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UNIVERSITY PRESS
OF MISSISSIPPI
BOOKS FOR SPRINGSUMMER 2016
FORGING
THE PAST
Seth and the Art
of Memory,
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CONTENTS
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Bars, Blues, and Booze | Edwards
Bertrand Tavernier: Interviews | Higgins / Kline
Big Jim Eastland | Annis
Black and Brown Planets | Lavender
Boys Love Manga and Beyond | McLelland / Nagaike / Suganuma / Welker
Called to Heal the Brokenhearted | Barnwell
Chenier Plain | Crowell
Chocolate Surrealism | Njoroge
The Comics of Hergé | Sanders
Confessions of an Undercover Agent | Spillers
The Construction of Whiteness | Middleton / Roediger / Shaffer
Conversations with Andre Dubus | Edenfield
Conversations with Sterling Plumpp | Zheng
Creating Jazz Counterpoint | Hobson
Curatorial Conversations | Cadaval / Kim / N’Diaye
Deeper Currents | Jackson
Delta Rainbow | Thomason / Fisher
The Dixie Limited | Inge
Ed Brubaker: Conversations | Wandtke
Faulkner and Film | Lurie / Abadie
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas | Watson / Thomas
Forging the Past | Marrone
Free Jazz/Black Power | Carles / Comolli / Pierrot
From Daniel Boone to Captain America | Barbour
From Madea to Media Mogul | Russworm / Sheppard / Bowdre
A Girl’s Got to Breathe | Spoto
Godfather of the Music Business | Carlin
The Grenada Revolution | Grenade
John Cassavetes: Interviews | Oldham
The Joker | Peaslee / Weiner
Listen to This | Svorinich
Little Red Readings | Hubler
A Locker Room of Her Own | Ogden / Rosen
Mary Wickes | Taravella
Monsters in the Machine | Hantke
Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature | Fraustino / Coats
My Triumph over Prejudice | Wyatt-Rossignol
Myself and the World | Hamblin
The Natchez Indians | Barnett
New Orleans, City of Remembering | Tucker
The New Territory | Conner / Morel
Openness of Comics | Ahmed
Parchman | Rushing
Populism in the South Revisited | Beeby
Projections of Passing | Kelley
Reading in the Dark | McCort
Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad | V. Smith
The Screen Is Red | Dick
Seth: Conversations | Hoffman / Grace
Sitting Pretty | Webb / D. Smith
So the Heffners Left McComb | Carter
Stanley Kubrick | Pezzotta
Things like the Truth | Gilchrist
This Woman’s Work | O. Harwell
Three Years in Wonderland | Pierce
Todd Haynes: Interviews | Leyda
Under Surge, Under Siege | Anderson
Van Johnson | R. Davis
A Voice That Could Stir an Army | Brooks
A Vulgar Art | Brodie
Wednesdays in Mississippi | D. Harwell
What She Go Do | Munro
Willie | Nicholas
Win the Race or Die Trying | McGuire
Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance | Kirschke
Writing in the Kitchen | D. Davis / Powell
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BIOGRAPHY | POPULAR CULTURE | FILM STUDIES
A biography of the Oscar-winning American actress
A Girl’s Got to Breathe
The Life of Teresa Wright
DONALD SPOTO
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he actress Teresa Wright (1918–2005) lived a rich, complex,
magnificent life against the backdrop of golden age Hollywood,
Broadway and television. There was no indication, from her astonishingly difficult—indeed, horrifying—childhood, of the success
that would follow, nor of the universal acclaim and admiration
that accompanied her everywhere. Her two marriages—to the
writers Niven Busch (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Duel in the
Sun) and Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy, I Never Sang for My
Father)—provide a good deal of the drama, warmth, poignancy and
heartbreak of her life story.
“I never wanted to be a star,” she told the noted biographer
Donald Spoto at dinner in 1978. “I wanted only to be an actress.”
She began acting on the stage in summer stock and repertory at
the age of eighteen. When Thornton Wilder and Jed Harris saw her
in an ingénue role, she was chosen to understudy the part of Emily in the original production
of Our Town (1938), which she then played in touring productions. Samuel Goldwyn saw her
first starring role on Broadway—in the historic production of Life with Father—and at once he
offered her a long contract.
She was the only actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for her first three pictures
(The Little Foxes, Pride of the Yankees and Mrs. Miniver), and she won for the third film. Movie
fans and scholars to this day admire her performance in the classics Shadow of a Doubt and
The Best Years of Our Lives. The circumstances of her tenure at Goldwyn, and the drama of her
breaking that contract, forever changed the treatment of stars.
Wright’s family and heirs appointed Spoto as her authorized biographer and offered him
exclusive access to her letters and papers. Major supporting players in this story include Robert
Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, William Wyler, Karl Malden, Elia Kazan, Jean Simmons, Dorothy
McGuire, Bette Davis, George Cukor, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, the artist Al Hirschfeld,
Stella Adler and more.
Order online at www.upress.state.ms.us
Donald Spoto, Borup, Denmark,
received his PhD from Fordham
University in 1971. He is the author
of twenty-nine books published in
more than twenty-six languages.
MARCH, 288 pages (approx.), 6 x 9
inches, 43 b&w illustrations, filmography,
bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-045-2
Ebook available
Hollywood Legends Series
Photos, clockwise from left: with Hitchcock, on the set of Shadow of a Doubt; as
the tortured farmwife, with Bruce Dern,
in the episode “Lonely Place” (The Alfred
Hitchcock Hour, 1964); with Donald
Spoto, 2004, photo by Ole Flemming
Larsen
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BIOGRAPHY | LITERATURE
BIOGRAPHY | LITERATURE
Willie
Myself and the World
TERESA NICHOLAS
ROBERT W. HAMBLIN
A fresh look at the life of a revered southern writer
and editor
A concise, readable biography of the Nobel laureate
who defined southern literature
The Life of Willie Morris
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n 2000, readers voted Willie Morris
(1934–1999) Mississippi’s favorite
nonfiction author of the millennium.
After conducting over fifty interviews
and combing through over eighty
boxes of papers in the archives at the
University of Mississippi, many of
which had never been seen before by
researchers, Teresa Nicholas provides
new perspectives on a Mississippi
writer and editor who changed
journalism and redefined what being
southern could mean. More than fifty
photographs—some published here
for the first time, including several by renowned photographer
David Rae Morris, Willie’s son—enhance the exploration.
From an early age, Willie demonstrated a talent for words. At
the University of Texas at Austin, he became a controversial editor
of the Daily Texan. He later studied history as a Rhodes Scholar in
Oxford, England, but by 1960 he was back in Austin, working as
editor for the highly regarded Texas Observer. In 1967 Willie became
the youngest editor of the nation’s oldest magazine, Harper’s. His
autobiography, North Toward Home, achieved critical as well as
artistic success, and it would continue to inspire legions of readers
for decades to come.
In the final tally, he published hundreds of newspaper and
magazine articles, along with twenty-three books. His work
covered the gamut from fiction to nonfiction, for both adults and
children, often touching on the personal as well as the historical
and the topical, and always presented in his lyrical prose. In 1980,
he returned to his home state as writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi. In 1990, he married his editor at the University
Press of Mississippi, JoAnne Prichard, and they made a home in
Jackson. With his broad knowledge of history, his sensitivity, and
his bone-deep understanding of the South, he became a celebrated
spokesman for and interpreter of the place he loved.
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A Biography of William Faulkner
W
illiam Faulkner (1897–1962)
once said of his novels and
stories, “I am telling the same story
over and over, which is myself and
the world.” This biography provides
an overview of the life and career of
the famous author, demonstrating
the interrelationships of that life,
centered in Oxford, Mississippi,
with the characters and events of his
fictional world. The book begins with
a chapter on Faulkner’s most famous
ancestor, W. C. Falkner, “the Old
Colonel,” who greatly influenced both
the content and the form of Faulkner’s fiction. Robert W. Hamblin
then proceeds to examine the highlights of Faulkner’s biography,
from his childhood to his youthful days as a fledgling poet,
through his time in New Orleans, the creation of Yoknapatawpha,
the years of struggle and his season of prolific genius, and through
his time in Hollywood and his winning of the Nobel Prize. The
book concludes with a description of his last years as a revered
author, cultural ambassador, and university writer-in-residence.
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Faulkner spoke of
“the agony and sweat of the human spirit” that goes into artistic
creation. For Faulkner, that struggle was especially acute. Poor
and neglected for much of his life, suffering from chronic depression and alcoholism, and unhappy in his personal life, Faulkner
overcame tremendous obstacles to achieve literary success. One
of the major themes of his novels and stories remains endurance,
and his biography exhibits that quality in abundance. Faulkner the
man endured and ultimately prevailed.
Teresa Nicholas, Jackson, Mississippi, was born and raised in
Yazoo City. She worked in book publishing in New York City for
twenty-five years. In 2011 she published a memoir, Buryin’ Daddy:
Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest,
which was nominated by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and
Letters for its nonfiction award.
Robert W. Hamblin, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is professor
emeritus of English and the founding director of the Center for
Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. A native
of northeast Mississippi, he completed advanced degrees at the
University of Mississippi in Oxford, Faulkner’s hometown. He
has directed Faulkner seminars for the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the Missouri Humanities Council and has
lectured on Faulkner in Europe and Asia, as well as throughout
the United States. He has coedited seventeen books on William
Faulkner, including a William Faulkner Encyclopedia and A
Companion to Faulkner Studies.
MARCH, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 58 b&w illustrations, chronology,
bibliography, index
Cloth $20.00T 978-1-62846-105-3
Ebook available
JUNE, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 103 b&w illustrations, chronology,
bibliography, index
Cloth $20.00T 978-1-4968-0560-7
Ebook available
MEMOIR | ESSAYS
A vibrant, passionate engagement with the
transcendent joys of family and aging
Things like the Truth
Out of My Later Years
ELLEN GILCHRIST
W
inner of the National Book Award and the author of numerous
highly praised works of fiction and nonfiction, Ellen Gilchrist is
also a daughter, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who
takes delight in her large, wonderful family. Things like the Truth offers a
collection of nonfiction essays about Ellen Gilchrist’s life, family, home,
work, aging, and the fun of fighting to stay healthy in an increasingly
undisciplined culture. This collection brings together for the first time
essays by Ellen Gilchrist on her later life and family.
Essays such as “The Joy of Swimming” reveal how Gilchrist, as
an aging person, thinks about the joys one can discover late in life.
Other essays focus on surgery, money, childhood memories, changing
perspectives, and the vagaries of the age. Gilchrist pays special
attention to her evolving relationships with her adult children and the
pleasures and pitfalls of being a grandmother and great-grandmother.
The volume also includes essays from her diary about the sense of place in her mountain home near
her work at the University of Arkansas and about life after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast, her second residence.
Reviewers have praised Gilchrist’s “deliciously wise and humorous voice” in her stories and that
same voice pours forth in these essays. Gilchrist takes delight in the foibles of human behavior and
searches for the humor and wisdom in every situation. She also loves to give advice, and happily
dispenses guidance to fans, family, and anyone in a grocery store line. This collection of essays
presents Gilchrist at her best. Engaging, funny, and fearless, she describes the joys and difficulties
of a well-lived life. Her fans will devour these essays and will revel again in the company of an
author they know so well. Both personal and profound, with plenty of humor, this collection allows
Gilchrist’s inimitable spirit to shine throughout.
Ellen Gilchrist, Fayetteville,
Arkansas, teaches creative writing
at the University of Arkansas. She is
the author of several collections of
short stories and novellas including
The Cabal and Other Stories, Flights
of Angels, The Age of Miracles, The
Courts of Love, In the Land of Dreamy
Dreams, Victory Over Japan (winner
of the National Book Award in
1984), Drunk with Love, I Cannot Get
You Close Enough, and most recently,
Acts of God. Her novels include The
Anna Papers; The Annunciation; Net
of Jewels; Starcarbon; Sarah Conley;
Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior;
and I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting
with My Daddy. She is the author
of two collections of essays, Falling
through Space and The Writing Life,
both published by University Press
of Mississippi.
MAY, 144 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches,
20 b&w illustrations
Cloth $29.95T 978-1-4968-0575-1
Ebook available
Credit: Gilchrist family photos courtesy
of Ellen Gilchrist
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RELIGION | LOUISIANA | CRIMINOLOGY
MEMOIR | TRUE CRIME | LAW ENFORCEMENT
Called to Heal the
Brokenhearted
Confessions of an
Undercover Agent
WILLIAM H. BARNWELL
AFTERWORD BY JED HORNE
CHARLIE SPILLERS
Stories from Kairos Prison
Ministry International
How a ministry in the largest prison in Louisiana and
across the country transforms lives
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n this stirring book, William H.
Barnwell tells the stories of prison
inmates and the Kairos Prison
Ministry volunteers who work with
them. Set mostly at the huge Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola,
Barnwell’s narrative illustrates how
offenders who have done the worst
can and do change, becoming model
inmates and, if released, productive
citizens. The stories also reveal how
Kairos volunteers have found healing
for broken hearts.
Given that the United States
incarcerates more people per capita than any country in the world,
reformers are seeking radically new ways to reduce our prison
populations. Kairos volunteers and inmates alike have much to
contribute to the ongoing reform discussions. Now serving 300
state and federal prisons, 30,000 Kairos volunteers work with
20,000 inmates each year. They take part in long weekend retreats
with the inmates and follow up with regular prison visits. Since
its beginning in 1976, Kairos has served over 250,000 inmates.
Broad-based, nondenominational, and nonjudgmental Christian,
Kairos seeks to carry out its slogan—“listen, listen, love, love”—
among inmates who have had few to listen to them, and fewer still
to love them.
In Called to Heal the Brokenhearted are stories of undeniable
redemption. They point the way to personal transformation for
the inmates and the volunteers. One Kairos inmate speaks of the
change this way: he makes guitars out of the good wood “hidden
beneath the surface” of throwaway pianos. “I find my work incredibly fulfilling,” he says. “I see myself in every piano, discarded by
society but redeemed and put to use in a new way.”
William H. Barnwell, New Orleans, Louisiana, has worked in
Episcopal churches in South Carolina, New Orleans, and Boston
and served as the canon missioner at the Washington National
Cathedral. His books include In Richard’s World: The Battle of
Charleston, 1965 and Lead Me On, Let Me Stand: A Clergyman’s
Story in White and Black, among others. He has been involved in
prison ministry for over forty years.
APRIL, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, afterword, appendix, index
Printed casebinding $35.00T 978-1-4968-0525-6
Ebook available
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Adventures, Close Calls, and the
Toll of a Double Life
The true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime
as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally
a federal prosecutor
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his true story of an undercover
agent spans a decade of crime
fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie
Spillers dealt with a remarkable
variety of career criminals, including
heroin traffickers, safecrackers,
burglars, auto thieves, and members
of Mafia and Mexican drug smuggling operations. In this riveting
tale, the author recounts fascinating
experiences and the creative methods
he used to succeed and survive in a
difficult and sometimes extremely
dangerous underworld life.
As a young officer with the Baton Rouge Police Department,
ex-Marine Charlie Spillers first went undercover to infiltrate
criminal groups to gather intelligence. Working alone and often
unarmed, he constantly attempted to walk the thin line between
triumph and disaster. When on the hunt, his closest associates
were safecrackers, prostitutes, and burglars. His abilities propelled
him into years of undercover work inside drug trafficking rings.
But the longer he worked, the greater the risks. His final and
perhaps most significant action in Baton Rouge was leading a
battle against corruption in the police department itself.
After Baton Rouge, he joined the Mississippi Bureau of
Narcotics and for the next five years continued working undercover, from the Gulf Coast to Memphis; and from New Orleans
to Houston, Texas. He capped off a unique career by becoming a
federal prosecutor and the justice attaché for Iraq. In this book, he
shares his most intriguing exploits and exciting undercover stings,
putting readers in the middle of the action.
Charlie Spillers, Oxford, Mississippi, was an assistant US
attorney for twenty-three years, which included volunteering and
serving three tours in Iraq for the Department of Justice as the
justice attaché for Iraq and as an attorney-advisor to the Iraqi
High Tribunal. He was an adjunct professor at the University of
Mississippi and currently serves as an instructor in continuing
legal education courses.
APRIL, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 34 b&w illustrations, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-4968-0520-1
Ebook available
Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
PHOTOGRAPHY | MISSISSIPPI
Powerful first-hand witness to the
prison experience in Mississippi’s
sprawling penitentiary farm
Parchman
R. KIM RUSHING
FOREWORD BY MARK GOODMAN
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onstructed in 1904, the Mississippi State Penitentiary
at Parchman covers 20,000 acres, forty-six square miles,
in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Originally designed
like a private plantation without walls or guard towers, the
prison farm has been slowly transformed over the decades
into a modern penitentiary. In 1994, photographer R. Kim
Rushing was the first outside photographer in Parchman’s
history allowed to photograph inmates. In Parchman he offers
a glimpse of the men incarcerated in this infamous place.
Eighteen volunteer inmates, ranging in custody level from
trustee to death row, are presented through images and their own handwritten letters.
When Rushing started this work, he brought visceral, human questions. What is it like
to be an inmate in Parchman Penitentiary? What happens to an individual there? How does it
happen? How do the prisoners feel about their circumstances? What does it feel like when two
people from completely different worlds look at each other over the top of a camera?
Moving to Ruleville, Mississippi, a small town in the heart of the Delta, Rushing came
face to face with the influence of Parchman State Penitentiary. After becoming known in the
area, he was allowed to photograph inmates for almost four years. These men volunteered
and permitted him to photograph them in their cells. They even shared their written
thoughts about their lives and prison conditions. It is particularly fascinating to see the
visible change, or lack thereof, that becomes obvious when viewing portraits separated by
two or three years.
These stark, moving portraits of prisoners attest to the impact of photography. The
photos are accompanied by the prisoners’ stories, told in their own words. Together the
images and words provide the most complete understanding of Parchman ever published.
R. Kim Rushing, Cleveland, Mississippi, has taught photography at Delta State University
for twenty-three years. His photographs have appeared in numerous magazines and
newspapers, including the New York Times and Garden and Gun.
Photographs, clockwise from left: Stainless Steel Dining
Room, 1995; Jerome Spotville at Fence, 1994; Shank board,
1995; Breakfast, 1996; all photographs
by R. Kim Rushing
JUNE, 208 pages (approx.), 10 x 10 inches, 125 b&w photographs, foreword
Cloth $50.00T 978-1-4968-0651-2
Ebook available
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BIOGRAPHY | MUSIC | POPULAR CULTURE
MUSIC | SOUTHERN STATES | FOLKLORE
Godfather of the
Music Business
Bars, Blues, and Booze
Morris Levy
Stories from the Drink House
EMILY D. EDWARDS
RICHARD CARLIN
The incredible story of the cofounder of Birdland, a force in
jazz and pop, and one of music’s last great hustlers
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his biography tells the story of
one of the most notorious figures
in the history of popular music,
Morris Levy (1927–1990). At age
nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub
Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, which
became the home for a new musical
style, bebop. Levy operated one of the
first integrated clubs on Broadway
and helped build the careers of Dizzy
Gillespie and Bud Powell and most
notably aided the reemergence of
Count Basie. In 1957, he founded
a record label, Roulette Records.
Roulette featured many of the significant jazz artists who played
Birdland but also scored top pop hits with acts like Buddy Knox,
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Joey Dee and the Starliters,
and, in the mid-1960s, Tommy James.
Stories abound of Levy threatening artists, songwriters,
and producers, sometimes just for the sport, other times so he
could continue to build his empire. Along the way, Levy attracted
“investors” with ties to the Mafia, including Dominic Ciaffone
(a.k.a. “Swats” Mulligan), Tommy Eboli, and the most notorious of
them all, Vincent Gigante. Gigante allegedly owned large pieces of
Levy’s recording and retail businesses.
Starting in the late 1950s, the FBI and IRS investigated
Levy but could not make anything stick until the early 1980s,
when Levy foolishly got involved in a deal to sell remaindered
records to a small-time reseller, John LaMonte. With partners
in the mob, Levy tried to force LaMonte to pay for four million
remaindered records. When the FBI secretly wiretapped LaMonte
in an unrelated investigation and agents learned about the deal,
investigators successfully prosecuted Levy in the extortion
scheme. Convicted in 1988, Levy did not live to serve prison
time. Stricken with cancer, he died just as his last appeals were
exhausted. However, even if he had lived, Levy’s brand of storied
high life was effectively bust. Corporate ownership of record labels
doomed most independents in the business, ending the days when
a savvy if ruthless hustler could blaze a path to the top.
Richard Carlin, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, is the author of several
books on popular music, including Worlds of Sound: The Story of
Smithsonian Folkways and Country Music: The People, Places, and
Moments That Shaped the Country Style. He also coedited “Ain’t
Nothing But the Real Thing”: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment and edited the eight-volume series America’s
Popular Music.
True accounts from musicians, bar owners, and
regulars at the crossroads of good times and despair
B
ars, Blues, and Booze collects lively
bar tales from the intersection of
black and white musical cultures in
the South. Many of these stories do
not seem dignified, decent, or filled
with uplifting euphoria, but they are
real narratives of people who worked
hard with their hands during the
week to celebrate the weekend with
music and mind-altering substances.
These are stories of musicians who
may not be famous celebrities but
are men and women deeply occupied
with their craft—professional musicians stuck with a day job.
The collection also includes stories from fans and bar owners,
people vital to shaping a local music scene. The stories explore
the “crossroads,” that intoxicated intersection of spirituality, race,
and music that forms a rich, southern vernacular. In personal
narratives, musicians and partygoers relate tales of narrow escape
(almost getting busted by the law while transporting moonshine),
of desperate poverty (rat-infested kitchens and repossessed cars),
of magic (hiring a root doctor to make a charm), and loss (death
or incarceration). Here are stories of defiant miscegenation, of
forgetting race and going out to eat together after a jam, and then
not being served. Assorted boasts of improbable hijinks give the
“blue collar” musician a wild, gritty glamour and emphasize the
riotous freedom of their fans, who sometimes risk the strong arm
of southern liquor laws in order to chase the good times.
Emily D. Edwards, Greensboro, North Carolina, is a professor of
media studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
She is also an independent filmmaker, whose work includes the
documentary Deadheads: An America Subculture, which is distributed nationally on PBS stations, and two feature films with blues
music scores, Root Doctor and Bone Creek.
MAY, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 65 b&w illustrations, filmography,
bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-4968-0639-0
Ebook available
American Made Music Series
MARCH, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 40 b&w illustrations, bibliography,
index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-4968-0570-6
Ebook available
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MUSIC | JAZZ | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Listen to This
Miles Davis and “Bitches Brew”
POPULAR CULTURE | AMERICAN HISTORY
New in
paperback
VICTOR SVORINICH
The first close critical treatment of the album that shook
jazz with its electric sound and rock-influenced style
“No fan of Davis or student of
contemporary jazz should skip this
penetrating and fast-reading take on
an album that still, forty-five years
after its release, gives us much to
contemplate.”
—Matt Lohr, JazzTimes
“The book is peppered with interesting facts. . . . Many pages are devoted
to the impact of Bitches Brew on Miles
Davis’s subsequent career (right
up to his final decade) and on the
musicians involved, including Wayne
Shorter, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, and Bennie
Maupin. Also included are many photographs and transcriptions,
plus reproductions of letters, memos, adverts, and session logs
that make for fascinating reading. This is a strong contender for
jazz book of the year.”
—George Cole, Jazzwise
“Svorinich’s well-written, balanced account of Davis’s journey up
to and beyond Bitches Brew will appeal not only to Davis converts
but to any serious music fan interested in the development of
twentieth-century popular music.”
—Ian Patterson, AllAboutJazz.com
“With precision, laser-like focus, writer Victor Svorinich zooms
in on the events leading up to the recording of a jazz-fusion
landmark in Listen to This: Miles Davis and “Bitches Brew.” Incorporating revealing testimony from pinnacle players culled from liner
notes, previously published magazine articles, and interviews he
conducted for this project, Svorinich runs down (in excruciating
detail) the three days of recording that culminated in Davis’s
first gold record while providing insightful annotation of each
individual track.”
—Bill Milkowski, DownBeat
Victor Svorinich (D.Litt, Drew), Whippany, New Jersey, is a music faculty member at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, and
owner of the Guitar Academy. His published work includes Electric
Miles: A Look at the “In a Silent Way” and “On the Corner” Sessions.
MARCH, 202 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 15 b&w illustrations, 22 musical examples,
bibliography, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0782-3
Ebook available
Three Years in Wonderland
The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the
Making of the Great American Theme Park
TODD JAMES PIERCE
The story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised
third wheel in the creation of America’s iconic theme park
W
hile the success of Disneyland
is largely credited to Walt and
Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly
forgotten dynamo instrumental to
the development of the park—fasttalking Texan C. V. Wood. Three
Years in Wonderland presents the
never- before-told, full story of “the
happiest place on earth.” Using
information from over one hundred
unpublished interviews, Todd James
Pierce lays down the arc of Disneyland’s development from an idea to a
paragon of entertainment.
In the early 1950s, the Disney brothers hired Wood and his
team to develop a feasibility study for an amusement park Walt
wanted to build in southern California. “Woody” quickly became
a central figure. In 1954, Roy Disney hired him as Disneyland’s
first official employee, its first general manager, and appointed
him vice president of Disneyland, Inc., where his authority was
exceeded only by Walt. A brilliant project manager, Wood was
also a con man of sorts. Previously, he had forged his university
diploma. A smooth-talker and a man drawn to dirty jokes, the
executive valued money over art. As relations soured between
Wood and the Disney brothers, Wood began to extort lessees and
leverage his position for personal aggrandizement. Eventually, he
committed his most serious crime: arson.
In compelling detail, Three Years in Wonderland lays out the
struggles and rewards of building the world’s first cinematic
theme park and convincing the American public that a $17 million
amusement park was the ideal place for a family vacation. The early
experience of Walt Disney, Roy Disney, and C. V. Wood is one of the
most captivating untold stories in the history of Hollywood. Pierce
interviewed dozens of individuals who enjoyed long careers at the
Walt Disney Company as well as dozens of individuals who—like
C. V. Wood—helped develop the park but then left the company
for good once the park was finished. Through much research and
many interviews, Three Years in Wonderland offers readers a rare
opportunity to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the men and
women who built the best-known theme park in the world.
Todd James Pierce, Orcutt, California, is the author of three
previous books, including Newsworld, which won the Drue Heinz
Literature Prize. His work has appeared in over seventy magazines
and journals, including the Harvard Review and the North American Review. He is a professor of literature at Cal Poly University in
San Luis Obispo, California.
MARCH, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, index
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-62846-241-8
Ebook available
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BIOGRAPHY | MISSISSIPPI | POLITICS
BIOGRAPHY | CIVIL RIGHTS | WOMEN’S STUDIES
Big Jim Eastland
Delta Rainbow
J. LEE ANNIS JR.
SALLY PALMER THOMASON
WITH JEAN CARTER FISHER
The Godfather of Mississippi
The biography of a powerful Mississippi senator
rife with contradictions
F
or decades after the Second World
War, Senator James O. Eastland
(1904–1986) was one of the more
intransigent leaders of the Deep
South’s resistance to what he called
“the Second Reconstruction.” And yet
he developed, late in his life, a very
real friendship with state NAACP
chair Aaron Henry. Big Jim Eastland
provides the life story of this savvy,
unpredictable powerhouse.
From 1947 to 1978, Eastland
wore that image of resistance
proudly, even while recognizing from
the beginning his was the losing side. Biographer J. Lee Annis
Jr. chronicles such complexities extensively and also delves into
many facets lesser known to the general public.
Born in the Mississippi Delta as part of the elite planter
class, Eastland was appointed to the US Senate in 1941 by Democratic Governor Paul B. Johnson Sr. Eastland ran for and won the
Senate seat outright in 1942 and served in the Senate from 1943
until his retirement in 1978.
A blunt man of few words but many contradictions, Eastland
was an important player in Washington, from his initial stint in
1941 where he rapidly salvaged several key local projects from
bungling intervention, to the 1970s when he shepherded the
Supreme Court nominees of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
to Senate confirmation. Annis paints a full picture of the man,
describing the objections Eastland raised to civil rights proposals
and the eventual accommodations he needed to accept after the
passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
J. Lee Annis Jr., Silver Spring, Maryland, has taught history at
Montgomery College for the past thirty years. He is the author
of Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crisis, and, with Senator
William H. Frist, the coauthor of Tennessee Senators, 1911–2001:
Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change. He is currently
chairman of the History and Political Science Department at the
Rockville campus of Montgomery College.
AUGUST, 400 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 25 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-4968-0614-7
Ebook available
The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson
The story of a plantation heiress who threw aside
convention, joined the Marines, and fought for civil rights
B
etty Bobo Pearson (b. 1922),
a seventh- generation, plantation-born Mississippian, defied
her cultural heritage—and caused
great personal pain for her parents
and herself—when she became an
activist in the civil rights movement.
Never fearing to break the mold in
her search for the “best,” she, in her
ninety-third year, remains a strong,
effective leader with a fun-loving,
generous spirit.
When Betty was eighteen
months old, a train smashed into the
car her mother was driving, killing Betty’s beloved grandfather and
severely injuring her grandmother. Thrown onto the engine’s cow
catcher, Betty lived and did not remember the accident. She did,
however, grow up to fulfill her grandmother’s prediction: “Betty,
God reached down and plucked you from in front of that train
because he has something very special he wants you to do with
your life.”
In 1943, twenty-one-year-old Betty, soon to graduate from
the University of Mississippi, received a full tuition scholarship to
Columbia Graduate School in New York City. Ecstatic, she rushed
home to tell her parents. “ABSOLUTELY NOT. There is no way I’ll
allow my daughter to live in Yankee Land,” her father replied. After
fierce argument and much door slamming, Betty could not defy
her father. But she had to show him she was her own person. Her
nation was at war—so Betty joined the Marines.
After the war, Betty married Bill Pearson and became mistress
of Rainbow Plantation in the Delta. In 1955, she attended the
Emmett Till trial (accompanied by her close friend and budding
civil rights activist Florence Mars) and was shocked by the virulent
degree of racism she witnessed there. Seeing her world in a new
way, she became a courageous and dedicated supporter of the
civil rights movement. Her activities severely fractured her close
relationship with her parents. Yet, as a warm friend and bold,
persuasive leader, Betty made an indelible mark in her church, in
the Delta communities, in the lives of the people she employed,
and in her beautiful garden at Rainbow.
Sally Palmer Thomason, Memphis, Tennessee, was born,
raised, and educated in California but has lived in Memphis over
fifty years. She retired as the dean of continuing and corporate
education at Rhodes College and has authored three books.
JUNE, 144 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 35 b&w illustrations, index
Cloth $26.00T 978-1-4968-0664-2
Ebook available
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NATURE | OUTDOORS | HUNTING & FISHING
AUTOBIOGRAPHY | CIVIL RIGHTS | RACE RELATIONS
Deeper Currents
My Triumph over Prejudice
DONALD C. JACKSON
MARTHA WYATTROSSIGNOL
A spirited exploration of the blessings manifest in
all wild places
A first-person account from a black Mississippian
navigating the tumultuous civil rights era and its
aftermath
The Sacraments of Hunting and Fishing
I
n Deeper Currents, Donald C.
Jackson guides us on a journey
into the cathedrals of wild and
lonely places, those sacred spaces
where hunters and fishers connect
with the rhythms of the earth and
the spirit that resonates within us.
Jackson explores hunting and fishing
as frameworks—sacraments—for
discovering, engaging, and finding
meaning. He invites readers to
consider connections with wilder
realms of being.
Hunting squirrels on an autumn
morning, probing the woods, rifle in hand, Jackson reveals an
attention to nature too often neglected. Following a bird dog into
the damp and mysterious places where woodcock settle on their
southbound migrations; chasing hounds on the trail of raccoons
on a frosty winter night; stalking deer in a quiet corner of a small
farm; fishing for carp in a creek, bass and bluegill in ponds, catfish
in a murky river, and reef fish in the Gulf, Jackson reminds that
we are stewards of not only resources but also a past that defines
us as hunters and fishers. We must pass this legacy along to the
generations that follow.
In Deeper Currents, tractors and old barns find a place in the
reader’s heart. Boats and canoes navigate realms of danger and
dreams. Jackson shares outdoor pilgrimages with good friends
in cabins, tents, camps, and old trailers tucked beyond the reach
of a rushing world. He rejoices in the whisper of stiff wings as
ducks come to decoys, the call of geese and cranes over tidal flats,
the hush before a storm, the muffled snap of a twig at twilight,
a drop of dew falling on the surface of a pond, and the clicking
of caribou hooves on an Alaskan gravel bar. Jackson finds these
natural moments fill us with energy. They remind us that we are
taking part in a sacred heritage and that creation is unfolding all
around us.
Donald C. Jackson, Starkville, Mississippi, is the Sharp
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Fisheries at Mississippi State
University. He served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia,
attended Lexington Theological Seminary, and was pastor of
New Liberty Christian Church, Disciples of Christ. He is a past
president of the Mississippi Wildlife Federation and the American
Fisheries Society. An avid duck hunter and fisherman, he is the
author of Tracks and Wilder Ways, both published by University
Press of Mississippi.
A Memoir
M
y Triumph over Prejudice is the
autobiography of a black girl
growing up in Mississippi during
the civil rights era. Born in 1949,
Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age
during some of the most crucial and
dangerous years of the civil rights
movement. She examines those
years and what happened when
the movement upended her small
town of Fayette. She describes the
conditions under which blacks lived
during segregation and how those
oppressive rules changed, despite
massive resistance from whites.
Wyatt-Rossignol faced racial hatred when she was chosen
for an early school desegregation program. Her failed marriage to
an African American led to her dating and later wedding a white
man, a civil rights worker from the North, to whom she is still
married. That union sparked disapproval from both the white and
black communities, revealing entrenched complexities of race and
racism in her hometown.
Her story also follows the politics of that volatile era in a local
context. Black politicians, helped by national civil rights figures,
assumed more power and began improving life for all races in this
rural area. Then came a betrayal felt by many blacks as these key
figures overreached their authority and started pursuing their own
selfish agendas. An intimate, revealing portrait of Charles Evers,
the first black mayor of Fayette and brother of Medgar Evers, is
included in this section. The memoir goes on to portray how the
author learned to hate whites as a result of her experiences and
how she later overcame that animosity. Wyatt-Rossignol’s story
concludes with her move out of Mississippi to the island of Bermuda, where she encounters a very different racial environment.
Martha Wyatt-Rossignol, Manchester, New Hampshire, was
raised in a large rural family in Jefferson County, Mississippi,
coming of age during the turbulent years of the civil rights
movement. She has two daughters, three grandchildren, and one
great-grandson.
APRIL, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-4968-0603-1
Ebook available
MARCH, 239 pages, 6 x 9 inches
Cloth $26.00T 978-1-4968-0530-0
Ebook available
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GENEALOGY | HISTORY | LOUISIANA
LOUISIANA | HISTORY | BIOGRAPHY
City of Remembering
Win the Race or Die Trying
SUSAN TUCKER
JACK B. MCGUIRE
A look at the passionate pursuits intersecting family
and public histories
How one of the last Louisiana Longs escaped a mental
institution and died after winning election to Congress
A History of Genealogy in New Orleans
C
ity of Remembering represents a rich
testament to the persistence of a
passionate form of public history. In
exploring one particular community
of family historians in New Orleans,
Susan Tucker reveals how genealogists
elevate a sort of subterranean foundation of the city—sepia photographs of
the Vieux Carré, sturdy pages of birth
registrations from St. Louis Cathedral,
small scraps of the earliest French
Superior Council records, elegant
and weighty leaves of papers used by
notaries, and ledgers from the judicial
deliberations of the Illustrious Spanish Cabildo. They also explore
coded letters left by mistake, accounts carried over oceans, and gentle prods of dying children to be counted and thus to be remembered.
Most of all, the family historians speak of continual beginnings, both
in the genesis of their own research processes, but also of American
dreams that value the worth of every individual life.
The author, an archivist who has worked for over thirty years
asking questions about how records figure in the lives of individuals
and cultures, also presents a national picture of genealogy’s origins,
uses, changing forms, and purposes. Tucker examines both the
past and the present and draws from oral history interviews,
ethnographic fieldwork, and archival research. Illustrations come
from individuals, archives, and libraries in New Orleans; Richmond;
Washington, DC; and Salt Lake City, as well as Massachusetts and
Wisconsin, demonstrating the contrasts between regions and how
those practitioners approach their work in each setting. Ultimately,
Tucker shows that genealogy is more than simply tracing lineage—
the pursuit becomes a fascinating window into people, neighborhoods, and the daily life of those individuals who came before us.
Susan Tucker, New Orleans, Louisiana, wrote Telling Memories
among Southern Women, which remains a classic introduction to oral
history and household employment. She has also edited other books
on material culture and women’s education, including The Scrapbook
in American Life (edited with Katherine Ott and Patricia Buckler)
and New Orleans Cuisine from University Press of Mississippi.
MAY, 224 pages (approx.), 7 x 10 inches, 128 b&w and color illustrations,
bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-4968-0621-5
Ebook available
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Uncle Earl’s Last Hurrah
E
arl Kemp Long (1895–1960) was
the political heir to his brother
Huey in Louisiana politics. A country
boy who never lost his common
touch, he ran for office in every state
election between 1933 and 1959. He
was the best campaigning politician
Louisiana ever produced. In his
final term as governor, he suffered a
breakdown on live television while
addressing members of the legislature. He was kidnapped and committed to mental institutions in Texas
and Louisiana. That he engineered his
own release gives proof that he was in charge of his faculties.
Abandoned by his family and his allies, Long was written off
politically. But in 1960, Earl had other ideas. He was plotting his
comeback. In poor health, smoking and drinking, Earl decided
to challenge the incumbent in Louisiana’s Eighth Congressional
District, Harold McSween. Doctors warned him that the race could
cost him his life. But politics was his life and he vowed to win the
election or die trying. He did both.
This book tells the story of the last year of Long’s life and the
campaign that he waged and won by sheer force of will. He won
the election (and a sizable bet he placed on it) but was dead in just
over a week. Win the Race or Die Trying captures the essence of Earl
Long by chronicling the desperate, death-defying campaign he
waged to redefine his legacy.
Jack B. McGuire, Mandeville, Louisiana, is the coauthor of
Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers, published by
University Press of Mississippi, and his work has appeared in
Louisiana History. He served as special assistant to the mayor of
New Orleans, press secretary to the mayor, and director of public
relations from 1964 to 1970, as well as a councilman-at-large for the
city of Mandeville from 1984 to 2000. For the past forty-two years,
he has been an officer of Union Savings and Loan Association.
AUGUST, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 32 b&w illustrations, bibliography,
index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-4968-0763-2
Ebook available
NATURE | LOUISIANA | HUNTING & FISHING
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY | AMERICAN HISTORY | SOUTHERN STATES
Chenier Plain
The Natchez Indians
RICHARD B. CROWELL
FOREWORD BY JACQUES L. WIENER JR.
JAMES F. BARNETT JR.
The lushly illustrated story of a true sportsman’s
paradise
R
ichard B. Crowell chronicles
the history and economic
development of a region in southwest
Louisiana defined by unique geologic
formations and distinguished by its
position beneath the Mississippi
flyway. Crowell traces the evolution
of this region’s well-known sport
hunting legacy, creating the first
comprehensive narrative history of
the area, from 1800 to today.
In Chenier Plain, the author takes
a fresh look at the decline of French
and Spanish influence in coastal
Louisiana and investigates an isolated
region struggling to find its place against inhospitable conditions
following the Civil War. Less than a decade after Reconstruction,
Jabez Bunting Watkins, financed by an English syndicate, began
developing this remote region through tenacity and aggressive
business practices. Crowell tells this story of economic development, weaving it together with personal tragedies and natural
history. In chronicling the Chenier Plain’s transition from a center
of market hunting to one of sport hunting. Crowell draws together over 140 illustrations. He highlights the opportunistic land
purchases by a US president, British and American businessmen,
a university president, and an illiterate French-speaking Acadian
whose property became the nexus of The Coastal Club, the oldest
hunting lodge in the geographic region.
These events, combined with the background of six hunting
clubs established before 1929 and modern methods of waterfowl
habitat conservation, illustrate how inextricably linked sport
hunting is to the life and preservation of this remote Louisiana
world of ridges and marsh.
After forty-five years as a partner, Richard B. Crowell, Alexandra, Louisiana, has retired from the law firm of Crowell and
Owens, but he continues to serve on the boards of numerous
corporations and NGOs focused on economic development,
cultural enrichment, and wildlife conservation. He and his wife,
Beck, live in Alexandria.
A History to 1735
New in
paperback
The most complete and detailed examination of a
vanished tribe
T
he Natchez Indians: A History to
1735 is the story of the Natchez
Indians as revealed through accounts
of Spanish, English, and French
explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and
colonists, and in the archaeological
record. Because of their strategic
location on the Mississippi River,
the Natchez Indians played a crucial
part in the European struggle for
control of the Lower Mississippi
Valley. The book begins with the brief
confrontation between the Hernando
de Soto expedition and the powerful
Quigualtam chiefdom, presumed ancestors of the Natchez. In
the late seventeenth century René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle’s
expedition met the Natchez and initiated sustained European
encroachment, exposing the tribe to sickness and the dangers of
the Indian slave trade.
The Natchez Indians portrays the way that the Natchez coped
with a rapidly changing world, became entangled with the political
ambitions of two European superpowers, France and England,
and eventually disappeared as a people. The author examines the
shifting relationships among the tribe’s settlement districts and
the settlement districts’ relationships with neighboring tribes
and with the Europeans. The establishment of a French fort
and burgeoning agricultural colony in their midst signaled the
beginning of the end for the Natchez people. Barnett has written
the most complete and detailed history of the Natchez to date.
James F. Barnett Jr., Natchez, Mississippi, was director of the
division of historic properties at the Mississippi Department
of Archives and History in Natchez. He is also the author of
Mississippi’s American Indians, also published by University Press
of Mississippi.
MARCH, 224 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 10 maps, bibliography, index
Paper $28.00T 978-1-4968-0786-1
Ebook available
AVAILABLE, 280 pages (approx.), 7 x 10 inches, 150 color/b&w illustrations
and maps, foreword, afterword, appendix, bibliography, index
Cloth $34.95T 978-1-4968-0694-9
Ebook available
Distributed for Roseau Company, LLC
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DISASTERS | MEMOIRS | SOUTHERN STATES
Under Surge,
Under Siege
CIVIL RIGHTS | SOUTHERN STATES | RACE RELATIONS
New in
paperback
The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis
and Katrina
Wednesdays in
Mississippi
New in
paperback
Proper Ladies Working for Radical
Change, Freedom Summer 1964
ELLIS ANDERSON
DEBBIE Z. HARWELL
A survivor’s tale of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction and a
community’s enduring determination
The story of brave women who met to build bridges between
the races and end segregation
W
inner of the 2010 Eudora Welty
Book Prize and the Mississippi
Library Association’s Nonfiction
Author’s Award for 2011, Under
Surge, Under Siege shows how
Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St.
Louis, Mississippi, raking away lives,
buildings, and livelihoods in a place
known for its picturesque, coastal
views; its laid-back, artsy downtown;
and its deep-dyed southern cordiality.
The tragedy also revealed the inner
workings of a community with an
indomitable heart and profound
neighborly bonds. Those connections often brought out the best
in people under the worst of circumstances. In Under Surge, Under
Siege, Ellis Anderson, who rode out the storm in her Bay St. Louis
home and sheltered many neighbors afterwards, offers stories
of generosity, heroism, and laughter in the midst of terror and
desperate uncertainty.
Divided into two parts, this book invites readers into the
intimate enclave before, during, and after the storm. “Under Surge”
focuses on connections between residents and demonstrates
how those bonds sustained them through the worst hurricane in
US history. “Under Siege” documents the first three years of the
grinding aftermath, detailing the unforeseen burdens of stress and
depression, insurance scandals, and opportunists that threatened to
complete the annihilation of the plucky town.
A blend of memoir, personal diary, and firsthand reportage,
Under Surge, Under Siege creates a compelling American testament to
the strength of the human spirit.
Ellis Anderson, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, received a Mississippi
Arts Commission Literary Fellowship for portions of this book. An
excerpt appeared in Southern Cultures.
AVAILABLE, 240 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 50 b&w illustrations
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0774-8
Ebook available
A
s tensions mounted before Freedom Summer, one organization
tackled the divide by opening lines of
communication at the request of local
women: Wednesdays in Mississippi
(WIMS). Employing an unusual and
deliberately feminine approach,
WIMS brought interracial, interfaith
teams of northern middle-aged,
middle- and upper-class women to
Mississippi to meet with their southern counterparts. Sponsored by the
National Council of Negro Women
(NCNW), WIMS operated on the
belief that the northern participants’ gender, age, and class would
serve as an entrée to southerners who had dismissed other civil
rights activists as radicals. The WIMS teams’ respectable appearance and quiet approach enabled them to build understanding
across race, region, and religion where other overtures had failed.
The only civil rights program created for women by women
as part of a national organization, WIMS offers a new paradigm
through which to study civil rights activism, challenging the
stereotype of Freedom Summer activists as young student radicals
and demonstrating the effectiveness of the subtle approach taken
by “proper ladies.” The book delves into the motivations for women’s civil rights activism and the role religion played in influencing
supporters and opponents of the civil rights movement. Lastly, it
confirms that the NCNW actively worked for integration and black
voting rights while also addressing education, poverty, hunger,
housing, and employment as civil rights issues.
After successful efforts in 1964 and 1965, WIMS became
Workshops in Mississippi, which strove to alleviate the specific
needs of poor women. Projects that grew from these efforts still
operate today.
Debbie Z. Harwell, Kingwood, Texas, teaches in the Honors
College at the University of Houston and serves as the managing
editor of Houston History. Her work has appeared in the Journal of
Southern History.
MARCH, 257 pages, 6 x 9 inches, appendix, bibliography, index
Paper $25.00S 978-1-4968-0795-3
Ebook available
WINNER of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern
Association for Women Historians for the best published book
in southern women’s history
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CIVIL RIGHTS | HISTORY | MISSISSIPPI
So the Heffners Left McComb
HODDING CARTER II
PREFACE BY OLIVER EMMERICH
INTRODUCTION TO NEW EDITION BY
TRENT BROWN
The shocking tale of a white McComb family ostracized and
devastated after breaking bread with civil rights workers
O
n Saturday, September 5, 1964,
the family of Albert W. “Red”
Heffner Jr., a successful insurance
agent, left their house at 202 Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi,
where they had lived for ten years.
They never returned. In the eyes
of neighbors, their unforgiveable
sin was to have spoken on several
occasions with civil rights workers
and to have invited two into their
home. Consequently, the Heffners
were subjected to a campaign
of harassment, ostracism, and
economic retaliation shocking to a white family that believed that
they were respected community members.
So the Heffners Left McComb, originally published in 1965 and
reprinted now for the first time, is Greenville journalist Hodding
Carter’s account of the events that led to the Heffners’ downfall.
Historian Trent Brown, a McComb native, supplies a substantial
introduction evaluating the book’s significance. The Heffners’
story demonstrates the forces of fear, conformity, communal
pressure, and threats of retaliation that silenced so many white
Mississippians during the 1950s and 1960s. Carter’s book
provides a valuable portrait of a family that was not choosing to
make a stand, but merely extending humane hospitality. Yet the
Heffners were systematically punished and driven into exile for
what was perceived as treason against white apartheid.
ANNOUNCING
Civil Rights in
Mississippi Series
TRENT BROWN, SERIES EDITOR
A
s the nation recognizes the fiftieth anniversaries of key events
related to the civil rights movement, series editor Trent
Brown helps readers rediscover previously out-of-print books
written during one of the most tumultuous periods in US history.
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Series features books written from
the epicenter of the civil rights movement, documenting the
struggles many African Americans and civil rights workers faced as
they fought for an end to racial discrimination. The series focuses
primarily on Mississippi during the 1960s, looking closely at the
civil rights efforts of those years as well as important figures and
events of the movement.
Books included in the series, like So the Heffners Left McComb,
by noted Mississippi journalist Hodding Carter II, focus on
personal narratives while others will present first-hand documents
of the civil rights movement that allow readers a glimpse of life in
Mississippi during civil rights’ most crucial moments.
The series showcases the tense relationship between the civil
rights movement of the 1960s and a South refusing to change.
It offers readers important insight into one of the most pivotal
social movements in US history as well as a nuanced examination
of the South, its culture, and its people. The voices reprinted will
illuminate a period which shaped not only the South, but the
country, and their rediscovery allows readers to explore this vital
moment in history.
Hodding Carter II (1907–1972) was a prominent journalist and
author. He was awarded the Niemen Fellowship from Harvard
University and the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for his editorials. Author
of over fifteen books, he is remembered for his outspoken
progressive political views following World War II. Trent Brown,
Rolla, Missouri, is associate professor of American studies at the
Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the author
of three books including, with Ed King, Ed King’s Mississippi:
Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer, published by University
Press of Mississippi.
JUNE, 176 pages (approx.), 5½ x 8¼ inches, preface, introduction
Printed casebinding $85.00S 978-1-4968-0748-9
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0747-2
Ebook available
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U N I V E R SI T Y PR E S S OF MI S S I S S I PPI
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BIOGRAPHY | FILM STUDIES
Van Johnson
New in
paperback
MGM’s Golden Boy
RONALD L. DAVIS
The only full-length biography of this immensely popular
screen star of the 1940s and 1950s
V
an Johnson’s dazzling smile, shock
of red hair, and suntanned freckled
cheeks made him a movie-star icon.
Among teenage girls in the 1940s,
he rose to great popularity as the
bobbysoxer’s heartthrob.
Johnson (1916–2008) won the
nation’s heart, too, by appearing in
a series of blockbuster war films—A
Guy Named Joe, Thirty Seconds over
Tokyo, Weekend at the Waldorf, and
Battleground. Perennially a leading
man opposite June Allyson, Esther
Williams, Judy Garland, and Janet
Leigh, he rose to fame radiating the sunshine image Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer chose for him, that of an affable, wholesome boynext-door. Legions of adoring moviegoers were captivated by this
idealized persona that generated huge box-office profits for the
studio.
However, Johnson’s off-screen life was not so sunny. His
mother had rejected him in childhood, and he lived his adulthood
dealing with sexual ambivalence. A marriage was arranged with
the ex-wife of his best friend, the actor Keenan Wynn. During the
waning years of Hollywood’s Golden Age, she and Johnson lived
amid the glow of Hollywood’s A-crowd. Yet their private life was
charged with tension and conflict.
Although morose and reclusive by nature, Johnson maintained
a happy-go-lucky facade even among co-workers, who knew him
as a congenial, dedicated professional. Once free of the golden-boy
stereotype, he became a respected actor assigned stellar roles in
such acclaimed films as State of the Union, Command Decision, The
Last Time I Saw Paris, and The Caine Mutiny.
With the demise of the big studios, Johnson returned to the
stage, where he had begun his career as a song-and-dance man.
After this he appeared frequently in television shows, performed
in nightclubs, and became the legendary darling of older audiences
on the dinner playhouse circuit. Johnson (1916–2008) spent his
post-Hollywood years living in solitude in New York City.
This solid, thoroughly researched biography traces the career
and influence of a favorite star and narrates a fascinating, sometimes troubled life story.
Sitting Pretty
The Life and Times of Clifton Webb
New in
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CLIFTON WEBB
WITH DAVID L. SMITH
FOREWORD BY ROBERT WAGNER
The autobiography of one of the top moneymakers in the
history of Twentieth Century-Fox
M
ore than any other male movie
star, the refined Clifton Webb
(1889–1966) caused the movie-going
public to change its image of a
leading man. In a day when leading
men were supposed to be strong,
virile, and brave, Webb projected
an image of flip, acerbic arrogance.
He was able to play everything
from a decadent columnist (Laura)
to a fertile father (Cheaper by the
Dozen and The Remarkable Mr.
Pennypacker), delivering lines in an
urbanely clipped, acidly dry manner
with impeccable timing. Sitting Pretty is his remarkable story.
Long before his film career began, Webb was a child actor and
later a suavely effete song-and-dance man in numerous Broadway
musicals and revues. The turning point in his career came in
1941 when his good friend Noël Coward cast him in Blithe Spirit.
Director Otto Preminger saw Webb’s performance and cast him
in Laura in 1944.
Webb began to write his autobiography but said he eventually had gotten “bogged down” in the process. However, he did
complete six chapters and left a hefty collection of notes that
he intended to use in the proposed book. His writing is as witty
and sophisticated as his onscreen persona. Those six chapters,
information and voluminous notes, and personal research by the
coauthor provide an intimate view of an amazingly talented man’s
life and times.
David L. Smith, Fishers, Indiana, is professor emeritus of
telecommunications at Ball State University. He is the author
of Hoosiers in Hollywood and has published in Films of the Golden
Age and Classic Images.
MARCH, 256 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 55 b&w illustrations, appendix, filmography,
bibliography, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0798-4
Ebook available
Ronald L. Davis, Wimberley, Texas, is the author of Hollywood
Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream; John Ford: Hollywood’s
Old Master; and Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne.
AVAILABLE, 280 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 18 b&w illustrations, filmography, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0385-6
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Mary Wickes
I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before
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STEVE TARAVELLA
The full story of one of Hollywood’s most accomplished
character actresses
M
oviegoers know her as the
housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and
the crotchety choir director in Sister
Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from
Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles
the life of a complicated woman who
brought an assortment of unforgettable nurses, nuns, and housekeepers
to life on screen and stage.
Mary Wickes (1910–1995) was
part of some of the most significant
moments in film, television, theatre,
and radio history. On that frightening night in 1938 when Orson
Welles recorded his earth-shattering “War of the Worlds” radio
broadcast, Wickes was waiting on another soundstage for him for
a rehearsal of Danton’s Death, oblivious to the havoc taking place
outside.
When silent film star Gloria Swanson decided to host a
live talk show on this new thing called television, Wickes was
one of her first guests. When Lucille Ball made one of her first
TV appearances, Wickes appeared with her—and became Lucy’s
closest friend for more than thirty years. Wickes was the original
Mary Poppins, long before an umbrella carried Julie Andrews
across the rooftops of London. And when Disney began creating
101 Dalmatians, Wickes was asked to pose for animators trying to
capture the evil of Cruella De Vil.
The pinched-face actress who cracked wise by day became a
confidante to some of the day’s biggest stars by night, including
Bette Davis and Doris Day. Bolstered by interviews with almost
three hundred people and by private correspondence from Ball,
Davis, Day, and others, Mary Wickes: I Know I’ve Seen That Face
Before includes scores of never-before-shared anecdotes about
Hollywood and Broadway. In the process, it introduces readers to a
complex woman who sustained a remarkable career for sixty years.
Steve Taravella, Silver Spring, Maryland, and Rome, Italy, is
a longtime journalist and communications specialist. He has
received eleven writing awards, including the Dag Hammarksjold
Award for Human Rights Advocacy in Journalism and the Society
of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Award.
MARCH, 370 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 54 b&w photographs, filmography, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0785-4
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Forever Mame
The Life of Rosalind Russell
Bernard F. Dick
Paper $25.00T 978-1-60473-962-6
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Joan Blondell
A Life between Takes
Matthew Kennedy
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-181-7
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Beyond Paradise
The Life of Ramon Novarro
André Soares
Foreword by Anthony Slide
Paper $25.00T 978-1-60473-457-7
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Marilyn Monroe
A Life of the Actress,
Revised and Updated
Carl Rollyson
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Zachary Scott
Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad
Ronald L. Davis
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The Search for
Sam Goldwyn
Carol Easton
Foreword by Carl Rollyson
Paper $28.00T 978-1-61703-999-7
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Bertrand Tavernier
John Cassavetes
EDITED BY LYNN A. HIGGINS
AND T. JEFFERSON KLINE
EDITED BY GABRIELLA OLDHAM
Interviews
“I believe that every artist and intellectual has a moral
responsibility to be faithful both to his characters and to
his art; to tell the truth.”
B
ertrand Tavernier (b. 1941)
is widely considered to be the
leading light in a generation of French
filmmakers who launched their careers
in the 1970s, in the wake of the New
Wave. In just over forty years, he has
directed twenty-two feature films
in an eclectic range of genres, from
intimate family portrait to historical
drama and neo-Western. Beginning
with his debut feature—L’Horloger
de Saint-Paul (1974), which won the
prestigious Louis Delluc prize—Tavernier has shown himself to be a public
intellectual. Like his films, he is deeply engaged with the pressing
issues facing France and the world: the consequences of war, colonialism and its continuing aftermath, the price of heroism, and the
power of art. A voracious cinephile, he is immensely knowledgeable
about world cinema and American film in particular. Tavernier’s
roots are in Lyon, the birthplace of the cinema. He founded and
presides over the Institut Lumière, which hosts retrospectives and
an annual film festival in the factory where the Lumière brothers
made the first films.
In this collection, containing numerous interviews translated
from French and available in English for the first time, he discusses
the arc of his career following in the lineage of the Lumière
brothers, in that his goal, like theirs, is to “show the world to the
world.”
It is no surprise, then, that an interview with Tavernier is a
treat. Beginning with discussions of his own films, the interviews
in this volume cover a vast range of topics. At the core are his
thoughts about the ways cinema can inspire the imagination and
contribute to the broadest possible public conversation.
Lynn A. Higgins, Hanover, New Hampshire, is the Edward Tuck
Professor of French Studies at Dartmouth College, where she also
teaches film studies, comparative literature, and gender studies.
Her books include New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the
Representation of History in Postwar France and Bertrand Tavernier.
T. Jefferson Kline, Brookline, Massachusetts, is professor of
French at Boston University. He is the author of several books,
including Unraveling French Cinema: From L’Atalante to Caché, and
he is editor of Agnès Varda: Interviews and coeditor of Bernardo
Bertolucci: Interviews.
Interviews
“As an artist I feel that we must try different things—
but above all we must dare to fail.”
A
merican filmmaker John
Cassavetes (1929–1989) made
only nine independent films during a
quarter century, but those films have
affected the cinema culture of the
1960s to the 1980s in unprecedented
ways. With a close nucleus of actors
and crew members on his team,
including his wife Gena Rowlands,
Peter Falk, and Ben Gazzara, Cassavetes created films that explored the
gritty side of human relationships.
He staunchly advocated the right of
actors and filmmakers to full artistic
freedom over their work. Attracting both fervent admirers and
harsh critics, Cassavetes’s films have garnered prestigious awards
in the US and Europe and continue to evoke strong reactions.
Starting in New York with his first film Shadows (1959),
Cassavetes moved on to the West Coast with Faces (1968),
Husbands (1970), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), A Woman Under
the Influence (1974), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening
Night (1977), Gloria (1980), and Love Streams (1984). He also
directed several studio films, which often rankled his independent
streak that rebelled against loss of artistic freedom. Cassavetes’s
work in the theater and his performances in numerous television
programs and films, including The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Rosemary’s Baby (1968), made him, as a director, fiercely protective of
his actors’ right to self-expression.
Cassavetes’s contributions to film as actor, writer, director,
producer, and cinematographer at a time of radical changes in
cinema history continue to inspire independent filmmakers
to challenge creative restrictions and celebrate actors’ artistic
contributions. John Cassavetes: Interviews captures this “maverick”
streak of an intensely personal filmmaker who was passionate
about his art.
Gabriella Oldham, New York, New York, is a writer and educator
with a passion for film. Her books include First Cut: Conversations
with Film Editors; First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors;
and Keaton’s Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter.
JULY, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography,
index
Ebook available
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
AUGUST, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
filmography, index
Ebook available
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FILM STUDIES | LITERATURE
Todd Haynes
New in
paperback
Interviews
Stanley Kubrick
Adapting the Sublime
New in
paperback
EDITED BY JULIA LEYDA
ELISA PEZZOTTA
“Why do we dismiss melodramas and domestic drama as something second-class in preference for genres that are, first,
more escapist and more associated with male protagonists?”
An argument appreciating and mapping the wide
divergences in the director’s interpretations of literature
A
pioneer of the New Queer
Cinema, Todd Haynes (b. 1961)
is a leading American independent
filmmaker. Whether working with
talking dolls in a homemade short
(Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story)
or with Oscar-winning performers in
an HBO miniseries (Mildred Pierce),
Haynes has garnered numerous awards
and nominations and an expanding
fan base for his provocative and
engaging work.
In all his films, Haynes portrays
the struggles of characters in conflict
with the norms of society. Many of his movies focus on female
characters, drawing inspiration from genres such as the woman’s
film and the disease movie (Far from Heaven and Safe); others
explore male characters who transgress sexual and other social
conventions (Poison and Velvet Goldmine).
The writer-director has drawn on figures such as Karen
Carpenter, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Bob Dylan in his meditations on American and British music, celebrity, and the meaning of
identity. His 2007 movie I’m Not There won a number of awards and
was notable for Haynes’s decision to cast six different actors (one
of whom was a woman) to portray Dylan.
Gathering interviews from 1989 through 2012, this collection
presents a range of themes, films, and moments in the burgeoning
career of Todd Haynes.
Julia Leyda, Tokyo, Japan, is associate professor of English at
Sophia University in Japan. She has published in Television and New
Media, Bright Lights Film Journal, La Furia Umana, Contemporary
Women’s Writing, Cinema Journal, and other journals.
MARCH, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
filmography, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0790-8
Ebook available
A
lthough Stanley Kubrick adapted
novels and short stories, his
films deviate in notable ways from
the source material. In particular,
since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),
his films seem to definitively
exploit all cinematic techniques,
embodying a compelling visual and
aural experience. But, as author Elisa
Pezzotta contends, it is for these
reasons that his cinema becomes the
supreme embodiment of the sublime,
fruitful encounter between the two
arts and, simultaneously, of their
independence.
Stanley Kubrick’s last six adaptations—2001: A Space
Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The
Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), and Eyes Wide
Shut (1999)—are characterized by certain structural and stylistic
patterns. These features help to draw conclusions about the role
of Kubrick in the history of cinema, about his role as an adapter,
and, more generally, about the art of cinematic adaptations.
The structural and stylistic patterns that characterize Kubrick
adaptations seem to criticize scientific reasoning, causality, and
traditional semantics. In the history of cinema, Kubrick can be
considered a modernist auteur. In particular, he can be regarded
as an heir of the modernist avant-garde of the 1920s. However,
author Elisa Pezzotta concludes that, unlike his predecessors,
Kubrick creates a cinema not only centered on the ontology of the
medium, but on the staging of sublime, new experiences.
Elisa Pezzotta, Albino, Italy, is cultore della material of history
and critique of cinema at the University of Bergamo. Her work has
been published in Wide Screen, Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen
Media, and Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and she
is the author of “La narrazione complessa nel cinema di Stanley
Kubrick: 2001: Odissea nello spazio e Eyes Wide Shut” in Ai confini
della comprensione.
MARCH, 208 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 15 b&w illustrations, 24 tables and charts,
filmography, bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0789-2
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COMICS STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE
COMICS STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE | BIOGRAPHY
Forging the Past
Seth
DANIEL MARRONE
EDITED BY ERIC HOFFMAN
AND DOMINICK GRACE
Seth and the Art of Memory
A critical study of the extraordinary Canadian comics
creator
A
t once familiar and hard to place,
the work of acclaimed Canadian
cartoonist Seth evokes a world that
no longer exists—and perhaps
never existed, except in the panels
of long-forgotten comics. Seth’s
distinctive drawing style strikingly
recalls a bygone era of cartooning,
an apt vehicle for melancholy, gently
ironic narratives that depict the grip
of the past on the present. Even
when he appears to look to the past,
however, Seth (born Gregory Gallant)
is constantly pushing the medium of
comics forward with sophisticated work that often incorporates
metafiction, parody, and formal experimentation.
Forging the Past offers a comprehensive account of this work
and the complex interventions it makes into the past. Moving
beyond common notions of nostalgia, Daniel Marrone explores the
various ways in which Seth’s comics induce readers to participate
in forging histories and memories. Marrone discusses collecting,
Canadian identity, New Yorker cartoons, authenticity, artifice,
and ambiguity—all within the context comics’ unique structure
and texture. Seth’s comics are suffused with longing for the past,
but on close examination this longing is revealed to be deeply
ambivalent, ironic, and self-aware.
Marrone undertakes the most thorough, sustained investigation of Seth’s work to date, while advancing a broader argument
about how comics operate as a literary medium. Included as an
appendix is a substantial interview, conducted by the author,
in which Seth candidly discusses his work, his peers, and his
influences.
Daniel Marrone, Toronto Canada, teaches English and visual
culture. His work has appeared in the journal Studies in Comics.
AUGUST, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 50 b&w illustrations, introduction,
appendix, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Great Comics Artists Series
New in
paperback
Conversations
“Am I nostalgic? Can you feel nostalgic for an era you
never lived in? I am interested in the time before I was
born, but I feel the most nostalgia for the era of my own
childhood. The 1960s and early 70s was the last vestige
of that old world . . . .”
C
anadian cartoonist Gregory
Gallant (b. 1962), pen name
Seth, emerged as a cartoonist in the
fertile period of the 1980s, when the
alternative comics market boomed.
Though he was influenced by
mainstream comics in his teen years
and did his earliest comics work
on Mister X, a mainstream-style
melodrama, Seth remains one of
the least mainstream-inflected
figures of the alternative comics
movement. His primary influences
are underground comix, newspaper
strips, and classic cartooning.
These interviews, including one career-spanning, definitive
interview between the volume editors and the artist published
here for the first time, delve into Seth’s output from its
earliest days to the present. Conversations offer insight into his
influences, ideologies of comics and art, thematic preoccupations,
and major works, from numerous perspectives—given Seth’s
complex and multifaceted artistic endeavours. Seth’s first graphic
novel, It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken, announced his fascination with the past and with earlier cartooning styles. Subsequent
works expand on those preoccupations and themes. Clyde Fans,
for example, balances present-day action against narratives set
in the past. The visual style looks polished and contemplative,
the narrative deliberately paced; plot seems less important than
mood or characterization, as Seth deals with the inescapable
grind of time and what it devours, themes which recur to varying
degrees in George Sprott, Wimbledon Green, and The Great Northern
Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists.
Eric Hoffman, Vernon, Connecticut, is the author of Oppen:
A Narrative, a biography of the poet George Oppen, and editor
of Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah: Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire
of Dave Sim and Gerhard. He coedited (with Dominick Grace) Dave
Sim: Conversations and Chester Brown: Conversations, both from
University Press of Mississippi. Dominick Grace, London,
Ontario, Canada, is the author of The Science Fiction of Phyliss
Gotlieb: A Critical Reading and an associate professor of English at
Brescia University College. He coedited (with Eric Hoffman) Dave
Sim: Conversations and Chester Brown: Conversations, both from
University Press of Mississippi.
MARCH, 256 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 22 b&w illustrations, introduction,
chronology, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0788-5
Ebook available
Conversations with Comic Artists Series
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COMICS STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE | BIOGRAPHY
Ed Brubaker
CONVERSATIONS WITH
COMIC ARTISTS SERIES
Conversations
EDITED BY TERRENCE R. WANDTKE
“Whether you’re writing a superhero action thing or Die
Hard or a small character-driven crime story, all of it is the
same writing, really.”
E
d Brubaker (b. 1966) has emerged
as one of the most popular,
significant figures in art comics since
the 1990s. Most famous as the man
who killed Captain America in 2007,
Brubaker’s work on company-owned
properties such as Batman and
Captain America and creator-owned
series like Criminal and Fatale live
up to the usual expectations for the
superhero and crime genres. And yet,
Brubaker layers his stories with a keen
self-awareness, applying his expansive
knowledge of American comic book
history to invigorate his work and challenge the dividing line
between popular entertainment and high art. This collection of
interviews explores the sophisticated artist’s work, drawing upon
the entire length of the award-winning Brubaker’s career.
With his stints writing Catwoman, Gotham Central, and Daredevil, Brubaker advanced the work of crime comic book writers
through superhero stories informed by hard-boiled detective
fiction and film noir. During his time on Captain America and his
series Sleeper and Incognito, Brubaker revisited the conventions of
the espionage thriller. With double agents who lose themselves in
their jobs, the stories expose the arbitrary superhero standards
of good and evil. In his series Criminal, Brubaker offered complex
crime stories and, with a clear sense of the complicated lost
world before the Comics Code, rejected crusading critic Fredric
Wertham’s myth of the innocence of early comics.
Overall, Brubaker demonstrates his self-conscious methodology in these often little-known and hard-to-find interviews,
worthwhile conversations in their own right as well as objects of
study for both scholars and researchers.
Chester Brown
Howard Chaykin
Conversations
Edited by Dominick Grace
and Eric Hoffman
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0252-1
Ebook available
Conversations
Edited by Brannon Costello
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-177-0
Ebook available
Will Eisner
Dave Sim
Conversations
Edited by Eric Hoffman
and Dominick Grace
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-178-7
Ebook available
Conversations
Edited by M. Thomas Inge
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-127-4
Ebook available
Terrence R. Wandtke, Belvidere, Illinois, is professor of film and
media studies and director of the Film and Media Program at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois. He is author of The Dark Knight
Returns: The Resurgence of Crime Comic Books and The Meaning of
Superhero Comic Books and editor of The Amazing Transforming
Superhero: Essays on the Revision of Characters in Comic Books, Film,
and Television.
APRIL, 144 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 15 b&w illustrations, introduction,
chronology, index
Ebook available
Conversations with Comic Artists Series
Harvey Pekar
Alan Moore
Conversations
Edited by Eric L. Berlatsky
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-159-5
Ebook available
Conversations
Edited by Michael G. Rhode
Paper $30.00S 978-1-60473-086-9
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COMICS STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE | FILM | TELEVISION
The Comics of Hergé
The Joker
When the Lines Are not so Clear
EDITED BY JOE SUTLIFF SANDERS
Contributions by Jan Baetens, Jim Casey, Jônathas Miranda de Araújo,
Guillaume de Syon, Hugo Frey, Kenan Kocak, Andrei Molotiu, Annick
Pellegrin, Benjamin Picado, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Vanessa Meikle Schulman,
Matthew Screech, and Gwen Athene Tarbox
A wide-ranging critical engagement with the creator
of TinTin
A
s the creator of TinTin, Hergé
(1907–1983) remains one of
the most important and influential
figures in the history of comics.
When Hergé, born Georges Prosper
Remi in Belgium, emerged from the
controversy surrounding his actions
after World War II, his most famous
work leapt to international fame and
set the exemplar for European comics.
While his style popularized what
became known as the “clear line” in
cartooning, this edited volume shows
how his life and art turned out much
more complicated than his method.
The book opens with Hergé’s aesthetic techniques, including
analyses of his efforts to comprehend and represent absence and
the rhythm of mundaneness between panels of action. Broad views
of his career describe how Hergé navigated changing ideas of air
travel, while precise accounts of his life during Nazi occupation
explain how the demands of the occupied press transformed his
understanding of what a comics page could do. The next section
considers a subject with which Hergé was himself consumed:
the fraught lines between high and low art. By reading the late
masterpieces of the TinTin series, these chapters situate his artistic
legacy. A final section considers how the clear line style has been
reinterpreted around the world, from contemporary Francophone
writers to a Chinese American cartoonist and on to Turkey, where
TinTin has been reinvented into something meaningful to an
audience Hergé probably never anticipated.
Despite the attention already devoted to Hergé, no multiauthor critical treatment of his work exists in English, the majority
of the scholarship being in French. With contributors from five
continents drawing on a variety of critical methods, this volume’s
range will shape the study of Hergé for many years to come.
Joe Sutliff Sanders, Manhattan, Kansas, is associate professor
in the children’s literature track of the English Department at
Kansas State university. He is the author of Disciplining Girls, the
coeditor of a collection of essays on The Secret Garden, and a former
Fulbright Fellow at the University of Luxembourg.
AUGUST, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 14 b&w illustrations, introduction,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
20
New in
paperback
A Serious Study of the Clown
Prince of Crime
EDITED BY ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
AND ROBERT G. WEINER
Contributions by Kristen M. S. Bezio, Will Brooker, David Ray Carter, Roy
T. Cook, Steve Englehart, Eric Garneau, Michael Goodrum, Dan Hassoun,
Richard D. Heldenfels, Ryan Litsey, Vyshali Manivannan, Mark Martinez,
Hannah Means-Shannon, Johan Nilsson, Kim Owczarski, Tosha Taylor,
Emmanuelle Wessels, and Mark P. Williams
The first study of Batman’s evil arch-nemesis in comics,
on television, and in film
A
long with Batman, Spider-Man,
and Superman, the Joker stands
out as one of the most recognizable
comics characters in popular culture.
While there has been a great deal
of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to
understand supervillains. This is
the first academic work to provide a
comprehensive study of this villain,
illustrating why the Joker appears so
relevant to audiences today.
Batman’s foe has cropped up in
thousands of comics, numerous
animated series, and three major blockbuster feature films since
1966. Actually, the Joker debuted in DC comics Batman 1 (1940)
as the typical gangster, but the character evolved steadily into one
of the most ominous in the history of sequential art. Batman and
the Joker almost seemed to define each other as opposites, hero
and nemesis, in a kind of psychological duality. Scholars from
a wide array of disciplines look at the Joker through the lens of
feature films, video games, comics, politics, magic and mysticism,
psychology, animation, television, performance studies, and
philosophy. As the first volume that examines the Joker as
complex cultural and cross-media phenomenon, this collection
adds to our understanding of the role comic book and cinematic
villains play in the world and the ways various media affect their
interpretation. Connecting the Clown Prince of Crime to bodies
of thought as divergent as Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche,
contributors demonstrate the frightening ways in which we get
the monsters we need.
Robert Moses Peaslee, Lubbock, Texas, is associate professor
of journalism and electronic media in the College of Media and
Communication at Texas Tech University. His work has been
published in several journals, and he is the coeditor, with Robert
G. Weiner, of Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History
and Meaning of Spider-Man. Robert G. Weiner, Lubbock, Texas,
is humanities librarian at Texas Tech University where he serves
as liaison to the College of Visual and Performing Arts and Film
Studies. He is the editor and coeditor of a number of books on
popular culture topics, and his work has appeared in numerous
journals and collections.
MARCH, 288 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 13 b&w illustrations, foreword, introduction,
afterword, bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0781-6
Ebook available
COMICS STUDIES | POPULAR STUDIES | ASIAN STUDIES
Boys Love Manga
and Beyond
Openness of Comics
New in
paperback
History, Culture, and Community
in Japan
EDITED BY MARK MCLELLAND, KAZUMI
NAGAIKE, KATSUHIKO SUGANUMA, AND
JAMES WELKER
Contributions by Tomoko Aoyama, Patrick W. Galbraith, Barbara Hartley,
Jeffry T. Hester, Ishida Hitoshi, Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike,
Rio Otomo, Katsuhiko Suganuma, Kazuko Suzuki, James Welker, and
Fujimoto Yukari
A critical examination of the “beautiful boy” love comics
that enthralled fans in Japan and then worldwide
B
oys Love Manga and Beyond looks
at a range of literary, artistic, and
other cultural products that celebrate
the beauty of adolescent boys and
young men. In Japan, depiction of
the “beautiful boy” has long been a
romantic and sexualized trope for
both sexes and commands a high
degree of cultural visibility today
across a range of genres from pop
music to animation.
In recent decades, “Boys Love”
(or simply BL) has emerged as a
mainstream genre in manga, anime,
and games for girls and young women. This genre was first
developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists
who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan’s
manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur female fans
were getting involved by creating and self-publishing homoerotic
parodies of established male manga characters and popular
media figures. Today, a wide range of products produced both
by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the
general rubric of “Boys Love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience
throughout Asia and globally.
This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in
English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various
subgenres, and introduces translations of some key Japanese
scholarship not otherwise available.
Mark McLelland, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, is
professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of
Wollongong. Kazumi Nagaike, Oita, Japan, is associate professor
in the Center for International Education and Research at Oita
University. Katsuhiko Suganuma, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia,
is a lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. James Welker, Yokohama, Japan, is associate professor
of cross-cultural studies at Kanagawa University.
Generating Meaning within Flexible
Structures
MAAHEEN AHMED
How comics generate significance and weave images and
words into a narrative art
N
ever before have comics seemed
so popular or diversified,
proliferating across a broad spectrum
of genres, experimenting with a
variety of techniques, and gaining
recognition as a legitimate, rich form
of art. Maaheen Ahmed examines
this trend by taking up philosopher
Umberto Eco’s notion of the open
work of art, whereby the reader—or
listener or viewer, as the case may
be—is offered several possibilities of
interpretation in a cohesive narrative
and aesthetic structure. Ahmed
delineates the visual, literary, and other medium-specific features
used by comics to form open rather than closed works, methods
by which comics generate or limit meaning as well as increase and
structure the scope of reading into a work.
Ahmed analyzes a diverse group of British American and
European (Franco-Belgian, German, Finnish) comics. She treats
examples from the key genre categories of fictionalized memoirs
and biographies, adventure and superhero, noir, black comedy and
crime, science fiction and fantasy. Her analyses demonstrate the
ways in which comics generate openness by concentrating on the
gaps essential to the very medium of comics, the range of meaning
ensconced within words and images as well as their interaction
with each other.
The analyzed comics, extending from famous to lesser known
works, include Will Eisner’s The Contract with God Trilogy, Jacques
Tardi’s It Was the War of the Trenches, Hugo Pratt’s The Ballad of the
Salty Sea, Edmond Baudoin’s The Voyage, Grant Morrison and Dave
McKean’s Arkham Asylum, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, Alan
Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell, Moebius’s Arzach, Yslaire’s
Cloud 99 series, and Jarmo Mäkilä’s Taxi Ride to Van Gogh’s Ear.
Maaheen Ahmed, Brussels, Belgium, is currently funded by the
FWO (Research Foundation-Flanders) and is a postdoctoral fellow
at Ghent University. In addition to contributing to several edited
collections, Ahmed has published articles in, among others, SCAN:
Journal of Media Arts Culture, Les Cahiers du GRIT, European Journal
of American Studies, and International Journal of Comic Art.
APRIL, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 12 b&w illustrations, bibliography,
index
Ebook available
MARCH, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 42 b&w illustrations, introduction,
bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0776-2
Ebook available
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LITERARY CRITICISM | SCIENCE FICTION
Black and Brown
Planets
FILM STUDIES | SCIENCE FICTION | POPULAR CULTURE
New in
paperback
Monsters in the Machine
The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Science Fiction Film and the Militarization
of America after World War II
EDITED BY ISIAH LAVENDER III
STEFFEN HANTKE
Contributions by Marleen S. Barr, Gerry Canavan, Grace L. Dillon, M.
Elizabeth Ginway, Matthew Goodwin, Edward James, De Witt Douglas
Kilgore, Malisa Kurtz, Robin Anne Reid, Lysa M. Rivera, Patrick B. Sharp,
and Lisa Yaszek
Literary explorations into the radical, hopeful racial futures
imagined by science fiction
B
lack and Brown Planets embarks
on a timely exploration of the
American obsession with color in its
look at the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science
fiction. The contributors, including
De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James,
Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr,
among others, explore science fiction
worlds of possibility (literature,
television, and film), lifting blacks,
Latin Americans, and indigenous
peoples out from the background of
this historically white genre.
This collection considers the role of race and ethnicity in our
visions of the future. The first section emphasizes the political
elements of black identity portrayed in science fiction from black
America to the vast reaches of interstellar space framed by racial
history. In the next section, analysis of indigenous science fiction
addresses the effects of colonization, helps discard the emotional
and psychological baggage carried from its impact, and recovers
ancestral traditions in order to adapt in a post-Native-apocalyptic
world. Likewise, this section explores the affinity between science
fiction and subjectivity in Latin American cultures from the role of
science and industrialization to the effects of being in and moving
between two cultures. By infusing more color in this otherwise
monochrome genre, Black and Brown Planets imagines alternate
racial galaxies with viable political futures in which people of color
determine human destiny.
Isiah Lavender III, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an assistant
professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author
of Race in American Science Fiction.
MARCH, 256 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 11 tables, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0775-5
Ebook available
How science fiction reinvigorated the horror film to
express and soothe Cold War fears
D
uring the 1950s and early 1960s,
the American film industry
produced a distinct cycle of films
situated on the boundary between
horror and science fiction. Using the
familiar imagery of science fiction—
from alien invasions to biological
mutation and space travel—the vast
majority of these films subscribed to
the effects and aesthetics of horror
film, anticipating the dystopian
turn of many science fiction films to
come. Departing from projections
of American technological awe and
optimism, these films often evinced paranoia, unease, fear, shock,
and disgust. Not only did these movies address technophobia
and its psychological, social, and cultural corollaries; they also
returned persistently to the military as a source of character,
setting, and conflict. Commensurate with a state of perpetual
mobilization, the US military comes across as an inescapable
presence in American life.
Regardless of their genre, Steffen Hantke argues that these
films have long been understood as allegories of the Cold War.
They register anxieties about two major issues of the time: atomic
technologies, especially the testing and use of nuclear weapons,
as well as communist aggression and/or subversion. Setting out
to question, expand, and correct this critical argument, Hantke
follows shifts and adjustments prompted by recent scholarly work
into the technological, political, and social history of America
in the 1950s. Based on this revised historical understanding,
science fiction films appear in a new light as they reflect on
the troubled memories of World War II, the emergence of the military-industrial complex, the postwar rewriting of the American
landscape, and the relative insignificance of catastrophic nuclear
war compared to America’s involvement in postcolonial conflicts
around the globe.
Steffen Hantke, Seoul, South Korea, has written on contemporary literature, film, and culture. He is author of Conspiracy and
Paranoia in Contemporary Literature, as well as editor of Horror:
Creating and Marketing Fear and American Horror Film: The Genre at
the Turn of the Millennium, both published by University Press of
Mississippi.
JULY, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 58 b&w illustrations, bibliography,
index
Ebook available
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FILM STUDIES | COLD WAR STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE
FILM STUDIES | COLD WAR STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE
Projections of Passing
The Screen Is Red
Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films,
1947–1960
N. MEGAN KELLEY
How the cinematic act of passing embodied, exacerbated,
and sometimes alleviated American fears
A
key concern in postwar America
was “who’s passing for whom?”
Analyzing representations of passing
in Hollywood films reveals changing
cultural ideas about authenticity
and identity in a country reeling
from a hot war and moving towards
a cold one. After World War II,
passing became an important theme
in Hollywood movies, one that
lasted throughout the long 1950s,
as it became a metaphor to express
postwar anxiety.
The potent, imagined fear of
passing linked the language and anxieties of identity to other
postwar concerns, including cultural obsessions about threats
from within. Passing created an epistemological conundrum that
threatened to destabilize all forms of identity, not just the longstanding American color line separating white and black. In the
imaginative fears of postwar America, identity was under siege
on all fronts. Not only were there blacks passing as whites, but
women were passing as men, gays passing as straight, communists
passing as good Americans, Jews passing as gentiles, and even
aliens passing as humans (and vice versa).
Fears about communist infiltration, invasion by aliens,
collapsing gender and sexual categories, racial ambiguity, and
miscegenation made their way into films that featured narratives
about passing. N. Megan Kelley shows that these films transcend
genre, discussing Gentleman’s Agreement, Home of the Brave, Pinky,
Island in the Sun, My Son John, Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, I
Married a Monster from Outer Space, Rebel without a Cause, Vertigo,
All about Eve, and Johnny Guitar, among others.
Representations of passing enabled Americans to express
anxieties about who they were and who they imagined their
neighbors to be. By showing how pervasive the anxiety about
passing was, and how it extended to virtually every facet of
identity, Projections of Passing broadens the literature on passing
in a fundamental way. It also opens up important counternarratives about postwar America and how the language of identity
developed in this critical period of American history.
N. Megan Kelley, Calgary, Canada, is an independent scholar
with a PhD in American history from York University.
MAY, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 40 b/w illustrations, filmography,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War
BERNARD F. DICK
A treatment of cinema’s long and fraught relations with the
monstrous symbols of Soviet communism
T
he Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood’s ambivalence toward the
former Soviet Union before, during,
and after the Cold War. In the 1930s,
communism combated its alter ego,
fascism, yet both threatened to
undermine the capitalist system, the
movie industry’s foundational core
value. Hollywood portrayed fascism
as the greater threat and communism as an aberration embraced
by young idealists unaware of its
dark side. In Ninotchka, all a female
commissar needs is a trip to Paris to
convert her to capitalism and the luxuries it can offer.
The scenario changed when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet
Union in 1941, making Russia a short-lived ally. The Soviets were
quickly glorified in such films as Song of Russia, The North Star,
Mission to Moscow, Days of Glory, and Counter-Attack. But once the
Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, the scenario changed again.
America was now swarming with Soviet agents attempting to steal
some crucial piece of microfilm. On screen, the atomic detonations
in the Southwest produced mutations in ants, locusts, and spiders,
and revived long-dead monsters from their watery tombs. The
movies did not blame the atom bomb specifically but showed what
horrors might result in addition to the iconic mushroom cloud.
Through the lens of Hollywood, a nuclear war might leave a
handful of survivors (Five), none (On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove), or
cities in ruins (Fail-Safe). Today the threat is no longer the Soviet
Union, but international terrorism. Author Bernard F. Dick argues,
however, that the Soviet Union has not lost its appeal, as evident
from the popular and critically acclaimed television series The
Americans. More than eighty years later, the screen is still red.
Bernard F. Dick, Teaneck, New Jersey, attended the University
of Scranton and Fordham University, from which he received a
PhD in classical philology. He has taught classics, world literature,
film, and writing during his fifty years in higher education. He has
also written a number of books, including biographies of Rosalind
Russell, Claudette Colbert, and Loretta Young in University Press
of Mississippi’s Hollywood Legends Series.
MARCH, 288 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 35 b&w illustrations, filmography,
index
Ebook available
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COMICS STUDIES | NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE
FILM STUDIES | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE
From Daniel Boone to
Captain America
From Madea to Media Mogul
Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
CHAD A. BARBOUR
An exploration of whites posing as Native Americans from
nineteenth-century literature to comic books
F
rom nineteenth-century American
art and literature to comic books of
the twentieth century and afterwards,
Chad A. Barbour examines in From
Daniel Boone to Captain America the
transmission of the ideals and myths
of the frontier and playing Indian in
American culture. In the nineteenth
century, American art and literature
developed images of the Indian and
the frontiersman that exemplified ideals of heroism, bravery, and manhood,
as well as embodying fears of betrayal,
loss of civilization, and weakness.
In the twentieth century, comic
books, among other popular forms of media, would inherit these
images. The Western genre of comic books participated fully in
the common conventions, replicating and perpetuating the myths
and ideals long associated with the frontier in the United States.
A fascination with Native Americans also emerged in comic books
devoted to depicting the Indian past of the US In such stories, the
Indian remains a figure of the past, romanticized as a lost segment
of US history, ignoring contemporary and actual Native peoples.
Playing Indian occupies a definite subgenre of Western
comics, especially during the postwar period when a host of comics
featuring a “white Indian” as the hero were being published.
Playing Indian migrates into superhero comics, a phenomenon
that heightens and amplifies the notions of heroism, bravery, and
manhood already attached to the white Indian trope. Instances of
superheroes like Batman and Superman playing Indian correspond
with depictions found in the strictly Western comics. The superhero as Indian returned in the twenty-first century via Captain
America, attesting to the continuing power of this ideal and image.
Chad A. Barbour, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, is associate
professor in the School of Arts and Letters at Lake Superior State
University. He teaches courses in American studies, Native American
studies, children’s literature, and comics and graphic novels.
His work has appeared in the Journal of Popular Culture and the
International Journal of Comic Art.
JULY, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 32 b&w photographs, bibliography,
index
Ebook available
Theorizing Tyler Perry
EDITED BY TREAANDREA M. RUSSWORM,
SAMANTHA N. SHEPPARD, AND
KAREN M. BOWDRE
FOREWORD BY ERIC PIERSON
Contributions by Leah Aldridge, Karen M. Bowdre, Aymar Jean Christian,
Keith Corson, Rachel Jessica Daniel, Artel Great, Brandeise Monk-Payton,
Miriam Petty, Paul N. Reinsch, Rashida Z. Shaw, Samantha N. Sheppard, Ben
Raphael Sher, and Khadijah Costley White
Essays on the seemingly unstoppable writer, producer,
director, actor, and entrepreneur Tyler Perry
F
or over a decade Tyler Perry has been
a lightning rod for both criticism
and praise. To some he is most widely
known for his drag performances as
Madea, a self-proclaimed “mad black
woman,” not afraid to brandish a gun
or a scalding pot of grits. But to others
who watch the film industry, he is the
businessman who by age thirty-six had
sold more than $100 million in tickets,
$30 million in videos, $20 million in
merchandise, and was producing 300
projects each year viewed by 35,000
every week.
Is the commercially successful African American actor,
director, screenwriter, playwright, and producer “malt liquor for the
masses,” an “embarrassment to the race!,” or is he a genius who has
directed the most culturally significant American melodramas since
Douglas Sirk? Are his films and television shows even melodramas,
or are they conservative Christian diatribes, cheeky camp, or social
satires? Do Perry’s flattened narratives and character tropes irresponsibly collapse important social discourses into one-dimensional
tales that affirm the notion of a “post-racial” society?
In light of these debates, From Madea to Media Mogul makes
the argument that Tyler Perry must be understood as a figure at
the nexus of converging factors, cultural events, and historical
traditions. Contrbutors demonstrate how a critical engagement
with Perry’s work and media practices highlights a need for studies
to grapple with developing theories and methods on disreputable
media. These essays challenge value-judgment criticisms and offer
new insights on the industrial and formal qualities of Perry’s work.
TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Amherst, Massachusetts, is an
assistant professor of English at UMass Amherst. Her work has been
published in Cinema Journal’s Teaching Media and the books Watching
While Black and Game On, Hollywood! Samantha N. Sheppard,
Ithaca, New York, is an assistant professor of cinema and media
studies at Cornell University. Her work has appeared in Cinema
Journal and the edited collection The L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New
Black Cinema. Karen M. Bowdre, Radnor, Pennsylvania, is an independent scholar who has published in Black Camera; Cinema Journal;
and Falling in Love Again: The Contemporary Romantic Comedy.
JULY, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, foreword, introduction, index
Ebook available
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MUSIC | JAZZ | BLACK STUDIES
Free Jazz/Black Power
PHILIPPE CARLES
AND JEANLOUIS COMOLLI
TRANSLATED BY GRÉGORY PIERROT
MUSIC | JAZZ | AMERICAN HISTORY
New in
paperback
For the first time in English, the classic volume that
developed a radical new understanding of free jazz and
African American culture
I
n 1971, French jazz critics
Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis
Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black
Power, a treatise on the racial and
political implications of jazz and jazz
criticism. It remains a testimony
to the long ignored encounter of
radical African American music and
French left-wing criticism. Carles
and Comolli set out to defend a genre
vilified by jazz critics on both sides
of the Atlantic by exposing the new
sound’s ties to African American
culture, history, and the political
struggle that was raging in the early 1970s. The two offered a
political and cultural history of black presence in the United States
to shed more light on the dubious role played by jazz criticism in
racial oppression.
This analysis of jazz criticism and its production is astutely
self-aware. It critiques the critics, building a work of cultural
studies in a time and place where the practice was virtually
unknown. The authors reached radical conclusions—free jazz
was a revolutionary reaction against white domination, was the
musical counterpart to the Black Power movement, and was a
music that demanded a similar political commitment. The impact
of this book is difficult to overstate, as it made readers reconsider
their response to African American music. In some cases it
changed the way musicians thought about and played jazz. Free
Jazz / Black Power remains indispensable to the study of the
relation of American free jazz to European audiences, critics, and
artists. This monumental critique caught the spirit of its time and
also realigned that zeitgeist.
Phillipe Carles was editor-in-chief at Jazz Magazine from
1971 until 2006. He has coauthored several books on jazz,
including Dictionnaire du jazz. Jean-Louis Comolli teaches at
Université Paris-VIII, FEMIS, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in
Barcelona. He is a film critic, screenwriter, film director, and jazz
author. Grégory Pierrot, Stamford, Connecticut, is assistant
professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
MARCH, 256 pages, 6 x 9 inches, introduction, preface, discography,
bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0779-3
Ebook available
Creating Jazz
Counterpoint
New in
paperback
New Orleans, Barbershop
Harmony, and the Blues
VIC HOBSON
A full study of Buddy Bolden and Bunk Johnson confirming
their roles in the real blues roots of New Orleans jazz
T
he book Jazzmen (1939) claimed
New Orleans as the birthplace
of jazz and introduced the legend of
Buddy Bolden as the “First Man of
Jazz.” Much of the information that
the book relied on came from a highly
controversial source: Bunk Johnson.
He claimed to have played with
Bolden and that together they had
pioneered jazz.
Johnson made many recordings
talking about and playing the music
of the Bolden era. These recordings
have been treated with skepticism
because of doubts about Johnson’s credibility. Using oral histories,
the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive material,
this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with Bolden. This
confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for Johnson’s
recorded legacy in describing the music of the early years of New
Orleans jazz.
New Orleans jazz was different from ragtime in a number
of ways. It was a music that was collectively improvised, and it
carried a new tonality—the tonality of the blues. How early jazz
musicians improvised together and how the blues became a part of
jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of the reason New Orleans
jazz developed as it did is that all the prominent jazz pioneers,
including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sidney
Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in barbershop (or
barroom) quartets. This book describes in both historical and
musical terms how the practices of quartet singing were converted
to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in turn, produced
collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that unique sound of
New Orleans.
Vic Hobson, Essex, England, was awarded a Kluge Scholarship
to the Library of Congress in 2007 and a Woest Fellowship to
the Historic New Orleans Collection in 2009. A trustee for the
National Jazz Archive, he is active in promoting jazz scholarship
and research, and his own work has appeared in American Music,
Jazz Perspectives, and the Jazz Archivist.
MARCH, 224 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 1 b&w photo, 43 musical examples, foreword,
bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0778-6
Ebook available
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LITERATURE | BIOGRAPHY
LITERATURE | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | BIOGRAPHY
Conversations with
Andre Dubus
New in
paperback
Conversations with
Sterling Plumpp
EDITED BY OLIVIA CARR EDENFIELD
EDITED BY JOHN ZHENG
“The writers who write about people all will tell you the
same thing: a moment comes when the character takes
over, and then the writer is led by the character, and that’s
when the writer knows the story is going to move now.”
“Yes. I’m directly influenced by blues performers and not
record performance. You know, I spent fifty years of my
life witnessing blues singers, and that’s what I’m trying to
capture.”
O
C
ver three decades, celebrated
fiction writer Andre Dubus
(1936–1999) published seven
collections of short stories, two
collections of essays, two collections
of previously published stories, two
novels, and a novella. While this is
an impressive publishing record for
any writer, for Dubus, who suffered
a near-fatal accident mid-career, it is
near miraculous. Just after midnight
on July 23, 1986, after stopping
to assist two stranded motorists,
Dubus was struck by a car. His right
leg was crushed and his left leg had
to be amputated above the knee. After months of hospital stays
and surgeries, he would suffer chronic pain for the rest of his life.
However, when he gave his first interview after the accident, his
deepest fear was that he would never write again.
This collection of interviews traces his career beginning in
1967 with the publication of his novel The Lieutenant, to his final
interview given right before his death February 24, 1999. In
between are conversations that focus on his shift to essay writing
during his long recovery period as well as those that celebrate his
return to fiction with the publication of “The Colonel’s Wife,” in
1993. Dubus would share as well stories surrounding his Louisiana childhood, his three marriages, the writers who influenced
him, and his deep Catholic faith.
onversations with Sterling Plumpp
is the first collection of interviews
with the renowned poet of Home/
Bass and other much-admired works.
Spanning thirty years and drawn from
literary and scholarly journals and
other media, these interviews offer
insights into his poetic innovation
of blues and jazz and his mastery
of black vernacular in poetry. This
collection seems fundamental to an
understanding of the life and work
of an African American poet who has
been innovative in fusing blues and
jazz rhythms with poetic insight and
in vivifying the vernacular landscape of African American poetry.
Born in 1940 in Clinton, Mississippi, Plumpp has been living
in Chicago since 1962. Home/Bass received the 2014 American
Book Award. The finest blues poet of his generation, Plumpp
became a model for contemporary poetry and poetics and a leading
figure in the tradition of blues/jazz poetry. He continues to reinvent the language while exploring the registers of individual and
communal memory, local, national, and global history. His poetry
is important in attempts to define the black aesthetic from the era
of the Harlem Renaissance to the seminal Black Arts Movement.
It is also important for its rearticulation of the Great Migration,
especially expressed by blues musicians who left Mississippi for
Chicago.
Olivia Carr Edenfield, Portal, Georgia, is an associate professor
at Georgia Southern University. Her work has been published
in Hemingway Review, Southern Literary Journal, Resources for
American Literary Studies, and Explicator.
John Zheng, Greenwood, Mississippi, is professor of English at
Mississippi Valley State University and editor of The Other World
of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku and African American
Haiku: Cultural Visions (both from University Press of Mississippi).
His work has also been published in numerous journals including
African American Review, East-West Connections, Journal of Ethnic
American Literature, Paideuma, and Southern Quarterly.
APRIL, 224 pages, 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0777-9
Ebook available
Literary Conversations Series
AUGUST, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index
Ebook available
Literary Conversations Series
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LITERARY CONVERSATIONS SERIES
Conversations with
Samuel R. Delany
Conversations with
James Ellroy
Conversations with
Ken Kesey
Conversations with
Octavia Butler
Conversations with
Barry Hannah
Conversations with
Jonathan Lethem
Conversations with
Natasha Trethewey
Conversations with
Sherman Alexie
Conversations with
Toni Cade Bambara
Conversations with
Edna O’Brien
Conversations with
Steve Martin
Edited by Carl Freedman
Paper $25.00T 978-1-60473-278-8
Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr.
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0444-0
Ebook available
Edited by Steven Powell
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-104-5
Ebook available
Edited by Jaime Clarke
Paper $25.00T 978-1-60473-972-5
Ebook available
Edited by Scott F. Parker
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-982-9
Ebook available
Edited by Joan Wylie Hall
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-951-5
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Edited by Nancy J. Peterson
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CO N V E R SAT I O NS W I T H
David Foster Wallace
EDITED BY STEPHEN J. BURN
Conversations with
David Foster Wallace
Edited by Stephen J. Burn
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Edited by Thabiti Lewis
Printed casebinding $40.00S
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CARIBBEAN STUDIES | AMERICAN HISTORY
The Grenada Revolution
Reflections and Lessons
CARIBBEAN STUDIES | ETHNOMUSICOLOGY | WOMEN’S STUDIES
New in
paperback
What She Go Do
Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music
EDITED BY WENDY C. GRENADE
HOPE MUNRO
Contributions by Horace G. Campbell, Ralph E. Gonsalves, Kari H. I.
Grenade, Wendy C. Grenade, David Hinds, Curtis Jacobs, Tennyson S. D.
Joseph, Patsy Lewis, Don Marshall, Brian Meeks, and Hilbourne A. Watson
How women have expanded the creative reach of calypso,
soca, and steelband music
A detailed examination of the broad implications of
Marxist revolution, politics, and the eventual invasion of
the island nation
G
renada experienced much
turmoil in the 1970s and 1980s,
culminating in an armed Marxist
revolution, a bloody military coup,
and finally in 1983 Operation Urgent
Fury, a United States–led invasion.
Wendy C. Grenade combines various
perspectives to tell a Caribbean
story about this revolution, weaving
together historical accounts of slain
Prime Minister Maurice Bishop,
the New Jewel Leftist Movement,
and contemporary analysis. There
is much controversy: though the
Organization of American States
formally requested intervention from President Ronald Reagan,
world media coverage was largely negative and skeptical, if not
baffled, by the action, which resulted in a rapid defeat and the
deposition of the Revolutionary Military Council.
By examining the possibilities and contradictions of the
Grenada revolution, the contributors draw upon thirty years of
hindsight to illuminate a crucial period of the Cold War. Beyond
geopolitics, the book interrogates but transcends the nuances
and peculiarities of Grenada’s political history to situate this
revolution in its larger Caribbean and global context. In doing
so, contributors seek to unsettle old debates while providing
fresh understandings about a critical period in the Caribbean’s
postcolonial experience. This collection throws into sharp focus
the centrality of the Grenada revolution, offering a timely
contribution to Caribbean scholarship and to wider understanding
of politics in small developing, postcolonial societies.
Wendy C. Grenade, Grenada, West Indies, is a lecturer in
political science, Department of Government, Sociology and
Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of the West
Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She has authored several
scholarly articles on politics in Grenada.
I
n the 1990s, expressive culture
in the Caribbean was becoming
noticeably more feminine. At
the annual Carnival of Trinidad
and Tobago, thousands of female
masqueraders dominated the street
festival on Carnival Monday and
Tuesday. Women had become significant contributors to the performance
of calypso and soca, as well as the
musical development of the steel pan
art form.
Drawing upon ethnographic
fieldwork conducted by the author
in Trinidad and Tobago, What She Go Do demonstrates how the
increased access and agency of women through folk and popular
musical expressions has improved inter-gender relations and
representation of gender in this nation. This is the first study to
integrate all of the popular music expressions associated with
Carnival—calypso, soca, and steelband music—within a single
volume. The book includes interviews with popular musicians
and detailed observation of musical performances, rehearsals,
and recording sessions, as well as analysis of reception and use of
popular music through informal exchanges with audiences.
The popular music of the Caribbean contains elaborate
forms of social commentary that allows singers to address
various sociopolitical problems, including those that directly
affect the lives of women. In general, the cultural environment of
Trinidad and Tobago has made women more visible and audible
than any previous time in its history. This book examines how
these circumstances came to be and what it means for the future
development of music in the region.
Hope Munro, Chico, California, is associate professor of music at
California State University, Chico. Her work has appeared in many
journals, including Ethnomusicology and Latin American Music
Review.
JULY, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 12 b&w illustrations, glossary,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
Caribbean Studies Series
MARCH, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 3 tables, bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0780-9
Ebook available
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CARIBBEAN STUDIES | ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Chocolate Surrealism
CARIBBEAN STUDIES SERIES
Music, Movement, Memory, and History
in the Circum-Caribbean
NJOROGE NJOROGE
A vibrant take on the global connections empowering
Caribbean music and its global transferences
I
n Chocolate Surrealism Njoroge
Njoroge highlights connections
among the production, performance,
and reception of popular music at
critical historical junctures in the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The author sifts different origins
and styles to place socio-musical
movements into a larger historical
framework.
Calypso reigned during the
turbulent interwar period and the
ensuing crises of capitalism. The
Cuban rumba/son complex enlivened
the postwar era of American empire. Jazz exploded in the Bandung
period and the rise of decolonization. And, lastly, Nuyorican Salsa
coincided with the period of the civil rights movement and the
beginnings of black/brown power. Njoroge illuminates musics of
the circum-Caribbean as culturally and conceptually integrated
within the larger history of the region. He pays close attention to
the fractures, fragmentations, and historical particularities that
both unite and divide the region’s sounds. At the same time, he
engages with a larger discussion of the Atlantic world.
Njoroge examines the deep interrelations between music,
movement, memory, and history in the African diaspora. He finds
the music both a theoretical anchor and a mode of expression and
representation of black identities and political cultures. Music and
performance offer ways for the author to re-theorize the intersections of race, nationalism and musical practice, and geopolitical
connections. Further music allows Njoroge a reassessment of the
development of the modern world system, through local, popular
responses to the global age. The book analyzes different styles,
times, and politics to render a brief history of Black Atlantic
sound.
Caribbean Visionary
A.R.F Webber and the Making of
the Guyanese Nation
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-197-7
Ebook available
Decolonization
in St. Lucia
Queen of the Virgins
Pageantry and Black Womanhood
in the Caribbean
M. Cynthia Oliver
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-718-4
Ebook available
People Get Ready
Politics and Global
Neoliberalism, 1945–2010
Tennyson S. D. Joseph
Paper $30.00R 978-1-61703-827-3
Ebook available
African American and Caribbean
Cultural Exchange
Kevin Meehan
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-201-1
Ebook available
Njoroge Njoroge, Honolulu, Hawaii, is an associate professor in
the Department of History at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
He works on musics of the African diaspora, Caribbean and Latin
American history, Marxism and critical theory.
MAY, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, discography, index
Ebook available
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CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE | POPULAR CULTURE
CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE | WOMEN’S STUDIES |
POPULAR CULTURE
Little Red Readings
Mothers in Children’s and
Young Adult Literature
Historical Materialist Perspectives
on Children’s Literature
New in
paperback
EDITED BY ANGELA E. HUBLER
Contirbutions by Roland Boer, Heidi M. Brush, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak,
Daniel D. Hade, Angela E. Hubler, Cynthia Anne McLeod, Jana Mikota, Carl F.
Miller, Mervyn Nicholson, Jane Rosen, Sharon Smulders, Anastasia Ulanowicz,
Ian Wojcik-Andrews, and Naomi Wood
A compelling case for the need to analyze children’s
literature from a Marxist perspective
A
significant body of scholarship
examines the production of
children’s literature by women and
minorities, as well as the representation of gender, race, and sexuality.
But few scholars have previously
analyzed class in children’s literature.
This definitive collection remedies
that by defining and exemplifying
historical materialist approaches to
children’s literature. The introduction of Little Red Readings lucidly
discusses characteristics of historical
materialism, the methodological
approach to the study of literature and culture first outlined by
Karl Marx, defining key concepts and analyzing factors that have
marginalized this tradition, particularly in the United States.
The thirteen essays here analyze a wide range of texts—from
children’s bibles to Mary Poppins to The Hunger Games—using
concepts in historical materialism from class struggle to the
commodity. Essayists apply the work of Marxist theorists such as
Ernst Bloch and Fredric Jameson to children’s literature and film.
Others examine the work of leftist writers in India, Germany,
England, and the United States.
The authors argue that historical materialist methodology is
critical to the study of children’s literature as children often suffer
most from inequality. Some of the critics in this collection reveal
the ways that literature for children often functions to naturalize
capitalist economic and social relations. Other critics champion literature that reveals to readers the construction of social reality and
point to texts that enable an understanding of the role ordinary
people might play in creating a more just future. The collection
adds substantially to our understanding of the political and class
character of children’s literature worldwide, and contributes to the
development of a radical history of children’s literature.
Angela E. Hubler, Manhattan, Kansas, is an associate professor
of women’s studies at Kansas State University. She has published
essays in the Lion and the Unicorn, ChLA Quarterly, Critical Survey,
Papers on Language and Literature, NWSA Journal, Women’s Studies
Quarterly, and Against the Current.
APRIL, 304 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 8 b&w illustrations, introduction, bibliography,
index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0783-0
Ebook available
From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism
EDITED BY LISA ROWE FRAUSTINO
AND KAREN COATS
Contributions by Robin Calland, Lauren Causey, Karen Coats, Sara K. Day,
Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, Anna Katrina Gutierrez,
Adrienne Kertzer, Koeun Kim, Alexandra Kotanko, Jennifer Mitchell, Mary
Jeanette Moran, Julie Pfeiffer, and Donelle Ruwe
From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger
Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother
L
iving or dead, present or absent,
sadly dysfunctional or merrily
adequate, the figure of the mother
bears enormous freight across a child’s
emotional and intellectual life. Given
the vital role literary mothers play in
books for young readers, it is remarkable how little scholarly attention
has been paid to the representation
of mothers outside of fairy tales and
beyond studies of gender stereotypes.
This collection of thirteen essays
begins to fill a critical gap by bringing
together a range of theoretical
perspectives by a rich mix of senior scholars and new voices.
Following an introduction in which the coeditors describe
key trends in interdisciplinary scholarship, the book’s first section
focuses on the pedagogical roots of maternal influence in early
children’s literature. The next section explores the shifting cultural
perspectives and subjectivities of the twentieth century. The third
section examines the interplay of fantasy, reality, and the ethical
dimensions of literary mothers. The collection ends with readings
of postfeminist motherhood, from contemporary realism to
dystopian fantasy.
The range of critical approaches in this volume will provide
multiple inroads for scholars to investigate richer readings of
mothers in children’s and young adult literature.
Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Ashford, Connecticut, is professor and
chair of the Department of English at Eastern Connecticut State
University. She has edited three collections of short fiction for
young adults and authored several books for young readers,
including the 2010 Milkweed Prize winner, The Hole in the Wall.
Karen Coats, Normal, Illinois, is professor of English at Illinois
State University. She is author of Looking Glass and Neverlands:
Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature and Children’s
Literature and the Developing Reader and coeditor of Handbook of
Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature and The Gothic in
Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders.
MAY, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 3 b&w illustrations, 2 tables,
introduction, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Children’s Literature Association Series
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CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE | HORROR |
POPULAR CULTURE
COOKING | LITERATURE | SOUTHERN STATES
Reading in the Dark
Writing in the Kitchen
Horror in Children’s Literature and Culture
EDITED BY JESSICA R. MCCORT
Contributions by Rebecca A. Brown, Justine Gieni, Holly Harper, Emily
Hiltz, A. Robin Hoffman, Kirsten Kowalewski, Peter C. Kunze, Jorie
Lagerwey, Nick Levey, Jessica R. McCort, and Janani Subramanian
Considerations of horror from Struwwelpeter to Coraline,
Shrek, and Monsters, Inc.
D
ark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young
adults are proliferating wildly. It is
even more crucial now to understand
the methods by which such texts
have traditionally operated and how
those methods have been challenged,
abandoned, and appropriated. Reading in the Dark fills a gap in criticism
devoted to children’s popular culture
by concentrating on horror, an
often-neglected genre. These scholars
explore the intersection between horror, popular culture, and children’s
cultural productions, including picture books, fairy tales, young
adult literature, television, and monster movies.
Reading in the Dark looks at horror texts for children with
deserved respect, weighing the multitude of benefits they can
provide for young readers and viewers. Refusing to write off the
horror genre as campy, trite, or deforming, these essays instead
recognize many of the texts and films categorized as “scary”
as among those most widely consumed by children and young
adults. In addition, scholars consider how adult horror has been
domesticated by children’s literature and culture, with authors and
screenwriters turning that which was once horrifying into safe,
funny, and delightful books and films. Scholars likewise examine
the impetus behind such re-envisioning of the adult horror novel
or film as something appropriate for the young. The collection
investigates both the constructive and the troublesome aspects
of scary books, movies, and television shows targeted toward
children and young adults. It considers the complex mechanisms
by which these texts communicate overt messages and hidden
agendas, and it treats as well the readers’ experiences of such
mechanisms.
Jessica R. McCort, Washington, Pennsylvania, is an assistant
professor at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Her most recent book project is a compilation of essays concerning the intersection of the horror genre and children’s cultures.
JUNE, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 10 b&w illustrations, introduction,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
Essays on Southern Literature
and Foodways
New in
paperback
EDITED BY DAVID A. DAVIS AND TARA POWELL
FOREWORD BY JESSICA B. HARRIS
Contributions by David A. Davis, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Marcie Cohen
Ferris, Lisa Hinrichsen, Erica Abrams Locklear, Tara Powell, Ann Romines,
Ruth Salvaggio, David S. Shields, Sarah Walden, and Psyche Williams-Forson
Readings of food in southern literature that reveal hunger
and creativity and that go beyond deep-fried clichés
S
carlett O’Hara munched on a
radish and vowed never to go
hungry again. Vardaman Bundren
ate bananas in Jefferson, and the
Invisible Man dined on a sweet
potato in Harlem. Although food
and stories may be two of the
most prominent cultural products
associated with the South, the
connections between them have not
been thoroughly explored until now.
Southern food has become the
subject of increasingly self-conscious
intellectual consideration. The Southern Foodways Alliance, the Southern
Food and Beverage Museum, food-themed issues of Oxford
American and Southern Cultures, and a spate of new scholarly and
popular books demonstrate this interest. Writing in the Kitchen
explores the relationship between food and literature and makes a
major contribution to the study of both southern literature and of
southern foodways and culture more widely.
This collection examines food writing in a range of literary
expressions, including cookbooks, agricultural journals, novels,
stories, and poems. Contributors interpret how authors use
food to explore the changing South, considering the ways race,
ethnicity, class, gender, and region affect how and what people
eat. They describe foods from specific southern places such as New
Orleans and Appalachia, engage both the historical and contemporary South, and study the food traditions of ethnicities as they
manifest through the written word.
David A. Davis, Macon, Georgia, is assistant professor of
English and southern studies at Mercer University. Tara Powell,
Columbia, South Carolina, is associate professor of English at the
University of South Carolina.
MARCH, 224 pages, 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0797-7
Ebook available
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FOLKLORE | POPULAR CULTURE | HUMOR STUDIES
A Vulgar Art
A New Approach to Stand-Up
Comedy
FOLKLORE | ANTHROPOLOGY
New in
paperback
IAN BRODIE
The first examination of stand-up comedy through the lens
of folklore
I
n A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses
a folkloristic approach to
stand-up comedy, engaging the
discipline’s central method of
studying interpersonal, artistic
communication and performance.
Because stand-up comedy is a
rather broad category, people who
study it often begin by relating
it to something they recognize—
“literature” or “theatre”; “editorial”
or “morality”—and analyze it
accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with
a more fundamental observation:
someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them
directly, and trying to make them laugh. So this book takes the
moment of performance as its focus, that stand-up comedy is a
collaborative act between the comedian and the audience.
Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among
friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains
a profession. As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian’s own community to gain larger and larger audiences. How
do comedians re-create that atmosphere of intimacy in a roomful
of strangers? This book regards everything from microphones to
clothing and LPs to Twitter as strategies for bridging the spatial,
temporal, and socio-cultural distances between the performer and
the audience.
Ian Brodie, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, is associate professor
of folklore at Cape Breton University. He has served as president
of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada and is currently the
editor for Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International
Society for Contemporary Legend Research.
MARCH, 255 pages, 6 x 9 inches, discography, videography, bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0794-6
Ebook available
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series
Curatorial Conversations
Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian
Folklife Festival
EDITED BY OLIVIA CADAVAL, SOJIN KIM,
AND DIANA BAIRD N’DIAYE
Curators reflect on a half century of the nation’s public
presentation of living cultural heritage
Contributions by Robert Baron, Betty Belanus, Olivia Cadaval, James
Deutsch, C. Kurt Dewhurst, James Early, Amy Horowitz, Marjorie Hunt,
Richard Kennedy, Sojin Kim, Marsha MacDowell, Diana Baird N’Diaye, Jeff
Place, Frank Proschan, Jack Santino, Daniel Sheehy, Cynthia L. Vidaurri,
and Steve Zeitlin
S
ince its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained
worldwide recognition as a model for
the research and public presentation
of living cultural heritage and the
advocacy of cultural democracy.
Festival curators play a major role in
interpreting the Festival’s principles
and shaping its practices.
Curatorial Conversations brings
together for the first time in one
volume the combined expertise of the
Festival’s curatorial staff—past and
present—in examining the Center for
Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s representation practices and their
critical implications for issues of intangible cultural heritage policy,
competing globalisms, cultural tourism, sustainable development
and environment, and cultural pluralism and identity.
In the volume, edited by the staff curators Olivia Cadaval,
Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N’Diaye, contributors examine how
Festival principles, philosophical underpinnings, and claims have
evolved, and address broader debates on cultural representation
from their own experience. This book represents the first concerted
project by Smithsonian staff curators to examine systematically
the Festival’s institutional values as they have evolved over time
and to address broader debates on cultural representation based on
their own experiences at the Festival.
Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N’Diaye, Washington, DC, are curators at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife
and Cultural Heritage. Representing different lengths of tenure
and different areas of content specialty, their collective experience
spans fifty years with the Folklife Festival.
MAY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 71 b&w photographs, preface, prologue,
introduction, bibliography, index
Ebook available
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HISTORY | SOUTHERN STUDIES
Populism in the
South Revisited
New in
paperback
SOUTHERN HISTORY
New Interpretations and
New Departures
EDITED BY JAMES M. BEEBY
Contributions by Omar H. Ali, James M. Beeby, Matthew Hild, Michael
Pierce, Lewie Reece, Alicia E. Rodriquez, Jarod Roll, David Silkenat, and
Joel Sipress
A survey of the full impact of the Populist movement
across the South
T
he Populist movement was the
largest mass movement for
political and economic change in
the history of the American South
until the civil rights movement of
the 1950s and 1960s. The Populist
Movement in this book is defined
as the Farmers’ Alliance and the
People’s Party, as well as the Agricultural Wheel and Knights of Labor in
the 1880s and 1890s. The Populists
threatened the political hegemony of
the white racist southern Democratic
Party during Populism’s high point in
the mid-1890s, throwing the New South into a state of turmoil.
Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New
Departures brings together nine of the best new works on the
Populist movement in the South that grapple with several larger
themes—such as the nature of political insurgency, the relationship between African Americans and whites, electoral reform, new
economic policies and producerism, and the relationship between
rural and urban areas—in case studies that center on several states
and at the local level.
One essay analyzes how notions of debt informed the
Populist insurgency in North Carolina, while another analyzes the
Populists’ failed attempts in Grant Parish, Louisiana, to align with
African Americans and Republicans. Other topics covered include
Populist grassroots organizing with African Americans to stop
disfranchisement in North Carolina; the Knights of Labor and the
relationship with Populism in Georgia; organizing urban Populism in Dallas, Texas; Tom Watson’s relationship with Midwest
Populism; the centrality of African Americans in Populism, a
comparative analysis of Populism across the Deep South, and how
the rhetoric and ideology of Populism impacted socialism and the
Garvey movement. Together these studies offer new insights into
the nature of southern Populism and the legacy of the People’s
Party in the South.
The Civil War in Mississippi
Mississippi in the Civil War
Major Campaigns and Battles
Michael B. Ballard
Paper $28.00T 978-1-62846-170-1
Ebook available
The Home Front
Timothy B. Smith
Paper $28.00T 978-1-62846-169-5
Ebook available
Count Them One by One
Southern Ladies and
Suffragists
Black Mississippians Fighting
for the Right to Vote
Gordon A. Martin, Jr.
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-049-0
Ebook available
Julia Ward Howe and Women’s
Rights at the 1884 New Orleans
World’s Fair
Miki Pfeffer
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0448-8
Ebook available
Winner of the 2015 Eudora
Welty Prize
James M. Beeby, Louisville, Kentucky, is an associate professor
of history and coordinator of the history program at Indiana
University Southeast in Albany, Indiana. He is the author of Revolt
of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890–1901,
also published by University Press of Mississippi.
APRIL, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0787-8
Ebook available
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LITERATURE | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
LITERATURE | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Richard Wright Writing
America at Home and from
Abroad
The New Territory
EDITED BY VIRGINIA WHATLEY SMITH
Contributions by Robert Butler, Ginevra Geraci, Yoshinobu Hakutani,
Floyd W. Hayes III, Joseph Keith, Toru Kiuchi, John W. Lowe, Sachi Nakachi,
Virginia Whatley Smith, and John Zheng
An international reassessment of the great writer’s work
C
ritics in this volume reassess
the prescient nature of Richard
Wright’s mind as well as his life and
body of writings, especially those
directly concerned with America
and its racial dynamics. This edited
collection offers new readings and
understandings of the particular
America that became Wright’s focus
at the beginning of his career and
was still prominent in his mind at
the end.
Virginia Whatley Smith’s
edited collection examines Wright’s
fixation with America at home and from abroad: his oppression by,
rejection of, conflict with, revolts against, and flight from America.
Other people have written on Wright’s revolutionary heroes, his
difficulties with the FBI, and his works as a postcolonial provocateur; but none have focused singly on his treatment of America.
Wherever Wright traveled, he always positioned himself as an
African American as he compared his experiences to those at hand.
However, as his domestic settlements changed to international residences, Wright’s craftsmanship changed as well. To convey his
cultural message, Wright created characters, themes, and plots that
would expose arbitrary and whimsical American policies, oppressive
rules which would invariably ensnare Wright’s protagonists and
sink them more deeply into the quagmire of racial subjugation as
they grasped for a fleeting moment of freedom.
Smith’s collection brings to the fore new ways of looking at
Wright, particularly his post–Native Son international writings.
Indeed, no critical interrogations have considered the full significance of Wright’s masterful crime fictions. In addition, the author’s
haiku poetry complements the fictional pieces addressed here,
reflecting Wright’s attitude toward America as he, near the end of
his life, searched for nirvana—his antidote to American racism.
Virginia Whatley Smith, Smyrna, Georgia, is a retired associate
professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
She is the editor of Richard Wright’s Travel Writings: New Reflections,
published by University Press of Mississippi.
JULY, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Ebook available
Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
EDITED BY MARC C. CONNER
AND LUCAS E. MOREL
Contributions by Herman Beavers, Robert Butler, John Callahan, Marc C.
Conner, Bryan Crable, Steven D. Ealy, Lena Hill, Lucas E. Morel, Timothy
Parrish, Ross Posnock, Patrice Rankine, Grant Shreve, Eric Sundquist, and
Steven C. Tracy
A critical advancement and recognition of the enduring
power of a great American writer
R
alph Ellison once said, “We’re only
a partially achieved nation.” In
The New Territory, scholars show how
clearly Ellison foresaw and articulated
both the challenges and the possibilities of America in the twenty-first
century. Indeed, Ellison in these new
essays appears more and more to be
a cultural prophet of twenty-first
century America. As literary scholar
Ross Posnock states, “If in our
global, transnational age the renewed
promise of cosmopolitan democracy
has emerged as an animating ideal of
popular political, and academic culture, this is a way of saying that
we are only now beginning to catch up with Ralph Waldo Ellison.”
In this collection, the editors offer fourteen original essays
that seek to examine and re-examine Ellison’s life and work in the
context of its meanings for our own age, the early twenty-first
century, the age of Obama, a period that is seemingly post-racial
and yet all too acutely racial.
Following a careful introduction that situates Ellison’s writings in the context of new approaches and interest in his work,
the book offers new essays examining Ellison’s 1952 masterpiece,
Invisible Man. It then turns to his vast, unfinished second novel,
Three Days Before the Shooting . . . , with detailed readings of that
powerful and elusive narrative. These essays are the first sustained
treatments of that posthumous work. The New Territory concludes
with five chapters that discuss Ellison’s political, cultural, and
historical significance, probing how he speaks to the contemporary moment and beyond.
Marc C. Conner, Lexington, Virginia, is the Ballengee Professor of
English and Associate Provost at Washington and Lee University.
He is the editor of The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison; Charles Johnson:
The Novelist as Philosopher (both published by University Press of
Mississippi); and The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered. With John
Callahan, he is the coeditor of The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and
a founding member of the Ralph Ellison Society. Lucas E. Morel,
Lexington, Virginia, is the Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and
Politics and Head of the Politics Department at Washington and
Lee University. He is the editor of Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope:
A Political Companion to “Invisible Man” and Lincoln for the Ages: The
Challenge of His Political Thought and Practice and author of Lincoln’s
Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government.
AUGUST, 352 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 3 b&w photographs, introduction,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
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ART | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | WOMEN’S STUDIES
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | WOMEN’S STUDIES | MENTAL HEALTH
Women Artists of the
Harlem Renaissance
This Woman’s Work
New in
paperback
EDITED BY AMY HELENE KIRSCHKE
Contributions from Renée Ater, Kirsten Pai Buick, Susan Earle, Lisa
Farrington, Melanie Herzog, Amy Helene Kirschke, Theresa LeiningerMiller, and Cary D. Wintz
Essays that explore how a system of patronage and sexism
marginalized some remarkable visual artists
W
omen artists of the Harlem
Renaissance dealt with issues
that were unique to both their gender
and their race. They experienced
racial prejudice, which limited their
ability to obtain training and be
taken seriously as working artists.
They also encountered prevailing
sexism, often an even more serious
barrier.
Including seventy-two black
and white illustrations, this book
chronicles the challenges of women
artists, who are in some cases unknown to the general public, and places their achievements in the
artistic and cultural context of early twentieth-century America.
Contributors to this first book on the women artists of the Harlem
Renaissance proclaim the legacy of Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux
Warrick Fuller, Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Prophet,
Lois Maillou Jones, Elizabeth Catlett, and many other painters,
sculptors, and printmakers.
In a time of more rigid gender roles, women artists faced the
added struggle of raising families and attempting to gain support
and encouragement from their often-reluctant spouses in order to
pursue their art. They also confronted the challenge of convincing
male artists that they, too, should be seen as important contributors to the artistic innovation of the era.
Amy Helene Kirschke, Wilmington, North Carolina, is a professor and chair at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, in the
Department of Art and Art History. She is the author of Aaron
Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance (published by
University Press of Mississippi) and Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois
and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory (winner
of the 2007 SECAC award for excellence in writing and research)
and coeditor of Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the
“Crisis,” and American History.
MARCH, 251 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 72 b&w illustrations, introduction,
index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0796-0
Ebook available
The Writing and Activism of
Bebe Moore Campbell
OSIZWE RAENA HARWELL
A critical biography of the novelist and champion for
mental health issues
T
his Woman’s Work presents
a social history and critical
biography based on the life of awardwinning writer Bebe Moore Campbell
(1950–2006). It offers the personal
story of a popular novelist, journalist,
and mental health advocate.
This book examines Campbell’s life
and activism in two periods: first,
as a student at the University of
Pittsburgh during the 1960s black
student movement and, second, as
a mental health advocate near the
end of her life in 2006. It describes
Campbell’s activism within the Black
Action Society from 1967 to 1971 and her negotiation of the Black
Nationalist ideologies espoused during the 1960s. The book also
explores Campbell’s later involvement in the National Alliance on
Mental Illness (NAMI), her role as a national spokesperson, and
the local activism that sparked the birth of the NAMI Urban–Los
Angeles chapter, which served black and Latino communities
(1999–2006).
Adjacent to her activist work, Campbell’s first novel, Your
Blues Ain’t Like Mine, connects to her emerging political consciousness (related to race and gender) and the concern for racial
violence during the US black liberation period from 1950 to 1970.
Similarly Campbell’s final novel, 72 Hour Hold, is examined closely
for its connection to her activism as well as the sociopolitical
commentary, emphasis on mental health disparities, coping with
mental illness, and advocacy in black communities. As a writer and
activist, Campbell immersed her readers in immediately relevant
historical and sociopolitical matters. This Woman’s Work is the first
full-length biography of Bebe Moore Campbell and details the
seamless marriage of her fiction writing and community activism.
Osizwe Raena Harwell, Atlanta, Georgia, received her PhD in
African American studies at Temple University. She is a veteran
educator, consultant, and public scholar, whose work examines
contemporary black women’s activism, contemporary black fiction,
and Africana gender and sexuality studies. She is a contributor to
Womanism Rising: Womanist Studies Is Here!
JUNE, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, appendices, index
Ebook available
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
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CIVIL RIGHTS | RHETORIC | MEDIA STUDIES
A Voice That Could
Stir an Army
SPORTS | WOMEN’S STUDIES | POPULAR CULTURE
New in
paperback
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric
of the Black Freedom Movement
MAEGAN PARKER BROOKS
The first scholarly analysis of the inspirational activist’s
profound speeches
A
sharecropper, a warrior, and a
truth-telling prophet, Fannie
Lou Hamer (1917–1977) stands as
a powerful symbol not only of the
1960s black freedom movement, but
also of the enduring human struggle
against oppression. A Voice That Could
Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography
that tells the story of Hamer’s life
by focusing on how she employed
symbols— images, words, and even
material objects such as the ballot,
food, and clothing—to construct
persuasive public personae, to
influence audiences, and to effect social change.
Drawing upon dozens of newly recovered Hamer texts
and recent interviews with Hamer’s friends, family, and fellow
activists, Maegan Parker Brooks moves chronologically through
Hamer’s life. Brooks recounts Hamer’s early influences, her
intersection with the black freedom movement, and her rise to
prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Brooks
also considers Hamer’s lesser-known contributions to the fight
against poverty and to feminist politics before analyzing how
Hamer is remembered posthumously. The book concludes by emphasizing what remains rhetorical about Hamer’s biography, using
the 2012 statue and museum dedication in Hamer’s hometown of
Ruleville, Mississippi, to examine the larger social, political, and
historiographical implications of her legacy.
The sustained consideration of Hamer’s wide-ranging use
of symbols and the reconstruction of her legacy provided within
the pages of A Voice That Could Stir an Army enrich understanding
of this key historical figure. This book also demonstrates how
rhetorical analysis complements historical reconstruction to
explain the dynamics of how social movements actually operate.
Maegan Parker Brooks, Denver, Colorado, is a member of the
National Fannie Lou Hamer Statue and Education Fund Committee. She is a lead researcher on a forthcoming documentary
about Hamer, and she recently coedited, with Davis W. Houck, The
Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (published by
University Press of Mississippi).
APRIL, 336 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 18 b&w illustrations, bibliography,
index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0793-9
Ebook available
Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
36
A Locker Room
of Her Own
New in
paperback
Celebrity, Sexuality, and
Female Athletes
EDITED BY DAVID C. OGDEN
AND JOEL NATHAN ROSEN
Essays by Lisa Doris Alexander, Kathleen A. Bishop, Angela J. Hattery,
Lisa R. Neilson, Roberta J. Newman, Elizabeth O’Connell, Martha Reid,
C. Oren Renick, Joel Nathan Rosen, Yvonne D. Sims, Earl Smith, Lea Robin
Velez, and Kimberly Young
Profiles of superstar women athletes and the obstacles
they face
F
emale athletes are too often
perceived as interlopers in the
historically male-dominated world of
sports. Obstacles specific to women
are of particular focus in A Locker Room
of Her Own. Race, sexual orientation,
and the similar qualities ancillary to
gender bear special exploration in how
they impact an athlete’s story. Central
to this volume is the contention
that women in their role as inherent
outsiders are placed in a unique
position even more complicated than
the usual experiences of inequality and
discord associated with race and sports. The contributors explore
and critique the notion that in order to be considered among the
pantheon of athletic heroes one cannot deviate from the traditional
demographic profile, that of the white male.
These essays look specifically and critically at the nature of
gender and sexuality within the contested nexus of race, reputation, and sport. The collection explores the reputations of iconic
and pioneering sports figures and the cultural and social forces
that helped to forge their unique and often problematic legacies.
Women athletes discussed in this volume include Babe Didrikson
Zaharias, the women of the AAGPBL, Billie Jean King, Venus and
Serena Williams, Marion Jones, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Sheryl Swoopes, Florence Griffith Joyner, Roberta Gibb and
Kathrine Switzer, and Danica Patrick.
David C. Ogden, Pacific Junction, Iowa, is associate professor in
the Department of Communications at University of Nebraska
at Omaha. Joel Nathan Rosen, Allentown, Pennsylvania, is
associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at Moravian
College. They are the editors of Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race,
and Evolving Reputations and Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the
Fall from Grace, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
MARCH, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, foreword, introduction, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0784-7
Ebook available
ETHNIC STUDIES | WHITENESS STUDIES | RACE RELATIONS
The Construction of Whiteness
WHITENESS STUDIES
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race
Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
EDITED BY STEPHEN MIDDLETON, DAVID R.
ROEDIGER, AND DONALD M. SHAFFER
Contributions by Sadhana Bery, Erica Cooper, Tim Engles, Matthew W.
Hughey, Becky Thompson, Veronica T. Watson, and Robert St. Martin Westley
A critical engagement with the origins, power, and
elusiveness of white privilege
T
his volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the
crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and
the various material practices (social,
cultural, political, and economic) that
undergird white ideological influence
in America. In truth, the need to
examine whiteness as a problem
has rarely been grasped outside
academic circles. The ubiquity of
whiteness—its pervasive quality as an
ideal that is at once omnipresent and
invisible—makes it the very epitome
of the mainstream in America. And yet the undeniable relationship
between whiteness and inequality in this country necessitates a
thorough interrogation of its formation, its representation, and its
reproduction. Essays here seek to do just that work. Editors and
contributors interrogate whiteness as a social construct, revealing
the underpinnings of narratives that foster white skin as an ideal
of beauty, intelligence, and power.
Contributors examine whiteness from several disciplinary
perspectives, including history, communication, law, sociology, and
literature. Its breadth and depth makes The Construction of Whiteness a refined introduction to the critical study of race for a new
generation of scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students.
Moreover, the interdisciplinary approach of the collection will
appeal to scholars in African and African American studies, ethnic
studies, cultural studies, legal studies, and more. This collection
delivers an important contribution to the field of whiteness studies
in its multifaceted impact on American history and culture.
Stephen Middleton, Starkville, Mississippi, is professor of
history and director of African American studies at Mississippi
State University. He is the author of The Black Laws: Race and the
Legal Process in Ohio, 1787–1860. David R. Roediger, Lawrence,
Kansas, is foundation professor of American studies and history
at University of Kansas. He is the author of Seizing Freedom: Slave
Emancipation and Liberty for All. Donald M. Shaffer, Starkville,
Mississippi, is associate professor of African American studies and
English at Mississippi State University. His work has appeared
in the Southern Literary Journal and the Western Journal of Black
Studies.
APRIL, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, 8 b&w illustrations,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
The Fugitive Race
The Souls of White Folk
Minority Writers Resisting
Whiteness
Stephen P. Knadler
Paper $25.00D 978-1-934110-34-8
Ebook available
African American Writers
Theorize Whiteness
Veronica T. Watson
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0245-3
Ebook available
Passing in the Works of
Charles W. Chesnutt
Whitewashing America
Edited by Susan Prothro Wright and
Ernestine Pickens Glass
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-324-7
Ebook available
Material Culture and Race in the
Antebellum Imagination
Bridget T. Heneghan
Paper $25.00D 978-1-934110-99-7
Ebook available
Faulkner and Whiteness
Edited by Jay Watson
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-942-3
Ebook available
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LITERATURE | FILM
LITERATURE | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | CARIBBEAN STUDIES
Faulkner and Film
EDITED BY PETER LURIE
AND ANN J. ABADIE
New in
paperback
Contributions by Deborah Barker, Ivan Delazari, Robert W. Hamblin,
Robert Jackson, Julian Murphet, Aaron Nyerges, Riché Richardson, Phil Smith,
and Stefan Solomon
A collection exploring the extensive connections between
the Nobel laureate’s work and cinema
C
onsidering that he worked a stint
as a screenwriter, it will come
as little surprise that Faulkner has
often been called the most cinematic
of novelists. Faulkner’s novels were
produced in the same high period
as the films of classic Hollywood, a
reason in itself for considering his
work alongside this dominant form.
Beyond their era, though, Faulkner’s
novels—or the ways in which they
ask readers to see as well as feel his
world—have much in common with
film. That Faulkner was aware of film
and that his novels’ own “thinking” betrays his profound sense of
the medium and its effects broadens the contexts in which he can
be considered.
In a range of approaches, the contributors consider Faulkner’s
career as a scenarist and collaborator in Hollywood, the ways his
screenplay work and the adaptations of his fiction informed his
literary writing, and how Faulkner’s craft anticipates, intersects
with, or reflects upon changes in cultural history across the
lifespan of cinema.
Drawing on film history, critical theory, archival studies
of Faulkner’s screenplays and scholarship about his work in
Hollywood, the nine essays show a keen awareness of literary
modernism and its relation to film.
Peter Lurie, Richmond, Virginia, is associate professor of English
and film studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author
of Vision’s Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination and has published numerous articles on Faulkner and film.
Ann J. Abadie, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director emerita
of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University
of Mississippi and the coeditor of numerous volumes in the
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series.
MAY, 272 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 17 b&w illustrations, introduction, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0799-1
Ebook available
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
Faulkner and the Black
Literatures of the Americas
EDITED BY JAY WATSON
AND JAMES G. THOMAS, JR.
Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Thadious M. Davis, Matthew Dischinger,
Dotty J. Dye, Chiyuma Elliott, Doreen Fowler, Joseph Fruscione, Austin
Graham, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Derrick Harriell, Randall Horton, Lisa
Hinrichsen, George Hutchinson, Andrew Leiter, John Wharton Lowe,
Jamaal May, Ben Robbins, Tim Ryan, Sharon Sarthou, Jenna Sciuto, and
James Smethurst
The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel
laureate and black writers
A
t the turn of the millennium,
the Martinican novelist Édouard
Glissant offered the bold prediction
that “Faulkner’s oeuvre will be made
complete when it is revisited and made
vital by African Americans,” a goal that
“will be achieved by a radically ‘other’
reading.” In the spirit of Glissant’s
prediction, this collection places
William Faulkner’s literary oeuvre in
dialogue with a hemispheric canon of
black writing from the United States
and the Caribbean. The volume’s
seventeen essays and poetry selections
chart lines of engagement, dialogue, and reciprocal resonance
between Faulkner and his black precursors, contemporaries, and
successors in the Americas.
Contributors place Faulkner’s work in illuminating conversation with writings by Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. E. B. Du Bois,
James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Claude
McKay, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Marie
Vieux-Chauvet, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Randall Kenan,
Edward P. Jones, and Natasha Trethewey, along with the musical
artistry of Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton.
In addition, five contemporary African American poets offer
their own creative responses to Faulkner’s writings, characters,
verbal art, and historical example. In these ways, the volume
develops a comparative approach to the Faulkner oeuvre that goes
beyond the compelling but limiting question of influence—who
read whom, whose works draw from whose—to explore the
confluences between Faulkner and black writing in the hemisphere.
Jay Watson, Oxford, Mississippi, is Howry Professor of Faulkner
Studies and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
He is the editor of Conversations with Larry Brown and coeditor of
Faulkner and Whiteness (University Press of Mississippi). James
G. Thomas, Jr., Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of
Southern Culture. He is editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah
(published by University Press of Mississippi) and an editor for the
twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
JUNE, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Ebook available
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
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LITERATURE | AMERICAN LITERATURE | WORLD LITERATURE
The Dixie Limited
Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence
FAULKNER AND
YOKNAPATAWPHA SERIES
EDITED BY M. THOMAS INGE
Contributions by Conrad Aiken, James Baldwin, Stephen Vincent Benet,
Arnold Bennett, Jorge Luis Borges, Kay Boyle, Roark Bradford, J. M.
Coetzee, Donald Davidson, John Dos Passos, Richard Ford, Carlos Fuentes,
George Garrett, Harry Golden, Caroline Gordon, John Grisham, Lillian
Hellman, Richard Hughes, Archibald MacLeish, Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Alice McDermott, Thomas Merton, Willie Morris, Wright Morris, Edwin
Muir, Vladimir Nabokov, Kenzaburo Oe, George Orwell, Dorothy Parker,
Padgett Powell, V. S. Pritchett, John Crowe Ransom, Jean-Paul Sartre,
Evelyn Scott, Lee Smith, Terry Southern, Elizabeth Spencer, Laurence
Stallings, Wallace Stegner, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty,
Paul West, Thornton Wilder, and Richard Wright
A dazzling collection of writers worldwide on the massive
authority of the Nobel laureate
F
lannery O’Connor once noted,
“The presence alone of Faulkner in
our midst makes a great difference in
what the writer can and cannot permit
himself to do. Nobody wants his mule
and wagon stalled on the same track
the Dixie Limited is roaring down.” Her
railroading metaphor wittily captures
much of the respect and unease Faulkner’s example brought the worldwide
community of authors.
Few other writers have exerted as
profound an influence on literature as
Faulkner. Prominent literary scholar
M. Thomas Inge documents the scope of his influence in the
twentieth century through the words of those writers themselves.
This collection of essays offers a survey attempting to capture
exactly what Faulkner meant to his literary peers and colleagues
both in the United States and abroad. Inge has combed essays,
articles, reviews, letters, and comments written by over forty
novelists, poets, and playwrights about Faulkner’s fiction and
the power of his literary accomplishment. Many major American
writers sound off here, as well as important figures from France,
England, Japan, and South America.
Some speak about his technical virtuosity and how this
expertise has directly influenced them, and others express the
difficulties of trying to escape his example. A few even criticize
him for what they see as artistic failures. The variety of responses
demonstrate, in any case, that Faulkner created an unavoidable
power in his own time and remains a permanent force in literature.
M. Thomas Inge, Ashland, Virginia, is the Robert Emory
Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph-Macon College,
where he teaches and writes about Southern culture, American
humor, the graphic novel, and William Faulkner. His previous
books on Faulkner include William Faulkner: The Contemporary
Reviews and an illustrated biography, William Faulkner. He is the
editor of Conversations with William Faulkner (University Press of
Mississippi).
JULY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Ebook available
Faulkner and Formalism
Returns of the Text
Edited by Annette Trefzer
and Ann J. Abadie
Paper $30.00D 978-1-62846-065-0
Ebook available
Faulkner and Gender
Edited by Donald M. Kartiganer
and Ann J. Abadie
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-703-0
Ebook available
Faulkner and Religion
Edited by Doreen Fowler
and Ann J. Abadie
Paper $30.00D 978-1-57806-929-3
Ebook available
Faulkner and Popular
Culture
and Ann J. Abadie
Paper $30.00D 978-0-87805-434-3
Ebook available
Faulkner and the Craft
of Fiction
and Ann J. Abadie
Paper $30.00D 978-0-87805-373-5
Ebook available
Faulkner and
Postmodernism
Edited by John N. Duvall
and Ann J. Abadie
Paper $30.00D 978-1-60473-253-5
Ebook available
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The Complete Folktales of
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Devery S. Anderson
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Malcolm Heard
Paper $40.00T 978-1-4968-0451-8
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David T. Dockery III and
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Foreword by Governor Phil Bryant
978-1-4968-0313-9
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John Pope
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Burial Customs of the Arkansas
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Abby Burnett
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Randy Fertel
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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and
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Conceptions of the African
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Michael K. Johnson
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Jack Cristil
Voice of the MSU Bulldogs,
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Sid Salter
Foreword by John Grisham
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0500-3
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Joe T. Patterson and the
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Evolving Resistance to Black
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Robert E. Luckett Jr.
978-1-4968-0269-9
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Interviews
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978-1-62846-213-5
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Lines of Scrimmage
A Story of Football, Race, and
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Joe Oestreich and
Scott Pleasant
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Lines Were Drawn
Remembering Court-Ordered
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Conversations
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978-1-4968-0326-9
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978-1-4968-0279-8
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Mississippi Fiddle Tunes
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Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin
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Performance, Identity, and
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Pioneering Cartoonists
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Tim Jackson
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The Possible South
Prefiguring Postblackness
Cultural Memory, Drama, and
the African American Freedom
Struggle of the 1960s
Carol Bunch Davis
978-1-4968-0298-9
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Race and the Obama
Phenomenon
The Vision of a More Perfect
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Raised Up Down Yonder
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Angela McMillan Howell
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Reading Like a Girl
Narrative Intimacy in
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Sara K. Day
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The Life of Walter Brennan
Carl Rollyson
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Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality
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Angelique V. Nixon
978-1-62846-218-0
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R. Bruce Brasell
978-1-4968-0408-2
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Return to Guntown
Post-Soul Satire
Right to Revolt
Black Identity after Civil Rights
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Classic Trials of the Outlaws and
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John Hailman
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The Crusade for Racial Justice in
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Patricia Michelle Boyett
978-1-4968-0430-3
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Rough South, Rural South
Edited by Jean W. Cash
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978-1-4968-0233-0
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SoulStirrers
Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral
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H. Ike Okafor-Newsum
(Horace Newsum)
Foreword by Demetrius L. Eudell
Introduction by John W. Roberts
978-1-62846-225-8
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Southern Ladies and
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Julia Ward Howe and Women’s
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Miki Pfeffer
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0448-8
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The Southern Manifesto
Massive Resistance and the Fight
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John Kyle Day
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0450-1
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Stable Views
Stories and Voices from the
Thoroughbred Racetrack
Ellen E. McHale
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-4968-0368-9
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The Story of French
New Orleans
Tell about Night Flowers
Eudora Welty’s Gardening
Letters, 1940–1949
Selected and edited by
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Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0467-9
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Toni Morrison
Memory and Meaning
Edited by Adrienne Lanier Seward
and Justine Tally
Foreword by Carolyn C. Denard
Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0449-5
Ebook available
To See Them Run
Great Plains Coyote Coursing
Eric A. Eliason
Photographs by Scott Squire
Foreword by Stephen Bodio
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-4968-0386-3
Ebook available
Uniting Mississippi
Democracy and Leadership
in the South
Eric Thomas Weber
Foreword by
Governor William F. Winter
Paper $20.00T 978-1-4968-0349-8
Ebook available
Vampires and Zombies
Transcultural Migrations and
Transnational Interpretations
Edited by Dorothea
Fischer-Hornung
and Monika Mueller
978-1-4968-0474-7
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History of a Creole City
Dianne Guenin-Lelle
978-1-4968-0486-0
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Woody Allen
Talking New Orleans Music
The Yorùbá God
of Drumming
Crescent City Musicians Talk
about Their Lives, Their Music,
and Their City
Burt Feintuch
Photographs by Gary Samson
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-4968-0362-7
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Interviews, Revised and Updated
Edited by Robert E. Kapsis
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0445-7
Ebook available
Transatlantic Perspectives
on the Wood That Talks
Edited by Amanda Villepastour
Preface by J. D. Y. Peel
978-1-4968-0293-4
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America’s Great Storm
Leading through Hurricane Katrina
Haley Barbour with Jere Nash
Foreword by Ricky Mathews
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Choctaw Tales
Collected and annotated by Tom Mould
Foreword by Chief Phillip Martin
Paper $25.00T 978-1-57806-683-4
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Coming Home to Mississippi
Edited by Charline R. McCord
and Judy H. Tucker
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Christmas Memories from
Mississippi
From Midnight to
Guntown
True Crime Stories from a
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John Hailman
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0259-0
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and Judy H. Tucker
Illustrated by Wyatt Waters
Cloth $20.00T 978-1-60473-755-4
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Delta Dogs
Maude Schuyler Clay
Introduction by Brad Watson
Essay by Beth Ann Fennelly
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An Alphabet
Walter Anderson
Paper $20.00T 978-0-87805-573-9
Ed King’s Mississippi
Blues Traveling
The Holy Sites of Delta Blues,
Third Edition
Steve Cheseborough
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Christmas Stories from
Mississippi
Behind the Scenes of
Freedom Summer
Rev. Ed King and Trent Watts
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-62846-115-2
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George Ohr
Sophisticate and Rube
Ellen J. Lippert
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Charline R. McCord
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Growing Up in Mississippi
Fish and Wildlife
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Bright Fields
The Mastery of Marie Hull
Bruce Levingston
Foreword by Michaela Merryday
Contributions by Jon Levingston,
Philip Jackson, and Mary Garrard
Cloth $50.00T 978-1-62846-487-0
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The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
Michael B. Ballard
Paper $28.00T 978-1-62846-170-1
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A Handbook for Mississippi
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Adam T. Rohnke and
James L. Cummins
Printed casebinding $50.00T
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Charline R. McCord
Foreword by Richard Ford
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Hurricane Katrina
The Mississippi Story
James Patterson Smith
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-023-9
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Mississippi Entrepreneurs
Jack Cristil
Voice of the MSU Bulldogs,
Revised Edition
Sid Salter
Foreword by John Grisham
Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0500-3
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Polly Dement
Foreword by Jesse L. White, Jr.
Cloth $37.00T 978-0-615-83832-8
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A New History of Mississippi
Return to Guntown
Once in a Lifetime
Samuel M. Gore
Dennis J. Mitchell
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-61703-976-8
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Classic Trials of the Outlaws and
Rogues of Faulkner Country
John Hailman
Cloth $29.95T 978-1-4968-0305-4
Ebook available
Mississippi Eyes
Juke Joint
Photographs by Birney Imes
Introductory essay by Richard Ford
Cloth $45.00T 978-1-61703-692-7
Looking Back Mississippi
Towns and Places
Forrest Lamar Cooper
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-61703-148-9
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The Story and Photography of the
Southern Documentary Project
Matt Herron
Foreword by John Dittmer
Cloth $45.00T 978-1-933945-18-7
Mississippi Hill Country
Blues 1967
George Mitchell
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-61703-816-7
Ebook available
Evan Peacock
Paper $22.00T 978-1-57806-767-1
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The Mississippi Cookbook
The Mississippi Cooperative
Extension Service
Foreword by Martha Hall Foose
Paper $25.00T 978-0-87805-381-0
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Blessed with Tired Hands
Barbara Gauntt
Foreword by Wyatt Waters
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-686-7
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Troutmouth
The Two Careers of Hugh Clegg
Ronald F. Borne
Cloth $35.00S 978-1-62846-208-1
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My Mississippi
Mississippi Archaeology
Q&A
Reflections of a Mississippi
First Lady
Elise Varner Winter
Edited by JoAnne Prichard Morris
Cloth $28.00T 978-1-62846-219-7
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Willie Morris
Photographs by David Rae Morris
Cloth $42.00T 978-1-57806-193-8
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New Delta Rising
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Introduction by Rick Bragg
Text by Barry H. Smith
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One Writer’s Garden
Eudora Welty’s Home Place
Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown
Photographs by Langdon Clay
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Photographs
Eudora Welty
Foreword by Reynolds Price
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Wilder Ways
Donald C. Jackson
Illustrated by Robert T. Jackson
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