University of Washington Press

A constellation of beliefs about life and death

Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

By Jessica Rawson

"By turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place."—Seattle Times

Unsettled Ground

The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

By Cassandra Tate

An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea

Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth

Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World

By Gerry Smyth

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear order

Contaminated Country

Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia

By Jessica Urwin

A groundbreaking exploration of race, gender, and sexuality

Queering the Hmong Diaspora

Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality

By Kong Pheng Pha

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place

The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun

Literary Expression and the Natural World

By Ping Wang

Photographs and poems illuminating the lives of Armenians at home and in diaspora

Remain in Light

Visions of Homeland and Diaspora

Edited by Gassia Armenian

A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the Northwest

Fighting for the Puyallup

A Memoir

By Ramona Bennett Bill

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