University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?
A B-Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
A forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna—fortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlers—is called upon to track down and write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier...
Marginal Voices
Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Julio Ramón Ribeyro has been widely acclaimed Peru's master storyteller. Until now, however, few of his stories have been translated into English. This volume brings together fifteen stories written during the period 1952-1975, which were collected in the three volumes of La palabra del mudo. Ribeyro's...
Women of the Left Bank
Paris, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early...
Surrealist Women
An International Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project—achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed,...
Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century
Textual Disruptions
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Has poetry lost its relevance in the postmodern age, unable to keep pace with other forms of cultural production such as film, mass media, and the Internet? Quite the contrary, argues Jill Kuhnheim in this pathfinding book, which explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental...
Bridging
How Gloria Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria Anzaldúa have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of Anzaldúa's impact within and beyond academic disciplines, community trenches, and international borders, Bridging...
by Austin Film Festival
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages.”—Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization focused on the writer’s creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival...
by Augusto Monterroso
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion. This book brings together for the first time in...
Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing
Imperial Politics in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Chicano history, from the early decades of the twentieth century up to the present, cannot be explained without reference to the determined interventions of the Mexican government, asserts Gilbert G. González. In this pathfinding study, he offers convincing evidence that Mexico aimed at nothing less...
Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away)
Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Spike Gillespie tells it like it is. Whether she's writing about men, mothering or money, she cuts to the chase, unabashedly recounting the exhilaration and uncertainty she is forever encountering along the odd path that is her life. Gillespie approaches her subjects with a keen eye for curious details...
No Color Is My Kind
The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
No Color Is My Kind is an uncommon chronicle of identity, fate, and compassion as two men—one Jewish and one African American—set out to rediscover a life lost to manic depression and alcoholism. In 1984, Thomas Cole discovered Eldrewey Stearns in a Galveston psychiatric hospital. Stearns, a fifty-two-year-old...
Restavec
From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society—the children of the poor—by using them as unpaid servants to the...
T Bone Burnett
A Life in Pursuit
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
T Bone Burnett is a unique, astonishingly prolific music producer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and soundtrack visionary. Renowned as a studio maven with a Midas touch, Burnett is known for lifting artists to their greatest heights, as he did with Raising Sand, the multiple Grammy Award–winning...
Osip Mandelstam
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent...