Fiction: literary and general non-genre
University of Nebraska Press Lost on Venus
Book SynopsisLost! Space adventurer Carson Napier made a grievous miscalculation and became stranded on dangerous, mist-shrouded Venus. But Napier refused to quit. He won the love of the beautiful Duare, princess of Vepaja, became a pirate, fought villains, then lost his beloved to the evil Thorist kidnappers.
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press A Lost Lady
Book SynopsisDescribes the origin, writing, and reception of the novel, "The Lost Lady". This essay features photographs that illuminate the connection between the novel and the people and places from the author's formative years in Nebraska.Trade Review"This 1923 novel is among the best examples of Cather's experiment with minimalism and one of her finest works overall. As such, it deserves an edition produced to the highest standards of textual scholarship. It has found one here."-Choice Choice
£14.24
University of Nebraska Press O Pioneers
Book SynopsisA novel that describes life on the Nebraska frontier. It presents a range of biographical, historical, and textual information.Trade Review"This beautifully produced book is a joy to read and demonstrates the real pleasures to be derived from meticulous attention to detail and the highest standards of scholarship."-American Literary Scholarship American Literary Scholarship "The first of the Cather Scholarly Editions sets a high standard of quality... Text and context reveal the splendor of O Pioneers! and enrich both the experience and study of Cather's extraordinary prose."-Western American Literature Western American Literature
£18.99
University of Nebraska Press The Girl in the Golden Atom
Book SynopsisExplores the world of the atom. This is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world.
£13.29
University of Nebraska Press Dakota Texts
Book SynopsisOffering a study of the Sioux tribes, this title contains 64 tales that present an array of Sioux folklore and history in its original language, along with a literal translation.Trade Review“Finally a volume of Dakota texts, accurately recorded, is now available. And in so far as Miss Deloria’s mother tongue is the Oglala dialect, we may be confident that stylistically and syntactically these texts are superior to those previously published.”—Language“Deloria’s excellent collection of tales from the Teton Dakota with text, grammatical analysis, and English translation, together with notes upon customs and idioms of speech, supplies a definitive volume by a trained and competent hand upon this important and much neglected division of the Siouan stock.”—American Anthropologist
£17.99
University of Nebraska Press Tarzan Alive
Book SynopsisThrough the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). This biography brings together the life of this man, correcting Burroughs' errors and deliberate deceptions.Trade Review“The old vine swinger is one of a handful of fictional characters to rank a biography. Such books give the authors the opportunity to expound on the characters, providing background, side stories, and updates not offered by their creator. Farmer’s 1972 volume borrows from Edgar Rice Burroughs but also adds to the legend by tracing Tarzan’s lineage . . . and extends his exploits beyond the African jungle as an RAF pilot in World War II. Great fun.”—Library Journal, Classic Returns“Farmer goes one step further than mere literary fun. He takes engaging advantage of the reader’s inherent susceptibility to myth.”—Publishers Weekly“Tarzan is seen as a 20th-century heroic figure having much in common with the mythical demigods of an earlier day, and this book will not fail to please and enthrall his many followers.”—Library Journal“The most innovative part of the book [is] Tarzan’s family tree linking him to every great hero in pulp literature. . . . Farmer is less well known today than he was forty years ago. Nevertheless, Alive ages well and gives the reader the sourcebook for so many writers today.”—American Book Review"Farmer does a fine job of consolidating all the material. He leaves the reader with a three dimensional portrait of the main characters, their foibles, and motivations. . . . For an introduction to one of the most resilient heroes in literature, Tarzan Alive is a remarkable offering."—Green Man Review
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press HoundDog Man
Book SynopsisTwelve-year-old Cotton Kinney has everything a boy could want - except a dog. For Christmas, Cotton bought his dad a studded dog collar and his mom an enameled cake-mixing pan just the right size for feeding a dog. It didn't do any good. When Christmas comes, Cotton still doesn't get his dog.
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press MainTravelled Roads
Book SynopsisFeatures stories such as: "Under the Lion's Paw", "Up the Coolly", "Mrs. Ripley's Trip" and more.Trade Review"Was it not in Garland that American farmers first talked like farmers? Was it not Garland who among the very first dedicated his career to realism? Was it not Garland who, almost alone in the eighties, sat in the Boston Public Library writing out of his loneliness and poverty those first realistic stories that were to guide others to a new literature in America? It is true."—Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press Married or Single
Book SynopsisMarried or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick's final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America's first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women's right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood and offers readers a wider range of options for women in society, recognizing their need and ability to determine the course of their lives. Sedgwick's touching, witty, and shrewdly observant novel centers on Grace Herbert, a New York City socialite who must negotiate the marriage market and also learn to develop her own character and take control of her own destiny. The story merges a wide range of popular American literary formsincluding the seduction novel, the conversion narrative, the novel of education, and social reform fictionand provides a window on many of the cultural and political anxieties of the 1850s beyond marriage, including immigration, slavery, and urban poverty. Sedgwick'Trade Review"A classic that is at once both an engrossing read and an erudite champion of women's rights, Married or Single? is highly recommended especially for public and college library literature and women's studies shelves."—Midwest Book Review“A modern edition of Sedgwick’s final novel is long overdue, and Deborah Gussman is its ideal editor. Gussman’s introduction will reflect and forward current scholarly concerns.”—Mary Kelley, author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic“This is a very teachable and useful book and should appeal to scholars, libraries, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.”—Martha Cutter, author of Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editor’s Introduction A Note on the Text Married or Single? Notes
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press Lucy Gayheart
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of Lucy Gayheart provides readers with a fresh and insightful look at Cather’s penultimate, and often undervalued, novel."—Emily J. Rau, Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface Lucy Gayheart Acknowledgments Historical Apparatus: Historical Essay Illustrations Explanatory Notes Textual Apparatus: Textual Essay Emendations Notes on Emendations Table of Rejected Substantives Word Division
£66.60
University of Nebraska Press Onitsha
Book SynopsisPresents an account and indictment of colonialism.Trade Reviewhttp://www.thomasriggs.net/blog/index.php/2009/11/eyes-on-the-prize/“An uncharacteristically accessible and dramatic narrative about Europeans in Africa from one of the avatars of the French New Wave novel. . . . Fintan’s fascinated absorption into Onitsha’s tribal culture, described with irresistible sensuous immediacy, is expertly counterpointed against his father’s self-destructive obsession with Africa’s legendary past—and convincingly motivates a criticism of the injustices of white colonialism that is all the more powerful for its seamless coexistence with a richly imagined story and consistently engaging characters. The most surprising work of Le Clézio’s long career, and one of his best.”—Kirkus“[Onitsha] offers a compelling contrast between the white mistreatment of Africans and the occasionally dangerous natural beauty surrounding the village of Onitsha on the banks of the Niger River. Fintan never forgets the harsh facts of his childhood years, and readers will not forget this novel.”—Library Journal“Onitsha also includes a scathing critique of colonialism, through the voice of Maou, who increasingly speaks out against the ways the white masters treat the locals. . . . Le Clézio’s writing always moves back toward the richness and the responsibilities of the present, highlighting the necessity of undergoing a veritable apprenticeship enabling one to experience the present fully. His fiction, whose scenes and details usually stand at only a slight remove from the facts of his own life, is thereby warmly personal in tone and thoroughly credible in effect.”—Michigan Quarterly Review“Le Clézio gives an admirably full portrait of day-to-day life in Africa, from animistic religions, to food, to street festivals. And his presentation of the last queen of Meroë and her search for a promised land gives an epic frame to the continental vision he presents.”—Boston Book Review
£13.29
University of Nebraska Press Master of Adventure The Worlds of Edgar Rice
Book SynopsisReveals details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs. Featured here are the outlines of all of Burroughs's major novels, along with descriptions of how they were each written, and their respective sources of inspiration.Trade Review“Required reading for Burroughs fans.”—Analog“Excellently researched by a recognized authority.”—Chicago Tribune“Lupoff's lucid, occasionally wry recappings make one want to scour second-hand bookshops for Burroughs's back catalog in a quest to find out more.”—Times Literary Supplement“Lupoff’s thoughtful insights and thorough examination of each facet of Burroughs’ work enriches what was already enjoyable reading.”—The Barbarian Chronicles“Lupoff, who’s now a senior author of speculative fiction. . . . makes shrewd observations about the Tarzan character, Jack Layton, son and heir of Lord Greystoke.”—George Fetherling, The New Brunswick Reader“This well-paced book is sort of a biography of Burrough’s writing. While it does not go into detail on all 75 of Burroughs’s books listed in its bibliography, it does examine a good many of the most important works. Well-written by a working novelist, Master of Adventure is a good read for anyone interested in escapism and a must-read for all Burroughs fans.”—Statesman Journal
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press Indian Why Stories
Book SynopsisOld-man, or Napa, as he was called by the Blackfeet, is an extraordinary character in Indian stories. Both powerful and fallible, he appears in different guises: god or creator, fool, thief, clown. This title features thirteen verse stories along with an introduction to those stories by Sarah J Hatfield, granddaughter of the author.
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press The Moon Pool
Book SynopsisPresents a story of a terrifying, ancient force unleashed in the South Pacific; 'fantasy, romance, adventure; something of mystery, something of the supernatural.'Trade Review"Students of early science fiction will welcome the University of Nebraska Press's series Bison Frontiers of Imagination."—Times Literary Supplement“First published as a novel in 1919, this path-breaking genre piece was praised by the New York Times. . . . Merritt was among the first . . . to speculate in fiction about the implications of the new science, archeology, and anthropology at the turn of the century. . . . An entertaining ode to love and sacrifice.”—Kirkus Reviews“Fantasy, romance, adventure; something of mystery, something of the supernatural; a weaving together of ancient legends, older by far than any historical records, with the scientific knowledge of the present day; and side by side with these, yet far above and mastering them, the power of human love and willing self-sacrifice, the whole held together by a shimmering, glittering web of imagination . . . It marks the debut of a writer possessed of a very unusual, perhaps one might almost call it extraordinary, richness of imagination.”—New York Times Book Review
£11.39
University of Nebraska Press The Oldest Orphan
Book SynopsisTierno Monénembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to write genocide into memory. In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monénembo does, to devastating effect. Powerful testimony to an unspeakable historical reality, this story is told by an adolescent on death row in a prison in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Dispassionately, almost cynically, the teenager Faustin tells his tale, alternating between his days in jail, his adventures wandering the countryside after his parents and most of the people of his village have been massacred, and his escapades as a cheerful hoodlum in the streets of Kigali. Only slowly does the full horror of his parents' death and his own experience return to Faustin. His realization strikes the reader with shattering force, for it carries in its wake the impossible but inescapable questions presented by such a murderous episode of history and such a crippling experience for a child, Trade Review“A devastatingly moving novel about one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. That it is an African tragedy and that the author is African makes it all the more important for American readers in these perilous times when national borders grow increasingly fragile. Translated with eloquent grace by Monique Fleury Nagem, this powerful book deserves the widest possible audience.”—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain“The Oldest Orphan effectively describes a country completely undone, trying to cope with the unthinkable and unspeakable. Faustin gets by, more or less, but the advents catch up with him, and in the powerful last scenes they are fully dredged up again, what actually happened to him and his family in those days revealed, well evoked by Monénembo in all its horrible absurdity. . . . Adele King’s brief introduction covers all the basic information readers should be equipped with.”—The Complete Review“While it is a pleasure to read of a passion as strong as Faustin’s, my favorite note of affirmation in this work comes in a curious passage in which Faustin comments on his love of singing. ‘Singing is done with our whole God-given body; talking is done with the mouth only. It’s better this way—to sing and not to talk.’”—Brad Goins, Laganiappe Magazine“Monénembo weaves his story with the ease of a master craftsman. He deftly takes the reader circuitously from beginning to end.”—Connease Warren, Mosaic Literary Magazine
£11.39
University of Nebraska Press Okanagan Grouse Woman
Book SynopsisIn this book of Native American language research and oral traditions, linguist John Lyon collects Salish stories as told by culture-bearer Lottie Lindley, one of the last Okanagan elders whose formative years of language learning were unbroken by the colonizing influence of English. Lindley tells the stories that recount and reflect Salish culture, history, and historical consciousness.Trade Review“[The voice of] Lottie Lindley, full of both personal character and the reserved and patient wisdom of the elder, comes through the transcriptions clearly, movingly, and with cumulative power.”—Ursula K. LeGuin, winner of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters “This volume sets a new standard for combining accessibility to the speaker community and academic rigor.”—David Beck, professor of linguistics at the University of Alberta “The collection is masterfully constructed, reflecting Lottie Lindley’s distinctive narrative voice in Okanagan and in English. At once a carefully annotated documentation of the Okanagan language as well as a record of history, culture, and land, the book is a testament to the power of narrative in Okanagan and a wonderful gift to future generations.”—Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria “John Lyon has changed the mold somewhat in providing complete Nsyílxcen texts on a separate page, preceding the linguistic explanations. This gives advanced learners and teachers an invaluable resource: a wealth of written literature that can be read, enjoyed, and taught from.”—Michele K. Johnson, Syilx Language House Association Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword by Xʷacúʔ (Allan Thomas Lindley) Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Editor’s Introduction: The Okanagan Language PART 1. UPPER NICOLA NARRATIVES: OKANAGAN 1. kɬíw̓sntməlx iʔ t t̓ik̓ʷt 2. ɬaʔ ckc̓x̌ʷípəlaʔs iʔ sənk̓l̓íp 3. iʔ nx̌aʔx̌ʔítkʷ 4. Snʕánʕas 5. k̓l nsk̓ʷuts iʔ t̓ik̓ʷt 6. lkʷilx iʔ tl sənɬq̓ʷútən 7. xʷk̓ʷncut mi sic ʔawspíx̌əm 8. ɬaʔ c̓x̌ʷíltəm iʔ sqilxʷ 9. iʔ t̓yt̓ymuɬ t tətwít 10. ɬaʔ ck̓awíwləx iʔ sqilxʷ 11. ɬaʔ ck̓ʷúl̓əm iʔ sqilxʷ t p̓ínaʔ 12. l Nəq̓áq̓suɬ 13. l Q̓ʷumqnátkʷ 14. iʔ kəkn̓íʔ iʔ ksk̓wilxs 15. cktyáqʷtmstsəlx iʔ təmxʷúlaʔxʷ 16. yaʕyáʕt səʕsáʕtləx k̓im t̓i knaqs t ƛ̓əx̌əx̌ƛ̌x̌áp act̓kíkst 17. iʔ sqiʔsc iʔ knaqs iʔ tkɬmilxʷ 18. uɬ ixíʔ cyaʕp iʔ smsámaʔ 19. ɬaʔ ckicx Douglas 20. kʷu ɬaʔ cq̓əy̓ám k̓l snq̓əy̓míntən 21. Maggie Moore iʔ təmxʷúlaʔxʷs PART 2. UPPER NICOLA NARRATIVES: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIES 1. Divided by the Lake 2. When Coyote Ruled 3. The Lake Monster 4. The Snotty-Nose Bird 5. Other Side of the Lake 6. Leave Your Bed 7. Clean Yourself Before Going Hunting 8. When the People Trained 9. The Lazy Boy 10. When the People Became Old 11. How the People Made Baskets 12. At Minnie Lake Interview with Nellie Guitterez 13. At Chapperon Lake 14. The Kokanees Will Go Upriver 15. They Fought Over the Land 16. They All Fell Off Except One Old Man with a Cane 17. One Woman’s Dream 18. And the White People Came 19. When Douglas Came 20. When We Were Writing in School 21. Maggie Moore’s Land PART 3. UPPER NICOLA NARRATIVES: INTERLINEAR ANALYSES 1. kɬíw̓sntməlx iʔ t t̓ik̓ʷt / Divided by the Lake 2. ɬaʔ ckc̓x̌ʷípəlaʔs iʔ sənk̓l̓íp / When Coyote Ruled 3. iʔ nx̌aʔx̌ʔítkʷ / The Lake Monster 4. Snʕánʕas / The Snotty-Nose Bird 5. k̓l nsk̓ʷuts iʔ t̓ik̓ʷt / Other Side of the Lake 6. lkʷilx iʔ tl sənɬq̓ʷútən / Leave Your Bed 7. xʷk̓ʷncut mi sic ʔawspíx̌əm / Clean Yourself Before Going Hunting 8. ɬaʔ c̓x̌ʷíltəm iʔ sqilxʷ / When the People Trained 9. iʔ t̓yt̓ymuɬ t tətwít / The Lazy Boy 10. ɬaʔ ck̓awíwləx iʔ sqilxʷ / When the People Became Old 11. ɬaʔ ck̓ʷúl̓əm iʔ sqilxʷ t p̓ínaʔ / How the People Made Baskets 12. l Nəq̓áq̓suɬ / At Minnie Lake 13. l Q̓ʷumqnátkʷ / At Chapperon Lake 14. iʔ kəkn̓íʔ iʔ ksk̓wilxs / The Kokanees Will Go Upriver 15. cktyáqʷtmstsəlx iʔ təmxʷúlaʔxʷ / They Fought Over the Land 16. yaʕyáʕt səʕsáʕtləx k̓im t̓i knaqs t ƛ̓əx̌əx̌ƛ̌x̌áp act̓kíkst / They All Fell Off Except One Old Man with a Cane 17. iʔ sqiʔsc iʔ knaqs iʔ tkɬmilxʷ / One Woman’s Dream 18. uɬ ixíʔ cyaʕp iʔ smsámaʔ / And the White People Came 19. ɬaʔ ckicx Douglas / When Douglas Came 20. kʷu ɬaʔ cq̓əy̓ám k̓l snq̓əy̓míntən / When We Were Writing in School 21. Maggie Moore iʔ təmxʷúlaʔxʷs / Maggie Moore’s Land Appendix: Interview with Lottie Lindley Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£48.60
University of Nebraska Press Miss Morissa
Book SynopsisFleeing the East and a heartbreaking past, Morissa Kirk finds the North Platte River Valley rife with rumors of gold strikes. Fortune hunters, desperadoes, horse thieves, murderers make up the frontier society, while Indians roam the plains refusing to surrender their land to the gold-hungry white men.Trade Review"Beautifully written and full of striking images and masterful descriptions."—New York Times"A novel that has everything— a plot you won’t be able to lay aside."—Denver Post
£12.34
University of Nebraska Press The Kid
Book SynopsisWinky thought he'd seen everything in Wyoming Territory. Then into town one lazy day rode a long-haired kid and a colossal African mute. They were met in the saloon by Fiddler Jones, whose hair and temper flared like a wasps' nest. Fiddler's yellow eyes fell instantly in love with the kid's pouch of gold dust. That pouch was worth killing for.Trade Review"The Kid is in the best myth-shattering and rambunctious Twain tradition." —Jack Conroy, the Chicago Sun-Times"Seelye is not only up to something unusual, but perhaps something quite profound."—New York Times"The western of the season."—New Republic"Here we have a skilled hand working with broad humor in a lusty, free-wheeling vernacular and with a story that emerges as a kind of American tragedy, Western style."—Philadelphia Inquirer
£9.99
University of Nebraska Press The Horsecatcher
Book SynopsisPraised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she creates a youthful protagonist many readers will recognize in themselves.
£11.39
MQ - University of Nebraska Press The Purple Cloud
Book SynopsisA deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man, Adam Jeffson. He embarks on an epic journey across a silent and devastated planet, an apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe putting together the semblance of a normal life from the flotsam and jetsam of his former existence.Trade Review"Fantastic, weird, macabre ... It is imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare... A remarkable piece of work, ... head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure."--The New York Times Book Review "Students of early science fiction will welcome the University of Nebraska's Press series Bison Frontiers of the Imagination. This imprint has so far brought back into print sixteen texts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including works by authors ranging from the well-known Jack London to the more obscure Mary E. Bradley Lane and J.D. Beresford. The publishers should certainly be congratulated in bringing The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel back to public attention once more. They have chosen to reprint the authors' own final expanded version ... The 1929 version is vintage Shiel; the lush prose complements the epic theme and the grandiose and insane posturings of the pyromaniac protagonist. Shiel was the most eloquent of the immediate successors to H. G. Wells, and even fans of The Last Man by Mary Shelley might admit that Shiel's account of the journeyings of the last man through a dead world is one of the most impressive treatments of this theme."--Times Literary Supplement, December 29, 2000 "A reprint of a lost classic, Shiel's purple cloud kills everyone except Adam Jeffers, isolated, and getting more insane as he wanders the barren earth. The question of whether man deserves to survive has never been more poignantly poised."--Western Mail, Saturday Magazine 16 June 2007
£12.34
University of Nebraska Press The Last Man
Book SynopsisTaken from an ancient text found abandoned in a cave, this work ends in 2100, the last year of the world. A devastating worldwide plague has annihilated all of humanity except for one man, who chronicles the world's demise. This is a novel of apocalyptic horror.Trade Review“The Last Man created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work.”—Muriel Spark“An absorbing roman à clef, [it] develops one of the major themes of romantic art, that of spiritual isolation, and . . . treats it in a unique way.”—The Year's Work in English Studies“A fascinating . . . novel-romance on a timely subject.”—Studies in English Literature
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press The Chase of the Golden Meteor
Book SynopsisThe discovery of a falling golden meteor and the race to find it, form the core of this tale. This science fiction blends hard science and scientific speculation with a farcical comedy of manners.
£13.29
University of Nebraska Press The Breaking of Northwall
Book SynopsisThe first in a series of post-apocalyptic novels about the people of Pelbar; a fascinating and uniquely optimistic vision of an America long after a nuclear war.Trade Review“These are excellent blends of serious themes and high adventure and it’s a crime they have been unavailable for so long.”—Science Fiction Chronicle
£12.34
University of Nebraska Press American Indian Stories
Book SynopsisServes as a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. This book talks about the legends and tales from oral tradition and used experiences from the author's life and community to educate others about the Yankton Sioux. It bridges the gap between her own culture and mainstream American society.
£11.39
University of Nebraska Press Dreams and Thunder Stories Poems and The Sun
Book SynopsisPresents Zitkala-ea's previously unpublished stories, rare poems, and the libretto of "The Sun Dance Opera". Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, she remained true to her indigenous heritage as a student at the Boston Conservatory and a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School, as an activist in turn attacking the Carlisle School, and more.Trade Review"This new collection of previously unpublished writing by Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) marks a milestone in the scholarship of this crucial figure in Native literary and intellectual history. Meticulously researched, editor P. Jane Hafen's compilation advances our understanding of this Yankton Sioux writer, activist, and artist, about whom little has been documented... This is an indispensable addition to American Indian Studies in general and to Yankton Sioux literary history in particular."-Great Plains Quarterly Great Plains Quarterly "Hafen has done a great service to the study of American Indian literature by collecting in one book several published and unpublished pieces... A wonderful and enlightening collection."-Choice Choice
£12.34
Ohio University Press The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree Stories
Book SynopsisThe title of Helen Papanikolas’ second collection of short stories, The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree, is taken from an old Greek proverb and speaks of the new generation’s struggle with the vestiges of Greek customs.Trade Review“Writers like Papanikolas should live a thousand years.” * Journal of the International Greek Folklore Society *
£26.59
Ohio University Press New Stories from the Southwest
Book SynopsisThe beauty and barrenness of the southwestern landscape naturallylends itself to the art of storytellers. It is a land of heat and dryness, aland of spirits, a land that is misunderstood by those living along thecoasts.NewTrade Review“A bold collection.... Mr. Horton picked well; these stories so assuredly conjure the Southwest the authors' pens might as well have been dipped in cactus juice, tobacco spit or tequila. The traditions of American Indians, Tejanos, even the occasional Yankee transplant are documented with a tempered mix of reverence and impudence.”“As varied and bold as the colorful landscape of the American Southwest.... New Stories from the Southwest is an amazing collection. Grade: A”“D. Seth Horton’s excellent New Stories From the Southwest is a satisfying departure from the usual in that all 19 of its authors have something to say about how their stories came about.... In this collection, emerging voices tell the tales. They are stories of the Southwest but not necessarily by authors who live here.”“At a time when fiction itself seems fragile, these are the kinds of voices that could help keep the spark of literary fiction glowing outside the academy as well. We look forward to more of them in the nextversion of New Stories from the Southwest.”“Place as a literary concept in the stories collected here functions as a world where anything can happen, usually does, and the fascinating characters experience their human conflicts on a universal stage.”“Regional writing is only regional if it’s akin to an in-joke: something written from and to those who share a common experience of the place and culture. It becomes universal when its return address is a special area like the Southwest, but its outgoing address is everywhere. These stories are love letters—sometimes very tough love—from and about a unique part of this country with just such a return address, and sent to readers everywhere. You can return that love by reading and enjoying them.”
£14.24
University of Pennsylvania Press The Countess von Rudolstadt
Book SynopsisThe first translation in over one hundred years of The Countess von Rudolstadt brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece.Trade Review"Van Slyke's elegant and comprehensive translation is a groundbreaking contribution to the rediscovery of George Sand's work and thought." * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Daughters of Decadence Women Writers of the Fin
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the century, short stories by - and often about - ”New Women” flooded the pages English and American magazines. This daring new fiction shocked Victorian critics, who denounced the authors as “literary degenerates” or “erotomaniacs”. This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories from this period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction'An Egyptian Cigarette' 'Theodora: A Fragment' 'Suggestion' 'A Cross Line' 'She-Notes' 'By Accident' 'The Buddhist Priest's Wife' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' 'A White Night' 'The Fifth Edition' 'Miss Grief' 'Lady Tal' 'The Undefinable: A Fantasia' 'The Muse's Tragedy' 'Emancipation: A Life Fable' 'Three Dreams in a Desert' 'Life's Gifts' 'The Valley of Childish Things' Biographical Notes
£29.70
Wayne State University Press Enough to Lose
Book SynopsisIn nine captivating short stories, RS Deeren presents a vivid portrait of life in rural Michigan. These stories reveal how a region resistant to change and outside intervention struggles to adapt and leaves locals feeling left behind.Trade ReviewThis book is the best thing I’ve read lately, with its dead-on depictions of rural life, both beautiful and heart-wrenching. With its floods, guns, car wrecks, dangerous bridges, bars that ‘stay open out of habit,’ there’s a lot at stake here. Deeren is a keen observer of what age, poverty, and bad luck can do to a body: forty-five is, he says, ‘the age where you’ll have enough to lose that you’ll lose yourself in the process of trying to hold onto everything.’ Some of his characters live so close to the edge that the failure of a freezer might mean going hungry, while others move closer to the edge to feel alive or to grieve fully. If you say these characters are stubbornly behind the times, it’s because they are not buying what America is offering them—they are holding out for something better and more meaningful. They have tasted the sweetness of romantic love, they have felt in their bones the elegance of a deer crossing a river. Deeren’s strong, sure, authentic voice sings the songs of Michigan, and you should listen." - Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters"Enough to Lose is compulsively readable. Like Denis Johnson, Richard Russo, and Daniel Woodrell, Deeren’s stories reflect the often brutal reality of working-class, rural life, punctuated by moments of beauty and brilliance. Filled with nuance, Enough to Lose prompts readers to think about the humanity of those who might have experiences vastly different than their own." - Donald Quist, author of For Other Ghosts and To Those Bounded"A barn burner of love and longing,Enough to Losedelivers gut-punch stories over and over, each one studded with fierce insights about class and family and rural living and rendered in tender, electric prose." - Karen Tucker, author of Bewilderness"RS Deeren’s riveting first collection, written in the vein of Jim Harrison, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and Breece D’J Pancake, spotlights rural Michigan in all of its variegated beauty and pathos. Deeren’s years as a substitute teacher, landscaper, and lumberjack perhaps contributed to the visceral quality of this fresh new work. The people in these stories often struggle to make it, but the struggle here feels real and true. Deeren’s unflinching yet empathetic attention fosters a human connection between the reader and the characters in these stories that outpaces the heartbreak and renders this book a must-read." - Kelly Fordon, author of I Have the Answer (Wayne State University Press)"Reader, be prepared, as you open Enough to Lose, RS Deeren’s wonderful debut short story collection, to enter a world—in this case the thumb of Michigan—that’s as vividly and evocatively detailed as any in contemporary fiction." - Larry Watson, author of Montana 1948, Let Him Go, and other novels
£16.96
New York University Press Best of Times Worst of Times Contemporary
Book SynopsisA collection of short stories depicting and analyzing key issues in America's "New Gilded Age"Trade Review"Stories by today's most captivating writers - Jhumpa Lahiri, Susan Straight, ZZ Packer, Aimee Bender and more - focus a personal lens on race relations, gender issues, Hurricane Katrina and our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." * Ms. Magazine *"Best of Times, Worst of Times is particularly powerful in the range of social and political issues it addresses through fiction; its a collection designed to provoke critical reading, discussion and writing. The editors provide a broad representation of current fiction from familiar names as well as up-to-the-minute offerings from new American writers; in the process, they illustrate the extraordinary range of stylistic practices that shape contemporary fiction." -- Amy Tucker,author of The Illustration of the Master: Henry James and the Magazine Revolution"Topical yet timeless, this collection speaks tellingly and provocatively to issues prevalent in todays world and to readers struggling to make sense of these volatile times. The expansive stories are compelling and necessary, powerful and empathetic; they reveal in equal measure the daunting possibilities, stunning successes, and abysmal failures along side the ordinary, the contradictory, and the hopeful, all at play within the imaginative realm of visionary and expert short story writers who understand the complexities of contemporary life. They have produced a much-needed, wide-ranging, valuable, and unique collection." -- Thadious M. Davis,University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi All in the Family 1 Your Mother and I Dave Eggers 2 The Ballad of Duane Juarez Tom Franklin 3 In the American Society Gish Jen 4 Gogol Jhumpa Lahiri 5 Refresh, Refresh Benjamin Percy 6 Smorgasbord Tobias Wolff Shifting Identities 7 How to Date a Brown Girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie) Junot Diaz 8 In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried Amy Hempel 9 Metamorphosis John Updike 10 Think David Foster Wallace Locations and Dislocations 11 Expensive Trips Nowhere Tom Bissell 12 Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera Ben Fountain 13 Shiloh Bobbie Ann Mason 14 COMMCOMM George Saunders 15 Mines Susan Straight Across Divides 16 Skinless Aimee Bender 17 View from a Headlock Jonathan Lethem 18 Brownies ZZ Packer 19 Pie of the Month Jean Thompson Workdays and Nightshifts 20 A Day Charles Bukowski 21 Scales Louise Erdrich 22 Something That Needs Nothing Miranda July 23 Equal Opportunity Walter Mosley 24 The Passenger Marisa Silver About the Editors
£22.79
University of Minnesota Press The Road Back to Sweetgrass
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With the grace of a dancer lifted by spirit and grounded in the well-worn earth beneath her feet, Linda LaGarde Grover tells a circular tale of life on and off the Reservation. Generous, ironic, and often gut-wrenching, The Road Back to Sweetgrass is at its large heart a book about the power of home and the inexorable connections between land, people, and stories." —Danielle Sosin, author of The Long-Shining Waters "History, humanity and humor—these things always impress me when I read Linda LeGarde Grover’s fiction. In this deeply moving and healing book, we are drawn into a communally told story that shows generations violently separated yet held together by the cord of place and culture and by many, many acts of love." —Heid E. Erdrich, author of Original Local"Through the character of Margie Robineau, Linda LeGarde Grover has created an Ojibwe everywoman who not only births a daughter Crystal, but also revitalizes the small township of Sweetgrass by making family with her would be father-in-law. Grover’s novel tackles genealogy and kinship, Indian allotment and traditions, and ultimately love. A gorgeous read, an extraordinary novel!" —LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker"The overall theme of longing and belonging affects us all, and in this story Linda brings us into the grand circle." —Lake Superior Magazine "The events that define these characters and their world, the births and deaths and binding loves, unfold with gentle pathos and wry humor, the cadences of minute detail and the sweep of history a matter of quiet confidence and unshowy grace for this gifted storyteller." —Star Tribune "At heart this is the story of the women’s longing for home, with traditions of pow-wows, fancy dancing and wild ricing, and of coming of age when the Anishinaabe struggled to preserve their culture in a changing world." —St. Paul Pioneer PressTable of ContentsContentsThe Odissimaa Bag Bezhig: The Frybread Makers The Power of Frybread In Her Dream, MargieThe Art of Dressing a RabbitNiizh: Termination DaysShades of Through the Looking GlassThe Veil in the JarNisswi: The Wild RicersMargie-enjissAnimooshThe Ar-Bee-SeeNiiwin: MigwechiwendamEnchanted Ah-gwachingThe Occasional Scent of Sweetgrass
£18.99
University of Minnesota Press Best to Laugh A Novel
Book SynopsisBest to Laugh follows Lorna Landvik’s latest irresistible character, Candy Pekkala, from Minnesota to Hollywood as she pursues her dream of becoming a comedian. Herself a comic performer, Landvik taps her own adventurous past and writes in her classic style—sometimes so funny, you’ll cry; sometimes so sad, you might as well laugh; and always impossible to put down. Trade ReviewBest to Laugh is cheerfully outlandish, filled with ambition, love, adventure, kindness, swimming pools, nightclubs, and baked goods. Best of all, it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious.—Julie Schumacher, author of The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls and Dear Committee MembersBest to Laugh had me laughing out loud. It’s both funny and tender, and filled with memorable characters. You can’t help but love Candy Pekkala and her quirky, mixologist grandmother. Lorna Landvik has written a charming novel with real heart.—Shannon Olson, author of Welcome to My PlanetOne of the things that accounts for Lorna Landvik’s immense popularity is the essential good-heartedness she brings to her work. But as much as this is a celebration of a very special time and place, it is even more a celebration of character, desire, friendship, perseverance, and love—oh, and hamburger hot dish.—Elizabeth Berg, author of Tapestry of Fortunes and The Day I Ate Whatever I WantedGREAT NOVEL!!! It reads like an autobiography! Best to Laugh, although fiction, is one of the truest accounts of a Hollywood life one can read. It takes a master of comedy to be able to write about the business of laughter. To interpret its roots and inner working. Lorna Landvik is precisely that. I, for one of many, can attribute countless gut busting laughs to the genius of Lorna. A great nostalgic tale.—Mo Collins, actress/comedian
£12.34
Ohio University Press Sturdy Oak A Composite Novel of American
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1916, as the workers for woman suffrage were laying plans for another attack on the bastions of male supremacy, the idea for The Sturdy Oak was born: a satiric look at the gender roles of the time written as a collaborative effort by the leading authors of the day, such as Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Canfield, and Kathleen Norris.
£15.19
Ohio University Press The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt
Book SynopsisThe first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputation, Charles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern life before and after the Civil War.Trade Review“Recently, literary scholars have rediscovered Chesnutt’s graceful, ironic, and taut prose...and his works are assigned in many American literature courses. He teaches well: College students enjoy learning about Reconstruction, a fascinating and under-known period in American history, and reading Chesnutt’s subtle prose and still-pertinent treatments of American race relations.”
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Ohio University Press Testaments Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile
Book SynopsisPolish émigrés have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction. But it is Danuta Mostwin’s fiction, until now unavailable in English translation, that bridges the divide between Poland and America, exile and emigration.MostwinTrade Review“Danuta Mostwin's collected works are at last coming out in Poland. That this event coincides with the publication of the present book signifies a belated turning point in this outstanding writer's voyage between the old and the new worlds, and in time zones in which she continues to expand.” * From the introduction by Joanna Rostropowicz Clark *“Working quietly from her Baltimore home for the last forty years, Mostwin has produced works of universal significance...” Testaments is “handsomely produced, gracefully translated, and enhanced by perceptive scholarly commentary.” * The Polish Review *“Mostwin, an acclaimed sociologist, writer, and political emigrée herself, specializes in the study of Polish immigrant families in the United States. Her fiction captures the psychological changes experienced by Polish immigrants, traces circumstances that shaped their lives, and offers philosophical reflections on their existence.”
£14.24
Ohio University Press The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Book SynopsisPresents four Dunbar novels under one cover for the first time, allowing readers to assess why he was such a seminal influence on the twentieth century African American writers who followed him into the American canon.Trade Review“This collection shows that (Dunbar) was on his way to becoming a great novelist when he died in 1906.” * Dayton Daily News *
£40.50
Ohio University Press The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Book SynopsisThe son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review“Dunbar’s short stories offered keen insight into American race relations as well as the problems African Americans faced in the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries.... He was more proactive and subtle about inserting his own political views than many critics, then and since, have given him credit for.”“One hundred years after the death of Dunbar, he is most remembered for his poem ‘We Wear the Mask,’ evoking the balance required of blacks to survive and prosper in nineteenth-century America. This collection of 103 of Dunbar’s short stories written between 1890 and 1905, including well known pieces and many that have gone out of print, allows readers to see how the first African American writer to enjoy huge success evolved as a writer. This is a valuable collection for readers interested in Dunbar and his place in African American and American literature.“ * Booklist, starred review *“Dunbar’s nuanced strategies are on ample display in this first comprehensive collection of his fiction...The stories in the volume are complicated, entertaining, offensive, and moving.”“What we have been presented with here is a Herculean task of scholarship.”
£23.39
Ohio University Press The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Book SynopsisPresents four Dunbar novels under one cover for the first time, allowing readers to assess why he was such a seminal influence on the twentieth century African American writers who followed him into the American canon.Trade Review“This collection shows that (Dunbar) was on his way to becoming a great novelist when he died in 1906.” * Dayton Daily News *
£23.39
Ohio University Press Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost
Book SynopsisA fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds.The picaresque hero of this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con man. Duggie's response to being confined to the lowest level of South Africa's oppressive and humiliating racial hierarchy is to one-up its absurdity with his own glib logic and preposterous schemes. Duggie's story, as one critic puts it, offers an encyclopedic catalogue of rip-offs, swindles, and hoaxes that regularly land him in jail and rely on his white targets' refusal to admit a black man is capable of outsmarting them.Duggie exploits South Africa's bureaucratic pass laws and leverages his artificial leg every chance he gets. As a worthless embarrassment to the authorities and a bad example to the convicts, Duggie even manages to get himself thrown out of jail. From Duggie's Depression-era childhood iTrade Review“A rare gem of African literature. I believe a critical edition at this time will lead to its rediscovery by scholars of African and postcolonial literature everywhere….It is a swashbuckling mixture of truths, lies, dead seriousness, contradictory self-inventions, levity, exaggerations, and all through poignant recordings of soul-crushing apartheid’s impact on black life in South Africa. On theme and style, it was postmodern before that concept became common currency everywhere.”“The novel has vital documentary value for the manner in which it represents the criminal underworld of the townships in the apartheid years, the manner in which black males negotiated the treacherous politics of race at the time, and the questions it raises about collaborative writing and authorship in a context of severe repression and deprivation….[It] will be of interest to professors teaching courses about the South African apartheid years and seeking to assign a range of texts that offer a flavor of the times from a variety of vantage points.”“This new edition of Dugmore Boetie’s enigmatic and complex narrative introduces the work to a new generation of readers. The editors contextualise the text within the current scholarship on race and authorial agency in South Africa, and provide imaginative and useful notes for readers less familiar with the enduring legacies of apartheid.”“Based on meticulous archival research and interviews with descendants and acquaintances of the author, this new critical edition of Dugmore Boetie’s fast-paced, semi-autobiographical text will be welcomed by a new generation of scholars, teachers, and readers. In a compelling introduction that provides historical, geographical, and biographical context, the editors also invite us to think about such issues as authorship, genre, and black male identity in apartheid South Africa. The apparatus they provide in the form of notes to each chapter will make unfamiliar language and contexts accessible to readers. Bravo to the editors for making available once again a text that deserves to be more central to the canon of African literature.”“Awash in anguish and antic wit, brazen falsehood and hard-won truth, Dugmore Boetie’s Familiarity is the Kingdom of the Lost remains as brilliant, urgent, and utterly unclassifiable today as when it first appeared half a century ago. This edition includes not only Nadine Gordimer’s original foreword and Barry Simon’s (rueful) afterword, but also a new introduction by Benjamin Lawrance and Vusumuzi Kumalo illuminating the making of the book and the stranger-than-fiction story of its real-life author, Douglas Buti. What a gift.”“A racy picaresque novel presented as a memoir; more accurately, a literary con. Whatever its genre, it is a flight of wild comic exaggeration and invention that is not only vibrantly funny but a more honest expression of the despair of black South Africans than any number of moralizing exhortations.” * New York Times Book Review (1970) *“Nothing like this bullet-like prose has shot out—or been provoked out—of anywhere before. For it is a book with all of life and death in it, including a marvellous lack of pretence at human or artistic perfection.” * The Guardian (1969) *“There are images in this book that burn the mind.” * Publishers Weekly (1970) *“Duggie is the distillation of urban African experience. Without parentage or tradition, he makes the whole of black South Africa his playground. The succession of pocket-pickings, robberies, hi-jackings, and confidence tricks constitutes a primer of Johannesburg’s criminal underground.” * The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (1972) *“Dugmore Boetie was a thief, a convict (many times), part of a jazz combo and a con man extraordinary. Yet in a South Africa where blacks are humiliated, frustrated, deprived of basic human rights, a cynical agility is an edge on crushing destruction.” * Kirkus Reviews (1969) *Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword (NADINE GORDIMER) Note on Names and Terminology Editors’ Introduction (BENJAMIN N. LAWRANCE AND VUSUMUZI R. KUMALO) Acknowledgments Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost, or Tshotsholoza (DUGMORE BOETIE) Afterword (BARNEY SIMON) Soweto Funeral (LIONEL ABRAHAMS) Notes
£17.99
Duke University Press Days on Earth
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Very well done--it should be read by all who are interested in modern dance, and is an important document that belongs in every dance library."—Paul Taylor, choreographer
£27.90
Duke University Press The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
Book SynopsisReassembles the Charles W Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre. This work allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated with the tastes of the dominant literary culture of the late nineteenth century, and how that culture both promoted and delimited his work.Trade Review"Finally, we have Charles W. Chesnutt's conjure woman stories as he wrote them, not as Houghton Mifflin edited them. This collection is a landmark in American literary publishing for it helps us to understand the pressures exerted upon all authors and especially on African American writers. More important, these wonderful stories are now available to a new generation of readers."—Cathy N. Davidson"The publication of the conjure tales of Chesnutt constituted a crucial development in the history of African American [literature]. Yet up to now no one has attempted to do what Brodhead has done--namely, collect all the stories in this vein and publish them with an introduction that explains their import individually, serially, and as a collection. . . . His introduction augments the best scholarship that's been done on Chesnutt with his own broad expertise in the history of American fiction and his acute readings of individual Chesnutt tales."—William L. Andrews, University of KansasTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chronology of Composition 23 A Note on the Text 25 Selected Bibliography 27 The Conjure Woman The Goophered Grapevine 31 Po' Sandy 44 Mars Jeems's Nightmare 55 The Conjurer's Revenge 70 Sis' Becky's Pickaninny 82 The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt 94 Hot-Foot Hannibal 107 Related Tales Dave's Neckliss 123 A Deep Sleeper 136 Lonesome Ben 146 The Dumb Witness 158 A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken 172 Tobe's Tribulations 183 The Marked Tree 194
£18.99
Duke University Press Night Patrol and Other Stories
Book Synopsis"Night Patrol and Other Stories" is written by a challenging voice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Translator's Note ix Introduction 1 Captain Dikshtein: A Fantastic Narrative 9 Night Patrol: Nocturne for Two Voices, With the Participation of Comrade Polubolotov, Rifleman of VOKHR 141 Petya on His Way to the Heavenly Kingdom 197
£74.70
MD - Duke University Press Chinas AvantGarde Fiction
Book SynopsisFilled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. This book includes a selection of examples of this school of writing, which gained prominence in the late 1980s.Trade Review“This collection is bound to create an impact on the direction of research in Chinese literary studies. And Jing’s perceptive discussion of this school’s artistic and historical relevances is likely to become standard reference for future explorations of recent literary developments in China.”—Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Jing Wang 1 Remembering Mr. Wu You / Ge Fei, transl. by Howard Goldblatt 15 Green Yellow / Ge Fei, transl. by Eva Shan Chou 23 Whistling / Ge Fei, transl. by Victor H. Mair 43 The Noon of Howling Wind / Yu Hua, transl. by Denis C. Mair 69 1968 / Yu Hua, transl. by Andrew F. Jones 74 This Story Is For Willow / Yu Hua, transl. by Denis C. Mair 114 Flying Over Maple Village / Su Tong, transl. by Michael S. Duke 147 The Birth of the Water God / Su Tong, transl. by Beatrice Spade 160 The Brothers Shu / Su Tong, transl. by Howard Goldblatt 173 The Hut on the Mountain / Can Xue, transl. by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang 212 The Big Drugstore / Bei Cun, transl. by Caroline Mason 217 I Am a Young Drunkard / Sun Ganlu, transl. by Kristina M. Torgeson 235 More Ways Than One to Make a Kite / Ma Yuan, transl. by Zhu Hong 246 A Wandering Spirit / Ma Yuan, transl. by Caroline Mason 264 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 284 Contributors 286
£25.19
Duke University Press Chocolate and Other Writings on Male
Book SynopsisA translation of a 1927 short-story collection that was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male same-sex relations; its publication sparked Indias first public debates about homosexuality.Trade Review“Vanita’s introduction and translated stories will be useful to anyone interested in same-sex love and the intersections of homophobia and nationalism in India. [S]he provides a valuable interpretation of the stories and Ugra’s ambivalent stance on homosexuality. The stories could be read alone, but Vanita’s contextualization is critical for understanding the debate around homosexuality in India and thus the significance of Chocolate.” - Lisa I. Knight, International Journal of Hindu Studies“A resplendent translation of an underground classic on a subject—homosexual desire – that still remains largely confined to the closet in India. Ruth Vanita has done an admirable service to Indian literature by giving this important work of Hindi fiction another life through her translation and a luminous introduction that brings out the ambiguities of the text and the ambivalences of its path-breaking author. A rare book that will delight and enlighten the common as well as the scholarly reader.”—Krishna Baldev Vaid, Hindi novelist“This book is an extraordinarily valuable resource on sexuality. Ruth Vanita’s translations of ‘Ugra’ are fluid and comfortable (no small feat when one is translating from colloquial Hindi); her introduction is well researched, thoroughly documented, and written in lovely style; and her arguments are subtle and replete with enough material to introduce South Asia to a novice and to keep the attention of a reader well versed in the region.”—Geeta Patel, author of Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism, and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry“Vanita’s introduction and translated stories will be useful to anyone interested in same-sex love and the intersections of homophobia and nationalism in India. [S]he provides a valuable interpretation of the stories and Ugra’s ambivalent stance on homosexuality. The stories could be read alone, but Vanita’s contextualization is critical for understanding the debate around homosexuality in India and thus the significance of Chocolate.” -- Lisa I. Knight * International Journal of Hindu Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on This Translation xi Introduction xv Original Prefatory Materials 1 Chocolate 11 Kept Boy 19 We Are In Love with Lucknow 30 Waist Curved Like a She-Cobra 37 Discussing Chocolate 47 O Beautiful Young Man 52 Dissolute Love 58 In Prison 67 From Letters of Some Beautiful Ones 73
£21.59
Fordham University Press Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem
Book SynopsisAn inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.Table of ContentsForeword by Eva Hoffman | ix Translator’s Preface | xv Preface | xxiii I think of going from Osnabrück to Jerusalem | 1 I do not imagine | 65 One departs from Osnabrück | 115 Translations and References | 135
£57.60
Fordham University Press Like a Lake A Story of Uneasy Love and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsMillions of Years Ago | 1 My Nico | 2 Unfolding a Flood | 4 Turning the Key | 5 The Memory of Lake Tahoe | 16 My Mother’s Eyes | 17 My Mother | 18 Coda | 21 By Chance | 25 When Bamboo Shoots Poke Their Heads out of the Earth | 29 Blue Rambler | 30 Tender Buttons | 47 Waiting | 49 Refusing to be Plucked | 55 We Want Roses | 56 She Sleeps with Him Every Night | 59 She-Wolf Made of Rock | 61 Blue Ticket | 65 Learning to Swim | 66 Floating Studio, Floating Zendo | 67 Fannette Island | 76 Floating Zendos and Mentorgartens | 79 I Learned about Snowflakes | 82 I Learned about the Birds of Lake Tahoe | 84 Summer Snow Cake | 86 Love or Affection | 88 Mary’s Dream | 89 Each Other’s Pockets | 90 Black Cloth | 91 Brown Kimono | 94 Something Broke | 96 The Voice of the Lake | 101 Moon Writing | 102 Artichoke | 104 No Name for Him | 107 What’s in a Name? | 108 Like Piles of Laundry? | 109 Frozen Pond | 111 Coda’s Dream | 113 Like Mother and Son | 114 Fifteen Good Prints | 115 Glass Moon | 117 Tsukimi Udon (Moon Noodles) | 118 Soaring | 121 Walking Underwater | 123 Open My Heart | 125 Like Rice on Chopsticks | 126 Like a Sequence of Poems | 127 Waiting, Still | 128 Morpheus | 129 Blue Marble | 131 Something Like Love | 132 Afterword (Afterward): Like the Navel of My Dream of Nico | 133 Acknowledgments | 139 Illustrations | 141 Notes | 143
£48.96
Fordham University Press Osnabr252ck Station to Jerusalem
Book SynopsisAn inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.Table of ContentsForeword by Eva Hoffman | ix Translator’s Preface | xv Preface | xxiii I think of going from Osnabrück to Jerusalem | 1 I do not imagine | 65 One departs from Osnabrück | 115 Translations and References | 135
£15.19
