Books Received

Books Received [the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews ofthese and other recent books, as well as of journals, significant articles, publishers' catalogs or programs, book series, conferences, novels, poetry, films, television, advertising, and other venues of cultural and intellectual bearing. For reviews, we much prefer overviews to reports on specific books. For examples, check out the review-essays in this and past issues .—JeffreyJ. Williams, Editor] Aronowitz, Stanley. The Last Good Job in America: Work and Education in the New Global Technoculture. Lanham: Rowman & Lirtlefield, 2001. Barry, Peter. English in Practice: In Pursuit ofEnglish Studies. London: Arnold, 2003. Beaulieu, JUl, and Mary Roberts, eds. Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Beckman, Karen. Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Benjamin, Walter. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings. Vol. 3: 1935-1938. Eds. Howard Eiland and Midiael. W. Jennings. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. —. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings. Vol. 4: 1938-1940. Eds. Howard Eiland and Midiael. W. Jennings. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003. Bloom, John, and Midiael Nevin Williard. Sports Matters: Race, Recreation, and Culture. New York: NYU P, 2002. Buhle, Paul, and Mike Alewitz. Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals ofMike Alewitz. New York: Monthly Review P, 2002. Bukatman, Scott. Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Burton, Antoinette, ed. After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Caillois, Roger. The Edge ofSurrealism: A Roger Caillots Reader. Ed. Claudine Frank. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Canagarajah, A. Suresh. A Geopolitics ofAcademic Writing. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2002. Cheney, Patrick, and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. Chuh, Kandice. Imagine Otherwise : On Asian Americanist Critique. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Collins, John, and Ross Glover, eds. Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War. New York: NYU P, 2002. Dauber, Kenneth, and Walter Jost. Ordinary Criticism: Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstdn. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2003. D'Emilio, John. The World Turned: Essays ofGay History, Politics, and Culture. Durham: Duke UP, 2002. 328 the minnesota review Dickstein, Morris. Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. Eagleton, Terry. Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others. New York: Verso, 2003. Felski, Rita. Literature after Feminism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Book History Reader. New York: Routledge, 2002. Gallop, Jane. Anecdotal Theory. Durham: Duke UP, 2002. —. Photographs by Dick Blau. Living With His Camera. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Galperin, William H. The Historical Austen. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2003. Garrison, Lora Dee. Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003. Graham, Maryemma, ed. Conversations with Margaret Walker. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2002. Greenberg, Judith, ed. Trauma at Home: After 9/11. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003. Hartley, George. The Abyss of Representation: Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Hauerwas, Stanley, and Frank Lenrricchia. Dissentfrom the Homeland: Essays after September 11. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Hilfer, Tony. The New Hegemony in Literary Studies: Contradictions in Theory. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2003. Hitchcock, Peter. Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2003. Hussein, Abdirahman A. Edward Said: Critidsm and Society. New York: Verso, 2002 Jenkins, Henry, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shartuc, eds. Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures ofPopular Culture. Durham: Duke UP, 2002. Kane, Daniel. All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s. Berkeley: U of California P, 2003. Klein, Christina. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in Middlebrow Imagination, 19451961 . Berkdey: U of California P, 2003. Kumar, Amitava, ed. World Bank Literature. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003. Lang, Amy Schräger. The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in NineteenthCentury America. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003. Leitch, Vincent B. Theory Matters. New York: Routledge, 2003. Lerer, Seth. Errors and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern. New York: Columbia UP, 2003. Marks, Laura U. Touch: Sensuous TheoryandMultisensoryMedia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002. Martinot, Steve. The Rule of...