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Fields in Motion

Edited by Dena Davida
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Ethnography

Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture.

The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, ...

From Sugar to Revolution

By Myriam J.A. Chancy
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies

Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary ...

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal ...

Indian Country

By Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, ...

Image and Identity

By R. Bruce Elder
Subjects: Cultural Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live?

In his new book A Body of Vision, R. ...

Writing in Dust

By Jenny Kerber
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Environmental Humanities

Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers ...

Unpacking the Personal Library

Edited by J.A. Weingarten & Jason Camlot
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Archival Studies

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public ...

Unheard Of

Edited by John Beckwith
Subjects: Life Writing, Music, Cultural Studies, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Life Writing

The memoir of renowned Canadian composer John Beckwith recounts his more than sixty years in creative output and music education. His life story is a slice of Canadian cultural history.
Canadian composer ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Fine Arts, Treatments & Subjects, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

Edited by Eva Darias-Beautell
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature

This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of ...