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• 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): Aren Z. Aizura • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassig...

• 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): 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): 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): Abdul R. Janmohamed • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanDuring the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wrig...

• Author(s): Sanjay Seth • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralSubject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encoun...

• Author(s): David Schwarz • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationIn Listening Subjects, David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral expe...

• 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): 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): Sara Ahmed • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Free Will & DeterminismIn Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One histo...

• Author(s): Srila Roy • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the ...

• Author(s): Stefan Jonsson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralThis innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in wester...

• Author(s): Gaurav Desai • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSubject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-centur...

• 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): 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): 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): Jeffrey T. Nealon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn conventional identity politics subjective differences are understood negatively, as gaps to ...

• 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): 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): Myles Lennon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralIn the face of accelerating climate change, anticapitalist environmental justice activists and elite tech corpo...

• Author(s): Harilaos Stecopoulos • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Men's Studies - GeneralAlthough in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have la...

• Author(s): Patrick Anderson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging po...

• Author(s): James R. Martel • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: PoliticalAlthough Haitian revolutionaries were not the intended audience for the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they heeded its...

• Author(s): Laura Hyun Yi Kang • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn Compositional Subjects Laura Hyun Yi Kang explores the ways that Asian/American women have been figured by mu...

• Author(s): Michael Moon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralFocusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American litera...

• Author(s): Carol Mavor • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: HistoryAn intimate look into three Victorian photo-settings, Pleasures Taken considers questions of loss and sexuality as they are rai...

• Author(s): Julietta Singh • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureJulietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-...

• Author(s): Jordache A. Ellapen • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - African StudiesIn Indenture Aesthetics, Jordache A. Ellapen examines the visual and performanc...

• Author(s): Jane Blocker • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Techniques - Painting - GeneralAna Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provoca...

• Author(s): Stuart Hall • Publisher: Duke UP • Publisher Imprint: Duke UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Media StudiesFrom his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and exam...