Faculty Publications (selected list)
These UNH faculty publications were completed with the support of the Center for the Humanities.
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 | Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women
by Monica Chiu
AltaMira Press, 2004
excerpt from book cover: Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings of “Asian Americans” and “dirt.” Crossing disciplinary and institutional boundaries, Filthy Fictions also questions the very ground upon which these arguments are founded. Expertly questioning the construction of the ethnic body, Monica Chiu analyzes critical discourses in ethnic and feminist studies based on the topics of identity (re)production and transnational representation.
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 | Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture
edited by Burt Feintuch
University of Illinois Press, 2003
excerpt from book cover: Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture is a thoughtful, interdisciplinary examination by leading folklorists of the key words that are integral to the formulation of ideas about the diversity of human creativity. This book is a much-needed study of keywords that are frequently used but not easily explained. Anchored by Burt Feintuch’s cogent introduction, the book features essays by Dorothy Noyes, Gerald L. Pocius, Jeff Todd Titon, Trudier Harris-Lopez, Deborah A. Kapchan, Mary Hufford, Henry Glassie, and Roger D. Abrahams.
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 | Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940
by Susan Bernardin, Lisa MacFarlane(UNH), Melody Graulich, Nicole Tonkovich
Rutgers University Press, 2003
excerpt from book cover: The story of westering Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has been told most notably through photographs of American Indians. Unlike this vast archive, produced primarily by male photographers, which depicted American Indians as either vanishing or domesticated, the lesser-known images by the women featured in Trading Gazes provide new ways of seeing the intersecting histories of colonial expansion and indigenous resistance. Four unconventional women--Jane Gay, who documented land allotment to the Nez Perces; Kate Cory, an artist who lived for years in a Hopi community; Grace Nicholson, who purchased cultural items from the Karuk and other northern California tribes; and Mary Schaffer, who traveled among the Stoney and Metis of Alberta, Canada--used cameras to document their cross-cultural encounters. Trading Gazes reconstructs the rich biographical and historical contexts explaining these women's presence in different Native communities of the North American West.
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 | Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture
by Douglas Lanier
Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
excerpt from book cover: In the first book-length study to consider the modern 'Shakespop' phenomenon broadly, Douglas Lanier examines how our conceptions of Shakespeare's works and his cultural status have been profoundly shapes by Shakespeare's diffuse presence in such popular forms as films, comic books, TV shows, mass-market fiction, children's books, kitsch, and advertising. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture offers an overview of issues raised in Shakespeare's appropriation in twentieth-century popular culture, and argues that Shakespeare's appearances in these media can be seen as a form of cultural theorizing, a means by which popular culture thinks through its relationship to high culture. Through a series of case studies, the book examines how popular culture actively constructs, contests, uses, and perpetuates Shakespeare's cultural authority.
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 | The Blood of Our Sons: Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship During the Great War
by Nicoletta F. Gullace
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
excerpt from book cover: In this extraordinary study of the complex relationship between war, gender, and citizenship in Great Britain during World War I, Nicoletta F. Gullace shows how the assault on civilian masculinity led directly to women's suffrage. Through recruiting activities such as handing out white feathers to reputed "cowards" and offering petticoats to unenlisted "shirkers," female war enthusiasts drew national attention to the fact that manhood alone was an inadequate maker of civic responsibility. Proclaiming women's exemplary service to the nation, feminist organizations tapped into a public culture that celebrated military service while denigrating those who opposed the war. Drawing on a vast range of popular and official sources, Gullace reveals that the war had revolutionary implications for women who wished to vote and for me who were expected to fight.
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