Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
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...
Gaming
Essays On Algorithmic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2006
Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts...
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.”...
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams
Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual—from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s...
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....
Inside the Gate
Sigrid Undset's Life at Bjerkebæk
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset’s life at Bjerkebæk, her retreat in Lillehammer, Norway
Inside the Gate offers readers a rare glimpse into Sigrid Undset’s life at her home, Bjerkebæk, now a museum and national landmark in Lillehammer, Norway. Immensely protective of her privacy, Undset...
From Light to Dark
Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From...