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Midnight at the Barrelhouse
uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

The Johnny Otis Story
Ge o rge Lipsi tz
The first biography of music legend on to lead his own band in the 1940s and
and civil rights activist Johnny Otis open the Barrelhouse nightclub in Watts.
His R&B band had seventeen Top 40 hits
between 1950 and 1969, including “Willie and
“Johnny Otis–he’s the coolest! A true pioneer of the music
the Hand Jive.” As a producer and A&R man,
I love.”
Otis discovered such legends as Etta James,
—Aaron Neville
Jackie Wilson, and Big Mama Thornton.
“We are lucky to have Johnny Otis, as the world is short
Otis also wrote a column for the Sentinel, one
on smart, soulful, funny, gifted, walk-the-walk folk. Bless
of L.A.’s leading black newspapers, became
his heart.” George Lipsitz is professor of black studies and sociology
pastor of his own interracial church, hosted
—Joan Baez at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many
popular radio and television shows, and was
books include American Studies in a Moment of Danger,
lauded as businessman of the year in a 1951
Time Passages, and Footsteps in the Dark, all published
Considered by many to be the godfather of cover story in Negro Achievements magazine.
by Minnesota.
R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, Throughout his career Otis’s driving passion
entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer, and has been his fearless and unyielding opposition Biogr aphy/Music
tireless fighter for racial equality—has had a to racial injustice, whether protesting on the $24.95 £15.50 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-6678-2
remarkable life by any measure. In this first front lines, exposing racism and championing April
264 pages 23 b&w illustrations 6 x 9
biography of Otis, George Lipsitz tells the the accomplishments of black Americans, or
largely unknown story of a towering figure promoting African American musicians.
in the history of African American music and
Midnight at the Barrelhouse is a chronicle of a
culture who was, by his own description,
life rich in both incident and inspiration, as well
“black by persuasion.”
as an exploration of the complicated nature of
Born to Greek immigrant parents in Vallejo, race relations in twentieth-century America.
California, in 1921, Otis grew up in an Otis’s total commitment to black culture and
integrated neighborhood and identified deeply transcendence of racial boundaries, Lipsitz
with black music and culture. He moved to shows, teach important lessons about identity,
Los Angeles as a young man and began his race, and power while encapsulating the
six-decade career in music playing drums in contradictions of racism in American society.
territory swing bands in the 1930s. He went
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Discourse, Figure
Jean- F rançois Ly otard
Tr anslated by Antony Hudek a n d M a ry Ly d o n
Introduction by John Mowitt
Lyotard’s earliest major work, available A wide-ranging and highly unusual work,
in English for the first time Discourse, Figure proceeds from an attentive
consideration of the phenomenology of
Jean-François Lyotard is recognized as one
experience to an ambitious meditation on
of the most significant French philosophers
the psychoanalytic account of the subject of
of the twentieth century. Although nearly
experience, structured by the confrontation
all of his major writing has been translated
between phenomenology and psychoanalysis
into English, one important work has until
as contending frames within which to
now been unavailable. Discourse, Figure is
think the materialism of consciousness. In
Lyotard’s thesis. Provoked in part by Lacan’s
addition to prefiguring many of Lyotard’s Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) was the author of
influential seminars in Paris, Discourse, Figure
later concerns, Discourse, Figure captures many books, including The Differend, The Postmodern
distinguishes between the meaningfulness
Lyotard’s passionate engagement with topics Condition, The Postmodern Explained, and Postmodern
of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of
beyond phenomenology and psychoanalysis Fables.
plastic arts such as painting and sculpture.
to structuralism, semiotics, poetry, art, and the
Lyotard argues that because rational thought Antony Hudek is research fellow at Camberwell College
philosophy of language.
is discursive and works of art are inherently of Arts, University of the Arts, London.
opaque signs, certain aspects of artistic
Mary Lydon (1937–2001) was professor of French
meaning such as symbols and the pictorial
emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
richness of painting will always be beyond
reason’s grasp. John Mowitt is professor of cultural studies and
comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.
Philosophy/Theory
$39.95x £25.00 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-4565-7
May
Cultural Critique Books Series
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Seeking Spatial Justice

E dward W. Soja
An innovative new way of understanding the evolution of spatial justice and the closely
and changing the unjust geographies related notion of the right to the city in the
in which we live influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David
Harvey, and others, he demonstrates how
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union,
these ideas are now being applied through
a grassroots advocacy organization, won
a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the
a historic legal victory against the city’s
city at the forefront of this movement. Soja
Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting
focuses on such innovative labor–community
consent decree forced the MTA for a period
coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los
of ten years to essentially reorient the mass
Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Edward W. Soja is Distinguished Professor of Urban
transit system to better serve the city’s
Right to the City Alliance; on struggles for rent Planning at UCLA. His books include Postmodern
poorest residents. A stunning reversal of
control and environmental justice; and on the Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social
conventional governance and planning in
role that faculty and students in the UCLA Theory, Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other
urban America, which almost always favors
Department of Urban Planning have played in Real-and-Imagined Places, and Postmetropolis: Critical
wealthier residents, this decision is also, for
both developing the theory of spatial justice Studies of Cities and Regions.
renowned urban theorist Edward W. Soja, a
and putting it into practice.
concrete example of spatial justice in action. Geogr aphy/Urban Studi e s
Effectively locating spatial justice as a $24.95 £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6668-3
In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6667-6
theoretical concept, a mode of empirical
justice has a geography and that the equitable March
analysis, and a strategy for social and 288 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
distribution of resources, services, and access
political action, this book makes a significant Globalization and Community Series, volume 16
is a basic human right. Building on current
contribution to the contemporary debates
concerns in critical geography and the new
about justice, space, and the city.
spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves
theory and practice, offering new ways
of understanding and changing the unjust
geographies in which we live. After tracing
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Organizing for Educational Justice

The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx

Mi chael B. Fabricant
An in-depth account of community-based In Organizing for Educational Justice,

school reform that offers a powerful model Michael B. Fabricant tells the story of CC9
for parents searching for ways to change from its origins in 1995 as a small group of
public education concerned parents to the citywide application
of its reform agenda—concentrating on
the development of teacher capacity—ten
“Everyone who is interested in authentic, deep school
years later. Drawing on in-depth interviews,
reform—the type of school change that will make a
analysis of qualitative data, and access to
difference in the lives of children—should read this book.
meetings and archives, Fabricant evaluates
Michael Fabricant’s rendition of the important story of CC9
CC9’s innovative approach to organizing Michael B. Fabricant is professor at the Hunter
is both compelling and informative. He also illuminates a
and collaboration with other stakeholders, College School of Social Work, City University of New
new style of community organizing that builds capacity in
including the United Federation of Teachers, York. He has also served for the past ten years as the
the community to support and enhance public institutions.”
the NYC Department of Education, executive officer of the Ph.D. program in social welfare
—Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers
neighborhood nonprofits, and city colleges at the Graduate Center of the City University of New
and universities. York. His most recent books include The Welfare State
Since the 1980s, strategies for improving Crisis and the Transformation of Social Service Work
Situating this case within a wider exploration
public education in America have focused on and Settlement Houses under Siege: The Struggle to
of parent participation in educational reform,
either competition through voucher programs Sustain Community Organizations in New York City.
Fabricant explains why CC9 succeeded and
and charter schools or standardization as
other parent-led movements did not. He also Education
enacted into federal law through No Child
examines the ways in which the movement $22.95 £14.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6961-5
Left Behind. These reforms, however, have $69.00xx £43.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6960-8
effectively empowered parents by rigorously
failed to narrow the performance gap between May
ensuring a democratic process in making 304 pages 6 x 9
poor urban students and other children. In
decisions and, more broadly, an inclusive
response, parents have begun to organize
organizational culture. As urban parents
local campaigns to strengthen the public
across America search for ways to hold
schools in their communities. One of the
public schools accountable for their failures,
most original, successful, and influential of
this book shows how the success of the
these parent-led campaigns has been the
CC9 experience can be replicated elsewhere
Community Collaborative to Improve District
around the country.
9 (CC9), a consortium of six neighborhood-
based groups in the Bronx.
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Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders

Homeless in San Francisco
T e r e sa Gowan
A powerful ethnographic account of life Gowan shows some of the diverse ways that
on the streets in San Francisco men on the street in San Francisco struggle
for survival, autonomy, and self-respect.
Living for weeks at a time among homeless
“Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders is spectacular ethnography,
men—working side-by-side with them as
fearlessly conducted by a ‘small, white English woman’
they collected cans, bottles, and scrap metal;
among homeless men in San Francisco’s roughest
helping them set up camp; watching and
neighborhoods. Gowan’s respect for her subjects and her
listening as they panhandled and hawked
willingness to pitch in with the dirtiest of work make this a
newspapers; and accompanying them into
gripping read and a powerful call to reassess how America
soup kitchens, jails, welfare offices, and Teresa Gowan is assistant professor of sociology at the
treats its most despised and marginal people.”
shelters—Gowan immersed herself in their University of Minnesota.
—Barbara Ehrenreich
routines, their personal stories, and their
perspectives on life on the streets. She Sociology/Urban Studie s
$24.95 £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6967-7
When homelessness reemerged in American observes a wide range of survival techniques, $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-4869-6
cities during the 1980s at levels not seen since from the illicit to the industrious, from June
the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock drug dealing to dumpster diving. She also 368 pages 36 b&w illustrations, 2 maps 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
and outrage. Within a few years, however, discovered that prevailing discussions about
what had been perceived as a national crisis homelessness and its causes—homelessness
came to be seen as a nuisance, with early as pathology, homelessness as moral failure,
sympathies for the plight of the homeless and homelessness as systemic failure—
giving way to compassion fatigue and then powerfully affect how homeless people see
condemnation. Debates around the problem themselves and their ability to change their
of homelessness—often set in terms of sin, situation.
sickness, and the failure of the social system—
Drawing on five years of fieldwork, Hobos,
have come to profoundly shape how homeless
Hustlers, and Backsliders makes clear that
people survive and make sense of their plights.
the way we talk about issues of extreme
In Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders, Teresa
poverty has real consequences for how we
Gowan vividly depicts the lives of homeless
address this problem—and for the homeless
men in San Francisco and analyzes the
themselves.
influence of the homelessness industry on the
streets, in the shelters, and on public policy.
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Into the Interior

A Novel
Mi chelle Cl iff
study art history—she penetrates further and

Praise for Everything Is Now:
further into its emotional shadow life in an
“Michelle Cliff is a magician. One is awed by the beauty
attempt to overcome her own deep sense of
of this book, shaken by the cruelties of history it tells.”
displacement. Reversing the journey Joseph
—Yvette Christiansë, author of Unconfessed
Conrad’s Marlow took from the imperial
“The stories in Everything Is Now continue to actively capital to a colonial outpost, she discovers
beckon long after the book has been closed; they live a “heart of darkness” in the former capital
on in the reader’s psyche, alive with earthly insinuation.” of the British Empire. Moving among its
—Yusef Komunyakaa fragmented personalities and social life, she
witnesses—and experiences—its propensity Michelle Cliff is the author of the novels Abeng,
for racism and homophobia, misogyny and No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise; a volume
In her previous novels, Michelle Cliff explored
abusive patriarchy, hypocrisy and sadism. of short stories, Everything Is Now (Minnesota, 2009);
potent themes of colonialism, race, myth, and
and If I Could Write This in Fire, a collection of essays
identity with rare intelligence, lyrical intensity, Deftly shifting between present and past,
(Minnesota, 2008).
and a profound sense of both history and between a childhood in Jamaica—her
place. Now, with Into the Interior, she has memories, both disconcerting and humor- Fiction
written her most intimate, courageous work tinged, beautifully rendered by Cliff’s elliptical $22.95 £14.50 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-6979-0
of fiction yet, a searing and ultimately moving prose—and her purposeful wanderings as May
128 pages 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
reflection on the legacy of empire and the an adult that result in intellectual, sexual,
restless search for a feeling of belonging. and political awakenings, Into the Interior
is both deeply personal and charged by a
“I grew up to be someone adept at leaving,”
world-historical awareness of the persistent
confesses Into the Interior’s unnamed
injustices that colonialism imposes on its
narrator, a bisexual Caribbean woman of color,
former subjects.
and Cliff traces her travels from Jamaica to
New York to London. Educated in admiration
for Western culture—she goes to London to
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The Spiv and the Architect

Unruly Life in Postwar London
R i c hard Hornsey
Explores how London’s queer culture In The Spiv and the Architect, Richard Hornsey
was shaped by postwar efforts to create examines how queer men legitimized, resisted,
model citizens and reinvented this ambitious reconstruction
program, which extended from the design of
basic public spaces and municipal libraries to
“Imaginative and engaging, The Spiv and the Architect
private living rooms and home decor. From
makes us look afresh at the everyday intersections
their association with the urban stereotype
between queer sexualities and the urban fabric of
of the spiv (slang for a young petty criminal
reconstructed London after the Second World War. This
who lived by his wits and shirked legitimate
exciting intervention in sexuality studies pushes us to think
work) and their vilification in the tabloids as Richard Hornsey is senior lecturer in cultural studies at
in new ways about the constitution of queerness in this
perverts, to the assimilated homosexuals the University of the West of England, Bristol.
formative postwar period.”
within reformist psychology, Hornsey details
—Matt Houlbrook, author of Queer London: Perils and Pleasures European History/Queer St udi e s
how these efforts to transform London
in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918–1957 $24.95 £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5315-7
fundamentally restructured the experiences $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5314-0
and identities of gay men in the city and April
As London emerged from the devastation of throughout the country. 328 pages 44 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
the Second World War, planners and policy

The Spiv and the Architect weaves together
makers sought to rebuild the city in ways that
a vast archive of sources—canvases and
would reshape the behavior of its citizens as
photo booth self-portraits by the painter
much as its buildings and infrastructure—a
Francis Bacon, urban planning documents
program defined by a strong emphasis
and drawings, popular fiction and films,
on civic order and conservative values of
autobiographical and psychological accounts
national community. One of the groups most
of homosexuality, design exhibitions about the
significantly affected by this new, moralistic
modern British home, and the library books
climate of reformation and renewal was
defaced by the playwright Joe Orton—to
queer men, whom the police, the media,
present both a radically revised account of
and lawmakers targeted as an urgent urban
homosexuality in postwar London and an
problem by marking their lives and desires as
important new narrative about mid-twentieth-
criminal and deviant.
century British modernity.
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María Brito Man Ray, African

R e announ c e J u a n A . M a r t inez Art, and the

Modernist Lens
Wendy A. Gross m an
Exploring the art and personal iconography of the prominent Analyzes modernist photography and the life of objects
Cuban-born American sculptor and installation artist
This nuanced study spotlights a selection of Man Ray’s photographs
within the context of modernist photographic history and the
“Alongside the particular details of my existence, my work is an exploration of the “discovery” of African art by the early twentieth-century avant-garde.
intrinsically universal elements that each aspect of my being represents, these being Featuring more than seventy photographs by Man Ray—some never
gender, family, national and ethnic identity, religion, and, beyond religion, the unexplained before reproduced—along with rarely seen photographs of African art
realities that lie beyond life in the certainty of death.” by his European and American contemporaries, this book uncovers
—María Brito a virtually unknown chapter in both the inventive activities of this
celebrated artist and in this overlooked facet of photographic history.
One of the most revered members of “the Miami Generation,” a Wendy A. Grossman raises thought-provoking questions about the
group of Cuban-born artists who emigrated to the United States, role of photographs in shaping perceptions of African art and, in turn,
María Brito is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist best known for how such images led to distinctive modernist viewpoints across racial
her elaborately constructed room-like works that embody narratives and geographic boundaries. The African pieces are recognized both
of loss and displacement. Brito also draws on personal iconography to as integral components of modernist history and, as elucidated by
create challenging works that are at once deeply autobiographical and original scholarship by African art experts, as objects with their own
reflect a profound fluency with the history of Western art. independent cultural histories.
In this new volume in the landmark A Ver series and the first major Revealing a more complex engagement with African art by Man Ray
book on Brito’s career, Juan A. Martinez examines the unique interplay and his contemporaries than has been previously known, Grossman
of the personal and the universal in this Miami-based artist’s diverse provides a meticulously researched study that contributes to our
mixed-media works. understanding of critical issues in modernism that continue to influence
the way we see African art today.
Juan A. Martinez is professor and chair of art and art history at Florida International
University in Miami. Wendy A. Grossman is an independent scholar and curator.
Ar t Ar t
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Drawing on Art

Duchamp and Company
D al i a Judovitz
How Duchamp and his collaborators of its mode of public presentation. And if
creatively challenged the meaning of art Duchamp literally drew on art, he also did so
and authorship figuratively, thus raising questions of creativity
and artistic influence. Equally destabilizing,
Marcel Duchamp’s 1919 readymade,
Judovitz writes, was Duchamp’s idea that
L.H.O.O.Q., which he created by drawing
viewers actively participate in the creation of
a moustache and goatee on a commercial
the art they are viewing.
reproduction of the Mona Lisa, precipitated
a radical reevaluation of the meaning of In addition to close readings ranging across
art, the process of art making, and the Duchamp’s oeuvre, even his neglected works
Dalia Judovitz is National Endowment for the
role of the artist. In Drawing on Art, Dalia on chess, Judovitz provides interpretations
Humanities Professor of French at Emory University.
Judovitz explores the central importance of of works by other figures who affected
Her previous books include Unpacking Duchamp:
appropriation, collaboration, influence, and Duchamp’s thinking and collaborated with
Art in Transit and The Culture of the Body: Genealogies
play in Duchamp’s work—and in Dada and him, notably Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and
of Modernity.
Surrealist art more broadly—to show how Salvador Dalí, as well as artists who later
the concept of art itself became the critical appropriated and redeployed these gestures, Ar t History
fuel and springboard for questioning art’s such as Enrico Baj, Gordon Matta-Clark, and $24.95 £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6530-3
fundamental premises. Richard Wilson. As Judovitz makes clear, $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6529-7
February
these associations become paradigmatic of a 288 pages 48 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Judovitz argues that rather than simply
new, collective way of thinking about artistic
negating art, Duchamp’s readymades and later
production that decisively overturns the myth
works, including films and conceptual pieces,
of artistic genius.
demonstrate the impossibility of defining art
in the first place. Through his readymades,
b a ck in prin t
Alternative Art New York
for instance, Duchamp explicitly critiqued
Julie Ault, editor
the commodification of art and inaugurated A multifaceted history of New York’s influential
a profound shift from valuing art for its visual alternative art scene during a time of rapid social
change.
appearance to understanding the significance
Available
$30.00x Paper
ISBN: 978-0-8166-3794-2
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Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves

The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America

Georg e Ko uvaros
A revealing examination of the impact decades after the war, Kouvaros asserts, so
of photography on the image of postwar too did the iconography associated with the
Hollywood acting figure of the actor. Photographs of Hollywood
stars such as Monroe, Gable, Montgomery
The 1961 film The Misfits saw the
Clift, James Dean, Joan Crawford, Marlene
collaboration of director John Huston with
Dietrich, and Humphrey Bogart form the
playwright Arthur Miller and brought together
basis of an evocative analysis of the way
on screen Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe
photography gave shape to fundamental shifts
in what would be their final roles. Adding
in the nature of screen acting, perceptions of
to the production’s luster, the elite photo
celebrity, and the relationship between actor George Kouvaros is associate professor of film at
agency Magnum was hired to do the on-
and audience. the University of New South Wales. He is the author
set photography. The photographs of this
of Where Does It Happen? John Cassavetes and
landmark film represent the end of an era By closely scrutinizing the images produced
Cinema at the Breaking Point (Minnesota, 2004) and
of Hollywood stardom and the emergence on the set of one of America’s most haunting
Paul Schrader, and editor (with Lesley Stern) of Falling
of a new vision of the actor’s craft. and least understood films, Kouvaros presents
for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance.
a new recognition of the connection between
In Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves,
the power of star culture, art photography, and Film/Photogr a p hy
George Kouvaros offers a multilayered study
the film industry during a time of rapid social $24.95 £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-4747-7
of the Magnum photographs that illuminates $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-4746-0
transformation.
larger changes in Hollywood acting during the March
postwar period. Just as the industrial context 304 pages 59 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
of film production evolved dramatically in the

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The Genius of Broken Mirrors/

Expanded Edition
Bac k in prin t
the System Broken Minds

Hollywood Filmmaking in the The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento
Studio Era Maitl and McDonagh
T h o ma s S c h at z
pre fa c e b y s t e v e n b a c h
An indispensable account of Hollywood’s blend of business and art The definitive guide to the cinema of Dario Argento
“Anyone who has thought about the storytelling wisdom, the near-hallucinatory visual “Simply stated: If you are an Argento fan, buy this book.”
force of some movies produced by the system, already agrees with Mr. Schatz . . . but one —Fangoria
finishes the book being convinced all over again.”
“Long overdue, it will remain the definitive text on Argento’s films and excesses for quite
—New York Times
some time.”
“A vivid and sensitive retelling of Hollywood’s past creative battles, and an implicit guide to —Variety
the future.”
—Film Comment
Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s horror films have been described
as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero—psychologically
In The Genius of the System, Thomas Schatz recalls Hollywood’s rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements
Golden Age from the 1920s until the dawn of television in the late of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark
1940s, when quality films were produced swiftly and cost efficiently undercurrent of human emotions and psyches. Broken Mirrors/Broken
thanks to the intricate design of the system. Schatz takes us through Minds, which dissects such Argento cult films as Two Evil Eyes,
the rise and fall of individual careers and the making—and unmaking— The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, and Deep Red, includes
of movies such as Frankenstein, Casablanca, and Hitchcock’s a new introduction discussing Argento’s most recent films, from
Notorious. Through detailed analysis of major Hollywood moviemakers The Stendahl Syndrome to Mother of Tears; an updated filmography;
including Universal, Warner Bros., and MGM, he reminds us of a time and an interview with Argento.
when studios had distinct personalities and the relationship between
Maitland McDonagh is a film critic and TV commentator who maintains her own Web
contracts and creativity was not mutually exclusive.
site, MissFlickChick.com. She was the senior movies editor of TVGuide.com from
Thomas Schatz is professor of communication at the University of Texas, Austin. 1995 to 2008.
He is the author of several books, including Hollywood Genres and Boom and Bust:
American Cinema in the 1940s. Film
$22.95 £14.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5607-3
February
F i l m His t o ry 296 pages 82 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
$24.95 £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-7010-9
J a n ua r y
528 pages 93 b&w illustrations, 7 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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At Your Own Risk Chroma

Bac k in prin t
Bac k in prin t
A Saint’s Testament A Book of Color
Derek Jarman Derek Jarm an
Derek Jarman’s defiant and provocative memoir of his life A meditation on the color spectrum by Britain’s most
and times controversial filmmaker
“A spirited motorcycle tour through Jarman’s life and times . . . Jarman is a shining example “Chroma, with its rich blend of the philosophical and the personal, the arcane and anecdotal,
of living fully, creatively, and prolifically with H.I.V.” is a further reminder of Jarman’s artistic vision.”
—Lambda Book Report —The Times (London)
“At Your Own Risk is profound, constructed of fragmented thoughts and biting one-liners. “Chroma is a book with ambitions to be a poem, a diary, an autobiography, a gay manifesto,
Every paragraph is a proclamation, an accusation, or an emotional reaction to memory.” a contribution to art history, a confession, and a color chart. . . . In Chroma, white is the
—L.A. Weekly color of the cliffs of Dover, as well as a young man’s sperm. . . . Red is the color of itchy
blotches that AIDS sufferers want to scratch, the color of blood, stop signs, Mrs. Jarman’s
“Fascinating . . . It must be reckoned invaluable for any American gay studies collection,
lipstick. Blue, as we already know, is the color of the infinity that awaits the dying man.”
both for the contrast its picture of gay life in Britain makes with U.S. gay life and because
—The Sunday Times (London)
of Jarman’s provocative intelligence and his emotional and social maturity.”
—Booklist
From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of
England, The Garden, and Wittgenstein, to the somber blacks of his
One of England’s foremost filmmakers, Derek Jarman (1942–1994) wrote and
collages and tar paintings, Derek Jarman has consistently used color
directed several feature films, including Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, and Blue, as
in unprecedented ways. In his signature style, a lyrical combination of
well as numerous short films and music videos. He was a stage designer, artist, writer,
classic theory, anecdote, and poetry, Jarman takes the reader through
gardener, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist in the UK and the United
the spectrum, introducing each color as an embodiment of an emotion,
States. He is the author of several books, among them Modern Nature, available from
evoking memories or dreams.
University of Minnesota Press.
See bio at left.
F i l m / Q u e e r S t ud ies
$18.95 £12.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6592-1 Film/Queer Studies
January $18.95 £12.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6593-8
160 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 USA Jan uary
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Reading Bad for Democracy

NOW IN PA P E R
Ne w e dit i on
Autobiography How the Presidency Undermines

A Guide for Interpreting Life the Power of the People
Narratives, Second Edition Dana D. N el son
S i d o ni e S m i t h With a new preface

a n d J u li a Wat s o n
The completely updated edition of the definitive guide to life Voting for the president is not enough—a bold call
narrative, from memoirs to blogs to reclaim democracy
With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and
emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally “Dana Nelson argues provocatively—and persuasively—that the mythological status
published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction accorded the presidency is drowning our democracy. The remedy will not come from
to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for undergraduate and Washington. It starts with people rediscovering—then reclaiming—their birthright as
graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide for students and scholars active citizens, restoring meaning to the sacred idea of self-government.”
reading and interpreting autobiographical texts and methods across the —William Greider
humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts.
“Bad for Democracy is the much-needed reminder that self-government is a do-it-yourself
Thoroughly updated, the second edition of Reading Autobiography is endeavor, and Nelson sets a standard for civic life that was promised in the country’s
the most complete assessment of life narrative in its myriad forms. founding but never achieved. This book comes at exactly the right moment.”
It lays out a sophisticated, theoretical approach to life writing and the —Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
components of autobiographical acts, including memory, experience,
identity, embodiment, space, and agency. Sidonie Smith and Julia
Dana D. Nelson argues that it is the office of the presidency itself that
Watson explore these components, review the history of life writing
endangers the great American experiment. This urgent book, with new
and the foundations of autobiographical subjectivity, and provide a
analysis of President Barack Obama’s first months in office, reveals
toolkit for working with twenty-three key concepts. Their survey of
the futility of placing all of our hopes for the future in the American
innovative forms of life writing charts recent shifts in autobiographical
president and encourages citizens to create a politics of deliberation,
practice. Especially useful for courses are the appendices: a glossary
action, and agency.
covering dozens of distinct genres of life writing, proposals for group
and classroom projects, and an extensive bibliography. Dana D. Nelson is a professor of English and American studies at Vanderbilt University.
Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Politics/curr ent events
Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Julia Watson is professor of $18.95 £12.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5678-3
comparative studies at Ohio State University. February
Lit e r ary Cri t i c ism / R e f erenc e

$19.50x £12.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6986-8
$58.50xx £36.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6985-1
Ma rch
392 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
“ By opening up this neglected
and hidden history of (Minnesota’s)
native people, Mary Wingerd helps
us to understand the debt and
respect that we owe them.”
—Jack Weatherford
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North Country
regional interest uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

The Making of Minnesota
M a ry Lethert Wing erd
The untold history of how the land Great Lakes region to the era of French and
of the Dakota and Ojibwe became the State British influence during the fur trade and
of Minnesota beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries
prior to official statehood Native people and
In 1862, four years after Minnesota was
Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant,
ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union,
largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on
simmering tensions between indigenous
intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the
Dakota and white settlers culminated in the
two parties, this racially hybridized society
violent, six-week-long U.S.–Dakota War.
was a meeting point for cultural and economic
Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides,
exchange until the western expansion Mary Lethert Wingerd is associate professor of
and the war ended with the execution of
of American capitalism and violation of history at St. Cloud State University. She is the author
thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862,
treaties by the U.S. government during the of Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of
in Mankato, Minnesota—the largest mass
1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, Place in St. Paul.
execution in American history. The following
ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls
April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Regional History
Minnesota’s Civil War.
Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples $34.95 £22.00 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-4868-9
were forcefully removed to South Dakota, A cornerstone text in the chronicle of May
448 pages 14 b&w illustrations, 141 color illustrations,
precipitating the near destruction of the area’s Minnesota’s history, Wingerd’s narrative is 17 maps 7 1/2 x 10 1/4
native communities while simultaneously augmented by more than 170 illustrations
laying the foundation for what we know and chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard
recognize today as Minnesota. in comprehensive captions that depict the
fascinating, often haunting representations of
In North Country: The Making of Minnesota,
the region and its inhabitants over two and a
Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex
half centuries. North Country is the unflinching
origins of the state—origins that have often
account of how the land the Dakota named
been ignored in favor of legend and a far more
Mini Sota Makoce became the State of
benign narrative of immigration, settlement,
Minnesota and of the people who have called
and cultural exchange. Moving from the The Minnesota History Project
it, at one time or another, home.
earliest years of contact between Europeans Ann Pf laum, Project Dire ctor
and the indigenous peoples of the western Hy Berman, Senior Ad viso r
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We’re Gonna Win, Twins!

Doug Grow
From open air to the Dome to blue sky again like Harmon Killebrew, Frank Viola, David
in 2010, a half century of Twins baseball Ortiz, and Torii Hunter to the unintended
scouting trip that brought Kirby Puckett to
the Twins. He profiles great players and great
“Throughout his career, Doug Grow has always found the
seasons—from the matchup of Koufax and
true meaning in stories large and small. This account of
Kaat in the 1965 World Series to the unlikely
the history of Minnesota Twins baseball is filled with
contenders of 1979 to perhaps the best World
that kind of personal understanding. There will always be
Series ever in 1991. Bringing fans behind
people who say that baseball is just a game—until they
the scenes, he shares the camaraderie and
read this book.”
occasional scuffles in the clubhouse and tells Doug Grow covered the Minnesota Twins as a sports
—Don Shelby, WCCO-TV
the stories that animated even lackluster columnist from 1979 to 1987, and as a metro columnist
seasons, including the 1968 game when he wrote about the 1987 and 1991 World Series as well
“Bill Dailey, Won’t You Please Come Home.” Cesar Tovar played every position. Taking us as the long debates over stadium funding. He is currently
Billy Ball. The Lumber Company. Ten Acres through two eras of owners, Grow captures a journalist working for the online publication MinnPost.
of Roof. Homer Hankies. Bobblehead dolls. the changing economics of baseball and
Piranhas. Twins Territory. In 1961, the Twins vividly portrays the characters that defined the Sports/Regional
$25.95 £16.00 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-5621-9
brought major league baseball to the upper times—from the “holy cow” of original radio April
Midwest, becoming the first team to claim color man Halsey Hall to the sweet moments 368 pages 123 b&w illustrations 6 x 9
with its name not just a city but a region. and struggles of players like Zoilo Versalles,
In We’re Gonna Win, Twins! longtime the first Latin MVP, to the 2006 season when
sports reporter and columnist Doug Grow the major leagues’ batting title, MVP, and
chronicles a half century of Twins baseball, Cy Young Award all went to Minnesota Twins.
season by season, from the scrappy stars
As the franchise moves back out under the
of Metropolitan Stadium through two World
open air and into its fifth decade in the major
Series in the Metrodome to the opening of a
leagues, the incredible insider view and
new era at Target Field.
stunning photographs of We’re Gonna Win,
Beginning each chapter with a snapshot of Twins! celebrate the year-in, year-out texture
events in the world and in baseball, Grow of the game, the oh-so-satisfying triumphs,
shows how teams were built and managed, and the angst that indelibly mark the true fan.
from the arrival and departure of key players
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Memory of Trees
A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm

Gayla Marty
An evocative memoir of life on a dairy farm travel, and city life, but the farm remains
in Minnesota’s St. Croix Valley essential to her sense of self, even after the
family decides to sell the land.
“This book, with its singular ‘daughter’s voice,’ is a rare When Gaylon has an accident on a tractor,
and wonderful confluence of vision, family history, and Gayla becomes driven to reconnect with him
fine writing. It adds a much-needed perspective to the and to find out why she and her uncle—once
Midwestern experience.” so close but now estranged—were the only
—Will Weaver two members of the family who had resisted
selling the land. Guided by vivid images of
Gayla Marty works in communications at the University of
the farm’s many beautiful trees, she pores
Memory of Trees is a multigenerational story Minnesota.
over sacred and classical works as well as
of Gayla Marty’s family farm near Rush City,
layers of her own memory to understand the Regional/Memoir
Minnesota. Cleared from woodlands by her
forces that have transformed the American $24.95 £15.50 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-6689-8
great-grandfather Jacob in the 1880s, the farm April
landscape and culture in the last half of the
passed to her father, Gordon, and his brother, 248 pages 9 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
twentieth century. Beneath the belief in land
Gaylon. Hewing to a conservative Swedish
as a giver of life and blessing, she discovers a
Baptist faith, the two brothers worked the
powerful anxiety born of human uprootedness
farm, raising their families in side-by-side
and loss. Movingly written, Memory of Trees
houses.
will resonate for many with attachments to
As the years go by, the families grow— small towns or farms, whether they continue
and slowly grow apart. Uncle Gaylon, to work the land or, like so many, have left for
more doctrinaire in his faith, rails against a different life.
the permissiveness of Gayla’s parents.
Financial tensions arise as well when the
farm economy weakens and none of the
children is willing or able to take over. Gayla is
encouraged to leave for college, international
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The Music of Failure

Bi l l Holm
Ne w e dit io n
F or e w ord by Jim Heynen
Af t e rw ord by Dav id Pic hask e
The 25th anniversary edition of Bill Holm’s of Minneota—the town of his immigrant
influential first book of essays Icelandic ancestors—as, in his words, “for
all practical purposes a failure.”
“We would not be worse as a people if we would always What emerges from these pages, and from
ask: What would Bill Holm think about that?” Holm’s cherished writings over the next two
—Einar Már Gudmundsson and a half decades, is anything but failure.
From his ruminations on life in Minneota,
“Bill Holm’s essays test the general assumptions of
family history, and the “horizontal grandeur”
Americans about themselves against the private realities
of the Midwestern prairie to a poetry-reading
of their lives in a particular place. The place is Minneota, Bill Holm (1943–2009) was a one-of-a-kind poet,
tour of Minnesota nursing homes and an
Minnesota, vividly evoked in Tom Guttormsson’s essayist, and musician. The author of many books of
account of a naked man eating lilacs out of his
photographs as well as in Holm’s words.” poetry and prose, including Boxelder Bug Variations,
garden, The Music of Failure is a lyrical and
—Tobias Wolff The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth, and
surprising compilation that finds Holm mining
Windows of Brimnes, he won the Minnesota Book
“Bill Holm’s essay ‘The Music of Failure’ is worth the the stories and places that captivated him and
Award and, in 2008, was named the McKnight
price of the whole book. Why will Americans agree to continue to enthrall his many readers.
Distinguished Artist of the Year.
experience so many things, but not failure? The beauty
This 25th anniversary edition includes
of failure is his theme. A brilliant essay.” Jim Heynen has published widely as a writer of poems,
poignant portraits of Holm and the history of
—Robert Bly novels, nonfiction, and short fiction.
The Music of Failure by Jim Heynen and David
Pichaske, along with an essay Holm requested David Pichaske is editor in chief of Spoon River Poetry
“The ground bass is failure; America is the be added to this new edition, “Is Minnesota in Press, Ellis Press, and Plains Press.
key signature; Pauline Bardal is the lyrical tune America Yet?” With beautiful black-and-white
that sings at the center; Minneota, Minnesota, photographs by Tom Guttormsson, The Music Literature/Regional
$16.95 £10.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-7008-6
is the staff on which the tunes are written.” of Failure is Bill Holm at both his early and March
So begins the masterful title piece from quintessential best, an inimitable and much- 160 pages 15 b&w illustrations 5 3/8 x 8 1/4
Bill Holm’s first book of essays, The Music missed writer who illuminates our private and Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series
of Failure. This collection introduced to many common lives through both our quiet victories
the singular vision and voice of literary giant and our sublime failures.
Bill Holm, a writer who had traveled well
and widely but came back to his hometown
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Carew
Rod Carew
Ne w e dit io n
w ith Ira Berkow
Forew ord by Torii Hunter
The candid and compelling memoir Carew writes memorably of his baseball
of Rod Carew, one of baseball’s career and his philosophy and approach to
greatest players hitting—including his historic quest as a
Minnesota Twin in 1977 for the first .400
When Rod Carew retired in 1985, following
season since 1941—but he also deals frankly
twelve seasons with the Minnesota Twins
with his early poverty, an unhappy relationship
and seven with the California Angels, he
with an abusive father, and the racial
had amassed seven batting titles, more than
discrimination that became more pronounced
three thousand hits, and eighteen All-Star
due to fame and an interracial marriage.
selections and was considered one of the best
Hall of Famer Rod Carew was an eighteen-time All Star
pure hitters to ever play the game. While his First published in 1979, this new edition
during his career with the Minnesota Twins and the
baseball career is well documented—Rookie has a foreword by All-Star center fielder
California Angels. He currently serves as a member of
of the Year in 1967 and a first-ballot Hall of Torii Hunter and a new afterword by Carew
the Minnesota Twins’ executive committee and is an
Fame selection in 1991—this compelling covering the end of his baseball career and
executive representative for the Anaheim Angels.
chronicle of Carew’s life extends far beyond his post-baseball life—notably his induction
the baseball diamond. into the Hall of Fame, his years as a hitting Prior to his retirement, Ira Berkow was a Pulitzer prize–
instructor, and the tragic loss of his daughter winning sports reporter and columnist for the New York
Carew is the candid autobiography of a
Michelle to leukemia. Carew is a forthright and Times.
baseball legend—from his years growing up
fascinating account, revealing the public and
in a segregated barrio in Panama to his move Torii Hunter plays center field for the Los Angeles
private stories that illuminate one of baseball’s
to Harlem at the age of fourteen, from the Angels of Anaheim. Drafted out of high school by the
greatest and most respected players.
sandlots of the Bronx to the highest ranks of Minnesota Twins in 1993, Hunter made his major
major league stardom. Working with noted league debut in 1997 and played with the Twins through
New York Times sportswriter Ira Berkow, the 2007 season.
Sports/Regional
$18.95 £12.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-7009-3
April
268 pages 34 b&w illustrations, 1 table 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
NAM
Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series
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Twilight Rails

The Final Era of Railroad Building in the Midwest
H . R oger Grant
The first book to document the final wave as examples of unwise business ventures.
of railroad construction in the Midwest, Grant finds that even the weakest railroads
written by a preeminent railroad historian were important to the communities they
served; the arrival of the railroad was cause
By the start of the twentieth century railroads
for great celebration as residents were
crisscrossed the nation, yet there were still
finally connected to the outside world. A
those who believed that the railroad network
railroad’s construction pumped money into
in the United States was far from complete.
local economies, farmers and manufacturers
Residents of small towns lacking rail access
gained access to better markets, and the
lobbied hard for steam and electric roads
excitement generated by a new line often H. Roger Grant is the Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon
to serve their communities, and investors
increased land values and inspired expansion Professor of History at Clemson University and the
eagerly started new ventures that would fill
of local businesses. Even the least financially author of numerous books on railroad history, including
the gaps in the railway map. While some of
successful carriers, Grant argues, managed to Erie Lackawanna: The Death of an American Railroad,
these roads enjoyed a degree of success,
significantly improve their local economies. 1938–1992; “Follow the Flag”: A History of the Wabash
most of them were financial flops even before
Railroad Company; and The North Western: A History of
the rise of the highway system made them This thorough and highly accessible history
the Chicago & North Western Railway System.
obsolete. provides a fascinating look at the motivations,
accomplishments, and failures of the twilight Railroad and Transportat i on /Re gion al
In Twilight Rails, H. Roger Grant—one of the
carriers, granting a new breath of life to this $39.95 £25.00 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-6562-4
leading railroad historians working today— May
neglected aspect of American railway history.
documents the stories of eight Midwestern 296 pages 64 b&w illustrations, 8 maps 7 x 10
carriers that appeared at the end of the
railroad building craze. When historians have
reflected on these “twilight” carriers, they
have suggested that they were relevant only
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Mine Towns
Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country

Alison K. Hoagl and
What company towns in the Upper own advantage. The story of Joseph and
Peninsula of Michigan reveal about life Antonia Putrich, immigrants from Croatia,
during America’s first mineral land rush punctuates and illustrates the realities of life
in a booming company town. While company
During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw
managers provided housing as a way to
Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the
develop and control a stable workforce,
site of America’s first mineral land rush
workers often rejected this domestic ideal and
as companies hastened to profit from the
used homes as an economic resource, taking
region’s vast copper deposits. In order to
in boarders to help generate further income.
lure workers to such a remote location—and
Alison K. Hoagland is professor of history and historic
work long hours in dangerous conditions— Focusing on how the exchange between
preservation at Michigan Technological University and
companies offered not just competitive wages company managers and a largely immigrant
the author of Buildings of Alaska and Army Architecture
but also helped provide the very infrastructure workforce took the form of negotiation rather
in the West: Forts Laramie, Bridger, and D. A. Russell,
of town life in the form of affordable housing, than a top-down system, Hoagland examines
1849–1912.
schools, health-care facilities, and churches. surviving buildings and uses Copper Country’s
built environment to map this remarkable Ar chitectural His t ory/Re gion al
The first working-class history of domestic
connection between a company and its $25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6567-9
life in Copper Country company towns $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6566-2
workers at the height of Michigan’s largest
during the boom years of 1890 to 1918, April
land rush. 328 pages 115 b&w illustrations 7 x 10
Alison K. Hoagland’s Mine Towns investigates
how the architecture of a company town
revealed the paternal relationship that existed
between company managers and workers—
a relationship that both parties turned to their
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Minnesota Architects

A Biographical Dictionary
A l a n K. Lathrop
The first biographical guide to Minnesota relatively obscure or unknown, while others
architects from 1860 to the present are considered stars of the profession, such
as Cass Gilbert, Clarence Johnston, “Cap”
From the earliest architects in Minnesota,
Turner, and Edwin Lundie. Noted Minnesota
who came just prior to the Civil War and had
architectural historian Alan K. Lathrop has
learned their trade through apprenticeship,
drawn on an incredible range of sources—
to the arrival of formally trained architects
from censuses, city directories, and obituaries
in the late 1880s, and from the creation
to interviews and genealogical resources—to
of the University of Minnesota’s school of
create an authoritative and unprecedented
architecture in 1912 to the present-day firms
survey of Minnesota’s architects. Alan K. Lathrop was curator of the Manuscripts Division
and individuals practicing across the state,
at the University of Minnesota Libraries from 1970
Minnesota is home to an appreciable legacy of Heavily illustrated with photos of the
to 2008. He is the author of Churches of Minnesota
architects whose influence spreads far beyond architects’ work, Minnesota Architects is
(Minnesota, 2003).
the state’s borders. designed to be an easy-to-navigate resource
for preservationists, historians, students Regional/Ar chitecture/Re f e r e n ce
Minnesota Architects presents, for the first
of architecture, and anyone interested in $39.95 £25.00 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-4463-6
time, a wide-ranging biographical dictionary of June
the men and women of Minnesota’s rich
the many architects who were born or worked 288 pages 160 b&w illustrations 7x10
architectural legacy.
for a significant time in Minnesota. Each
of the more than 250 biographies contains
the architect’s era of work, educational and
professional experience, and a description
of his or her most notable buildings. Many
of the architects included in this book are
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Nature and Revelation

A History of Macalester College

Jeanne Ha l gren Kilde
Forew ord by James Brewer S t e wa r t
Tells the story of one of the most prominent Macalester College in a national context, Kilde
educational institutions in the Midwest explores the cultural, political, and pedagogical
challenges and shifts experienced by most
Nature and Revelation is an absorbing history
U.S. institutions of higher education during
of Macalester College, from its origins as
this turbulent period.
a Presbyterian secondary school in frontier
St. Paul to its current presence as a nationally While so doing, Kilde uncovers a number
prominent liberal arts college. Detailing the of little-known aspects of the college’s
college’s history, Jeanne Halgren Kilde tells history and explores the facts behind such
stories of the college’s influential leaders, persistent Mac myths as whether its most
Jeanne Halgren Kilde is director of the religious studies
its defining moments, its rapidly changing generous supporter, Reader’s Digest founder
program at the University of Minnesota. She is the author
student life, and the sometimes controversial DeWitt Wallace, actually coaxed a cow into a
of several books, including Sacred Power, Sacred Space:
evolution of the school’s curriculum and college building as an undergraduate or later
An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship
reputation, exploring its transformation from a terminated his financial support of the college
and When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation
modest evangelical college into a progressive, in objection to what he considered its leftist
of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-
secular institution. political sympathies, or whether the college’s
Century America.
initiative to attract minority students during
By highlighting the college’s balancing act
the 1970s drove its operating budget into an James Brewer Stewart is James Wallace Professor of
between nature and revelation—between the
enormous deficit. An enlightening and rich History Emeritus at Macalester College.
pursuit of empirical knowledge and religious
history, Nature and Revelation documents
conviction—Kilde traces the impact of Regional/Religion /His t ory
Macalester College’s unique story and reveals
changing perceptions of religion and education $29.95 £18.50 Cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-5626-4
its significance to higher education and May
over Macalester’s more than century-long
religion in the United States. 424 pages 52 b&w illustrations 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
history. As once-religious colleges gradually
shed their church ties and negotiated tensions
between religious, vocational, and liberal arts
missions, they both mirrored and affected the
development of education and the trajectory
of American Protestantism itself. Placing
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Making Life Work

Freedom and Disability in a Community Group Home
J ac k Levins on
Understanding how group home life is not than being seen as the antithesis of freedom,
so different from our own the group home must be understood as
representing the fundamental dilemmas
Group homes emerged in the United States
between authority and the individual in
in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of
contemporary liberal societies. No longer
the large institutions that, for more than a
inmates but citizens, these people who
century, segregated and abused people with
are presumed—rightly or wrongly—to lack
intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet
the capacity for freedom actually govern
community services have not, for the most
themselves.
part, delivered on the promises of rights,
Jack Levinson is assistant professor of sociology at the
self-determination, and integration made more Levinson, a former group home counselor,
City College of New York.
than thirty years ago, and critics predominantly demonstrates that the group home depends
portray group homes simply as settings of on the very capacities for independence and Sociology/Disability Studi e s
social control. individuality it cultivates in the residents. At $22.50x £14.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5082-8
the same time, he addresses the complex $67.50xx £42.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5081-1
Making Life Work is a clear-eyed ethnography April
relationship between services and social 304 pages 10 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
of a New York City group home based on
control in the history of intellectual and
more than a year of field research. Jack
developmental disabilities, interrogating
Levinson shows how the group home needs
broader social service policies and the role of
the knowledgeable and voluntary participation
clinical practice in the community.
of residents and counselors alike. The group
home is an actual workplace for counselors,
but for residents group home work involves
working on themselves to become more
autonomous. Levinson reveals that rather
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The Force of the Virtual

Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy

Peter Gaffney, Editor
The first book-length work to explore found in and among the objects of science.
in depth Deleuze’s view of the sciences By adopting such a methodology, this
collection generates significant new insights,
Gilles Deleuze once claimed that “modern
especially regarding the notion of scientific
science has not found its metaphysics, the
laws, and compels the rethinking of such
metaphysics it needs.” The Force of the
ideas as reproducibility, the unity of science,
Virtual responds to this need by investigating
and the scientific observer.
the consequences of the philosopher’s
interest in (and appeal to) “the exact Contributors: Manola Antonioli, Collège
sciences.” In exploring the problematic International de Philosophie (Paris); Clark
Peter Gaffney is visiting assistant professor at
relationship between the philosophy of Bailey; Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht U; Manuel
Haverford College and the Curtis Institute of Music,
Deleuze and science, the original essays DeLanda, U of Pennsylvania; Aden Evens,
where he teaches film studies, philosophy, and
gathered here examine how science functions Dartmouth U; Gregory Flaxman, U of North
literature.
in respect to Deleuze’s concepts of time and Carolina; Thomas Kelso; Andrew Murphie,
space, how science accounts for processes U of New South Wales; Patricia Pisters, U of Theory/Philosop hy
of qualitative change, how science actively Amsterdam; Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue U; $27.50x £17.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6598-3
participates in the production of subjectivity, Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Arnaud Villani, $82.50xx £51.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6597-6
June
and how Deleuze’s thinking engages Première Supérieure au Lycée Masséna 416 pages 22 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
neuroscience. de Nice.
All of the essays work through Deleuze’s

understanding of the virtual—a force of
qualitative change that is ontologically primary
to the exact, measurable relations that can be
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Cosmopolitics I

I s a b e lle Stengers
Translated by Robert Bononn o
A sweeping critique of the role and the power relations at work in the
and authority of modern science social and behavioral sciences. Focusing
in contemporary society on the polemical and creative aspects of
such themes, she argues for an ecology
From Einstein’s quest for a unified field
of practices that takes into account how
theory to Stephen Hawking’s belief that we
scientific knowledge evolves, the constraints
“would know the mind of God” through
and obligations such practices impose, and
such a theory, contemporary science—and
the impact they have on the sciences and
physics in particular—has claimed that it
beyond.
alone possesses absolute knowledge of the
Isabelle Stengers is professor of philosophy at the Free
universe. In a sweeping work of philosophical This perspective, which demands that
University of Brussels. Among her other books available
inquiry, originally published in French in competing practices and interests be taken
in English are The Invention of Modern Science
seven volumes, Isabelle Stengers builds on seriously rather than merely (and often
(Minnesota, 2000) and Power and Invention: Situating
her previous intellectual accomplishments condescendingly) tolerated, poses a profound
Science (Minnesota, 1997).
to explore the role and authority of science political and ethical challenge. In place of both
in modern societies and to challenge its absolutism and tolerance, she proposes a Robert Bononno, a teacher and translator, lives in New
pretensions to objectivity, rationality, and truth. cosmopolitics—modeled on the ideal scientific York City. His most recent translation is Psychoanalysis
method that considers all assumptions and the Challenge of Islam (Minnesota, 2009).
For Stengers, science is a constructive
and facts as being open to question—that
enterprise, a diverse, interdependent, and Theory/Philosophy
reintegrates the natural and the social, the
highly contingent system that does not $25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5687-5
modern and the archaic, the scientific and the $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5686-8
simply discover preexisting truths but,
irrational. May
through specific practices and processes, 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
helps shape them. She addresses conceptual Cosmopolitics I includes the first Posthumanities Series, volume 9
themes crucial for modern science, such three volumes of the original work.
as the formation of physical-mathematical Cosmopolitics II will be published by the
intelligibility, from Galilean mechanics and University of Minnesota Press in Spring 2011.
the origin of dynamics to quantum theory,
the question of biological reductionism,
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The Ethics of Earth Art

Am anda Boetzk es
Analyzing the ethical stance of the representation, earth artists take an ethical
earth art movement from the 1960s stance that counters both the instrumental
to the present view that seeks to master nature and the
Romantic view that posits a return to a
Since its inception in the 1960s, the earth art
mythical state of unencumbered continuity
movement has sought to make visible the
with nature. By incorporating receptive
elusive presence of nature. Though most
surfaces into their work—film footage of
often associated with monumental land-
glaring sunlight, an aperture in a chamber
based sculptures, earth art encompasses
that opens to the sky, or a porous armature
a wide range of media, from sculpture,
on which vegetation grows—earth artists Amanda Boetzkes is assistant professor of art and
body art performances, and installations to
articulate the dilemma of representation that design at the University of Alberta.
photographic interventions, public protest art,
nature presents.
and community projects. Ar t/environmen tal s t udi e s
Revealing the fundamental difference $25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6589-1
In The Ethics of Earth Art, Amanda Boetzkes $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6588-4
between the human world and the earth,
analyzes the development of the earth art May
Boetzkes shows that earth art mediates 240 pages 63 b&w illustrations 6 x 8
movement, arguing that such diverse artists
the sensations of nature while allowing
as Robert Smithson, Ana Mendieta, James
nature itself to remain irreducible to human
Turrell, Jackie Brookner, Olafur Eliasson,
signification.
Basia Irland, and Ichi Ikeda are connected
through their elucidation of the earth as a
domain of ethical concern. Boetzkes contends
that in basing their works’ relationship to
the natural world on receptivity rather than
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Imagined Museums Screens

Art and Modernity in Viewing Media Installation Art
Postcolonial Morocco Kate Mondl och
K ata r z y n a P i e prz a k
What happens when national museums fall apart? Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums
Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art Media screens—film, video, and computer screens—have increasingly
and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s.
the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also Yet the nature of viewing artworks made from these media, along
as a national monument to modernity, asking what happens when with their subjective effects, remains largely unexplored. Screens
museum monuments start to crumble. addresses this gap, offering a historical and theoretical framework for
understanding screen-reliant installation art and the spectatorship it
In an analysis of museum history, exhibition policy, the lack of national
evokes.
museum space for modern art, and postmodern exhibit spaces in
Morocco, Katarzyna Pieprzak focuses on the role that art plays in the Examining a range of installations created over the past fifty years that
social fabric of a modernizing Morocco. She argues that the decay of investigate the rich terrain between the sculptural and the cinematic,
colonial and national institutions of culture has invited the rethinking of including works by artists such as Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Peter
the museum and generated countermuseums to stage new narratives of Campus, Dan Graham, VALIE EXPORT, Bruce Nauman, and Michael
art, memory, and modernity. Through these spaces she explores a range Snow, Kate Mondloch traces the construction of screen spectatorship
of questions: How is modernity imagined locally? How are claims to in art from the seminal film and video installations of the 1960s and
modernity articulated? How is Moroccan modernity challenged globally? 1970s to the new media artworks of today’s digital culture.
In this first cultural history of modern Moroccan art and its museums, Mondloch identifies a momentous shift in contemporary art that
Pieprzak goes beyond the investigation of national institutions to treat challenges key premises of spectatorship brought about by technological
the history and evolution of multiple museums—from official state and objects that literally and metaphorically filter the subject’s field of vision.
corporate exhibition spaces to informal, popular, street-level art and As a result she proposes that contemporary viewers are, quite literally,
performance spaces—as cultural architectures that both enshrine the screen subjects and offers the unique critical leverage of art as an
past and look to the future. alternative way to understand media culture and contemporary visuality.
Katarzyna Pieprzak is associate professor of French and comparative literature at Kate Mondloch is assistant professor of contemporary art history and theory at the
Williams College. University of Oregon.
M us e um S t u d i e s / Mi d d l e Ea stern S tu d ies Ar t/Film and Media Studies

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F e b rua r y February
280 pages 17 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 208 pages 32 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Electronic Mediations Series, volume 30
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From Utopia to Apocalypse

Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe

Peter Y. Paik
The pitfalls and limitations of utopian and the Matrix trilogy. Superhero fantasies
politics as revealed by science fiction are usually seen as compensations for
individual feelings of weakness, victimization,
Revolutionary narratives in recent science
and vulnerability. But Paik presents these
fiction graphic novels and films compel
fantasies as social constructions concerned
audiences to reflect on the politics and
with questions of political will and the
societal ills of the day. Through character and
disintegration of democracy rather than with
story, science fiction brings theory to life,
the psychology of the personal.
giving shape to the motivations behind the
action as well as to the consequences they What is urgently at stake, Paik argues, is a
Peter Y. Paik is associate professor of comparative
produce. critique of the limitations and deadlocks of the
literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
political imagination. The utopias dreamed of
In From Utopia to Apocalypse, Peter Y.
by totalitarianism, which must be imposed Literary Critic ism/T he ory
Paik shows how science fiction generates
through torture, oppression, and mass $20.00x £12.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5079-8
intriguing and profound insights into politics. $60.00xx £37.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5078-1
imprisonment, nevertheless persist in liberal
He reveals that the fantasy of putting February
political systems. With this reality looming 232 pages 6 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
annihilating omnipotence to beneficial effect
throughout, Paik demonstrates the uneasy
underlies the revolutionary projects that
juxtaposition of saintliness and cynically
have defined the collective upheavals of the
manipulative realpolitik, of torture and the
modern age. Paik traces how this political
assertion of human dignity, of cruelty and
theology is expressed, and indeed literalized,
benevolence.
in popular superhero fiction, examining works
such as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s
graphic novel Watchmen, the science fiction
cinema of Jang Joon-Hwan, the manga of
Hayao Miyazaki, Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta,
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I Think I Am

Philip K. Dick
L a u rence A. Rick el s
Sounds out the philosophical well as a recognition of Rickels’s own long-

and psychoanalytic significance documented intellectual pursuits. The result of
of Philip K. Dick’s influential fiction this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick,
a profound thought experiment that charts the
wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and
“I discovered in Philip K. Dick a precursor. My one and only
paranoid visionary.
practical critique over the years has been to inquire of
every system of thought and belief: where are the dead I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the
located, where do they go, where are they kept here?” science fiction author’s meditations on psychic
—Laurence A. Rickels, from the Introjection reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism,
Laurence A. Rickels is professor of German and compara
Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism.
tive literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
Covering all of Dick’s science fiction, Rickels
For years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels and Sigmund Freud professor of media and philosophy
corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the
often found himself compared to novelist at the European Graduate School. He is the author of
legendary Californian author and, ultimately,
Philip K. Dick—though in fact Rickels had several books published by Minnesota, including The Case
makes a compelling case for the philosophical
never read any of the science fiction writer’s of California (2001) and The Vampire Lectures (1999).
and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K.
work. When he finally read his first Philip K.
Dick’s popular and influential science fiction. Literary Criticism/Theory
Dick novel, while researching for his recent
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book The Devil Notebooks, it prompted a $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6665-2
prolonged immersion in Dick’s writing as April
432 pages 6 x 9
The Devil Notebooks
a l s o o f in ter e st
La uren ce A. Rickels
$24.95 Paper (2008)
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5052-1
Nazi Psychoanalysis
La uren ce A. Rickels
$26.00x Paper (2002)
Volume I: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War ISBN: 978-0-8166-3697-6
Volume II: Crypto-Fetishism ISBN: 978-0-8166-3699-0
Volume III: Psy Fi ISBN: 978-0-8166-3701-0
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X-Marks
Native Signatures of Assent

Scott Richard Ly ons
A provocative and deeply personal In X-Marks, Scott Richard Lyons explores the
exploration of contemporary Indian complexity of contemporary Indian identity
identity, nationalism, and modernity and current debates among Indians about
traditionalism, nationalism, and tribalism.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth
Employing the x-mark as a metaphor for what
centuries, North American Indian leaders
he calls the “Indian assent to the new,” Lyons
commonly signed treaties with the European
offers a valuable alternative to both imperialist
powers and the American and Canadian
concepts of assimilation and nativist notions
governments with an X, signifying their
of resistance, calling into question the binary
presence and assent to the terms. These
oppositions produced during the age of Scott Richard Lyons is assistant professor of English at
x-marks indicated coercion (because the
imperialism and maintaining that indigeneity is Syracuse University.
treaties were made under unfair conditions),
something that people do, not what they are.
resistance (because they were often met Native America n St udi e s
Drawing on personal experiences and family
with protest), and acquiescence (to both $22.50x £14.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6677-5
history on the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation $67.50xx £42.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6676-8
a European modernity and the end of a
in Minnesota, discourses embedded in April
particular moment of Indian history and 248 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Ojibwemowin (the Ojibwe language), and
identity). Indigenous Americas Series
disagreements about Indian identity within
Native American studies, Lyons contends that
Indians should be able to choose nontraditional
ways of living, thinking, and being without fear
Like a Loaded Weapon of being condemned as inauthentic.
a ls o o f in t e re st
The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History

of Racism in America X-Marks analyzes ongoing controversies about
Robe rt A . W i l l i ams, J r . Indian identity, addresses the issue of culture
$18.95 Paper (2005)
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4710-1
and its use and misuse by essentialists, and
considers the implications of the idea of an
Red on Red
Indian nation. X-Marks holds that indigenous
Native American Literary Separatism
C ra i g S . W oma c k
peoples can operate in modern times while
$22.50x Paper (1999) simultaneously honoring and defending their
ISBN: 978-0-8166-3023-3 communities, practices, and values.
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Firsting and Lasting

Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
J e a n M. O’Brien
Tracing the origins of the persistent myth Island written between 1820 and 1880, as
of the vanishing Indian well as censuses, monuments, and accounts
of historical pageants and commemorations,
Across nineteenth-century New England,
O’Brien explores how these narratives
antiquarians and community leaders wrote
inculcated the myth of Indian extinction,
hundreds of local histories about the founding
a myth that has stubbornly remained in the
and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging
American consciousness.
from pamphlets to multivolume treatments,
these narratives shared a preoccupation In order to convince themselves that the
with establishing the region as the cradle of Indians had vanished despite their continued
Jean M. O’Brien is associate professor of history and
an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a presence, O’Brien finds that local historians
American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota.
modern American culture. They also insisted, and their readers embraced notions of racial
She is the author of Dispossession by Degrees: Indian
often in mournful tones, that New England’s purity rooted in the century’s scientific racism
Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650–1790.
original inhabitants, the Indians, had become and saw living Indians as “mixed” and
extinct, even though many Indians still lived in therefore no longer truly Indian. Adaptation History/Native America n St udi e s
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In Firsting and Lasting, Jean M. O’Brien March
Indians did not—and have not—accepted this 320 pages 25 b&w illustrations, 2 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
argues that local histories became a primary
effacement, and O’Brien details how Indians Indigenous Americas Series
means by which European Americans
have resisted their erasure through narratives
asserted their own modernity while denying
of their own. These debates and the rich and
it to Indian peoples. Erasing and then
surprising history uncovered in O’Brien’s work
memorializing Indian peoples also served
continue to have a profound influence on
a more pragmatic colonial goal: refuting
discourses about race and indigenous rights.
Indian claims to land and rights. Drawing on
more than six hundred local histories from
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode
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Architecture’s Historical Turn

Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern

Jorg e Otero-P ailos
Examines the origins and influence They drew from phenomenology, exploring
of postmodernist thought in architectural the work of Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty,
theory Heidegger, and Ricoeur, which they translated
for architectural audiences. Initially, the
Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden
concept that experience could be a timeless
history of architectural phenomenology, a
architectural language provided a unifying
movement that reflected a key turning point
intellectual basis for the stylistic pluralism that
in the early phases of postmodernism and a
characterized postmodernism. It helped give
legitimating source for those architects who
theory—especially the theory of architectural
first dared to confront history as an intellectual
history—a new importance over practice. Jorge Otero-Pailos is assistant professor of historic
problem and not merely as a stylistic question.
However, as Otero-Pailos makes clear, preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Jorge Otero-Pailos shows how architectural architectural phenomenologists could not Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
phenomenology radically transformed how accept the idea of theory as an end in itself.
architects engaged, theorized, and produced In the mid-1980s they were caught in the Ar chitectural His t ory/T he ory
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history. In the first critical intellectual account contradictory and untenable position of having $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6603-4
of the movement, Otero-Pailos discusses the to formulate their own demotion of theory. April
contributions of leading members, including 320 pages 69 b&w illustrations, 12 color illustrations
Otero-Pailos reveals how, ultimately, 7 x 10
Jean Labatut, Charles Moore, Christian
the rise of architectural phenomenology
Norberg-Schulz, and Kenneth Frampton.
played a crucial double role in the rise of
For architects maturing after World War II,
postmodernism, creating the antimodern
Otero-Pailos contends, architectural
specter of a historical consciousness and
history was a problem rather than a given.
offering the modern notion of essential
Paradoxically, their awareness of modernism’s
experience as the means to defeat it.
historicity led some of them to search for
an ahistorical experiential constant that
might underpin all architectural expression.
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Utopia’s Ghost

Architecture and Postmodernism, Again
R e inhold Martin
Unpacking architecture’s important—and connects architecture to current debates

continuing—role in postmodern thought on biopolitics, neoliberalism, and corporate
globalization as they are haunted by the
Architectural postmodernism had a significant
problem of utopia. Exploring a series of
impact on the broader development of
concepts—territory, history, language, image,
postmodern thought: Utopia’s Ghost is a
materiality, subjectivity, and architecture
critical reconsideration of their relationship.
itself—Martin shows how they reorganize the
Combining discourse analysis, historical
cultural imaginary and shape a contemporary
reconstruction, and close readings of
biopolitics that ultimately precludes utopian
buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s
thought. Reinhold Martin is associate professor of architecture
and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that
at Columbia University and the director of the Temple
retheorizing postmodern architecture gives us Written at the intersection of culture, politics,
Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American
new insights into cultural postmodernism and and the city, particularly in the context of
Architecture. He is the author of The Organizational
its aftermath. corporate globalization, Utopia’s Ghost
Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space
challenges dominant theoretical paradigms
Much of today’s discussion has turned to and a founding coeditor of the journal Grey Room.
and opens new avenues for architectural
the recovery of modernity, but Martin writes
scholarship and cultural analysis. Ar chitecture/Theory
in the Introduction, “Simply to historicize
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postmodernism seems inadequate and, in $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6962-2
many ways, premature.” Utopia’s Ghost April
248 pages 42 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
al s o o f int er es t
The New Architectural Pragmatism
A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
William S. Saun ders, e d itor
$22.95 Paper (2007)
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The Singular Objects of Architecture

Jean Baudrillard and J e a n No uve l
$17.95 Paper (2005)
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In Babel’s Shadow Couture and

Multilingual Literatures, Consensus

Monolingual States Fashion and Politics in
B ria n L e nno n Postcolonial Argentina
Regina A. Root
A study of the limits of multilingual literary expression The intersection of fashion and politics in nineteenth-
in print culture century Argentina
Multilingual literature defies simple translation. Beginning with this Following Argentina’s revolution in 1810, the dress of young patriots
insight, Brian Lennon examines the resistance multilingual literature inspired a nation and distanced its politics from the relics of Spanish
offers to book publication itself. In readings of G. V. Desani’s All about colonialism. Fashion writing often escaped the notice of authorities,
H. Hatterr, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Christine Brooke- allowing authors to masquerade political ideas under the guise of
Rose’s Between, Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation, Emine Sevgi frivolity and entertainment. In Couture and Consensus, Regina A. Root
Özdamar’s Mutterzunge, and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, among other maps this pivotal and overlooked facet of Argentine cultural history,
works, Lennon shows how nationalized literary print culture inverts the showing how politics emerged from dress to disrupt authoritarian
values of a transnational age, reminding us that works of literature are, practices and stimulate creativity in a newly independent nation.
above all, objects in motion.
Drawing from genres as diverse as fiction, poetry, songs, and fashion
Looking closely at the limit of both multilingual literary expression and magazines, Root offers a sartorial history that produces an original
the literary journalism, criticism, and scholarship that comments on understanding of how Argentina forged its identity during the regime
multilingual work, In Babel’s Shadow presents a critical reflection on the of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829–1852). Couture and Consensus closely
fate of literature in a world gripped by the crisis of globalization. analyzes military uniforms, women’s dress, and the novels of the era to
reveal fashion’s role in advancing an agenda and disseminating political
Brian Lennon is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at
goals, notions Root connects to the contemporary moment.
Pennsylvania State University.
An insightful presentation of the discourse of fashion, Couture and
Lit e r a ry Cri t i cism Consensus also paints a riveting portrait of Argentine society in the
$25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6502-0
$75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6501-3 nineteenth century—its politics, people, and creative forces.
June
256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Regina A. Root is associate professor of Hispanic studies at the College of William
and Mary. She is the editor of the Latin American Fashion Reader.
Latin American Studies/Fashion

$25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-4794-1
$75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-4793-4
May
Cultural Studies of the Americas Series, volume 24
37
Suzanne Lacy

Spaces Between
S haron Irish
The first in-depth exploration of the and community organizing. Lacy initially used
dynamic work of this radical artist her own body—or animal organs—to visually
depict psychological states or social conditions
Often controversial and sometimes even
in photographs, collages, and installations.
shocking to audiences, the work of California-
In the late 1970s she turned to organizing
based artist Suzanne Lacy has challenged
large groups of people into art events—
viewers and participants with personal
including her most famous work, The Crystal
accounts of traumatic events, settings that
Quilt, a 1987 performance broadcast live on
require people to assume uncomfortable
PBS and featuring hundreds of women in
positions, multisensory productions that
Minneapolis—and pioneered a new genre Sharon Irish holds a joint appointment in the School
evoke emotional as well as intellectual
of public art. of Architecture and the Graduate School of Library
responses, and even flayed lambs and beef
and Information Science at the University of Illinois,
kidneys. Lacy has experimented with ways Irish investigates the spaces between art
Urbana–Champaign.
to claim the power of mass media, to use and life, self and other, and the body and
women’s consciousness-raising groups as a physical structures in Lacy’s multifaceted Ar t/Women’ s Studies
performance structure, and to connect her artistic projects, showing how throughout $25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6096-4
projects to lived experiences. The body and her influential career Lacy has created art $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6095-7
February
large groups of bodies are the locations for that resists racism, promotes feminism, and 288 pages 57 b&w illustrations, 11 color illustrations
her lifelike art, revealing the aesthetics of explores challenging human relationships. 7 x 10
relationships among people.
In this critical examination of Suzanne Lacy,

Sharon Irish surveys Lacy’s art from 1972 to
the present, demonstrating the pivotal roles
that Lacy has had in public art, feminist theory,
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The Divided World

Human Rights and Its Violence

Randall Wil liams
Examines why some people are deemed postwar international institutions and debates,
worthy of human rights and others are not from the United Nations to international law.
Williams probes high-profile cases involving
Taking a critical view of a venerated
Amnesty International, Nelson Mandela, the
international principle, Randall Williams
International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights
shows how the concept of human rights—
Commission, Abu Ghraib, and Guantánamo,
often taken for granted as a force for good
as well as offering readings of works such
in the world—corresponds directly with U.S.
as Hotel Rwanda, Caché, and Death and the
imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from
Maiden that have put forth radical critiques of
W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more
political violence. Randall Williams is an instructor of literature at the
recently, M. Jacqui Alexander and China
University of California, San Diego. He has been
Miéville, Williams insists on a reckoning of The most forceful contradictions of
involved with various social movements from ACT UP
human rights with the violence of colonial international human rights discourse, he
to the recently formed Teachers Against Occupation.
modernity. argues, come into relief within anticolonial
critiques of racial violence. To this end, Political Scien ce /Li t e r ary Cri t i cism
Despite the emphasis on international human
The Divided World examines how a human $20.00x £12.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6542-6
rights since World War II, Williams notes that $60.00xx £37.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6541-9
rights–based international policy is ultimately
the discourse of human rights has consistently May
mobilized to manage violence—by limiting the 192 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
reinforced the concerns of the ascendant
access of its victims to justice.
global power of the United States. He
demonstrates how the alignment of human
rights with the interests of U.S. expansion is
not a matter of direct control or conspiratorial
plot but the result of a developing human
rights consensus that has been shaped by
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Migrants for Export Seeking Asylum

How the Philippine State Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy
Brokers Labor to the World at the Border
R o b y n M a g a l i t R o d rig uez Al is on Mountz
How the Philippines transformed itself into the world’s leading How human smuggling illuminates the complexities
labor brokerage state of immigration policies and laws
Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global In July 1999, Canadian authorities intercepted four boats off the coast
capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost of British Columbia carrying nearly six hundred Chinese citizens who
two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine were being smuggled into Canada. Government officials held the
president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only migrants on a Canadian naval base, which it designated a port of entry.
the head of state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of As one official later recounted to the author, the Chinese migrants
eight million Filipinos who live and work abroad.” entered a legal limbo, treated as though they were walking through a
long tunnel of bureaucracy to reach Canadian soil.
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine
government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage The “long tunnel thesis” is the basis of Alison Mountz’s wide-ranging
state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens investigation into the power of states to change the relationship
for migrant work abroad. Filipino men and women fill a range of between geography and law as they negotiate border crossings.
jobs around the globe, including domestic work, construction, and Mountz draws from many sources to argue that refugee-receiving
engineering, and they have even worked in the Middle East to states capitalize on crises generated by high-profile human smuggling
support U.S. military operations. At the same time, the state redefines events to implement restrictive measures designed to regulate
nationalism to normalize its citizens to migration while fostering their migration. Whether states view themselves as powerful actors who
ties to the Philippines. Those who leave the country to work and send can successfully exclude outsiders or as vulnerable actors in need of
their wages to their families at home are treated as new national stronger policies to repel potential threats, they end up subverting
heroes. access to human rights, altering laws, and extending power beyond
their own borders.
Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government’s
migration bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez Using examples from Canada, Australia, and the United States, Mountz
presents a new analysis of neoliberal globalization and its demonstrates the centrality of space and place in efforts to control the
consequences for nation-state formation. fate of unwanted migrants.
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Alison Mountz is associate professor of geography at Syracuse University.
Soci ol o g y / Asi a n S t u d i es Geogr aphy/human rights

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The World Says No A Jumble of Needs

to War Women’s Activism and

Demonstrations against the Neoliberalism in the Colonias of the
War on Iraq Southwest
S t e fa a n Wa l grave an d Rebecca Dolhin ow
Die t e r R u c h t, E ditors
pre fa c e b y sid ney tarrow
Examining the 2003 global protest against the war on Iraq Why is it so difficult for NGOs to successfully bring about social
transformation?
On February 15, 2003, the largest one-day protest in human history
took place as millions of people in hundreds of cities marched in the Many immigrant communities along the U.S. border with Mexico are
streets, rallying against the imminent invasion of Iraq. This was activism colonias, border settlements lacking infrastructure or safe housing.
on an unprecedented scale. A Jumble of Needs examines the leadership of Mexican women
immigrants in three colonias in New Mexico, documenting the
The World Says No to War strives to understand who spoke out,
role of NGOs in shaping women’s activism in these communities.
why they did, and how so many people were mobilized for a global
Ethnographer Rebecca Dolhinow, who worked in the colonias, uncovers
demonstration. Using surveys collected by researchers from eight
why such attempts to exercise political agency are so rarely successful.
countries—Belgium, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain,
Switzerland, and the United States—The World Says No to War Central to the relationship between NGOs and women activists in
analyzes how the new tools of the Internet were combined with more colonias, Dolhinow argues, is the looming presence of the neoliberal
conventional means of mobilization to rally millions, many with little political project. In particular, the discourses of caretaking that NGOs
experience in activism, around common goals and against common use to recruit women into leadership positions simultaneously
targets. naturalize and depoliticize the activist work that these women do in
their communities. Dolhinow discovers the connections between
Contributors: W. Lance Bennett, U of Washington; Michelle Beyeler,
colonias as isolated communities and colonia leaders as political
U Bern; Christian Breunig, U of Toronto; Mario Diani, U of Trento; Terri
subjects who unintentionally reinforce neoliberal policy. In the long
E. Givens, U of Texas, Austin; Bert Klandermans, Free U Amsterdam;
run, she finds, any politicization that might take place is limited to the
Donatella della Porta, European U Institute; Wolfgang Rüdig, U of
women leaders and seldom involves the community as a whole.
Strathclyde; Sidney Tarrow, Cornell U; Peter Van Aelst, U of Antwerp.
Surprisingly, Dolhinow reveals, many NGOs promote neoliberal ideals,
Stefaan Walgrave is professor of political science at the University of Antwerp. Dieter
resulting in continued disenfranchisement, despite the women’s
Rucht is professor of sociology at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin.
activism to better their lives, families, and communities.
S o c i o l o g y / P o l itic a l S c ienc e Rebecca Dolhinow is assistant professor of women’s studies at California State
$25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5096-5
$75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5095-8 University, Fullerton.
March
312 pages 13 b&w illustrations, 48 tables 6 x 9 Geogr aphy/Women’ s Studies
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 33 $25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5058-3
$75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5057-6
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Militarized Currents Ends of Empire

Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia Asian American Critique and
and the Pacific the Cold War
S e t s u S h ig e m ats u a nd Jodi Ki m
K e i t h L . C a ma c h o , E d i t ors
F o r e w o r d b y C y n t h i a Enl oe
Exposing the consequences of U.S. and Japanese militarization A bold examination of how the U.S. Cold War in Asia impacted
the formation of Asian America
Foregrounding indigenous and feminist scholarship, this collection
analyzes militarization as an extension of colonialism from the late Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its
twentieth to the twenty-first century in Asia and the Pacific. The challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism,
contributors theorize the effects of militarization across former Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation.
and current territories of Japan and the United States, such as
Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature
Guam, Okinawa, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, and Korea,
and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and
demonstrating that the relationship between militarization and colonial
provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of
subordination—and their gendered and racialized processes—shapes
the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring
and produces bodies of memory, knowledge, and resistance.
episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony—one that, contrary to
Contributors: Walden Bello, U of the Philippines; Michael Lujan leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was
Bevacqua, U of Guam; Patti Duncan, Oregon State U; Vernadette significantly triangulated in Asia.
Vicuña Gonzalez, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Insook Kwon, Myongji U; Laurel
The Asian American works analyzed here constitute a crucial body of
A. Monnig, U of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign; Katharine H. S. Moon,
what Kim reveals as transnational “Cold War compositions,” which are
Wellesley College; Jon Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa;
at once a geopolitical structuring, an ideological writing, and a cultural
Naoki Sakai, Cornell U; Fumika Sato, Hitotsubashi U; Theresa Cenidoza
imagining. Arguing that these works reframe the U.S. Cold War as
Suarez, California State U, San Marcos; Teresia K. Teaiwa, Victoria U,
a project of gendered racial formation and imperialism as well as a
Wellington; Wesley Iwao Ueunten, San Francisco State U.
production of knowledge, Ends of Empire offers an interdisciplinary
Setsu Shigematsu is assistant professor of media and cultural studies, University investigation into the transnational dimensions of Asian America and
of California, Riverside. Keith L. Camacho is assistant professor of Asian American its critical relationship to Cold War history.
studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
Jodi Kim is assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California,
Cynthia Enloe is professor of government and women’s studies at Clark University. Riverside.
A me ri ca n S t u d i e s / Asi a n S tu d ies American Studies/Asian American Studies

Ma rch April
376 pages 11 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 344 pages 31 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Critical American Studies Series
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The Japan of Pure Invention

Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado

Josephine Lee
What the lightest of operas reveals about minstrelsy, showing how productions of the
racial images and practices 1938–39 Swing Mikado and Hot Mikado,
among others, were used to promote African
Long before Sofia Coppola’s Lost in
American racial uplift. She also looks at a host
Translation, long before Barthes explicated
of contemporary productions and adaptations,
his empire of signs, even before Puccini’s
including Mike Leigh’s film Topsy-Turvy and
Madame Butterfly, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The
performances of The Mikado in Japan, to
Mikado presented its own distinctive version
reflect on anxieties about race as they are
of Japan. Set in a fictional town called Titipu
articulated through new visions of the town
and populated by characters named Yum-
of Titipu. Josephine Lee is associate professor of English and
Yum, Nanki-Poo, and Pooh-Bah, the opera has
Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota,
remained popular since its premiere in 1885. The Mikado creates racial fantasies, draws
Twin Cities. She is the author of Performing Asian
audience members into them, and deftly
Tracing the history of The Mikado’s America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage.
weaves them into cultural memory. For
performances from Victorian times to the
countless people who had never been to Dr ama/Victorian St udi e s /Asi an A me rican
present, Josephine Lee reveals the continuing
Japan, The Mikado served as the basis for $25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6580-8
viability of the play’s surprisingly complex $75.00xx £46.50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6579-2
imagining what “Japanese” was.
racial dynamics as they have been adapted March
to different times and settings. Lee connects 280 pages 25 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
yellowface performance to blackface
The Deathly Embrace

a lso o f in t er e st
Orientalism and Asian American Identity

She n g -m e i M a
$24.50x Paper (2000)
ISBN: 978-0-8166-3711-9
Poison Woman
Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture
C hri st i n e L . M a r r a n
$23.50x Paper (2007)
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4727-9
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Unfastened Navigating the

Globality and Asian North American African Diaspora
Narratives The Anthropology of Invisibility
Eleanor Ty Donal d Martin Carter
Understanding Asian American literature, history, and culture Diaspora seen through the lenses of political economy
in terms of globalization and cultural production
Unfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts
and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globality—the condition people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important
in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing
boundaries have been—supposedly—surmounted. the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he explores the trope
of navigation in social theory intent on understanding the lived
In this wide-ranging exploration, Eleanor Ty reveals how novelists such
experiences of transnational migrants.
as Brian Ascalon Roley, Han Ong, Lydia Kwa, and Nora Okja Keller
interrogate the theoretical freedom that globalization promises in their Carter examines invisibility in its various forms, from social rejection
depiction of the underworld of crime and prostitution. She looks at the and residential segregation to war memorials and the inability of some
social critiques created by playwrights Betty Quan and Sunil Kuruvilla, groups to represent themselves through popular culture, scholarship,
who use figures of disability to accentuate the effects of marginality. or art. The pervasiveness of invisibility is not limited to symbolic
Investigating works based on fantasy, Ty highlights the ways feminist actions, Carter shows, but may have dramatic and at times catastrophic
writers Larissa Lai, Chitra Divakaruni, Hiromi Goto, and Ruth Ozeki consequences for people subjected to its force. The geographic span
employ myth, science fiction, and magic realism to provide alternatives of his analysis is global, encompassing Senegalese Muslims in Italy and
to global capitalism. She notes that others, such as filmmaker Deepa the United States and concluding with practical questions about the
Mehta and performers/dramatists Nadine Villasin and Nina Aquino, future of European societies. Carter also considers both contemporary
play with the multiple identities afforded to them by transcultural and historical constellations of displacement, from Darfurian refugees
connections. to French West African colonial soldiers.
Ultimately, Ty sees in these diverse narratives unfastened mobile Whether focusing on historical photographs, television, print media,
subjects, heroes, and travelers who use everyday tactics to challenge and graffiti scrawled across urban walls or identifying the critique of
inequitable circumstances in their lives brought about by globalization. colonialism implicit in African films and literature, Carter reveals a
protean and peopled world in motion.
Eleanor Ty is professor of English and film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Donald Martin Carter is associate professor of Africana studies at Hamilton College.
Asi an A m e ric a n S t u d i e s/Li tera ry Critic ism
$22.50x £14.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6508-2 Anthropology/Afri can Studies
$67.50xx £42.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6507-5 $30.00x £18.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-4778-1
Ma rch $90.00xx £56.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-4777-4
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Citizen, Invert, Queer Journeys from

Lesbianism and War in Early Scandinavia

Twentieth-Century Britain Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and
Deborah Cohler South America, 1840–2000
El is abeth Oxfeldt
How the Great War changed British understandings of lesbianism How Scandinavians perceive and portray encounters with the
non-European Other
In late nineteenth-century England, “mannish” women were
considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has
such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with the onset of
did this shift occur? Citizen, Invert, Queer illustrates that the equation tourism beyond Scandinavia in the 1840s, a compelling body of prose
of female masculinity with female homosexuality is a relatively recent works documents Scandinavian attitudes toward foreign countries
phenomenon, a result of changes in national and racial as well as sexual and further shows how these Scandinavian travelers sought to portray
discourses in early twentieth-century public culture. themselves to uncharted cultures.
Incorporating cultural histories of prewar women’s suffrage debates, Focusing on Danish and Norwegian travelogues, Elisabeth Oxfeldt
British sexology, women’s work on the home front during World traces the evolution of Scandinavian travel writing over two centuries
War I, and discussions of interwar literary representations of female using pivotal texts from each era, including works by Hans Christian
homosexuality, Deborah Cohler maps the emergence of lesbian Andersen, Knut Hamsun, and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). Oxfeldt
representations in relation to the decline of empire and the rise of situates each one in its historical and geopolitical context, and her close
eugenics in England. Cohler integrates discussions of the histories readings delineate how each travelogue reflects Scandinavia’s ongoing
of male and female same-sex erotics in her readings of New Woman, confrontation between Self and the non-European cultural Other.
representations of male and female suffragists, wartime trials of pacifist
A long-overdue examination of travel literature produced by some of
novelists and seditious artists, and the interwar infamy of novels such
Denmark and Norway’s greatest writers, Journeys from Scandinavia
as Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
unpacks the unstable constructions of Scandinavian cultural and
By examining the shifting intersections of nationalism and sexuality national identity and, in doing so, complicates the common assumption
before, during, and after the Great War, this book illuminates profound of a homogeneous, hegemonic Scandinavia.
transformations in our ideas about female homosexuality.
Elisabeth Oxfeldt is associate professor at the University of Oslo and the author of
Deborah Cohler is associate professor of women and gender studies at San Francisco Nordic Orientalism.
State University.
Scandin avian Studies
Q u e e r S t u d i e s /B ritish Histo ry $25.00x £15.50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5635-6
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Calling All Cars Film Nation

R e v ised Edi t i on
Radio Dragnets and the Technology Hollywood Looks at U.S. History
of Policing Robert Burgoyne
K at h le e n B at t le s
How the cops became more popular than the crooks From The New World to United 93, analyzing films that establish
an alternative history of the United States
Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form
of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this time Events of the past decade have dramatically rewritten the American
popular culture had characterized the gangster as hero, but radio crime national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, marked
dramas worked against this attitude and were ultimately successful in since the country’s origins by competing geopolitical interests, by
making heroes out of law enforcement officers. mobility and migration, and by contending ethnic and racial groups.
Through close analysis of radio programming of the era and the In this revised and expanded edition of Film Nation, Robert Burgoyne
production of true crime docudramas, Kathleen Battles argues that analyzes films that give shape to the counternarrative that has emerged
radio was a significant site for overhauling the dismal public image of since 9/11—one that challenges the traditional myths of the American
policing. However, it was not simply the elevation of the perception of nation-state. The films examined here, Burgoyne argues, reveal the
police that was at stake. Using radio, reformers sought to control the hidden underlayers of nation, from the first interaction between
symbolic terrain through which citizens encountered the police, and Europeans and Native Americans (The New World), to the clash of
it became a medium to promote a positive meaning and purpose for ethnic groups in nineteenth-century New York (Gangs of New York),
policing. For example, Battles connects the apprehension of criminals to the haunting persistence of war in the national imagination (Flags of
by a dragnet with the idea of using the radio network to both publicize Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima) and the impact of the events
this activity and make it popular with citizens. of 9/11 on American identity (United 93 and World Trade Center).
The first book to systematically address the development of crime Film Nation provides innovative readings of attempts by such directors
dramas during the golden age of radio, Calling All Cars explores an as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and Oliver Stone to visualize
important irony: the intimacy of the newest technology of the time historical events that have acquired a mythical aura in order to open
helped create an intimate authority—the police as the appropriate force up the past to the contemporary moment.
for control—over the citizenry.
Robert Burgoyne is professor and chair of film studies, University of St. Andrews.
Kathleen Battles is assistant professor of communication and journalism at Oakland
University. Film/American Studies
$22.50x £14.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-4292-2
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M e di a S t u d i e s / C o m m u nic atio ns February
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The Road to A Manufactured

Bac k in prin t
Now in pap e r
Botany Bay Wilderness
An Exploration of Landscape Summer Camps and the
and History Shaping of American Youth,
Pa u l C a r t e r 1890–1960
Abigail A. Van Slyck
Critiques the founding myth of Australia A fascinating window into the design and culture of the American
summer camp
“Paul Carter’s bold, ingenious account of nation-founding is itself a kind of founding book—
of the adventurous discipline of spatial history. And The Road to Botany Bay is marvelous “Sure to be of interest to readers who want to learn more about the physical and cultural
to read on traveling, on writing, on looking and seeing. A brilliant book for many appetites.” landscape of the summer camps they attended as children or are sending their own
—Susan Sontag children to now.”
—Chicago Tribune
“In this account of how Australia originated in the acts of settlement, possession, and
dispossession, by explorers who traveled, named, and wrote, Carter advances a brilliantly “Van Slyck’s work is an informative and comprehensive look at its subject.”
daring notion of imperialism, one with great relevance to other regions of the world.” —Library Journal
—Edward Said
“A Manufactured Wilderness is an original work done in masterful fashion. Van Slyck vividly
and convincingly highlights the connections between landscape, design, and culture. . . .
The Road to Botany Bay, first published in 1987 and considered a No detail of camp life escapes her watchful eye.”
classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines —Journal of Popular Culture
the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching
“Abigail A. Van Slyck . . . has written a richly textured history of the American summer camp
exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism,
that deepens our understanding of how the designs we take for granted are often laden
and bush mythology, Paul Carter exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms
with unexpected meaning. This critical study . . . is a welcome contribution to the history
of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language,
of American culture, the history of architecture and design, and the history of childhood.”
history, and geography influenced the territorial theater of nineteenth-
—Design and Culture
century imperialism, the book is also a call to think, write, and live
differently.
Winner of the Society of Architectural Historians’ Alice Davis Hitchcock
Paul Carter is author of many books, including Dark Writing (2008) and Material
Award and the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s Abbott Lowell
Thinking (2004). He is creative director of Material Thinking, a place-making research
Cummings Prize.
and design studio based in Melbourne, Australia.
Abigail A. Van Slyck is Dayton professor of art history at Connecticut College.
G e o gr a p h y
$22.50x £14.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6997-4 Ar chitecture/American Studies
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SPRING 2010 TITLES

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Midnight at the Barrelhouse

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Jean- ­F rançois Ly otard

Tr anslated by Antony Hudek a n d M a ry Ly d o n

Introduction by John Mowitt

Seeking Spatial Justice

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Organizing for Educational Justice

The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx

An in-­depth account of community-­based In Organizing for Educational Justice,

Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Into the Interior

study art history—­she penetrates further and

The Spiv and the Architect

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

the Second World War, planners and policy

María Brito Man Ray, African

R e announ c e J u a n A . M a r t inez Art, and the

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves

The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America

of film production evolved dramatically in the

The Genius of Broken Mirrors/

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

the System Broken Minds

At Your Own Risk Chroma

Reading Bad for Democracy

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Autobiography How the Presidency Undermines

S i d o ni e S m i t h With a new preface

Lit e r ary Cri t i c ism / R e f erenc e

regional interest uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

We’re Gonna Win, Twins!

A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm

The Music of Failure

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Af t e rw ord by Dav id Pic hask e

Forew ord by Torii Hunter

regional interest uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country

regional interest uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Nature and Revelation

A History of Macalester College

Forew ord by James Brewer S t e wa r t

Making Life Work

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

The Force of the Virtual

Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy

All of the essays work through Deleuze’s

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Translated by Robert Bononn o

The Ethics of Earth Art

Imagined Museums Screens

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

M us e um S t u d i e s / Mi d d l e Ea stern S tu d ies Ar t/Film and Media Studies

From Utopia to Apocalypse

Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe

uni ver sit y of minnesota p r ess SPR I NG 2010

Sounds out the philosophical well as a recognition of Rickels’s own long-

The Devil Notebooks

Jean- F rançois Ly otard

An in-depth account of community-based In Organizing for Educational Justice,

study art history—she penetrates further and

Unpacking architecture’s important—and connects architecture to current debates