Spring 2012 Books

Debates in the Digital Humanities Matthew K. Gold, Editor 2012 Spring: Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery Larry Millett 2012 Spring: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to Minnesota, on the trail of the famous Kensington Rune Stone
Diane Arbus’s 1960s Auguries of Experience Frederick Gross 2012 Spring: Looking past the myth of Diane Arbus to the depth of her achievement within the artistic, intellectual, and social currents of the 1960s
Saint Genet Actor and Martyr Jean-Paul Sartre 2012 Spring: The remarkable and controversial study of the mind, life, and legend of Jean Genet
Island of the Doomed Stig Dagerman 2012 Spring: A haunting masterpiece of Scandinavian literature—now published for the first time in the United States
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance Larry Millett 2012 Spring: Shadwell Rafferty crosses the river to Minneapolis to investigate murder and corruption with the help of Holmes and Watson
A Chosen People, a Promised Land Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau 2012 Spring: How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
Everyday Environmentalism Creating an Urban Political Ecology Alex Loftus 2012 Spring: A bold rethinking of urban political ecology
Sergio Leone Something to Do with Death Christopher Frayling 2012 Spring: The landmark biography of one of the twentieth century’s most recognizable directors—now back in print
The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2012 Spring: Nonstop suspense unfolds as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel from London to New York to Chicago in pursuit of a vicious and cunning killer
Afterimage of Empire Photography in Nineteenth-Century India Zahid R. Chaudhary 2012 Spring: How the colonial photograph revolutionized the very nature of perception
The Sports Show Athletics as Image and Spectacle David E. Little 2012 Spring: Documenting the role of photographers and filmmakers in transforming sports from leisure activities to modern-day spectacle
Speculative Security The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies Marieke de Goede 2012 Spring: Does following the money create security or undermine it?
White Gypsies Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals Eva Woods Peiró 2012 Spring: Reveals how Spanish film musicals, long dismissed as unworthy of critical scrutiny, illuminate Spain’s relationship to modernity
Families Apart Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love Geraldine Pratt 2012 Spring: How temporary migration programs haunt the lives of families long after they have reunited
A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle The Life of Harry Haywood Harry Haywood 2012 Spring: An extraordinary life story that encompasses the fight for African American freedom throughout the twentieth century
Wilderness Days Sigurd F. Olson 2012 Spring: A selection of Sigurd F. Olson’s finest writing on the splendor of the great outdoors, hand-picked by the master himself
Anime’s Media Mix Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan Marc Steinberg 2012 Spring: Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Erica R. Edwards 2012 Spring: How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present
Gay Rights at the Ballot Box Amy Stone 2012 Spring: From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measures
Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism Megan C. Thomas 2012 Spring: A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology
Denise Green An Artist’s Odyssey Denise Green 2012 Spring: Reflecting on an internationally recognized Australian American artist and writer
Brutal Vision The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema Karl Schoonover 2012 Spring: How spectacular visions of physical suffering in post–World War II Italian neorealist films redefined moviegoing as a form of political action
Death Sentences Kawamata Chiaki 2012 Spring: Japanese science fiction meets the European avant-garde—available for the first time in English
Scream from the Shadows The Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan Setsu Shigematsu 2012 Spring: The first sustained analysis of the Japanese women’s liberation movement of the ’70s, with its lessons for contemporary politics
Does Local Government Matter? How Urban Policies Shape Civic Engagement Elaine B. Sharp 2012 Spring: Asks and answers hard questions about the consequences of local government programs for democracy
CIFERAE A Bestiary in Five Fingers Thomas R.J. Tyler 2012 Spring: A provocative investigation into animals, hands, and human identity in Western philosophy
Samurai among Panthers Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life Diane C. Fujino 2012 Spring: The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki
From Fields to Fairways Classic Golf Clubs of Minnesota Rick Shefchik 2012 Spring: The first history of Minnesota’s celebrated golf clubs and courses, including rarely seen photographs and long-lost details about the game’s most famous architects
Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Ian Bogost 2012 Spring: A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another