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Bodies We Fail
Partisans in Yugoslavia
Productive Embodiments of Imperfection
Literature, Film, and Visual Culture
Jules Sturm
Miranda Jakisa, editor
Embracing Differences
Transnational Cultural Flows Between Japan and the United States
Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt
F o r S a l e O n ly i n t h e u n i t e d s tat e s , C a n a d a , M e x i c o , Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia
This book explores the productive effects of bodily “failure” within the sphere of visuality, marking the body’s constant exposure to visual constraints and distortions, incorporated so strongly into everyday images that they become invisible though representative of cultural norms. By analyzing artistic literary and visual representations of imperfect, disabled, aging, queer, and monstrous bodies, this project exposes the “handicaps” of normative vision and recognizes a multitude of corporeal existences and practices. Jules Sturm
is assistant professor of
literary studies and cultural analysis at
The Partisan narrative in Yugoslavia served well as a founding myth for a newly united people, yet its deconstruction has absorbed a lot of academic attention since the country broke apart. In contrast, this book considers the (hybrid) nature of partisanship itself as it appears in the nation’s film, art, and literature. The text tracks the appearance of Partisans in Yugoslavian films, novels, and songs and the transition and ongoing transformation of the Partisan narrative into popular visual culture. Miranda Jakisa
is professor of
South and East Slavic literatures and cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin.
Many treat the omnipresence of American consumer products in Japan as a consequence of cultural imperialism, yet this assumption oversimplifies the phenomenon. This book challenges the belief that the transfer of cultural products has been one-sided. Investigating Disney theme parks, sushi, and film, IrisAya Laemmerhirt reveals a dialogical exchange between these two nations that has transformed the image of Japan in the United States. Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt
teaches
American and British studies at TU Dortmund University, where she is a postdoctoral candidate.
the University of Amsterdam.
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