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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...
American Antiquities
Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward or simple as it might seem. Archaeology’s trajectory from an avocation, to a semi-profession, to a specialized, self-conscious profession was anything...
Postcolonial Hauntologies
African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial...
Public Privates
Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Public Privates focuses on public and private acts and spaces in media to explore the formation of geographies. Situated at the intersections of cultural geography, feminist geography, and media studies, Marcia R. England’s study argues that media both reinforce and subvert traditional notions of...
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...
Cogewea, The Half Blood
A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the...
Of Fathers and Fire
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
When Richie Thorpe and his ragtag religious band of ex-thieves arrive in the High Plains town of Suborney, Colorado, Tommy Sandor is captivated by the group. It’s the summer of 1980 in the dusty, junkyard town, and the seventeen-year-old is wrestling with the forces shaping America and himself:...
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In this novel, set in 1952 but intermingling the past and present, the protagonist reviews the effects of the Jazz Age on himself and a friend, recalling their exploits in college, in Paris, and in love. The result is the picture of a generation.
by John Keeble
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this collection of tales returns readers to the American Northwest so deftly observed and powerfully evoked in John Keeble’s previous works. Nocturnal America occupies a terrain at once familiar and strange, where homecoming and dislocation can...
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Speaking of this 1957 novel, the author has said it ended his obsession with the reconstruction of the immediate past and moved him into the contemporary scene. The narrator, Earl Horter, is a lyric writer who is in Hollywood with Mac, his partner, to write a musical. With two girls they have picked up and gone to Acapulco.
by Erin Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
These characters may be the usual suspects, making the usual mistakes, but their stories are not the usual fare. Populated by pretenders, ex-cons, and wannabes who bend the rules, break the law, and risk everything to salvage their own hearts, the twelve stories in The Usual Mistakes conduct readers...