Humanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. While labeling white savior narratives has become a familiar gesture, it doesn't tell us much about the story as story. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as ......
Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914-53), Puerto Rico's most iconic writer-a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism. Through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, and Frank Ankersmit, Mendoza-de Jesus shows that historicism ......
Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914-53), Puerto Rico's most iconic writer-a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism. Through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, and Frank Ankersmit, Mendoza-de Jesus shows that historicism ......
This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thirteenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and ......
A comprehensive history and insider's account of the Garifuna in New York City from 1943 to the present day In recent years, Latinos-primarily Central American migrants-crossing the southern border of the United States have dominated the national media, as the legitimacy of their detention and of U.S. immigration policy in general is debated by ......
A comprehensive history and insider's account of the Garifuna in New York City from 1943 to the present day In recent years, Latinos-primarily Central American migrants-crossing the southern border of the United States have dominated the national media, as the legitimacy of their detention and of U.S. immigration policy in general is debated by ......
Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture
The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective, through the works of Joseph Conrad and others. The book explores the ambiguous effect of ......
Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture
The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective, through the works of Joseph Conrad and others. The book explores the ambiguous effect of ......
Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art
An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state's capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates ......
