University Of Iowa Press: 221 books
Cities of Farmers
Urban Agricultural Practices and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Full-scale food production in cities: is it an impossibility? Or is it a panacea for all that ails urban communities? Today, it’s a reality, but many people still don’t know how much of an impact this emerging food system is having on cities and their residents. This book showcases the work of...
by Alicia Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Alicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow....
After the End of History
American Fiction in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War:...
In Visible Movement
Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Since the 1960s, Nuyorican poets have explored and performed Puerto Rican identity both on and off the page. Emerging within and alongside the civil rights movements of the 1960s, the foundational Nuyorican writers sought to counter the ethnic/racial and institutional invisibility of New York City...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
An essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction. Collected here are important texts by scholars whose groundbreaking work established the field and outlined...
Disturbing the Universe
Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books....
Traveler, There Is No Road
Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Traveler, There Is No Road offers a compelling and complex vision of the decolonial imagination in the United States from 1931 to 1943 and beyond. By examining the ways in which the war of interpretation that accompanied the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) circulated through Spanish and English language...
Vivid and Continuous
Essays and Exercises for Writing Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Taking off from The Creative Writer’s Survival Guide, John McNally’srelentlessly blunt, bracingly cheerful, and immensely helpful map to being a writer, Vivid and Continuousis an equally blunt, cheerful, and helpful map to learning to be a writer. While acknowledging that many fine books cover...
The Fluency of Light
Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents, examines the experience of her mixed-race identity. Embracing the far-ranging stimuli of her media-obsessed upbringing, she grasps at news clippings, visual...
by Randall Potts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Trickster opens with a crank call to the reader: “How was I to know / You were thin, your garden / Was covered in smoke / That you sat in your house / Coughing?” Over the course of these beautiful and eerily accomplished poems, Potts's reader is taken on a journey that is at once time-scarred...
by Stephanie Pippin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In thrilling poems of metamorphosis and birth, death and dissolution, Stephanie Pippin’s debut collection returns us to a world unshorn of wildness. Delivering accident and hunger, love and grief, nature in these poems is beautiful and brutal, “a hellish magnificence” that both invites and denies...
by Marie-Helene Bertino
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young...
Violet America
Regional Cosmopolitanism in U.S. Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2003
Violet America takes on the long habit among literary historians and critics of thinking about large segments of American literary production in terms of regionalism. Jason Arthur argues that classifying broad swaths of American literature as regionalist or “local color” writing brings with it...
And the Monkey Learned Nothing
Dispatches from a Life in Transit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. *And the Monkey Learned Nothing *contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores the...