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William Faulkner
Self-Presentation and Performance
University of Texas Press
How Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography.
Valley Interfaith and School Reform
Organizing for Power in South Texas
University of Texas Press
How community organizing and activism in support of public schools in one of America’s most economically disadvantaged regions has engendered impressive academic results.
The Road to El Cielo
Mexico's Forest in the Clouds
University of Texas Press
The story of a conservation effort in Mexico's cloud forest.
Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator
By Patrick L. Cox; Introduction by Edward M. Kennedy
University of Texas Press
The first in-depth biography of a Texas senator.
Clovis Blade Technology
A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas
By Michael B. Collins and Marvin Kay
University of Texas Press
This book offers the first comprehensive study of a little-known aspect of Clovis culture—stone blade technology.
Among Women
From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World
Edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger
University of Texas Press
This book explores a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt.
Veni, Vidi, Video
The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
University of Texas Press
The history of the rise of home video as a mass medium.
Translating the Garden
University of Texas Press
In this book, Ghanoonparvar allows readers to watch him in the process of translating Shahrokh Meskub’s Goftogu dar Bagh (Dialogue in the Garden) from Persian into English.
The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
Edited by Seth L. Wolitz
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis.
Recovering History, Constructing Race
The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans
University of Texas Press
Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from prehispanic times to the present.
Popular Cinema of the Third Reich
By Sabine Hake
University of Texas Press
An overview of Third Reich cinema through the lens of national cinema studies.
Killer Books
Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative
University of Texas Press
How Spanish American writers have reflected ethically in their works about writing’s relation to violence and about their own relation to writing.
Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen
University of Texas Press
How major Israeli films of the 1980s and 1990s have contributed to national identity formation.
Brought to You By
Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream
University of Texas Press
How television advertising rose to become a defining force in American culture.
Stoppard's Theatre
Finding Order amid Chaos
By John Fleming
University of Texas Press
John Fleming offers the first book-length assessment of Tom Stoppard’s work in nearly a decade.
Cultural Logics and Global Economies
Maya Identity in Thought and Practice
University of Texas Press
Drawing on recent theories from cognitive studies, interpretive ethnography, and political economy, Edward F. Fischer looks at individual Maya activists and local cultures, as well as changing national and international power relations, to understand how
Behind the Mexican Mountains
University of Texas Press
This colorful account of an anthropologist's fieldwork among the Tarahumara in 1930 provides a compelling description of the landscape, people, traditions, language, and archaeology of the Tarahumara region.
Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community
The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán
University of Texas Press
A study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art.
Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos
University of Texas Press
This comparative look at vaqueros, cowboys, and buckaroos brings the mythical image of the American cowboy into focus and detail and honors the regional and national variations.
The Wounded Heart
Writing on Cherríe Moraga
University of Texas Press
Analyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga’s writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga’s work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure.
Tales of the Wild Horse Desert
University of Texas Press
This book tells the stories of the vaqueros of the Wild Horse Desert for fourth- through eighth-grade students.
Mesoamerican Healers
Edited by Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom
University of Texas Press
Essays on traditional Mesoamerican healers and medical practices, from precolonial times to the present.
After Revolution
Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua
University of Texas Press
How Nicaragua's least powerful citizens have fared since the Sandinista revolution.
Quiché Rebelde
Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala
University of Texas Press
What happened when a religious movement came to a Guatemalan town.
The Making of the Mexican Border
The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910
University of Texas Press
In this insightful history of the state of Nuevo León, Juan Mora-Torres explores how these processes transformed northern Mexico into a region with distinct economic, political, social, and cultural features that set it apart from the interior of Mexico.
Zapotec Science
Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
In this book, Roberto González convincingly argues that Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science, which has had a reciprocally beneficial relationship with European and United States farming and food systems
Skywatchers
A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico
University of Texas Press
An introduction to archaeoastronomy, focusing on Mesoamerica.
Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector
The Différance of Desire
By Earl E. Fitz
University of Texas Press
This book argues that poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector’s writing,
Naturally . . . South Texas
Nature Notes from the Coastal Bend
By Roland H. Wauer; Illustrated by Mimi Hoppe Wolf
University of Texas Press
In this book, Ro Wauer describes a typical year in the natural life of South Texas.
Making Faces, Playing God
Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup
University of Texas Press
In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills the fundamental human fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the othe
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