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You Were Never in Chicago

Steinberg Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226104157, ISBN: HB: 9780226772059, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1952 the "New Yorker" published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City". From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residen...

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Photography

Harlem

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty

ISBN: HB: 9780857420848, Seagull Books, January 2013
80 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 colour illus.

W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder". In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls – A...

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Design

French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975

Sherman Daniel J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226752693, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 51 halftones, 10 colour illus.

For over a century, the idea of primitivism has motivated artistic modernism. Focusing on the three decades after World War II, known in France as "les trentes glorieuses" despite the loss of most of the country's colonial empire, this probing and ex...

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty, Butler Judith

ISBN: PB: 9781906497835, Seagull Books, March 2011
128 pp., 18.5x11.7 cm

"Who Sings the Nation-State" brings together two of America's foremost critics and two of the most influential theorists of the last decade. Together, they explore the past, present and future of the state in a time of globalization. What is contai...

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Music

Culture Studies

Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music

Stokes Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones

At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...

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Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam

Sheriff Abdul

ISBN: PB: 9781849040082, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The wooden dhow, with its characteristic lateen sail, is an appropriate icon for the early trading world of the Indian Ocean. It was based on free trade unhindered by monopolies or superpower domination and pre-dated 'globalisa...

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Gender Studies

Rebels, Wives, Saints Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times

Sarkar Tanika

ISBN: HB: 9781906497293, Seagull Books, October 2009
356 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm

In "Rebels, Wives, Saints", acclaimed scholar Tanika Sarkar continues her revolutionary scholarship on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. The colonial universe Sarkar describes in "Rebels, Wives, Saints" centers around symbols of wom...

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Islam

Culture Studies

Offence: The Muslim Case

Shamsie Kamila

ISBN: HB: 9781906497033, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm

In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within...

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Biography & Memoires

Culture Studies

Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty

ISBN: PB: 9781905422289, ISBN: HB: 9781905422272, Seagull Books, May 2007
173 pp., 19.6x14 cm

Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist. With an awe-inspiring track record in several areas, ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of...

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