Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Ferocious Reality
Documentary according to Werner Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in 1999,...
Monster Theory
Reading Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996
We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture? In...
Speculative Blackness
The Future of Race in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness...
Aberrations in Black
Toward a Queer of Color Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture—sexual difference—can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of...
Digital Art and Meaning
Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to...
Mark My Words
Native Women Mapping Our Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants.In...
Marta Oulie
A Novel of Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
“I have been unfaithful to my husband.” Marta Oulie’s opening line scandalized Norwegian readers in 1907. And yet, Sigrid Undset had a gift for depicting modern women “sympathetically but with merciless truthfulness,” as the Swedish Academy noted in awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature...
by Budd Schulberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s—a golden figure in a golden age—who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living in Hollywood and writing for...
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...