University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Southern Women Playwrights
New Essays in History and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.
Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women...
by Ronald Berman
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
A noted scholar offers fresh ways of looking at two legendary American authors.
Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway came into their own in the 1920s and did some of their best writing during that decade. In a series of interrelated essays, Ronald Berman considers an array of novels...
by Ángel Escobar
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Ángel Escobar’s Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza is known by many as the most devastating book of his poetic generation. It is his first to be offered to an English-speaking audience. Merging personal and collective meditations, these twenty-three poems perform an indictment of violence. Escobar’s...
From the Modernist Annex
American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman’s close readings of four modernist...
Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne
A Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
An annotated selection of unpublished letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister.
Retrieved from seven different libraries, this corpus of letters was preserved by the Manning family chiefly for their value as records of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work; but they ironically also illuminate...
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the personal...
Suburban Dreams
Imagining and Building the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award finalist
Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents...
Fabricating the People
Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2009
Since the 1960s, hostility and mistrust toward the U.S. government has risen precipitously. At the same time, the field of public administration has wrestled with its own crisis of legitimacy. What is at the root of current antigovernment sentiment? Conventionally, two explanations for this problem...
Our Sisters' Keepers
Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
by Steven C. Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music—minstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, and especially blues—emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both...
The Island Called Paradise
Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler’s The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa.
In The Island Called Paradise, Philip D. Beidler shares his personal discovery of the vast,...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...