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  • Decolonial Aesthetics I

    Tangled Humanism in the Afro-European Context

    Edited by Michaela Ott, Babacar Mbaye Diop ...
    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    The publication aims to make suggestions for a 'decolonisation of aesthetics' within an Afro-European framework. The texts (whose authors come from different cultural contexts between Germany, France, Senegal, Benin, Nigeria and Tunesia) do not only refer to heterogenous aesthetic practices understood as subversive and decolonial strategies, but also discuss philosophical questions of a renewed ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Decolonial Aesthetics II

    Modes of Relating

    Edited by Patrick Oloko, Michaela Ott, Peter Simatei, Clarissa Vierke ...
    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    This book features writing by 17 authors from Germany and from African and Latin American countries on highly diverse aesthetic phenomena as seen from their own different points of view. The texts in this volume all deal with the imperative of ‘decolonization’: they try to highlight aesthetic strategies for the (re)discovery of unthematized, misappropriated, transcultural and even transcontinental ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Dividuations

    Theories of Participation

    by Michaela Ott ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of individuality. It argues that because of our bio(techno)logical entanglements with non-human others, billions of microorganisms and our multiple (in)voluntary participations in socio(techno)logical processes, we have to conceive of ourselves no longer as individuals, but as dividuations. This dividual character ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Edited by David Damrosch ...
    World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literatureContains more than 30 important ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • The Creolization of Theory

    by Étienne Balibar, Dominique Chancé, Pheng Cheah, Leo Ching, Barnor Hesse, Anne Donadey ...
    Introducing this collection of essays, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih argue that looking back—investigating the historical, intellectual, and political entanglements of contemporary academic disciplines—offers a way for scholars in the humanities to move critical debates forward. They describe how disciplines or methodologies that seem distinct today emerged from overlapping intellectual and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Borderlands

    Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition

    by Michel Agier ...
    The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places these liminal zones between countries and continents that have become the focus of so much ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Migrant Cartographies

    New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe

    by Angelika Bammer, Rosemarie Buikema, Theo D'Haen, Robert Fraser, Paul Gilroy, Stephen Gundle, Alec Hargreaves, Graham Huggan, Ena Jansen, Tabish Khair, Lourdes Lopez-Ropero, John McLeod, Pamela Pattynama, Mineke Schipper, Meyda Yegenoglu ...
    In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • A Companion to Comparative Literature

    Edited by Ali Behdad, Dominic Thomas ...
    Series Book 163 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature.Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributorsProvides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiryAddresses the history, ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • To Write the Africa World

    Edited by Achille Mbembe, Felwine Sarr ...
    Series series Critical South
    In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Politics of Time

    Imagining African Becomings

    Edited by Achille Mbembe, Felwine Sarr ...
    Series series Critical South
    As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing a major historical shift: Africa, and the Global South more generally, is increasingly becoming a principal theatre in which the future of the planet plays itself out. But not only this: Africa is at the same time emerging as one of the great laboratories for novel forms of social, economic, political, intellectual, ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Is Art History Global?

    Edited by James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, Ding Ning, Cuautemoc Medina, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place

    by E. Prieto ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD