Cultural Criticism
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Murder Most Modern Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture Sari Kawana 2008 Spring
- Surveillance, sexuality, war, and censorship in Japanese detective fiction
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Cuban Currency The Dollar and “Special Period” Fiction Esther Whitfield 2007 Fall
- Explores the nostalgic fetishization of Cuban culture
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Sinographies Writing China Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy and Steven G. Yao, Editors 2007 Fall
- A new critical model for understanding China and its role in Western literary and political life
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The Postcolonial and the Global Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley, Editors 2007 Fall
- Connects postcolonial and global discourses in the humanities and social sciences
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Imperial White Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire Radhika Mohanram 2007 Fall
- Analyzing whiteness in nineteenth-century British colonialism from India to Britain to Australia and New Zealand
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The Third Space of Sovereignty The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations Kevin Bruyneel 2007 Fall
- The struggle between indigenous resistance and American colonialism—within its own borders
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Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints Cultural Icons of Mexico’s Northwest Borderlands Robert McKee Irwin 2007 Spring
- Reinvigorates the mythic figures of Mexico’s anomalous zone
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Taking Their Word Literature and the Signs of Central America Arturo Arias 2007 Spring
- Gives voice to the unique literature and culture of Central America.
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Rethinking Global Sisterhood Western Feminism and Iran Nima Naghibi 2007 Spring
- The first analysis of how Western and Iranian feminism both converge and conflict
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The Poetics of DNA Judith Roof 2007 Spring
- Reveals the ideological effects of DNA metaphors and stories
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Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations Life Stories from the Academy Hokulani K. Aikau, Karla A. Erickson and Jennifer L. Pierce, Editors 2007 Spring
- Finding the “2.5 generation”—an alternative to binary feminist categories
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Primitive America The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy Paul Smith 2007 Spring
- An urgent examination of the deep cultural roots of America’s response to 9/11
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Alienhood Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference Katarzyna Marciniak 2006 Spring
- A timely and critical understanding of transnational culture
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The Impure Imagination Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing Joshua Lund 2006 Spring
- Challenges conventional thinking about the widely accepted concept of cultural hybridity
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Playing with Fire Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India Sangtin Writers Collective and Richa Nagar 2006 Spring
- Understanding the labor and politics of NGOs through the lives of seven Indian women