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Genre (2005) 38 (4): 371–388.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Dissanayake Wimal , `` Tracking the Global/Local .'' Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary . Eds. Wilson Rob Dissanayake Wimal . Durham : Duke University Press , 1996 . VAMPIRE CAPITALISM: GLOBALIZATION, RACE, AND THE POSTNATIONAL BODY IN BLADE HAMILTON...
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 281–308.
Published: 01 September 2005
... INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM CAREN IRR, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY In 2003, yoga became intellectual property.* This was the year that Bikram Choudhury, the multi-millionaire guru to celebrities such as Madonna and Rac- quel Welch, claimed copyright to a sequence...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 283–286.
Published: 01 December 2022
... an outstanding model for shedding new light on familiar texts by placing them in dialogue with commercial writing, legal documents, and manuscript sources. Drawing on a rich archive and employing generative interpretive methods, Writing at the Origins of Capitalism will prove an invaluable resource for anyone...
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 531–539.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Ken C. Kawashima The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present , Albany : State University of New York Press , 2003 COPYRIGHT © 2005 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2005 The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present, Albany: State...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 297–317.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., in compelling new ways, the risks and perils of satire’s unstable power in our heterogeneous societies. Copyright © 2017 University of Oklahoma 2017 satire theory Charlie Hebdo murders Salman Rushdie affair freedom of speech Capital Offenses: Public Discourse on Satire after Charlie Hebdo...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 33–48.
Published: 01 April 2023
... literary sociology Guillory's influential 1993 book Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation promotes a sociology of the literary field framed by the concept of cultural capital elaborated in the work of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. At the same time, it advances a critique...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 81–92.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., there is a shift away from the material conditions that enable the reproduction of certain class relations and accumulation of “cultural capital.” Guillory is not reductionist, of course, as his use and explication of Pierre Bourdieu makes clear, showing how Bourdieu avoids “economism” despite an analysis...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Mark McGurl Abstract The term “cultural capital” has entered the general lexicon of cultural criticism as a description of social prestige won through the acquisition of knowledge rather than monetary wealth. And, yet, for all its utility in delineating the form of value acquired by students...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of Latin American literature in the United States accrues cultural capital not in relation to the uniqueness and autonomy of literary language but rather through a discourse of specificity valued for its connection to ordinary speech and to the sociological understanding of a region necessary to form...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Merve Emre; Justin A. Sider Abstract This essay considers the status of John Guillory's Cultural Capital thirty years after its publication. Responding to an ongoing crisis in the humanities (which seems never to have passed) and to the “canon wars” of literary studies in the 1980s and 1990s...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 15–31.
Published: 01 April 2023
... within the institution of the school. While the influence of his argument is still perceptible in scholarly treatments of literary institutions, though, his more affirmative case for the general extension of literary appreciation and aesthetic judgment has gone unheeded. This is because Cultural Capital...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 93–107.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Guillory Pierre Bourdieu Loïc Wacquant cultural studies race studies To read Cultural Capital three decades after its initial publication is to be reminded once again of Guillory's incisive account of canon formation in relation to the university's function of regulating cultural capital...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 327–336.
Published: 01 September 2010
... books on globalization: Empire (2000), Multitude (2004) and Commonwealth (2009). Their description of the new world order as a post-nationalist, decentered empire of data and capital flows contested by a hydra-headed multitude made up of irre- ducibly singular...
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Genre (2010) 43 (3-4): 337–352.
Published: 01 September 2010
... improved the translation significantly. WORKS CITED Marx Karl . 1973 . Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft) ( New York : Penguin ), trans. Nicolaus Martin . ---. 1976 . Capital Volume One ( New York : Vintage ), trans. Fowkes Ben...
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Genre (2013) 46 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 April 2013
... stability and imperial renewal, instead explore the evolving effects of capital's modes of organization on the material particulars, cultural position, and human value of labor. Reading poems by Walt Whitman and Robert Frost as disenchanted georgics, the essay argues that these works dramatize...
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Genre (2015) 48 (3): 435–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
...-class subject to a sense of self-worth without subordination. This article contends that in these classic pieces of British working-class literature Sillitoe sketches—in a sequential and incremental manner—a “strategy of refusal” of the conditions of incorporation defined by postwar capitalism...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 153–179.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., which have been widely accepted by critics. Rather, the author situates Mankell's Wallander series in the literary tradition named by Ernest Mandel as the “disintegrative” thriller, which Mandel sees emerging in response to late capitalism's restructuring of electoral politics and in the context...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 43–66.
Published: 01 April 2021
... colonial capitalism. In exploring the degree to which the Western genre's tradition of, per Philip Deloria, “playing Indian” might oppose the brutal bureaucratic violence of the xenophobic carceral settler US state, the novel builds a critique of the frontier road novel fantasy that it cannot quite sustain...
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Genre (2023) 56 (1): 69–80.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jeanne-Marie Jackson Abstract This article pairs the arguments of Cultural Capital with those of Ghanaian decolonial philosopher Kwasi Wiredu. Writing around the same time as Guillory, Wiredu proposes a distinctive mode of decolonization, one focused on concepts rather than syllabi or curricula...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 239–268.
Published: 01 June 2012
... capitalize on the cultural authority of mathematics to enable certain ideological and subjective positions. © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 2012 Works Cited Alger Horatio Jr. (1868) 1990 . Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks . New York : Signet Classic...