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Paperback. This volume examines Asian staging of Western canonical theatre, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822327639
ISBN
9780822327639
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€ 31.99
€ 28.87

Paperback. Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalise, pathologise, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. This book reveals how each group, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327486
ISBN
9780822327486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. The first study to focus on how popular representations of the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II affected the formation of Cold War culture Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5995 x 3734 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822327462
ISBN
9780822327462
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Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. With its recurrent themes of trans-nationalism, globalisation, and postcoloniality, this title considers various embodiments of the Asian diaspora, including a rumination on minority discourses and performance studies, and an historical look at the journal Amerasia. Editor(s): Chuh, Kandice; Shimakawa, Karen. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327394
ISBN
9780822327394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. A sophisticated theoretical reconsideration of Latin American studies, critiquing past work and proposing new frameworks for the discipline. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 26. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327240
ISBN
9780822327240
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Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

paperback. Focusing in particular on western acquiescence to a system that underpays and under-represents the vast majority of the population, this title moves beyond typical studies of this phenomenon by stressing more than its political and economic dimensions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822327165
ISBN
9780822327165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. More than four million United States citizens live in five "unincorporated" US territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. This book addresses the problem of the US territories. Editor(s): Burnett, Christina Duffy; Marshall, Burke. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJP; GTB; JPS; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326984
ISBN
9780822326984
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€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomenon, from television and toys to comic books and magazines. The author looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 37 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJP; GTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326960
ISBN
9780822326960
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Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Suitable for those interested in cultural studies, film and video studies, American studies, twentieth century history, German studies, rhetoric, and sexuality studies, this book investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric. Num Pages: 384 pages, 21 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; GTE; JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326939
ISBN
9780822326939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Provides an examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. This book reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements came to symbolise the heart of colonialism in India. It exposes how this image has distracted from working conditions, low wages, and coercive labour practices enforced by the patronage system. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 440 pages, 27 b&w photos, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ1; JFSL; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326748
ISBN
9780822326748
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Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Chinese cultural and intellectual politics waned after the Tiananmen Square incident. This volume explores their revitalisation in the 1990s. Editor(s): Zhang, Xudong. Num Pages: 408 pages, 12 b&w photos, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPR; JFCX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326489
ISBN
9780822326489
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Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune - or even willfully blind - to the landmark upheavals rocking western and American society during the 1960s. This book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-led societal changes. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 336 pages, 34 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJPK; GTB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326458
ISBN
9780822326458
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Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Explores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism. Translator(s): Maclean, Heather. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326434
ISBN
9780822326434
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Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean Sea and encountering a people who had maintained an independent existence in the lowlands of Guatemala and Belize. Editor(s): Feldman, Lawrence H. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; JHM; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326243
ISBN
9780822326243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. In the early twentieth century, a group of elite Eastern-coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. This book provides a narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market to investigate the social construction of value. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AB; ACBK; GTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326182
ISBN
9780822326182
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Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. This work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326144
ISBN
9780822326144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. An autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, it is suitable for those interested in the birth and growth of gay and lesbian studies. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 360 pages, 23 photographs. BIC Classification: BG; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326120
ISBN
9780822326120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher it in the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. The author focuses on the 1920s and 1930s, a time when white women were actively refashioning Freud's problematic accounts of sexual subjectivity. Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 b&w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3810 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326113
ISBN
9780822326113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

paperback. Describing the life and ideas of the founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), this work is a biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, an important and influential figure of the post-1959 revolutionary generation in Latin America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; BGH; HBTV; JPF; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822325956
ISBN
9780822325956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

paperback. A collection of writings from the influential feminist art journal "M/E/A/N/I/N/G", with a foreward by Johanna Drucker. This book is of interest to artists, art historians, critics, and a general audience interested in the views of practising artists. Editor(s): Bee, Susan; Schor, Mira. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DNF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325666
ISBN
9780822325666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

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