Focuses on signifiers of cultural difference, such as sexuality, class, gender, and race, and how they are connected to theories of writing.

Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions.

A comprehensive look at film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.

Addresses the important role of remakes in film culture, from early cinema to contemporary Hollywood.

Critiques lingering manifestations of colonialism in contemporary Latin American scholarship.

Examines the political, social, and economic issues confronted by each of the newly independent republics in the Transcaucasus and Central Asian regions.

Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.

Uses postcolonial theory to critique the globalization of gay culture.

Narratively explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.

Deconstructs the field of postcolonial studies.

A description and analysis of the Guyanese religion known as "Comfa. "

Examines travel narratives as a genre.

Examines the ways that the labels "disability" and "difference" are socially and culturally constructed.

Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.

Discusses the reasons for the decline of the cultural influence of psychoanalysis.

A critical overview of the work of Fredric Jameson, with an emphasis on his notoriously difficult writing style.

Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this fast-paced ride through the postmodern landscape of American popular culture explores how our responses to headline events and popular films help script the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the world around us.

Challenges current claims that humans ought to be vegetarians because animals have moral standing.

Examines a wide variety of cultural and technological phenomena that have helped shape American popular culture over the last 150 years.

A groundbreaking treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.

Addresses the theoretical and pedagogical implications of redefining French Studies as an interdisciplinary field, while providing practical examples of the kind of criticism that such a shift would entail.

Examines the notion of exile and hybrid cultural identity in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin, with implications for our understanding of modernism and the modernist canon.

Investigates the cultural and social constructions of issues related to war, the armed forces, and national security in Israel.

Explores how historical, artistic, and technological developments and cross-cultural exchange have altered our conceptions of creativity.

Explores the search for identity under changing conditions by examining the lives of kibbutz-born young people living in L.A.