Cultural Criticism

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

The Way of Kinship An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith, Editors 2010 Fall

Prose, poetry, and drama from Siberia—the first anthology of its kind in English

Service Economies Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea Jin-kyung Lee 2010 Fall

A compelling alternative narrative of the modern ‘miracle’ of South Korea

The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 2008 Fall

Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance

Couture and Consensus Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina Regina A. Root 2010 Spring

The intersection of fashion and politics in nineteenth-century Argentina

X-Marks Native Signatures of Assent Scott Richard Lyons 2010 Spring

A provocative and deeply personal exploration of contemporary Indian identity, nationalism, and modernity

The Mishomis Book The Voice of the Ojibway Edward Benton-Banai 2010 Fall

For young readers, the collected wisdom and traditions of Ojibway elders

Queer Ricans Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 2009 Spring

Seeing the diversity in Puerto Rico’s gay and lesbian communities in the United States

The Reification of Desire Toward a Queer Marxism Kevin Floyd 2009 Spring

A new theoretical approach to the relationship between Marxism and queer studies

Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong Paul Chaat Smith 2009 Spring

Forceful and eloquent essays on the American Indian in culture and history

A Call for Heresy Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America Anouar Majid 2009 Spring

Confronting the fundamentalism that afflicts both Islam and the United States through traditions of dissent

Otaku Japan’s Database Animals Hiroki Azuma 2009 Spring

A publishing event—the highly influential best seller in Japan translated into English

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