Books for Review

Books for Review [the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of these 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.—Jeffrey J. Williams, Editor] Achcar, Gilbert, ed. The Legacy ofErnest Mandel. New York: Verso, 1999. Avelar, Idelber. The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task ofMourning. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. Awkward, Michael. Scenes ofInstruction: A Memoir. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. Backus, Margot Gayle. The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. Badiou, Alain. Deleuze: The Clamor ofBeing. Trans. Louise Burchill. Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P, 2000. Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Elizabeth Ewen. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Bay, Mia. The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925. New York: Oxford UP, 2000. Belsey, Catherine. Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction ofFamily Values in Early Modern Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1999. Berg, James J., and Chris Freeman, eds. The Isherwood Century. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2000. Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000. Beverly, John. Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. Booker, M. Keith, ed. Critical Essays on Salman Rushdie. New York: GK. Hall & Co., 1999. Bové, Paul A., ed. Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Brown, Bill. The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economics ofPlay. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1996. Brown, Nicholas, and Imre Szeman, eds. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture . New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Buchanan, Ian. Deleuzism: A Metacommentary. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Butalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence: Voicesfrom the Partition ofIndia. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London : Routledge, 1999. Butler, Judith, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Zizek. Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left. New York: Verso, 2000. Cameron, Sharon. Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Christensen, Jerome. Romanticism at the End of History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. Clark, Michael P., ed. Revenge ofthe Aesthetic: The Place ofLiterature in Theory Today. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000. 372 the minnesota review Clarke, Eric O. Virtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Cowen, Tyler. What Price Fame? Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000. Davis, Clark. Company Men: White-Collar Life & Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. Davis, Lennard. My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2000. Davis, Simone Weil. Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions ofthe 1920s. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Debray, Régis. Transmitting Culture. Trans. Eric Rauth. New York: Columbia UP, 2000. Deleuze, Gilles. Proust and Signs: The Complete Text. Trans. Richard Howard. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2000. Duderstadt, James J. A Universityfor the 21" Century. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000. Duttmann, Alexander Garcia. Between Cultures: Tensions in the Strugglefor Recognition. Trans. Kenneth B. Woodgate. New York: Verso, 2000. Fish, Stanley. The Trouble with Principle. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999. Freeman, Carla. High Tech and High Heels In the Global Economy. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. Fusco, Coco. English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas. New York: New P, 1995. Franco, Jean. Critical Passions: Selected Essays. Ed. Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. Gustafson, Sandra M. Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2000. Geuens, Jean-Pierre. Film Production Theory. Albany: SUNY, 2000. Gilroy, Paul. Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line. Cambridge: Belknap P, 2000. Gruesser, John Cullen. Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writings about Africa. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000. Gubar, Susan. Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century. New York: Columbia UP, 2000. Hallock, John W.M. The American Byron...