University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Empress San Francisco
The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging...
A Lenape among the Quakers
The Life of Hannah Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency—a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately,...
by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl’s penchant for her parents’ keys to a warrior’s hunt for words, Wa Ngugi’s poems move back and forth between the personal...
by Clifton Gachagua
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Clifton Gachagua’s collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind...
by Rebecca Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her...
Regular Haunts
New and Previous Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone. His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer...
The Pat Boone Fan Club
My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean...
Latinx Writing Los Angeles
Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeles’s most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the city’s inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such as Harry...
How Winter Began
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town’s cruelest...
Native Diasporas
Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work...
I'll Be Your Mirror
Essays and Aphorisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form’s past—interviewing...
Defying Maliseet Language Death
Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts...
Indigenous Cities
Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In Indigenous Cities Laura M. Furlan demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. She situates Native identity among theories of diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism by examining urban narratives—such as those written by Sherman...
Rival Gardens
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
For decades a restorer of old homes, Connie Wanek shows us that poetry is everywhere, encountered as easily in the waterways, landscapes, and winters of Minnesota, as in the old roofs and darkened drawers of a home long uninhabited. Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along...