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CULTURAL STUDIES |
Beverly Allen and Mary Russo, editors
Revisioning Italy
National Identity and Global Culture
"Revisioning Italy asks new and important questions about
the past, present and future of Italy." Journal of Modern
Italian Studies
40 ISBN 0-8166-2727-4 $24.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
41 ISBN 0-8166-2726-6 $62.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
423 pages o 1997
Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux
Postmodern Education
Politics, Culture and Social Criticism
The first book to offer a systematic look at the significance
of postmodernist ideas for education.
"Aronowitz and Giroux are architects of the imagination."
Afterimage
42 ISBN 0-8166-1880-1 $15.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
192 pages o 1990
Roland Barthes
Criticism and Truth
Translated by Katrine Pilcher Keunemen
Structured as a two-part essay, part one opens with Barthes's
point by point dissection of Sorbonne philologist Raymond Picard's
"old criticism." Part two is devoted primarily to the
author's own theory of criticism.
43 ISBN 0-8166-1609-4 $12.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
119 pages o 1987
Réda Bensmaïa
The Year of Passages
Translated by Tom Conley
Straddling the boundary between fiction and nonfiction, this rich
novel is a tale of exile and passage, a tale that moves in multiple
directions, full of gusto and rollicking irony.
44 ISBN 0-8166-2393-7 $21.95 paper Sale price: $3.00
256 pages o 1995
Theory Out of Bounds Series,
volume 5
James Berger
After the End
Representations of Post-Apocalypse
"This is an intelligent and informed book. Berger's arguments
and insights are lucid and persuasive, effectively showing how
ghosts of the past still live among us." Utopian Studies
45 ISBN 0-8166-2933-1 $18.95 paper Sale price: $10.00
46 ISBN 0-8166-2932-3 $47.95 cloth Sale price: $20.00
248 pages o 1999
Linda Brodkey
Writing Permitted in
Designated Areas Only
"Readers will find pleasure in this large, sprawling book
about the large, sprawling enterprise of teaching writing."
Hungry Mind Review
47 ISBN 0-8166-2807-6 $21.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
336 pages o 1996
Pedagogy and Cultural Practice
Series, volume 4
Jennifer Burwell
Notes on Nowhere
Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation
"Notes on Nowhere is a complicated, though fascinating, exploration
of social transition through the lenses of feminist and utopian
theory." Utopian Studies
48 ISBN 0-8166-2639-1 $19.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
49 ISBN 0-8166-2638-3 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
264 pages o 1997
American Culture Series,
volume 13
Verena Andermatt Conley, editor
Rethinking Technologies
"Rethinking Technologies constitutes a significant contribution
to the analysis of techno-cultures today." SubStance
"Unique and stimulating." Prometheus
50 ISBN 0-8166-2215-9 $18.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
51 ISBN 0-8166-2214-0 $47.95 cloth Sale price: $12.00
256 pages o 1993
Michael R. Curry
The Work in the World
Geographical Practice and the Written Word
Explores the process by which texts create places, and how knowing
this changes our understanding of the written work.
52 ISBN 0-8166-2665-0 $19.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
53 ISBN 0-8166-2664-2 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
256 pages o 1996
Janet Varner Gunn
Second Life
A West Bank Memoir
A moving account of one woman's encounter with a "living
martyr" of the West Bank.
"A memorable portrait of a courageous people whose daily
struggle is a testament to humanity's ability to survive and prevail."
Christian Century
54 ISBN 0-8166-2530-1 $19.95 cloth/jacket Sale price: $3.00
216 pages o 1995
Amy Katz Kaminsky, editor
Water Lilies
An Anthology of Spanish Women Writers from the Fifteenth through
the Nineteenth Century
Most translated for the first time, the works in this dazzling
sampler of writing by Spanish women are printed on facing pages
in Spanish and English and located within a critical, biographical,
and historical overview.
55 ISBN 0-8166-1946-8 $21.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
56 ISBN 0-8166-1944-1 $54.95 cloth Sale price: $21.00
520 pages o 1995
Elias Khoury
Gates of the City
Translated by Paula Haydar
"An extraordinary novel that stands out among the works of
fiction which have emerged from the Lebanese Civil War."
World Literature Today
61 ISBN 0-8166-2224-8 $15.95 cloth/jacket Sale price: $3.00
112 pages o 1993
Emergent Literatures Series
Elias Khoury
The Journey of Little
Gandhi
Translated by Paula Haydar
"A vivid dramatization of the horror and ugliness of the
conflict in Beirut during the 1970's and 1980's." World Literature
Today
65 ISBN 0-8166-1995-6 $19.95 cloth/jacket Sale price: $3.00
214 pages o 1994
Emergent Literatures Series
Ira Livingston
Arrow of Chaos
Romanticism and Postmodernity
By modeling ways to think through chaos and through the mutual
deformations of Romanticism and postmodernity, Arrow of Chaos
contributes to alternative alignments of knowledge across time
and technique.
57 ISBN 0-8166-2795-9 $22.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
58 ISBN 0-8166-2794-0 $57.95 cloth Sale price: $15.00
320 pages o 1997
Theory Out of Bounds Series,
volume 9
Clarice Lispector
The Passion According
to G.H.
Translated by Ronald Sousa
"A shattering encounter communicated to us in intense, at
times tortured, prose." Latin American Literature and Arts
66 ISBN 0-8166-1712-0 $13.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
182 pages o 1988
Emergent Literatures Series
Clarice Lispector
The Stream of Life
Translated by Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz
"Lispector makes language the medium of both imprisonment
and liberation and she does it with an amazingly light and playful
touch. Fascinating." New York Times Book Review
67 ISBN 0-8166-1782-1 $12.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
114 pages o 1989
Emergent Literatures Series
Brian Massumi, editor
The Politics of Everyday
Fear
The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images
and information. The contributors address questions raised by
the saturation of social space by capitalized fear.
59 ISBN 0-8166-2163-2 $19.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
60 ISBN 0-8166-2162-4 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $8.00
384 pages o 1993
Patricia McKee
Public and Private
Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878)
Considers the connections between gender and power in the novels
of the period.
"Striking and intriguing." European Romantic
62 ISBN 0-8166-2935-8 $19.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
264 pages o 1997
Timothy Murray and Alan K. Smith, editors
Repossessions
Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early Modern Culture
The contributors explore the conceptual and ideological foundations
of psychoanalysis while articulating fresh insights into the vicissitudes
of autobiography, translation, mourning, and eroticism.
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64 ISBN 0-8166-2960-9 $54.95 cloth Sale price: $12.00
256 pages o 1998
Graziella Parati
Public History, Private
Stories
Italian Women's Autobiography
"A very keen analysis of the gendered self in five Italian
women's autobiographies." The European Legacy
68 ISBN 0-8166-2607-3 $17.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
232 pages o 1996
Jeanne Perreault
Writing Selves
Contemporary Feminist Autography
Looking to works by Audre Lorde, Kate Millet, Adrienne Rich, and
Patricia Williams, Perreault compellingly examines writing as
a significant element in the processes of self-making.
"Illuminating and provocative." a/b
69 ISBN 0-8166-2655-3 $17.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
176 pages o 1995
Christopher Prendergast, editor
Cultural Materialism
On Raymond Williams
"This excellent collection of essays both situates and goes
beyond the cultural materialism of Raymond Williams." Environment
and Planning
70 ISBN 0-8166-2281-7 $21.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
71 ISBN 0-8166-2280-9 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $20.00
400 pages o 1995
Cultural Politics Series,
volume 9
Jacques Rancière
The Names of History
On the Poetics of Knowledge
Translated by Hassan Melehy
Reveals the significant impact of historiography on the human
sciences during the twentieth century.
79 ISBN 0-8166-2403-8 $16.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
141 pages o 1994
Bruce Robbins, editor
Intellectuals
Aesthetics, Politics, Academics
A collection of essays that pursue the political and theoretical
debate over "intellectuals" in specific historical circumstances.
72 ISBN 0-8166-1831-3 $18.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
408 pages o 1990
Cultural Politics Series,
volume 2
Barbara Spackman
Fascist Virilities
Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy
"A tremendous contribution to the study of Italian Fascism
in particular and the study of Fascism as a wider political and
ideological phenomenon." Journal of Modern Italian Studies
73 ISBN 0-8166-2786-X $47.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
208 pages o 1996
Winner of a Howard R. Marraro Prize and Scaglione Prize for Italian
Literary Studies
David Trend
The Crisis of Meaning
In Culture and Education
Trend analyzes how notions of patriotism, citizenship, community,
and family are communicated within specific public and private
institutions.
74 ISBN 0-8166-2523-9 $17.95 paper Sale price: $3.00
192 pages o 1995
Pedagogy and Cultural Practice
Series, volume 3
Jeffrey Wallen
Closed Encounters
Literary Politics and Public Culture
Challenges the practices of the academy and takes aim at the failings
of both Left and Right.
75 ISBN 0-8166-3188-3 $18.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
76 ISBN 0-8166-3187-5 $47.95 cloth Sale price: $12.00
224 pages o 1998
John C. Welchman, editor
Rethinking Borders
Rethinking Borders is a crucial guide to the reconfigurations
of gender, identity, and aesthetic practice that are transforming
our culture at the end of the millennium.
77 ISBN 0-8166-2869-6 $19.95 paper Sale price: $3.00
78 ISBN 0-8166-2868-8 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
224 pages o 1996