirical talents at work and read it as condemnation. …
Black Frankenstein
The Making of an American Metaphor
Inbunden, 2008
973 kr
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For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the …
Black Frankenstein
The Making of an American Metaphor
Häftad, 2008
429 kr
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For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the …
Haiti's Paper War
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954
Inbunden, 2020
1298 kr
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2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nationPicking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti's post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and …
Haiti's Paper War
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954
Häftad, 2020
429 kr
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2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nationPicking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti's post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and …
Undisciplined
Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
Av Nihad Farooq
Häftad, 2016
445 kr
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In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be "made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested …
Unintended
Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism
Häftad, 2023
304 kr
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Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expressionThe end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrialization, racialization, and capitalism—were quickly reshaping the world. The …
Unintended
Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism
Inbunden, 2023
987 kr
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Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expressionThe end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrialization, racialization, and capitalism—were quickly reshaping the world. The …
Undisciplined
Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
Av Nihad Farooq
Inbunden, 2016
1298 kr
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In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be "made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested …
Black Radical Tragic
Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution
Häftad, 2016
445 kr
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2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationAs the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable range of artists and activist-intellectuals in the …
Sitting in Darkness
Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization
Av Hsuan L. Hsu
Häftad, 2015
445 kr
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Perhaps the most popular of all canonicalAmerican authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirizeAmerican formations of race and empire. While many scholars have exploredTwain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and AsianAmericans remains largely in the …
