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  • - Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
    av Slavoj Zizek
    360 - 1 216,-

    Challenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle.

  • - Essays on Latin American Culture
    av Silviano Santiago
    400 - 1 130,-

    Author has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. This book translates into English many of his seminal essays and, in the process, introduces the thought of one of Brazil's critics and theorists of the late twentieth century.

  • - Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution
    av Ali Behdad
    306 - 1 076,-

  • av David Simpson
    340 - 1 206,-

    Suitable for all those for whom the politics of subjectivity pose real problems of authority, identity, and belief, this book discusses its roles within the fields of legal theory, social science, fiction, philosophy, and ethics.

  • - The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations
     
    380,-

    Includes the essays that focus on China and its interactions with the West to historicise an economy of translation. This work contends that 'national histories' and 'world history' must be read with absolute attention to the types of epistemological translatability that have been constructed among various languages and cultures in modern times.

  • - Arguments in Cultural Theory
    av John Beverley
    320 - 1 156,-

    The term 'subalternity' refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonisation or other forms of economic, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. This title examines the relationship between subalternity and representation by analysing the ways in which that relationship has been played out in the domain of Latin American studies.

  • - Literary Hermeneutics, East and West
    av Longxi Zhang
    320,-

    Brings together philosophy and literature, theory and practical criticism, the Western and the non-Western in defining common ground on which East and West may come to a mutual understanding

  • - New Cultural Studies of Dance
    av Jane Desmond
    356 - 550,-

    Brings together the work of critics who have ventured into the boundaries between dance and cultural studies to find new ways of approaching matters of embodiment, identity, and representation

  • av Robert Sayre & Michael Lowy
    336 - 1 206,-

    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields - not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. This book formulates a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization.

  • - Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne and Marvell
    av Barbara L. Estrin
    356 - 1 216,-

  • - Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870
    av Susanne Zantop
    366 - 440,-

    Traces German desires to discover, conquer and dominate "new worlds" -- real and imagined-- expressed in stories and literature during the century preceding any actual German colonisation.

  • - Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany
    av Julia Hell
    466 - 1 290,-

    Examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Germany from a psychoanalytic angle. This book argues that these socialist realist fictions were in fact complex fictions, sharing the theme of opposition to fascism. It is of interest to literary critics and historians of German literature.

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    450,-

    Offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism - an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the demise of its original domain. This edition discusses socialist realism as it appears across genres in art, architecture, film, and literature and across geographic divides.

  • - Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema
    av Linda Schulte-Sasse
    336,99 - 1 216,-

    Taking a look at Nazi cinema, this book examines Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as propaganda vehicles that happen to be movies. It is of interest to scholars involved in the study of cinema, popular culture, Nazism and Nazi art, the workings of fascist culture, and the history of modern ideology.

  • - An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language
    av Michael Toolan
    336,99 - 1 216,-

    Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. This book provides an account of integrationalism, a theory of language that declines to accept that text and context, language and world, are distinct and stable categories.

  • - Interviews with Contemporary Intellectuals
    av Eva L. Corredor
    320 - 1 156,-

    Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the validity of Marxism and Marxist theory has undergone intense scrutiny both within and outside the academy. This book presents ten interviews with a group of international scholars to address the relevance of Gy'rgy Lukacs's theories to the post-communist era.

  • - Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings
     
    356,-

    How is history produced? How do individuals write or rewrite their parts while engaged in the production of history? This book takes the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions.

  • av Allan Megill
    1 210,-

  • - An Introduction
    av Gerhard Schweppenhauser
    400 - 1 126,-

    A translation of a succinct introduction to the challenging and far-reaching thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the twentieth centurys most important thinkers.

  • - China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century
    av Xudong Zhang
    400 - 1 206,-

    Offers a critical analysis of China's "long 1990s," the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. This title examines the reactions of intellectuals, authors, and filmmakers to the cultural and political shifts in 1990s China.

  • - Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning
    av Idelber Avelar
    386 - 1 216,-

    Examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the 20th century's Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. This title argues that through their legacy of social trauma and their obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to practices of mourning that pervade the literature of the region.

  • - Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
    av Takayuki Tatsumi
    1 156,-

    Looks at the work of artists from both sides of the Pacific: fiction writers and poets, folklorists and filmmakers, animae artists, playwrights, musicians, manga creators, and performance artists. This title offers an exploration of the interplay between Japanese and American cultural productions.

  • av Jean Baudrillard
    276 - 896,-

  • - Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
    av Ranjana Khanna
    340 - 1 210,-

    Argues that the psychoanalytic self was constituted through the specifically national-colonial encounters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that therefore somewhat paradoxically perhaps, psychoanalysis is crucial for understanding postcoloniality and decolonization.

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    366,-

    Explores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender.

  • - The Sixties and the Emergence of the Postmodern
    av Marianne DeKoven
    380 - 1 280,-

    Details the end of the modern and the emergence of the postmodern in 1960s philosophy, literature and popular culture

  • av David Rodowick
    330 - 1 166,-

    Gilles Deleuze is one of France's most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers. Placing Deleuze's two books on cinema - "The Movement-Image" and "The Time-Image" - in the context of French cultural theory of the 1960s and 1970s, the author examines the logic of Deleuze's theories and their relationship to his philosophy of difference.

  • - Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804
    av Srinivas Aravamudan
    366 - 1 346,-

    Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century.

  • - Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
    av Walter Benn Michaels
    306,-

    Argues that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has reovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to r4acial identity and asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a for

  • - Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women
    av Ileana Rodriguez
    320 - 1 156,-

    The narratives of five Centro-Caribbean writers are shown to debate the predicament of women under nation formation within the confines of marriage and the home.

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