Books Received

the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of these and other recent books as well as 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 the review essays in this or recent past issues.

—Janell Watson, Editor

Balsamo, Anne. 2011. Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Berlant, Lauren. 2011. Cruel Optimism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Beverley, John. 2011. Latinamericanism after 9/11. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Bosteels, Bruno. 2011. Badiou and Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. 2011. Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. New York: New York University Press.

Fuchs, Daniel. 2011. The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Gallop, Jane. 2011. The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Grosz, Elizabeth. 2011. Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole Marie. 2011. Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Halberstam, Judith. 2011. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hong, Grace Kyungwon, and Roderick A. Ferguson, eds. 2011. Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Kester, Grant H. 2011. The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Kirby, Vicki. 2011. Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Kobek, Jarett. 2011. Atta. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).

Lacy, Michael J., and Kent A. Ono, eds. 2011. Critical Rhetorics of Race. New York: New York University Press.

Lionnet, Francoise, and Shu-mei Shih, eds. 2011. The Creolization of Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Logan, Enid Lynette. 2011. "At This Defining Moment": Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race. New York: New York University Press.

Rafter, Nicole Hahn, and Michelle Brown. 2011. Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture. New York: New York University Press.

Retman, Sonnet H. 2011. Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Thelin, John R. 2011. A History of American Higher Education. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Tongson, Karen. 2011. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. New York: New York University Press.

Wilkie, Robert. 2011. The Digital Condition: Class and Culture in the Information Network. New York: Fordham University Press.