University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
by Greg Brick
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
“Subterranean Twin Cities is a treasure—a book for the Tom Sawyer in all of us. Greg Brick is one of those few persons with the unique talent to write expertly about his adventures, bringing readers along with him on hands and knees.” —Steve Thayer, author of Saint Mudd and The Weatherman.We...
Why We Left
Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Joanna Brooks’s ancestors were among the earliest waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. They lived hardscrabble lives for generations, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they moved forever westward in search of a new life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless...
Settler Common Sense
Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political...
Writing Human Rights
The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The legal texts and aspirational ideals of human rights are usually understood and applied in a global context with little bearing on the legal discourse, domestic political struggles, or social justice concerns within the United States. In Writing Human Rights, Crystal Parikh uses the international...
by Matthew Carl Strecher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure...
Anime’s Media Mix
Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that is today called “media mix” in Japan and...
Out of the Blue
New Short Fiction from Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This extraordinary collection, the first anthology of Icelandic short fiction published in English translation, features work by twenty of Iceland’s most popular and celebrated living authors—including Andri Snær Magnason, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, and Auður Jónsdóttir—granddaughter...
by Yi-Fu Tuan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear—written immediately after his classic Space and Place—is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary...
The Transit of Empire
Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves...
Ariel's Ecology
Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal...
Between Feminism and Islam
Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
There are two major women’s movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari’a as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to amend shari’a law. Between Feminism and Islam shows how the interactions of these movements over...
Elusive Jannah
The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
As a Somali working since high school in the United Arab Emirates, Osman considers himself “blessed” to be in a Muslim country, though citizenship, with the security it offers, remains elusive. For Ardo, smuggled out of Somalia to join her husband in South Africa, insecurities are of a more immediate,...
Screens
Viewing Media Installation Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Media screens—film, video, and computer screens—have increasingly pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s. Yet the nature of viewing artworks made from these media, along with their subjective effects, remains largely unexplored. Screens addresses this gap, offering...
Connected
Or What It Means To Live In The Network Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2003
In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constant social upheavals, it is dizzying, excessive, and sometimes surreal. In this breathtaking work, Steven Shaviro investigates popular culture, new technologies,...