Books published by University of Minnesota Press

Manual for the Identification of the Birds of Minnesota and Neighboring States was first published in 1932. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The author of Old Turtle and a longtime wilderness guide charts a journey through the wilds of nature and the twists and turns of daily life

Originally published: 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Explores the connection between film and popular history.

Questioning architecture's complicity with the status quo, this volume moves beyond critique to outline the part architects are playing in building radical social movements and challenging dominant forms of power.

These essays chart the course of subaltern history from an early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency to an engagement with the more complex processes of domination and subordination, in a variety of the changing institutions and practices of evolving modernity.

Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London.

First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this text, the author uses concepts of mapping and space to challenge traditional geo-political assumptions. He delivers a deconstructive critique of various 20th-century attempts to impose grand geo-political visions on the spinning surface of global affairs.

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Free Press, c2006.

A study of the national debate which ensued in Germany over a statement made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, about what constituted an acceptable German artist and who has the power to determine art.

Once the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the people of East Germany had little use for the dissident intellectuals who had helped bring it down. This book offers a look into the circumstances of this fall from grace, unique among the former Communist states.

Closed Encounters was first published in 1998. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.It's committed. It's political. It's socially engaged. It's academic criticism in the nineties. But what does it achieve? In a provocative and fair-minded look at current critical practices and the future of the academy, Jeffrey Wallen draws a disturbing picture of public intellectuals in search of a public and cultural critics unable to enter a dialogue with others.Wallen argues that literary politics is no substitute for debate on genuine political issues. Taking up several of the most influential critics of recent years-Edward Said, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Michael Bérubé, Gerald Graff, Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish, and many others-Wallen asks: Can their desire to persuade an audience beyond the classroom be fulfilled? And can cultural critics realize their ambitious social and institutional goals for change? In a work that is neither of the Left nor of the Right, but likely to unsettle both, Wallen argues that literary criticism actually undermines the prospects for the dialogue it calls out for.In addition, Wallen argues that the institutionalization of critiques of truth and difference-critiques that appear to liberate us by revealing that knowledge and values are constructed, and can therefore be transformed-often leads to a further constraining of thought and narrowing of outlooks. In his analysis of the administration of conflict, Wallen describes the troubled state of academic freedom and points to a shift from the institutional protection of dissenting views to the institutional protection from views one finds unpleasant.Yet the prospects are not bleak: Wallen emphasizes that academic critics continue to play a crucial role in crafting what we expect from discussion. In this spirit, Closed Encounters lays the groundwork for fashioning a truly public, socially engaged criticism.

A double-edged critical forum, this volume brings early modern culture and psychoanalysis into revisionist dialogue with each other. The authors reflect on how psychoanalysis remains "possessed" by its incorporation of early modern mythologies, visions, credos and phantasms.

Examining the emergent and fluctuating relationship between the public and private social spheres of the late 18th and 19th centuries, this text assesses novels such as Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Jane Austen's "Emma" through the lens of the social theories of Habermas and Foucault.

Proposes a different approach to considering cultural problems.

This series of meditations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict argues that it represents a struggle not as much about land and history as about space, time and memory.

The contributors to this work explore the effects of imposed conformity by studying specific instances in which conflict of identity arise. Among the topics discussed are the 1937 Exposition Universelle; films dealing with Vichy France; and nation building under Francois Mitterand.

The term "utopia" implies both "good place" and "nowhere". The debate over utopian models of society has fallen on all points between these contradictory definitions. This work engages the literary cross section of contemporary feminist science fiction to examine the tradition of utopian writing.

Attempts to correct misleading interpretations of literature and culture dominating Latin American studies in North America, by proposing a new historical materialist approach to Latin America texts and cultural practices.

This text explores the ways in which literature functions as a cultural practice, links between death and literature as a field of discourse, and the possibilities of dismantling modes of bodily regulation.