Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
By: Avery F. Gordon
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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- nonfiction
"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
3. Poetics of Relation
By: Édouard Glissant , Betsy Wing
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writer… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. The Uncanny
By: Sigmund Freud , Adam Phillips , David McLintock , Hugh Haughton
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works t… read more
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- theory
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5. Electra
By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more
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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- sociology
7. Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , None
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Darkrepresents the culmination of Gloria E… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- academic
9. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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10. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
By: Avery F. Gordon
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections lin… read more
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- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- cultural studies
- sociology
11. The Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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12. Girl Meets Boy
By: Ali Smith
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new s… read more
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13. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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14. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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15. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
By: J. Jack Halberstam
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, J. Jack Halberstam examines th… read more
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16. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
By: Sara Ahmed
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to pro… read more
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17. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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18. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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19. The Location of Culture
By: Homi K. Bhabha , Teresa Miller
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working… read more
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20. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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21. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
By: None
3.50
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Meeting the Universe Halfwayis an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields… read more
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22. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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23. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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24. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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25. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
26. Perras de reserva
By: Dahlia de la Cerda
4.28
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
“Las mujeres podemos ser muy horribles, plebe” Para sobrevivir en los rincones más injustos del pa… read more
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"Lo que empieza recio, recio se termina."-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva
"México es un monstruo enorme que devora a las mujeres. México es un desierto hecho de polvo de huesos. México es un cementerio de cruces rosas. México es un país que odia a las mujeres."-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva
27. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
By: Legacy Russell
3.81
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more
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28. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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- sociology
29. No Archive Will Restore You
By: Julietta Singh
4.28
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a feverish medit… read more
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30. The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age
By: Allucquère Rosanne Stone
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this witty, far-reaching, and utterly original work, Allucquère Rosanne Stone examines the myria… read more
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31. Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past
By: Merlin Coverley
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Ghosts and specters, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the su… read more
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