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The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Conceptby Catherine M. SoussloffISBN 0816628971 (0-8166-2897-1)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in Chinaby Wang Ping, Ping WangISBN 0816636052 (0-8166-3605-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China'Book summary:Asian Studies/Women's Studies
A fascinating and haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture.
Why did so many Chinese women over a thousand-year period bind their feet, enduring rotting flesh, throbbing pain, and hampered mobility throughout their lives? What compelled mothers to bind the feet of their young daughters, forcing the girls to walk about on their doubled-over limbs to achieve the breakage of bones requisite for three-inch feet? Why did Chinese men find women's "golden lotuses"-stench and all-so arousing, inspiring beauty contests for feet, thousands of poems, and erotica in which bound, silk-slippered feet were fetishized and lusted after?
As a child growing up during the Cultural Revolution, Wang Ping fantasized about binding her own feet and tried to restrict their growth by wrapping them in elastic bandages. Even though footbinding was not practiced by every woman in late Imperial China, the aesthetic, financial, and erotic advantages of footbinding permeated all aspects of language, ranging from erotic poetry, novels, and performances to food writing, myths, folk songs and ditties, and secret women's writing, some of it hidden in embroidery. In Aching for Beauty, Wang interprets the mystery of footbinding as part of a womanly heritage-"a roaring ocean current of female language and culture."
She also shows that footbinding should not be viewed merely as a function of men's oppression of women, but rather as a phenomenon of male and female desire deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture. Written in an elegant and powerful style, and filled with personal, intriguing, and sometimes paradoxical insights, Aching for Beauty builds bridges from the past to the present, East to West, history to literature, imagination to reality.
Wang Ping, born in Shanghai, came to the United States in 1985. Her books include short stories, American Visa (1994); a novel, Foreign Devil (1996); and poetry, Of Flesh and Spirit (1998). She also edited and cotranslated New Generation: Poems from China Today (1999). She has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University and teaches creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. [via]
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Aesthetic Theoryby Theodor W. AdornoISBN 0816618003 (0-8166-1800-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesthetic Theory'Book summary:Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory. Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus and the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Analysing the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful, Adorno shows how such concepts frame and distil human experience and that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics. In Adorno's formulation art is the sedimented history of human misery'. Edited by Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedeman Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor.[via]
The Aesthetics Of Disengagement: Contemporary Art And Depressionby Christine RossISBN 0816645396 (0-8166-4539-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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America, New Mexicoby Robert Leonard ReidISBN 0816518769 (0-8165-1876-9)
Softcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America, New Mexico'Book summary:New Mexico is a land with two faces. It is a land of enchantment, legendary for its natural beauty and rich cultural heritage. But it is also a land of paradox. In America, New Mexico, Robert Leonard Reid explores deep inside New Mexico's landscape to find the real New Mexicowith all of its gifts and challengeswithin. Having traveled and hiked countless miles throughout the state, Reid knows New Mexico's breathtaking landscape intimately. But he knows the human landscape as well: its artists and poets, medicine men and businessmen, preachers and politicians, Hispanics and Anglos. He knows that amid the glittering mansions of Santa Fe there are homeless shelters, that the Indians of myth and legend combat alcoholism and poverty, and that toxic waste lurks beneath a land of almost surreal beauty. America, New Mexico is a book about land, sky, and hope by a writer whose passion and inspiring prose invite us to see the promise and possibilities of reconnecting with the natural world. It is unflinching in its depiction of the adversities facing New Mexicans and indeed all Americans. But above all, it searches behind and beyond these troubling issues to find, standing staunchly against them, a quiet and unshakable confidence rooted in New Mexico's natural world. For anyone who has ever been moved by the incomparable beauty of New Mexico, for anyone concerned with the landscape in which all Americans live, America, New Mexico is an unforgettable book. [via]
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Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnologyby Patricia Ticineto CloughISBN 0816628882 (0-8166-2888-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizonsby Eric MichaelsISBN 0816623414 (0-8166-2341-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Blue Highways: A Journey into Americaby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0816135967 (0-8161-3596-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Historiesby John TaggISBN 0816624054 (0-8166-2405-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Capital Times: Tales from the Conquest of Timeby Eric Alliez, Gilles Deleuze, Georges Van Den AbbeeleISBN 0816622604 (0-8166-2260-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Cultureby P. David MarshallISBN 0816627258 (0-8166-2725-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture'Book summary:The celebrity is an ambiguous figure in contemporary culture. Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, stars represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. They are a peculiar form of public subjectivity that negotiates the tension between a democratic culture of access and a consumer capitalist culture of excess. Celebrity and Power examines this dynamic, questioning the cultural forces behind our need to become endlessly embroiled with the construction and collapse of celebrities.Through detailed analysis of figures from Tom Cruise to Oprah Winfrey to the commercial pop music sensation New Kids on the Block, author and cultural critic P. David Marshall investigates the general publics desire to associate with celebrity. He examines various kinds of stars, questioning the needs each type fulfills in our lives and relating these needs to particular entertainment media. Marshall asks why enigmatic, distant stars populate the silver screen while television constructs approachable everyman figures and popular music features audience-identified celebrity personalities. He looks at the significance of stars who amass cultlike followings as well as those who appear to prompt outright rejection.Celebrity and Power identifies the forces that have enveloped the development of democratic culture and their partial resolution through a redefined public sphere populated by celebrities. Marshall argues that the new concern with the masses that characterizes modern capitalism promotes figures who can be seen as part of the crowd but who are articulated as individuals. As such, they provide a model of self-differentiation that furthers an economy in which product consumption is thought to bestow individualism and personality.Bridging the fields of media studies, film studies, communications, and popular culture, Marshalls volume is a unique resource for students and researchers in all of these disciplines as well as for the general reader.P. David Marshall is director of the Media and Cultural Studies Centre in the Department of English, University of Queensland in Australia. [via]
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Cinema 2: The Time-Imageby Gilles Deleuze, Hugh TomlinsonISBN 0816616779 (0-8166-1677-9)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenyaby Carolyn Martin ShawISBN 0816625255 (0-8166-2525-5)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels: With the Original Text and Prefacesby Harold Joseph LaskiISBN 0816492522 (0-8164-9252-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nationby Social Text Collective, Bruce Robbins, Pheng CheahISBN 0816630682 (0-8166-3068-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Culture on Ice: Figure Skating & Cultural Meaningby Ellyn KestnbaumISBN 081956642X (0-8195-6642-X)
Softcover, Wesleyan University Press
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Culture Works: The Political Economy of Cultureby Richard MaxwellISBN 0816636001 (0-8166-3600-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Dhalgrenby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562998 (0-8195-6299-8)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dhalgren'Book summary:What is Dhalgren? Dhalgren is one of the greatest novels of 20th-century American literature. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. Dhalgren is controversial, challenging, and scandalous. Dhalgren is a brilliant novel about sex, gender, race, class, art, and identity.
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.
Dhalgren is many things, but instantly accessible isn't one of them. While most of this big, ambitious, deeply detailed novel is beautifully pellucid, the opening pages will be difficult for some: the novel starts with the second half of an incomplete sentence, in the viewpoint of a man who doesn't know who he is. If you find the early pages rough going, push on; the story soon becomes clear and fascinating. But--fair warning--the central nature of the disaster, of its strange devastations and disruptions, remains a puzzle for many readers, sometimes after several readings.
Spoiler warning: If you want to figure out the secret of the novel as you read Dhalgren, then stop reading this review right now! If you want to know the secret before you start, this is what the novel is about: the experience of existence inside a novel. Time passes differently for different characters. A river changes location. Stairs change their number. The Kid looks in a mirror and sees not himself, but someone who looks an awful lot like Samuel R. Delany. Central images include mirrors, lenses, and prisms, devices that focus, reflect--and distort. The Kid fills a notebook with a journal that may be Dhalgren, and is uncertain if he has written much, or any, of it. The characters don't know they're in a novel, but they know something is wrong. Dhalgren explores the relationship between characters and author (or, perhaps, characters, "author," and author).
The final chapter can be even tougher going than the opening pages, with its viewpoint change and its stretches of braided narrative--and the novel ends with the beginning of an unfinished sentence. But the last chapter becomes clear as you persevere; and when you get to that unfinished closing line, turn to the first line of the novel to finish the sentence and close the narrative circle. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Dialectic of Enlightenmentby Theodor W. Adorno, Max HorkheimerISBN 0816492700 (0-8164-9270-0)
Hardcover, Seabury Press
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E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Cultureby Bluford AdamsISBN 0816626316 (0-8166-2631-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Education For Critical Consciousnessby Paulo FreireISBN 0816492093 (0-8164-9209-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introductionby Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Paulette MolinISBN 0816046530 (0-8160-4653-0)
Softcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introduction'Book summary:Long regarded as quaint curiosities or exotic pagan rites, the religious practices of Native Americans make up a rich, enduring legacy deserving of a place among the great spiritual traditions. The volume features a foreword written by Walter R. Echo-Hawk, a senior staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, whose legal experience includes cases involving religious freedom and reburial rights. This volume is available in paperback for the first time. Featuring more than 1,200 cross-referenced entries, this encyclopedia is a fascinating guide to the spiritual traditions of Native Americans in the United States and Canada, including coverage of beliefs about the afterlife, symbolism, creation myths, and vision quests; important ceremonies and dances; prominent American Indian religious figures; and events, legislation, and tribal court cases that have shaped the development of Native American religions.
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Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwestby Laura PulidoISBN 0816516057 (0-8165-1605-7)
Softcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest'Book summary:Ecological causes are championed not only by lobbyists or hikers. While mainstream environmentalism is usually characterized by well-financed, highly structured organizations operating on a national scale, campaigns for environmental justice are often fought by poor or minority communities. Environmentalism and Economic Justice is one of the first books devoted to Chicano environmental issues and is a study of U.S. environmentalism in transition as seen through the contributions of people of color. It elucidates the various forces driving and shaping two important examples of environmental organizing: the 1965-71 pesticide campaign of the United Farm Workers and a grazing conflict between a Hispano cooperative and mainstream environmentalists in northern New Mexico. The UFW example is one of workers highly marginalized by racism, whose struggle--as much for identity as for a union contract--resulted in boycotts of produce at the national level. The case of the grazing cooperative Ganados del Valle, which sought access to land set aside for elk hunting, represents a subaltern group fighting the elitism of natural resource policy in an effort to pursue a pastoral lifestyle. In both instances Pulido details the ways in which racism and economic subordination create subaltern communities, and shows how these groups use available resources to mobilize and improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions. Environmentalism and Economic Justice reveals that the environmental struggles of Chicano communities do not fit the mold of mainstream environmentalism, as they combine economic, identity, and quality-of-life issues. Examination of the forces that create and shape these grassroots movements clearly demonstrates that environmentalism needs to be sensitive to local issues, economically empowering, and respectful of ethnic and cultural diversity. [via]
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The Ethos of Pluralizationby William E. ConnollyISBN 0816626693 (0-8166-2669-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theoryby Social Text Collective, Michael WarnerISBN 0816623341 (0-8166-2334-1)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Filth: Dirt, Disgust, And Modern Lifeby William A. Cohen, Ryan JohnsonISBN 0816643008 (0-8166-4300-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Filth: Dirt, Disgust, And Modern Life'Book summary:From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation. It suggests the ongoing power of culturally mandated categories of exclusion and repression.
Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the essays in Filth, all but one previously unpublished, range over topics as diverse as the building of sewers in nineteenth-century European metropolises, the link between interior design and bourgeois sanitary phobias, the fictional representation of laboring women and foreigners as polluting, and relations among disease, disorder, and sexual-racial disharmony.
Filth provides the first sustained consideration, both theoretical and historical, of a subject whose power to horrify, fascinate, and repel is as old as civilization itself.
Contributors: David S. Barnes, Neil Blackadder, Joseph Bristow, Joseph W. Childers, Eileen Cleere, Natalka Freeland, Pamela K. Gilbert, Christopher Hamlin, William Kupinse, Benjamin Lazier, David L. Pike, David Trotter. [via]
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For Moral Ambiguity: National Culture and the Politics of the Familyby Michael J. ShapiroISBN 0816638543 (0-8166-3854-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Moral Ambiguity: National Culture and the Politics of the Family'Book summary:Under the banner of family values, a war of more than words is being waged. At stake is the control of contemporary national culture-and the consciousness of succeeding generations. Michael J. Shapiro enters the fray with this galvanizing book, which exposes the assumptions, misconceptions, and historical inaccuracies that mark the neoconservative campaign to redeem an imagined past and colonize the present and future with a moral and political commitment to the "traditional family."
Contesting the neoconservative assumption of a natural relation between a historically constant, traditional family structure and civic life, Shapiro shows how the situation of the family in relation to public life has emerged differently in different historical periods in response to diverse shaping forces. His work juxtaposes moralizing versus historically sensitive, critical treatments of familial and public attachments, revealing how "the family"-as represented in historical and contemporary fiction, cinema, television, and other genres and media-emerges as a contingent cultural and historical structure.
Shapiro treats the ways in which family space, however changeable, serves as a critical locus of "enunciation"-as a space from which diverse family personae challenge the relationships and historical narratives that support dominant structures of power and authority and offer ways to renegotiate the problem of "the political." By extending recognition to less heeded voices and genres of expression, he seeks to frame the political within a democratic ethos. His work compels us to understand "the political" as the continuous negotiation of different modes of civic presence.
Michael J. Shapiro is professor of political science at the University of Hawai`i. He is the author of numerous books, including Violent Cartographies: Mapping Cultures of War (Minnesota, 1997) and Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation, and Gender (1999). [via]
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Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectivesby Ann Marie Stock, Ambrosio FornetISBN 0816629730 (0-8166-2973-0)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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George Alexander Stevens and the Lecture on Headsby Gerald KahanISBN 0820306932 (0-8203-0693-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetryby Vincent KaufmannISBN 0816644551 (0-8166-4455-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0816141711 (0-8161-4171-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sexby Judith Levine, Joycelyn M. EldersISBN 0816640068 (0-8166-4006-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex'Book summary:Sex is a wonderful, crucial part of growing up, and children and teens can enjoy the pleasures of the body and be safe, too. In this important and controversial book, Judith Levine makes this argument and goes further, asserting that America's attempts to protect children from sex are worse than ineffectual. It is the assumption of danger and the exclusive focus on protection-what Levine terms "the sexual politics of fear"-that are themselves harmful to minors. Through interviews with young people and their parents, stories drawn from today's headlines, visits to classrooms and clinics, and a look back at the ways sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history, Judith Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society. She examines and challenges widespread anxieties pedophilia, stranger kidnapping, Internet pornography and sacred cows abstinence-based sex education, statutory rape laws . Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives-censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear. Harmful to Minors offers fresh alternatives to fear and silence, describing sex-positive approaches that are ethically based and focus on common sense. Levine provides optimistic, though realistic, prescriptions for how we might do better in guiding children toward loving well-that is, safely, pleasurably, and with respect for others and themselves. Judith Levine is a journalist, essayist, and author who has written about sex, gender, and families for two decades. Her articles appear regularly in national publications, most recently Ms., nerve.com, and My Generation. An activist for free speech and sex education, Levine is a founder of the feminist group No More Nice Girls and the National Writers Union. [via]
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Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer As Heroby Charles SprawsonISBN 0816635390 (0-8166-3539-0)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearanceby M. A. Abbas, Ackbar AbbasISBN 0816629250 (0-8166-2925-0)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Houseby Tracy KidderISBN 0816142106 (0-8161-4210-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Human Provinceby Elias CanettiISBN 0816493359 (0-8164-9335-9)
Hardcover, Seabury Press
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Hybrid Cultures: Strategies For Entering And Leaving Modernityby Nestor Garcia CancliniISBN 0816623155 (0-8166-2315-5)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hybrid Cultures: Strategies For Entering And Leaving Modernity'Book summary:When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade. Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a global marketplace without losing its cultural identity. He moves with ease from the ideas of Gramsci and Foucault to economic analysis, from appraisals of the exchanges between Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges to Chicano film and grafitti. Hybrid Cultures at once clarifies the development of democratic institutions in Latin America and reveals that the most destructive ideological trends are still going strong.[via]More editions of Hybrid Cultures: Strategies For Entering And Leaving Modernity:
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An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernismby Madan SarupISBN 0820311308 (0-8203-1130-8)
Softcover, University of Georgia Press
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Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realitiesby Richard Handler, Daniel Alan SegalISBN 0816511713 (0-8165-1171-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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Knowledge for What?: The Place of Social Science in American Cultureby Robert Staughton LyndISBN 0819561703 (0-8195-6170-3)
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Lines of Power: Limits of Languageby Gunnar OlssonISBN 0816619492 (0-8166-1949-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Longer Views: Extended Essaysby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562939 (0-8195-6293-9)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Longer Views: Extended Essays'Book summary:While most literary critics can take a text apart, few can create them as expertly. Samuel R. Delany is a noteworthy exception. Delany is the author of great science fiction works like the novel The Mad Man and the short stories in Tales of Neveryon. He is also an able assessor of literary theory and a cognoscente of the science fiction genre. Longer Views is a collection of essays in literary criticism, ranging from a close reading of Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs," in which he is critical of the feminist author's naively positive take on technology, to a fascinating consideration of the artistic styles of Richard Wagner and Antonin Artaud. Of particular interest to cybernauts and science fiction fans alike is Delaney's consideration of how readers and viewers participate in the creation of the background conditions for fictitious fantasy worlds and the role a reader or viewer plays in completing an artistic work of science fiction. Delany's criticism is well-crafted and never flags or grows tiresome. [via]
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Mapping Multiculturalismby Christopher Newfield, Avery GordonISBN 0816625476 (0-8166-2547-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Media Matters: Race and Gender in U.S. Politicsby John FiskeISBN 0816624631 (0-8166-2463-1)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation, Circa 800-1500by Birgit Sawyer, P. H. SawyerISBN 0816617392 (0-8166-1739-2)
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Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representationby Darrell Y. HamamotoISBN 0816623694 (0-8166-2369-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation'Book summary:A meticulous work of history, cultural criticism, and political analysis, 'Monitored Peril' illuminates the unstable relationship between the practices of commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology. The book clearly demonstrates the pervasiveness of racialized discourse throughout U.S. society, especially as it is reproduced by network television.
Hamamoto addresses a wide variety of issues facing diverse Asian American communities: interracial conflict, conservative politics, U.S.-Japan trade friction, and post-colonial Vietnam. Through an examination of selected television programs from the 1950s to the present, he attempts to correct the consistently distorted view of network television. He proposes an engaged independent Asian American media practice, and calls for the expansion of public sector television. [via]More editions of Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation:
Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listeningby Christopher SmallISBN 0819522570 (0-8195-2257-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Native Sonby WrightISBN 0816157871 (0-8161-5787-1)
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Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, And Whiteness In U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877by Linda FrostISBN 081664490X (0-8166-4490-X)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essaysby Ellen WillisISBN 081956284X (0-8195-6284-X)
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Oedipus the King.by Anthony BurgessISBN 0816606676 (0-8166-0667-6)
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Popular Music in Theory: An Introductionby Keith NegusISBN 0819563102 (0-8195-6310-2)
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Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticismby Stanley Aronowitz, Henry A. GirouxISBN 0816618801 (0-8166-1880-1)
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The Practice of Everyday Lifeby Luce Giard, Pierre Mayol, Michel De CerteauISBN 0816628777 (0-8166-2877-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice of Everyday Life'Book summary:To remain unconsumed by consumer societythis was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make living a subversive art. Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre Mayol develop a social history of making do based on microhistories that move from the private sphere (of dwelling, cooking, and homemaking) to the public (the experience of living in a neighborhood). A series of interviewsmostly with womenallows us to follow the subjects individual routines, composed of the habits, constraints, and inventive strategies by which the speakers negotiate daily life. Through these accounts the speakers, ordinary people all, are revealed to be anything but passive consumers. Amid these experiences and voices, the ephemeral inventions of the obscure heroes of the everyday, we watch the art of making do become the art of living.This long-awaited second volume of de Certeaus masterwork, updated and revised in this first English edition, completes the picture begun in volume 1, drawing to the last detail the collective practices that define the texture, substance, and importance of the everyday.Michel de Certeau (1925-1986) wrote numerous books that have been translated into English, including Heterologies (1986), The Capture of Speech (1998), and Culture in the Plural (1998), all published by Minnesota. Luce Giard is senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and is affiliated with the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She is visiting professor of history and history of science at the University of California, San Diego. Pierre Mayol is a researcher in the French Ministry of Culture in Paris.Timothy J. Tomasik is a freelance translator pursuing a Ph.D. in French literature at Harvard University. [via]
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Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumerby Lynn Spigel, Denise MannISBN 0816620539 (0-8166-2053-9)
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A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activismby Becky ThompsonISBN 0816636346 (0-8166-3634-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism'Book summary:Not since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, when many white college students went south to fight against Jim Crow laws, has white antiracist activity held the public's attention. Yet there have always been white people involved in fighting racism. In this passionate work, Becky Thompson looks at white Americans who have struggled against racism, offering examples of both successes and failures, inspirations, practical philosophies, and a way ahead.
A Promise and a Way of Life weaves an account of the past half-century based on the life histories of thirty-nine people who have placed antiracist activism at the center of their lives. Through a rich and fascinating narrative that links individual experiences with social and political history, Thompson shows the ways, both public and personal, in which whites have opposed racism during several social movements: the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, multiracial feminism, the Central American peace movement, the struggle for antiracist education, and activism against the prison industry. Beginning with the diverse catalysts that started these activists on their journeys, this book demonstrates the contributions and limitations of white antiracism in key social justice movements.
Through these stories, crucial questions are raised: Does antiracist work require a repudiation of one's whiteness or can that identity be transformed through political commitment and alliances? What do white people need to do to undermine white privilege? What would it take to build a multiracial movement in which white people are responsible for creating antiracist alliances while not co-opting people of color?
Unique in its depth and thoroughness, A Promise and a Way of Life is essential for anyone currently fighting racism or wondering how to do so. Through its demonstration of the extraordinary personal and social transformations ordinary people can make, it provides a new paradigm for movement activity, one that will help to incite and guide future antiracist activism.
Becky Thompson is associate professor of sociology at Simmons College. She is the author of Mothering without a Compass (2000) and A Hunger So Wide and So Deep (1994), both published by Minnesota. [via]
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Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Yearsby Richard H. PellsISBN 0819561223 (0-8195-6122-3)
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Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclaves, Global Changeby Jan LinISBN 0816629056 (0-8166-2905-6)
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Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticismby Michael Eric DysonISBN 0816621438 (0-8166-2143-8)
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Revisioning Italy: National Identity and Global Cultureby Beverly Allen, Mary Jo RussoISBN 0816627266 (0-8166-2726-6)
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbageby Cullen Murphy, William RathjeISBN 0816521433 (0-8165-2143-3)
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Saanii Dahataa, the Women Are Singing: Poems and Storiesby Luci TapahonsoISBN 0816513619 (0-8165-1361-9)
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Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practicesby Inderpal Grewal, Caren KaplanISBN 0816621381 (0-8166-2138-1)
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Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliteraryby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819563692 (0-8195-6369-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary'Book summary:In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time. These essays cluster around topics related to queer theory on the one hand, and on the other, questions concerning the paraliterary genres: science fiction, pornography, comics, and more. Readers new to Delany's work will find this collection of shorter pieces an especially good introduction, while those already familiar with his writing will appreciate having these essays between two covers for the first time. [via]
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics A Collection of Written Interviewsby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562807 (0-8195-6280-7)
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Southern Folk, Plain & Fancy: Native White Social Typesby John Shelton ReedISBN 0820308625 (0-8203-0862-5)
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Southern Folk, Plain and Fancyby John Shelton ReedISBN 0820310239 (0-8203-1023-9)
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A Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memoryby Jonathan BoyarinISBN 0816620946 (0-8166-2094-6)
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The Subaltern Ulyssesby Enda DuffyISBN 0816623295 (0-8166-2329-5)
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Technocultureby Constance Penley, Andrew RossISBN 0816619328 (0-8166-1932-8)
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Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representationby Michael RothbergISBN 0816634599 (0-8166-3459-9)
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Understanding Toscanini: How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Musicby Joseph HorowitzISBN 0816616787 (0-8166-1678-7)
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Universal Abandon? the Politics of Postmodernismby Andrew RossISBN 0816616809 (0-8166-1680-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Universal Abandon? the Politics of Postmodernism'Book summary:[via]Universal Abandon was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
In recent years, the debate about postmodernism has become a full-blown, global discussion about the nature and future of society: it has challenged and redefined the cultural and sexual politics of the last two decades, and is increasingly shaping tomorrow's agenda. Postmodernist culture is a medium in which we all live, no matter how unevenly its effects are felt across the jagged spectrum of color, gender, class, sexual, orientation, region, and nationality. But it is also a culture that proclaims its abandonment of the universalist foundations of Enlightenment thought in the West. At a time when interests can no longer be universalized, the question arises: Whose interests are served by this "universal abandon"?
Universal Abandon is the first volume in a new series entitled Cultural Politics, edited by the Social Text collective. This collection tackles a wider range of cultural and political issues than are usually addressed in the debates about postmodernismcolor, ethnicity, and neocolonialism; feminism and sexual difference; popular culture and the question of everyday lifeas well as some political and philosophical matters that have long been central to the Western tradition. Together, the contributors provide no consensus about the politics of postmodernism; they insist, rather, that "universal abandon?" remain a question and not an answer.
The contributors: Anders Stephanson, Chantal Mouffe, Stanley Aronowitz, Ernesto Laclau, Nancy Fraser, Linda Nicholson, Meaghan Morris, Paul Smith, Laura Kipnis, Lawrence Grossberg, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, George Yudice, Jacqueline Rose, and Hal Foster.
Andrew Ross teaches English at Princeton University and is the author of The Failure of Modernism.
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Urban Encountersby Helen LiggettISBN 0816641277 (0-8166-4127-7)
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Liggett's "encounters" with the urban are sequences of images and text that combine the joy of observing with the pleasure of making connections. For Liggett, this entails recognizing both beauty and danger. Alternately complementing and complicating her text, Liggett's photographs capture the small details-the gestures, glances, and reflections-that together compose the urban experience. As a whole, Urban Encounters reimagines the city as a site of profound engagement with life.
Helen Liggett is professor of urban studies at Cleveland State University. She is coeditor (with David C. Perry) of Spatial Practices: Critical Explorations in Social/Spatial Theory (1995), and her photographs have been exhibited at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. [via]
The Urban Revolutionby Henri Lefebvre, Neil Smith, Robert BononnoISBN 0816641609 (0-8166-4160-9)
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Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Centuryby John Kucich, Dianne F. SadoffISBN 081663324X (0-8166-3324-X)
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White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whitenessby Ruth FrankenbergISBN 0816622582 (0-8166-2258-2)
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You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomadsby James P. SpradleyISBN 0819168564 (0-8191-6856-4)
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