Ulrike Meinhof's entrance into the West German terrorist underground was both a footnote to the waning student movement of the late 1960s, and a preamble to the bloodiest period in Germany's post-war history. Meinhof fought to make herself heard as a high-profile journalist before becoming a foundin[...]
No other figure embodies revolutionary politics, radical chic, and the promises and failures of the New Left quite like Ulrike Meinhof (1934-76). In the 1960s, she was known in Europe as a journalist and public intellectual, leading an exciting life in Hamburg's high society with her publisher husba[...]
På syttitallet var Ulrike Meinhof en av de mest fryktete terroristene i Europa. Hun hadde vendt ryggen til en lysende karriere som sjefredaktør og et bekvemt liv i de etablerte kulturkretsene i Tyskland. I stedet deltok hun i den spektakulære befrielsen av Andreas Baader i 1970, som satt fengslet[...]
This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, seen through the prism of musicians from North Africa and Madagascar: a decidedly 'bottom-up' view, which privileges the voices of people 'on the move'. The book presents the personal narratives of musicians in differen[...]
This book includes essays by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Marc Gotlieb, Serge Guilbaut, Michael Ann Holly, Akira Mizuta Lippit, W. J. T. Mitchell, Joanne Morra, Sina Najafi, Alexander Nemerov, Celeste Olalquiaga, Alexander Potts, and Reva Wolf.The discipline of art history is in a moment of self-con[...]
Feminist linguistics has come of age. Yet, in more than two decades of research, male speaking patterns have largely been taken for granted. This is the first extensive account of mena s language -- of male ways of speaking and of language in the construction of masculinity.[...]