Cultural Criticism

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

The People and the Word Reading Native Nonfiction Robert Warrior 2005 Fall

Reveals the history and impact of Native American nonfiction writing

The Backcountry and the City Colonization and Conflict in Early America Edward White 2005 Fall

Calls for the rural electrification of early American studies

Blush Faces of Shame Elspeth Probyn 2005 Spring

Exposes shame as a valuable emotion essential to our humanity

Filth Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, Editors 2004 Fall

What waste reveals about the culture that creates it

Cultural Residues Chile in Transition Nelly Richard 2004 Fall

Reveals the cultural substrata of the transition from Chilean dictatorship

Transatlantic Topographies Islands, Highlands, Jungles Ileana Rodriguez 2004 Fall

Explores the construction of the Americas by and through European eyes

The Aesthetics of Self-Invention Oscar Wilde to David Bowie Shelton Waldrep 2004 Spring

Traces the influence of Oscar Wilde as the precursor of twentieth-century artists of self-performance

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