... Chapter 4 is a literary biography of Joseph Mokuʻōhai Poepoe, a writer, translator, editor, attorney, and politician who wrote from c. 1878 until his death in 1913. Among his major contributions are two books: a eulogistic biography of King Kalākaua and a book of Hawaiʻi Supreme Court decisions...

... The 2006 Duke University strategic plan, titled Making a Difference , was led by Provost Peter Lange and Vice Provost John Simon. Richard Brodhead wrote this preface, which emphasizes the value of strategic planning and sets out the rationale for Duke’s interdisciplinary and collaborative...

... the insurrectionary feat of 1952 and that of the Sierra Maestra in Cuba a few years later. In 1953, Guevara wrote a letter to a friend, expressing his budding admiration for the heroic sacrifice of insurgent Bolivian workers. ...

... This coda begins with a note from Katie Stewart concerning the nature of Lauren Berlant's writings before her/their death. Then the prose poems follow that Berlant wrote during cancer treatment and during the time of the pandemic. These poems, written in multiples of one hundred words, relay...

... This chapter discusses Black geographies revealed through abolitionist print records from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It focuses on early feminist geographic discourses and civics, arguing that author-activists such as Nancy Gardner Prince, Maria Stewart, and Pauline Hopkins wrote...

... Joseph H. Kānepuʻu wrote four serialized works of literature: “He Moolelo no Pakaa,” “He Moolelo no Kana, Ka Hanai a Uli,” and “He Moolelo no Hamanalau, Hanai a Hawea” are moʻolelo kuʻuna, taken from the oral tradition. The fourth, “He Moolelo no Kanewailani” is a fictionalized autobiography...

... This chapter analyzes Azuma Hiroki’s writings on media theory from 1997 to 2003. In this phase, in which Azuma had developed himself from a young scholar of critical theory into a prominent intellectual with a main focus on otaku culture in Japan, he wrote extensively on media theory with a plan...

..., the chapter reads the critical privileging of Joseph Jekyll's largely unverifiable biography of Ignatius Sancho against the customary scholarly dismissal of Sancho's letters. The chapter argues that Sancho's familiar letters are complex textual artifacts. Reading letters that he wrote to John Meheux, it looks...

... that there was no basis for this Japanist representation. His solution was called “cultural living,” which disclosed how new imports from abroad combined with established received forms and revealed Japan's historical aptitude for successful cultural adaptation. The Marxian philosopher Tosaka Jun wrote a penetrating...

... as an inferior imitation of Wright’s “inspirational” Black Boy and Native Son , suggesting that Creekmore wrote The Chain in the Heart primarily to make money, in response to the popularity of protest novels by African American writers. Drawing on the work of Wright’s fellow African American literary exiles...

... The English novelist and storyteller, Angela Carter, was also a major feminist thinker critical of the feminist anti-pornography position. Gorgeously inventive in her fictional accounts of women’s sexual adventures, she wrote stories in which Little Red Riding Hood gets pleasure from sleeping...

... The 1960s were a time of deep moral questions. This chapter takes the reader on a spiritual journey at Yale Divinity School. It began with intense intellectual inquiry directed at early scribes and later reformers who wrote down what they believed to be the central tenets of Christian faith...

..., as is commonly assumed, but as a dialogue between Marxism and sexual minorities. An exemplary author of queer Marxism in Chinas, Chen is a native Taiwanese who repatriated to mainland China in the 1960s in support of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Chen wrote Paper Marriage , which is one of the earliest and most...

... This chapter tells how, in 2008, a mob from a highland town tried to kill a man known as El Millonario . As he had fled, they burned his home, Hummer, and gas station, on which they wrote “People’s property, sale prohibited.” This was the fallout from a Mayan-only development project that had...

...Joseph Mokuʻōhai Poepoe Joseph H. Kānepuʻu wrote four serialized works of literature: “He Moolelo no Pakaa,” “He Moolelo no Kana, Ka Hanai a Uli,” and “He Moolelo no Hamanalau, Hanai a Hawea” are moʻolelo kuʻuna, taken from the oral tradition. The fourth, “He Moolelo no Kanewailani...

... This chapter introduces the concept of an undivided earth through Emendatio , James Luna’s multimedia exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Luna reconstituted the archive of Pablo Tac (1822–41), a Quechnajuisom scholar who wrote the first dictionary and history of his people under...