Books published by University of Nebraska Press

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by francophone North African writers, Lia Nicole Brozgal shows how such interpretations of Memmi's texts obscure their not inconsiderable theoretical possibilities.

Provides a powerful explanatory account of narrative organization

Entertaining reference to the sport of baseball, including larger-than-life characters, baseball legends, sports facts and firsts, important milestones, and observations about daily life and popular culture.

Offers a provocative reinterpretation of how anthropology interprets other cultures and itself.

Written by an anthropologist, an historian, and a Native singer, this title reveals the personal and cultural power of Christian faith among the Kiowas of southwestern Oklahoma and shows how Christian members of the Kiowa community have creatively embraced hymns and made them their own. It features a CD of twenty-six Kiowa hymns.

A collection of essays embracing nonfiction from memoir and biography to travel writing and natural history, Interior Places offers a curiously detailed group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape.

Many people are aware of the Apollo launch pad disaster in which three men lost their lives, but there were five more fallen astronauts. This book tells their stories also: Ted Freeman, C C Williams, the "Gemini Twins," Charlie Bassett and Elliot See.

Sidney Thompson tells the story of the early career of Bass Reeves, one of the greatest lawmen in American history, and his life as a slave before he became a deputy U.S. marshal.

In these thematically linked pieces, Sue William Silverman explores the fear of death, and her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, realism, and speculation. Although defeating death is physically impossible, language, commemoration, and metaphor can offer slivers of transcendent immortality.

Russell Cobb's The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of "Flyover Country" that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.

Fermented Landscapes applies the concept of fermentation as a mechanism through which to understand and analyze processes of landscape and cultural change as related to the production and consumption of fermented products.

Sabotaged is the remarkable account of French, Swiss, and Belgian intellectuals who followed Victor Considerant to Texas in 1855 in a quixotic attempt to fulfill their dreams of a new life in a utopia.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world in the twenty-first century? Robin Hemley wrestles with this question in Borderline Citizen as he takes the reader on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity.

Though spiritually akin to prose poems, Robert Vivian's dervish essays retain an essayistic form while reflecting the dynamic movement and ancient symbolism of Turkey's whirling dervishes with their wild lyricism, sometimes breathless cadences, and mesmerizing unspooling.

Named after the poet's mother, 'mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities.

This hauntingly beautiful collection of poems is a disarming account of a man consumed by thoughts of home and loss.

The epic World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers and the six men whose lives were changed forever.

Nicholas S. Paliewicz and Marouf Hasian Jr. contend that the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum is a securitized site of remembrance that evokes feelings of insecurity that justify post-9/11 domestic and international security efforts.

Rosemary Levy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts.

Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes.

Alexander Vazansky examines the discontent of the U.S. Army in Europe and specifically of GI soldiers in Germany between 1968 and 1975 as a result of race relations, drug abuse, and political opposition.

A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition and shaken by violent change.

This thirteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's work on his mid-career novels The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima as well as work on a number of tales that would help to define his career.

Following previous dialect studies concerned primarily with varieties of Ojibwe spoken in Canada, Relativization in Ojibwe presents the first study of dialect variation for varieties spoken in the United States and along the border region of Ontario and Minnesota.

The ferocious rivalry between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders during the 1970s.

A rich history of baseball's hidden language told through stories and anecdotes about the game's most recognizable names, revised and expanded through the 2018 season.

The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux presents the Red Road and the Holy Dance (also called the Medicine Dance), two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, as told by Samuel I. Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Kyle E. Ciani examines the long history of interactions between parents and social reformers from diverse backgrounds in the development of social welfare programs in San Diego, California.