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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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Barbara L. Estrin • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: PoetryHow do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors-Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell-the male poet per...

• 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): Diana Taylor • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: PerformanceIn Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that n...

• 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): 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): Didier Eribon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay StudiesA bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an ex...

• 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): 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): Sherry B. Ortner • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on ...