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We seek work that contributes to the rich cultural tradition of New Orleans and the
surrounding region, as well as work that enhances the intellectual and aesthetic life
of academic and general audiences everywhere.
Cover and front matter photographs appear in On Higher Ground, The University of New Orleans at 50.
Photographs courtesy of UNO Archives, Earl K. Long Library, The University of New Orleans.
The Fall/Winter 2015 list at UNO Press honors rarely published voices and purposeful dissent: the
most important blog posts during Hurricane Katrina and the early rebuild, once disappearing from
internet archives; a drama following the life of a resistor to Nazism, a polarizing figure known as
both a coward and a martyr; the portrait of a daughter struggling against government oppression
to free her father from unjust imprisonment; and a novel of bureaucratic corruption and the fight
to keep a university open for its students after a devastating hurricane.
Please Forward compiles the writing of bloggers, journalists, and aid workers who witnessed the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina into a volume that will take its readers through the harrowing
experience of grief, confusion, and renewal.
Jägerstätter, a harrowing drama of Nazi Austria, follows the contradictory life of its title character
as he grapples with his faith and the political realities of his time, concluding that he cannot be
both a Catholic and a National Socialist.
Jewher Ilham writes the second entry into our Broken Silence series, revealing the human cost
behind the Chinese government’s arrest and sentencing of Uyghur activist Ilham Tohti, her father.
In The Wake of the Flagship, the newest novel from William Faulkner-prize winner Fredrick Barton,
is a caustic satire about the rector of an underfunded university after a Katrina-like storm leaves
the students and faculty in his care without resources.
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PLEASE FORWARD
How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina
ed. CYNTHIA JOYCE
Much of the story of Hurricane Katrina lived on the internet as the city
reconnected during its diaspora. When Cynthia Joyce went looking
for one vital account for a course she was teaching, she found the
site down and the piece forgotten. This inspired her search for the
works that became Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected
New Orleans After Katrina. Some of the writing included is famous
and easily obtainable; a good percentage of the work is currently
unavailable due to aging servers and broken links. Taken together,
these pieces are powerful testament to the New Orleans blogging
community who proved the internet could function as a crucial
platform in a time of crisis.
9781608011087 • Nonfiction
394 pages • $25.00 • August 2015
UNO Press
CYNTHIA JOYCE has been a writer, editor, and web producer for
more than 15 years and has contributed to several regional and
national publications, including The Washington Post, Newsday,
NPR.org, Entertainment Weekly, and MSNBC.com, where she was
a senior producer from 2007-2011; Nola.com, where she worked
briefly as a producer post-Katrina; and Salon, where she was arts and
entertainment editor from 1995-2000. She received her BA from Duke
University in 1991, and her Masters of Science in Journalism from
Northwestern University in 1993. She joined the Ole Miss faculty in
2011. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
“This is an essential document of the state of mind of New
Orleanians before and during and after Katrina. It’s raw, it’s pained,
it’s outraged, it’s heartbroken—all the things it should be.
­—Dave Eggers
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JÄGERSTÄTTER
A Play by FELIX MITTERER,
Translated by GREGOR THUSWALDNER
with ROBERT DASSANOWSKY,
Preface by GÜNTHER BISCHOF
Felix Mitterer’s gripping drama Jägerstätter is based on the
life and death of the martyr Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943),
an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for Hitler because of
his Catholic faith. Mitterer depicts Franz, who was beatified
by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007, as a courageous but struggling
and insecure human being—and not at all as a saint.
FELIX MITTERER has written numerous award-winning plays, radio
plays, and TV scripts. Since the publication of his first play, Kein Platz für
Idioten (No Place for Idiots) in 1977, Mitterer has been regarded as one
of the leading Austrian playwrights. His many literary awards include
the Ernst Toller Prize, the Adolf Grimme Prize, and most recently the
Ödön von Horvath Prize.
GÜNTER BISCHOF is a native of Austria and
graduate of the Universities of Innsbruck,
New Orleans, and Harvard (PhD ‘89). He is
a University Research Professor of History,
the Marshall Plan Professor and Director of
CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans,
and he has authored and edited several books.
978-1-60801-063-9 • Drama
144 pages • $13.95 • October 2015
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GREGOR THUSWALDNER is Professor of German and Linguistics
at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts and Co-Founder and
Academic Director of The Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and
the Arts, an independent non-profit organization.
ROBERT DASSANOWSKY is Professor of German and Film, and director
of the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado
Springs, and works as an independent film producer. He has authored
several books.
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This project is made possible by a generous grant
from The Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation
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JEWHER ILHAM
A Ugyhur’s Fight to Free Her Father
Interviewed and edited by ADAM BRAVER and ASHLEY
BARTON • Foreword by U.S. SENATOR SHERROD BROWN
Afterword by ROBERT QUINN
When Jewher Ilham’s father, Ilham Toti, was detained at the Beijing
airport in February 2013 on charges of “separatism,” Jewher had
two choices: she could stay in China or fly to America alone. Jewher
boarded the plane for Indiana and began a new life apart from her
family and was half a world away when her father was sentenced to
life in prison.
Through a series of interviews with novelist Adam Braver and scholar
Ashley Barton, Jewher recounted her father’s nightmare and her own
transition from student to eloquent advocate for the Uyghur people.
The resulting book, Jewher Ilham: A Uyghur’s Fight to Free Her
Father, is an intimate, exclusive portrait that U.S. Senator Sherrod
Brown calls “proof that Jewher and her people will not be silenced.”
978-1-60801-105-6 • Nonfiction
160 pages • $18.95 • November 2015
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ADAM BRAVER is writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University, and
also teaches at the NY State Summer Writers Institute. He is the author
of five novels, most recently Misfit.
ASHLEY BARTON is currently in her first year of law school at Wake
Forest University. Her advocacy work, particularly on the Ilham Tohti
case, led to her being honored as a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow.
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IN THE WAKE OF THE FLAGSHIP
FREDRICK BARTON
Continuing the story started in The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Barton’s
newest novel finds college basketball coach Richard Janus in an
unlikely position: he has recently become the interim rector of Urban
University, the woefully underfunded public college of Choctaw,
Alkansea. When Choctaw is devastated by a major hurricane, Janus
must battle with the unscrupulous heads of flagship ASU to keep
Urban, the school he loves, from closing its doors forever. Told
through the eyes of Metacom, the legendary Indian sachem of King
Philip’s War, Flagship is a blistering (and often hilarious) examination
of the contradictions implicit in the American experience.
FREDRICK BARTON is the author of the novels The El Cholo
Feeling Passes, Courting Pandemonium, Black and White on the
Rocks, and A House Divided, which won the William Faulkner Prize
in fiction. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
978-1-60801-106-3 • Fiction
592 pages • $18.95 • April 2015
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“Barton has a lot of important human business on his mind in this
exceptional novel: race, history, the South, hurricanes, laughter,
love, and much more. In the Wake of the Flagship is wonderfully
inventive, and addictive to read.”
—­Richard Ford
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KING LEOPOLD’S SOLILOQUY
MARK TWAIN
INTRODUCTION BY HUNT HAWKINS
978-1-60801-118-6 • Fiction
100 pages • $12.95 • January 20, 2016
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In Mark Twain’s satire, a raving King Leopold of
Belgium launches an impassioned defense of his
gruesome policies in Africa, claiming his divine
right to brutalize the Congolese people. A scathing
condemnation of imperialism and the violence
that it incites, Twain’s words retain all of their vitriol
over a century later. For years this remarkable
work, which lead the first international campaign
for human rights, has only been reproduced in
low-quality facsimile. Using the original 1905
release, The University of New Orleans Press has
restored the manuscript with new typesetting and
archival photographs. In a new introduction, Dr.
Hunt Hawkins provides crucial insight into Twain’s
mindset as he pushes for social reform. Although
Twain likely never knew the impact of his campaign,
King Leopold’s Soliloquy remains a hallmark of antiimperialist rhetoric and a testament to the power of
Twain’s words.
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WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BE
WITHOUT WOMEN
WAUKESHA JACKSON
Waukesha Jackson’s book is an examination of
loss and recovery. Starting with her relationship
to her mother, Ms. Jackson writes about the
struggles that have been a part of many of the
lives of women in the Ninth Ward. In particular,
she examines the frequent role of women as
caretakers of the community–in their homes,
social clubs, barrooms, and churches. Through
interviews, photography and reflection, Ms.
Jackson captures the tough times and victories
of her family and neighbors.
PRESENTED BY THE NEIGHBORHOOD STORY PROJECT
The Neighborhood Story Project is a community documentary program based out of New
Orleans, Louisiana. In the weeks leading up to Hurricane Katrina, we celebrated the release of five
books written by our students at John McDonogh Senior High. The books were the second best
sellers in the city and stand as a testament to New Orleans’ community spirit and as a map back
from disaster. Through interviews, photography, and story-writing, these New Orleans teenagers
explored their families, their neighborhoods, and their city.
978-1-60801-119-3 • Nonfiction
88 pages • $15.00 • February 1, 2016
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Neighborhood Story Project
In 2004, the Neighborhood Story Project was founded by Rachel Breunlin and
Abram Himelstein as a book-making project based in the neighborhoods where New Orleanians
live and work. NSP works with writers in neighborhoods around New Orleans to create books
about their communities.
The NSP started at public school, John McDonogh Senior High, with the idea of students
investigating their worlds. For a year, the students wrote, photographed, interviewed, and edited.
In June of 2005, the NSP brought out five books—collaborative ethnographies—about New
Orleans.
The NSP has expanded their practice of collaborative ethnography outside of schools, producing
books and posters that do the work of telling stories of the city. The NSP works with authors and
neighborhoods, then celebrate a publication with block parties. The books have gone on to be
citywide bestsellers, selling more than 35,000 books.
The NSP is a center at the University of New Orleans, with Rachel Breunlin in the Department of
Anthropology and Abram Himelstein in the College of Education and Human Performance.
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TALK THAT MUSIC TALK
RACHEL BREUNLIN and BRUCE
“SUNPIE” BARNES, EDITORS
In the early 1900s, jazz was created in New Orleans.
Soon afterwards the fear began...it’s moving away, it’s
going to die out, it needs to be preserved. Yet each
generation has put time and energy into making sure
the roots of the music stay strong in the city. This
book is about the history of that kind of organizing
work, and what happened when the New Orleans
Jazz National Historical Park brought together a new
group of young people to learn traditional brass
band music from older musicians and the Black Men
of Labor Social Aid & Pleasure Club.
RACHEL BREUNLIN is co-director of the Neighborhood
Story Project. She is currently the ethnographer-inresidence in the Department of Anthropology at the
University of New Orleans where she teaches courses on
public culture and collaborative ethnography.
BRUCE “SUNPIE” BARNES is a veteran park ranger
and photographer at New Orleans Jazz National
Historical Park. As a musician, he has traveled the
world playing with his band, Sunpie and the Louisiana
Sunspots, as well as others, such as Paul Simon and
Sting.
9781608011070 • Nonfiction
240 pages • $35.00 • December 2015
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THE HOUSE OF DANCE & FEATHERS
A Museum by Ronald W. Lewis
Text by RACHEL BREUNLIN and
RONALD W. LEWIS
In a backyard on Tupelo Street, in the Lower Ninth Ward of
New Orleans, Ronald W. Lewis has assembled a museum of
the various worlds he inhabits. Built in 2003, and rebuilt after
Katrina, the House of Dance & Feathers represents many
New Orleans societies: Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid and
Pleasure Clubs, Bone Gangs, and parade Krewes.
More than just a catalogue of the artifacts in the museum,
this book is a map of these worlds as experienced by Ronald
W. Lewis. Through stories and conversation, we come to
know the wide network of people who create and nurture
performance traditions in the city.
The House of Dance & Feathers showcases communities
who come together to sew and sing, to vaunt and dance,
and to reconstruct the city. Like the cultures represented, the
museum mixes the magical and the mundane, and makes
explicit the connections between New Orleans, the African
diaspora, Native America, and our shared futures.
“I want to educate the world about our great culture, how we do
this, and why we are so successful at it even though the economics
say we ain’t supposed to be.”
—Ronald W. Lewis
As well as being House of Dance & Feathers
director and curator, RONALD LEWIS is president
of the Big Nine Social Aid and Pleasure Club,
former Council Chief of the Choctaw Hunters, 2008
King of Krewe de Vieux, a lifelong resident of the
Lower Ninth Ward, survivor of two devastating
hurricanes, Betsy in 1965 and Katrina in 2005, and
a central character in Dan Baum’s bestseller Nine
Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death and Life in New
Orleans.
RACHEL BREUNLIN is co-director of the
Neighborhood Story Project. She is currently the
ethnographer-in-residence in the Anthropology
Department at the University of New Orleans
where she teaches courses on public culture and
collaborative ethnography.
9780970619075 • Nonfiction
200 pages • $29.00 • June 2009
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FROM MY MOTHER’S HOUSE OF BEAUTY
SUSAN STEPHANIE HENRY
From her childhood in Englishtown on the Caribbean coast
of Honduras to her life in the Seventh Ward, Susan Stephanie
Henry writes of transitions and shifting identities. In From
My Mother’s House of Beauty, Susan investigates her many
worlds: family homes, beauty salons, public schools and
fashion runways.
Part memoir, part ethnography, House of Beauty explores
what it means to be a black Honduran woman living in New
Orleans.
“Henry seems a young woman with talent to burn...”
—Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune
SUSAN HENRY graduated from John
McDonogh Senior High in 2011. She is a
fashion designer and hair stylist living in
New Orleans.
9781608010141 • Nonfiction
119 pages • $15.00 • February 2010
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SIGNED, THE PRESIDENT
KENNETH PHILLIPS
Signed, the President is a portrait of family life during
turbulent times as witnessed by Kenneth Phillips, aka the
President.
In a mixture of interviews and personal reflections,
Kenneth tells the stories of the St. Bernard Public Housing
development—from the beginnings of bounce to
memories of the sweet shop and echoes of the church
services—while exploring his relationships to the people
closest to him.
Signed, the President also emerges as a poignant
conversation on gender identity. From an early age,
Kenneth deals with pressure to conform from a community
that places a high value on traditional masculinity. In
spite of the obstacles, Kenneth stays true to himself as he
begins to come to terms with his sexual orientation.
KENNETH PHILLIPS graduated from John
McDonogh Senior High in 2011. He is a
student at Delgado Community College.
“...a true profile in courage.”
—Susan Larson,
The Times-Picayune
9781608010158 • Nonfiction
113 pages • $15.00 • February 2010
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BEYOND THE BRICKS
DARON CRAWFORD and PERNELL RUSSELL
DARON CRAWFORD graduated from John
McDonogh Senior High in 2011. He is a student
in culinary arts at Delgado Community College.
More than parallel stories, Beyond the Bricks is a
conversation about life in New Orleans as the city’s major
public housing projects are torn down. With childhoods
spent in the Calliope and St. Bernard projects, Daron and
Pernell document what these communities meant, the new
struggles of living outside the projects, and their families’
new footholds in the city.
The book describes the many cultures of teenage
New Orleans, showing the strengths and tensions of the
different scenes the authors call home. Daron and Pernell,
both aspiring artists, write about discovering their passions.
Daron learns to rap from his uncle, who helps him pen his
first lyrics. For Pernell, a love of dance comes from watching
other dancers on the floor of a local club.
In Beyond the Bricks, Daron and Pernell examine both
where they have been and where they intend their talents
to take them.
PERNELL RUSSELL graduated from John
McDonogh Senior High in 2012. He is working
as a chef.
9781608010165 • Nonfiction
189 pages • $16.00 • February 2010
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AUNT ALICE VS. BOB MARLEY
My Education in New Orleans
KAREEM KENNEDY
In Aunt Alice vs. Bob Marley, Kareem Kennedy documents
his quest for an education in the schools and streets
of New Orleans. With his father gone and his mother
frequently out of the picture, Kareem looks toward
teachers, friends, and extended family for the skills to
muster through public schools, Hurricane Katrina, and
the “heavy hands and hard shoes” of his life. Kareem’s
story serves as a meditation on the New Orleans public
education system as he sheds light on the best and worst
their public schools have to offer.
Throughout his time in school, Kareem feels pulled
in two very different directions. On the one hand, there
is his Aunt Alice, an advocate for black empowerment
who presses him to discover his creative potential. On
the other, there is the “Bob Marley” culture of taking it
easy, getting stoned, and not worrying so much about
the future.
The two years Kareem spends writing Aunt Alice vs.
Bob Marley represent highs and lows: losing friends,
surviving violence, and the beginning of his college
career.
KAREEM KENNEDY is a student at Southern
University of New Orleans majoring in social
work. He is the editor of the university
newspaper.
9781608010134 • Nonfiction
101 pages • $15.00 • February 2010
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BETWEEN PIETY AND DESIRE
ARLET and SAM WYLIE
Between Piety and Desire is both the story of a brother and
sister and a conversation about “inside” versus “outside”
life in the city of New Orleans.
Arlet and Sam Wylie grew up living above a corner
store in the Ninth Ward. In this book, they remember a
childhood of parents keeping them inside to avoid the
struggles of the neighborhood around them even as
domestic abuse sometimes disrupted the safety of their
own home. They interview the people who hang out on
the block, weaving the history of the street through their
own history living upstairs. Unusually candid and selfreflective, the Wylies describe their new “inside life,”
including Sam’s fatherhood and Arlet’s new home.
ARLET and SAM WYLIE returned to New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Sam was in
the first public school graduating class after
Katrina.
9781608010400 • Nonfiction
112 pages • $15.00 • September 2010
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CORNERSTONES
Celebrating the Everyday Monuments & Gathering
Places of New Orleans’ Neighborhoods
Cornerstones, a collaboration with the Neighborhood Story
Project, is a showcase of the intersections of places and people
that make New Orleans great. Readers will experience the
history of New Orleans through barrooms as comfortable as
living rooms, an empty lot that holds more life than many
houses, a barbershop that doubles as an artist studio, and a
museum that grew out of one man’s back shed. A testament
to the importance of neighborhood spaces, Cornerstones is a
reminder of the places that hold our history.
ABRAM HIMELSTEIN earned his MFA from the University
of New Orleans in 2005. In his work at the Neighborhood
Story Project, Abram teaches writing, fundraising, and
dealing with the printing and distribution of books.
RACHEL BREUNLIN is co-director of
the Neighborhood Story Project. She is
currently the ethnographer-in-residence
in the Anthropology Department at the
University of New Orleans where she teaches
courses on public culture and collaborative
ethnography.
BETHANY ROGERS received a master’s degree in urban and
regional planning with an emphasis in historic preservation
and living heritage conservation from the University of
New Orleans in 2003. Until recently, she taught at Tulane
University‘s School of Architecture where she collaborated
with the university as director of the Cornerstones Project.
She is currently the Executive Director for the Danville Main
Street Program in Danville, KY.
9780970619037 • Nonfiction
95 pages • $18.00 • March 2009
UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project
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COMING OUT THE DOOR FOR THE
NINTH WARD
NINE TIMES SOCIAL AND PLEASURE CLUB
9780970619099 • Nonfiction
247 pages • $18.00 • April 2009
UNO Press/Neighborhood Story Project
In Coming Out the Door for the Ninth Ward, the
members of Nine Times introduce readers to their
original stomping grounds. Told in a mixture of
interviews, photographs, and reflections, Nines Times
immerse us in their world of second lines, brass bands,
Magee’s Lounge, and the ties that bind.
Beginning with their own childhoods in the Desire
Housing Project, members take readers on a tour of the
neighborhood, from Motown Sound at Carver games
to sandlot football. They remember the electricity of
their first parades and express the devastation they felt
when the Housing Authority of New Orleans began to
demolish the Desire.
Written just a year after Katrina, Coming Out the Door
for the Ninth Ward finds members rebuilding their lives
in the aftermath of the storm. In spite of the challenges
this represents, Nines Times members reunite to do
what they do best: bring their parade to the community
they call home.
“The Ninth Ward is where we’re from and that’s where our smoke is coming from.”
—Nine Times
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Photograph from The House of Dance and Feathers.
Photograph by John Tibule Mendes, from Dogs in My Life
At UNO Press,
we strive to preserve and promote the collective memory of the New
Orleans area by giving local writers and citizens a platform to tell their stories. To this end, we
publish work from a diverse field of award-winning authors and poets, beloved artists, and
stimulating academics, as well as volumes that exist in remembrance of losses sustained during
Hurricane Katrina.
Among our region-focused releases are the novels of Fredrick Barton, the sketchbook of Clementine Hunter, Moira Crone’s apocalyptic imagining of the Gulf Coast, collections of interviews
from the Katrina Narrative Project, and a study of the vibrant food and musical culture of the West
African people enslaved at the Whitney Plantation.
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CLEMENTINE HUNTER:
A SKETCHBOOK
This sketchbook from 1945 by renowned
Louisiana self-taught artist, Clementine
Hunter, contains twenty-six previously
unseen oil-on-paper sketches. These
paintings were the first group of sketches
ever made by her, and show a very
personal and thoughtful depiction of
Creole plantation life in the Cane River
area of rural Louisiana. Richard Gasperi
purchased the sketchbook from the Henry
family of Melrose Plantation in the early
1970s, and instantly felt a deep connection
to the work included. He decided to keep
the sketchbook for himself, in hopes of
one day sharing this uniquely personal
side of Clementine Hunter with the world.
Clementine Hunter: A Sketchbook is the
fulfillment of that hope.
9781608010363 • Louisiana Art
64 pages • $25.00 • November 2014
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THE NOT YET
MOIRA CRONE
It’s 2121. The Heirs live for centuries. Wealthy and ruthless, they
control society’s resources behind walled city-states. Outside,
the poor barely survive. Malcolm de Lazarus, a “Not Yet,” has
toiled from early childhood to join the elite. But his fortune
disappears overnight. He sails home to the chaotic New
Orleans Islands, just outside the empire, for answers. Along
the way he encounters the dark side of the Heirs’ privilege that
threatens everything and everyone he loves.
Set in a future where class dictates all, and connections are
everything, The Not Yet builds its world on the same tensions
that trouble our own times. Never afraid to confront the big
questions, this brave novel asks how much of our own humanity
we would give up for the ultimate privilege: immortality.
“When Moira Crone’s The Not Yet is read
in 2121…its readers will ask of us, ‘If you
knew enough about what was coming to
have books like this, why didn’t you do
something about it?’”
—John Biguenet, author
of Oyster
9781608010721 • Fiction
220 pages • $15.95 • April 2012
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MOIRA CRONE has published three short story collections,
including What Gets Into Us, and one other novel, A Period of
Confinement. Her work has appeared in twelve anthologies and
over forty journals, including Oxford American, The New Yorker,
Image, and Mademoiselle. In 2009, she was given the Robert Penn
Warren Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers for her entire
body of work.
“[Resonates] on many levels, as myth, as high literature, as science
fiction, as fantasy…I have not read a more compelling novel in a
very long time.”
—Jim Grimsley,
author of Dream Boy
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I HOPE IT’S NOT OVER, AND GOOD-BY
Selected Poems of Everette Maddox
Edited by RALPH ADAMO
Called the “Christ of New Orleans” by Andrei Codrescu, Everette
Maddox was a New Orleans legend, a poet whose mythos made it
hard to know who he really was. Broke and often homeless, but with
a distinctive taste for style and glamour, Maddox was a character well
suited for the contradictions of New Orleans life. As Ralph Adamo
remarks in his introduction, “We each have our own Everette, and
then we have the poems.”
In this collection, editor Adamo has selected the best from
Maddox’s published collections as well as many poems unpublished
to date. Adamo’s impeccable selection and thematic ordering
provide a frame uniquely appropriate to Maddox’s work; even
the most famous of his poems seem to take on new, surprising
dimensions.
During
his
lifetime,
EVERETTE
MADDOX (1944 -1989) was considered
by his following to be the unofficial
poet laureate of New Orleans. He was
a founder of the Maple Leaf Poetry
Reading series and is the subject of the
radio documentary He Was A Mess: The
Short Life of New Orleans Poet Everette
Maddox by David Kunian.
9781608010004 • Poetry
166 pages • $16.95 • November 2009
UNO Press
“[This work] captures so palpably the nuances of Maddox’s speaking voice
that to read it is to almost touch the man; the savage-world-cartooning
wit, the sense of beauty and civilization, the carnal-cry, the fascination with
history, the resigned and stoically self-caricaturing romantic. It is, as Bob
Woolf pointed out…jazz…New Orleans jazz…”
—Rodney Jones
“In all the thunderous herd of contemporary poetry, I don’t think I know
anyone who has so completely captured his own voice, his own being, in
his work as Everette Maddox. This book is Everette Maddox.”
—Leon Stokesbury
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“In New Orleans, Everette Maddox is to
poetry what Marie Laveau is to voodoo and
Buddy Bolden to jazz. His legend haunts
the streets he lived on, the bars where he
drank and wrote and read his poems…This
long-overdue selection brings together a
substantial body of Maddox’s work—much
of it long out of print. It presents Maddox
as a poet ‘exploding within the memory
trace of an older idea of form’—at once
tragic and humorous, plain spoken and ‘cagily ensconced in his own words.’ I hope it’s
not over, and good-by will be treasured by
those of us who were already fans of his poems and introduce him to the larger audience he deserves.”
—Grace Bauer,
Praise for I hope it’s not over,
and good-by
Photograph above from I hope it’s not over, and good-by.
Photograph courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection.
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BOUKI FAIT GOMBO
A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel
(Whitney Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860
IBRAHIMA SECK
Through an in-depth study of one of Louisiana’s most important sugar
plantations, Bouki Fait Gombo traces the impact of slavery on southern
culture. This is a thorough examination of the Whitney’s evolution—from
the precise routes slaves crossed to arrive at the plantation’s doors to
records of the men, women, and children who were bound to the Whitney
over the years. Although Bouki Fait does not shy away from depicting the
daily brutalities slaves faced, at the book’s heart are the robust culinary
and musical cultures that arose from their shared sense of community and
homesickness. The release of this book coincides with the opening of
the Whitney Plantation Museum, a “site of memory dedicated to a fuller
understanding of the facts of slavery, our national tragedy.”
“As a trial lawyer, John Cummings
understood that with much careful
research and thought, the Whitney
Plantation will engage the wider public
in knowledge of slavery and the system
of slavery in Louisiana…He has been
wise enough to tap into Dr. Ibrahima
Seck’s knowledge of the subject. He
could not find a better expert.”
—Gwendolyn Midlo Hall,
author of Africans in Colonial
Louisiana
IBRAHIMA SECK Ibrahima Seck is a member of the History department
of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal. His research is
mostly devoted to Louisiana. In 1999, he defended a doctoral dissertation
entitled, “African Cultures and Slavery in Lower Mississippi Valley from
Iberville to Jim Crow.” He is also the academic director of the Whitney
Heritage Plantation Corporation.
In 1992, the Whitney Plantation was added to the National Register of
Historic Places. Whitney Plantation is a genuine landmark built by African
slaves and their descendants. As a site of memory and consciousness, the
Whitney Plantation Museum is meant to pay homage to all the slaves who
lived on the plantation itself and to all of those who lived elsewhere in
Louisiana and the US South.
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DOGS IN MY LIFE
The New Orleans Photographs of John Tibule Mendes
Edited by BILL LAVENDER with an introduction by
JOHN H. LAWRENCE
Between 1916 and the mid-1930s, JOHN TIBULE
MENDES (1888–1965) was a consistent and curious
observer of life in New Orleans. His photographs are
archived in The Historic New Orleans Collection.
BILL LAVENDER is a poet, editor, and teacher living
in New Orleans. He is the publisher of Lavender
Ink, a small press devoted to contemporary poetry.
His poems have appeared in dozens of print and
web journals and anthologies, and his essays
and theoretical writings have been published in
Contemporary Literature and Poetics Today, among
others.
Raised in New Orleans, John Tibule Mendes lived most of his life
in a two-room house on Broad Street with his beloved mother
and their dogs. Only after his death in 1965 was it discovered
that this lonely and socially awkward man had spent much of his
free time documenting beautiful and unusual scenes of early
20th century New Orleans.
His glass-plate negatives, discovered after his death in the
attic of his house and published here for the first time, capture
subjects typically ignored by the photographers of the era. This
collection is exceptional from both documentary and aesthetic
perspectives, presenting what could accurately be classified as
photographic folk art.
The photographs in Dogs in My Life are complemented by
excerpts from Mendes’s self-published autobiography of the
same name. Mendes’s sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious
voice adds another layer to these remarkable images.
“The day-to-day activities of New Orleanians from nearly a century
ago hold our attention because they present familiar things (e.g.
Mardi Gras, children at play, street life) in ways that no longer
seem familiar. Traditions endure, but surroundings change, and
the ensemble of city life changes, too. People as well are different,
and those differences may be measured either individually or
socially by the yardstick of Mendes’s pictures.”
— John H. Lawrence
9781608010059 • Photography • Nonfiction
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BEFORE (DURING) AFTER
Louisiana Photographers’ Visual Reactions to Hurricane
Katrina
with essays by JOHN BIGUENET, STEVEN
MAKLANSKY and DR. TONY LEWIS
9781608010233 • Photography • Nonfiction
120 pages • $24.95 • September 2010
UNO Press
Before (During) After is a visual and literary narrative of
how Hurricane Katrina transformed the lives and work
of twelve photographers from Southeast Louisiana, told
through photographs they took before, during, and
after the storm. Personal and environmental devastation
permeates their work, not only in photographs taken
during the storm, but also ones in the years following.
Essays written by the artists trace the influence of
environmental and community ties on artistic vision, and
act as a testimony to the ongoing effects of Hurricane
Katrina.
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Photograph from Before (During) After. Photograph by Thomas Neff.
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VOICES RISING
Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project
Edited by REBECA ANTOINE
Afterword by FREDRICK BARTON
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast
and nearly toppled the historic city of New Orleans. As the
storm cleared, residents watched water and chaos overtake
their city while political and legal systems proved unprepared
and insufficient. Starting in October 2005, the University of New
Orleans asked students to submit interviews and accounts of
citizens’ experiences during Hurricane Katrina, and hundreds of
manuscripts, interviews, and transcripts were compiled as part
of the Katrina Narrative Project, which is currently housed at the
University of New Orleans Library.
Voices Rising is a sampling of this greater collection.
Transcending the images and headlines portrayed in the media,
these are the true accounts of trauma and survival told by the
people who endured them.
REBECA ANTOINE was born in
Connecticut and is a graduate of Yale
University and the Creative Writing
Workshop at the University of New
Orleans. Her fiction has appeared in
numerous venues, most recently in The
Briar Cliff Review and GulfStream.
“Many books have been written about the tragedy, but the
work done by University of New Orleans students to collect
these survivors’ narratives in 2005 is groundbreaking…Cutting,
caustic, and riveting from start to finish, this collection does
not shy away from presenting the agonies that often go
unrecorded in the aftermath of a sudden disaster. Miles away
from academic analysis, this is American social history from the
ground up and staggering in its significance.”
—Colleen Mondor, Booklist
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VOICES RISING II
More Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project
Edited by REBECA ANTOINE
Introduction by BARB JOHNSON
REBECA ANTOINE was born in
Connecticut and is a graduate of
Yale University and the Creative
Writing Workshop at the University
of New Orleans. Her fiction has
appeared in numerous venues,
most recently in The Briar Cliff
Review and GulfStream.
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475 pages • $24.95 • June 2012
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Voices Rising II, the second compilation of stories from The Katrina
Narrative Project, gives further witness to one of America’s greatest
disasters. Members of the University of New Orleans combed the region
and the nation, collecting interviews and oral histories from people of all
walks of life. These are stories of loss, injustice, and, at times, triumph as
told by the people who endured the storm.
The University of New Orleans reopened online in October 2005,
only two months after the storm devastated the city and the campus.
Members of the university combed the region and the nation collecting
interviews and oral histories from people of all walks of life who were
willing to speak about their experiences. These documents, transcripts,
and audio recordings are now archived at the University of New Orleans
library.
As Barb Johnson says of Voices Rising II in her introduction, “This
book contains not just the story of a few people in a specific place and
time. It is actually the story of us all. It is the story of how we are battered by being in this world and about how sometimes we sink. But,
more importantly, it is the story of how, having been battered, having
sunk, we then rise.”
“These narratives cut across age, race and neighborhood, a reminder of
what we have shared and lost and struggle to rebuild.”
—Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune
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WHEN THE WATER CAME
Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina
Interview-poems by CYNTHIA HOGUE
Photographs by REBECCA ROSS
When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina
gathers the intimate recollections of eleven Louisiana
and Mississippi residents recounting their lives during
and after Hurricane Katrina. Their words, transformed
by a poet’s hand, weave a distinct narrative of Katrina
and its aftermath. Black-and-white photographs of
the participants and their surroundings create a lyrical
conversation between the participants, poet Cynthia
Hogue, and photographer Rebecca Ross, allowing us
to see how the human spirit confronts and transcends
trauma.
“It is good to see Rebecca Ross bringing her visual
power to a book of poetry, and especially one that
reflects upon the human intensity of Hurricane
Katrina. For good poetry can be capable of
both challenging and uplifting the soul–just like
the vibrant harmonies that soar through Ross’s
photography.”
CYNTHIA HOGUE has published seven collections of poetry,
most recently Or Consequence in 2010. Among her honors are
an NEA in poetry, the H.D. Fellowship at the Beinecke Library
at Yale University, a residency at the MacDowell Colony, and the
Witter Bynner Translation Residency Fellowship at the Santa Fe
Art Institute.
—Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator
The University of Texas at Austin
REBECCA ROSS has exhibited her photographs in venues such
as the Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City;
Houston Center for Photography; Eye Gallery, San Francisco;
and Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam. She is the recipient of
an Artist Fellowship and Artist Project Grant from the Arizona
Commission on the Arts. Her work has been collected by
Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, Phoenix Office of Arts and
Culture, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, and Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center in Austin, Texas, among others.
9781608010127 • Poetry • Photography
120 pages • $24.95 • August 2010
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THE KATRINA PAPERS
A Journal of Trauma and Recovery
JERRY W. WARD, JR.
Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. fuses autobiography, politics,
spirituality, history, and poetry in this highly inventive
trip through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
During the hurricane, Ward sees both his home and
the university at which he teaches flooded. In the wake
of this trauma, he scrambles to find hope and sanity
in a city where thousands have been displaced by the
whims of nature. Although Ward is filled with anger
and grief, his keen observations on life make for an
ultimately uplifting read.
JERRY W. WARD, JR. is a distinguished
professor of English and African American
World Studies at Dillard University, New
Orleans, LA. Ward spent twenty years
as the Lawrence Durgin Professor of
Literature at Tougaloo College in Jackson.
9780982814331 • Nonfiction
196 pages • $18.95 • May 2009
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“The struggle with form—the search for a medium proper
to the complex social, personal, and political ramifications
of an event unprecedented in this scholar’s life and in
American social history—lies at the very heart of The
Katrina Papers. The book depicts an enigmatic and multistranded world view which takes the local as its nexus
for understanding the global. It resists the temptation to
simplify or clarify when simplification and clarification are
not possible. Ward’s narrative is, at times, very direct, but
he always refuses to simplify the complex emotional and
spiritual volatility of the process and the historical moment
that he is witnessing. The end result is an honesty that is
both pedagogical and inspiring.”
—Hank Lazer
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POST-KATRINA BRAZUCAS
Brazilian Immigrants in New Orleans
ANNIE MCNEIL GIBSON
In the time of reconstruction following the catastrophe
of Hurricane Katrina, a number of Brazilian immigrants
relocated to New Orleans, establishing their own
immigrant network in the city. Post-Katrina Brazucas
examines how this network developed from 2005 to the
present and how Brazilians “performed” their presence
in their new home. While rebuilding a devastated
city, Brazilians created a new enclave in New Orleans,
developing hybrid forms of Brazilian-New Orleanian
cultural expression.
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298 pages • $22.95 • May 2012
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ANNIE GIBSON was born in Princeton, New Jersey and
grew up in Davidson, North Carolina. She received her B.A.
from Dartmouth College in 2003 and her Ph.D. in 2010
from the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane
University. Her areas of specialization include Brazilian and
Cuban performance cultures and Brazilian immigration to the
United States. She currently teaches at Tulane in both the
Departments of Latin American Studies and of Spanish and
Portuguese.
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ON HIGHER GROUND
The University of New Orleans at 50
ROBERT L. DUPONT
ROBERT L. DUPONT is Associate Professor
of History at UNO. He has also served
as Dean of Metropolitan College and
Vice-Chancellor of Strategic Planning
and Budget. He is co-editor, with Günter
Bischof, of The Pacific War Revisited, essays
on World War II.
Published to coincide with the University of New Orleans’s
50th anniversary, On Higher Ground looks back on the
university’s founding and its subsequent contributions to
both its students and its community. The book traces the
history of UNO’s academic tradition—from its beginnings to
its most recent expansions and innovations.
The University of New Orleans was established as a branch
campus of LSU in 1956. Although originally envisioned as a
small campus, students enrolled in numbers far greater than
expected, causing the school to expand rapidly. From its
early years, students, faculty, and the administration were
united in the desire to build an excellent university from
the ground up. In recent history, UNO has expanded its
outreach to the New Orleans community through economic
development projects, international exchange, and the
adoption of charter schools and additional campuses
throughout the city.
In spite of major challenges—such as the devastation
of Hurricane Katrina—the University of New Orleans has
persevered, continuing to foster an innovative academic
community for over fifty years.
9780972814355 • Nonfiction
188 pages • $39.95 • March 2009
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COURTING PANDEMONIUM
FREDRICK BARTON
A high school basketball coach finds himself in the
middle of cultural warfare in this rollicking novel by
prize-winning author Fredrick Barton.
Raised by an outspoken single mother, Mac coaches
women’s high school basketball in a New Orleans public
school. When Mac encourages a star athlete, Barbara
Jeanne Bordelon, to play on the boys’ basketball team,
he incurs a flurry of public scrutiny that puts him in the
path of radical feminists and evangelical Christians.
Set in the 1970s to coincide with the Title IX ruling,
Courting Pandemonium looks back on the landmark
equal rights case with the singular mix of poignancy
and absurdist humor Barton is known for.
“Exciting and surprising.”
—Los Angeles Times
FREDRICK BARTON is the author of
the novels The El Cholo Feeling Passes,
Courting Pandemonium, Black and White
on the Rocks, and A House Divided, which
won the William Faulkner Prize in fiction.
He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
9781608011018 • Fiction
280 pages • $18.95 • January 2014
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“…a farce of the highest order, peopled with radical
feminists, right-wing religious sects and kids who just want
to play ball. Read it and giggle.”
—USA Today
“In this zany new novel with more twists that a centipede
has legs, Barton keeps readers mesmerized until the final
page and demonstrates once again his skill at depicting our
crazy world.”
—Library Journal
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BLACK AND WHITE ON THE ROCKS
FREDRICK BARTON
FREDRICK BARTON is the author
of the novels The El Cholo Feeling
Passes, Courting Pandemonium,
Black and White on the Rocks, and
A House Divided, which won the
William Faulkner Prize in fiction. He
lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
9781608011001 • Fiction
388 pages • $18.95 • May 2013
UNO Press
From William Faulkner Prize winner Fredrick Barton
comes Black and White on the Rocks, a genrebending murder mystery both gritty and observant.
One Sunday night, Michael Barnett returns home,
half drunk, to find that someone has sifted through the
court documents of his deceased wife, a passionate
attorney. Suddenly questioning the circumstances of
her death, Mike becomes fascinated with a racially
charged case she took to the Supreme Court years
earlier.
As he uncovers a history of crooked dealings, the
struggling alcoholic loses himself in the pursuit of
justice and closure. Clever, jaded, and haunted by
loss, Mike navigates us through his own complex
New Orleans, a city at once vibrant and aching,
marred by racial prejudice and political corruption.
A true melding of genres, Black and White on the
Rocks explores crime, heartbreak, and the possibility
of redemption with rare insight and skill.
“A superior, savvy tangle of greed, graft, and sudden violence.”
—The Los Angeles Times
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THE EL CHOLO FEELING PASSES
FREDRICK BARTON
In a memo to the UCLA History Department, doctoral
FREDRICK BARTON is the author
of the novels The El Cholo Feeling
Passes, Courting Pandemonium,
Black and White on the Rocks, and
A House Divided, which won the
William Faulkner Prize in fiction.
He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
9780972814324 • Fiction
384 pages • $14.95 • January 2003
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candidate Richard Janus admits that he will not be turning
in his thesis. The El Cholo Feeling Passes is the “digression”
he pens instead—an irreverent, large-hearted coming-ofage story.
Chronicling Janus’ youth and his marriage to the fiery Faith
Cleaver, the novel depicts a life on the verge of adulthood.
As they navigate the Sexual Revolution, the Women’s
Movement, and Vietnam, Janus and Faith question the
future of their careers and their relationship. Though firmly
set in one of the most dynamic periods of American history,
their story not only captures the spirit of a generation—it
explores the timeless themes of fleeting youth, confused
ambition, and the frustrations and rewards of marriage.
“Page by page it’s a winner, a great, wide youth swoop at reality
that compares to visions of James Jones, Joseph Heller, Philip
Roth. The El Cholo Feeling Passes is big—and very beautiful.”
—Los Angeles Times
“As a document of the hysteria following the Sexual Revolution, it
is certifiably true. As an absurdist comedy it begs to be compared
to Catch-22 or One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
—The Times-Picayune
“This excellent novel is The Way We Were for the Vietnam
generation.”
—Brandon Tartikoff
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A HOUSE DIVIDED
FREDRICK BARTON
FREDRICK BARTON is the author
of the novels The El Cholo Feeling
Passes, Courting Pandemonium,
Black and White on the Rocks, and
A House Divided, which won the
William Faulkner Prize in fiction.
He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
0972814310 • Fiction
352 pages • $16.95 • January 2005
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At a 1968 antiwar rally in a New Orleans church, a white Baptist
preacher named Jeff Caldwell introduces his boss and lifelong
friend, the prominent black civil rights leader George Washington
Brown. As Brown steps to the pulpit to speak, a gunman walks
forward and shoots Brown and Caldwell both. A House Divided
explores how these two men, united in philosophy and friendship,
but divided by race and class, came to stand together on that
fateful night.
Told from the perspective of Caldwell’s son, A House Divided
traces the path of a dirt-poor white boy from central Louisiana as
he survives war, poverty, and turbulences within his own family to
make a stand against the evils of a broken South. Spanning across
the Great Depression, World War II, and the Civil Rights Era, this
unflinching novel examines the inner lives of those deeply flawed
heroes who shaped their country in their imperfect pursuit of
justice. Winner of the William Faulkner Prize (2000) for fiction, A
House Divided is smart, nuanced, and above all, human.
“A history of lives that strove for political greatness and fell far
short on the scale of personal goodness.”
—The Times-Picayune
“A novel about the civil-rights movement and its soldiers that is
as complex, tragic, and healing as the era itself.”
—Connie May Fowler
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“Barton continues the very best of the essay tradition:
wisdom, grace, a stubborn curiosity, and the urge to follow
an idea wherever it leads.”
—Dinty W. Moore,
author of Between Panic and Desire
ROWING TO SWEDEN
Essays on Faith, Love, Politics, and Movies
FREDRICK BARTON
FREDRICK BARTON is the author
of the novels The El Cholo Feeling
Passes, Courting Pandemonium,
Black and White on the Rocks, and
A House Divided, which won the
William Faulkner Prize in fiction. He
lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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413 Pages • $15.25 • May 2010
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Whether confronting racial politics, a doomed marriage, or an
idealist’s loss of innocence, Fredrick Barton never flinches from
the truth in this heartfelt collection of award-winning essays.
Often funny, always honest, Barton weaves his love of the movies
into his recollections of growing up a white liberal Baptist,
coming of age in anti-wars rallies, and finding hope in a country
torn by racial divides. Rowing to Sweden includes both personal
essays and cultural criticism. While their subjects range from the
responsibilities filmmakers must accept when telling a war story
to the bureaucratic tortures of a visit to the DMV, these essays
all contemplate one delicate concern: the bittersweet dilemma of
trying to live a good life in a morally complex world.
“A rich, intricately woven tapestry of memoir and criticism, a
multi-layered essaying on the very things that make our everyday
lives meaningful and maddening.”
—Steven Church,
author of Theoretical Killings, Essays and Accidents
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From On Higher Ground.
The broken silence serieS
Silence is the most dangerous thing for a political prisoner”
—Nadia Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2014.
Understanding that the primary tactic for preventing critical thought is to suppress voices, the
Broken Silences Series seeks to allow the writers and scholars who have been imprisoned for their
ideas to tell their stories. The books in this series give an intimate dimension to the struggles
of those who have defied political oppression to express dissent. In some cases, the men and
women who have been imprisoned tell these stories; in others, family members and advocates
will covey the heartache and frustration of persecution and the experience of being drawn into
the struggle for expressive freedom.
The Broken Silences Series is an outgrowth of the Advocacy Seminars at Roger Williams University
where, in conjunction with Scholars at Risk and in close relationships with organizations like
PEN American Center, students engage in direct advocacy work on behalf of internationally
imprisoned writers. The books in the series reflect the Advocacy Seminars’ main principle: as
writers and thinkers who rely on freedom of expression, it is incumbent upon us to support our
peers who do no have access to such a basic right.
The books in the Broken Silences Series go beyond transcribing events in their authors’ lives. By
seeing nonfiction narrative as an art form in itself, the series’ books will be edited in a manner
that transcends the informational, and through their narrative constructions re-creates not just
the details of each person’s struggle, but also places the reader inside the moments of time in
which the stories are being told.
The most recent entry into this series, Jewher Ilham: A Uyghur Daughter’s Fight to Free Her
Father, tells the story of events surrounding the imprisonment of academic Ilham Tohti, who
worked to maintain a dialogue between China’s ethnic groups.
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NORMANDO HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ
7 Years in Prison for Writing about Bread
Interview by ADAM BRAVER and MOLLY GESSFORD
Translated by CYNTHIA GUARDADO
In March 2003, Normando Hernández González was among seventy-five
Cuban journalists who were hunted down and arrested in what became
known as the “Black Spring.” For reporting outside the regime-endorsed
perspective, the men were tried and sentenced to Cuba’s harshest
prisons. Under the most brutal conditions, the journalists remained
united, protesting to protect their countrymen’s human rights. After
nearly a decade, the Cuban government finally released and exiled the
dissenters, Hernández among them. One year later, Adam Braver and
Molly Gessford traveled to Madrid to meet Hernández and record his
remarkable story.
NORMANDO
HERNÁNDEZ
GONZÁLEZ continues to work as
a journalist and serves as Director
General of the Cuban Institute for
Freedom of Speech and Press, a
nonprofit NGO he founded in 2011
to protect the inalienable freedoms
of the Cuban people.
ADAM BRAVER is the author of five novels. He is on faculty and a
writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University.
MOLLY GESSFORD teaches English as a foreign language in Boston.
She interned for the PEN American Center while earning her BA at
Roger Williams University.
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JEWHER ILHAM
A Ugyhur’s Fight to Free Her Father
Interviewed and edited by ADAM BRAVER and ASHLEY
BARTON • Foreword by U.S. SENATOR SHERROD BROWN
Afterword by ROBERT QUINN
When Jewher Ilham’s father, Ilham Toti, was detained at the Beijing
airport in February 2013 on charges of “separatism,” Jewher had
two choices: she could stay in China or fly to America alone. Jewher
boarded the plane for Indiana and began a new life apart from her
family and was half a world away when her father was sentenced to
life in prison.
Through a series of interviews with novelist Adam Braver and scholar
Ashley Barton, Jewher recounted her father’s nightmare and her own
transition from student to eloquent advocate for the Uyghur people.
The resulting book, Jewher Ilham: A Uyghur’s Fight to Free Her
Father, is an intimate, exclusive portrait that U.S. Senator Sherrod
Brown calls “proof that Jewher and her people will not be silenced.”
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ADAM BRAVER is writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University, and
also teaches at the NY State Summer Writers Institute. He is the author
of five novels, most recently Misfit.
ASHLEY BARTON is currently in her first year of law school at Wake
Forest University. Her advocacy work, particularly on the Ilham Tohti
case, led to her being honored as a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow.
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From On Higher Ground.
UNO Press is home
to a range of works meant to be at the center of compelling
conversations. Among the diverse range of literature and academic texts we release
is a collection of wry and heartfelt short fiction from New York’s Garment District, an
examination of a murder case that changed the way a memoirist viewed his small
community in Tennessee, and the first English translation of a poet from Spain’s famed
Generation of ’27.
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DEATH BY PASTRAMI
LEONARD S. BERNSTEIN
In these seventeen wry stories, Bernstein introduces us to
the unsung residents of NYC’s garment district—proud
lace sewers, unscrupulous ragmen, and salesmen with a
penchant for stolen pens. Bernstein is a master of brevity—
most stories clock in at under ten pages—and he is most
concerned with the particulars of human yearning. A man
offers a million dollars for a “first-rate” human heart. An
engineer chooses the suit he will wear every day for the rest
of his life. A funeral salesman discovers the deadly power
of the pastrami sandwich. In their breadth, these stories
capture a New York that recedes further into memory every
year: a garment district populated by people with at least
a passing acquaintanceship with the old country and older
ways of making things.
LEONARD S. BERNSTEIN, Leonard
S. Bernstein, a New York native, is an
executive in the apparel industry as well
as the author of five books, including
How’s Business?—Don’t Ask, Getting
Published, and The Official Guide to
Wine Snobbery, among others. Born
in Brooklyn, Bernstein currently lives in
Westbury, Long Island.
9781608010271 • Fiction
160 pages • $16.95 • November 2014
UNO Press
“Most of Bernstein’s stories end with the literary equivalent
of a shrug—a distinctive New York gesture. These stories are
both quaint and timeless, a fanciful addition to the literature
of place…” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
“Each story in Leonard Bernstein’s wonderful new collection has
a little pain, a little joy, and often a little magic…Read this book,
laugh, cry, and become wise.”
—Hilda Raz, Editor Emerita,
Prairie Schooner
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“Terse, funny, poignant, honest—like Malamud’s before him,
Leonard Bernstein’s stories attempt to sanctify the ordinary, and
in the process they provide the reader with an experience as
humanizing as it is entertaining.”
—Steve Stern, author of The Frozen Rabbi
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GREEN FIELDS
Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between
BOB COWSER
An Academy of American Poets
prizewinner and Pushcart Prize
nominee,
BOB
COWSER’S
work has appeared in several
literary
journals,
including
Prairie Schooner, the Missouri
Review, and River Teeth. His
first book, Dream Season (2004)
was a New York Times Book
Review “Editor’s Choice” and
“Paperback Row” selection. He
is currently a professor of English
at St. Lawrence University.
In Green Fields, Bob Cowser presents an eyeopening work of true crime writing in the tradition of
Capote, Didion, and Baldwin. In this chilling narrative
reconstruction, Cowser examines the 1979 murder in
rural Tennessee of his classmate, Cary Ann Medlin, and
the sentencing of Robert Glen Coe. Resulting in the first
execution to occur in Tennessee in forty years, Coe’s case
became a media spectacle, as Cary’s family attempted to
cope with the tragedy. Covering both the family’s grief
and Coe’s efforts to walk free, Green Fields takes no
sides, reporting the events truthfully, in all their horror
and complexity.
“Green Fields forces us to consider matters—crime,
punishment, poverty, and the relationship between them—
our comfortable culture likes to pretend don’t exist, and to
consider them in a deeply personal context. This illuminating
and thought-provoking personal narrative brings us directly
into the story, allowing us to feel the lasting effects of this
horrendous crime and its equally horrendous punishment.”
—Sister Helen Prejean,
author of Dead Man Walking
9781608010189 • Nonfiction
173 Pages • $15.95 • November 2010
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SHEER INDEFINITE
Selected Poems, 1991-2011
SKIP FOX
The expansive poems in Sheer Indefinite assume many
voices—retelling biblical narratives, mining personal
histories, and inventing new worlds from whole cloth.
Formally inventive, Fox delivers restless, cascading stanzas,
connected prose poems, and verse that shifts from one
form to another like a snake shedding its skin.
Read these poems to lose your grip on reality, to
momentarily find yourself in a cab, in someone else’s
memory, in a museum full of sharks. For all their strangeness,
these poems express the wonder of being alive. As Fox
says in “floating world”: Open the door. You’re a mirror.
The world takes you in.
“Prepare to be dazzled; the poet is one of our best”
—Rikki Ducornet
“Alchemically, the poems in Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite will make
the chocolate in your pocket melt.”
—Bernadette Mayer
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SKIP FOX has written several books and
chapbooks of poetry and mixed-genre
work as well as a lengthy bibliography. He
is currently working on a nine volume text:
Dream of a Book, four of which have been
published: What Of (Potes & Poets), At
That (Ahadada), For To (BlazeVox Books),
and Delta Blues (Ahadada).
9781608010806 • Poetry
204 pages • $22.95 • April 2012
UNO Press
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BLACK TULIPS
The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa
Translated by MARK STATMAN
In Black Tulips, Mark Statman gives us the first English translation
of the poetry of José María Hinojosa, a well-known poet of
Spain’s famed Generation of ’27, which included Lorca, Dalí,
Buñuel, Alberti, Aleixandre, and Hernandez. Although his rightwing politics caused him to break with this group during the
Spanish Republic, Hinojosa continued to write surrealist poetry
until his assassination by Republic sympathizers in 1936. After
his death, his work disappeared from Spanish culture until the
end of the 20th century.
Black Tulips contains a selection from Hinojosa’s entire body of
work—starting with his first book Poema del Campo through his
final collection Blood in Freedom. In his introduction, Statman
calls Hinojosa “a poet who examines the world to find in the
ordinary the mysterious.” In Black Tulips, we find a poet of deep
imagination who glimpses another world, both shimmering and
violent, beyond the curtain of everyday existence.
MARK STATMAN’s recent books are the
poetry collection, Tourist at a Miracle
(Hanging Loose, 2010), and, with
Pablo Medina, Federico García Lorca’s
Poet in New York (Grove, 2008). His
work has been published in numerous
publications and anthologies. He is
Associate Professor of Literary Studies at
Eugene Lang College, The New School
for Liberal Arts.
9781608010882 • Poetry
192 pages • $18.95 • October 2012
UNO Press
“Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa, translated
by Mark Statman, is a major literary achievement. Mark Statman has
unearthed the poetry of a long-forgotten member of the Generation
of ’27—that gathering of poets that included Pedro Salinas, Rafael
Alberti, and Federico Garcia Lorca, among others. Thanks to Statman,
Hinojosa’s work can now be accorded its proper place among that
august group. Statman’s acumen as both poet and translator is
evident in every page. The results are translations that are faithful to
Hinojosa’s originals while standing as fine English poems in their own
right.”
—Pablo Medina
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GRAVESTONES (LÁPIDAS)
ANTONIO GAMONEDA
Translated by DONALD WELLMAN
This translation of Lápidas makes available in English
for the first time the poetry of Antonio Gamoneda, the
recipient of the Cervantes Prize in 2006. Despite years
of repression under the Franco regime, Gamoneda has
now become one of the most respected voices in Spain.
With their dark surrealism, these poems, immediate
and haunting, depict moments of pain and loss with
striking clarity. Presented in both the original Spanish and
Donald Wellman’s skillful English translation, Gravestones
captures the bitter emotions of Franco-era Spain and the
fortitude of the Spanish people in their struggle.
“Language transparent and yet complex...One should be glad
for Gamoneda’s belated recognition and simply shrug one’s
shoulders over the timing, since that seems to be the lot of
great poets.”
—José Kozer
“We have no other poetry among us so thoroughly cold yet so
conscious of suffering”
—Carlos Piera
9781608010028 • Poetry
153 Pages • $18.95 • October 2009
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ANTONIO GAMONEDA was born in Oveido,
Spain, in 1931. Active in the intellectual resistance
to the Franco regime, Gamoneda published
his first book of poetry in 1960. His work has
received several major awards, including the
National Prize for Literature in Spain, the Reina
Sofia Award, and the Cervantes Prize, the highest
honor in Spanish-language literature.
DONALD WELLMAN is a poet, essayist, and
editor. Recent books of poetry include Prolog
Pages. He currently teaches writing and cultural
studies at Daniel Webster College.
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THE ASTRAL PLANE
Stories of Cuba, the Southwest and Beyond
TERESA DOVALPAGE
Funny and insightful, this series of interconnected stories
takes the reader from the streets of Communist Havana, to
San Diego through the eyes of a recent Cuban immigrant, to
a close-knit New Mexico town.
In the title story, a New Age group must care for their ailing
guru while dealing with uncomfortable truths that come about
as a result of his accident. In “Poe, the Professor, and the
Papichullo,” an English professor finds the perfect revenge
for a cheating husband in Poe’s “The Cask of Amotillado.”
Blending magical realism with unlikely protagonists—false
prophets, serial killers, and prostitutes—The Astral Plane
explores questions of identity in diaspora and the myriad
ways we fail to understand each other.
“At once painful and perceptive, humorous and heartbreaking,
The Astral Plane: Stories of Cuba, the Southwest and Beyond
captures the complex ambivalence of life in the diaspora and
life on the island. In rhythmic, straightforward prose, Dovalpage
evokes the anguish of rupture and displacement; the seemingly
untenable compromises that those living both on the island and
in the diaspora must make in order to survive; and the superficial
manner in which Cuba continues to be perceived by those outside
the experience.”
—Andrea Herrera, poet and writer,
author of ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora and The
Pearl of Antiles
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TERESA DOVALPAGE was born in
Havana and presently lives in Taos,
New Mexico. She has a Ph. D. in Latin
American literature and is a professor
at UNM-Taos. She is the author of
five novels, three in Spanish and two
in English, a collection of stories in
Spanish, and two plays.
9781608010769 • Fiction
200 pages • $18.95 • January 2012
UNO Press
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A GALLERY OF GHOSTS
JOHN GERY
In A Gallery of Ghosts, John Gery once again shows himself to be a
master of poetic forms. In this collection, Gery’s distinctive poetic voice
lends seemingly orderly poems a sharpness that cuts close to the bone.
These poems convey both the bliss and pain of our existence, never
shying away from life’s uncomfortable truths.
While each of the five sections in this book offers distinctive pleasures,
Gery’s self-portraits are particularly honest and perceptive. In “The
Wrong, Tormented Sea,” Gery writes: “I’ve never learned to live within
my means.” In A Gallery of Ghosts, we see the exquisite work of an
insatiable mind, a poet always reaching for the highest fruit on the tree.
JOHN GERY, Research Professor at
the University of New Orleans, directs
the Ezra Pound Center for Literature,
Brunnenburg, Italy. His seven books
of poetry include Enemies of Leisure
(1995), Davenport’s Version (2003), A
Gallery of Ghosts (2008), and Have at
You Now! (forthcoming 2014). He has
recently co-edited two anthologies of
poetry, Poets of the Sala Capizucchi
(with Caterina Ricciardi and Massimo
Bacigalupo, 2011), and In Place of
Love and Country (with Richard Parker,
2013), as well as Ezra Pound, Ends and
Beginnings: Essays and Poems (with
William Pratt, 2011).
“John Gery picks up the implicit challenge, pursuing unflinchingly the
mysteries of human identity, of the self and its place in the world…
Finally, though, what arrests attention here is the provisional quality
of Gery’s poems—not that they are unfinished, indeed he writes with
high polish—but that they arrive with the breath of a life about them,
an intensely personal quality marked by such generous vulnerability
and openness to the future that his work can burn the reader used to a
literature not so determined to play for keeps.”
—Philip Dacey
“Metaphysical wit, emotional complexity, and surreal comedy infuse
these crackling reports from a world not unlike our own, but seen with a
wonderful freshness and a complete absence of can’t that makes it very
much John Gery’s. A Gallery of Ghosts is a collection not to be missed.”
—Charles Martin
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WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY:
Art & Family
J. RICHARD GRUBER
William Christenberry’s art, reflecting on the
transitional years of the mid-twentieth century,
draws heavily from his childhood in rural Alabama.
The abandoned farmhouses, tenant worker
housing, barns and cotton gins that dot the
kudzu-covered landscape become Christenberry’s
subjects. This book details the story of the
artist’s family, weaving together history and
critical art analysis, family photos, and beautiful
photographic rendering’s of Christenberry’s art.
J. RICHARD GRUBER, Ph.D., is director emeritus of the
Ogden Museum of Southern Art and an independent
curator, art historian, and writer. He was director
of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Director of
the Wichita Art Museum, and deputy director of the
Morris Museum of Art. Gruber has written books on
other artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Benny
Andrews, William Dunlap, Thomas Hart Benton, and
Elliott Daingerfield.
“I think that family and art began to merge in
my work when I discovered Let Us Now Praise
Famous Men, in 1960. And, as I started the
painting, Tenant House I, when I was teaching
at the university, this became quite evident. I felt
then that I was really on to something special.”
— William Christenberry
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“I have fond memories of when I was a boy, a little boy, and we
would leave Tuscaloosa...and we’d drive down to my grandparents’
to see them—about an eight-, ten-, fifteen-mile stretch just full of
country stores, signage on fence posts, barns, and signs on them.
And when I close my eyes I can still see that.”
—Excerpt from William Christenberry:
Art & Family
Photographs from William Christenberry: Art & Family.
Photograph right courtesy of J. Richard Gruber
Photograph left courtesy of William A. Christenberry, Jr
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UNDERSTANDING THE MUSIC
BUSINESS
A Comprehensive View
5th edition
Produced and edited by IRWIN STEINBERG
and HARMON GREENBLATT
Whether you’re starting your own label or looking
to sign to one, Understanding the Music Business: A
Comprehensive View is the definitive guide to the music
industry. While other manuals limit their focus to the
legal factors that can affect the business, this unique
text goes beyond and covers every aspect of the system,
making it possible for anyone to understand the many
opportunities and threats that are a part of everyday life
in the music world. There are few industries that have
changed as rapidly in recent years as the music business.
This updated edition covers every development, breaking
down the recording industry into its component parts and
explaining in clear terms how it all works.
IRWIN STEINBERG is president of HIS
Corporation and Domilin Films and vicechairman of the Music Connection. He is
also a long-time director of the Record
Industry Association of America. A
founder and President of Mercury Records,
Steinberg was Polygram’s First U.S.
Chairman and C.E.O. He is a graduate of
the University of Chicago Graduate School
of Business and California State University.
DePaul University.
HARMON GREENBLATT is the Director of the Graduate
Program in Arts Administration at the University of New
Orleans. He was formerly Director of the Cultural Arts
Division and the Arts Council of the city of Evanston,
Illinois. He holds degrees from Northwestern University
and DePaul University.
9781608010042 • Nonfiction
199 Pages • $24.95 • December 2009
UNO Press
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Contemporary Austrian Studies
The mission of Center Austria
is to direct international student and faculty
mobility between the University of New Orleans and universities in Austria. Center Austria
promotes the communication and extension of Austrian and Central European culture through
scholarly and artistic activities and academic partnerships. Furthermore, the Center is based
on more than three decades of cooperation with the University of Innsbruck and a SisterCity Agreement between the Cities of Innsbruck, Austria and New Orleans, as well as a new
partnership agreement with the University of Graz, Austria. The Center was launched in the fall
of 1997, and it functions as a research and discourse hub for Austrian and European Studies at
the University of New Orleans and throughout the city. Its origin was the Institute for the Study
of Comparative Public Policy.
In 1992, Anton Pelinka, a political scientist at the University of Innsbruck, and Günter Bischof,
a historian at UNO, started Contemporary Austrian Studies (CAS) as an annual publication.
Contemporary Austrian Studies is an interdisciplinary social studies journal that covers
Austria since 1918 and is designed to complement the older Austrian History Yearbook,
which concentrates more on Habsburg history. CAS was published for seventeen years by
Transaction of New Brunswick, NJ, and for the past three years jointly by UNO Press and
Innsbruck University Press. Volumes are dedicated to a specific theme chosen annually, with
essays, forums, historiography, roundtables, book reviews and an annual review of Austrian
politics complementing each volume.
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JÄGERSTÄTTER
A Play by FELIX MITTERER,
Translated by GREGOR THUSWALDNER
with ROBERT DASSANOWSKY,
Preface by GÜNTHER BISCHOF
Felix Mitterer’s gripping drama Jägerstätter is based on the
life and death of the martyr Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943),
an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for Hitler because of
his Catholic faith. Mitterer depicts Franz, who was beatified
by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007, as a courageous but struggling
and insecure human being—and not at all as a saint.
FELIX MITTERER has written numerous award-winning plays, radio
plays, and TV scripts. Since the publication of his first play, Kein Platz für
Idioten (No Place for Idiots) in 1977, Mitterer has been regarded as one
of the leading Austrian playwrights. His many literary awards include
the Ernst Toller Prize, the Adolf Grimme Prize, and most recently the
Ödön von Horvath Prize.
GÜNTER BISCHOF is a native of Austria and
graduate of the Universities of Innsbruck,
New Orleans, and Harvard (PhD ‘89). He is
a University Research Professor of History,
the Marshall Plan Professor and Director of
CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans,
and he has authored and edited several books.
978-1-60801-063-9 • Drama
144 pages • $13.95 • October 2015
UNO Press
GREGOR THUSWALDNER is Professor of German and Linguistics
at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts and Co-Founder and
Academic Director of The Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and
the Arts, an independent non-profit organization.
ROBERT DASSANOWSKY is Professor of German and Film, and director
of the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado
Springs, and works as an independent film producer. He has authored
several books.
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This project is made possible by a generous grant
from The Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation
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1914: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, THE ORIGINS, AND
THE FIRST YEAR OF WORLD WAR I
Contemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 23
GÜNTER BISCHOF and FRITZ PLASSER, EDITORS
with SAMUEL R. WILLIAMSON, JR., GUEST EDITOR
For the past 100 years, some of the greatest historians and political
scientists of the twentieth century have picked apart the sequence of
events following the June 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and
the proceeding war that led to the dissolution of the great old empires
of Europe. Contemporary Austrian Studies offers this volume of essays
engaging these scholarly discourses by reassessing the Dual Monarchy’s
critical role in the outbreak and the first year of the war, the military
experience in the trenches, and the chaos on the homefront.
9781608010264• Nonfiction
394 pages • $40.00 • July 2014
UNO Press • Innsbrook University Press
GÜNTER BISCHOF is the Marshall Plan Professor of History and the
director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans.
FRITZ PLASSER is professor of political science and Dean of the Faculty
of Political Science and Sociology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
SAMUEL R. WILLIAMSON, JR. is President Emeritus of the University of
the South.
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THE SCHÜSSEL ERA IN AUSTRIA
Contemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 18
GÜNTER BISCHOF and FRITZ PLASSER, EDITORS
GÜNTER BISCHOF is the Marshall
Plan Professor of History and the
director of Center Austria at the
University of New Orleans.
FRITZ PLASSER is
political science and
Faculty of Political
Sociology, University
Austria.
professor of
Dean of the
Science and
of Innsbruck,
The first volume published as a joint venture by University of New Orleans
Publishing and Innsbruck University Press, Volume 18 in Contemporary
Austrian Studies focuses on the lasting impact of Wolfgang Schüssel, who
was a dominant political figure in Austrian politics for 20 years.
This volume gives readers an understanding of what makes Schüssel’s
imprint on Austrian politics so undeniably significant. Holding several
government positions during his career, Schüssel is best known for his
two terms as Chancellor of Austria (2000-2007). While he was responsible
for large-scale reforms such as trimming the hidebound pension system
and giving more autonomy to higher education, in the process he undermined Austria’s consensual social partnership. His record of supporting
the European Union agenda is ambivalent, and Austrian public opinion in
support of the EU declined precipitously during his time in office. In spite
of his superb tactical and negotiating skills, he failed to achieve broad
popular acceptance for his ambitious reforms.
Volume 18 features essays by Peter Gerlich, Fritz Plasser/Peter
Ulram, Heinrich Neisser, Reinhard Heinisch, Heinrich Niesser, Johannes
Ditz, Josef Leidenfrost, Anton Pelinka et al., as well as a forum on the
“disturbing creativity” of Austrian artists, book reviews and the review of
Austrian politics.
“Contemporary Austrian Studies marks almost two decades of important
scholarship with a study of the turbulent era...”
—Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History,
Harvard University
9781608010097
• Nonfiction
382 pages • $40.00 • December 2009
UNO Press • Innsbrook University Press
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FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC:
POST-WORLD WAR I AUSTRIA
Contemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 19
GÜNTER BISCHOF, FRITZ PLASSER, and PETER
BERGER, EDITORS
GÜNTER BISCHOF is the
Marshall Plan Professor of
History and the director of
Center Austria at the University
of New Orleans.
FRITZ PLASSER is professor of
political science and Dean of
the faculty of Political Science
and Sociology, University of
Innsbruck, Austria.
The 18 essays in this volume offer innovative scholarship on the difficult transition from empire to republic for the small state of Austria,
newly created by the Allied peacemakers in Paris in 1919. They also
deal with the complex challenges posed by nation building after a
major war, including the ambiguity inherent in the creation of new
institutions in politics, economics, social life, and culture.
In 1919 the government of the fledgling Republic of Austria was
confronting revolutionary turmoil in the streets of Vienna, a near-total
collapse of the agricultural and industrial economies, and the fallout
of a crushing military defeat. In addition, the government was overburdened by the sheer number of new veterans, including the over
100,000 wounded soldiers returning from the frontlines.
The redrawn Austrian borders produced a loss of German ethnics
and major demographic shifts. Austrians—no longer dominant in a
vast empire—were uncertain of their standing. In spite of ideological conflict between the major political camps, Austria experienced a
cultural and educational revival—one that proved essential to forging
a new national identity.
PETER BERGER is chair and
professor economic and social
history at the Vienna University
of Economics and Business.
9781608010257 • Nonfiction
443 pages • $40.00 • October 2010
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GLOBAL AUSTRIA: AUSTRIA’S PLACE IN
EUROPE AND THE WORLD
Contemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 20
GÜNTER BISCHOF, FRITZ PLASSER, ANTON PELINKA,
and ALEXANDER SMITH, EDITORS
GÜNTER BISCHOF is the Marshall Plan
Professor of History and the director of
Center Austria at the University of New
Orleans.
FRITZ PLASSER is professor of political
science and Dean of the faculty
of Political Science and Sociology,
University of Innsbruck, Austria.
ANTON PELINKA is a Professor of
Political Science and Nationalism
Studies at the Central European
University in Budapest.
After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria
transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country.
Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic
was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. Austria’s postHasburg state suffered from enormous losses of territory and population.
However, these losses did not hamper the country’s innovative spirit.
The essays in this twentieth anniversary volume of Contemporary
Austrian Studies argue that Austria found its place in the global arena of
the twentieth century, making its mark on both Europe and the world. From
Freudian psychoanalysis to Auto-Marxist thought and the Austrian School
of Economics, Austrian ideas continued to be vital to the intellectual
community at large. Vienna remained the Austrian capital and reasserted
its strong position in Central European and international business and
finance.
This volume also examines how increasing globalization in the 20th century impacted Austrian demography, society, and political life. Specifically,
the essays discuss how Austria’s place in the contemporary world became
increasingly determined by the European integration process.
“CAS shows contemporary scholarship at its best...”
—William Johnston, Professor of History Emeritus,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
9781608010622 • Nonfiction
352 pages • $40.00 • August 2011
UNO Press • Innsbrook University Press
ALEXANDER SMITH is a doctoral
candidate in economic history and
political science at the University of
Innsbruck and currently works as a risk
manager at RLB Tirol AG in Innsbruck.
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AUSTRIAN LIVES
Contemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 21
GÜNTER BISCHOF and FRITZ PLASSER, EDITORS
The writing of lives is always situated between fact and fiction,
ascertainable data and the imagination of the biographer.
Using a variety of biographical techniques, Austrian Lives offers
a fascinating cross-section of recent Austrian experience.
A major focus of this collection is Austrian intellectual and
political figures through the twentieth century. Volume 21
presents an array of political lives, including portraits of Ignaz
Seipel and Therese Schlesinger-Eckstein. The essay “Lives
of the Mind” offers perspectives of intellectuals in pre- and
post-World War II Vienna such as Viktor Frankl and Eugenie
Schwarzwald.
These more traditional biographies are complemented by
studies of ordinary Austrians in wartime Vienna. Accounts of
the lives of soldiers, prisoners of war, and farming families
provide insight into often overlooked perspectives, while
creating a more complete picture of recent Austrian history.
EVA MALTSCHNIG is a doctoral candidate
in the Institute of Social and Economic
History at the Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration. In
2011-2012, she was the Austrian Ministry
of Science fellow at Center Austria at the
University of New Orleans.
GÜNTER BISCHOF is the Marshall Plan Professor of History
and the director of Center Austria at the University of New
Orleans.
FRITZ PLASSER is professor of political science and Dean of
the faculty of Political Science and Sociology, University of
Innsbruck, Austria.
9781608010929 • Nonfiction
490 pages • $40.00 • November 2012
UNO Press • Innsbruck University Press
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AUSTRIA’S INTERNATIONAL POSITION
AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR
Contemporary Austrian Studies, Volume 22
GÜNTER BISCHOF and FERDINAND
KARLHOFER, EDITORS
In the past quarter century, we have moved from the Cold War
to the Post-Cold War era in Austria, Europe, and the world
at large. Yet relatively little assessment is available to gauge
what the change from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era
signaled for Austria and Europe’s positions in the world.
Volume 22 of Contemporary Austrian Studies aims to fill in
these gaps by providing a detailed picture of the sea changes
Austrian foreign policy went through after the Cold War.
After the war, Austria emerged from the Cold War’s division
of Europe and was able to once again take advantage of its
central location in Europe, rebuilding long-standing relations
with neighboring countries to the East and South. These essays
look at the evolution of these relationships, including Austria’s
accession into the European Union in 1995. In addition, Volume
22 touches upon the erosion of Austria’s policy of neutrality
during the Post-Cold War era.
GÜNTER BISCHOF is the Marshall Plan
Professor of History and the director
of Center Austria at the University of
New Orleans.
FERDINAND KARLHOFER is an
associate professor and chair in the
Department of Political Science at the
University of Innsbruck.
978160811162 • Nonfiction
303 pages • $40.00 • September 2013
UNO Press • Innsbruck University Press
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CHANGING ADDRESSES
A Collection of Contemporary Austrian Writing
Edited by JOHANN HOLZNER and ALOIS
HOTSCHNIG
JOHANN HOLZNER taught modern
German and Austrian Literature at
the University of Innsbruck before his
recent retirement. He is the author of
many books and articles on 19th and
20th century Austrian literature and
also directed the Research Institute
„Brenner-Archives“ of the University of
Innsbruck from 2001-2013.
ALOIS HOTSCHNIG is a professional
writer with a number of novellas and
novels, including: Aus. Erzählung
(1989); Eine Art Glück. Erzählung (1990);
Leonardos Hände (1992); Ludwigs
Zimmer (2000); Die Kinder beruhigte
das nicht (2006); Im Sitzen läuft es sich
besser davon. Erzählungen (2009). He
lives in Innsbruck.
Changing Addresses: A Collection of Contemporary Austrian
Writing, is the product of a unique partnership between the
University of Innsbruck and the University of New Orleans that
fosters the exchange of intellectual and artistic ideas. The first
title of a new series, “Studies in Central European History,
Literature, and Culture,” this volume of English translations
compiles the work of writers from Austria and South Tyrol
affiliated with the University of Innsbruck.
Focused on the ways writers use language to question our
sense of reality, Changing Addresses presents a mixture of
established and emerging Austrian writers, including some
whose work has never been translated into English before.
“If this new collection, Changing Addresses, is any indication
of the state of contemporary Austrian writing, one thing is
certain: the Austrians are dripping with ideas...The editors and
translators of Changing Addresses have done a very smart job,
especially in the organization of the book, which pits poem
against prose, cleverly alternating the two, heightening the
dramatic effect of each and creating a potentially stimulating
dialogue between two often divided genres.”
—Carl E. Findley III,
Mercer University
9783902811431 • Fiction • Poetry
170 pages • $22.95 • July 2012
UNO Press
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Photographs on this page from Contemporary
Austrian Studies, Vols. 19 and 22.
Photographs courtesy of Picture Archives of the
Austrian National Library, Vienna (upper) and
Austrian Press Agency (lower).
Photographs on this page from Contemporary Austrian
Studies, Vols. 19 and 21.
Photographs courtesy of Picture Archives of the
Technical Museum, Vienna (right), Huber private
collection, Plenkenstein (left).
Photograph on opposite page from On Higher Ground,
The University of New Orleans at 50.
Photograph courtesy of the UNO Division of
International Education.
Photograph above: Presentation of Austrian
Lives, Volume 21 of CAS, at the Economics
University in Vienna in Oct. 2012.
The Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book Series is a project dedicated to publishing a variety of
scholarly and literary works relevant to Ezra Pound and modernism, including new critical monographs
on Pound and/or other modernists, scholarly studies related to Pound and his legacy, edited collections
of essays, volumes of original poetry, reissued books of importance to Pound scholarship, translations,
and other works.
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THE IMAGIST POEM
Modern Poetry in Miniature
Third Edition
Edited by WILLIAM PRATT
William Pratt’s The Imagist Poem has been hailed as the most
important anthology of Imagist poetry ever published.
This third edition features an expanded selection of poems
and an updated introduction by the editor, making it an
indispensable tool for any student of twentieth century poetry
or Modernism.
Poets represented include: T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, F. S. Flint, Ezra
Pound, James Joyce, H. D., Richard Aldington, William Carlos
Williams, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, Wallace
Stevens, Herbert Read, Adelaide Crapsey, Max Michelson, e.e.
cummings, and Archibald MacLeish.
WILLIAM PRATT is Professor Emeritus
of English at Miami University. He
is also editor of The Fugitive Poets,
reissued in 1992 as part of the
Southern Classics Series produced by
J. S. Sanders in Nashville, Tennessee.
9780972814386 • Poetry
184 pages • $16.95 • May 2009
UNO Press
“I have discovered your anthology The Imagist Poem, and as one of
the few survivors of the group, I would like to send you a few words of
congratulation. Both in your choice of poems and in your Introduction
you have very faithfully represented the ideals and the achievements of
the movement. I believe you are the only critic of a younger generation
who has really entered into the spirit and purpose of our enterprise,
and appreciated the fundamental significance of its brief efflorescence.
I am most grateful, and I only regret that my friends Flint and Aldington
are not still alive to receive your just tribute.”
—Herbert Read
“William Pratt’s The Imagist Poem is an anthology with a full
and extremely useful introduction to the movement and its
participants.”
—William Pritchard
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I POETI DI SALA CAPIZUCCHI
The poets of the Sala Capizucchi
Edited by MASSIMO BACIGALUPO, JOHN GERY, and
CATERINA RICCIARDI
This unique bilingual anthology of poetry gathers the work of well-known and new
contemporary poets from around the world to pay tribute to the legacy of Ezra
Pound and Olga Rudge. Inspired by a momentous cross-cultural poetry reading
on July 2, 2009, at the Sala Capizucchi in the epicenter of Rome—the same theatre
where Olga Rudge had performed with the composter George Antheil in February
1927—this collection bears testimony not only to the rich variety of new verse
coming from both sides of the Atlantic, but to the wide sweep of Pound’s influence
into the twenty-first century.
Collected here are both Italian poems translated into English and English
poems translated into Italian, making for a comprehensive, international gathering
of poetry available for readers in each language.
MASSIMO BACIGALUPO is a scholar and a translator,
chiefly of verse (Wordsworth, Dickinson, Wallace Stevens).
He edited and translated Ezra Pound’s Canti postumi
(2002) and co-edited Ezra Pound, Language and Persona
(2008). He is a professor of American Literature at the
University of Genoa and lives in Rapallo. “Ten for Terry”
was written as an homage to Carroll F. Terrell.
JOHN GERY, Research Professor at the University of New
Orleans, directs the Ezra Pound Center for Literature,
Brunnenburg, Italy. A prolific poet, he has co-edited
two recent anthologies of poetry, The Poets of the
Sala Capizucchi (with Caterina Ricciardi and Massimo
Bacigalupo, UNO Press, 2011), and In Place of Love and
Country (with Richard Parker, Crater, 2013), as well as Ezra
Pound: Ends and Beginnings: Essays and Poems (with
William Pratt, AMS, 2011).
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CATERINA RICCIARDI, a professor of American
Literature at the University of Roma Tre, has written
extensively on American Modernism. She is the
author of EIKONEΣ. Ezra Pound e il Rinascimento
(1991), Ezra Pound. Ghiande di Luce (2006), and Ezra
Pound and Roma: Roma/Amor (2009). She edited:
Ezra Pound, Idee fondamentali. Meridiano di Roma
(1939-1943) (1991), and the Italian translations of
Indiscretions; or, Une Revue de deux Mondes (2004)
and of Horace (2009). She has lately contributed to
Ezra Pound in Context (2010), edited by Ira B. Nadel.
9781608010684 • Poetry
192 pages • $18.95 • September 2011
UNO Press
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TRESPASSING
PATRIZIA de RACHEWILTZ
The poems of Patrizia de Rachewiltz’s Trespassing invite us directly
into the world of dreams. The tangible becomes ethereal, and the
stuff of our psyche finds expression in the outer world. Trespassing
reminds us of that very elemental truth about dreaming—we
dream alone. The poems suggest that in the fragmented, often
dangerous worlds of our unconscious, we become trespassers in
our own minds.
“When Patrizia reflects on the inner self and the outer world—the bruised
wing, the battered heart, the wealth of nature, the warmth of love—she
does so with a clear eye that is both intense and incisive. Trespassing,
the first major collection of this international poet’s work in English, will
send you away deeply moved by her words—and then will bring you
back to them.”
—Craig Smith, publisher, Palisade Press
PATRIZIA de RACHEWILTZ grew up
in the Tyrolean mountains of northern
Italy. Born to a Russian-Italian father
and an American mother, she is
a multilingual poet, writer, and
translator.
“These delicate, passionate love poems to a difficult world will make you
want to fall in love yourself all over again!”
—Biljana D. Obradovi, Frozen Embraces and Little Disruptions
9781608010608 • Poetry
88 pages • $14.95 • July 2011
UNO Press
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MODERNISM AND THE ORIENT
Edited by ZHAOMING QIAN
Scholars have long acknowledged the impact that traditional aesthetics
of the global East had on Western modernism. The twelve essays in
Zhaoming Qian’s Modernism and the Orient delve into the relationships
major twentieth century modernists such as Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf,
James Joyce, and Marcel Proust had with Chinese and Japanese culture,
as well as examining Asia’s influence on precursors like Emily Dickinson
and Oscar Wilde.
In the book’s introduction, Qian writes, “Modernism’s dialogue with the
Orient constantly challenges scholars with its variations, contradictions,
and ambivalences. These contributions not only reflect this but hope to
advance ongoing research and debate on this critical topic.”
ZHAOMING QIAN is Chair Professor
of English and Comparative Literary
Studies at Hangzhou Normal University.
He has published several books.
9781608010745 • Nonfiction
298 pages • $24.95 • February 2013
UNO Press
“In its readiness to trust the spirit in all its searching, flickering, glowing
radiance Modernism and the Orient explores the permeable, ever
changing boundaries of East and West in modern poetic practice. The
scrupulous research, wide range of documentation and personal fervor
which I delight in finding in Zhaoming Qian’s work bode especially well
for the future of his enterprise.”
—Anne Luyat,
Professor of English,
Université d’Avignon
“With this gathering, Zhaoming Qian continues his work as a our
foremost interpreter of modernist literature’s relation to Asia.”
—George Bornstein,
Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
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IMAGISM
Essays on Its Initiation, Impact, and Influence
Edited by JOHN GERY, DANIEL KEMPTON, and H.R.
STONEBACK
This collection of new essays explores the well-known yet rarely
investigated movement of Imagist poets and poetics. Launched in
the British Museum tearoom by Ezra Pound with H.D. and Richard
Aldington in April 1912, Imagism was rooted in earlier movements,
yet its influence has reached across the literary world. Framed by an
introduction on Imagism’s embattled cultural heritage and an afterword
recording its echoes as far off as China, this book offers a blueprint of
the historical, theoretical, and literary prevalence of Imagism from its
inception until now.
JOHN GERY, Research Professor at the University of New Orleans, directs
the Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Brunnenburg, Italy. A prolific poet,
he has co-edited two recent anthologies of poetry, The Poets of the Sala
Capizucchi (with Caterina Ricciardi and Massimo Bacigalupo, UNO Press,
2011), and In Place of Love and Country (with Richard Parker, Crater, 2013),
as well as Ezra Pound: Ends and Beginnings: Essays and Poems (with
William Pratt, AMS, 2011).
“Not much in the annals of literature has been
SO NEW as Imagism. These essays—lively,
learned, concise, and wide-ranging—take
us in two directions: back a hundred years to
those heady days when Ezra Pound and his
colleagues shook the world with their wild
ideas, and forward to our own day when the
legacy of Imagism is still very much with us.”
—Jane Eblen Keller, University of Baltimore,
Aldington and Durrell scholar, biographer
of Elizabeth Madox Roberts
DANIEL KEMPTON, Associate Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz,
is a founding member of the International Richard Aldington Society and
co-editor (with H. R. Stoneback) of four volumes of proceedings from that
society’s biennial conference. He has published articles on the medievalism
of Aldington and Ezra Pound.
H. R. STONEBACK, a poet and editor, is Distinguished Professor of English
at SUNY New Paltz. He has published hundreds of essays on American,
British, Chinese, and French literature and is the author or editor of 30
books of literary criticism and poetry. Recent volumes include Reading
Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (Kent State University Press, 2007) and
Voices of Women Singing (Codhill Press, 2011).
9781608011131 • Nonfiction
218 pages • $24.95 • August 2013
UNO Press
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