An exploration of how the Iranian people have renewed their longtime struggle for freedom in the post-'79 era, despite new forms of internal repression and imperial power in the first decades of the twenty-first century
Michelle Liu Carriger examines fashion and clothing controversies of the nineteenth century, drawing on performance theory to reveal how the apparently superficial or frivolous deeply affects the creation of identity.
This book imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of the horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations.
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.
Queer Tidalectics investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics.
Contributions by Duane Davis, Lisa Guenther, Lewis R. Gordon, John D. Caputo, Kris Sealey, Mark Ralkowski, Natalie Cisneros, Kyle Whyte, Robert McRuer, George Yancy, Patricia Hill Collins, Rosalyn Diprose, Eduardo Mendieta, Alia Al-Saji, Charles W. Mills, Tamsin Kimoto, Debra Bergoffen, Shannon M. Mussett, Diane Perpich, Donald A. Landes, Ted Toadvine, Helen A. Fielding, Megan Burke, Mariana Ortega, David Morris, Moira Gatens, Shiloh Whitney, Scott Marratto, Jenny Slatman, William McBride, Elena Ruiz, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emily S. Lee, Lanei M. Rodemeyer, Joel Michael Reynolds, Shannon Sullivan, Jennifer McWeeny, Jack Reynolds, Linda Martin Alcoff, Lauren Guilmette, Sid Hansen, Axelle Karera, David Haekwon Kim, Keith Whitmoyer, Perry Zurn, Nancy J. Holland, Dorthea Olkowski, Talia Mae Bettcher, Kelly Oliver, Andrea Pitts and Cynthia Willett
This volume is an introduction to both newer and more established ideas in the growing field of critical phenomenology from a number of disciplinary perspectives.
Sex Changes with Kleist shows that Heinrich von Kleist responded in a unique way to a change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred in the late eighteenth century.
