University of Nebraska Press Forlag
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The Forbidden Woman (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tells the story of Sultana, an Algerian woman doctor who, after years spent living in France, returns to her native village in order to attend the funeral of a former lover. This book explores the clash between her origins and the Westernized life she now leads.
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The Mexican Revolution, Volume 2: Counter-revolution and Reconstruction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Begins with the army counter-revolution of 1913, which ended Francisco Madero's liberal experiment and installed Victoriano Huerta's... Læs mere
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The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace Litteraire" (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the process of reading as well as the nature of artistic creativity, all the while considering the relation of the literary work to time, to history, and to death. This work reflects on literature and the unique demand it makes upon our attention.
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Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Follows the journey of Phil Jackson to the top of basketball's coaching hierarchy.
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Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing As an Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. This work concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological".
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The January Children (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all... Læs mere
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though... Læs mere
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Hard Damage (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This collection of poems works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations.
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Meander Belt: Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working-Class South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis, Tennessee, came to fall in love with language, reading, writing, and... Læs mere
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Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to overcome the struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple, and living in the rural American West.
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This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the “Indian problem” in both the United States and Canada. This Benevolent Experiment offers a multilayered, comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools.
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