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1976
Allison L. Rowland, "Zoetropes and the Politics...
The way that we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value...
57 min
1977
Xiaoqiao Ling, "Feeling the Past in Seventeenth...
Ling offers readers a richly revealing window into sensory worlds at a particularly cataclysmic time, showing how Chinese literati dealt with the traumatic transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasty...
61 min
1978
K. Keeling and S. Pollard, "Table Lands: Food i...
Table Lands contributes to a growing body of scholarship in the subfield of literary food studies...
67 min
1979
Naomi Appleton, "Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A St...
Appleton introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or “One Hundred Stories”...
44 min
1980
Barry Witham, "From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting...
Witham traces Fried’s long career as a labor organizer and Communist Party militant, as well as the obsessive lengths the FBI went to in order to suppress his activism...
46 min
1981
Kim Adrian, "Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaa...
In 2009, a novel was released in Norway with a fairly simple premise; the author would simply write about himself, his life and his attempts to write...
65 min
1982
Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Afri...
Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...
76 min
1983
Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Fem...
Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.
40 min
1984
Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Commu...
Gleason’s experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee and Dr. Frederic Wertham and other Anti-Comic activists give a glimpse into important political and social activism of the 1940s and 50s in American history...
45 min
1985
Bradley Lewis, "Narrative Psychiatry: How Stori...
Psychiatry has lagged behind many clinical specialties in recognizing the importance of narrative for understanding and effectively treating disease...
46 min
1986
Oludamini Ogunnaike, "Poetry in Praise of Proph...
Around the world Muslims praise the Prophet Muhammad through the recitation of lyrical poetry...
54 min
1987
Greil Marcus, “Under the Red White and Blue" (Y...
Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself...
57 min
1988
Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon ...
How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?
40 min
1989
Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the M...
Muslims have lived in the Caribbean for centuries...
42 min
1990
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early ...
Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...
50 min
1991
C. Jester and C. Svich, "Fifty Playwrights on t...
Jester and Svich talk to writers from the US, the UK, and countries around the world about what it means to be a playwright today....
46 min
1992
Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age o...
Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...
60 min
1993
Jeremy Black, "Mapping Shakespeare: An Explorat...
This lavishly illustrated volume compiles maps of the world, of Europe, of England, of English counties, and of English villages, to illustrate its author’s detailed description of the history of cartography...
33 min
1994
Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Cla...
The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...
76 min
1995
Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocau...
Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...
68 min
1996
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (...
Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...
51 min
1997
Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman...
Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...
52 min
1998
Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" ...
What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?
50 min
1999
David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and...
This book examines what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust...
69 min
2000
Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Liv...
Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...
32 min