University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Zenith City
Stories from Duluth
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Duluth may be the city of “untold delights” as lampooned in a Kentucky congressman’s speech in 1871. Or it may be portrayed by a joke in Woody Allen’s film Manhattan. Or then again, it may be the “Zenith City of the unsalted seas” celebrated by Dr. Thomas Preston Foster, founder of the city’s...
by Lorna Landvik
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world
The curmudgeon who wrote the column “Ramblin’s by Walt” in the Granite Creek Gazette dismissed his...
Mayor of the Universe
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum—or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his childhood bedroom is aswarm with aliens, all bent on discovering the human who best personifies their...
Savage Preservation
The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world’s primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings—modern media in their technological infancy—could capture lasting...
As We Have Always Done
Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing...
Haunting the Korean Diaspora
Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Since the Korean War—the forgotten war—more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history...
Penumbra
The Premier Stage for African American Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Penumbra Theatre Company was founded in 1976 by Lou Bellamy as a venue for African American voices within the Twin Cities theatre scene and has stood for more than thirty-five years at the intersection of art, culture, politics, and local community engagement. It has helped launch the careers of many...
All Thoughts Are Equal
Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
All Thoughts Are Equal is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher François Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. For Laruelle, standard forms of philosophy continue to dominate our models of what counts as exemplary thought and knowledge. By contrast, what Laruelle calls his...
by Vilém Flusser
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact,...
From Utopia to Apocalypse
Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
"I read Peter Y. Paik’s lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can read it again as soon as possible." —Bruce Sterling Revolutionary narratives in recent science fiction graphic novels and films compel audiences...
Sexography
Sex Work in Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an eruption of nonfiction films on sex work. The first book to examine a cross-section of this diverse and transnational body of work, Sexography confronts the ethical questions raised by ethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized...
by Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering belief in the nation's exceptionalism in global affairs and world...
The Divided World
Human Rights and Its Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, Randall Williams shows how the concept of human rights—often taken for granted as a force for good in the world—corresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more...
Police in the Hallways
Discipline in an Urban High School
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
As zero-tolerance discipline policies have been instituted at high schools across the country, police officers are employed with increasing frequency to enforce behavior codes and maintain order, primarily at poorly performing, racially segregated urban schools. Actions that may once have sent students...