Books published by Duke University Press

Topics highlight worker responses during the postwar boom era and include a comparative analysis of the social democracy of the United States and that of West Germany; inflation as the underside of liberal governance; the "Fordist" trap for Italian women; humanizing the workplace during the Sixties Revolution; and the many sides of the Catholic labor movement. Contributors. Stefan Berger, Eloisa Betti, Patrick Dixon, Andrew Elrod, Leon Fink, Jan-Arend de Graaf, Gerd-Rainer Horn, Nelson Lichtenstein, Stefan Mueller

Throughout the French empire, from the Atlantic and the Caribbean to West and North Africa, men, women, and children responded to enslavement, colonization, and oppression through acts of suicide. In The Suicide Archive, Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and neocolonialism, from the time of slavery to the Algerian War for Independence to the "Arab Spring." Noting that suicide was either obscured in or occluded from French colonial archives, Calhoun turns to literature and film to show how aesthetic forms and narrative accounts can keep alive the silenced histories of suicide as a political language. Drawing on scientific texts, police files, and legal proceedings alongside contemporary African and Afro-Caribbean novels, film, and Senegalese oral history, Calhoun outlines how such aesthetic works rewrite histories of resistance and loss. Consequently, Calhoun offers a new way of writing about suicide, slavery, and coloniality in relation to literary history.

Topics covered include queering the domestic by examining the diverse functionings of “home” for past and present LGBTQ+ and other marginalized groups; housing precarity and homelessness; LGBTQ+ social movements; kinship and caretaking; LGBTQ+ representation in literature and film; and ethnographies of everyday life. Contributors: Rasel Ahmed, Miguel Avalos, Darius Bost, Zhen Cheng, Ariel Dela Cruz, René Esparza, Jules Gill-Peterson, Gayatri Gopinath, Lauren Jae Gutterman, Joseph Henry, Efadul Huq, Holly Jackson, Jina B. Kim, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Sara Matthiesen, Nivati Misra-Shenoy, Richard Mora, Shoniqua Roach, Cody St. Clair, Maggie Schreiner, Gee Imaan Semmalar, Virginia Thomas, Stephen Vider, Hentyle Yapp

Topics covered include periodicals and other print ephemera—newspapers, literary journals, magazines, pamphlets, and handbills—as crucial sites of leftist, anti-imperial, and anti-colonial critical production; counter-political ideas and counter-cultural practices aiming to end empire and colonial rule or challenge authoritarian states and majorities; and oppositional networks, critical concepts, and alternative artistic practices that link local concerns to global revolutionary praxis. Contributors: Javaria Ahmad, Areej Akhtar, Amsale Alemu, Pablo Alvarez, Koni Benson, Drew Kahü¿ina Broderick, Asher Gamedze, Thayer Hastings, Aaron Katzeman, Sara Kazmi, Sana Farrukh Khan, Promise Li, Sara Marzagora, Mae A. Miller-Likhethe, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Noor Nieftagodien, Francisco Rodriguez, Marral Shamshiri-Fard, Njoki Wamai, Kimani Waweru, Tony Wood, Rafeef Ziadeh

Topics covered include feminist perspectives about the realities of grappling with colonial legacies within global south communities in North America, Asia, and Africa; the impacts of colonial logic in shaping community identity and boundaries; complex entanglements with neo-colonialism while striving for decolonial praxis; and memory and trauma within communities disrupted by U.S. colonial interests.  Contributors: Maryam Ala Amjadi, La Vaughn Belle, Umayyah Cable, Ginetta E. B. Candelario, Debjani Chakravarty, Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, Henrikke Sæthre Ellingsen, Guadalupe Escobar, Levi Gahman, Caroline M. Mar, Nasha Mohamed, Chamara Moore, Aurora Santiago Ortiz, Shreya Parikh, Christine Standish, Aisha A. Upton, Lisa Wright, Ming Li Wu

Performer, activist, and writer Jill Johnston was a major queer presence in the history of dance and 1970s feminism. She was the first critic to identify postmodernism's arrival in American dance and was a fierce advocate for the importance of lesbians within feminism. In Jill Johnston in Motion, Clare Croft tracks Johnston's entwined innovations and contributions to dance and art criticism and activism. She examines Johnston's journalism and criticism--in particular her Village Voice columns published between 1960 and 1980--and her books of memoir and biography. At the same time, Croft attends to Johnston's appearances as both dancer and audience member and her physical and often spectacular appearances at feminist protests. By bringing together Johnston's criticism and activism, her writing and her physicality, Croft emphasizes the effect that the arts, particularly dance, had on Johnston's feminist thinking in the 1970s and traces lesbian feminism's roots in avant garde art practice.

Topics covered include New Citizenship Studies, an emergent methodology for reading the role of literature in the cultural making and unmaking of citizenship; the violent histories and imaginative possibilities of citizenship; theories of citizenship from the perspectives of groups who cannot presume the state’s protections; citizenship at the intersection of Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, and multiethnic U.S. literatures; and the forms of worldmaking and community that writers build as practitioners of political poiesis.   Contributors: Ajay Batra, Eve Eure, Carrie Hyde, Stephen Knadler, Florencia Lauria, Rodrigo Lazo, Joseph Miranda, Xiomara Santamarina, Sidonia Serafini, Derrick R. Spires, Erin Suzuki, Kathryn Walkiewicz, Edlie Wong, Sunny Xiang

Topics covered include the impacts of China’s economic and geopolitical global rise on cross-border media, financial, and human flows; everyday experiences of cultural globalization by ordinary Chinese people; and the ways in which transnationalization transforms representations, understandings, and practices of class, gender, race, nationality, and ethnicity in China. Contributors: Fanni Beck, Haijing Dai, Qian Gong, Christina Ho, Shuheng Jin, Anita Koo, Shih-Diing Liu, Fran Martin, Jacqueline Nelson, Pál Nyíri, Ngai Pun, Dallas Rogers, Lin Song, Huan Wu, Ting-Fai Yu