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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Epistolary Responses
The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
By Anne Bower
University of Alabama Press
Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective.
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
University of Alabama Press
The Historian behind the History is a collection of ten fascinating interviews with southern historians who offer insights into their individual career paths and into the work of professional historians.
- Copyright year: 2014
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
University of Alabama Press
Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American culture
- Copyright year: 2014
The Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines
Pioneer and Statesman of Early Alabama and Mississippi, 1805–1843
By George Strother Gaines; Edited by James P. Pate
University of Alabama Press
Provides a fascinating glimpse into the early history of the Mississippi-Alabama Territory and antebellum Alabama
- Copyright year: 1998
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22
Broadway and Beyond: Commercial Theatre Considered
Edited by David S. Thompson and Jane Barnette
University of Alabama Press
The eleven original essays in Volume 22 of Theatre Symposium examine facets of the historical and current business of theatre.
- Copyright year: 2014
Truman Capote's Southern Years, 25th Anniversary Edition
Stories from a Monroeville Cousin
By Marianne M. Moates; Foreword by Ralph F. Voss
University of Alabama Press
Celebrates Marianne M. Moates’s insightful and detailed account of Truman Capote’s early childhood in Alabama as recounted by his cousin Jennings Faulk Carter
- Copyright year: 2014
Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
University of Alabama Press
Explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling in literature
- Copyright year: 2014
The Punitive Imagination
Law, Justice, and Responsibility
University of Alabama Press
Presents a thought-provoking collection of five essays that explore the purposes and meanings of legal punishment in the United States, both culturally and socially
- Copyright year: 2014
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
University of Alabama Press
Considers the question “Who is a Jew?”— a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike
- Copyright year: 2014
The Observable Characteristics of Organisms
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Ryan MacDonald’s debut collection of short fiction includes “The Observable Characteristics of Organisms,” which won the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Prize.
- Copyright year: 2014
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