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..". no other book undertakes to relate all these Frenchphilosophers to each other the way that (Lawlor) does, brilliantly." --Fran ois RaffoulFor many, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, andGilles Deleuze represent one of the greatest movements in French philosophy. Butthese philosophers and their works did not materialize without a philosophicalheritage. In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how the workof Maurice Merlea...

In the years after World War II, Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who had made their way to the Americas and Israel compiled memorial books to preserve the memory of their destroyed communities. FROM A RUINED GARDEN gathers some 77 sections from the nearly 1, 000 memorial books published. The texts describe daily life in the shtetl as well as everyday life during the Holocaust and the experiences of returning survivors. 26 photos.

This absorbing book reveals the ways in which powerful images remained deeply embedded in the creative imagination, even as the circumstances that originally engendered them underwent profound changes. Bartov concludes that some of the fundamental prejudices about Jews, which predate cinema, persisted in cinematic depictions throughout the 20th century, although they have been reinterpreted according to changing political regimes, ideologies, ...

Postcolonial Images is a comprehensive introduction to and resource for cinema of the Maghreb. In clear and accessible prose. Roy Armes examines the political and cultural context of the films and the film industry in the post-independence era. Since the birth of cinema, North Africa has been the site of countless European and U.S. film productions. This book, however, focuses on the postcolonial period, when indigenous filmmaking in each of t...

This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba.Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allowstudents to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of theslave experience in the Americas. The 19 essays, employing a variety of disciplinaryperspectives, provide a detailed study of how...

His pictures of Harlem life are as fresh today as they were whenthey were first set down... " -- Long Beach Press-Telegraph

In this collection, Sandra Harding offers a broad spectrum offeminist research... an incisive introduction... With this collection, Hardingoffers an outline of possibilities to students and practicing social scientistswhose questions lie outside the dominant traditions of inquiry... " -- HarvardEducational Review "The quality of the essays, plus that ofthe introduction and collection, commend this book to both the reader who wouldexplore these...

This book serves as a window into the rich and revealing lives and self-representations of the particular individuals who have produced the life histories. In so doing, it makes very important broader points about the use of life histories in social science research in general and in the study of South Asian social-cultural life in particular." -Sarah LambLife histories have a wide, if not universal, appeal. But what does it mean to narrate th...

Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, thisvolume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age ofrevolution." -- Choice "(An) eminently original andintellectually exciting book." -- William and MaryQuarterly This volume examines several slave societies in theGreater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of therevolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploi...

Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but inrecent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting publicdebate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism.In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silversteinexamines a wide range of social and cultural forms -- from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate...

Looks at ways in which feminist and queer theory complement and also contest each other. This volume focuses on the encounters of feminist and queer theories, on the ways in which basic terms such as male and female, man and woman, black, white, sex, gender, and sexuality change meaning as they move from one body of theory to another.

First published in 1939 and long out of print, this beautifully imaginative book is a classic of nature writing. Tracing the evolution of plant life from the appearance of the earliest micro-organisms to the rise of the modern floras, the book is part natural history, part biography, and part philosophical reflection.

In contemporary urban Syria, debates about the representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have become part of status competition and identity construction among the city's elite. In theme restaurants and nightclubs that play on images of Syrian tradition, in television programs, nostalgic literature, and visual art, and in the rhetoric of historic preservation groups, the idea of the Old City has become a commodi...

A needed and welcome account of Carry Nation's story... deservesthe highest praise." -- Journal of AmericanHistory"Admirably interweaves early 20th-century religiousculture, regional politics, the suffrage and temperance movements, and the woman whoworked zealously to unite them all." -- Library Journal (starredreview)In her well-received biography of Carry A. Nation, FranGrace unfolds a story that often contrasts with the common public image ...

In this nuanced and detailed study of newspaper reporting during the escalation of the second Intifada in the fall of 2000, Daniel Dor shows how real events are subject to distortion and manipulation by the media. In an analysis of the heart of Israel's media establishment--the newspapers "Yediot Ahronot, Ma'ariv, and "Ha'aretz--he finds a wide gap between the reality reported by field reporters and the eventual newspaper accounts framed by ed...

From theorists Slavoj Zizek and Gayatri Spivak to Frantz Fannon, from songwriter Luo Dayou to poet Leung Ping-Kwan, and from the film "M. Butterfly" to the films The Joy Luck Club, To Live, and Rouge, Rey Chow discusses a collection of source materials whose affinities are as surprising as their appearances are diverse.

An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of New World African studies. Since its original publication, the field has changed considerably. Africanisms has been explored in its broader dimensions, particularly is the area of white Africanisms. Thus, the new edition has been revised and expand...

In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of the 20th century, John Dewey was one of America's last great public intellectuals. Based on the award-wining 37-volume critical edition of Dewey's work, THE ESSENTIAL DEWEY presents in two volumes a collection that represents Dewey's thinking on every major issue to which he turned his attention. Vol.

The advent of Chicano Studies in the 1960s spawned a tremendous interest in the history of Mexicans in the United States. Committed to a multidisciplinary approach from the very outset, Chicano and Chicana scholars used a variety of perspectives to explain the Mexican-American past, but much of this work has not been readily available to students. En Aquel Entonces is intended as a partial solution to the problem, an anthology that brings toge...

This highly informative work digs into the intricate history of Sudanesepolitics. Lesch brings a welcome clarity to Sudan's tangle of political, ethnic, andreligious problems by concentrating on the country's central dilemma: the inabilityof its leaders to negotiate a common definition of nationhood." -- ForeignAffairs..". the first correct account of what took place...after independence." -- Robert O. CollinsThe Sudan is tornby ethnic and rel...