Recent Books Published
        by Macalester Faculty-

Diane Glancy
Professor of English

IN-BETWEEN PLACES
February 2005, University of Arizona Press

"For Diane Glancy, there are books that you open like a map. <i>In-between Places</i> is such a book: a collection of eleven essays unified by a common concern with landscape and its relation both to our spiritual life and to the craft of writing. Taking readers on a trip to New Mexico, a voyage across the sea of middle America, even a journey to China, Glancy has crafted a sustained meditation on the nature and workings of language, stories, and poems; on travel and motion as metaphors for life and literature; and on the relationships between Native American and Judeo-Christian ways of thinking and being in the world. Insightful and provocative, <i>In-between Places</i> is a book for anyone interested in a sense of place and in the relationship between religion and our stance toward nature. It is also a book for anyone who loves thoughtful writing and wishes to learn from a modern master of language."

-University of Arizona Press web site

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Jeanne Kilde
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

RAPTURE, REVOLUTION AND THE END OF TIMES:
EXPLORING THE LEFT BEHIND SERIES
June 2004, Palgrave Macmillan

"In this volume edited by Forbes and Kilde, we have six contributors who walk a fine line. On the one hand they objectively point out the main points that LaHaye and Jenkins make. On the other hand they observe where they and others differ from the perspectve and biblical interpretation of LaHaye and Jenkins. Above all, they strugle to explain the series' popularity! A wonderfully balanced treatment that anyone interested in the Left Behind series should read!"

-Palgrave Macmillan web site

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Diane Glancy
Professor of English

PRIMER OF THE OBSOLETE
May 2004, University of Massachusetts Press


"This remarkable collection of poems explores the conjoined cultures of Indian and European, the revisions the conquered race must face, and the disruption that results from the attempt to combine divergent cultures in a single being. These poems speak from a four-cornered world: Cherokee and white, Christian and conjuring. They attempt to retrieve fragments of language from a nearly erased culture. At times, they speak in the spirit of the remembered language with the new language that is not fully formed in the understanding of the narrator." Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry.

-University of Massachusetts Press web site

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Daylanne English
Assistant Professor of English

UNNATURAL SELECTIONS:
EUGENICS IN AMERICAN MODERNISM AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
May 2004, University of North Carolina Press


"Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigration, migration, and intraracial breeding."

-University of North Carolina Press web site

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Gary Krueger
Professor of Economics

ENTERPRISE RESTRUCTURING AND THE ROLE OF
MANAGERS IN RUSSIA: CASE STUDIES OF FIRMS IN TRANSITION
April 2004, ME Sharpe Press


"This book tells the story of what might have been considered an unlikely source of dynamic change in Russia -- formerly state-owned manufacturing enterprises and their managers. Based on interviews conducted over a six-year span with managers at 47 manufacturing, light industry, consumer durable, and food processing firms in four Russian cities, the study documents the real world challenge of turning hidebound, often dysfunctional manufacturing operations into thriving companies. With analytical rigor and theoretical creativity, this work will dispel some common misconceptions about the Russian economy and make a contribution to the literature about management, company strategies, and corporate governance."

-ME Sharpe web site

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Jack Weatherford
Professor of Anthropology

GENGHIS KHAN AND THE
MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
March 2004, Crown Publishing


"In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesn’t just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made."

-Crown Publishing web site

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Michelle M. Wright
Associate Professor of English

BECOMING BLACK:
CREATING IDENTITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
February 2004, Duke University Press


"Becoming Black is a powerful theorization of Black subjectivity throughout the African diaspora. In this unique comparative study, Wright discusses the commonalties and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness."

-Duke University Press web site

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