SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 40) cultural studies ROTHBERG AND GARRETT 2 FULL COLOR COVER PArADIGM CITY Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong Janet Ng Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city.” Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic “global city,” epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a cosmopolitan global and capitalist future. In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997—the year of Hong Kong’s return to China—to focus on the complex uses and meanings of urban space in Hong Kong in the period following that transfer. She demonstrates how the design and ordering of the city’s space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kong’s population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ng’s insightful connections between contemporary film, literature, music, and other media and the actual spaces of the city—such as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spaces—provide a rich and nuanced picture of Hong Kong today. Janet Ng is Associate Professor of Asian Literature at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and author of The Experience of Modernity: Chinese Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century. A volume in the SUNY series in Global Modernity Arif Dirlik, editor JANUArY • 208 pp 17 b/w photographs $60.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7665-9 CArY NELSON AND THE STrUGGLE FOr THE UNIVErSITY Poetry, Politics, and the Profession Michael Rothberg and Peter K. Garrett, editors Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism. At a time when the humanities are suffering crises of funding and legitimacy, Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University provides an alternative vision: a clear-eyed, nondogmatic approach to engaged scholarship and educational activism in the interest of the public good. This collection brings together distinguished and rising cultural studies scholars to explore the ways in which Cary Nelson’s work unites scholarship and activism, demonstrating the need for radical engagement in order to democratize the academy and the production of knowledge in and about American culture. An engaging afterword by Cary Nelson is also included. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael Rothberg is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Peter K. Garrett is Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory. JANUArY • 240 pp $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7680-2 $74.50 hc 978-0-7914-7679-6 poetry, politics, and the profession Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University Edited by Michael Rothberg and Peter K. Garrett directtext dt e 40 CONTRiBUTORS Michael Bérubé Penn State Marc Bousquet Santa Clara U. Edward Brunner Southern IL U. Marsha Bryant U. of FL Lisa Duggan NYU Grant Farred Cornell U. Jim Finnegan Anne Arundel Comm. Coll. Karen Jackson Ford U. of OR Peter K. Garrett U. of IL, Urbana-Champaign Brady Harrison U. of MT Jane Juffer Cornell U. Walter Kalaidjian Emory U. John Marsh U. of IL, Urbana-Champaign Cary Nelson U. of IL, Urbana-Champaign Andrew Ross NYU Michael Rothberg U. of IL, Urbana-Champaign James D. Sullivan IL Central Coll., Peoria Jeffrey Sychterz Fayetteville State U. Michael Thurston Smith Coll. Stephen Watt IN U., Bloomington www.sunypress.edu P e http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61729 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61735
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