Literature

Inside the Gate Sigrid Undset’s Life at Bjerkebæk Nan Bentzen Skille 2018 Spring

Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset’s life at Bjerkebæk, her retreat in Lillehammer, Norway

Once in a Blue Moon Lodge A Novel Lorna Landvik 2018 Spring

The long-awaited sequel to Lorna Landvik’s best-selling Patty Jane’s House of Curl: a story brimming with life, humor, and hope

Wild Mares My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life Dianna Hunter 2018 Spring

A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s

The Infamous Harry Hayward A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis Shawn Francis Peters 2018 Spring

A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster”

Homemade Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food Beatrice Ojakangas 2018 Spring

A celebrated cook’s recipes and reflections on growing up in a big Finnish family in northern Minnesota

Double Visions, Double Fictions The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature Baryon Tensor Posadas 2018 Spring

A fresh take on the doppelgänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present

The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring

An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project

Arranging Marriage Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora Marian Aguiar 2018 Spring

A Literature of Questions Nonfiction for the Critical Child Joe Sutliff Sanders 2017 Fall

A critical analysis of children’s nonfiction that focuses on the extent to which such works invite young readers to ask questions

Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall

Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order

Ecology without Culture Aesthetics for a Toxic World Christine L. Marran 2017 Fall

Reconfiguring the intentions and parameters of ecocriticism

Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires

Onigamiising Seasons of an Ojibwe Year Linda LeGarde Grover 2017 Fall

Fifty short essays evoke the four seasons of the year, and of life, for the Ojibwe in northeastern Minnesota

Tales of Wonder Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards Jack Zipes 2017 Fall

A pictorial history of fairy-tale postcards throughout the world over two hundred years

Postcolonial Automobility Car Culture in West Africa Lindsey B. Green-Simms 2017 Fall

Globalizing the car’s role in modern culture

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