Drawing the Line: Public and Private in America

In Drawing the Line, Andrew Stark takes a fresh and provocative look at how Americans debate the border between the public realm and the private. The seemingly eternal struggle to establish the proper division of societal responsibilities to draw the line has been joined yet again. Obama administration initiatives, particularly bank bailouts and health care reform, roil anew the debate of just what government should do for its citizens, what exactly is the public sphere, and what should be left to individual responsibility.

Richard III (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages)

Equal parts tragedy and history play, Richard III chronicles the rise and short reign of its diabolical title character. Of this masterful creation, esteemed critic Harold Bloom has written, "The manipulative, highly self-conscious, obsessed hero-villain moves himself from being the passive sufferer of his own moral and/or physical deformity to becoming a highly active melodramatist."

Henry V (Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages)

The wild and undisciplined child depicted as Prince Hal in the two-part Henry IV grows to become a courageous and deft leader. Based on the life of its title monarch, Henry V chronicles the events surrounding the battle of Agincourt in 1415, part of the Hundred Years' War. In the centerpiece of the play, the Saint Crispin's Day speech, Henry praises the English forces with the well-known words: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."

Latin and Caribbean Dance (World of Dance)

The various cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean have produced their own unique forms of dance. Latin and Caribbean Dance highlights dances indigenous to Cuba (mambo and cha-cha-cha), the Dominican Republic (merengue and bachata), Haiti (compas and Vodou ritual dances), Argentina (tango), and Brazil (samba and capoeira). Explore how each dance has developed and been adapted through European and African influences, as well as how they continue to develop in the modern world.

Contents: Horizons in Post-Colonial Studies; Introduction; Placing Edward Said: Space Time and the Travelling Theorist; Nothing in the Post? -- Said and the Problem of Post-Colonial Intellectuals; Edward Said and/versus Raymond Williams; Worldliness; Orientalism as Post-Imperial Witnessing; Europe's Occidentalisms; The Evolution of Orientalism and Africanist Political Science; Post-Colonialism as Neo-Orientalism: Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy; The Site of Memory; Index.