Cultural Criticism

Taking Their Word Literature and the Signs of Central America Arturo Arias 2007 Spring

Gives voice to the unique literature and culture of Central America.

Rethinking Global Sisterhood Western Feminism and Iran Nima Naghibi 2007 Spring

The first analysis of how Western and Iranian feminism both converge and conflict

The Poetics of DNA Judith Roof 2007 Spring

Reveals the ideological effects of DNA metaphors and stories

Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations Life Stories from the Academy Hokulani K. Aikau, Karla A. Erickson and Jennifer L. Pierce, Editors 2007 Spring

Finding the “2.5 generation”—an alternative to binary feminist categories

Primitive America The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy Paul Smith 2007 Spring

An urgent examination of the deep cultural roots of America’s response to 9/11

Alienhood Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference Katarzyna Marciniak 2006 Spring

A timely and critical understanding of transnational culture

The Impure Imagination Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing Joshua Lund 2006 Spring

Challenges conventional thinking about the widely accepted concept of cultural hybridity

Playing with Fire Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India Sangtin Writers Collective and Richa Nagar 2006 Spring

Understanding the labor and politics of NGOs through the lives of seven Indian women

Shanghai and the Edges of Empires Meng Yue 2005 Fall

A highly innovative investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center

Our Fire Survives the Storm A Cherokee Literary History Daniel Heath Justice 2005 Fall

Asserts the strength and diversity of Cherokee identity through its rich literary tradition

Bear Island The War at Sugar Point Gerald Vizenor 2006 Spring

An award-winning Native American writer recounts the “last Indian war” in verse

Abiding by Sri Lanka On Peace, Place, and Postcolonality Qadri Ismail 2005 Fall

A provocative account of Sri Lankan politics and representative democracies in general

Hybrid Cultures Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity Nestor Garcia Canclini 2005 Spring

Examines the threats to Latin American cultural identity in a global marketplace—now with a new introduction!

Cuban Palimpsests José Quiroga 2005 Fall

Traces how Cuba’s revolutionary past and uncertain future collide with post–Cold War realities

Like a Loaded Weapon The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Robert A. Williams, Jr. 2005 Fall

Exposes the U.S. Supreme Court’s history of racism against American Indians

University of Minnesota Press