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Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain Anne J. Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Perry, Editors 1991 Fall
Focuses on the various modes of repression and cultural/social control exerted by Spanish institutions during the counter-reformation.
Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva Readings The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva Helene Cixous Verena Andermatt Conley, Editor 1991 Fall
A leader in the feminist intellectual movement, Cixous presents this highly informative meditation on ethics and poetics which draws on philosophy and psychoanalysis.
Technoculture Technoculture Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, Editors 1991 Spring
The contributors provide a realistic assessment of the politics-the dangers and possibilities-currently at stake in cultural practices touched by advanced technology, while suggesting new and timely possibilities for those concerned with the pressing need for technoliteracy. Contributors: Houston A. Baker, Jr., Sandra Buckley, Peter Fitting, Reebee Garofalo, DeeDee Halleck, Donna Haraway, Valerie Hartouni, Jim Pomeroy, Constance Penley, Andrew Ross, and Paula A. Treichler.
1492-1992: Re/Discovering Colonial Writing 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 Everywoman’s Guide to Nutrition Judith E. Brown None None
Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East 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 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 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 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 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 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 Discerning the Subject Paul Smith 1988 Spring
A critique of the debates on the status of the “subject.”
Popular Culture in America Popular Culture in America Paul Buhle, Editor 1987 Fall
The Colonial Harem 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 Postmodernism and Politics Jonathan Arac, Editor 1986 Spring
Eight essays on postmodernism with a focus on intellectual, artistic and social concerns.