Cultural Criticism
- Filth Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, Editors 2004 Fall
- What waste reveals about the culture that creates it
- Cultural Residues Chile in Transition Nelly Richard 2004 Fall
- Reveals the cultural substrata of the transition from Chilean dictatorship
- Transatlantic Topographies Islands, Highlands, Jungles Ileana Rodriguez 2004 Fall
- Explores the construction of the Americas by and through European eyes
- The Aesthetics of Self-Invention Oscar Wilde to David Bowie Shelton Waldrep 2004 Spring
- Traces the influence of Oscar Wilde as the precursor of twentieth-century artists of self-performance
- Carnival Theater Uruguay’s Popular Performers and National Culture Gustavo Remedi 2003 Fall
- Offers a new model for interpreting popular national culture through Uruguay’s carnival theater troupes
- Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle . . . and Other Tales of Counterglobalization Brett Neilson 2003 Fall
- An alternative approach to mapping the world offers a new way to contest capitalism and globalization
- Native Intelligence Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature Deepika Bahri 2003 Fall
- A compelling reclamation of the place of aesthetics in postcolonial literature
- “Am I That Name?” Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History Denise Riley 2003 Spring
- A new edition of a classic work on the history of feminism
- Undoing Empire Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean José F. Buscaglia-Salgado 2003 Spring
- A revelatory account that places mulatto experience at the center of Caribbean history
- Waxworks A Cultural Obsession Michelle E. Bloom 2003 Spring
- A provocative and wide-ranging exploration of wax as cultural metaphor
- Mexican Masculinities Robert McKee Irwin 2003 Spring
- A fascinating examination of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico
- Critical Latin American and Latino Studies Juan Poblete, Editor 2003 Spring
- Situates these dynamic disciplines within debates around globalization
- World Bank Literature Amitava Kumar, Editor 2002 Fall
- A trailblazing interrogation of the cultural, political, and economic implications of World Bank hegemony.
- The Artificial Kingdom On the Kitsch Experience Celeste Olalquiaga 2002 Fall
- A cultural history of the human desire behind the emergence of kitsch.
- Captive Women Oblivion and Memory in Argentina Susana Rotker 2002 Fall
- An exposé of Argentina’s attempts to whitewash its national history.