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  • 2015-2019  (39)
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  • 1
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    An Imperialist Love Story : Desert Romances and the War on Terror (2015)
    New York : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Romance fiction, American-History and criticism ; Erotic stories, American-History and criticism ; Heroes in literature ; Masculinity in literature ; Desire in literature ; Deserts in literature ; East and West in literature ; Social values in literature ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called "desert romances." Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (510 p)
    ISBN: 9781479815616
    URL: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=2073210
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    DDC: 320.510941
    Language: English
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Romantic Sheikh as Hero of the War on Terror; 1. "To Catch a Sheikh" in the War on Terror; 2. Desert Is Just Another Word for Freedom; 3. Desiring the Big Bad Blade: The Racialization of the Sheikh; 4. To Make a Woman Happy in Bed . . .; Conclusion: The Ends; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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  • 2
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    Ethnology and Empire : Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands (2015)
    New York : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Anthropological linguistics-North America-History-19th centeury ; Indians of North America-Languages ; Borderlands-North America-History-19th century ; Ethnology-North America-History-19th century ; United States-Territorial expansion-Social aspects ; Anthropological linguistics ; North America ; History ; 19th centeury ; Indians of North America ; Languages ; Borderlands ; North America ; History ; 19th century ; Ethnology ; North America ; History ; 19th century ; United States ; Territorial expansion ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas aboutwords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoplesand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing theemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized researchdiscipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to theU.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner inwhich relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works offiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languagesgave
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (426 p)
    ISBN: 9781479849055
    Series Statement: America and the Long 19th Century
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=2082217
    DDC: 306.440972/1
    Language: English
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Philologies of Race: Ethnological Linguistics and Novelistic Representation; 2. Empire, Sign Languages, and the Long Expedition, 1819-1821; 3. John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the Linguistic Politics of Pan-Indianism; 4. Connecting Borderlands: Native Networks and the Fredonian Rebellion; 5. John Russell Bartlett's Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S-Mexico War, and the United States Boundary Survey; Indian Passports; Notes; Index; About the Author
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  • 3
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    Sounds of Latinidad : Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City (2015)
    New York : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Charlotte, a Globalizing City -- 2. The Latin Music Scene in Charlotte -- 3. Bands Making Musical Communities -- 4. "Thursday Is Bakalao's Day!" Bands at Work and Play -- 5. The "Collective Circle": Music and Ambivalent Politics in Charlotte -- 6. Shifting Urban Genres -- 7. Race and the Expanding Borderlands Condition -- 8. The Festival: Marketing Latinidad -- 9. Musicians' Ethics and Aesthetics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Author.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (300 p)
    ISBN: 9781479859405
    Series Statement: Social Transformations in American Anthropology
    URL: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=3564339
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    DDC: 780.89/68075676
    Language: English
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Charlotte, a Globalizing City""; ""2. The Latin Music Scene in Charlotte""; ""3. Bands Making Musical Communities""; ""4. "Thursday Is Bakalao's Day!" Bands at Work and Play""; ""5. The "Collective Circle": Music and Ambivalent Politics in Charlotte""; ""6. Shifting Urban Genres""; ""7. Race and the Expanding Borderlands Condition""; ""8. The Festival: Marketing Latinidad""; ""9. Musicians' Ethics and Aesthetics""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F"" , ""G""""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""About the Author""
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  • 4
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    Surveillance Cinema (2015)
    New York : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Electronic surveillance in motion pictures ; Electronic surveillance in motion pictures ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: Surveillance Cinema in Theory and Practice -- 1. Video Surveillance, Torture Porn, and Zones of Indistinction -- 2. Commodified Surveillance: First-Person Cameras, the Internet, and Compulsive Documentation -- 3. The Global Eye: Satellite, GPS, and the "Geopolitical Aesthetic" -- 4. Temporality and Surveillance I: Terrorism Narratives and the Melancholic Security State -- 5. Temporality and Surveillance II: Surveillance, Remediation, and Social Memory in Strange Days -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- About the Author.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (286 p)
    ISBN: 9781479864379
    Series Statement: Postmillennial Pop
    URL: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=3564343
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    DDC: 791.43023
    Language: English
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Author's Note""; ""Introduction: Surveillance Cinema in Theory and Practice""; ""1. Video Surveillance, Torture Porn, and Zones of Indistinction""; ""2. Commodified Surveillance: First-Person Cameras, the Internet, and Compulsive Documentation""; ""3. The Global Eye: Satellite, GPS, and the "Geopolitical Aesthetic"""; ""4. Temporality and Surveillance I: Terrorism Narratives and the Melancholic Security State""; ""5. Temporality and Surveillance II: Surveillance, Remediation, and Social Memory in Strange Days""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes"" , ""Bibliography""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""About the Author""
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  • 5
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    Deafening Modernism : Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature (2015)
    s.l. : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Modernism (Literature)-United States ; Visual poetry, American-History and criticism ; Language and languages in literature ; Modernism (Literature) ; United States ; Visual poetry, American ; History and criticism ; Language and languages in literature ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Impersonality: Tradition and the Inescapable Body -- 2 Primitivism: Communicative Norms and the Ethics of the Story -- 3 Difficulty: Juxtaposition, Indeterminacy, and the Linguistics of Simultaneity -- 4 The Image: Cinematic Poetics and Deaf Vision -- Epilogue: The Textual Body -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- About the Author.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (208 p)
    ISBN: 9781479828869
    Series Statement: Cultural Front
    URL: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=4004175
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    DDC: 810.9/112
    Language: English
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    Playing War : Military Video Games After 9/11 (2016)
    Berlin : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Computer war games ; Psychological aspects ; Computer war games ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Welcome to Ludic War -- 1. Nintendo War 2.0: Toward a New Modality of Ludic War Play -- 2. The First-Personal Shooter: Narrative Subjectivity and Sacrificial Citizenship in the Modern Warfare Series -- 3. Fighting the Good (Preemptive) Fight: American Exceptionalism in Tom Clancy's Military Shooters -- 4. Through a Drone, Darkly: Visions of Dystopic Ludic War -- 5. Marketing Military Realism: Selling the Gameplay Modality of Ludic War -- 6. Promotion of Self in Everyday Strife: Gaming Capital of the Ludic Soldier
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 p)
    ISBN: 9781479848560
    URL: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=4098436
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    DDC: 793.9/20285
    Language: English
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    The Class : Living and Learning in the Digital Age (2016)
    s.l. : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Technology and youth - Social aspects - England - London ; Technology and youth - Social aspects - England - London ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Invitation to Meet the Class -- 1 Living and Learning in the Digital Age -- 2 A Year of Fieldwork -- 3 Networks and Social Worlds -- 4 Identities and Relationships -- 5 Life at School: From Routines to Civility -- 6 Learning at School: Measuring and "Leveling" the Self -- 7 Life at Home Together and Apart -- 8 Making Space for Learning in the Home -- 9 Learning to Play Music: Class, Culture, and Taste -- 10 Life Trajectories, Social Mobility, and Cultural Capital -- Conclusion: Conservative, Competitive, or Connected -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- About the Authors.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (370 p)
    ISBN: 9781479884575
    Series Statement: Connected Youth and Digital Futures v.1
    URL: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=4045277
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    DDC: 371.334
    Language: English
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    Undisciplined : Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 (2016)
    s.l. : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Ethnology ; America ; History ; 19th century ; Ethnology ; America ; History ; 20th century ; Philosophical anthropology ; History ; 19th century ; Philosophical anthropology ; History ; 20th century ; Persons ; Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Reciprocity, Wonder, Consequence: Object Lessons in the Land of Fire -- 2 Of Blindness, Blood, and Second Sight: Transpersonal Journeys from Brazil to Ethiopia -- 3 Creole Authenticity and Cultural Performance: Ethnographic Personhood in the Twentieth Century -- 4 Performing Diaspora: The Science of Speaking for Haiti -- Conclusion: "I Danced, I Don't Know How": Media, Race, and the Posthuman -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (262 p)
    ISBN: 9781479812684
    Series Statement: America and the Long 19th Century
    URL: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=4098435
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    DDC: 305.80097
    Language: English
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    By Any Media Necessary : The New Youth Activism (2016)
    New York : NYU Press
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    Keywords: Youth - United States - Political activity ; Youth ; Political activity ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Youth voice, media, and political engagement: introducing the core concepts / Henry Jenkins -- "Watch 30 minute video on internet, become social activist?" : Kony 2012, invisible children, and the paradoxes of participatory politics / Sangita Shresthova -- "Decreasing world suck" : harnessing popular culture for fan activism / Neta Kligler-Vilenchik -- Between storytelling and surveillance : the precarious public of american Muslim youth / Sangita Shresthova -- Dreaming citizenship : undocumented youth, coming out, and pathways to participation / Liana Gamber-Thompson and Arely M. Zimmerman -- Bypassing the ballot box : how libertarian youth are reimagining the political / Liana Gamber-Thompson -- "It's called giving a shit!" : what counts as "politics"? / Henry Jenkins and Sangita Shresthova -- Afterword: necessary learning -- Elisabeth soep -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 p)
    ISBN: 9781479899982
    Series Statement: Connected Youth and Digital Futures
    URL: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=4045276
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    DDC: 305.235
    Language: English
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    Loving Justice : Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England (2019)
    New York : New York University Press
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    Keywords: Blackstone, William,-1723-1780.-Commentaries on the laws of England ; Justice in literature ; Emotions in literature ; Law-England-History ; Practice of law-England-Psychological aspects ; Law-Psychological aspects ; Law and aesthetics ; Blackstone, William,-1723-1780-Criticism and interpretation ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- LOVING JUSTICE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Shaping Legal Emotions in Blackstone's England -- 1. What's Love Got to Do with It?: Desire, Disgust, and the Ends of Marriage Law -- 2. Blackstone's "Last Tear": Productive Melancholia and the Sense of No Ending -- 3. The Orator's Dilemma: Public Embarrassment and the Promise of the Book -- 4. Terror, Torture, and the Tender Heart of the Law -- 5. Blackstone's Long Tail: The (Un)Happiness of Harmonic Justice -- Coda: Excessive Subjectivity Is the New Subjectivity (Speculations) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (276 pages)
    ISBN: 9781479832637
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5774086
    DDC: 349.42
    Language: English
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