Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement. This book addresses a gap in scholarship about performance, theater, and popular culture in Senegal and West Africa.
Pink Revolutions describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on the one hand, and the nationalist Hindu fundamentalism that has emerged since the 1990s, on the other.
This book examines the interaction of literature and radical social movement, exploring how to address the limitations of contemporary anarchist politics through attentive engagement with Native women’s literatures. The author argues that anarchists must shift the paradigm that another world is possible to one that sees other worlds here.
Figueroa-Vásquez analyzes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, revealing the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another.
This book illuminates how the Spanish theater portrays the immigrant as an enemy of the state. It argues for a “convivial theater” that portrays immigrants as beneficial to Spain.
Theater of State is a study of performance at the United Nations and other international institutions. Ball uses theater theory to analyze the acts of diplomats and the political interventions made by performing artists.
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.
Speculation: Politics, Ideology, Event develops Hegel’s radical perspective of speculative thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense of the future and its possibilities.
The Worker is the first and long overdue translation of the German intellectual Ernst Jünger’s 1932 Der Arbeiter. In it, Jünger explores issues of labor and politics, with special emphasis on technology. A study made ever more relevant by politics in the twenty-first century, The Worker is an important work of philosophy and political economy.
Writing against War combines peace studies and literary criticism to offer a unique examination of experimental British fiction devoted to peace activism in the interwar period.
