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  • The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

    by Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale, Atia Sattar, Beth A. McCoy, Robin Blyn, Dennis Allen, Timothy Sweet, Charles M. Tung, Aaron Jaffe, Grant Farred, Seth Morton, David L. Martin ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera."—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy AnthologyThe modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grievance

    In Fragments

    by Grant Farred ...
    Reveals how America is a nation founded on grievance.Grievance is an American mode of being that can be traced back to the Declaration of Independence, that is at the root of the Civil War and accounts in large measure for the failure of Reconstruction, that runs through the Civil Rights moment, and that showed itself again in the events of January 6, 2021. Grievance, in America, always ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Prettiest Woman

    Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism

    by Grant Farred ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America“We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurfaces in political discourse, a reflection of yearning for a bygone era of industrial productivity. In his latest work, Grant Farred uses the 1990 film Pretty Woman to expose and critique this lingering nostalgia for late-industrial capitalism.Situating ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Sports Odyssey

    My Ithaca Journal

    by Grant Farred ...
    Series series Sporting
    Grant Farred has long had a passionate connection with sports. In A Sports Odyssey, he weaves together an account of his own sports fandom that is profoundly personal and universal.As readers of his Long Distance Love know, Grant Farred has been a supporter of the English Premier League club, Liverpool Football Club, for decades. His fandom for that team launched an unexpected connection with a ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Martin Heidegger Saved My Life

    by Grant Farred ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves outside his home, Farred experienced a racist encounter: a white woman stopped to ask him, “Would you like another job?” Farred responded, “Only if you can match my Cornell faculty salary.” The moment, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Perversity of Gratitude

    An Apartheid Education

    by Grant Farred ...
    Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa’s apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, “Made thinking apartheid, more than anything else, an absolute necessity.” The Perversity of Gratitude is a provocative book in which Farred reflects on an upbringing resisting apartheid. Although he is still inclined to struggle ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Comic Self

    Toward Dispossession

    by Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred ...
    Series series Thinking Theory
    A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itselfChallenging the contemporary notion of “self-care” and the Western mania for “self-possession,” The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred argue that the problem with the “care of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Essay for Ezra

    Racial Terror in America

    by Grant Farred ...
    Series series Thinking Theory
    An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconsciousAn Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a dynamic dialogistic exchange that is a commentary of and for its time, taking the measure of racial terror ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now

    by Grant Farred ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic worldStarting with the refusal of George Hill of the Milwaukee Bucks to participate in an August 2020 playoff game following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Grant Farred shows how the Covid-restricted NBA “bubble” released an energy that spurred athletes into radical action ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ngugi

    Reflections on his Life of Writing

    by Simon Gikandi, Eddah Gachukia, Emilia Ilevia, Gichingiri Ndigirigi, Prof Grace A Musila, Grant Farred, Henry Chakava, Ime Ikkideh, James Currey, James Ogude0, Jane Plastow1, Ndirangu Wachanga3, Kiarii Kamau4, Kimani Njogu5, Margaretta wa Gacheru6, Micere Githae Mugo7, Ngugi wa Thiong'o8, Odhiambo Levin Opiyo9, Peter Kimani0, Reinhard W. Sander1, Rhonda Cobham-Sander2, Alamin Mazrui3, Roland Nasasira4, Sultan Somjee5, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli6, Tsitsi Jaji7, Willy Mutunga8, Ann Biersteker9, Anne Adams0, Bernth Lindfors1, Carole Boyce Davies2, Charles Cantalupo3, Chege Githiora4 ...
    This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishers and activists, the volume traces the emergence of Ngugi as a novelist in the early 1960s, his contribution to the African culture of letters at its moment of inception, and his global artistic life ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Entre Nous

    Between the World Cup and Me

    by Grant Farred ...
    In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, separation, and belonging. Drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of relation and Heideggerian ontology, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Midfielder's Moment

    Coloured Literature And Culture In Contemporary South Africa

    by Grant Farred ...
    A timely exploration of and intervention into the South African ideological landscape from the perspective of the colored community. In Midfielders Moment, Grant Farred explores the ways in which political fissures are being articulated in the new South Africa. By examining the politics, literature, and culture of an historically disenfranchised c ... Read more

    $59.99 USD