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Living on Your Own
(April 2014)
Single Women, Rental Housing, and Affect in Contemporary South Korea
Jesook Song - Author
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Beyond Explicit
(February 2014)
Pornography and the Displacement of Sex
Helen Hester - Author
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Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives
(December 2013)
W. Lawrence Hogue - Author
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Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.
This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African American history and cultural politics, W. Lawrence Hogue provides...(Read More) |
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The Study of Judaism
(December 2013)
Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship
Aaron W. Hughes - Author
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Considers Jewish studies as an academic discipline from its origins to the present.
The relationship between Jewish studies and religious studies is a long and complicated one, full of tensions and possibilities. Whereas the majority of scholars working within Jewish studies contend that the discipline is in a very healthy state, many who work in theory and method in religious studies disagree. For them, Jewish studies represents...(Read More) |
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Uncoupling American Empire
(December 2013)
Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890–1910
Yu-Fang Cho - Author
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A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.
A radical revision of the politics of race and sexuality within racial capitalism, Uncoupling American Empire provides an original cultural genealogy of how the institutionalization of marriage shaped imagined relationships among working people who were seen as sexually deviant in nineteenth-century ...(Read More) |
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Virtual Intimacies
(December 2013)
Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Shaka McGlotten - Author
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Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.
Virtual Intimacies tells the stories of gay men, including the author, who navigate social worlds in which the boundaries between real and virtual have been thoroughly confounded. Shaka McGlotten analyzes intimate connection and disconnection across an array of media sites, including m...(Read More) |
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Fifties Ethnicities
(November 2013)
The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury
Tracy Floreani - Author
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Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.
Fifties Ethnicities brings together a variety of texts to explore what it meant to be American in the middle of “America’s Century.” In a series of comparative readings that draws on novels, television programs, movie magazines, and films, Tracy Floreani crosses generic boundaries to s...(Read More) |
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Indigenous Bodies
(November 2013)
Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming
Jacqueline Fear-Segal - Editor
Rebecca Tillett - Editor
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An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays, by both Natives and non-Natives, explores presentations and representations of indigenous bodies in historical and contemporary contexts. Recent decades have seen a wealth of scholarship on the body in a wide range of disciplines. Indigenous Bodies extends this scholarship in exciting new ways, bringing together the discip...(Read More) |
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