Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.

Traces the emergence of creative texts focusing on the nineteenth-century slave trade to make sense of the radicalized effects of global capitalism.

Surveys the fifty-year career of the avant-garde artist Ushio Shinohara.

Essays on the politics of everyday style.

Describes how writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity.

A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.

Brilliant study of the effects of colonialism on the physical, mental, and spiritual health of Native Hawaiians, and their efforts to decolonize through healing and remembering.

Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.

Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema’s first true blockbuster.

Showcases the latest developments in literary Darwinism, a powerful approach that integrates evolutionary social science with literary humanism.

Uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States.

Offers a constructive new approach to the debate between hermeneutics and deconstruction.

A cookbook for—and by—fans of the rock band Phish.

Groundbreaking essays by Palestinian women scholars on the lives of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

A guided tour of the cuisine, culture, and rich culinary history of the Campania region of Italy.

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

Examines the project of Filipino self-determination in the context of capitalist globalization.

Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin.

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.

Examines the recent “War on Terror” and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives.

A look at the Latino experience in the American South using data from Richmond, Virginia.

Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.