Cultural Criticism

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

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

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