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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

Communicating the Other across Cultures

From Othering as Equipment for Living, to Communicating Other/Wise

By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Political Science, International Relations, History, Intellectual History

Exposes how we have constructed and marginalized the Other across cultures, and suggests creative global solutions for inclusive multiculturalism

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

The Creativity Complex

Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

By Shannon Steen
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance

How notions of creativity have evolved to serve the goals of neoliberalism—and what we can do about it

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

Cinema Ann Arbor

How Campus Rebels Forged a Singular Film Culture

By Frank Uhle
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Art and Culture

A fascinating journey into the DIY spirit of a highly influential film community

Visual Syntax of Race

Arab-Jews in Zionist Visual Culture

By Noa Hazan
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies

The visual representation of racial thought

Working Time

Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place

From the Valley of Bronze Camels

A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

"What makes art 'modern' and what does 'urgent' mean now?"

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

Looking for Hickories

The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest

By Thomas Springer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Literature, Cultural Studies

A masterfully written collection that establishes a new voice for the spirit of the upper Midwest and Michigan and offers a fresh look at the landscape as well as the everyday lives of the people who make up the region's small communities

The Automobile and American Culture

Edited by David L. Lewis & Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, American History

Looks at the impact of the automobile on American folkways

Henry Ford and Grass-roots America

By Reynold M. Wik
Subjects: History, American History, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

The Body in Crisis

New Pathways and Short Circuits in Representation

Foreword by Cristina Fernandes Rosa, Translated by Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran

By Christine Greiner
Translated by Christopher Larkosh & Grace Holleran
Contributions by Cristina Fernandes Rosa
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Dance, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

A major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalization

Touching the Unreachable

Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan

By Fusako Innami
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

The Global White Snake

By Liang Luo
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China’s foundational texts

Waiting for Cancer to Come

Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A narrative-driven exploration of the effects of BRCA genetic testing on the lives of at-risk women

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By Makoto Iokibe
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Nature/Environment, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes

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

The <em>Dianshizhai Pictorial</em>

Shanghai Urban Life, 1884–1898

By Xiaoqing Ye
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Brings to life the visual culture of the “nightless city,” late nineteenth-century Shanghai, through analyses of more than one hundred drawn depictions

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