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contentsGENERAL INTEREST Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, Schulman 1 Drugs for Life, Dumit 2 Go-Go Live, Hopkinson 3 MP3, Sterne 4 Beyond Shangri-La, Knaus 5 In Search of First Contact, Kolodny 6 Ethics of Liberation, Dussel 7 Depression, Cvetkovich 8 Black and Blue, Mavor 9 From Postwar to Postmodern, Arts in Japan 19451989, Chong, Hayashi, Kajiya & Sumitomo 10 Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas, Lee 11 Wall Street Women, Fisher 11 A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4, Naficy 12 C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S Red Tape, Gupta 13 How Soon is Now? Dinshaw 14 The Deliverance of Others, Palumbo-Liu 15 Perpetual War, Robbins 16 The Gift of Freedom, Nguyen 17 Animacies, Chen 17 Always More Than One, Manning 18 Buy It Now, White 18 Tijuana Dreaming, Kun & Montezemolo 19 Barrio Libre, Rosas 19 Writing across Cultures, Rama 20 Architecture in Translation, Akcan 20 Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Murphy 21 Feminist Theory Out of Science, Roosth & Schrader 21 ANTHROPOLOGY Medical Anthropology at the Intersections, Inhorn & Wentzell 22 Improvising Medicine, Livingston 22 Bodies in Formation, Prentice 23 Medicating Race, Pollock 23 Queer Activism in India, Dave 24 Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Heller 24 Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia, Mankekar & Schein 25 MUSIC & SOUND Sound and Sentiment, Feld 25 Recording Culture, Scales 26 Unfree Masters, Stahl 26 FILM & TV STUDIES Prescription TV, Fuqua 27 One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount, Forman 27 AMERICAN STUDIES Aloha America, Imada 28 A New Deal for All? Skotnes 28 Fevered Measures, Mckiernan-Gonzlez 29FRONT COVER ART: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Niles Clutching Chuck, 2008. From Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City, by Natalie Hopkinson, page 3.

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES Transpacific Femininities, Cruz 29 Southeast Asian/American Studies, Ngo & Nguyen 30 AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/BLACK DIASPORA Pictures and Progress, Wallace & Smith 30 Transcending Blackness, Joseph 31 Sites of Slavery, Tillet 31 Against the Closet, Abdur-Rahman 32 Black/Queer Diaspora, Allen 32 Black France / France Noire, Keaton, Sharpley-Whiting & Stovall 33 POLITICAL THEORY/SOCIAL THEORY Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, Gorski 33 Bergson, Politics, and Religion, Lefebvre & White 34 The Hermetic Deleuze, Ramey 34 L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S Outlawed, Goldstein 35 Intimate Indigeneities, Canessa 35 Challenging Social Inequality, Carter 36 Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Fallaw 36 River of Hope, Valerio-Jimnez 37 Vertical Empire, Mumford 37 Trumpets in the Mountains, Frederik 38 A Language of Empire, a Quotidian Tongue, Schwaller 38 AFRICAN STUDIES The Other Zulus, Mahoney 39 HISTORY Walkers, Voyeurs, and the Politics of Urban Space, Autry & Walkowitz 39 PUBLIC POLICY/POLITICAL SCIENCE The Argumentative Turn Revisited, Fischer & Gottweis 40 The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany, Kommers & Miller 40 T H E AT E R Digital Dramaturgies, Felton-Dansky & Gallagher-Ross LINGUISTICS Pennsylvania German in the American Midwest, Keiser 41 41

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Israel/Palestine and the Queer Internationalsarah schulmanIn this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines, joining other artists and academics honoring the Palestinian call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Anti-occupation activists in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Palestine come together to help organize an alternative solidarity visit for the American activist. Schulman takes us to an anarchist, vegan cafe in Tel Aviv, where she meets anti-occupation queer Israelis, and through border checkpoints into the West Bank, where queer Palestinian activists welcome her into their spaces for conversations that will change the course of her life. She describes the dusty roads through the West Bank, where Palestinians are cut off from water and subjected to endless restrictions while Israeli settler neighborhoods have full freedoms and resources. As Schulman learns more, she questions the contradiction between Israels investment in presenting itself as gay friendlyfinancially sponsoring gay film festivals and paradesand its denial of the rights of Palestinians. At the same time, she talks with straight Palestinian activists about their position in relation to homosexuality and gay rights in Palestine and internationally. Back in the United States, Schulman draws on her extensive activist experience to organize a speaking tour for some of the Palestinian queer leaders whom she had met and trusted. Dubbed Al Tour, it takes the activists to LGBT community centers, conferences, and universities throughout the United States. Its success solidifies her commitment to working to end Israels occupation of Palestine, and kindles her larger hope that a new queer international will emerge and join other movements demanding human rights across the globe.StagestruckTheater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America paper $21.95/16.99 9780822322641 / 1998

Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDSand queer activist, and a cofounder of theMIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History

Project. She is a playwright and the author of seventeen books, including the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS , and the Marketing of Gay America, which is also published by Duke University Press. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

The transformation of my own personal relationship to the state of Israel has been a long, subtle, slow, stubborn journey that has taken a lifetime. One of the strangest things about willful ignorance regarding Israel and Palestine is how often progressive people, like myself, with histories of community activism and awareness, engage in it. It this way it somewhat parallels the history of homophobia, in that there are emotional blocks that keep many straight people from applying their general value systems to human rights for all. The irony, in my case, of being a lifelong activist and not doing the work to get it about Israel is deep and hard to both understand and convey. But I have come to learn that this insistent blindness is pervasive, and I want to use the opportunity of this book to confront and expose my own denial in a way that I hope will be helpful to others.from Israel/Palestine and the Queer International

also by Sarah Schulman

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Drugs for LifeHow Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Healthjoseph dumitJoseph Dumit is Directorof Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity and editor, with Regula Valrie Burri, of Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life.

Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of healthcare not only came to be, but came to be taken for granted. For several years, Dumit attended pharmaceutical industry conferences; spoke with marketers, researchers, doctors, and patients; and surveyed the industrys literature regarding strategies to expand markets for prescription drugs. He concluded that underlying the continual growth in medications, disease categories, costs, and insecurity is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment. This perception is based on clinical trials that we have largely outsourced to pharmaceutical companies. Those companies in turn see clinical trials as investments and measure the value of those investments by the size of the market and profits that it will create. They only ask questions for which the answer is more medicine. Drugs for Life challenges our understanding of health, risks, facts, and clinical trials, the very concepts used by pharmaceutical companies to grow markets to the point where almost no one can imagine a life without prescription drugs.EXPERIMENTAL FUTURES: TECHNOLOGIC AL LIVES, SCIENTIFIC ARTS, ANTHROPOLOGIC AL VOICES A Series Edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit

Drugs for Life is simply superb, a major accomplishment in the study of pharmaceuticals and their expanding relation to life itself. There is no recent scholarly work that attempts or accomplishes what Joseph Dumit does here, tackling the relation between big pharma and clinical epistemology in such a comprehensive and satisfying way. He deftly links critical debates across the life and human sciences, making an important and compelling argument on a matter central to contemporary public debate.LAWRENCE COHEN , author of No Aging in India: Alzheimers, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things Drugs for Life shocks the reader into seeing health, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and the pharmaceutical industry and drug research for what they are from a cultural standpoint: a new framing of the future world for all of us. And that future is now and troubling and transformative of human conditions. A remarkable contribution that will perturb and disturb professional and general readers.ARTHUR KLEINMAN , coeditor of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices

In this provocative and important book, Joseph Dumit brings a new approach to bear on critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and U.S. health care, showing how, over the past few decades, we have come to live by the numbers and risk factors that make embracing lifelong pharmaceutical regimes seem like common sense. But is it? Dumit explores the pharmaceuticalization of American culture and consciousness with a light, accessible touch that belies the depth of his knowledge.RAYNA RAPP, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

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Go-Go LiveThe Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate Citynatalie hopkinsonNatalie Hopkinson, a contributing editorto the online magazine The Root, teaches journalism at Georgetown University and directs the Future of the Arts and Society project as a fellow of the Interactivity Foundation. A former writer and editor at the Washington Post, she is the author, with Natalie Y. Moore, of Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.

Go-go is the conga druminflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s. The guitarist Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, created the music by mixing sounds borrowed from church and the blues with the funk and flavor that he picked up playing for a local Latino band. Born in the inner city, amid the charred ruins of the 1968 race riots, go-go generated a distinct culture and an economy of independent, almost exclusively black-owned businesses that sold tickets to shows and recordings of live go-gos. At the peak of its popularity, in the 1980s, go-go could be heard around the capital every night of the week, on college campuses and in crumbling historic theaters, hole-in-the-wall nightclubs, backyards, and city parks. Go-Go Live is a social history of black Washington told through its go-go music and culture. Encompassing dance moves, nightclubs, and fashion, as well as the voices of artists, fans, business owners, and politicians, Natalie Hopkinsons Washington-based narrative reflects the broader history of race in urban America in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. In the 1990s, the middle class that had left the city for the suburbs in the postwar years began to return. Gentrification drove up property values and pushed go-go into D.C.s suburbs. The Chocolate City is in decline, but its heart, D.C.s distinctive go-go musical culture, continues to beat. On any given night, theres live go-go in the D.C. metro area.

Natalie Hopkinson knows the music, the heartbeat, and the people of Washington well, but Go-Go Live is much more than a book about D.C.s indigenous sound. It is a vital, lively, and ultimately inspiring look at the evolution of an American city. GEORGE PELECANOS Black Washington, D.C., has a famously rich history and culture. Natalie Hopkinson has an established reputation as one of the most sophisticated commentators on contemporary black culture in the capital city. Go-Go Live is not only a fascinating account of a musical culture, but also a social and cultural history of black Washington in the postcivil rights era.MARK ANTHONY

NEAL , author of New Black ManGo-Go Live is a terrific and important piece of work. Music, race, and the city are three key pivot points of our society, and Natalie Hopkinson pulls them together in a unique and powerful way. I have long adored Washington, D.C.s go-go music. This book helped me understand the history of the city and the ways that it reflects the whole experience of race and culture in our society. It puts music front and center in the analysis of our urban experience, something which has been too long in coming.RICHARD

FLORIDA , author of The Rise of the Creative Class and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto Go-Go Live is not just a fantastic read, but THE definitive

Taking us into the little-studied terrain of go-go, the cousin of hip-hop born and bred in Washington, D.C. Natalie Hopkinson reveals go-go as a lens for seeing, in stark colors, how the economy, politics, and especially the drug trade have traduced black communities around the world.HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. , Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

study of D.C.s most overlooked and unheralded art form. Natalie Hopkinson captures the soul of the city.DANA FLOR , codirector of The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

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MP3The Meaning of a Formatjonathan sterneMP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the worlds most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by theMP3: The Meaning of a Format is packed with great stories. Its a brilliant book about how we listen and how we make music. It traces the way MP 3 s have been key to the way technology is revolutionizing music.LAURIE

Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of ArtHistory and Communication Studies, and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. He is the author of the award-winning book The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of The Sound Studies Reader. Sterne has written for Tape Op, Punk Planet, Bad Subjects, and other alternative press venues. He also makes music and other audio works. Visit his website at http://sterneworks.org.

telephone industry in the 1910s, through the mid-century development of perceptual coding (the technology underlying the MP3), to the formats promiscuous social life since the mid-1990s.MP 3 s are products of compression,

ANDERSON, artist/musicianAs we continue to inhabit the digital universe created by the invention of the computer, Jonathan Sterne provides us with an important cultural history and theory of the pervasive MP 3 audio format. His insights go deep into our basic ideas of hearing and listening, as well as of information, showing how these ideas are tied to twentieth-century media.PAULINE OLIVEROS, composer and improviser, founder of the Deep Listening Institute, and Distinguished Research Professor of Music, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

a process that removes sounds unlikely to be heard from recordings. Although media history is often characterized as a progression toward greater definition, fidelity, and truthfulness, MP 3 : The Meaning of a Format illuminates the crucial role of compression in the development of modern media and sound culture. Taking the history of compression as his point of departure, Jonathan Sterne investigates the relationship between sound, silence, sense, and noise; the commodity status of recorded sound and the economic role of piracy; and the importance of standards in the governance of our emerging media culture. He demonstrates that formats, standards, and infrastructuresand the need for content to fit inside themare every bit as

also by Jonathan Sterne

central to communication as the boxes we call media.

Announcing sign, storage, transmissionA New Series Edited by Jonathan Sterne and Lisa Gitelman

Sign, Storage, Transmission will gather work by scholars who are rethinking what have traditionally been called media, and, in the process, are offering new ways of thinking through the interconnectedness of knowledges, technologies, subjectivities, and cultures. Whatever their topicsbe they media history, digital culture, or matters not The Audible PastCultural Origins of Sound Reproduction paper $27.95/21.99 9780822330134 / 2002

yet namedbooks in the series will ask new kinds of questions or define new problems, situate their subjects acrossand not just withinfields of knowledge, and connect materials to theory and theory to materials.

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Beyond Shangri-LaAmerica and Tibets Move into the Twenty-First Centuryjohn kenneth knausBeyond Shangri-La chronicles relations between the Tibetans and the United States since 1908, when a Dalai Lama first met with U.S. representatives. What was initially a distant alliance became more intimate and entangled in the late 1950s, when the Tibetan people launched an armed resistance movement against the Chinese occupiers. The Tibetans fought to oust the Chinese and to maintain the presence of the current Dalai Lama and his direction of their country. In 1958, John Kenneth Knaus volunteered to serve in a major CIA program to support the Tibetans. For the next seven years, as an operations officer working from India, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., he cooperated with the Tibetan rebels as they utilized American assistance to contest Chinese domination and to attain international recognition as an independent entity. Since the late 1950s, the rugged resolve of the Dalai Lama and his people and the growing respect for their efforts to free their homeland from Chinese occupation have made Tibets political and cultural status a pressing issue in international affairs. So has the realization by nations including the United States that their own geopolitical interests would best be served by the defeat of the Chinese and the achievement of Tibetan self-determination. Beyond Shangri-La provides unique insight into the efforts of the U.S. government and committed U.S. citizens to support a free Tibet.AMERIC AN ENCOUNTERS/GLOBAL INTERACTIONS A Series Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. RosenbergPresident Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House, July 16, 2011. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

John Kenneth Knaus has continued to support Tibet throughout his career. He is currently a Research Associate working on Tibetan affairs at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. He is the author of Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival.

Beyond Shangri-La is a valuable and highly informative contribution to understanding of both Tibet and the history of American foreign policy in Asia. Benefiting from the authors personal experience with Americas Tibet policy, first as a CIA officer and later as an institutional historian, it gives often dramatic insights into the surprisingly crucial role of individual officials within government in shifts of policy and direction. It comes at a time when Americas relations with China are at a point of unprecedented importance for world affairs and when understanding the deep history of the difficult issues within that relationshipTibet chief among them is important to understanding and successfully navigating them.ROBERT BARNETT, author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories

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In Search of First ContactThe Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discoveryannette kolodnyAnnette Kolodny is College of Humanities Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century and the editor of The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, by Joseph Nicolar, both also published by Duke University Press.Photo by Susanna Corcoran.

In Search of First Contact is a monumental achievement by the influential literary critic Annette Kolodny. In this book, she offers a radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas. She contends that they are the first known European narratives about contact with North America. After carefully explaining the evidence for that conclusion, Kolodny examines what happened after 1837, when English translations of the two sagas became widely available and enormously popular in the United States. She assesses their impact on literature, immigration policy, and concepts of masculinity. Kolodny considers what the sagas reveal about the Native peoples encountered by the Norse in Vinland around the year A.D. 1000, and she recovers Native American stories of first contacts with Europeans, including one that has never before been shared outside of Native communities. These stories contradict the dominant narrative of first contact between Europeans and the New World. Kolodny rethinks the lingering power of a mythic American Viking heritage and the long-standing debate over whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first discoverer. With this paradigm-shattering work, Kolodny shows what literary criticism can bring to historical and social scientific endeavors.

In Search of First Contact is a tour de force. Annette Kolodny unravels the mythology around Viking contact with North America and she brings a penetrating perspective to bear on the notion of first contact and what it might have meant both to Native Americans and to the Norse. This brilliantly written book is bound to become a classic.BIRGITTA

LINDEROTH WALLACE , archaeologist and author ofWestward Vikings: The Saga of LAnse aux Meadows Annette Kolodny makes the case that North American literary history begins not with the European exploration narratives customarily taken as its start, but with contact texts culled from the pictographic materials of tribes in the Algonquianspeaking Wabanaki Confederacy and from the Norse sagas with which she suggests they intersect. In Search of First Contact is exciting, fresh, and more ambitious and synthetic than any previous effort to explore contact narratives. SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN, Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities and Director of the American Studies Program, Stanford University In Search of First Contact contributes a great deal to scholarly knowledge of the Vinland narratives. Annette Kolodny explains what those stories help us to comprehend about the indigenous peoples of the northern Atlantic coast, and she illuminates the process by which people in AngloAmerica have come to understand their own history on this continent. This is an outstanding and important work. ROBERT WARRIOR , Director of the American Indian Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction

also by Annette Kolodny

The Life and Traditions of the Red ManA rediscovered treasure of Native American literature JOSEPH NICOLAREdited, Annotated, and with a History of the Penobscot Nation and an Introduction by Annette Kolodny

Failing the FutureA Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century paper $24.95tr/18.99 9780822324706 / 1998

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Ethics of LiberationIn the Age of Globalization and Exclusionenrique dusselTR ANSLATION EDITED BY ALEJANDRO A. VALLEGA

Translated by Eduardo Mendieta, Camilo Prez Bustillo, Yolanda Angulo, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Available in English for the first time, this much anticipated translation of Enrique Dussels Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the worlds foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998, is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop. Throughout his career, Dussel has sought to open a space for articulating new possibilities for humanity out of, and in light of, the suffering, dignity, and creative drive of those who have been excluded from Western modernity and neoliberal rationalism. Grounded in engagement with the oppressed, his thinking has figured prominently in philosophy, political theory, and liberation movements around the world. In Ethics of Liberation, Dussel provides a comprehensive world history of ethics, demonstrating that our most fundamental moral and ethical traditions did not emerge in ancient Greece and develop through modern European and North American thought. The obscured and ignored origins of modernity lie outside the Western tradition. Ethics of Liberation is a monumental rethinking of the history, origins, and aims of ethics, and the critical orientation of ethical theory.LATIN AMERIC A OTHERWISE A Series Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, and Sonia Saldvar-Hull

Enrique Dusselteaches philosophy at the Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, and at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico in Mexico City. He is the author of many books, including Beyond Photo by Alejandro Melndez. Philosophy: Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology and The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of the Other and the Myth of Modernity. His books Twenty Theses on Politics and Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (edited with Mabel Moraa and Carlos A. Juregui) are both also published by Duke University Press. Alejandro A. Vallega is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.

also by Enrique Dussel

Enrique Dussel is the towering figure in liberation philosophy. This long-awaited translation confirms his unique position in contemporary philosophy.CORNEL WEST

Twenty Theses on Politicspaper $21.95/16.99 9780822343288 / 2008

Coloniality at LargeLatin America and the Postcolonial Debate MABEL MORAA, ENRIQUE DUSSEL, & CARLOS A. JUREGUI,EDITORS

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DepressionA Public Feelingann cvetkovichIn Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and writing her first book. Her critical essay builds on the insights of the memoir to consider the idea that feeling bad constitutes the lived experienceDepression is a departure from academic business as usual. This is a profoundly inspiring book.HEATHER

Ann Cvetkovich is EllenC. Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, also published by Duke University Press, and Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism; a coeditor of Political Emotions; and a former editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

of neoliberal capitalism. Cvetkovich draws on an unusual archive, including accounts of early Christian acedia and spiritual despair, texts connecting the histories of slavery and colonialism with their violent present-day legacies, and utopian spaces created from lesbian feminist practices of crafting. She herself seeks to craft a queer cultural analysis that accounts for depression as a historical category, a felt experience, and a point of entry into discussions about theory, contemporary culture, and everyday life. Depression: A Public Feeling suggests that utopian visions can reside in daily habits and practices, such as writing and yoga, and it highlights the centrality of somatic and felt experience to political activism and social transformation.

LOVE, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politicsof Queer History

also by Ann Cvetkovich

Like all my favorite bands, Ann Cvetkovich disregards trends in favor of fearlessness. While tackling the tough issues of today, she still gives us a book that feels totally timeless. Depression: A Public Feeling fills a gap that has morphed into a crater. The book is as invaluable as it is enjoyable. I found myself sighing throughout, thinking Phew, someone finally said that!KATHLEEN HANNA, member of the bands Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, and the Julie Ruin A provocative addition to Ann Cvetkovichs eloquent writings on the archives of public feelings, this book takes depression out of the space of the private into the complex politics of our time. Weaving together memoir, cultural and medical history, and literary and theoretical discussion, Cvetkovich experiments with and reflects on unconventional ways

An Archive of FeelingsTrauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures paper $25.95tr/19.99 9780822330882 / 2003

of writing about embodiment, cognition, and affect. Along the way, she offers myriad prescriptions, small and large, on how to cope with the daily effects of depression and how to heal the world.MARIANNE HIRSCH, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

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Black and BlueThe Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amourcarol mavorAudacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavors exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the books heart are one book and three filmsRoland Barthess Camera Lucida, Chris Markers La Jete and Sans soleil, and Marguerite Durass and Alain Resnaiss Hiroshima mon amourpostwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement. Personal recollections punctuate Mavors dazzling interpretations of these and many other works of art and criticism. Childhood memories become Prousts small-scale contrivances, tiny sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavors mother lost her memory to Alzheimers, and Black and Blue is framed by the authors memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.In Black and Blue, Carol Mavor lives with the wounding memories of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the regime of hate in American racial history. She looks at herself through a kaleidoscope of texts and images whose pain her own writing seeks to alleviate. The reader witnesses conflicted emotions circulating within a gallery of figures defining the melancholic tenor of critical and creative labors of the last three decades.TOM CONLEY, author of An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France Carol Mavor has developed a unique way of responding to images and to their uses by artists and writers: with appetite and fastidious delicacy, she brings the full sensorium synesthetically into play. Black and Blue is a highly wrought montage, an original attempt to open up the meanings of visual objects in relation to experience, and a startlingly daring account of a symbolic field. It resonates withand pays tribute tosuch key art historical works as Aby Warburgs Mnemosyne Atlas and William Gasss prose poem, On Being Blue.MARINA WARNER , author of Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

Carol Mavor is Professorof Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott; Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden; and Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, all published by Duke University Press.

also by Carol Mavor

Reading BoyishlyRoland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott paper $29.95/22.99 9780822339625 / 2007

BecomingThe Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden paper $23.95tr/18.99 9780822323891 / 1999

Pleasures TakenPerformances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs paper $22.95/17.99 9780822316190 / 1995

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From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 19451989Primary Documentsedited by doryun chong , michio hayashi , kenji k ajiya & fumihiko sumitomoDoryun Chong is Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. Michio Hayashi is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University in Tokyo. Kenji Kajiya is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art at Hiroshima City University. Fumihiko Sumitomo is an accomplished independent curator in Tokyo.A trove of primary source materials, From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945 1989 is an invaluable scholarly resource for readers who wish to explore the fascinating subject of avant-garde art in postwar Japan. In this comprehensive anthology, an array of key documents, artist manifestos, critical essays, and roundtable discussions are translated into English for the first time. The pieces cover a broad range of artistic mediumsincluding photography, film, performance, architecture, and design and illuminate their various points of convergence in the Japanese context. The collection is organized chronologically and thematically to highlight significant movements, works, and artistic phenomena, such as the pioneering artist collectives Gutai and Hi Red Center, the influential photography periodical Provoke, and the emergence of video art in the 1980s. Interspersed throughout the volume are more than twenty newly commissioned texts by contemporary scholars. Including Bert Winther-Tamaki on art and the Occupation, and Reiko Tomii on the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, these pieces supplement and provide a historical framework for the primary source materials. From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 19451989 offers an unprecedented look at more

also in MoMA Primary Documents

than four decades of Japanese artboth as it unfolded and as it is seen from the perspective of the present day.PUBLIC ATION OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART M O MA PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

Contemporary Chinese ArtPrimary Documents WU HUNG paper $40.00tr/31.00 9780822349433 / 2010

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Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americasedited and with an introduction by esther kim lee

Wall Street Womenmelissa s . fisher

Detecting gendering in high finance is a long-standing challengeit is a domain inhospitable to the main categories of feminist analysis. Melissa S. Fisher goes at it with gusto and gives us a great book.SASKIA

SASSEN , author of Territory, Authority, RightsFor over a decade now, some of our nations most impressive new plays have been written by Korean American dramatists. Esther Kim Lees important anthology gathers together the groundbreaking work of these artists, who are transforming American theater with their energy, innovations, and sheer talent.DAVID HENRY HWANG , playwright

Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street. Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement, they created formal and informal associations to bolster one anothers careers. In this important historical ethnography, Melissa S. Fisher draws on fieldwork, archival research, and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of first-generation Wall Street women. She describes their professional and political associations, most notably the Financial Womens Association of New York City, which was founded in the 1950s, and the Womens Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to promote the election of pro-choice women. Fisher charts the evolution of the womens careers, the growth of their political and economic clout, changes in their perspectives and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their experiences of the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the pioneering subjects of Wall Street Women did not participate in the womens movement as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s, Fisher argues that they did produce a market feminism which aligned liberal feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic of the market.

Showcasing the dynamism of contemporary Korean diasporic theater, this anthology features seven plays by secondgeneration Korean diasporic writers from the United States, Canada, and Chile. By bringing the plays together in this collection, Esther Kim Lee highlights the themes and styles that have enlivened Korean diasporic theater in the Americas since the 1990s. Some of the plays are set in urban Koreatowns. One takes place in the middle of Texas, while another unfolds entirely in a characters mind. Ethnic identity is not as central as it was in the work of previous generations of Asian diasporic playwrights. In these plays, experiences of diaspora and displacement are likely to be part of broader stories, such as the difficulties faced by a young mother trying to balance family and career. Running through these stories are themes of assimilation, authenticity, family, memory, trauma, and gender-related expectations of success. Lees introduction includes a brief history of the Korean Peninsula in the twentieth century and of South Korean immigration to the Americas, along with an overview of Asian American theater and the place of Korean American theater within it. Each play is preceded by a brief biography of the playwright and a summary of the plays production history.

Melissa S. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology atGeorgetown University. She is a coeditor of Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, also published by Duke University Press.

Esther Kim Lee is Associate Professor of Theatre and Asian AmericanStudies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of A History of Asian American Theatre.

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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4The Globalizing Era, 19842010hamid naficyHamid Naficy is one of the worlds leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Irans peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in Iran. This comprehensive social history unfolds across four volumes, each of which can be appreciated on its own. The extraordinary efflorescence in Iranian film, TV, and new media since the consolidation of the Islamic Revolution animates Volume 4. During this time, documentary films proliferated. Many filmmakers took as their subject the revoA Social History of Iranian Cinema is essential reading not only for the cinephile interested in Irans unique and rich cinematic history but also for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the cataclysmic events and metamorphoses that have shaped Iran. SHIRIN NESHAT, director of Women Without Men Hamid Naficy is already established as the doyen of historians and critics of Iranian cinema. Based on his deep understanding of modern Iranian political and social history, this detailed critical history of Irans cinema since its founding is his crowning achievement.HOMA KATOUZIAN , author of The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran This magisterial four-volume study of Iranian cinema will be the defining work on the topic for a long time to come.ANNABELLE SREBERNY, coauthor of Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran Only a skilled historian who is on the inside of his story could convey so vividly the cinemas symbolic significance for twentieth-century Iran and the depth with which it is interwoven with its national culture and politics.LAURA MULVEY, author of Death 24 a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image

Hamid Naficy is Professorof Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University. He is the author of An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking and The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles.

lution and the bloody eight-year war with Iraq; others critiqued postrevolution society. The strong presence of women on screen and behind the camera led to a dynamic womens cinema. A dissident art-house cinemainvolving some of the best Pahlavi-era new-wave directors and a younger generation of innovative postrevolution directorsplaced Iranian cinema on the map of world cinemas, bringing prestige to Iranians at home and abroad. A struggle over cinema, media, culture, and, ultimately, the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic, emerged and intensified. The media became a contested site of public diplomacy as the Islamic Republic, as well as foreign governments antagonistic to it, sought to harness Iranian popular culture and media toward their own ends, within and outside of Iran. The broad international circulation of films made in Iran and its diaspora, the vast dispersion of media-savvy filmmakers abroad, and new filmmaking and communication technologies helped globalize Iranian cinema.

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volumes 13

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Red TapeBureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in Indiaakhil guptaRed Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the worlds fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous peoples. Yet Indias poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project. Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs. Gupta conducted ethnographic research among officials charged with coordinating development programs in rural Uttar Pradesh. Drawing on that research, he offers insightful analyses of corruption; the significance of writing and written records; and governmentality, or the expansion of bureaucracies. Those analyses underlie his argument that care is arbitrary in its consequences, and that arbitrariness is systematically produced by the very mechanisms that are meant to ameliorate social suffering. What must be explained is not only why government programs aimed at providing nutrition, employment, housing, healthcare, and education to poor people do not succeed in their objectives, but also why, when they do succeed, they do so unevenly and erratically.A JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER BOOK

Akhil Gupta is Professorof Anthropology and Director of the Center for India and South Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India and a coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press.

This long-awaited book is a masterful achievement which offers a close look at the culture of bureaucracy in India and through this lens, casts new light on structural violence, liberalization, and the paradox of misery in the midst of explosive economic growth. Akhil Guptas sensitive analysis of the everyday practices of writing, recording, filing, and reporting at every level of the state in India joins a rich literature on the politics of inscription and marks a brilliant new benchmark for political anthropology in India and beyond.ARJUN

APPADURAI, author of Fear of Small NumbersThis is a landmark study of bureaucratic practices through which the state is actualized in the lives of the poor in India. Akhil Guptas theoretical sophistication and the ethnographic depth in this book demonstrate how South Asian studies continues to challenge and shape the direction of social theory. This book is a stunning achievement.VEENA DAS , author of Life and Words Whether exploring corruption, literacy, or population policy, Akhil Gupta provides an utterly original account of the deadly operations of state power associated with the ascendancy of new industrial classes and of neoliberal practice in contemporary India. A tour de force.MICHAEL WATTS , author of Silent Violence

also by Akhil Gupta

Postcolonial DevelopmentsAgriculture in the Making of Modern India paper $26.95/20.99 9780822322139 / 1998

Culture, Power, PlaceExplorations in Critical Anthropology AKHIL GUPTA & JAMES FERGUSON, EDITORS paper $25.95/19.99 9780822319405 / 1997

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How Soon Is Now?Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Timecarolyn dinshawHow Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time and the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with ordinarily linearEntering into an elegant slipstream of generative, generous, rigorous thought, Carolyn Dinshaw proves again her exquisite power to enchant her readers. Uniquely attractive as a theorist of time, she brilliantly addresses a temporal spread, from the seeming irrationality of medieval temporality to modernitys stingy outlook on the senses. As I read How Soon Is Now? I found her signal emphases reading, temporality, nonlinearity, queer historicity, and medieval mysticismmattering to me, a queer theorist and nonmedievalist, in the novel ways she said they would.KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON , author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth CenturyIllumination from The Book of Tobit, a fifteenth-century manuscript. The British Library Board, MS Royal 15 D I f. 18.

Carolyn Dinshaw is Professorof English, and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern, also published by Duke University Press, and Chaucers Sexual Poetics. Dinshaw is a founding coeditor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

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measurements of everyday life, that involve multiple temporalities, that precipitate out of time altogether. Dinshaw claims the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp.

Whether discussing Victorian men of letters who parodied the Book of John Mandeville, a fictionalized fourteenth-century travel narrative, or Hope Emily Allen, modern coeditor of the early-fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe, Dinshaw argues that these and other medievalists outside the academy inhabit different temporalities than modern professionals operating according to the clock. How Soon Is Now? clears space for amateurs, hobbyists, and dabblers who approach medieval worlds from positions of affect and attachment, from desires to build other kinds of worlds. Unruly, untimely, they urge us toward a disorderly and asynchronous collective.

also by Carolyn Dinshaw

How do queers relate to the distant past and experience time? Carolyn Dinshaws answer to this question in How Soon Is Now? ranges through astute literary criticism, cogently argued theory, and snippets of autobiography. The result is a provocative essay about the value and presence of the past that is also at times profoundly moving. Her account of the amateur scholars privileged relation to asynchrony and affective engagement with the object of study should give all in the academy pause for thought.SIMON GAUNT, author of Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature

Getting MedievalSexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern paper $25.95/19.99 9780822323655 / 1999

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The Deliverance of OthersReading Literature in a Global Agedavid palumbo - liuThe Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our world, and valuing the difference that they introduce into our lives? In this new historical situation, are we not forced to determine how much otherness is acceptable, as opposed to how much is excessive, disruptive, and disturbing? The influential literary critic David Palumbo-Liu suggests that we can arrive at a sense of responsibility toward others by reconsidering the discourses of sameness that deliver those unlike ourselves to us. Through virtuoso readings of novels by J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki, he shows how notions that would seem to offer some basis for commensurability between ourselves and othersideas of rationality, the family, the body, and affectbecome less stable as they try to accommodate more radical types of otherness. For Palumbo-Liu, the reading of literature is an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others.Certain to be an important and influential book, The Deliverance of Others examines the profound challenges that the contemporary historical moment poses to literary novelwriting in the early twenty-first century, when the fine line between a sufficient and an excessive measure of otherness seems to have been trespassed, when, as David Palumbo-Liu puts it in his extraordinary reading of J. M. Coetzees Elizabeth Costello, readers of the novel are asked to imagine themselves confronting a tidal wave of difference that exceeds the specific capacities of realist form and the more general compact that literary writing offers to strike between historical conditions and the liberal, sympathetic imagination.IAN BAUCOM , author of Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History In The Deliverance of Others, the distinguished critic David Palumbo-Liu tackles broad questions of aesthetics and ethics in this age of otherness and virtual proximity. By contrasting utilitarian notions of political economy with those of a system based on interdependent and ethically connected communities, he goes to the essential: How do we define truth in relation to reason and ethics and how do we understand the ways that literature and literary composition resonate differently in different global spaces, each with varying notions of rationality and choice?FRANOISE LIONNET, coeditor of The Creolization of Theory

David Palumbo-Liu is Professorand Director of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier; the editor of The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions; and a coeditor of Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

also by David Palumbo-Liu

Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the WorldSystem, Scale, Culture DAVID PALUMBO-LIU, BRUCE ROBBINS, AND NIRVANA TANOUKHI, EDITORS paper $23.95/18.99 9780822348481 / 2011

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Perpetual WarCosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violencebruce robbinsBruce Robbins is theOld Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State and Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, and a coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation and Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a new cosmopolitanism, an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. In this era of seemingly endless U.S. warfare, Robbins contends that the declining economic and political hegemony of the United States will tempt it into blaming other nations for its problems and lashing out against them. Under these conditions, cosmopolitanism in the traditional senseprimary loyalty to the good of humanity as a whole, even if it conflicts with loyalty to the interests of ones own nationbecomes a necessary resource in the struggle against military aggression. To what extent does the new cosmopolitanism also include or support this old cosmopolitanism? In an attempt to answer this question, Robbins engages with such thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Anthony Appiah, Immanuel Wallerstein, Louis Menand, W. G. Sebald, and Slavoj Zizek. The paradoxes of detachment and belonging they embody, he argues, can help define the tasks of American intellectuals in an era when the first duty of the cosmopolitan is to resist the military aggression perpetrated by his or her own country.

Apart from the significant contribution that Perpetual War will make to the literature on cosmopolitanism, it is a richly elaborated work of intellectual and cultural history in its own right. Bruce Robbins is a superb writer and critic, and his analyses are incisive, deeply informed, and refreshingly blunt. Perhaps because he has for so many years been thinking about the vicissitudes of political thought and feeling, and in particular about cosmopolitanism, Robbins has a quite unusual ability to zero in not only on the analytic but also the emotional or psychological core of his object of study. His deep and wide-ranging treatment of cosmopolitanism will advance debate on the topic immeasurably. AMANDA ANDERSON , author of The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment Over the past twenty years, no one has done more than Bruce Robbins to elaborate an ideal of cosmopolitanism that grapples productively with local attachments (including those of nationalism and patriotism) while aspiring toward a critical internationalism. In these rigorously scrupulous, relentlessly challenging essays, Robbins shows why that project is so important, and why intellectuals on the left need to defend the provisions of the social welfare state while promoting a supranational standard of international justicea project that entails the difficult recognition that the domestic welfare state is also the international warfare state. Perpetual War is an exemplary attempt to come to terms with that recognition, and pursue its implications wherever they lead.MICHAEL

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Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the WorldSystem, Scale, Culture DAVID PALUMBO-LIU, BRUCE ROBBINS, AND NIRVANA TANOUKHI, EDITORS paper $23.95/18.99 9780822348481 / 2011

The Servants HandEnglish Fiction from Below paper $23.95/18.99 9780822313977 / 1993

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The Gift of FreedomWar, Debt, and Other Refugee Passagesmimi thi nguyen

AnimaciesBiopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affectmel y. chen

The Gift of Freedom is a dazzling book. Focusing on the figure of the Vietnamese refugee as a key to comprehending how the rhetoric of U.S. liberalism and freedom became hegemonic during the Cold War and in the contemporary post9/11 period, Mimi Thi Nguyen offers an original approach to rethinking Cold War politics and U.S. liberal freedom. DAVID L. ENG , author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

Animacies is a book about reworldings, as Mel Y. Chen traces the myriad ways that objects and affects move through and reshape zones of possibility for political transformation and queer resistance to neoliberal biopolitics. At the same time, Animacies itself generates such transformations: grounded in a generous, expansive understanding of queer of color and disability/crip critique, Chens study reworlds or reorients disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical race theory, animal studies, affect studies, and linguistics. In all of these critical spaces, Animacies might be described as the breathtaking and revivifying book we have been waiting for.ROBERT M C RUER, coeditor of Sex and Disability

In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress, Nguyen proposes the gift of freedom as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actionssuch as a grateful refugee, or enduring warin an age of liberal empire. From the Cold War to the global war on terror, the United States simultaneously promises the gift of freedom through war and violence, and administers the debt that follows. Focusing here on the figure of the Vietnamese refugee as the twice-over target of the gift of freedomfirst through war, second through refugeNguyen suggests that the imposition of debt precludes the subjects of freedom from escaping those colonial histories that deemed them unfree. To receive the gift of freedom then is to be indebted to empire, perhaps without end.

In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly, animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness. Chen turns to cognitive linguistics to stress how language habitually differentiates the animate and the inanimate. Expanding this construct, Chen argues that animacy undergirds much that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns. Chens book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory. Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness, animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead toy panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, Animacies illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and ability. In this groundbreaking book, Chen rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness and demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter challenges commonsense orderings of the world.

Mimi Thi Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Womens Studies,and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a coeditor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, also published by Duke University Press.NEXT WAVE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WOMENS STUDIES A Series Edited by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Robyn Wiegman

Mel Y. Chen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Womens Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.PERVERSE MODERNITIES A Series Edited by Judith Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

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Always More Than OneIndividuations Danceerin manning With a foreword by Brian Massumi

Buy It NowLessons from eBaymichele white

Michele White explores eBay as a brand community of monetary and affecErin Mannings book offers a philosophy of neurodiverse perception, encouraging us not to begin with the pre-chunked. How ironic, then, that the impulse to categorize and to pathologize is generally seen as evidence of the normates proper functioning. In Mannings splendid book, autism comes to signify not a disorder but a relational dance of attention, one that refuses to strand any entity at the margin of our concern. RALPH JAMES SAVARESE, coeditor of Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity, a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly tive circulation that encourages certain uses and, indeed, configures its users as certain kinds of consumers. By doing so, she makes a compelling argument for how identity categories and historical layers of representation are played out on eBay as an assemblage of sellers, buyers, lurkers, information architecture, interface design, business concepts, acts of branding, and item depiction. Critical and astute, Buy It Now pulls the rug out from under those who consider online marketplaces as the instrumental means to an end.SUSANNA PA ASONEN , author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography

In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the more-than human in the context of movement, perception, and experience. Working from Whiteheads process philosophyScattered Crowd choreographic object by William Forsythe. Installation at Htel Dieu Saint-Jacques in Toulouse, France, 2006. Photo by Julian Gabriel Richter.

In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule systems, and advertisements configure the user, allowing eBay to indicate how the site is supposed to function while also upholding particular values and practices. White details how eBay reinforces stereotypes about gender and sexuality, looking, for example, at the descriptions included in wedding dress listings, and how eBay directs individuals to the Adult Only part of the website when they use the search terms gay and lesbian. She discloses the ways that eBay promises a caring community but its Black Americana category reproduces racism by allowing sellers narratives that excuse and romanticize slavery and insult African Americans. White also looks at how participants challenge eBays categories, rules, and values, examining widely used strategies of resistance by sellers and buyers in the lesbian and gay interest listings. By analyzing the organizational and cultural logics present in eBay, White emphasizes how other Internet settings, including Craigslist, are not as transparent, community-oriented, and empowering as they claim. She proposes methods for researching and reconceptualizing new media sites.

and Simondons theory of individuation, she extends the concepts of movement and relation developed in her earlier work toward

the notion of choreographic thinking. Here, she uses choreographic thinking to explore a mode of perception prior to the settling of experience into established categories. Manning connects this to the concept of autistic perception, described by autistics as the awareness of a relational field prior to the so-called neurotypical tendency to chunk experience into predetermined subjects and objects. Autistics explain that rather than immediately distinguishing objectssuch as chairs and tables and humansfrom one another on entering a given environment, they experience the environment as gradually taking form. Manning maintains that this mode of awareness underlies all perception. What we perceive is never first a subject or an object, but an ecology. From this vantage point, she proposes that we consider an ecological politics where movement and relation take precedence over predefined categories, such as the neurotypical and the neurodiverse, or the human and the nonhuman. What would it mean to embrace an ecological politics of collective individuation?

Erin Manning is Research Chair in Philosophy and Relational Art andAssociate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She is the author of Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy and Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty and coauthor, with Brian Massumi, of Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (forthcoming). Brian Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, also published by Duke University Press, and Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts.

Michele White is Associate Professor of Communication at TulaneUniversity. She is the author of The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship.

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January 320 pages, 33 illustrationspaper, 9780822353348, $24.95/16.99 cloth, 9780822353331, $89.95/67.00

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Tijuana DreamingLife and Art at the Global Border josh kun & fiamma montezemolo ,With a foreword by Iain Chamberseditors

Barrio LibreCriminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontiergilberto rosas

Tijuana Dreaming stages an international dialogue about issues of overwhelming importance. It will enable supremely talented Spanish-language writers to reach Anglophone audiences, compel scholars to rethink why culture matters now, and lead readers around the world to consider the responsibilities and obligations that we incur in the face of rapidly changing configurations of capital, culture, violence, and the nation state. GEORGE LIPSITZ , author of How Racism Takes Place

Gilberto Rosass exploration of the seamy underbelly of neoliberal state sovereignty in the sewer tunnels beneath the U.S.Mexico border takes us to a vexed and murky place, both ethnographically and theoretically. His work invites us to consider provocative and urgent questions about the deep complicity between policing and criminality, and the racialized relegation of human life to abjection and unnatural death on the new frontier. Rosass insistence on directing our critical gaze to a dark and dank place of subjection, power, and violence ought to instigate vital new lines of debate in the study of border enforcement and subjectivity within the wild zones of state power.NICHOLAS DE GENOVA , coeditor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement

Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from the Spanish for the first time, the anthology features contributions by prominent scholars, journalists, bloggers, novelists, poets, curators, and photographers from Tijuana and greater Mexico. They explore urban planning in light of Tijuanas unique infrastructural, demographic, and environmental challenges. They delve into its musical countercultures, architectural ruins, cinema, and emergence as a hot spot on the international art scene. One contributor examines fictional representations of Tijuanas past as a Prohibition-era city of sin for U.S. pleasure seekers. Another reflects on its present as a city beleaguered by kidnappings and drug violence. In an interview, Nestor Garca Canclini revisits ideas that he advanced in Culturas hbridas (1990), his watershed book about Latin America and cultural hybridity. Taken together, the selections present a kaleidoscopic portrait of a major border city in the age of globalization.

The city of Nogales straddles the border running between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican side, marginalized youths calling themselves Barrio Libre (Free Hood) employ violence, theft, and bribery to survive, often preying on undocumented migrants who navigate the citys sewer system to cross the U.S.Mexico border. In this book, Gilberto Rosas draws on his in-depth ethnographic research among the members of Barrio Libre to understand why its members have embraced criminality, and how neoliberalism and security policies on both sides of the border have affected the youths descent into Barrio Libre. Rosas argues that although these youth participate in the victimization of others, they should not be demonized. They are complexly and adversely situated. The effects of NAFTA have forced many of them, as well as other Mexicans, to migrate to Nogales. Moving fluidly with the youth through the spaces that they inhabit and control, he shows how the militarization of the border actually destabilized the region and led Barrio Libre to turn to increasingly violent activities, including drug trafficking. By focusing on these youth and their delinquency, Rosas demonstrates how capitalism and criminality shape perceptions and experiences of race, sovereignty, and resistance along the U.S. Mexico border.

ContributorsTito Alegra, Humberto Flix Berumen, Roberto Castillo, Iain Chambers, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Teddy Cruz, Ejival, Tarek Elhaik, Guillermo Fadanelli, Ingrid Hernndez, Jennifer Insley-Pruitt, Kathryn Kopinak, Josh Kun, Jesse Lerner, Fiamma Montezemolo, Rene Peralta, Rafa Saavedra, Luca Sanromn, Michelle Tllez, Santiago VaqueraVsquez, Heriberto Ypez

Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication andJournalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Fiamma Montezemolo is an anthropologist and artist currently teaching in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. Iain Chambers teaches cultural and postcolonial studies at the Orientale University of Naples.

Gilberto Rosas is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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September 424 pages, 27 illustrationspaper, 9780822352907, $26.95/17.99 cloth, 9780822352815, $94.95/71.00

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Writing across CulturesNarrative Transculturation in Latin America ngel ramaEdited and translated by David Frye

Architecture in TranslationGermany, Turkey, and the Modern Houseesra akcan

Tracing the surprisingly intertwined twentieth-century histories of German In a sense, modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism has been in a dialogue with ngel Ramas notion of narrative transculturation, first advanced in these essays. It is good to have them available in a superb English translation.JOHN BEVERLEY, author of Latinamericanism after 9/11 and Turkish residential housing and urban planning from the garden city via the urban Siedlung to the national house, Esra Akcan brilliantly deploys lingual translation theory as a flexible template to analyze zones of asymmetrical exchange in architecture and urban planning. Architecture in Translation moves compellingly beyond modernist universalism and nationalist regionalism toward a cosmopolitan ethics as a goal for a global architecture.ANDREAS HUYSSEN, editor of Other Cities, Other Worlds:

ngel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin Americas most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Ramas work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortizs theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist Jos Mara Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Perus two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedass novel Los ros profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Ramas books to be translated into English.

Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned themselves with Europe by choosing German-speaking architects to oversee much of the design of modern cities. Focusing on the period from the 1920s throughImage of a new and modern Ankara from the journal La Turquie Kemaliste published by the Turkish government, August 1938.

the 1950s, Akcan traces the geographical circulation of modern residential models, including the

garden citywhich emphasized green spaces separating low-density neighborhoods of houses surrounded by gardensand mass housing built first for the working-class residents in industrial cities and, later, more broadly for mixed-income residents. She shows how the concept of translationthe process of change that occurs with transportation of people, ideas, technology, information, and images from one or more countries to anotherallows for consideration of the sociopolitical context and agency of all parties in cultural exchanges. Moving beyond the indistinct concepts of hybrid and transculturation and avoiding passive metaphors such as import, influence, or transfer, translation offers a new approach relevant to many disciplines. Akcan advocates a commitment to a new culture of translatability from below for a truly cosmopolitan ethics in a globalizing world.

ngel Rama (19261983) was a noted literary critic, journalist, editor,publisher, and educator. He left his native Uruguay after the military takeover in 1973 and subsequently taught at the University of Venezuela and the University of Maryland. He is the author of many books, including The Lettered City, also published by Duke University Press. David Frye is a writer and translator who teaches Latin American studies courses at the University of Michigan. He is the translator of Guaman Pomas The First New Chronicle and Good Government (1615), Fernndez de Lizardis The Mangy Parrot (1816), and several Cuban and Spanish novels and poems.LATIN AMERIC A OTHERWISE A Series Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, and Sonia Saldvar-Hull A JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER BOOK

Esra Akcan is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of (Land)Fill Istanbul: Twelve Scenarios for a Global City.

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Seizing the Means of ReproductionEntanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technosciencemichelle murphy

Feminist Theory Out of Sciencesophia roosth & astrid schrader ,special issue editors

a special issue of DIFFERENCE S

Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated, original, unromantic, and challenging account of feminist reproductive politics in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s, both in its national context and as it helped to shape international development programs and strategies. Teasing out the racial politics and embedded features of white privilege which many others scholars and activists have neglected, Michelle Murphy forges a very distinctive trajectory.MAUREEN M C NEIL , author of Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology

In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphys initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentratesPoster made for Carol Downer when she was acquitted of the charge of practicing medicine without a license, 1972. Hyperbolic crochet corals and anemones with sea slug by Marianne Midelburg. Photo The Institute for Figuring, by Alyssa Gorelick.

Attending to the rich entanglements of scientific and critical theory, contributors to this special issue of differences scrutinize phenomena in nature to explore new territory in feminist science studies. With a special focus on relating theory to method, these scholars generate new feminist approaches to scientific practice. Contributors probe this relationship by way of topics from the poetics of humanjellyfish interactions to a feminist reconsideration of a well-known thought experiment in thermodynamics. Two contributors analyze plantinsect encounter research to spin their own symbiotically inflected account of affective ecologies. Technologies of human memory storage and retrieval lead one writer to interrogate how our understandings of memory and amnesia are currently under revision. Another contributor tracks the lively evolutionary and morphological theories that textile artisans manifest in material models of sea creatures. What emerges from these diverse essays is an approach to critical thinking that inhabits, elaborates, and feeds on scientific theory, holding feminist theory accountable to science and vice versa.

on the technoscientific meansthe technologies, practices, protocols, and processesdeveloped by femi-

nist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empowering women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics. Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist health projects have followed complex and discomforting itineraries. The practices and ideologies of alternative health projects have found their way into World Bank guidelines, state policies, and commodified research. While the particular moment of U.S. feminism in the shadow of Cold War and postcolonialism has passed, its dynamics continue to inform the ways that health is governed and politicized today.

ContributorsKaren Barad, Lina Dib, Eva Hayward, Carla Hustak, Vicki Kirby, Natasha Myers, Sophia Roosth, Astrid Schrader

Michelle Murphy is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studiesand of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty, also published by Duke University Press.EXPERIMENTAL FUTURES: TECHNOLOGIC AL LIVES, SCIENTIFIC ARTS, ANTHROPOLOGIC AL VOICES A Series Edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit

Sophia Roosth is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Astrid Schrader is Visiting Assistant Professor of Science,Technology, and Society at Sarah Lawrence College.

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January 280 pages, 24 illustrationspaper, 9780822353362, $23.95/15.99 cloth, 9780822353317, $84.95/64.00

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Medical Anthropology at the IntersectionsHistories, Activisms, and Futures marcia c . inhorn & emily a . wentzell ,editors

Improvising MedicineAn African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemicjulie livingston

Imagining the future of medical anthropology, this collection vigorously conveys the theoretical roots and engaged social activisms committed to equity, rights, and sociopolitical change in mental health and humanitarianism, feminist projects on technoscience and reproduction; HIV and sexuality; and social bodies, global health, and local biologies.MARYImprovising Medicine is a luminous book by a highly respected Africanist whose work creatively bridges anthropology and history. A product of intense listening and observation, deep care, and superb analytical work, it will become a canonical ethnography of medicine in the global south and will have a big impact across the social sciences and medical humanities.JOO BIEHL , author of Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival and Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment

JO D E LVECCHIO GOOD , coeditor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology:Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities

In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the fields past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other subfields in anthropology, and with disciplines as varied as public health, the biosciences, and studies of race and ethnicity. Each of the contributors addresses one or more of these intersections. Some trace the evolution of medical anthropology in relation to fields including feminist technoscience, medical history, and international and area studies. Other contributors question the assumptions underlying mental health, global public health, and genetics and genomics, areas of inquiry now central to contemporary medical anthropology. Essays on the fields engagements with disability studies, public policy, and gender and sexuality studies illuminate the commitments of many medical anthropologists to publichealth and humanrights activism. Essential reading for all those interested in medical anthropology, this collection offers productive insight into the field and its future, as viewed by some of the worlds leading medical anthropologists.The nurses station in Botswanas only cancer ward. Photo by the author.

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswanas only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part of an ongoing surge in cancers across the global