Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, especially New England and southern Louisiana. To shed light on the French cultural legacy in North America, Gosnell seeks out hidden French or ""Franco"" identities and sites of memory in North America that quietly proclaim an intercontinental French presence.

Shortly before her eighth birthday, in the fall of 1954, Brenda Serotte came down with polio - painfully singled out in a world already marked by differences. Her bout with the dreaded disease is at the heart of this poignant and heartbreakingly hilarious memoir of growing up a Sephardic Jew among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx.

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown's Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts.

Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. Multilingual (French, German, and Russian), she began studying Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually converted to Islam and joined a Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood. Writings from the Sand is the document of a remarkable life and a literary treasure.