The University of Arizona Press is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. They disseminate ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers. They advance the University of Arizona’s mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide.
Showing 331-340 of 1,703 items.
Frog Mountain Blues
The University of Arizona Press
When first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development up the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Today, that development is fully visible, but Charles Bowden’s prescience to preserve and protect a sacred recreational space remains as vivid as ever. Accompanied by Jack W. Dykinga’s photographs from the original work, this book conveys the natural beauty of the Catalinas and warns readers that this unique wilderness could easily be lost.
Blue Desert
By Charles Bowden; Foreword by Francisco Cantú
The University of Arizona Press
Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden’s third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing Bowden’s growing and intense preoccupation with the state and what it represented as a symbol of America’s “New West.” With a thoughtful new foreword by Francisco Cantú, Blue Desert is a critical piece of Bowden’s oeuvre.
Encantado
Desert Monologues
By Pat Mora
The University of Arizona Press
Encantado, a small southwestern city situated by a river, comes to us from acclaimed writer Pat Mora. Each poem forms a story that uncovers the complex and emotional journeys we take through life. Inspired by the real and imagined stories around her, Mora brings us to the heart of what it means to be a chorus of voices together. A community. A town. Encantado.
Sor Juana
Or, the Persistence of Pop
By Ilan Stavans
The University of Arizona Press
Sor Juana: Or, The Persistence of Pop encapsulates the life, times, and legacy of seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Ilan Stavans provides a biographical and meditative picture of how popular perceptions of her life and work both shape and reflect Latinx culture.
México Beyond 1968
Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies
Edited by Jaime M. Pensado and Enrique C. Ochoa
The University of Arizona Press
México Beyond 1968 examines the revolutionary organizing and state repression that characterized Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s. It challenges the conception of the Mexican state as “exceptional” and underscores and refocuses the centrality of the 1968 student movement.
Brazil's Long Revolution
Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement
The University of Arizona Press
Economic crises in the Global North and South are forcing activists to think about alternatives. Author Anthony Pahnke argues that activists should look to the Global South and Brazil—in particular the Landless Workers Movement (MST)—for inspiration. Brazil’s Long Revolution shows how the MST positioned itself take advantage of challenging economic times to improve its members’ lives.
Literature as History
Autobiography, Testimonio, and the Novel in the Chicano and Latino Experience
The University of Arizona Press
Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historians of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.
Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents
The Southwest North American Region Since 1540
The University of Arizona Press
Esteemed author Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez details the linguistic and cultural processes used by penetrating imperial and national states to establish language supremacy in the Southwest North American Region from 1540 to the present, and the manner in which those affected have responded and acted, often in dissatisfaction and at times with inventive adaptations.
Marking Indigeneity
The Tongan Art of Sociospatial Relations
By Tevita O. Ka'ili; Foreword by ‘Okusitino Mahina
The University of Arizona Press
Marking Indigeneity examines the conflicts and reconciliation of indigenous time-space within the Tongan community in Maui, as well as within the time-space of capitalism. Using indigenous theory, Tēvita O. Ka‘ili provides an ethnography of the social relations of the highly mobile Tongans.
Yaqui Indigeneity
Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity
The University of Arizona Press
The first book-length study of the representation of the Yaqui nation in literature, Yaqui Indigeneity examines the transborder Yaqui nation as interpreted through the Mexican and Chicana/o imaginary. Tumbaga identifies a community of Chicano-Yaqui authors whose writings reclaim their own Native identities and challenge Mexican and Chicana/o views of Indigeneity.