University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world...
On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger
War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China’s long history. In the last year of the Ming, the southwest region of China became the base of operations for the notorious leader Zhang Xianzhong...
by Grant Arndt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Ho-Chunk powwows are the oldest powwows in the Midwest and among the oldest in the nation, beginning in 1902 outside Black River Falls in west-central Wisconsin. Grant Arndt examines Wisconsin Ho-Chunk powwow traditions and the meanings of cultural performances and rituals in the wake of North American...
Dressing for the Culture Wars
Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Style of dress has always been a way for Americans to signify their politics, but perhaps never so overtly as in the 1960s and 1970s. Whether participating in presidential campaigns or Vietnam protests, hair and dress provided a powerful cultural tool for social activists to display their politics...
Standing Up to Colonial Power
The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884–1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887–1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty...
Deep Waters
The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher...
An Asian Frontier
American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However, this perspective underestimates Korea...
Declarations of Dependence
Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory in the alternative conception of money articulated by the contemporary heterodox school of political...
The Supernatural Sublime
The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
The Supernatural Sublime explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques...
by Diane Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as “trouble causers,” arrived...
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
"A radiant expression of the art [Wright Morris] has developed through thirty years and fourteen earlier novels. Although it is anything but preachy it will stick in the minds of the congregation for a long time. . . . On the one hand, this is a novel of alienation and on the other, a novel about the...
A Scientific Way of War
Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study...
Paradise Destroyed
Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner
Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements—earth, wind, fire, and water—as well as a collapsing sugar...
The Pitcher and the Dictator
Satchel Paige's Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, were lured to the Dominican Republic with the promise of easy money to play a short baseball tournament in support of the country’s...