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Afghanistan: A History of Conflictby John GriffithsISBN 0233050531 (0-233-05053-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Businessby Bernth LindforsISBN 0253212456 (0-253-21245-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernismby Andreas HuyssenISBN 0253203996 (0-253-20399-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journeyby Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0233974164 (0-233-97416-4)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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The Art of Travelby Alain De BottonISBN 0241140102 (0-241-14010-2)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Travel'Book summary:The urge to be somewhere else is one of the abiding traits of human nature; in The Art of Travel author Alain de Botton (The Consolations of Philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life) sets out to discover why in his own inimitably witty and discursive way.
Of course, the proximate reasons we travel are many and various: as de Botton explains. Using the travel experiences of great writers and artists, like Van Gogh, Ruskin, Huysmans and Wordsworth (in Provence, Venice, Belgium and the Lake District respectively), de Botton shows that men will travel to see beautiful buildings, or climb beautiful mountains, or make love to beautiful (and comparatively amoral) women. But, using the same artists, de Botton also shows that there is an underlying theme to all travel: the urge for difference, for the rhapsody of change. That this is an urge more often disappointed than gratified only makes the condition more poignant. One of de Botton's best chapters, on Flaubert, amplifies this tragicomic point: the French novelist spent enervating years in genteel Normandy longing for the sensual splendours of Egypt, then, when he finally reached the pyramids, he promptly lapsed into maudlin nostalgia for rainy, bourgeois Rouen.
If there are flaws in this, de Botton's latest and perhaps most readable book, they are the usual suspects: just occasionally the author comes across as a bit long-winded and self-regarding. However, this is such a pleasant and effortless read even these flaws can be taken as endearing characteristics--like the lizards who kip in the bath in your otherwise idyllic holiday villa.--Sean Thomas [via]
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Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity A Cultural Biographyby Irene GammelISBN 0262072319 (0-262-07231-9)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity A Cultural Biography'Book summary:Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874?1927) is considered by many to be the first American dadaist as well as the mother of dada. An innovator in poetic form and an early creator of junk sculpture, "the Baroness" was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. Some thought her merely crazed, others thought her a genius. The editor Margaret Anderson called her "perhaps the only figure of our generation who deserves the epithet extraordinary." Yet despite her great notoriety and influence, until recently her story and work have been little known outside the circle of modernist scholars.In Baroness Elsa, Irene Gammel traces the extraordinary life and work of this daring woman, viewing her in the context of female dada and the historical battles fought by women in the early twentieth century. Striding through the streets of Berlin, Munich, New York, and Paris wearing such adornments as a tomato-soup can bra, teaspoon earrings, and black lipstick, the Baroness erased the boundaries between life and art, between the everyday and the outrageous, between the creative and the dangerous. Her art objects were precursors to dada objects of the teens and twenties, her sound and visual poetry were far more daring than those of the male modernists of her time, and her performances prefigured feminist body art and performance art by nearly half a century.
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Better Than Second Best: Love and Work in the Life of Helen Magillby Glenn C. AltschulerISBN 0252016696 (0-252-01669-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Black Musicby Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 0261631578 (0-261-63157-8)
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British Slave Trade And Public Memoryby Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth Kowalesi WallaceISBN 023113715X (0-231-13715-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Cultureby Thomas DohertyISBN 0231129521 (0-231-12952-1)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Cultureby Thomas Patrick DohertyISBN 023112953X (0-231-12953-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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To the unjaded viewership of Cold War America, the television set was not a harbinger of intellectual degradation and moral decay, but a thrilling new household appliance capable of bringing the wonders of the world directly into the home. The "cool medium" permeated the lives of every American, quickly becoming one of the most powerful cultural forces of the twentieth century. While television has frequently been blamed for spurring the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was also the national stage upon which America witnessed -- and ultimately welcomed -- his downfall. In this provocative and nuanced cultural history, Doherty chronicles some of the most fascinating and ideologically charged episodes in television history: the warm-hearted Jewish sitcom The Goldbergs; the subversive threat from I Love Lucy; the sermons of Fulton J. Sheen on Life Is Worth Living; the anticommunist series I Led 3 Lives; the legendary jousts between Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy on See It Now; and the hypnotic, 188-hour political spectacle that was the Army-McCarthy hearings.
By rerunning the programs, freezing the frames, and reading between the lines, Cold War, Cool Medium paints a picture of Cold War America that belies many black-and-white clichés. Doherty not only details how the blacklist operated within the television industry but also how the shows themselves struggled to defy it, arguing that television was preprogrammed to reinforce the very freedoms that McCarthyism attempted to curtail.
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Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritageby Mary HuffordISBN 0252063546 (0-252-06354-6)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspectiveby Kwasi WireduISBN 0253210801 (0-253-21080-1)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Culture and Personalityby Victor BarnouwISBN 0256021937 (0-256-02193-7)
Hardcover, Dorsey Press
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Cultures of Vision: Images, Media, and the Imaginaryby Ron BurnettISBN 0253329027 (0-253-32902-7)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Cultureby Jennifer Terry, Jacqueline UrlaISBN 0253209757 (0-253-20975-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and Westby Susan Buck-MorssISBN 0262024640 (0-262-02464-0)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiographyby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0252010477 (0-252-01047-7)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literatures most compelling and influential authors. Hurstons powerful novels of the Southincluding Jonahs Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching Godcontinue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality. First published in 1942, Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurstons personal story, told in her own words. The Perennial Modern Classics Deluxe edition includes an all-new forward by Maya Angelou, an extended biography by Valerie Boyd, and a special P.S. section featuring the contemporary reviews that greeted the books original publication.
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Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Natureby Karen Warren, Nisvan ErkalISBN 0253210577 (0-253-21057-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Educated Imaginationby Northrop FryeISBN 0253200881 (0-253-20088-1)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Readingby Rey ChowISBN 0253211557 (0-253-21155-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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At a time when cultural identity has become intrinsic to the way we read our many "others," Rey Chow argues that what demands to be examined critically is no longer identity politics per se but the idealismespecially in the sense of idealizing othernessthat lies at the heart of identity politics. She discusses multiple cultural formsfiction, film, popular music, poetry, and essaysand a range of cultural topicspedagogy, multiculturalism, fascism, sexuality, miscegenation, fantasy, nostalgia, and postcoloniality.
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Feminism Meets Queer Theoryby Naomi Schor, Elizabeth WeedISBN 0253211182 (0-253-21118-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Feminist Studies/Critical Studiesby Teresa De LauretisISBN 0253203864 (0-253-20386-4)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Criticsby William BoddyISBN 025206299X (0-252-06299-X)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Finding the Centre: Two Narrativesby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0233976647 (0-233-97664-7)
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Food Is Cultureby Massimo Montanari, Albert SonnenfeldISBN 0231137907 (0-231-13790-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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From Here to Tierra Del Fuegoby Paul MageeISBN 0252025555 (0-252-02555-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Here to Tierra Del Fuego'Book summary:Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost inhabited locale in the world and one of South America's most popular tourist destinations, although there's nothing there except "the end of the world". When asked why they have come to Tierra del Fuego, most visitors say, "I just wanted to be able to say I'd been here". Paul Magee, the anthropologist among them, seizes upon this absurd nonreason to investigate the West's complex relationship to an island synonymous with the word elsewhere. Beginning with Darwin, who saw the Fuegian Indians as the world's most primitive inhabitants, Magee interweaves the offhand anecdotes of nineteenth-century colonial adventurers with the primitivist jokes of the travelers he encounters. Reading these self-superior texts through the theories and commentaries of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Michael Taussig, Theodor Adorno, and others, Magee explores the West's obsession with seeing its commodities, from Coke bottles to cakes of Pears' Soap, as objects of native fascination and fetishism. Bringing the trivial, the offhand, and the anecdotal into the space of politics, Magee demonstrates how these links between them and the genocidal colonization of the island implicate even the casual, overtly purposeless tourist in the exploitative structures of global capitalism. Experimental, entertaining, and occasionally over the top, "From Here to Tierra del Fuego" maneuvers through a history of racial violence, primitivist fantasy, and throwaway lines to reveal the international tourist industry's role in contemporary world power. [via]
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From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Cultureby Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura SellsISBN 0253209781 (0-253-20978-1)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture'Book summary:From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing childrens classics as well as the Disney affiliates more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney film legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural studies perspectives. The volume contemplates Disneys duality as an American icon and as an industry of cultural production, created in and through fifty years of filmmaking. The contributors treat a range of topics at issue in contemporary cultural studies: the performance of gender, race, and class; the engendered images of science, nature, technology, family, and business. The compilation of voices in From Mouse to Mermaid creates a persuasive cultural critique of Disneys ideology.
The contributors are Bryan Attebery, Elizabeth Bell, Claudia Card, Chris Cuomo, Ramona Fernandez, Henry A. Giroux, Robert Haas, Lynda Haas, Susan Jeffords, N. Soyini Madison, Susan Miller, Patrick Murphy, David Payne, Greg Rode, Laura Sells, and Jack Zipes.
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The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940by Elliott Shore, Ken Fones-Wolf, James P. DankyISBN 0252018303 (0-252-01830-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity: A Translation of LA Mimica Degli Antichi Investigata Nel Gestire Napoletano, Gestural Expression of the Ancients in the Light of Neapolitan gesturingby Adam Kendon, Andrea De JorioISBN 0253336570 (0-253-33657-0)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquityby Andrea De Jorio, Adam KendonISBN 0253215064 (0-253-21506-4)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence Boston, 1880-1960by Linda GordonISBN 0252070798 (0-252-07079-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Home; Its Work and Influenceby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0252002776 (0-252-00277-6)
Softcover, University of Illinois Press
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How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studiesby Robert B. RayISBN 0253214386 (0-253-21438-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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How Images Thinkby Ron BurnettISBN 0262025493 (0-262-02549-3)
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How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900by Nancy ArmstrongISBN 0231503873 (0-231-50387-3)
Hardcover, Columbia University Press
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How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900by Nancy ArmstrongISBN 0231130597 (0-231-13059-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900'Book summary:Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person a place commensurate with his or her individual worth. Once the novel had created this figure, readers understood themselves in terms of a narrative that produced a self-governing subject.
In the decades following the revolutions in British North America and France, the major novelists distinguished themselves as authors by questioning the fantasy of a self-made individual. To show how novels by Defoe, Austen, Scott, Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Haggard, and Stoker participated in the process of making, updating, and perpetuating the figure of the individual, Armstrong puts them in dialogue with the writings of Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Malthus, Darwin, Kant, and Freud. Such theorists as Althusser, Balibar, Foucault, and Deleuze help her make the point that the individual was not one but several different figures. The delineation and potential of the modern subject depended as much upon what it had to incorporate as what alternatives it had to keep at bay to address the conflicts raging in and around the British novel.
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India: Indiaby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0233969365 (0-233-96936-5)
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Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminismby Patricia MellencampISBN 0253205875 (0-253-20587-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Italian Cuisine: A Cultural Historyby Aine O'Healy, Massimo Montanari, Alberto CapattiISBN 0231122322 (0-231-12232-2)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History'Book summary:Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great variety of culinary practices reflects a history long dominated by regionalism and political division, and has led to the common conception of Italian food as a mosaic of regional customs rather than a single tradition. Nonetheless, this magnificent new book demonstrates the development of a distinctive, unified culinary tradition throughout the Italian peninsula.
Alberto Capatti and Massimo Montanari uncover a network of culinary customs, food lore, and cooking practices, dating back as far as the Middle Ages, that are identifiably Italian:
o Italians used forks 300 years before other Europeans, possibly because they were needed to handle pasta, which is slippery and dangerously hot.
o Italians invented the practice of chilling drinks and may have invented ice cream.
o Italian culinary practice influenced the rest of Europe to place more emphasis on vegetables and less on meat.
o Salad was a distinctive aspect of the Italian meal as early as the sixteenth century.
The authors focus on culinary developments in the late medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras, aided by a wealth of cookbooks produced throughout the early modern period. They show how Italy's culinary identities emerged over the course of the centuries through an exchange of information and techniques among geographical regions and social classes. Though temporally, spatially, and socially diverse, these cuisines refer to a common experience that can be described as Italian. Thematically organized around key issues in culinary history and beautifully illustrated, Italian Cuisine is a rich history of the ingredients, dishes, techniques, and social customs behind the Italian food we know and love today.
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The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Societyby Harvey J. GraffISBN 0253205980 (0-253-20598-0)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticismby Patricia MellencampISBN 0253205824 (0-253-20582-4)
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Marxism and the Interpretation of Cultureby Cary Nelson, Lawrence GrossbergISBN 0252014014 (0-252-01401-4)
Softcover, University of Illinois Press
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Material Cultureby Henry GlassieISBN 0253335744 (0-253-33574-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Material Culture'Book summary:History and art connect in the study of material culture. Material culture records human intrusion in the environment. It is the way we imagine a distinction between nature and culture, and then rebuild nature to our desire, shaping, reshaping, and arranging things during life. We live in material culture, depend upon it, take it for granted, and realise through it our grandest aspirations. Thirty years ago, it seemed that material culture would become the realm within which relativistic and existential thinking would be extended to history and art, the issues of human significance and human excellence. Then the gears locked, the machine stopped, and began to run in reverse. We slid backward, rediscovering the energies of early modernism and naming our effort - in obeisance to the ideology of progress - postmodern. Humanist busied themselves with the reinvention of ideas they could have learned from the old masters of anthropology. Social scientists struggled to contrive ideas they could have learned by reading the great literature of the past. This retrograde motion was caused by more than adjustment to the conservative mood of the age. Moving ahead on independent disciplinary tracks, we had lost touch with one another. "What has changed can change again; the moment at which I write will pass. Groping over old territory, relocating the critical purpose of scholarly endeavour, rediscovering subjectivity and situation, the diversity of orders and the interconnectedness of things, we will find points of convergence that will become the basis for a new transdisciplinary practice, at once humanistic and scientific. Renewed in oneness, we will be able to get on with our work, fashioning a view of humanity fit to the needs of the world's people. "The concept of culture seems a secure achievement. In the future, history and art, as well as science and philosophy, will be understood to be, like culture, the creations of people who are alike in humanity, but different in tradition and predicament. Problematising is easy and endless. New ideas are a dime a dozen. What matters is how ideas fare in the world, what they yield in hard application. Our work will recognise the reality of the individual. It will come to judgement contextually, acknowledging the distinctiveness of traditions that unfold only within human control and among uncontrollable circumstances. It will expand through cross-cultural comparisons that bring us understanding at once of the universal and the particular." - Henry Glassie, from the "Onward". [via]
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Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS And Queer Politicsby Douglas CrimpISBN 0262032953 (0-262-03295-3)
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Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, The New York School, And Post-Painterly Abstractionby Marcia BrennanISBN 026202571X (0-262-02571-X)
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Modernity and Mass Cultureby James Naremore, Patrick BrantlingerISBN 0253339685 (0-253-33968-5)
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New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphereby Dale F. Eickelman, Jon W. AndersonISBN 0253213290 (0-253-21329-0)
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Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissentby Robert F. BarskyISBN 0262024187 (0-262-02418-7)
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Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopiasby Hal RammelISBN 025201717X (0-252-01717-X)
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Nunaga:Ten Years of Eskimo Life: Ten Years of Eskimo Lifeby Duncan PrydeISBN 0261100122 (0-261-10012-2)
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On Black Menby David MarriottISBN 0231122276 (0-231-12227-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxicationby Stuart WaltonISBN 0241140382 (0-241-14038-2)
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Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Cultureby Erica FudgeISBN 0252070682 (0-252-07068-2)
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Pictures from the Water Trade: An Englishman in Japanby John David MorleyISBN 0233977031 (0-233-97703-1)
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Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and Representationby Steve BakerISBN 0252070305 (0-252-07030-5)
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Posthuman Bodiesby Judith Halberstam, Ira LivingstonISBN 0253209706 (0-253-20970-6)
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A Prelude to Biblical Folklore : Underdogs and Trickstersby Susan NiditchISBN 0252068831 (0-252-06883-1)
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Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practiceby Judith Kegan GardinerISBN 0252064186 (0-252-06418-6)
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The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Futureby Sandra HardingISBN 0253208106 (0-253-20810-6)
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Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Cultureby Bill Mullen, Sherry Lee LinkonISBN 0252065050 (0-252-06505-0)
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Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Yearsby Richard H. PellsISBN 0252067436 (0-252-06743-6)
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Rap Music And Street Consciousnessby Cheryl L. KeyesISBN 0252072014 (0-252-07201-4)
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Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Deathby Saul FriedlanderISBN 0253208467 (0-253-20846-7)
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Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Communityby Lawrence FosterISBN 0252011198 (0-252-01119-8)
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Skin: On The Cultural Border Between Self And Worldby Claudia Benthien, Thomas DunlapISBN 0231125038 (0-231-12503-8)
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600by Donald Keene, Paul Varley, George Tanabe, Wm. Theodore De BaryISBN 0231121393 (0-231-12139-3)
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600by William Theodore De Bary, Yoshiko Kurata Dykstra, Donald Keene, Paul Varley, George Tanabe, Wm. Theodore De BaryISBN 0231121385 (0-231-12138-5)
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Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Societyby Northrop FryeISBN 0253202892 (0-253-20289-2)
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Status Anxiety: Library Editionby Alain De BottonISBN 0241142385 (0-241-14238-5)
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Studies in Entertainment : Critical Approaches to Mass Cultureby Tania ModleskiISBN 0253203953 (0-253-20395-3)
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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Centuryby Jonathan CraryISBN 0262031698 (0-262-03169-8)
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Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fictionby Teresa De LauretisISBN 0253204410 (0-253-20441-0)
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This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and womens cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture.
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston, Jerry PinkneyISBN 0252017781 (0-252-01778-1)
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Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]
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A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Formsby Linda HutcheonISBN 0252069382 (0-252-06938-2)
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Theory's Empire: An Anthology Of Dissentby Daphne Patai, Will H. CorralISBN 0231134177 (0-231-13417-7)
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Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Cultureby Meaghn MorrisISBN 0253211883 (0-253-21188-3)
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Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Cultureby Ann Shukman, Yuri M. LotmanISBN 0253336082 (0-253-33608-2)
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Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Cultureby Yuri M. Lotman, Umberto Eco, Ann ShukmanISBN 025321405X (0-253-21405-X)
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The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essaysby Ernst Bloch, Frank Mecklenburg, Jack David ZipesISBN 0262022702 (0-262-02270-2)
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Visual and Other Pleasuresby Laura MulveyISBN 0253204941 (0-253-20494-1)
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Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left And Rightby Timothy BrennanISBN 0231137303 (0-231-13730-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left And Right'Book summary:Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life. He contends that a certain social-democratic vision of politics has been banished from public discussion, leading to an unlikely convergence of the political right and the academic left and a deadening of critical opposition. Brennan challenges the conventional view that affiliations based on political belief, claims upon the state, or the public interest have been rendered obsolete by the march of events in the years before and after Reagan. Instead, he lays out a new path for a future infused with a sense of intellectual and political possibility.
In highlighting the shift in America's intellectual culture, Brennan makes the case for seeing belief as an identity. As much as race or ethnicity, political belief, Brennan argues, is itself an identity-one that remains unrecognized and without legal protections while possessing its own distinctive culture. Brennan also champions the idea of cosmopolitanism and critiques those theorists who relegate the left to the status of postcolonial "other."
Wars of Position documents how alternative views were chased from the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. He explores how the humanities entered the cultural and political mainstream and settled into an awkward secular religion of the "middle way." In a series of interrelated chapters, Brennan considers narratives of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Clinton impeachment; reexamines Salman Rushdie's pre-fatwa writing to illuminate its radical social leanings; presents a startling new interpretation of Edward Said; looks at the fatal reception of Antonio Gramsci within postcolonial history and criticism; and offers a stinging critique of Hardt and Negri's Empire and the influence of Italian radicalism on contemporary cultural theory. Throughout the work, Brennan also draws on and critiques the ideas and influence of Heidegger, Lyotard, Kristeva, and other influential theorists.
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Who Can Speak?: Authority and Critical Identityby Judith Roof, Robyn WiegmanISBN 0252064879 (0-252-06487-9)
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Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspectiveby Ellen KoskoffISBN 0252060571 (0-252-06057-1)
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Zoo Cultureby Garry Marvin, Bob MullanISBN 0252067622 (0-252-06762-2)
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