University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
A Far Corner
Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on Taiwan’s remote Pacific coast. He fell in with the Open Circle Tribe, a loose confederation of aboriginal woodcarvers, painters, and musicians who lived...
The Black Migrant Athlete
Media, Race, and the Diaspora in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The popularity and globalization of sport have led to an ever-increasing migration of black athletes from the global South to the United States and Western Europe. While the hegemonic ideology surrounding sport is that it brings diverse people together and ameliorates social divisions, sociologists...
by Susan Kushner Resnick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. “Goodbye wifes and daughters . . .” wrote two of the miners as they died. The story of that tragic day and its aftermath unfolds in this book through the eyes of those...
Captivating Westerns
The Middle East in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, “the Western,” Susan Kollin’s Captivating Westerns analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West. In particular, the book examines how experiences...
Deco Body, Deco City
Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival,...
by Margaret Randall
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
More Than Things is a collection of essays on a variety of political, cultural, and literary issues, all linked by Margaret Randall’s attention to power: its use, misuse, and impact on how we live our lives. There are texts on sex, fashion, food, LGBT rights, automobiles, forgiving, women’s self-image,...
Caught between the Lines
Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century...
Southwest Passage
The Yanks in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur’s arrival...
In Food We Trust
The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States’ food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration...
How to Reach Japan by Subway
America's Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945–1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Japan’s official surrender to the United States in 1945 brought to an end one of the most bitter and brutal military conflicts of the twentieth century. U.S. government officials then faced the task of transforming Japan from enemy to ally, not only in top-level diplomatic relations but also in...
by Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Poised to become a significant player in the new world order, the United States truly came of age during and after World War I. Yet many Americans think of the Great War simply as a precursor to World War II. Americans, including veterans, hastened to put experiences and memories of the war years...
Gabriel Okara
Collected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman’s Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early...
Storyworlds across Media
Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and...
The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader
The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Generations of readers have delighted in Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915), among the most engaging accounts of life in the American West. Stewart related her adventures on an isolated Wyoming homestead with such vividness, gusto, and...