Search results for “[Subject: adventurers-explorers]”

• Author(s): James S. Leonard • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language ArtsHow does one teach Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a book as controversial as it is central to ...

• Author(s): Doris L. Garraway • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - GeneralPresenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the incept...

• Author(s): Benjamin Lee • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLooks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary cr...

• Author(s): Christina Sharpe • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Literary CriticismArguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to...

• Author(s): Antonio Viego • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryDead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian ...

• Author(s): Gillian Siddall • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzThe contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical ...

• Author(s): Xueping Zhong • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Men's Studies - GeneralIn Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to exa...

• Author(s): Matthew H. Brown • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesIn Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown analyzes the content of the prolific Nigerian film industry's mostly direct-t...

• Author(s): Paola Bacchetta • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesIn Co-Motion, theorist Paola Bacchetta proposes a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects and alliances. Employing...

• Author(s): Jonathan Sterne • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: DisabilityIn Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his ...

• Author(s): Scott Bukatman • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyScott Bukatman's Terminal Identity-referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "...

• Author(s): Slavoj Zizek • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyThe Cartesian cogito-the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"-is often hailed as the prec...

• Author(s): David Simpson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Movements - General"Let me tell you where I'm coming from . . ."-so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. culture. Pressed b...

• Author(s): Matthew D. O'Hara • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaIn colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race a...

• Author(s): Carlos Ulises Decena • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay StudiesTacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuali...

• Author(s): Yael Navaro • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic en...

• Author(s): Michelle Ann Stephens • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century b...

• Author(s): R. Radhakrishnan • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralHistory, the Human, and the World Between is a philosophical investigation of the human subject and its simult...

• Author(s): Heather Davis • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana T...

• Author(s): Josen Masangkay Diaz • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American StudiesIn Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of ...

• Author(s): Daniel Ruiz-Serna • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialDaniel Ruiz-Serna examines how the devastation caused by war impacts nonhuman inhabitants in...