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  • Haiti’s Literary Legacies

    Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution

    Edited by Prof Kir Kuiken, Prof Deborah Elise White ...
    The essays gathered in Haiti's Literary Legacies unpack the theoretical, historical, and political resonance of the Haitian revolution across a multiplicity of European and American Romanticisms, and include discussion of Haitian, British, French, German, and U.S. American traditions. Often referred to as the only successful slave revolt in history, the revolution that forged Haiti at once ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Adrift on the Earth

    Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics

    by Kir Kuiken ...
    Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and contemporary Caribbean writers. Framed by its origin in geology, geopoetics unfolds the aesthetic and political consequences of the Earth's independence from human existence alongside the realization ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Deconstructing the Death Penalty

    Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism

    by Kelly Oliver, Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther, Christina Howells, Peggy Kamuf, Kir Kuiken, Elissa Marder, Michael Naas, Elizabeth Rottenberg0, Kas Saghafi1, Sarah Tyson2, Nicole Anderson3, Adam Thurschwell4 ...
    This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999 to 2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars. These essays attempt to elucidate and expand ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Imagined Sovereignties

    Toward a New Political Romanticism

    by Kir Kuiken ...
    Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it.Articulating the link between the poetic imagination and secularized sovereignty requires more than simply replacing God with the subjective imagination and thereby ratifying the bourgeois ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Modern Criticism and Theory

    A Reader

    by Nigel Wood, David Lodge ...
    This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays included. This expansion has two principal purposes. Firstly, in keeping with the collection’s aim to reflect contemporary preoccupations, the reader has expanded forward to include such newly emergent considerations as ecocriticism and post-theory ... Read more

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  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

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    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

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  • Translating Women

    Edited by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware of the practices, purposes and possibilities of gender in translation. Translating Women revives ... Read more

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  • Ariel's Ecology

    Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics

    by Monique Allewaert ...
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  • Empire of Language

    Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression

    by Laurent Dubreuil ...
    Translated by David Fieni ...
    The relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for decades now, yet there is still much to be learned about the sheer force of language in the world in which we live. In Empire of Language, Laurent Dubreuil explores the power-language phenomenon in the context of European and, particularly, French colonialism and its aftermath. Through readings of the ... Read more

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  • What Is a People?

    by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Kevin Olson ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series Book 50 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, ... Read more

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  • Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference

    Race in Early Modern Philosophy

    by Justin E. H. Smith ...
    "Innovative, thought-provoking . . . looks at the construction and evolution [of] 17th- and 18th-century modern views of racial difference." — ChoicePeople have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific ... Read more

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