Bøger udgivet af University of Nebraska Press

In this action-packed novel set in 1975 Montana, history professor Diana Karnov begins to see what she had learned about western America in an entirely new light.

Joyce Sutphen's evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and travelling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from Maine to Minnesota will recognise themselves, their parents, aunts and uncles, and neighbours in these poems.

Fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. This work comprises more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a range of topics - from Henry James' own life and literary projects to questions on art, literature, and criticism.

This is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Traces the evolution of the humanitarian hero, looking at the ways in which historians, politicians, and filmmakers have treated individual rescuers like Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, as well as the rescue efforts of humanitarian organizations. Contributors also explore classroom possibilities for dealing with the role of rescuers.

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 to create the experience of emotion without explanation.

Explores the fictionalized, historical, and visual representations of Elizabeth I and their impact on the Spanish collective imagination. Drawing on works by Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega, among others, the contributors to this volume limn contradictory assessments of Elizabeth's physical appearance, private life, personality, and reign.

Examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. Contra Instrumentalism aims to end the dominance of instrumentalism by showing how it grossly oversimplifies translation practice and fosters an illusion of immediate access to source texts.

This first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women's life writing in a specifically Irish context provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts. By making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women's narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape.

Sports fandom determines how millions of Americans define themselves. In We Average Unbeautiful Watchers, Noah Cohan examines contemporary sports culture to show how mass-mediated athletics are in fact richly textured narrative entertainments rather than merely competitive displays.

The first complete and authentic English translation of Jules Verne's witty novel about a golden meteor crashing into the earth.

The weather of the Great Plains is extreme and highly variable, from floods to droughts, blizzards to tornadoes. In Great Plains Weather Kenneth Dewey explains what makes this region's climate unique by presenting a historical climatology of extreme weather events.

Part memoir, part travelogue, The Enjoy Agenda takes readers from Rick Bailey's one-stoplight town in Michigan farm country to Stratford, England, to the French Concession in Shanghai, the Adriatic coast of Italy, and to a small village in the Republic of San Marino.

Offers an anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language non-fiction writing from the city's inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors focus on the ways in which Latinx Los Angeles's nonfiction narratives record the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern US.

Explores the rarefied world of private equity investing through ethnographic fieldwork on private equity financiers. Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss documents how and why investors buy, manage, and sell; presents the ins and outs of private equity deals; and explains the historical context that gave rise to private equity.

Contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw's poems explore what the woman's body has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the aftermath of abuse.

This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema's collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political.

This panoramic history of Jewish food highlights its breadth and depth on a global scale from Renaissance Italy to the post-World War II era in Israel, Argentina, and the United States and critically examines the impact of food on Jewish lives and on the complex set of laws, practices, and procedures that constitutes the Jewish dietary system.

Explores how Upton Sinclair engaged in one cause after another, some surprisingly relevant today. This biography will forever alter our picture of this complicated, unconventional, often controversial man whose whole life was dedicated to helping people understand how society was run, by whom, and for whom.

Deploying a postcolonial, ecofeminist approach, Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism allows theories of space and place-based identities to supply a framework for exploring everyday practices represented within Pakistani women's film and literature.

No Place I Would Rather Be is a look at Roger Angell's writing over the decades, including his early short stories, pieces for the New Yorker, and later autobiographical essays, and at the common threads that run through it.

Based loosely on the author's life, this novel recounts the narrator's journey following the footsteps of his Mauritius-born grandfather, Maxime, who abruptly boarded a boat bound for Madagascar in 1922 and never returned. Michael Ferrier tells a tale of discovery as well as the elusive, colorful story of Maxime's life.

Explores solutions to what archaeologists are calling the "curation crisis", that is, too much stuff with too little research, analysis, and public interpretation. This volume demonstrates how archaeologists are taking both large and small steps toward not only solving the dilemma of storage but recognsing the value of these collections.

Illuminates the relationship between the Dakota Sioux community and the schools and surrounding region, as well as its long-term effort to maintain its role as caretaker of the "sacred citadel" of its people.

Richard D. Cramer started analysing baseball statistics as a hobby in the mid-1960s, not long after graduating from Harvard and MIT. In When Big Data Was Small Cramer recounts his life and remarkable contributions to baseball knowledge.

Employs the concept of "hauntology" and "ghostly matters" to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women.

Offers an action-packed, knee-slapping ride into and out of the belly of the beast. Join extreme angler Mark Spitzer as he encounters man-eating catfish, ruthless barracuda, lacerating conger eels, berserk tarpon, and blood-curdling sharks in locales as exotic as the Amazon, Catalonia, the Dominican Republic, and Senegal.

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.