University of Iowa Press - Böcker

Tim Cassedys fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of ones identity. During this time of revolution (U.S., French, and Haitian) and globalization, language served as a way to cat...

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The amount of fan-generated content about Jane Austen and her novels has long surpassed the author's original canon. Adaptations like Clueless, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen's Fight Club, and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries have...

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The characters in Happy Like This are smart girls and professional women-social scientists, linguists, speech therapists, plant physiologists, dancers-who search for happiness in roles and relationships that are often unscripted or unconventional....

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Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has been a punk poet, a queercore novelist, a transgressive blogger,...

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Fandom, Now in Color gathers together seemingly contradictory narratives that intersect at the (in)visibility of race/ism in fandom and fan studies. This collection engages the problem by undertaking the different tactics of decolonization - diver...

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I Always Carry My Bones is a complex ideation for many people of color and migrant peoples. Felicia Zamora explores how familial history echoes inside a person and the ghosts of lineage dwell in a body. Sometimes we haunt. Sometimes we are the hau...

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Celebrities depend upon fans to sustain their popularity and livelihood, and fans are happy to oblige. With social media they can follow their favorite (or least favorite) celebrities every move, and get glimpses into their lives, homes, and behin...

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At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Stories No One Hopes Are about Them explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. Characters who are ni de aqui, ni de allaneither from here nor therestraddle competing worlds, disrupt paradigms, a...

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Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for grante...

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Poet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith collect and foreground an impressive range of sonnets, including formal and formally subversive sonnets by established and emerging poets, highlighting connections across literary moments and mo...

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In the last 200 years, Iowas prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowas land of its native resilie...

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It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Fo...

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The Collaborative Artists Book offers a rare glimpse into collaborations between poets and painters from 1945 to the present, and highlights how the artists book became a critical form for experimental American artists in the twentieth and twenty-...

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What is the influencer lifestyle? How do influencers win their fight for relevance and create a brand that catches fire, while still leading an authentic, healthy life? Influencing is a business built around likes and hate, which can take a huge p...

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Vows, Veils, and Masks offers a bold and timely approach to the plays of Eugene ONeill with its attention to the engagements, weddings, and marriages so crucial to the tragic action in ONeills works. Specifically, the book examines the culturally ...

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Poetics of Cognition investigates the material effects of experimental poetics using new evidence emerging from cognitive science. It asks: How do experimental poems think and how do we think through them? Examining experimental modes such as the ...

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Walt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, become so instrumental in this area of poetry, especially for poets whose parents, and often they th...

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Nadia moves between the competing perspectives of two survivors of the 1990s Balkan Wars who have escaped to London, only to discover that the war has followed them there. Nadia is a young refugee who just wants to forget the past-until Iggy start...

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The lyrics in All Black Everything shine with work and the freedom of young people. Full of menace and humor, objects of warfare and luxury consumption are transformed with Shane Books blade of caustic irony against the worldwide nihilism of cash ...

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Much has changed with Iowas wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once were rare in Iowa are now common, and others like sandhill crane, river otter, and trumpeter swan are b...

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Food bankswarehouses that collect and systematize surplus foodhave expanded into one of the largest mechanisms to redistribute food waste. From their origins in North America in the 1960s, food banks provide food to communities in approximately on...

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You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think about some little kid being like, Whatd you do with your life? And me being like, Well, I sold a bunch of floors. These are the wo...

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The Body Alone is an inquiry into the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain. It is a personal hybrid account incorporating research, scholarship, and memoir to examine chronic pain through the multi-lens of medicine, theology, and philosop...

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The Lengest Neoi embraces and complicates what it means to errto wander or go astray; a deviation from a code of behavior or truth; a mistake, flaw, or defect. Beginning with the collections title, which combines a colloquial Cantonese phrase (Len...

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At the age of forty-three, Amy Lee Lillard learned she was autistic. She learned she was part of a community of unseen women who fell through the gaps due to medical bias and social stereotypes. A Grotesque Animal explores the making, unmaking, an...

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In a remarkable career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Wini Moranville has witnessed the American restaurant landscape transform from the inside out. At just shy of fourteen, she began a ten-year stretch working in a kaleidoscope of quintesse...

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Disability and Fandom discusses the accessibility and welcome of fan spaces, and it explores how disability functions in fan practices. In a readable, personal style, Katherine Anderson Howell shows the overlaps between disability studies and fan ...

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High Desert Blood unveils the conditions that led to the infamous 1980 Penitentiary of New Mexico riot and its aftermath. Snaking through the storyline are inmates Gary Williams, a nonviolent first-time offender, and his brother, Jeff, a career cr...

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Following World War II, women living in small towns and on farms across the Midwest woke every morning and headed out for a long day of work in a nearby factory. This transition into industrial work caused tremendous change within families and wit...

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This book is an in-depth look at the natural history of every turtle species found in Iowa. Each of the thirteen species accounts include a sampling of the common names the species has been known by in the past, the first specimens collected in th...

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