Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
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...
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...