Books published by University of Nebraska Press

The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather's fiction. This new volume pairs Cather innovatively with additional influences - theological, aesthetic, even gastronomical - and examines her as tourist and traveller cautiously yet assiduously exploring a diverse range of places, ethnicities, and professions.

In the latter half of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Native American families moved to cities across the US, some via the government relocation program and some on their own. In this study, Stephen Kent Amerman focuses on the educational experiences of Native students in urban schools in Phoenix, Arizona, a city with one of the largest urban Indian communities in America.

The life of a young Native American woman who overcame a childhood of poverty, physical disability, and abuse to become Miss Oklahoma and eventually earn her Native American name.

Calls on scientists and engineers to polish their writing and speaking skills in order to communicate more clearly about their work to the public, policy makers, and reporters who cover science. In this long-overdue volume, scientists, engineers, and journalists will find both a convincing rationale for communicating well about science and many practical methods for doing so.

Tells the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern Arizona "turned the power" by using compulsory federal education to affirm their way of life and better their community. Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert draws on interviews, archival records, and his own experiences growing up in the Hopi community to offer a powerful account of a quiet, enduring triumph.

A powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. This collection bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. Shane Book's poems carry us to Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Trinidad, and Canada's west coast; from a religious sacrifice in Tarahumara, Mexico, to Book's ailing grandfather's bedside.

Offers three tales that feature a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which now threatens to destroy her. This title presents personal images of utopia, the importance of heritage, and the necessity of burying the dead to approach the future.

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this daring collection of nine stories introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. The characters in these stories must find their way to a truth that, though less than perfect, is one they can live with.

The story of the residents of a small western plains town and the turmoil that results from the colliding interests of its "native" inhabitants and newcomers