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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lesley larkin”
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  • Race and the Literary Encounter

    Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett

    by Lesley Larkin ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading in the Postgenomic Age

    Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature

    by Lesley Larkin ...
    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    In Reading in the Postgenomic Age, Lesley Larkin analyzes how writers across literary genres have reckoned with the launch (in the early 1990s) and completion (in 2003) of the Human Genome Project and the ways it has fallen short of its promise to do away with spurious notions of race. Authors such as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ruth Ozeki, Rebecca Skloot, Gerald Vizenor, and others ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • The Genetic Function and Nature of LIterature

    by R. D. Hood ...
    Literature is found in many primitive and modern cultures, and it does have group survival advantages, and so, according to sociobiological theory, the evidence is strong that literature has a genetic base. ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

    Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

    by Silvia Federici ...
    Series series Kairos
    More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements—all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transgender Marxism

    Edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O'Rourke ...
    The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Posthuman Feminism

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    In a context marked by the virulent return of patriarchal and white supremacist attitudes, a new generation of feminist activists are continuing the struggle: these are very feminist times. But how do these and other movements relate to the contemporary posthuman condition?In this important new book, Rosi Braidotti examines the implications of the posthuman turn for feminist theory and practice. ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

    The Reinvention of Nature

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Bodily Natures

    Science, Environment, and the Material Self

    by Stacy Alaimo ...
    How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What World Is This?

    A Pandemic Phenomenology

    by Judith Butler ...
    The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from, and about, this common ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Posthumanism

    by Pramod K. Nayar ...
    Series series Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
    This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and ‘speciesist’ politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Is Science Racist?

    by Jonathan Marks ...
    Series series Debating Race
    Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Material Feminisms

    Edited by Stacy Alaimo, Susan Hekman ...
    Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group of feminist thinkers challenges the assumptions and norms that have previously defined studies ... Read more

    $22.99 USD