Cultural Criticism
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French Resistance The French-American Culture Wars Jean-Philippe Mathy 2000 Spring
- An original look at the intellectual issues that divide—and unite—these two republics.
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Acting Out in Groups Laurence A. Rickels, Editor 1999 Fall
- Examines outrageous public behavior and what it can tell us about cultural and political change.
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Red on Red Native American Literary Separatism Craig S. Womack and Hans Aarsleff 1999 Fall
- An entertaining and enlightening proposal for a new way to read Native American literature.
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Black Body Women, Colonialism, and Space Radhika Mohanram 1999 Fall
- Asserts the centrality of space to racial identity.
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The Vampire Lectures Laurence A. Rickels 1999 Fall
- A wild and wide-ranging “psycho-history” of the vampire.
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With Other Eyes Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture Lisa Bloom, Editor 1999 Fall
- Challenges the politics of gender and race underlying the practice of art history.
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Latin Americanism Román de la Campa 1999 Spring
- Analyzes the way North American academics have constructed Latin America.
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After Exile Writing the Latin American Diaspora Amy K. Kaminsky 1999 Spring
- Considers the effect of exile on contemporary South American writers.
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Nomadic Identities The Performance of Citizenship May Joseph 1999 Spring
- A look at citizenship through the lens of performance.
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SportCult Randy Martin and Toby Miller, Editors 1999 Spring
- New approaches to the cultural politics of sport.
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Performing Hybridity May Joseph and Jennifer Natalya Fink, Editors 1998 Fall
- A kaleidoscopic consideration of transnational culture and performance
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FirstDays of the Year Helene Cixous 1998 Spring
- A searching meditation on “authorship” by an eminent theorist.
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Cosmopolitics Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins, Editors 1998 Spring
- Eminent contributors look at the present and future of cosmopolitanism and its relationship to nationalism.
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Technologies of Truth Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media Toby Miller 1997 Fall
- Offers an original and refreshing discussion of the media’s effect on everyday culture.
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Generations Academic Feminists in Dialogue Devoney Looser and E. Ann Kaplan, Editors 1997 Fall
- Explores the conflicts and challenges facing older and younger feminist scholars.