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Critifiction
(November 1993)
Postmodern Essays
Raymond Federman - Author
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"I like the way this book makes available critical reflections on postmodern or 'experimental' literature from the perspective of one of its central practitioners in the West today. We hear Federman's voice speaking from both inside and outside the scholarly and pedagogical discourse on postmodernism--a discourse to which he brings the intensity, engagement, vitality of the fiction writer for whom the 'fate' of the postmodern novel is not merely an...(Read More) |
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Hauntings
(December 1994)
Popular Film and American Culture 1990-1992
Joseph Natoli - Author
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This book is about the way that popular film brings to a "sayable" level that which haunts us in the media headlines.
"This book is so very topical--in the best of all possible senses. It uses contemporary films to comment upon broader social issues: violence, homophobia, sexual abuse, television, capitalism, class, marriage, ecology, democracy, greed, subcultures, and the list could go on. The fears of America--the hauntings by the Ro...(Read More) |
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It Looks At You
(January 1995)
The Returned Gaze of Cinema
Wheeler Winston Dixon - Author
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This is a study of the "returned gaze" from the cinema screen, demonstrating that the films that we watch watch us, guide us, control our gaze, and enforce societal codes.
"I think this is a work of both brilliant synthesis and stunning originality." -- David Desser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This book is a study of one of the most insidious and pervasive phenomena in the study and reception of cinema: t...(Read More) |
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Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression
(April 1995)
Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
E. San Juan Jr. - Author
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This book offers a radical, "Third World" approach to current debates on canon revision, multiculturalism, Eurocentrism, and reforms in education and culture.
"This is a brilliant and unique intervention into a host of major and knotty contemporary debates in literary criticism. In particular, it is refreshing and inspiring to see the uncompromising anti-racism and anti-Eurocentrism of these studies combined with a sophisticated outlook ...(Read More) |
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Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes
(May 1995)
Legacies of Postmodern Theory
H. L. Hix - Author
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This book explores the consequences of postmodern theory and answers the question, "What did postmodern theory begin?"
In a series of topical explorations structured like a sonata, H. L. Hix identifies the consequences of postmodern theory through such issues as grief, freedom, beauty, obscenity, love, and sex to its axiological consequences. A basic motif, postmodernism's distribution of meaning over space rather than time, recurs throug...(Read More) |
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Spectacular Vernaculars
(September 1995)
Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism
Russell A. Potter - Author
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Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.
Spectacular Vernaculars examines hip-hop's cultural rebellion in terms of its specific implications for postmodern theory and practice, using the politics of reception as its primary rhetorical ground. Hip-hop culture in general, and rap music in partic...(Read More) |
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Fear, Truth, Writing
(October 1995)
From Paper Village to Electronic Community
Alison Leigh Brown - Author
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This book describes and examines the fear of exposure one faces when creating for cultural consumption. Examining the work of Cixous, Foucault, Irigaray, Spinoza, Hegel, Hakim Bey, Heidegger, Kathy Acker, Derrida, and Kierkegaard, the author finds spaces where fear and anxiety give way to connection and community.
"The book will both inspire further investigation into questions of identity, gender, 'anarchy', and new ways of formulating these q...(Read More) |
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Fire and Roses
(November 1995)
Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body
Carl A. Raschke - Author
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Interprets postmodernity in relation to the body--the "somatological a priori," and applies current critical theory to issues of gender, popular culture fashion, and magic, as well as the Western philosophical/theological tradition.
Covering a wealth of authors and literature from Baudrillard to Foucault, from Freud to Lacan, from Plato to Heidegger, from the study of women's fashion to Girardian perspectives on the sacrific...(Read More) |
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Postmodernism - Local Effects, Global Flows
(July 1996)
Vincent B. Leitch - Author
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Offers readable case studies in postmodern economics, philosophy, literary criticism, feminism, pedagogy, poetry, painting, historiography, and cultural studies, showing disorganization as characteristic of postmodern times.
"In earlier books on deconstruction, cultural criticism, and other recent movements, Vincent B. Leitch established himself as an intrepid reporter from the darkest and most impenetrable regions of 'theory.' N...(Read More) |
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Posts
(July 1996)
Re Addressing the Ethical
Dawne McCance - Author
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An innovative study of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and genealogy, relating the ethical to the problematic of the text as a post or a sending in the work of Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan, Kristeva, and Foucault, and phrasing the ethical as the questions of how to read and write after.
"McCance has a sure grasp of not only the primary texts with which she is working, but also of much of the relevant secondary literature. Her i...(Read More) |
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