Books published by University of Minnesota Press

Investigating the link between culture and politics, this text analyzes how notions of patriotism, citizenship, community and family are communicated within specific public and private institutions, and attempts to extend the meaning of pedagogy as a cultural practice.

This study looks at critical theory and practices in Spain in the post-Franco period.

This volume, looks at how feminism and femininity are embedded in a broad spectrum of Italian cultural practices.

An integration of texts from political theory, psychoanalysis, history and literature, this work offers a strong interpretation of the interrelated representation of subjectivity and absolutism on the 17th-century stage.

Explores the tensions and contradictions between ideas of nationalism and internationalism as they played themselves out through the major political thinkers from the early modern period into the 19th century.

Bartkowski uses travel writings, US immigrant autobiographies, and concentration camp memoirs to illustrate how tales of dislocation present readers with a picture of the complex issues surrounding mistaken identities.

As the new millennium approaches, the author contends there is a threatening "regime of truth" prevailing in the US; which, with its enforcement of absolute truth and morality, imperils democracy. She offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that currently pervades US culture.

Examines the use of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism in the analysis of subaltern writing. Argues that the heterogeneity of dialogic feminism itself constitutes a significant array of discursive resistance to the hegemony of disciplines operative in the metropolitan First World academy.

The Future of an Illusion was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The Future of an Illusion documents the pivotal role Constance Penley has played in the development of feminist film theory. Penley analyzes the primary movements that have shaped the field: the conjunction of feminism, film theory, and psychoanalysis, and the inherent debates surrounding the politics of women and representation. These debates center on the position of women in the classical Hollywood narrative, the construction of the spectator's desire in pornography and eroticism, and the implicitly male bias in psychoanalytically oriented film theory. Essential to anyone studying the sexual policies of representation, The Future of an Illusion ranges from avant-garde films to video, popular cinema, television, literature, and critical and cultural theory.Constance Penley is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Rochester. A co-editor of the journal Camera Obscura,she is the editor of Feminism and Film Theory.

Social and Political Philosophy was first published in 1982. 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 third and final volume in the series of political and social writings of Cornelius Castoriadis, whose thinking distinguishes the Marxist text from communism.

John Updike - American Writers 79 was first published in 1969. 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.

Edward Albee - American Writers 77 was first published in 1969. 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.

Taking Walter Benjamin's famous image of the Angel of History blown into the future by "a storm from paradise" as his point of departure, Boyarin launches an examination of the role of memory in the study of knowledge, culture and power.

Illustrates that what is distinctive about any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. The book addresses the roles of various interests in the making of India's public culture - examining different sites of consumption.