University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Firsting and Lasting
Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of...
Deaf Gain
Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates...
In The Break
The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton...
Troubling the Family
The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Troubling the Family argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines...
Another Mother
Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima
Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable in English, Another Mother...
by Wolfgang Ernst
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and...
Berlin Replayed
Cinema and Urban Nostalgia in the Postwall Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Scarred by the Second World War, divided during the Cold War, and turned into a massive construction site in the early postwall years, Berlin has dramatically reinvented itself in the new millennium. Film has served a neglected but important function in this transformation.In Berlin Replayed, Brigitta...
Elemental Ecocriticism
Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered a mode of understanding materiality that did not center the cosmos around the human. Outgrown as a science,...
The Long Take
Art Cinema and the Wondrous
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in our fast-paced world of mediated stimulations. Grounding his inquiry in the long takes of international filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang, Abbas...
Brouhaha
Worlds of the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Within the hypermediated age where knowledge production is decentered and horizontal, the experience of lived time has become a concordance of temporalities. The literary imagination, which was emblematic of modernity and thoroughly connected to the book as a support structure, has now become integrated...
The Poetics of Information Overload
From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul...
Corridor
Media Architectures in American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Corridor offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden and surprising relationship between architectural space and modern American fiction. By paying close attention to fictional descriptions of some of modernity’s least remarkable structures, such as plumbing, ductwork,...
by Vinciane Despret
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the Foreword
Is it all...
by Steve Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal...