Duke University Press: 2463 books
Reading the Wind
The Literature of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 1986
The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal,...
by Ilan Stavans, Joshua Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Travel is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Ilan Stavans and Joshua Ellison seek to understand why we travel and what has come to be missing...
by Ilan Stavans, Jorge J. E. Gracia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
The essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans and the analytic philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia share long-standing interests in the intersection of art and ideas. Here they take thirteen pieces of Latino art, each reproduced in color, as occasions for thematic discussions. Whether the work at...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2003
The masochist, the voyeur, the sadist, the sodomite, the fetishist, the pedophile, and the necrophiliac all expose hidden but essential elements of the social relation. Arguing that the concept of perversion, usually stigmatized, ought rather to be understood as a necessary stage in the development...
Beyond Civil Society
Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century...
Ghost Protocol
Development and Displacement in Global China
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance....
Crafting Mexico
Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this...
Sins against Nature
Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three...
Cinema at the End of Empire
A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts? Cinema at the End of Empire illuminates this intertwined...
Virtual Voyages
Cinema and Travel
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary in the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the postwar era of 16mm distribution, and today continues...
by Suzanne Gearhart, David Palumbo-Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
Minor Transnationalism moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority cultures in a vertical relationship of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and...
Tourists of History
Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In Tourists of History, the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates...
W Stands for Women
How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Taking seriously the “W Stands for Women” rhetoric of the 2004 Bush–Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how “W” stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends; his use of feminist rhetoric is...