Universal Abandon was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
In recent years, the debate about postmodernism has become a full-blown, global discussion about the nature and future of society: it has challenged and redefined the cultural and sexual politics of the last two decades, and is increasingly shaping tomorrow's agenda. Postmodernist culture is a medium in which we all live, no matter how...
Universal Abandon was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again ...
A collection of essays on cultural and political innovations in Latin America. The work shows how the penetration of capital and media - known as globalization - into the political and everyday life of Latin America has had far-reaching cultural consequences.
A collection of essays on cultural and political innovations in Latin America. The work shows how the penetration of capital and media - known as glob...
From the author of "The Order of Mimesis" and "Paris and the Nineteenth-Century", this book provides a collection of essays on Raymond William's theories of cultural materialism.
From the author of "The Order of Mimesis" and "Paris and the Nineteenth-Century", this book provides a collection of essays on Raymond William's theor...
Calls attention to the crucial difficulties inherent in censorship when it is used as a tool for cultural criticism. These essays move discussions of censorship out of the present discourse of diversity into what might be called a discourse of legitimation.
Calls attention to the crucial difficulties inherent in censorship when it is used as a tool for cultural criticism. These essays move discussions of ...
With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality. Among their subjects are nineteenth-century physiologies, photographs, caricatures, and Balzac's Comedie humaine; the ethnographic claims of the Goncourts' naturalism and the historical claims of Zola's; and the allure of exotica displayed at new museums and international expositions.
With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gen...
The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality.
Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond, live in the aftermath of colonialism. Their day-to-day lives are defined by their past history as colonized peoples, often in ways that are subtle or hard to define. In Dangerous Liaisons, eminent contributors address the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender, and identity from an inter-disciplinary perspective.
Among the questions they address are: What are the boundaries of race and...
The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality.
Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyo...
In laboratories all over the world, life -- even the idea of life -- is changing. And with these changes, whether they result in square tomatoes or cyborgs, come transformations in our social order -- sometimes welcome, sometimes troubling. Changing Life offers a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities.
These essays -- about planetary management and genome sequencing, ecologies and cyborgs -- address actual and imagined transformations at the center and at the margins of transnational relations,...
In laboratories all over the world, life -- even the idea of life -- is changing. And with these changes, whether they result in square tomatoes or cy...
