Bøger udgivet af University of Arkansas Press

"In How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Maya Salameh explores the intimate relationships we have with our devices, speaking back to the algorithm that serves simultaneously as warden, data thief, and confidant"--

This highly readable folklore collection of Silas Turnbo's evocative legends of the chase are told by the predatory first settlers of the southern frontiers.

Fishing Arkansas is a comprehensive guide to the angling opportunities that the Natural State offers to its 500,000-700,000 licensed fisherman as well as to visitors to the state. In addition to conveying the very drama and excitement of the fishing experience itself, the month-by-month organiziation of the book allows the reader a detailed look at the life histories of many Arkansas sport fish, the best lakes and streams in which to find them, and the most successful tactics and tackle to use.Enhanced by Sutton's excellent photographs, the guide includes twelve sections on popular game fish, such as largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappie, catfish, bluegill, and trout. It also provides an introduction to often-overlooked species like bowfin, gar, carp, paddlefish, and pickerel. Hundreds of valuable fishing tips gleaned from decades of on-the-water experience and interviews with dozens of guides, biologists, and expert anglers enhance the engaging narraive. From the glistening trout in the cold tailwaters of the White River, to feisty catfish on the muddy bayou bottoms of the Delta region, Keith Sutton has served up a tempting array of the fish that can be sought and caught on hook and line in the teeming waters of Arkansas.

Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Rank within this black upper class rested on such issues as the status of one's forebears as either house servants or field hands, the darkness of one's skin, and the level of one's manners and education. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. The resulting narrative is a full and illuminating account of a most influential segment of the African-American population. It explores fully the distinctive background, prestige, attitudes, behavior, power, and culture of this class. The Black Community Studies series from the University of Arkansas Press, edited by Professor Gatewood, continues to examine many of the same themes first explored in this important study.

Life in the Leatherwoods is one of the country's most delightful childhood memoirs, penned by an Ozark native with a keen, observant eye and a gift for narrative. John Quincy Wolf's relaxed style and colorful characters resemble those of another chronicler of nineteenth-century rural life, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Wolf's acerbic wit and lucid prose infuse the White River pioneers of his story with such life that the reader participates vicariously in their log rollings, house-raisings, spelling bees, hog killings, soap making, country dances, and camp meetings. Originally published by Memphis State University Press in 1974, this new edition includes additional writings of John Q. Wolf and a continuation of the autobiographical narrative after his 1887 move to Batesville. Wolf's writings are valuable resources for southern historians, folklorists, general readers, and scholars of Ozarkiana because they provide a rare glimpse into the social and family life of a largely misunderstood and stereotyped people--the independent hill farmers of the Arkansas Ozarks of the 1870s and 1880s. With Life in the Leatherwoods, Wolf bestows a benediction upon a society that existed vibrantly and humorously in his memory--one that has now forever disappeared from the American countryside.

"The man revealed in these pages seems to embody so much of what Americans claim to admire--self-reliance, honesty, humor, modesty, intelligence--the stuff of heroes."

"In Reporting for Arkansas, Dale Carpenter and Robert Cochran present a biography of the pioneering Arkansas documentarian Jack Hill alongside a filmography celebrating the reissue of several of Hill's works newly hosted online by the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History"--

"In Gut-winner of the first Miller Williams Poetry Prize selected by Patricia Smith-poet J. Bailey Hutchinson explores the substance of personal history"--

"In the Inner Sanctum, Thomas Hauser's latest essay collection, explores the fight night in boxing. Hauser chronicles the most dramatic hours in boxers' lives-the very moment when a fighter's physical well-being and financial future are on the line, when the fighter is most at risk and most alive"--

"In 1962, James Meredith famously desegregated the University of Mississippi. Drawing upon historical research and creative inspiration, this graphic history depicts the civil rights icon's relentless pursuit of justice"--

Winner, 2023 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical AssociationBecause Johnny Cash cut his classic singles at Sun Records in Memphis and reigned for years as country royalty from his Nashville-area mansion, people tend to associate the Man in Black with Tennessee. But some of Cash's best songs-including classics like "Pickin' Time," "Big River," and "Five Feet High and Rising"-sprang from his youth in the sweltering cotton fields of northeastern Arkansas.In Country Boy, Colin Woodward combines biography, history, and music criticism to illustrate how Cash's experiences in Arkansas shaped his life and work. The grip of the Great Depression on Arkansas's small farmers, the comforts and tragedies of family, and a bedrock of faith all lent his music the power and authenticity that so appealed to millions. Though Cash left Arkansas as an eighteen-year-old, he often returned to his home state, where he played some of his most memorable and personal concerts. Drawing upon the country legend's songs and writings, as well as the accounts of family, fellow musicians, and chroniclers, Woodward reveals how the profound sincerity and empathy so central to Cash's music depended on his maintaining a deep connection to his native Arkansas-a place that never left his soul.

"This essay collection grew out of a conference marking the hundredth anniversary of one of the nation's deadliest labor conflicts - the 1919 Elaine Massacre, during which white mobs ruthlessly slaughtered over two hundred African Americans across Phillips County, Arkansas, in response to a meeting of unionized Black sharecroppers. The essays here demonstrate that the brutality that unfolded in Phillips County was characteristic of the culture of race- and labor-based violence that prevailed in the century after the Civil War"--

"Casey Thayer's Rational Anthem offers wry tribute to "the greatest country God could craft with the mules he had / on hand." In seeking to tell the story of the ragged world around him, Thayer examines the links among flag-waving populism, religious fervor, and toxic masculinity"--

Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his introduction, "Stanford was the best poet in America under the age of thirty-five."The Light the Dead See collects the best work from those nine volumes and six previously unpublished poems. In the earlier poems, Stanford creates a world where he could keep childhood alive, deny time and mutability, and place a version of himself at the center of great myth and drama.Later, the denial of time and mutability gives way to an obsessive and familiar confrontation with death. Although Stanford paid an enormous price for his growing familiarity with Death as a presence, the direct address to that presence is a source of much of the striking originality and stunning power in the poetry.

May Kennedy McCord, lovingly nicknamed 'Queen of the Hillbillies', spent half a century sharing the history, songs, and stories of her native Ozarks. Queen of the Hillbillies brings together the best of McCord's published and previously unpublished writings to share her knowledge, humour, and inimitable spirit with a new generation of readers.

Albert Einstein said, "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." It is in this vein that Sholeh Wolpe's mesmerizing memoir in verse unfolds. In this lyrical and candid work, her fifth collection of poems, Wolpe invokes the abacus as an instrument of remembering.

Infused with hospitality, and brimming with good humour, generosity, and a deeply respectful sense of place, Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread invites readers to create a storied table, at home in their kitchens yet as big as the world.

Takes readers behind the Staff Only door at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to reveal how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, and bring alive complex and exciting history. In vivid detail, Pete Daniel recounts the exhilaration of innovative research, the joys of collaboration, and the rewards of mentoring new generations.

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population considered subhuman. However, in this book, historian Guy Lancaster exposes the multiple forms of violence hidden beneath the singular label of lynching.

A dog in an art museum? Maybe not most dogs, but Friday goes to the museum every Tuesday to visit his friends. One day Friday must say goodbye for the winter. Join the fun as Friday trots through the galleries, taking selfies and saying goodbye to all of his friends - Maman the spider, Rosie the Riveter, George Washington, and many others.

Nikki Haley has been widely hailed as an emerging force in American politics, her star power burnished over a decade that has seen her move to the global stage. Jason Kirk analyses her ascendance in the Republican party to her elevated profile as Donald Trump's representative to the United Nations.

Presents a timely collection of essays analysing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives, the role of cooking in Sor Juana's poetics, and the centrality of desire in twentieth-century cooking writing by women.

Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra's Like We Still Speak. In her elegiac and formally inventive debut, Badra carries on talking with the sister and father she has lost, often setting her words alongside theirs and others' in polyphonic poems that can be read in multiple directions.

Examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the role of food in shaping prewar political debates and postwar realities.