Cultural Studies
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An Ethics of Betrayal (Hardcover)
The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture Crystal ParikhPrice: $70.00In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida,...
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Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968 (Hardcover)
Wendy PojmannPrice: $35.00The women of the Socialist/Communist Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) and the lay Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF) are the protagonists in this keen study of the relationship between national Italian women’s associations and international women’s movements from 1944, when the...
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Untouchable Fictions (Hardcover)
Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste Toral Jatin GajarawalaPrice: $85.00Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism- progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental- in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit (“untouchable” caste) fiction. Drawing on a wide array of fiction from Premchand and Renu in Hindi...
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Against Democracy (Paperback)
Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations Simon DuringPrice: $24.00This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought and...
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Against Democracy (Hardcover)
Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations Simon DuringPrice: $70.00This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought and...
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