University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by Austin Film Festival
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer’s creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions that help new writers and filmmakers connect with mentors and gain advice...
Between Self and Society
Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges an influential misconception that has for too long hindered appreciation of the psychological novel. John Rodden argues that there...
by M. M. Bakhtin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtin's...
On the Plaza
The Politics of Public Space and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale—almost every aspect of Latin American life has its place and time in the public plaza. In this wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary study, Setha M. Low explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza,...
Amazon Town TV
An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity was turned on, he observed crowds of people lining up outside open windows or doors of the few homes...
The Last Cannibals
A South American Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingú society. Drawing on oral documents recorded directly from the native language, Ellen Basso transcribes and analyzes...
Slaves into Workers
Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In the Sudan, native Sudanese slaves served Sudanese masters until the region was conquered by the Turks, who practiced slavery on an institutional scale. When the British took over the Sudan in 1898, they officially emancipated the slaves, yet found it impossible to replace their labor in the country's...
Latin America at 200
A New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Between 2010 and 2025, most of the countries of Latin America will commemorate two centuries of independence, and Latin Americans have much to celebrate at this milestone. Most countries have enjoyed periods of sustained growth, while inequality is showing modest declines and the middle class is expanding....
Concept and Controversy
Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this thought-provoking...
Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism
Attraction and Repulsion
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ultimately deconstructs the established narratives that assume most Arabs supported fascism and Nazism leading...
by Frank Graziano
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic...
A Political Education
A Washington Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
This insider's view of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s, of the tumultuous presidency of Lyndon Johnson, and of the conflicts and factions of the president's staff has become a political classic since its original publication in 1972. In this reissue, Harry McPherson adds a new preface in which he...
Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of Costa Rica
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
To help visitors, as well as local residents, identify and enjoy the wildlife of Costa Rica, Carrol L. Henderson published Field Guide to the Wildlife of Costa Rica in 2002, and it instantly became the indispensable guide. Now Henderson has created a field guide dedicated to the monkeys, sloths, treefrogs,...
Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
Living in the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
The third book in Charles Bowden’s “accidental trilogy” that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: “How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?” As humanity moves further into the...