University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by Philip Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
On the boundary of what the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the habitable world, Ireland was a land of myth and mystery in classical times. Classical authors frequently portrayed its people as savages—even as cannibals and devotees of incest—and evinced occasional uncertainty as to the island's...
Dramatists in Revolt
The New Latin American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater. Playwrights discussed are those who have made outstanding contributions to Latin American theater during the post–World War II period and who have been particularly sensitive...
When the Center Is on Fire
Passionate Social Theory for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
In this lively and provocative book, two feminist public sociologists turn to classical social thinkers—W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim—to understand a series of twenty-first century social traumas, including the massacre at Columbine High School, the 9/11 attacks,...
Contesting Trade in Central America
Market Reform and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region's commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance...
Walmart in the Global South
Workplace Culture, Labor Politics, and Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
As the largest private employer in the world, Walmart dominates media and academic debate about the global expansion of transnational retail corporations and the working conditions in retail operations and across the supply chain. Yet far from being a monolithic force conquering the world, Walmart...
Left to Chance
Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina...
Practicing Community
Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Cincinnati's East End river community has been home to generations of working-class people. This racially mixed community has roots that reach back as far as seven generations. But the community is vulnerable. Developers bulldoze "raggedy" but affordable housing to build upscale condos,...
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers
Redefining Feminism on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Since the 1990s, when Reviving Ophelia became a best seller and "Girl Power" a familiar anthem, girls have assumed new visibility in the culture. Yet in asserting their new power, young women have redefined femininity in ways that have often mystified their mothers. They have also largely disavowed...
Border Radio
Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Before the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, beamed programming across the United States and as far away as South America, Japan, and Western Europe.This book traces...
The Hogg Family and Houston
Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position, and family fortune to improve the lives of fellow Houstonians. As civic activists, they espoused...
Evil Arabs in American Popular Film
Orientalist Fear
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between...
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in...
Analyzing World Fiction
New Horizons in Narrative Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Why are many readers drawn to stories that texture ethnic experiences and identities other than their own? How do authors such as Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston, or filmmakers in Bollywood or Mexico City produce complex fiction that satisfies audiences worldwide? In Analyzing World Fiction,...
Spies and Holy Wars
The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American thrillers that are propelled by the theme of jihad—an Islamic holy war or crusade against the West. Published over the past century,...