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The Passions of Peter Sellars

Staging the Music

By Susan McClary
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

Tracing the legendary career of Peter Sellars through his visually rich opera productions

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Cultures of Yusin

South Korea in the 1970s

By Youngju Ryu
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A broad range of scholars explores the many avenues of cultural production during the Yusin period, casting new light on how it challenged and conformed to the ambitions of the state power

Ruins

Classical Theater and Broken Memory

By Odai Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theater—the aesthetics of ruins

Sites of Translation

What Multilinguals Can Teach Us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric

By Laura Gonzales
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Digital Projects
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

A groundbreaking study of the inventive intellectual work performed by multilingual communicators who translate information in academic and professional spaces—Winner of the 2016 DRC Book Prize!

Black Cultural Life in South Africa

Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics

By Lily Saint
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: African Perspectives

Explores the shaping of black ethical consciousness by popular culture in apartheid-era South Africa

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

By Reginald Jackson
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

Mongrel Nation

Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain

By Ashley Dawson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Caribbean Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

The first cultural history of African, Asian, and Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom from 1948 to the present

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring

By Sherry Lee Linkon
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities

White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

By Priscilla Dionne Layne
Subjects: German Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

Transforming Gender and Emotion

The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea

By Sookja Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Korea, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Illuminates how one folktale serves as a living record of the evolving cultures and relationships of China and Korea

Transgression in Korea

Beyond Resistance and Control

By Juhn Young Ahn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Challenges our understanding of transgression— its causes, goals, and motives— across a comprehensive reading of South Korean media

Immersions in Cultural Difference

Tourism, War, Performance

By Natalie Alvarez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures

Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, Political Science, Human Rights

Examines the pervasive presence of surveillance and how surveillance technologies alter the performance of everyday life

Finding Voice

A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change

By Kim Shelley Berman
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African Studies
Series: The New Public Scholarship

A model for cultural activism and pedagogy through art and community engagement

Communicative Biocapitalism

The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities

By Olivia Banner
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Scrutinizes dominant models of health and ability, race, and gender and the structure of digital health

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

Performing the Intercultural City

By Ric Knowles
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores how theater in Toronto, the world’s most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

By Cathy Gelbin & Sander Gilman
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first conceptual history of the development and evolution of the image of Jews and Jewish participation in modern German-speaking cosmopolitanist thought