Books Received

the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of these and other recent books, as well as of journals, significant articles, and other works reflecting cultural and intellectual currents. For reviews, we much prefer overviews to reports on specific books. For examples, check “Surveying the Field” in this and past issues. — Janell Watson, Editor

Arac, Jonathan. 2010. Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel. New York: Fordham University Press.

Bewes, Timothy. 2011. The Event of Postcolonial Shame. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Foley, Barbara. 2010. Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Gregg, Melissa, and Gregory J. Seigworth, eds. 2010. The Affect Theory Reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Grover-Friedlander, Michal. 2011. Operatic Afterlives. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books/MIT Press.

Halley, Janet E., and Andrew Parker, eds. 2011. After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hemmings, Clare. 2011. Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Holloway, Karla F. C. 2011. Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Khuê Ninh, erin. 2011. Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian-American Literature. New York: New York University Press.

Kraus, Chris. 2011. Where Art Belongs. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).

Lasch, Pedro, ed. 2010. Black Mirror / Espejo Negro. Durham, NC: John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Lim, Bliss Cua. 2009. Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

McHugh, Susan. 2011. Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Menon, Madhavi, ed. 2011. Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Nalbantian, Suzanne, Paul M. Matthews, and James L. McClelland, eds. 2010. The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Negri, Antonio. 2011. Trilogy of Resistance. Translated by Timothy S. Murphy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Palumbo-Liu, David, Bruce Robbins, and Nirvana Tanoukhi, eds. 2011. Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Rockhill, Gabriel, and Philip Watts, eds. 2009. Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Rose, Jacqueline. 2011. The Jacqueline Rose Reader. Edited by Ben Naparstek and Justin Clemens. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Roy, Parama. 2010. Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Schryer, Stephen. 2011. Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press.

Spanos, William V. 2011. The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.