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1492-1992
Re/Discovering Colonial Writing
Rene Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini, Editors
1991 Spring
The essays and documents in this volume underscore the importance of writing as companion of Empire, while at the same time highlighting its subversive power as a series of counter-narratives emerge to contest the tactics and values of the “victors.” Contributors: Rolena Adorno, Tom Conley, Antonio Gomez-Moriana, Beatriz Gonzalez, Rene Jara, Stephanie Merrim, Walter Mignolo, Beatriz Pastor, Jose Rabasa, Nicholas Spadaccini, and Iris Zavala.
Everywoman’s Guide to Nutrition
Judith E. Brown
Woman and Chinese Modernity
The Politics of Reading Between West and East
Rey Chow
1990 Fall
Examines the relationship of “woman” to issues of non-western culture.
Bearheart
The Heirship Chronicles
Gerald Vizenor
1990 Spring
Bearheart, Gerald Vizenors first novel, overturns “terminal creeds” and violence in a decadent material culture. American civilization has collapsed and Proude Cedarfair, his wife, Rosina, and a bizarre collection of disciples, are forced on a pilgrimage when government agents descend on the reservation to claim their sacred cedar trees for fuel. The tribal pilgrims reverse the sentiments of Manifest Destiny and travel south through the ruins of a white world that ran out of gas.
Griever
An American Monkey King in China
Gerald Vizenor
1990 Spring
Griever de Hocus, accompanied by his rooster, Matteo Ricci, plays havoc with the monolithic institutions of the People’s Republic of China in Vizenor’s inspired retelling of the classic Chinese Journey to the West. Fiction.
Caliban and Other Essays
Roberto Fernández Retamar
1989 Spring
Cultural and literary essays by a Cuban poet, essayist, and professor of philology who is known for his meticulous efforts to dismantle Eurocentric colonial and neocolonial thought. “Caliban”—the first and longest of the five essays in this book—has become a kind of manifesto for Latin American and Caribbean writers; its central figure, the rude savage of Shakespeare’s Tempest, becomes in Retamar’s hands a powerful metaphor of their cultural situation—both in its marginality and its revolutionary potential.
Universal Abandon
The Politics of Postmodernism
Andrew Ross, Editor
1989 Spring
“The essays are new, readable and well-informed; the collection is an excellent basis for inquiring into the politics of contemporary art and criticism.” --Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism Contributors: Stanley Aronowitz, Hal Foster, Nancy Fraser, Lawrence Grossberg, Laura Kipnis, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Meaghan Morris, Linda Nicholson, Jacqueline Rose, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Paul Smith, Anders Stephanson, and George Yúdice.
A Very Serious Thing
Women’s Humor and American Culture
Nancy A. Walker
1988 Fall
Defines why women have been blocked from participating in the mainstream of American comedy yet have overcome hurdles to produce a humor that is sustaining and spells survival for women in society.
Discerning the Subject
Paul Smith
1988 Spring
A critique of the debates on the status of the “subject.”
Popular Culture in America
Paul Buhle, Editor
1987 Fall
The Colonial Harem
Malek Alloula
1986 Spring
A collection of picture postcards of Algerian women exploited by the French, this “album” illustrates a powerful analysis of the distorting, denigrating effects of their presence on Algerian Society.
Postmodernism and Politics
Jonathan Arac, Editor
1986 Spring
Eight essays on postmodernism with a focus on intellectual, artistic and social concerns.
The People Named the Chippewa
Narrative Histories
Gerald Vizenor
1984 Fall
Ranging in time and space from Madeline Island and the reservations of northern Minnesota to the urban reservation of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Vizenor recounts the experiences of the Chippewa and their encounters with the white people who “named” them.
Legacies of Anti-Semitism in France
Jeffrey Mehlman
The Melting Pot and the Altar
Marital Assimilation in Early Twentieth-Century Wisconsin
Richard M. Bernard
Through extensive quantitative analysis of census reports and marriage records Bernard studies the pattern of intergroup marriage - the ultimate test of assimilation - during a period of massive migration to this country. Both historians and sociologists will find this work of interest as an example of quantitative methodology and for its new evidence of an important subject.
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