Assembling Ethnicities demonstrates the effect of global capitalism on postcolonial art and literature, using the war in Sri Lanka as a springboard for demonstrating the intractable influence of prevailing neoliberal economics in shaping nationalisms, race, immigration, feminism, and human rights.
Contributions by Kwame Anthony Appiah, David Theo Goldberg, David Palumbo-Liu, Robert Newman, David Castillo, William Egginton, Mariet Westermann and Doris Sommer
The Humanities in the Age of Information and Post-Truth is a collection of essays that mount a spirited and rigorous defense of the social function of the humanities in contemporary society.
In A Death of One’s Own, the first sustained literary study of the right to die, Jared Stark tests predominant legal understandings of assisted suicide and euthanasia against literary reflections on modern death from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by writers including Balzac, Melville, Benjamin, and Améry.
The Color of the Heart gives an eyewitness account of the controversies of the last three decades over feminist, political, and literary issues as only a poet and political activist totally engaged in the events could perceive and write about them—highlighting sexuality, gay liberation, psychoanalysis, and the impact of deconstruction on both politics and art.
