University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Disidentifications
Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these...
Fires on the Border
The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers’ organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven...
Antebellum at Sea
Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
In the antebellum years, the Western world’s symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing...
Body Drift
Butler, Hayles, Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Butler leads readers to rethink the boundaries of the human in a time of perpetual war....
A Literature of Questions
Nonfiction for the Critical Child
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Nonfiction books for children—from biographies and historical accounts of communities and events to works on science and social justice—have traditionally been most highly valued by educators and parents for their factual accuracy. This approach, however, misses an opportunity for young readers...
Circulating Queerness
Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives
The gay and lesbian novel has long been a distinct literary genre with its own awards, shelving categories, bookstore spaces, and book reviews. But very little has been said about the remarkable history of...
Erotics of Sovereignty
Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now on federal policy would promote “the Indian’s sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community.”...
Cinema's Bodily Illusions
Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a powerful challenge to mainstream film theory, Cinema’s Bodily Illusions demonstrates that this is the case. Scott...
by Stanis aw Lem
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Polish writer Stanisław Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels...
Death beyond Disavowal
The Impossible Politics of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Death beyond Disavowal utilizes “difference” as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism.According to Grace Kyungwon Hong, neoliberalism is first and foremost a...
The World and All the Things upon It
Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Winner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award
Winner of NAISA's Best Subsequent Book Award
Winner of the Western History Association's John C. Ewers...
The Third Space of Sovereignty
The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
The imposition of modern American colonial rule has defined U.S.–indigenous relations since the time of the American Civil War. In resistance, Kevin Bruyneel asserts, indigenous political actors work across American spatial and temporal boundaries, demanding rights and resources from the government...
by Jane St. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Milwaukee, Isabelle Day had a house. And she had a father. This year, on Halloween, she has half of a house in Minneapolis, a mother at least as sad as she is, and a loss that’s too hard to think—let alone talk—about. It’s the Midwest in the early 1960s, and dads just don’t die . . . like...
Strongwood
A Crime Dossier
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The place is Minneapolis, the year is 1903, and Michael Masterson has fallen in love, or so he claims, with Addie Strongwood, a beautiful working-class girl with an interesting past and a mind of her own. But their promising relationship quickly begins to disintegrate before reaching a violent conclusion....