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102 produkter
Immaterial Archives
An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss
Av Jenny Sharpe
Inbunden, 2020
1576 kr
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In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams that Caribbean artists and writers …
Paterson, 1913
A Labor Strike in the Progressive Era
Häftad, 2020
318 kr
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Paterson, 1913 is designed to be played during the time typically devoted to teaching the Progressive Era in the U.S. history survey course. Set in America’s “Silk City", Paterson, New Jersey, the game pits manufacturers, who try to keep Paterson’s key economic engine running, against labour …
Raising the Eleventh Pillar
The Ratification Debate of 1788
Häftad, 2021
318 kr
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Raising the Eleventh Pillar brings to life the debates surrounding ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Delegates to the New York State Ratifying Convention first debate the nature of representative government before considering issues such as the size of the lower house and recall. Drawing on …
On Pain of Speech
Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant
Häftad, 2010
558 kr
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"On Pain of Speech" tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. Focusing on the 'politics of address', Dina Al-Kassim views the rant through the lens of Michel Foucault's notion of the …
Cosmic Time of Empire
Modern Britain and World Literature
Av Adam Barrows
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As …
Poetry in Pieces
César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity
Häftad, 2011
420 kr
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Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, "Poetry in Pieces" is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings - Peru and Paris - which …
Moses and Multiculturalism
Häftad, 2010
509 kr
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Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making "Moses and Monotheism", this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various …
Disarming Words
Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt
Häftad, 2011
640 kr
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In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egypt - by the French in 1798 …
Wings for Our Courage
Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought
Häftad, 2011
525 kr
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On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de' Medici murdered Alessandro de' Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican …
Cultural Return
Häftad, 2012
771 kr
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This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - years that saw the emergence of new fields and subfields (cultural studies, the new cultural history, literary new historicism, as well as ethnic …
English Heart, Hindi Heartland
The Political Life of Literature in India
Häftad, 2012
528 kr
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"English Heart, Hindi Heartland" examines Delhi's postcolonial literary world - its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods - in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally …
Cylinder
Kinematics of the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2012
771 kr
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"The Cylinder" investigates the surprising proliferation of cylindrical objects in the nineteenth century, such as steam engines, phonographs, panoramas, rotary printing presses, silos, safety locks, and many more. Examining this phenomenon through the lens of kinematics, the science of forcing …
Polymorphous Domesticities
Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers
Häftad, 2012
591 kr
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"Polymorphous Domesticities" maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers - Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J.R. Ackerley. What these four writers have in common is a defiance of patriarchal …
Fear of French Negroes
Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas
Häftad, 2012
548 kr
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"The Fear of French Negroes" is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, …
Flesh and Fish Blood
Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular
Häftad, 2012
575 kr
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In "Flesh and Fish Blood" Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one …
Figurative Inquisitions
Conversion, Torture and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic
Häftad, 2014
541 kr
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The practices of interrogation, torture, and confession have resurfaced in public debates since the early 2000s following human rights abuses around the globe. Yet discussion of torture has remained restricted to three principal fields: the legal, the pragmatic, and the moral, eclipsing the less …
Fiction Beyond Secularism
Häftad, 2014
541 kr
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Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as society’s moral epics. Yet religion—beginning with the Iranian revolution of 1979, through the collapse of communism, and culminating in the singular rupture of September 11, 2001—has not …
Cosmopolitan Desires
Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America
Häftad, 2014
574 kr
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Mariano Siskind’s groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, particularly regarding the place of Latin America in its imaginaries and mappings. In Siskind’s formulation, world literature is a modernizing discursive strategy, a way in which cultures negotiate their …
Practical Past
Av Hayden White
Häftad, 2014
445 kr
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Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literary-artistic artifacts that individuals and institutions draw on for guidance in quotidian affairs. The Practical Past, then, forms both a summa …
Innocent Abroad
Lectures in China
Häftad, 2015
480 kr
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Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China to lecture on literary theory, especially the role of globalization in literary theory. Over time, he has assisted in the development of distinctively Chinese forms of literary theory, Comparative Literature, and World Literature. The fifteen …
Innocent Abroad
Lectures in China
Inbunden, 2015
1576 kr
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Since 1988, J. Hillis Miller has traveled to China to lecture on literary theory, especially the role of globalization in literary theory. Over time, he has assisted in the development of distinctively Chinese forms of literary theory, Comparative Literature, and World Literature. The fifteen …
Form and Instability
Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference
Inbunden, 2015
1576 kr
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How are we to read the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Form and Instability brings notions of figuration and translation to bear on the post-1989 condition. ""Eastern Europe"" in this book is more than a territory. Marked by belatedness and untimely remainders, it is an unstable object …
Bombay Modern
Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture
Inbunden, 2016
1582 kr
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Anjali Nerlekar's Bombay Modern is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. Nerlekar shows how a bilingual, materialist reading of Kolatkar's texts uncovers a …
Intimate Relations
Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel
Häftad, 2017
480 kr
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Intimate Relations remaps the discussion on gender and the nation in South Asia through a close study of the domestic novel as a literary genre and a tool for social reform. As a product of the intersection of literary and social reform movements, in the late nineteenth century the domestic novel …
Intimate Relations
Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel
Inbunden, 2017
1576 kr
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Intimate Relations remaps the discussion on gender and the nation in South Asia through a close study of the domestic novel as a literary genre and a tool for social reform. As a product of the intersection of literary and social reform movements, in the late nineteenth century the domestic novel …
Media Laboratories
Late Modernist Authorship in South America
Häftad, 2017
480 kr
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Media Laboratories explores a pivotal time for South American literature of the 1930s and ’40s. Cinema, radio, and the typewriter, once seen as promising catalysts for new kinds of writing, began to be challenged by authors, workers, and the public. What happens when media no longer seem novel and …
Media Laboratories
Late Modernist Authorship in South America
Inbunden, 2017
1576 kr
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Media Laboratories explores a pivotal time for South American literature of the 1930s and ’40s. Cinema, radio, and the typewriter, once seen as promising catalysts for new kinds of writing, began to be challenged by authors, workers, and the public. What happens when media no longer seem novel and …
Acoustic Properties
Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas
Av Tom McEnaney
Häftad, 2017
480 kr
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Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines both the coevolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the various populist political …
Acoustic Properties
Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas
Av Tom McEnaney
Inbunden, 2017
1576 kr
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Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines both the coevolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the various populist political …
New Woman
Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory
Av Emma Heaney
Häftad, 2017
510 kr
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The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the creation and significance of the trans feminine as an allegorical figure from its origins in late nineteenth-century sexological writing to subsequent writings in the fields of psychoanalysis, Modernist …
