In this path-breaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics serves to incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the ...(展开全部)

In this path-breaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics serves to incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the ...(展开全部)

A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center black ex...(展开全部)

Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, safer sex, sexual racism and gay marriage. The introduction of the smartphone in 2008 only intensified these debates whilst also raising a further set of questions which are explored in this open access book. Through interviews with ...(展开全部)

The ever-surprising John Updike’s twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur’an, as expounded to him by a local mosque’s imam. The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeare...(展开全部)

约翰·厄普代克一九三二年生于美国宾夕法尼亚州希灵顿。一九五四年毕业于哈佛学院，后在英国牛津的拉斯金绘画和艺术学校学习一年。一九五五至一九五七年间供职于《纽约客》杂志，自一九五七年起定居马萨诸塞州。厄普代克著有五十多部作品，其中包括短篇小说集、诗集和评论集。作品曾获美国国家图书奖、普利策奖、欧·亨利奖等奖项。

Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.

杰奎琳·罗斯（Jacqueline Rose）任教于伦敦大学伯贝克学院，《伦敦评论》杂志的常驻作者，致力的领域包括女权主义、文学和心理分析等。 曾在伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院教授英文，曾在剑桥大学进行有关性别的专题研究。代表作：《黑暗时代的她们》《令人难忘的西尔维娅·普拉斯》《夜不能眠》以及小说《阿伯丁》。

Jacqueline Rose's heroines could not appear more different from each other: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Yet historically these women have a shared story to tell as they blaze a trail across some of the most dramatic events of the last ...(展开全部)

Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.