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Framing History The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War Virginia Carmichael 1992 Fall
Vascular Plants of Minnesota A Checklist and Atlas Gerald B. Ownbey and Thomas Morley 1992 Fall: A definitive reference to the 2,010 vascular plant species (ferns, conifers, and flowering plants) currently found in Minnesota.
Male Trouble Constance Penley and Sharon Willis, Editors 1992 Fall: The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today. Contributors: Parveen Adams, Ian Balfour, Ray Barrie, Sabrina Barton, Steven Cohan, Rey Chow, Alexander Doty, Henry Jenkins III, Lynne Kirby, Constance Penley, Kaja Silverman, Sasha Torres, and Sharon Willis.
The Dark End of the Street Margins in American Vanguard Poetry Maria Damon 1993 Spring: Damon foregrounds a number of modern American poets work and lives in order to argue that the American avant-garde is located in the experimental literary works of social “outsiders.” Discussed is the work of Black/Jewish surrealist street poet Bob Kaufman, Boston-Brahmin Robert Lowell and three teenaged women writing from a South Boston housing project, pre-Stonewall gay poets Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and Jewish lesbian-in-exile Gertrude Stein. “A work of art as well as a work of criticism. . . . Addresses important questions about art and social life, about the margins and the center, and about oppression and suppression.” --George Lipsitz
Gilles Deleuze An Apprenticeship in Philosophy Michael Hardt 1993 Spring: The key to understanding Deleuze’s complete body of work. “Hardt’s interpretations are exceptionally well-grounded in the history of philosophical discourse, a discourse he exercises with discipline and rare insight. As the only major work on Deleuze in English, this book will undoubtedly set the standard for any future study of one of France’s most important thinkers-and it is a very high standard, indeed.” --Peggy Kamuf
Couching Resistance Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry Janet Walker 1993 Spring: Explores how American psychoanalytic psychiatry and Hollywood cinema between World War II and the mid-1960s negotiated women’s psychosexuality and life experience.
The Coming Community Giorgio Agamben 1993 Spring: In this extraordinary and original philosophical achievement, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philosophical thought. Agamben’s exploration is, in part, a contemporary response to the work of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and, more historically, Plato, Spinoza, and medieval scholars and theorists of Judeo-Christian scriptures.
Ecstasy Unlimited On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics Laura Kipnis 1993 Spring: A unique collection of essays on popular culture, politics, aesthetics, feminism, and postmodernism, along with complete scripts from three of Kipnis’ videotapes.
Yes, Comrade Manuel Rui None None: Yes Comrade! comprises five short stories set in Angola during the revolutionary times of the 1960s and early 1970s. Based on immediate events and using cultural and linguistic codes, Rui explores the ramifications of political independence and nation-state formation. Fascinating and intricate, the stories of Yes Comrade! emerge as telling fictional portrayals of an extremely complex political and cultural scenario.
Inheriting the Land Contemporary Voices from the Midwest Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro, Editors 1993 Spring: This compelling anthology of contemporary prose and poetry confronts the idea of “regional,” and explores the extremes of the term—the hardships of the weather versus the quiet, idyllic beauty of nature, or the provincial, remote feel of the region versus its inherent richness and cohesive spirit. Includes work by Robert Bly, Louise Erdrich, Jon Hassler, Bill Holm, William Stafford, Patricia Hampl, Jonis Agee, Carol Bly, Meridel LeSueur, and Garrison Keillor.
Clint Eastwood A Cultural Production Paul Smith 1993 Spring
The Phantom Public Sphere Bruce Robbins, Editor 1993 Spring: In a postmodern society, can we still speak meaningfully of a public sphere? The contributors address this question by presenting the public sphere and the public/private opposition as a truly interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Among the issues discussed are Jesse Helms’s censorship campaign and the televised Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Senate hearings.
Ruthless Criticism New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, Editors 1993 Spring
Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism The Spanish Golden Age Antonio Gomez-Moriana 1993 Spring: Gómez-Moriana applies contemporary literary theory to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including Lazirillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Tirso de Molina’s Don Juan play, and Columbus’s Diary. “Gómez-Moriana’s skillful handling of literary theory is matched by his thorough scholarship and excellent knowledge of history.” --Nicholas Spadaccini
Political Writings Jean-François Lyotard 1993 Spring: The first collection of Lyotard’s political works to appear in English. Published between 1956 and 1989 in Socialisme ou Barbarie and other journals of the noncommunist French left, these essays and articles address issues of imperialism and decolonization, the student rebellions of 1968-69, and the modern state as a political form. The political moments implicit in Lyotard’s arguments in The Postmodern Condition are made explicit in these writings, which trace the shifts in political thinking necessitated by the emergence of the postmodern.
Reflecting Black African-American Cultural Criticism Michael Eric Dyson 1993 Spring: From rap music to preaching, from Toni Morrison to Leonard Jeffries, from Michael Jackson to Michael Jordan, Reflecting Black explores as never before the varied and complex dimensions of African-American culture through personal reflection, expository journalism, scholarly investigation and even homily.
Academia and the Luster of Capital 1993 Spring
The Development of American Agriculture A Historical Analysis Willard W. Cochrane 1993 Spring: The classic historical study of American agricultural economic development, thoroughly revised and updated. “Not only describes but analyzes and explains the economic behavior of agriculture as a functional sector of the economy in the process of economic development. . . . There is no substitute.” --James T. Bonnen
Heidegger and Criticism Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction William V. Spanos 1993 Spring
The Subject of Philosophy Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Thomas Trezise, Editor 1993 Spring: Presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and of representation. Lacoue-Labarthe spans the history of philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and addresses such major moments in the history of literature as Greek tragedy and German romanticism.
Making Things Perfectly Queer Interpreting Mass Culture Alexander Doty 1993 Spring: Doty demonstrates how queer readings can be—and are—performed by examining star images like Jack Benny and Pee-wee Herman, women-centered sitcoms like Laverne and Shirley and Designing Women, film directors like George Cukor and Dorothy Arzner, and genres like the musical.
Allegories of Empire The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text Jenny Sharpe 1993 Spring: Brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction.
A Parent’s Guide to Kidney Disorders Glenn H. Bock M.D., Edward J. Ruley M.D. and Michael P. Moore 1993 Spring: The definitive resource guide for families coping with childhood kidney disease.
The Cinematic Body Steven Shaviro 1993 Spring: Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder’s gay sex icons and George Romero’s flesh-eating zombies, Shaviro radically critiques the Lacanian model currently popular in film theory and film studies, arguing against that model’s obsessive emphasis on the phallus, castration anxiety, sadistic mastery, ideology, and the structure of the signifier. Shaviro also explores issues of popular culture, postmodernism, the politics of the body, the construction of masculinity and of homo/heterosexualities, the nature and uses of pornography, and the aesthetics of masochism. “Invokes and evokes the force and sensation of film from within a Deleuze-Guattarian perspective. . . . well-written, elegant, and eloquent.” --Dana Polan
The Rift V. Y. Mudimbe 1993 Fall: This work of fiction explores textuality, writing, solitude and death in the context of contemporary African life, and at the same time examines the constitution and materiality of African subjectivity. “Offers an intricate, subtle, and richly allusive meditation on a singular, very specifically demarcated, ‘postcolonial condition’: that of the France-educated, masculine (but ambiguously sexualized) African intellectual, Ahmed Nara.” --Neil Lazarus, Brown University
Daughters of the Dreaming Diane Bell 1993 Fall: This new edition, which is based on research done in the 1970s, includes an epilogue in which Bell reflects on her original fieldwork from the perspective of the 1990s, examining the changes in the field and in feminist theory and practice.
White Women, Race Matters The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg 1993 Fall
In the Nature of Things Language, Politics, and the Environment Jane Bennett and William Chaloupka, Editors 1993 Fall: Contributors include R. McGreggor Cawley, Romand Coles, William E. Connolly, Jan E. Dizard, Valerie Hartouni, Cheri Lucas Jennings, Bruce H. Jennings, Timothy W. Luke, Shane Phelan, John Rodman, Michael J. Shapiro, and Wade Sikorski.
Gender on Ice American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions Lisa Bloom 1993 Fall: Bloom focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early twentieth century to the present.
The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream Joseph A. Amato 1993 Fall: In 1981, near the end of America’s second post-World War II energy crisis, and at the onset of the nations most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it deemed a “providential plant” destined to be a new and saving crop—the Jerusalem Artichoke. This volume recounts this story of the bizarre intersection of evangelical Christianity, a mythical belief in the powers of a new crop, and the depression of the U.S. farm economy in the 1980s.
Hegemony and Power On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli Benedetto Fontana 1993 Fall: Presents a comparative and textual exploration of Gramsci’s interpretation of Machiavelli’s political anlayses. This valuable contribution to our understanding of Gramsci includes a comparison of the major Machiavellian ideas such as the nature of political knowledge, the new principality, the concept of the people, and the relation between thought and action, to Gramsci’s concepts of hegemony, moral and intellectual reform, and the collective will.
Against Literature John Beverley 1993 Fall: Is there a way of thinking about literature that is “outside” or “against” literature? In Against Literature, John Beverly brilliantly responds to this question, arguing for a negation of the literary that would allow nonliterary forms of cultural practice to displace literature’s hegemony.
Contested Closets The Politics and Ethics of Outing Larry Gross 1993 Fall: A landmark exploration of the practice of revealing a public figure’s hidden homosexuality through the controversial practice of outing. “Combines a powerfully argued essay with a comprehensive anthology of articles to create an invaluable document on ‘outing.’ Gross’s fearless and fascinating book calls persuasively for ending a code of silence that has long served hypocrisy and double-standard morality at the expense of truth.” --Martin Duberman “This is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate among journalists and gay activists over ‘outing.’ . . . Gross is a defender of the controversial practice, but one of the greatest strengths of this book is the evenhandedness with which he presents the arguments of each side. He argues that outing is a practice with ‘a long past, if only a short history,’ and spends much of the book’s first half putting it into a historical context. In the course of doing so, he discusses the nature and construction of gay identity and a history of the outing controversies of the past ten years. Gross is a lucid writer who makes a difficult case well. . . . The second half of the book is a collection of key texts in the debate on outing-including several by Michelangelo Signorile, the foremost journalistic proponent of the practice.” --Publishers Weekly
Beyond a Dream Deferred Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence Becky W. Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi, Editors 1993 Fall: “At last, a collection on multicultural education authored by those involved. Ranging from broad reflections to case studies, from feminist and ethnic to gay and lesbian studies, the essays themselves embody the diverse perspectives they analyze. Speaking in different voices, they convey the complexity and conflicts that animate present struggles to democratize institutions of higher learning.” --Renato Rosaldo, Stanford University Contributors include Margaret L. Andersen, Estelle Disch, Troy Duster, Lisa Kahaleole Chang Hall, Evelynn Hammonds, Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Earl Jackson, Jr., Ian Haney López, Carole C. Marks, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Barbara Omolade, Becky W. Thompson, Sangeeta Tyagi, and Cornel West.
The Bronze Screen Chicana and Chicano Film Culture Rosa Linda Fregoso 1993 Fall: Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema.
Transfigurations of the Maghreb Feminism, Decolonization, and Literatures Winifred Woodhull 1993 Fall: Through readings of some of the best-known texts in Algerian literature in French, Woodhull both challenges the separation between French and Francophone literatures and cultures in the academy and explores the ways in which “femininity” has been represented in the texts of North African and French writers since the mid-1950s.
Portage Lake Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood Maude Kegg John D. Nichols, Editor 1993 Fall: In this volume, Minnesota Anishinaabe elder Maude Kegg of the Mille Lacs Reservation reminisces about her childhood. Building birchbark and reedmat wigwams, boiling maple sap into syrup and harvesting turtles and wild rice are related in lyric detail. Dictated to John D. Nichols in Kegg’s native language, these compelling stories of traditional Ojibwe life appear in English translation on facing pages with the original Ojibwe text in a standardized orthography.
Fear of a Queer Planet Queer Politics and Social Theory Michael Warner, Editor 1993 Fall: In this diverse and balanced collection, the contributors explore the impact of ACT UP, Queer Nation, multiculturalism, the new religious right, outing, queerness, postmodernism, and shifts in the cultural politics of sexuality. Contributors: Lauren Berlant, Douglas Crimp, Elizabeth Freeman, Diana Fuss, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jonathan Goldberg, Cathy Griggers, Janet E. Halley, Philip Brian Harper, Andrew Parker, Cindy Patton, Robert Schwartzwald, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Steven Seidman.
The Politics of Everyday Fear Brian Massumi, Editor 1993 Fall: The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images and information. This media shower of imagery is equaled only by the sheer quantity of fear-assuaging products offered for our consumption. The contributors address questions raised by the saturation of social space by capitalized fear.
A Course on Aesthetics Renato Barilli 1993 Fall: Written in an elegant and clear style, Barilli’s text explores the basic inherent structures of human thought about the classification and evaluation of the arts. This work offers a broad perspective on current scholarship without favoring any one particular school, discipline, or ideology.
Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality Profile Forms Validity, Trait, and Temperament Scales Lee Anna Clark 1993 Fall
DisForming the American Canon African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular Ronald A.T. Judy 1993 Fall: Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourse’s claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to “reason” before his original introduction to Western culture-a literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe. “Has the potential to completely remake American Studies while serving as an excellent example of what theoretical informed criticism should be.” --Paul Bové
The Branded Eye Buñuel's Un Chien andalou Jenaro Talens 1993 Fall: In 1929, Un Chien andalou opened in Paris to a riotous response. People were enraged and disturbed by its shocking content, structure, and narrative form. This innovative study offers a detailed analysis of the film, including its production background, Salvator Dali’s influence in its making, biographical information on Buñuel, and an annotated script of the film, shot-by-shot description, and complete film découpage.
Medieval Scandinavia From Conversion to Reformation, circa 800-1500 Birgit Sawyer and Peter Sawyer 1993 Fall: In this volume, the authors question assumptions about early Scandinavian history, including the supposed leading role of free and equal peasants and their position in founding churches. They meticulously trace the development of Scandinavia from the early ninth century through the second and third decades of the sixteenth century, when rulers of Scandinavia rejected the authority of the Papacy and the attempt to establish a united Scandinavian monarchy finally collapsed. Nordic Series, volume 17
Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose, Editors 1994 Spring: A riot in Los Angeles, a skinhead rally in Fulda, burnings in Johannesburg, massacres in Sarajevo: with racism on the rise and nationalism fracturing societies, the juncture of race, place, and nation has become a crucial one. This volume explores this critical intersection, offering a much-needed new perspective on a world in crisis. Contributors: Kay J. Anderson, Alastair Bonnett, Heléne Clark, Claire Dwyer, Jane M. Jacobs, Susan J. Smith, and the editors.
Little Magazines - American Writers 32 University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Reed Whittemore None None
A Political Companion to American Film Gary Crowdus, Editor None None
Beyond Preservation Restoring and Inventing Landscapes A. Dwight Baldwin Jr., Judith De Luce and Carl Pletsch, Editors 1993 Fall: “Bold theses promote controversy: this book is sure to find itself at the center of a philosophical firestorm. Are restoration ecologists ‘Lord Man’ reincarnate? Or are they imaginative visionaries in quest of a Leopoldian rapprochement with the land? The essays herein challenge readers to sharpen their thinking and reconsider their place in a complex ecosocial terrain.” --Max Oelschlaeger “The best book on the subject to date.” --Michael Polan, Harper’s Contributors include Gary W. Barrett, Ann Cline, David L. Gorchov, William Jordan III, G. Stanley Kane, Jack Temple Kirby, Dora G. Lodwick, Orie L. Loucks, Kimberly E. Medley, Constance Pierce, Ellen Price, Frederick Turner, John E. Wierwille, and Gene E. Willeke.
Latin American Identity and Constructions of Difference Amaryll Chanady, Editor 1994 Spring: Takes a new look at Latin American identity, viewing it as a hybrid and heterogeneous cultural construction, characterized by problems specific to postcolonial societies. In contrast to previous works on the subject, this volume situates itself within the context of the most recent American and European literary and cultural theories, and makes a significant contribution to current debates over ideas of identity, postcolonialism, the marginalization of the Other, and postmodernism.
Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism Diane Carson and Janice R. Welsch, Editors 1994 Spring: Collecting some of the most important writings in feminist film criticism and theory past and present, this volume offers readers a comprehensive survey of the rich and varied contributions feminist scholars have been making to film study over the past two decades. Includes essays by B. Ruby Rich, Teresa de Lauretis, Janet Staiger, Beverle Houston, Chris Straayer, bell hooks, Linda Williams, and Julia Lesage, among others.