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Sightlines eBook Series

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  • Unthinking Eurocentrism

    Multiculturalism and the Media

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered ... Read more

    $76.37 CAD

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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $39.41 CAD

  • Hybridity

    The Cultural Logic Of Globalization

    by Marwan Kraidy ...
    The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy offers readers a history of the idea and a set of prescriptions for its future use.Kraidy analyzes ... Read more

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  • Death of a Discipline

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD

  • The Creolization of Theory

    by Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah, Leo Ching, Barnor Hesse, Anne Donadey ...
    Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or methodologies that seem distinct today emerged from overlapping intellectual and ... Read more

    $34.46 CAD

  • Translation and Identity in the Americas

    New Directions in Translation Theory

    by Edwin Gentzler ...
    Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of ... Read more

    $82.53 CAD

  • World Literature in Theory

    Edited by David Damrosch ...
    World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literatureContains more than 30 important ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Europe and Love in Cinema

    Edited by Luisa Passerini, Jo Labanyi, Karen Diehl ...
    Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love—in its broadest sense—is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of "Europeanness" that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more "European" ... Read more

    $24.83 CAD

  • Terra Infirma

    Geography's Visual Culture

    by Irit Rogoff ...
    How have issues of place and identity, of belonging and exclusion, been represented in visual culture? Irit Rogoff uses the work of contemporary artists to explore how art in the twentieth century has confronted issues of identity and belonging. ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

  • A Report on the Afterlife of Culture

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary criticism with front-line reporting on events such as the end of the Cold War in Poland and African reactions to the G8 Summit. ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD

  • The Subversive Imagination

    The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity

    by Carol Becker ...
    In The Subversive Imagination , professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors look beyond censorship and free speech issues and instead emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, the contributors question the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and the ... Read more

    $77.61 CAD

  • Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance

    The Power of Story

    by Professor Eric Selbin ...
    Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur.In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions. In particular, he argues, we need to understand the ... Read more

    $33.38 CAD