Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Beginning to See the Light
Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
From the New Yorker’s inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime preoccupations are with rock ’n’ roll, sexuality, and above all, freedom. Here Ellen Willis assuredly...
Feminine Endings
Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.” The...
Marlene Dietrich
Life and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star.
Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews—including...
by Albert Murray
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that “the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so...
by Stig Dagerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that assignment, was unlike any other reporting at the time....
Shelter
Off the Grid in the Mostly Magnetic North
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In her search for land to call her own—among tall pines and on a lake—newly single mom Sarah Stonich seeks a sense of permanence, a legacy for her son, and a connection to her heritage. Along this way, Stonich recalls family lore, meets remarkable characters, considers another go at love, and, finally,...
by Mikhail Bakhtin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle.
Hybrid Cultures
Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical...
Aspirational Fascism
The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
This quick and engaging study clearly lays out the United States’ current democratic crisis. Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, William E. Connolly detects synergies with...
Cinema Approaching Reality
Locating Chinese Film Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics...
Creole Indigeneity
Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous...
by Kent Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
When Kent Meyers was sixteen years old, his father died of a stroke. There was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. Here, in a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the wake of his father’s death and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest.
Transnational LGBT Activism
Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was founded in 1990 as the first NGO devoted to advancing LGBT human rights worldwide. How, this book asks, is that mission translated into practice? What do transnational LGBT human rights advocates do on a day-to-day basis and for whom?...
Middlebrow Queer
Christopher Isherwood in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating...