Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their appeal... Læs mere
Useful to sovietologists, political scientists, and students of communism and nationalism. This title argues that the collapse of... Læs mere
Provides a set of readings of William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses - sometimes characterized as a novel, sometimes as a collection of... Læs mere
Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications... Læs mere
A collection of essays examining Latin American cultural history through a focus on animals and their vital but often ignored roles in colonization and nation-building.
A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.
Author has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially... Læs mere
Argues that crucial twentieth-century revolutionary challenges to colonialism and capitalism in the Americas have failed to resist - and in fact have been constitutively related to - the very developmentalist narratives that have justified and naturalized post-war capitalism.
This collection brings together for the first time the plays of Sonia Sanchez, a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement.
An analysis of how Uzbekistan s cultural and political elites engaged in a program of nation-building through culture, particularly by staging spectacular mass events, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of its residents, showing how its urban transformation occurs not in a series of dramatic, widescale changes but in the everyday lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.