This book offers a radical, "Third World" approach to current debates on canon revision, multiculturalism, Eurocentrism, and reforms in education and culture.
The modernist fiction of letters as one-on-one communication that carries an enlightened subject has become a crisis of the subject, of identity, and of culture under the lens of postmodern analysis,
Novelist and critic Ronal Sukenick's books resist categories, undermining the idea of the book as traditionally conceived, argues editor Roberson (English, State U. of West Georgia). He presents 13 pa
Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.
Surveying films from science fiction classics to recent blockbusters, Foster (English and film studies, U. of Nebraska) introduces a concept of whiteface and connects it to what she calls white space:
The author samples the "fine art" of French cuisine, offering both a rich history and a social, political, and aesthetic look at France's proudest cultural achievement. Simultaneous. (Cookbooks)
A cultural survey of addiction explores the theme in modern literature, art, philosophy, and psychology, revealing its affects on Heidegger, Nietzsche, Breton, and Burroughs, among others. Simultaneou
