Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "post... more

Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a p... more

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

explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis...... more

For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism--the rise of the military-industr... more

The expression laissez les bons temps rouler--"let the good times roll"--conveys the sense of exuber... more

The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely h... more

"Let me tell you where I’m coming from . . ."--so begins many a discussion in contemporary U.S. cult... 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

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

a rich variety of contemporary debates have been played out. Contributors such as Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Nancy...... 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

Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist ... more

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

In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at... 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 throu... 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

Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images, as a machine that produ... more

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

, Ferdinand de Saussure, H. Paul Grice, Michael Dummet, Stanley Fish, Alfred Schutz, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Harold Garfinkel...... more

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

an informed alternative to sensationalized treatments of these issues. Contributors. Stanley Fish, Phyllis Franklin...... 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

In this imaginative and illuminating work, Annabel Patterson traces the origins and meanings of the ... more

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

Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E.... more

Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a p... more

Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a p... more

The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increas... more

The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increas... more

From the Copernican revolution of Immanuel Kant to the cognitive mapping of Fredric Jameson to the p... more

The expression laissez les bons temps rouler-- let the good times roll --conveys the sense of exuber... more

Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typic... more

Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typic... more