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After Disruption

A Future for Cultural Memory

By Trevor Owens
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education, Digital Projects

How we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for memory infrastructure

Opera for Everyone

The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

By Megan Steigerwald Ille
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

The Violence of the Letter

Toward a Theory of Writing

By Melanie McMahon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing, Cultural Studies

The alphabet's devastating consequences for humanity

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

Facing It

AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature

Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Effeminism

The Economy of Colonial Desire

By Revathi Krishnaswamy
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative

Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion

Making Technologies Work for the Poor

By Nir Kshetri
Subjects: Economics, Development, Class Studies, Cultural Studies

Advanced technology for the Bottom Four Billion

Mortal Kombat

Games of Death

By David Church
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Landmark Video Games

An introduction to one of the world's most iconic fighting games

Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia

Edited by Karl Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gathers seventeen diverse perspectives on human ecology in Southeast Asia with a conceptual framework—cultural values—designed to bridge social and natural science paradigms

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier

By Naama Harel
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies

Traces the dissolution of the boundary between human and other animals in the work of Franz Kafka and, in doing so, radically revisits interspecies relations

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!

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

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

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
 

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

 

Strange Science

Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age

By Lara Pauline Karpenko & Shalyn Rae Claggett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History

A fascinating look at scientific inquiry during the Victorian period and the shifting boundary between mainstream and unorthodox sciences of the time

Good Vibrations

Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective

By Philip Lambert
Subjects: American Studies, Music, Cultural Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

An international, interdisciplinary exploration of the band that helped define 1960s America

Three-Way Street

Jews, Germans, and the Transnational

By Jay Howard Geller & Leslie Morris
Subjects: History, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tracing Germany’s significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture

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