University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Producing Early Modern London
A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598–1616
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater’s...
Of Love and Loathing
Marital Life, Strife, and Intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750–1825
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Policies concerning marriage, morality, and intimacy were central to the efforts of the Spanish monarchy to maintain social control in colonial Charcas. The Bourbon Crown depended on the patriarchal, caste-based social system on which its colonial enterprise was built to maintain control over a vast...
by Leslie Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting...
by Venita Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner–Los Angeles
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and...
Awu's Story
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, villages in the Fang region of northern Gabon must grapple with the clash of tradition and the evolution of customs throughout modern Africa. With this tension in the background, the passionate, deft, and creative seamstress Awu marries Obame, after he and...
by William K. Powers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This study seeks to explain how one group of Native Americans, the Oglala Sioux, has preserved its social and cultural identity despite formidable attempts by the U.S. government to eliminate tribal societies. Treating continuity and change as two aspects of the same phenomenon, it focuses on the...
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work –which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves—Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those of the most serious literary...
Performing Indigeneity
Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about...
Yuwipi
Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance.
The author combines the...
The Enjoy Agenda
At Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Part memoir, part travelogue, The Enjoy Agenda takes readers from Rick Bailey’s one-stoplight town in Michigan farm country to Stratford, England, to the French Concession in Shanghai, the Adriatic coast of Italy, and to a small village in the Republic of San Marino. With his self-deprecating style,...
Shattered Dreams
The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight...
Colonial Suspects
Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student—what did they have in common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillance by French colonial authorities in West Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. Colonial Suspects looks at the web of surveillance set up by the French...
Maryland, My Maryland
Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. “Maryland, My Maryland” was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War,...
Hemispheric Indigeneities
Native Identity and Agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Hemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world’s...