The University of Alabama Press
As the scholarly publishing arm of the university, The University of Alabama Press serves as an agent in the advancement of learning and the dissemination of scholarship. The Press applies the highest standards to all phases of publishing including acquisitions, editorial, production, and marketing.UAP has won numerous awards for its publications over the years and has developed a solid list of titles in archaeology, public administration, and several areas of literature and history. With a staff of 17, the Press publishes between 80 to 85 books a year and has a backlist of approximately 1,800 titles in print.
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The Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an environmental aesthetic, and explains why American modernism was never green. Examining the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution, Joshua Schuster posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.
- Copyright year: 2015
Plague Among the Magnolias
The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi
University of Alabama Press
Plague Among the Magnolias explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi.
- Copyright year: 2009
Elite Oral History Discourse
A Study of Cooperation and Coherence
By Eva M. McMahan; Foreword by Ronald J. Grele
University of Alabama Press
Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, Eva M. McMahan describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.
Bound to Respect
Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861
University of Alabama Press
Challenges the commonplace narrative that the African American experience of captivity in the United States is reducible to the legal institution of slavery, a status remedied through emancipation
- Copyright year: 2015
Silence & Song
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Award-winning writer Melanie Rae Thon’s Silence & Song is a diptych, two lyric fictions hinged by a short prose poem. Inspired and informed by biology, physics, music, history, intimate violence, and miraculous resilience, the three pieces move from mourning to song.
- Copyright year: 2015
It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides, Jessica Lee Richardson’s debut collection of short fiction, was the tenth winner of the Fiction Collective Two (FC2) Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. The book invites readers on a bodily journey through a darkly funny, buoyantly untethered storyscape.
- Copyright year: 2015
Education for Liberation
The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement
By Joe M. Richardson and Maxine D. Jones
University of Alabama Press
Education for Liberation completes the study Dr. Richardson published in 1986 as Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 by continuing the account of the American Missionary Association (AMA) from the end of Reconstruction to the post-World War II era.
Banning Queer Blood
Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance
University of Alabama Press
Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
By Paul A. Shapiro; Translated by Angela Jianu
University of Alabama Press
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation by Romania under Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally.
- Copyright year: 2015
Split-Gut Song
Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
University of Alabama Press
A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.
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