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correspondents--survive in this family saga, a riveting human and historical chronicle set in the foreground of the Civil War. Arch Fredric...... more

Cultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie... more

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The "Other"--source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theori... more

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto S... more

The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discour... more

In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama ... more

With a Foreword by José David Saldívar Since its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, J... more

At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Wes... more

This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern ident... more

The conviction that Gilles Deleuze is doing something radical in his work has been accompanied by a ... more

Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent t... more

Although Chinese Marxism--primarily represented by Maoism--is generally seen by Western intellectual... more

The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and ... more

The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi... more

In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth centu... more

For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to "discover" the... more

Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism--with ... more

Post-Fascist Fantasies examines the cultural function of the novels of communist authors in East Ger... more

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colon... more

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather... more

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most in... more

Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Lati... more

Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel--displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, mig... more

How is history produced? How do individuals write--or rewrite--their parts while engaged in the prod... more

Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem exa... more

Imagine Fredric Jameson--the world’s foremost Marxist critic--kidnapped and taken on a joyride through the cultural...... more

"I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and pro... more

Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between pos... more

In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel ... more

What is an author? What is a text? At a time when the definition of "text" is expanding and the tech... more

Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book ... more

In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj... more

In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the D... more

Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a lan... more

Anomalous States is an archeology of modern Irish writing. David Lloyd commences with recent questio... more

In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowled... more

Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpre... more

Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation--hermeneutics--are fundamental in human ... more

In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition--all concern... more

Controversy over what role "the great books" should play in college curricula and questions about wh... more

Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging n... more

In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new r... more

This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of text... more

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In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more ce... more

Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as describ... more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 7th Workshop of the Cross-Langu... more

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