University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
by Rane Willerslev
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost. The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea, breathtakingly beautiful and the coldest inhabited...
Who Writes for Black Children?
African American Children’s Literature before 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials,...
Swamplife
People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile,...
Mechademia 9
Origins
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
If the source of manga and anime is physically located in Japan, the temptation for many critics and scholars is to ask what aspects of Japanese culture and history gave rise to these media. This ninth volume of Mechademia—an annual collection of critical work on anime and manga—challenges the tendency...
Self-Projection
The Director’s Image in Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In 1957, a decade before Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, François Truffaut called for a new era in which films would “resemble the person who made” them and be “even more personal” than an autobiographical novel. More than five decades on, it seems that Barthes has won the...
by Vilém Flusser
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular...
Trash Animals
How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen consider carp an unwelcome trash fish, even though the trout they hope to catch are often equally non-native....
by Vilem Flusser
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2002
Ten years after his death, Vilém Flusser’s reputation as one of Europe’s most original modern philosophers continues to grow. Increasingly influential in Europe and Latin America, the Prague-born intellectual’s thought has until now remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. His...
Cinema without Reflection
Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissim Adrift
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida’s oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida’s reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along with the spectral dialectics of love, mirrors,...
At the Borders of Sleep
On Liminal Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
At the Borders of Sleep is a unique exploration of the connections between literature and the liminal states between waking and sleeping—from falling asleep and waking up, to drowsiness and insomnia, to states in which sleeping and waking mix. Delving into philosophy as well as literature, Peter Schwenger...
Life Support
Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another. In Life Support, Kalindi Vora demonstrates how biological bodies have...
Dead Letters Sent
Queer Literary Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms “thwarted transmission.” Such scenes, however, do not so much concede the impossibility of survival as...
At the End of the Road
Jack Kerouac in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic.” Mexico, an escape route, inspiration, and ecstatic terminus of the celebrated novel On the Road, was crucial to Jack Kerouac’s creative development. In this dramatic and highly compelling...
Out of Time
Desire in Atemporal Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
In Out of Time, Todd McGowan takes as his starting point the emergence of a temporal aesthetic in cinema that arose in response to the digital era. Linking developments in cinema to current debates within philosophy, McGowan claims that films that change the viewer’s relation to time constitute a new...