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  • Model Minority Masochism

    Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity

    by Takeo Rivera ...
    There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the model minority. While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as myth, author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial and gendered ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Television Culture

    by John Fiske ...
    This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Steve Classen, Elana Levine, Jason Mittell, Greg Smith and Pam Wilson on ‘John Fiske and Television Culture’. Both underline the continuing relevance of this ... Read more

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  • Slanting I, Imagining We

    Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s

    by Larissa Lai ...
    Series Book 9 - TransCanada
    The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment—from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Feeling Canadian

    Television, Nationalism, and Affect

    by Marusya Bociurkiw ...
    Series series Film and Media Studies
    “My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of affect theory, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect tracks the ways that ideas about the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • Theorizing Visual Studies

    Writing Through the Discipline

    Edited by James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, Joel Kuennen ...
    This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

    Edited by Steven Connor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, ... Read more

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  • Racial Castration

    Managing Masculinity in Asian America

    by David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.Eng juxtaposes ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Melancholy of Race

    Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief

    by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Lost in Translation

    Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier

    by Homay King ...
    In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Through close readings of The Lady ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature

    Edited by Brian McHale, Len Platt ...
    The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Looking for the Other

    Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

    by E. Ann Kaplan ...
    What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel.Looking relations are determined ... Read more

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