Cultural Criticism

A Chosen People, a Promised Land Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau 2012 Spring

How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions

Women Adrift The Literature of Japan’s Imperial Body Noriko J. Horiguchi 2011 Fall

How women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empire

The New Asian City Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form Jini Kim Watson 2011 Fall

Cultural productions reveal a darker side to development in emblematic Asian Tiger cities

Mysore Modern Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule Janaki Nair 2011 Fall

Rethinking modernity in colonial and postcolonial Indian history

Spaces between Us Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Scott Morgensen 2011 Fall

Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States

The Transit of Empire Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A. Byrd 2011 Fall

Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire

European Others Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe Fatima El-Tayeb 2011 Fall

Considers the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from below

Accessorizing the Body Habits of Being I Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, Editors 2011 Spring

What the smallest detail of dress reveals about gender, sexuality, race, politics, and aesthetics

The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana Boatema Boateng 2011 Spring

The intersection of Western intellectual property law and traditional knowledge in Africa

Beautiful Fighting Girl Saito Tamaki 2011 Spring

From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture

Tracking Modernity India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility Marian Aguiar 2011 Spring

The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity

Nakagami, Japan Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity Anne McKnight 2011 Spring

How Japan's most canonical postwar writer brought that country's largest social minority into the mainstream

Japanese Counterculture The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shūji Steven C. Ridgely 2010 Fall

Explores the significant impact of this countercultural figure of postwar Japan

Posthegemony Political Theory and Latin America Jon Beasley-Murray 2010 Fall

A challenging new work of cultural and political theory rethinks the concept of hegemony

Lusophone Africa Beyond Independence Fernando Arenas 2010 Fall

Situates the cultures of Portuguese-speaking Africa within the postcolonial global era

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