Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Situated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial studies, Hybrid Anxieties analyzes the intertwined and composite aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the French-Algerian War.

Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Karrholm focus on territory as a living phenomenon-and territoriality as an active and constantly reshaping force.

Too Strong to Be Broken follows Edward Driving Hawk's emotional, physical, and financial hardships between his military and home life, survival both in and out of war, and the people who have provided unwavering support through such trying times.

Sky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has passed through.

Sporting Realities is a collection that explores the sports documentary's cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts.

The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an Indigenous way of life-a nomadic life based on the buffalo-that was sacred to him and to his people.

This memoir recounts Bethany Maile's efforts, informed by a steady diet of "western" activities, to understand the ways in which the western myth is outdated yet persistent.

Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. Linda Heidenreich coins the term nepantla(2) to mark figures who moved between cultures and genders.

Presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. The words in this volume encompass the main artery of the language heard and spoken by the parents and grandparents of the Ponca Council of Elders. Additional words are included, such as those related to modern devices and technology.

The pioneering essays in Teaching Western American Literature give instructors entree into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field.