The following excerpt is from the introduction of Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City (February 2019) by Jeanne Ferguson. This book is in the Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. In a classroom on the Northeastern Federal University … Continue reading Excerpt: Words Like Birds
The following excerpt is from Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature (January 2019) by Edward McLean Test. This book is in the Early Modern Cultural Studies series. From Chapter One: New Seeds, Strange Countries One place the … Continue reading Excerpt: Sacred Seeds
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement (January 2019) by Lisa Greenwald. Like the May 1968 generation, which rejected the traditional Left and redefined questions of power, second-wave feminism … Continue reading Excerpt: Daughters of 1968
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Apostle of Progress: Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico (January 2019) by J. Justin Castro. This is the newest title in the The Mexican Experience series, which includes books … Continue reading Excerpt: Apostle of Progress
The following is an excerpt from Practiced Citizenship: Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France (January 2019) edited by Nimisha Barton and Richard S. Hopkins. For over fifty years, scholars have grappled with the model of citizenship first forwarded by the … Continue reading Excerpt: Practiced Citizenship
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Not a Clue (Nebraska, 2018) by Dawn M. Cornelio, the translator. Chloé Delaume is the author. After first reading Certainement pas, I wrote an article that started something like this: “How can you juggle … Continue reading Excerpt: Not a Clue
The following is an excerpt from Staging Family: Domestic Deceptions of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Actresses (December 2018) by Nan Mullenneaux. It is a new book in the Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality series, which promotes rigorous and … Continue reading Excerpt: Staging Family
As you’re surely recovering from last night’s Festivus activities, you may realize that you’ve heard a little less from your friends at the University of Nebraska Press. That’s because we’re closed through January 1 and will reopen on January 2. … Continue reading UNP closed through Jan. 1
Stanley A. Goldman is a professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and the founding director of the Loyola Center for the Study of Law and Genocide. He co-anchored a national program on CBS Network Radio during the … Continue reading From the Desk of Stanley A. Goldman: The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Written
The following is an excerpt from Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre (December 2018) by Lee Clark Mitchell. From the Introduction Consider a handful of scenarios recently set in the American West: a corpse repeatedly buried and disinterred on its journey … Continue reading Excerpt: Late Westerns
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