Research Guides: WRPR 165: Contemporary Narratives of American Violence (HC) Spring 2015: Finding Books

Finding Books

Use TRIPOD to find books and other material owned by the Tri-College libraries.

Use WorldCat to find books not held by the Tri-College libraries.

In order to find books in either catalog, conduct either a relevant:

Keyword Search:

E.g.,

violen* AND (poetry OR verse) AND (mexico OR "latin america") [Tripod keyword search]

postcolonial* AND (hegemon* OR oppression OR violence) [Tripod title search]

(border* OR "conflict zone") AND violence [Tripod title search]

(See the Search Tips tab for more information on how to construct keyword searches.)

Or Subject Search:

E.g.,

Violence in literature [Tripod]

Violence in motion pictures [Tripod]

Violence in Music [WorldCat] — compare with results in Tripod

Violence [full list]

Borderlands [Tripod]

Postcolonialism [Tripod]

Postcolonialism Latin America [Tripod]

(Use the Browse Books & More link or use the Advanced Search function [limited to the subject field] to find additional subject headings.)

Tripod: Books & More
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The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the tri-college libraries. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to Magill or another library.

WorldCat
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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
Request items that are not available in Tripod through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to look for books not in Tripod. It usually takes just three days for E-Z Borrow books to arrive. Books not in E-Z Borrow can come from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) which may take as little as four or five days to arrive.

For journal articles not available in the three colleges, use the Article Delivery form. In around 3 days you will receive a digital copy of the requested articles in your email.

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Selected Books

Violence by Neil L. Whitehead
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ISBN: 9781930618510
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Can we understand violence not as evidence of cultural rupture but as a form of cultural expression itself? Ten prominent scholars engage this question across geographies as diverse at their theoretical positions, in cases drawn from fieldwork in Indonesia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South America, Sri Lanka, Spain, and the United States.
Borderlands / la Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
ISBN: 9781879960855
Publication Date: 2012-06-12
Maps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.
The Prestige of Violence: American fiction, 1962-2007 by Sally Bachner
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ISBN: 9780820338897
Publication Date: 2011-09-15
Argues against claims made within trauma studies that history is the site of violent trauma inaccessible to ordinary representation, asserting instead that both trauma studies and the fiction to which it responds institutionalize an inability to address violence. Examines works such as Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.
Fanon: A Critical Reader
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ISBN: 1557868964
Publication Date: 1996-08-30
The wide range of disciplines represented here enables the volume to stand as a contextualizing work in Fanon studies. It contains new original essays on Africana philosophy, the human sciences, dialectical humanism, women of color studies, neocolonial and postcolonial studies, violence, and tragedy.
Violence in Argentine Literature and Film, 1989-2005
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ISBN: 9781552385043
Publication Date: 2010-10-29
Applying a variety of critical approaches, the contributors explore violence in Argentine cultural productions as it relates to four broad themes: the body as site of physical violence, the legacies of Argentina's authoritarian past, the collapse of the myth of the Argentine nation, and the current battles over how to define particular "social and geographical places" in the context of an increasingly violent society.
A Companion to Border Studies
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ISBN: 9781405198936
Publication Date: 2012-06-11
Explores how nations and cultural identities are being transformed by their dynamic, shifting borders where mobility is sometimes facilitated, other times impeded or prevented.
Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies
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ISBN: 9780754674061
Publication Date: 2011-07-28
Brings together a multidisciplinary team of leading scholars to provide an authoritative review of all aspects of borders and border research. It is global in scope and embraces the more traditional strands of the field including geopolitics, migration and territorial identities, and also recently emerging topics such as the role of borders in a seemingly borderless world; creating neighbourhoods, and border enforcement in the post-9/11 era.