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UNIVERSITY PRESS of MISSISSIPPI
Rolland Golden: Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter, page 7
Books for Fall–Winter 2014—2015
Contents
20 Alexander Payne: Interviews
28 Anywhere But Here
27 The Architecture of William Nichols
16 Asian Comics
4 Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other
Persons of Interest
17 Autobiographical Comics
20 Baz Luhrmann: Interviews
33 Behold the Proverbs of a People
19 Black and Brown Planets
16 Boys Love Manga and Beyond
12 The Civil War in Mississippi
18 Clockwork Rhetoric
32 The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev
22 Conversations with Jerome Charyn
6 Conversations with Steve Martin
30 Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory
15 Dave Sim: Conversations
eath, Disability, and the Superhero
18 D
9Ed King’s Mississippi
23 Eleanor H. Porter’s Pollyanna
23 Faulkner and Film
25 Free Jazz/Black Power
29 Gone to the Grave
30 The Grenada Revolution
21 Harmony Korine: Interviews
13 He Stopped Loving Her Today
19 Hearths of Darkness
15 Howard Chaykin: Conversations
14 Insider Histories of Cartooning
17 Japanese Animation
13 Joan Blondell
10The Lakes of Pontchartrain
24 Listen to This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
5 A Mickey Mouse Reader
2 Mississippi Eyes
12 Mississippi in the Civil War
26 The Mississippi Secession Convention
31 The Music of the Netherlands Antilles
24 Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana
Music
11 Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
21 Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews
29 The Port Royal Experiment
6 Rolland Golden
1 The Search for Good Wine
28 Searching for the New Black Man
14 Seth: Conversations
4 Song of My Life: A Biography of
Margaret Walker
27 Southern Ladies and Suffragists
26 The State of Health and Health Care in Mississippi
25 Time in Television Narrative
8 To Write in the Light of Freedom
10 Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead
32 A Vulgar Art
5 Walt before Mickey
8 Wednesdays in Mississippi
Calendar of Publication Dates
AVAILABLE: Mississippi Eyes: The Story and Photography of the Southern Documentary
Project SEPTEMBER: Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest:
Fifty Pieces from the Road • Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk
• Conversations with Jerome Charyn • Conversations with Steve Martin • Faulkner
and Film • Rolland Golden: Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter • Wednesdays
in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964
OCTOBER: Alexander Payne: Interviews • Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race
in Science Fiction • Ed King’s Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer •
Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850–1950 • A Mickey
Mouse Reader • The Mississippi Secession Convention: Delegates and Deliberations in
Politics and War, 1861–1865 • The Search for Good Wine: From the Founding Fathers
to the Modern Table NOVEMBER: Baz Luhrmann: Interviews • Behold the Proverbs of
a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics • Death, Disability, and
the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond • Eleanor H. Porter’s Pollyanna: A Children’s
Classic at 100 • Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker • Southern Ladies and
Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women’s Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair
• Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead: The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson DECEMBER:
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev: Volume I • Critical Interventions in Caribbean
Politics and Theory • Harmony Korine: Interviews • Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the
American Horror Film, Updated Edition • Insider Histories of Cartooning: Rediscovering
Forgotten Famous Comics and Their Creators • The Port Royal Experiment: A Case
Study in Development • A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy JANUARY:
Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond • Asian
Comics • Free Jazz/Black Power • The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven
Antilleans Knelt before Chopin’s Heart • Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana
Music: Categories, Stereotypes, and Identifications • Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews
FEBRUARY: The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in
North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi • Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History,
Culture, and Community in Japan • The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons •
Listen to This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew • Seth: Conversations • The State of Health
and Health Care in Mississippi • To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of
the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
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Illustrations and photographs—Front cover: Windsor Christmas, 1970, by Rolland Golden,
courtesy Rolland Golden; back cover: Jim Boebel and a local man mount shotgun watch in the front
room of the community center. Firebombing by the Ku Klux Klan was an ever-present danger. Library
books were donated by Friends of SNCC groups in the North. © Matt Herron
WINE • FOOD
The Search for Good Wine
From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table
John Hailman
The Search for Good Wine is a highly entertaining and informative book on all aspects of
wine and its consumption by nationally syndicated wine columnist John Hailman, author
of the critically acclaimed Thomas Jefferson on Wine. Hailman explores the wine-drinking
experiences and tastes of famous wine lovers from jolly Ben Franklin and the surprisingly
enthusiastic George Washington to Julius Caesar, Sherlock Holmes, and Ernest Hemingway among numerous other famous figures. Hailman also recounts in fascinating detail
the exotic life of the founder of the California wine industry, Hungarian Agoston Haraszthy,
who introduced Zinfindel to the United States.
Hailman gives calm and reliable guidance on how to deal with snobby wine waiters
and how to choose the best wine books and travel guides. He simplifies the ABCs of winegrape types from the delicate Pinot Noirs of Oregon to the robust Malbecs of Argentina
and from the vibrant new whites of Spain to the great reds (old and new) of Italy. The entire
book is dedicated to finding values in wine. As Hailman says, “Everyone always wants to
know one basic thing: How can you get the best possible wine for the lowest possible
price?” His new book is highly practical and effective in answering that eternal question
and many more about wine.
A judge at the top international wine competitions for over thirty years, Hailman examines those experiences and the value of “blind” tastings. He gives insightful tips on how
to select a good wine store, how to decipher wine labels and wine lists, and even how to
extract unruly Champagne corks without crippling yourself or others. Hailman simplifies
wine jargon and effectively demystifies the culture of wine fascination, restoring the consumption of wine to the natural pleasure it really should be.
John Hailman, Oxford, Mississippi, has worked as a wine consultant, a nationally syndicated weekly wine columnist, and a regular wine judge for over twenty years. He is also
a retired federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Oxford, Mississippi. He is the
author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine and From Midnight to Guntown, both from University
Press of Mississippi.
OCTOBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Cloth $29.95T 978-1-62846-136-7
Ebook available
ONE HUNDRED AMUSING,
PRACTICAL ESSAYS ON
HOW TO ENJOY AND
AFFORD GOOD WINES BY
THE AUTHOR OF THOMAS
JEFFERSON ON WINE
INCLUDES
• T
ips for choosing the
right wine for the right
occasion
• S
tories of famous wine
lovers such as Thomas
Jefferson and Benjamin
Franklin
• I nformation on some of
the most famous and
lesser-known wines
•
Suggestions on where to
enjoy good wine
• E
xplanation of wine
terminology
•
Tips for buying, serving,
and storing good wine
John Hailman (right) with
Monticello winemaker
Gabriele Rausse in the
restored Monticello
vineyards, courtesy the
author.
Order online at www.upress.state.ms.us
University Press of Mississippi
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PHOTOGRAPHY • CIVIL RIGHTS
Mississippi Eyes
The Story and Photography of the Southern Documentary Project
Matt Herron
Foreword by John Dittmer
IN WORDS AND PICTURES
THE INCREDIBLE STORY
OF PHOTOGRAPHERS
DOCUMENTING THE
FREEDOM SUMMER
OF 1964 AND SOCIAL
CHANGE THROUGHOUT
THE DEEP SOUTH
Mississippi Eyes is the chronicle of the events and the powerful witness of five young photographers in the Southern Documentary Project, working during the pivotal summer of 1964 in
the segregated South. Together they captured the sometimes violent, sometimes miraculous
process of social change as segregation resisted then gave way to a new beginning toward
social justice.
With 160 black-and-white photographs, this book begins in the winter mud of the Mississippi Delta and ends in Atlantic City’s convention hall as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party delegation challenged the official Mississippi delegates to the National Democratic
Convention. The Southern Documentary Project was the brain child of Matt Herron, a budding
photojournalist who had moved with his family to Mississippi in 1963 to work in civil rights
and shoot picture stories for Life, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post. Drawing on advice
from his friend, legendary documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, he pulled together a
shoestring budget, recruited photographers with civil rights experience, and completed the
summer with a file of unforgettable photographs.
Along the way, Southern Documentary photographers suffered beatings and nearly died
at the hands of a sheriff’s posse in Selma, Alabama. They documented elsewhere a moving
service in a sharecropper’s church and captured inspirational encounters between Ivy League
student teachers and black children in Freedom Schools. They followed the heartbreaking
struggle of a young boy to confront the murder of his older brother by Klansmen. Mississippi
Eyes is the only book to provide a firsthand account of what it was actually like to photograph
the civil rights struggle in the Deep South.
Matt Herron, San Rafael, California,
has been a photographer, writer, and
photojournalist for most of his life. He
has been an ocean voyager, an environmental activist (with Greenpeace),
a welder, and a labor organizer. Today
he directs Take Stock, a stock photography agency specializing in historical
civil rights and farm labor images.
AVAILABLE, 144 pages, 10½ x 10½
inches, 160 b&w photographs, foreword,
appendix, index
Cloth $45.00T 978-1-933945-18-7
Distributed for Talking Fingers
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Left then clockwise: Matt Herron,
Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1965 © Bob
Fitch; Edie Black with some of her
students © Matt Herron; Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party supporter on
the Atlantic City Boardwalk © George
Ballis; Reverend J. J. Russell giving the
invocation © Matt Herron
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BIOGRAPHY • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
JOURNALISM • POLITICS • SOUTHERN STATES
Song of My Life
Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians,
and Other Persons of Interest
A Biography of Margaret Walker
Carolyn J. Brown
Margaret Walker (1915–1998) has
been described as “the most famous
person nobody knows.” This is a shocking oversight of an award-winning
poet, novelist, essayist, educator, and
activist as well as friend and mentor to
many prominent African American
writers. Song of My Life reintroduces
Margaret Walker to readers by telling
her story—one that many can relate to
as she overcame obstacles related to
race, gender, and poverty.
Walker was born in 1915 in Birmigham, Alabama, to parents who prized
THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY
education above all else. Obtaining that
OF THE MUCH ADMIRED education was not easy for either her
AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL parents or herself, but Walker went on
to earn both her master’s and doctorJUBILEE AND THE POEM
ate from the University of Iowa. Walk“FOR MY PEOPLE”
er’s journey to become a nationally
known writer and educator is an incredible story of hard work and perseverance. Her years as a public figure connected her to Richard
Wright, Langston Hughes, Alex Haley, and a host of other important literary and historical figures.
Song of My Life opens with her family and those who inspired
her—her parents, her grandmother, her most important teachers
and mentors—all significant influences on her reading and
writing life. Chapters trace her path over the course of the twentieth century as she travels to Chicago and becomes a member
of the South Side Writers’ Group with Richard Wright. She was
accepted into the newly created Master of Fine Arts Program
at the University of Iowa. Back in the South, she pursues and
achieves her dream of becoming a writer and college educator
as well as wife and mother. Walker struggles to support herself,
her sister, and later her husband and children, but she overcomes
financial hardships, prejudice, and gender bias and achieves
great success. She penned the acclaimed novel Jubilee, received
numerous lifetime achievement awards, and was a beloved
faculty member for three decades at Jackson State University in
Jackson, Mississippi.
Carolyn J. Brown, Jackson, Mississippi, is a writer, editor,
and independent scholar. She is the author of A Daring Life: A
Biography of Eudora Welty and has taught at Elon University, the
University of North Carolina–Greensboro, and Millsaps College.
NOVEMBER, 144 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 93 b&w illustrations,
chronology, appendices, bibliography, index
Cloth $20.00T 978-1-62846-147-3
Ebook available
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Fifty Pieces from the Road
Curtis Wilkie
Foreword by Hank Klibanoff
Writing as a newspaper reporter for
nearly forty years, Curtis Wilkie covered
eight presidential campaigns, spent
years in the Middle East, and traveled to
a number of conflicts abroad. However,
his memory kept turning home and
many of his most treasured stories transpire in the Deep South. He called his
native Mississippi “the gift that keeps
on giving.” For Wilkie, it represented
a trove of rogues and racists, colorful
personalities and outlandish politicians
who managed to thrive among people
otherwise kind and generous.
A COMPILATION FROM
Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians,
THE INCOMPARABLE
and Other Persons of Interest collects
news dispatches and feature stories
CAREER OF ONE OF
from the author during a journalism
THE ORIGINAL “BOYS
career that began in 1963 and lasted
ON THE BUS”
until 2000. As a young reporter for the
Clarksdale Press Register, he wrote
many articles that dealt with the civil
rights movement, which dominated the news in the Mississippi
Delta during the 1960s. Wilkie spent twenty-six years as a
national and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe. One of
the original “Boys on the Bus” (the title of a best-selling book
about journalists covering the 1972 presidential campaign), he
later wrote extensively about the winning races of two southern
presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Wilkie is known for stories reported deeply, rife with anecdotes,
physical descriptions, and important background details. He
writes about the notorious, such as the late Hunter S. Thompson,
as well as more anonymous subjects whose stories, in his hands,
have enduring interest. The anthology collects pieces about several notable southerners: Ross Barnett; Byron De La Beckwith and
Sam Bowers; Billy Carter; Edwin Edwards and David Duke; Trent
Lott; and Charles Evers. Wilkie brings a perceptive eye to people
and events, and his eloquent storytelling represents some of the
best journalistic writing.
Curtis Wilkie, Oxford, Mississippi, spent most of his career as a
national and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe. After
his retirement, he joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches journalism and serves as a fellow at the
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. He is the
author of three previous books, including The Fall of the House
of Zeus.
SEPTEMBER, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, foreword, index
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-62846-126-8
Ebook available
NEW IN
PAPERBACK
POPULAR CULTURE • ANIMATION
BIOGRAPHY • ANIMATION
A Mickey Mouse Reader
Walt before Mickey
Edited by Garry Apgar
Contributions by Walter Benjamin, Lillian
Disney, Walt Disney, E. M. Forster, Stephen
Jay Gould, M. Thomas Inge, Jim Korkis,
Anna Quindlen, Diego Rivera, Gilbert Seldes, Maurice Sendak, John Updike, Irving
Wallace, Cholly Wood, and many others
Ranging from the playful to the factfilled and the thoughtful, this collection
tracks the fortunes of Walt Disney’s
flagship character. From the first fullfledged review of his screen debut in
November 1928 to the present day,
Mickey Mouse has won millions of fans
THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY
and charmed even the harshest of critTO CHART THE DISNEY
ics. Almost half of the eighty-one texts
in A Mickey Mouse Reader document
CHARACTER’S ASCENT
the
Mouse’s rise to glory from that first
TO THE RANK OF
cartoon, Steamboat Willie, through
GLOBAL ICON
his seventh year when his first color
animation, The Band Concert, was
released. They include two important
early critiques, one by the American culture critic Gilbert Seldes
and one by the famed English novelist E. M. Forster.
Articles and essays chronicle the continued rise of Mickey
Mouse to the rank of true icon. He remains arguably the most
vivid graphic expression to date of key traits of the American
character—pluck, cheerfulness, innocence, energy, and fidelity
to family and friends. Among press reports in the book is one
from June 1944 that puts to rest the urban legend that “Mickey
Mouse” was a password or code word on D-Day. It was, however,
the password for a major pre-invasion briefing.
Other items illuminate the origins of “Mickey Mouse” as a
term for things deemed petty or unsophisticated. One piece
explains how Walt and brother Roy Disney, almost single-handedly, invented the strategy of corporate synergy by tagging sales
of Mickey Mouse toys and goods to the release of Mickey’s latest
cartoon shorts. In two especially interesting essays, Maurice
Sendak and John Updike look back over the years and give their
personal reflections on the character they loved as boys growing
up in the 1930s.
Garry Apgar, Bridgeport, Connecticut, is an art historian and former cartoonist and journalist. He is the author of Mickey Mouse:
Emblem of the American Spirit and coauthor of The Newspaper
in Art.
OCTOBER, 336 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 12 b&w illustrations,
introduction, appendices, bibliography, index
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-103-9
Ebook available
Disney’s Early Years, 1919–1928
Timothy S. Susanin
Foreword by Diane Disney Miller
For ten years before the creation of
Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled
with, failed at, and eventually mastered
the art and business of animation.
Most biographies of his career begin
in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was
released. That first Disney Studio cartoon with synchronized sound made
its main character—Mickey Mouse—an
icon for generations.
But Steamboat Willie was neither
Disney’s first cartoon nor Mickey
Mouse’s first appearance. Prior to this
groundbreaking achievement, Walt
THE UNTOLD STORY
Disney worked in a variety of venues
OF TEN CRITICAL,
and studios, refining what would
become known as the Disney style. In
FORMATIVE YEARS IN
Walt before Mickey, 1919–1928, TimTHE GREAT
othy Susanin creates a portrait of the
PRODUCER’S LIFE
artist from age seventeen to the cusp
of his international renown.
After serving in the Red Cross in France after World War I, Walt
Disney worked for advertising and commercial art in Kansas City.
Disney used these experiences to create four studios—Kaycee
Studios, Laugh-O-gram Films, Disney Brothers Studio, and Walt
Disney Studio. Using company documents, private correspondence between Disney and his brother Roy, contemporary
newspaper accounts, and new interviews with Disney’s associates, Susanin traces Disney’s path. The author shows Disney to
be a complicated, resourceful man, especially during his early
career. Walt before Mickey, a critical biography of a man at a
crucial juncture, provides the “missing decade” that started Walt
Disney’s career and gave him the skills to become a name known
worldwide.
Timothy S. Susanin, Villanova, Pennsylvania, is the general counsel of a Fortune 500 company, and a former federal prosecutor,
Navy JAG, and television legal commentator. His work in animation history and criticism has been published in Didier Ghez’s
Walt’s People volumes and on MichaelBarrier.com.
SEPTEMBER, 384 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 50 b&w illustrations, foreword,
bibliography, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-163-3
Ebook available
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BIOGRAPHY • POPULAR CULTURE • LITERATURE
MEMOIR • ART • LOUISIANA
Conversations with
Steve Martin
Rolland Golden
Edited by Robert E. Kapsis
Conversations with Steve Martin presents a collection of interviews and
profiles that focus on Martin as a writer,
artist, and original thinker over the
course of more than four decades in
show business. While those less familiar
with his full body of work may think of
Martin as primarily the “wild and crazy
guy” with an arrow through his head,
this book makes the case that he is in
fact one of our nation’s most accomplished and varied artists. It shows the
full range of Martin’s creative work,
tracing the source of his comic imagina“WRITER’S BLOCK IS A
tion from his early standup days, starting
FANCY TERM MADE UP in the mid to late 1960s through the
films he has written and starred in, and
BY WHINERS SO THEY
emphasizing his more recent creative
CAN HAVE AN EXCUSE
outpourings as playwright, essayist,
novelist, memoirist, songwriter, comTO DRINK ALCOHOL.”
poser, musician, and art critic.
“Standup is the hardest material in
the world to write for someone else; it’s like trying to condense
ten years of experience into twenty minutes of new material,”
Martin says. But commenting on his fiction writing, he says, “I
think you have to be able to find as a writer that state where you
don’t know what you’re going to say or what the character is
going to say or who the characters are. That’s the biggest thrill
of all. When you start to trust that subconscious thing and you
don’t censor yourself—just remember you can always throw it
away—that’s when the good stuff comes out.”
Robert E. Kapsis, Great Neck, New York, is professor of sociology
and film studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of
the City University of New York. He is the author of Hitchcock:
The Making of a Reputation and editor of several volumes in the
Conversations with Filmmakers Series, including a forthcoming,
updated edition of Woody Allen: Interviews.
Life, Love, and Art in the French Quarter
Rolland Golden
In the early twentieth century, the
French Quarter had become home to
a vibrant community of working artists
attracted to the atmosphere, architecture, and colorful individuals who populated the scene (and who also became
some of its first preservationists). Louisiana native Rolland Golden was one
of these artists to live, work, and raise
a family in this most storied corner of
New Orleans. Replete with ninety-four
black-and-white and fifty-four color
photographs and illustrations, many
never before seen, his memoir of that
AN EXTRAORDINARY
life focuses on the period of 1955 to
RECOLLECTION OF
1976. Golden, a painter, discusses the
particular challenges of making a living
HOW AN ARTIST LIVED
from art, and his story becomes a family
AND WORKED IN THE
affair involving his daughters and his
FRENCH QUARTER
beloved wife, Stella.
BEFORE ITS GENTRIFI Golden’s studio sat in a patio on
Royal Street, around the corner from
CATION
Preservation Hall where old-time musicians played Dixieland Jazz. Golden
sketched and painted many of them in a visual style that encompassed realism and gradually developed into abstract realism.
Golden recalls work that he did in historic preservation, sketching
architecture for publications such as the Vieux Carre Courier, and
he relates his studies with renowned regionalist painter John McCrady. The artist frankly discusses his experiences with the display,
representation, and sale of his work, presenting a little-explored
yet crucial part of a working artist’s life. The memoir concludes
with Golden and his wife traveling to the premiere of his exhibition in Moscow, having been selected by a Russian envoy as the
only American artist to have a one-man touring exhibition in the
former Soviet Union.
SEPTEMBER, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
index
Printed casebinding $85.00S 978-1-62846-113-8
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-125-1
Ebook available
Literary Conversations Series
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Rolland Golden, Folsom, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi, has won countless awards from New York to California.
He has held over one hundred one-man shows in galleries,
cultural centers, and museums in the United States. His
works reside in museums such as the New Orleans Museum
of Art; the Pushkin Museum, Moscow; and the Ogden
Museum of Southern Art.
SEPTEMBER, 368 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 94 b&w
photographs/illustrations, 54 color illustrations
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-128-2
Ebook available
Left then clockwise: Worn Out, 1973; Tomatoes, Lady, 1961;
Rolland painting in Burgundy St. studio, 1967; courtesy Rolland
Golden.
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CIVIL RIGHTS • SOUTHERN STATES • RACE RELATIONS
CIVIL RIGHTS • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES •
Wednesdays in Mississippi
To Write in the Light
of Freedom
Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change,
Freedom Summer 1964
Debbie Z. Harwell
As 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
THE STORY OF BRAVE
them to build understanding across race, region, and
WOMEN WHO MET
religion where other overtures had failed.
TO BUILD BRIDGES
The only civil rights program created for women
by
women
as part of a national organization, WIMS
BETWEEN THE
offers a new paradigm through which to study civil
RACES AND END
rights activism, challenging the stereotype of FreeSEGREGATION
dom Summer activists as young student radicals
and demonstrating the effectiveness of the subtle
approach taken by these women. 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 strived 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.
SEPTEMBER, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, appendix, bibliography, index
Ebook available
8 University Press of Mississippi
The Newspapers of the 1964
Mississippi Freedom Schools
Edited by William Sturkey and
Jon N. Hale
Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write
in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into
the hearts of the African American youths who
attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in
1964. One of the most successful initiatives
of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of
young African American students. Here they
learned civics, politics, and history, curricula
that helped them see beyond the degrading
lessons supporting segregation and Jim Crow
and sanctioned by White Citizen’s Councils.
Young people enhanced their self-esteem and
gained a new outlook on the future. And at
more than a dozen of these schools, students
wrote, edited, printed, and published their
own newspapers. For more than five decades,
the Mississippi Freedom Schools have served
as powerful models of educational activism.
Yet, little has been published that documents
black Mississippi youths’ responses to this
profound experience.
For the first time, the sincere words,
thoughts, and dreams of the original students
are published here in a powerful documentary
collection. This edited volume contains hundreds of newspaper articles written by those
black youths who yearned to gain knowledge
and pursue greater levels of freedom. The
homegrown newspapers from the many
schools contain a variety of poems, stories,
essays, and testimonies that yield raw, honest
reactions to Freedom Schools, to the civil
rights movement, and to life under Jim Crow.
Together, these transcribed newspaper pieces
recover the inspiring voices of Freedom
School students, and offer a unique vision of
how everyday youth responded to the clarion
call of the civil rights movement.
MEDIA STUDIES
CIVIL RIGHTS • HISTORY • PHOTOGRAPHY
Ed King’s Mississippi
Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer
Rev. Ed King and Trent Watts
A COLLECTION AND
EXAMINATION OF THE
CREATIVE LITERARY WORK
OF FREEDOM STUDENTS
DISCOVERING PATHWAYS
TO RACIAL JUSTICE
William Sturkey, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department
of History at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. His work has appeared in the
Journal of Mississippi History and the Journal
of African American History. Jon N. Hale,
Charleston, South Carolina, is an assistant
professor at the College of Charleston in
South Carolina. His work has appeared in the
Journal of African American History, History of
Education Quarterly, South Carolina Historical
Magazine, and Journal of Social Studies
Research.
FEBRUARY, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches,
25 b&w illustrations, introduction, index
Ebook available
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African
American Studies
Ed King’s Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of
Freedom Summer features more than forty
unpublished black-and-white photographs
and substantial writings by the prominent
civil rights activist Rev. Ed King. The images
and text provide a unique perspective on
Mississippi during the summer of 1964. Taken
in Jackson, Greenwood, and Philadelphia, the
photographs showcase informal images of
Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Mississippi civil rights workers, and college student
volunteers in the movement. Ed King’s
AN EXTRAORDINARY PHOwritings offer background and insights on the
motivations and work of Freedom Summer
TOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY
volunteers, on the racial climate of Mississippi
FROM BEHIND THE SCENES
during the late 1950s and 1960s, and on the
DURING THE STRUGGLE FOR
grassroots efforts by black Mississippians to
CIVIL RIGHTS
enter the political arena and exercise their
fundamental civil rights.
King, a native of Vicksburg and a Methodist minister, was a founder of the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party and a key figure in the civil rights movement in
the 1960s. As one of the few white Mississippians with a leadership position
in the movement, his words and photographs offer a rare behind-the-scenes
chronicle of events in the state during Freedom Summer. Historian Trent Watts
furnishes a substantial introduction to the volume and offers background on
the Freedom Summer campaign as well as an overview of King’s civil rights
activism from the late 1950s to the present day.
Rev. Ed King, Jackson, Mississippi, was a major figure in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. A chaplain at Tougaloo College, he also became a key
leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). In the 1963 Freedom Vote mock campaign and election, King ran for lieutenant governor and
Aaron Henry, president of the Mississippi NAACP, ran for governor. King was an
MFDP delegate to the 1964 and 1968 Democratic National Conventions and
helped found the Mississippi Civil Liberties Union. Trent Watts, Rolla, Missouri,
is associate professor of American studies at the Missouri University of Science
and Technology. He is the author of One Homogeneous People: Narratives of
White Southern Identity, 1890–1920 and White Masculinity in the Recent South.
OCTOBER, 176 pages (approx.), 8 x 8 inches, 42 b&w photographs, introduction,
bibliography, index
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-62846-115-2
Ebook available
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TRUE CRIME • HISTORY • LOUISIANA
ENVIRONMENT • SOUTHERN STATES • LOUISIANA
Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Jim Bradshaw and Danielle Miller
Robert W. Hastings
In 1902, on a prairie in southwest Louisiana, six members of a farming family
are found murdered. Albert Edwin Batson, a white, itinerant farm worker,
transformed from likely suspect to likely
lynching victim as people in the surrounding countryside lusted for vengeance. In a territory where the locals
were coping with the opening of the
prairies by the railroad and the disorienting, disruptive advances of the rice
and oil industries into what was predominantly cattle country, Batson, an
outsider, made an ideal scapegoat.
HOW THE TANGLES OF
Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
tells the story of the legal trials of Batson
JUSTICE ENSNARED AN for the murder of six members of the
Earll family and of the emotional trial of
ITINERANT WORKER IN
his mother. She believed him innocent
LOUISIANA
and worked tirelessly, but futilely, to
save her son’s life. Almost two dozen
photos of Batson, his mother, and the principals involved in his
arrest and convictions help bring this struggle to life.
Though the evidence against him was entirely circumstantial,
most of the citizenry of southwest Louisiana considered him
guilty. Sensational headlines in national and local newspapers
stirred up so much emotion, authorities feared he would be
lynched before they could hang him legally. Even-handed, objective, and thorough, the authors sift the evidence and lament the
incompetence of Batson’s court-appointed attorneys. The state
tried the young man and convicted him twice of the murders
and sentenced him each time to death. Louisiana’s governor
refused to accept the state pardon board’s recommendation that
Batson’s final sentence be commuted to life in prison. A stranger
in a rapidly changing society, Batson was hanged.
A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake
Pontchartrain Basin actually contains
three major bodies of water—Lakes
Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas.
These make up the Pontchartrain
estuary. Robert W. Hastings provides a
thorough examination of the historical
and environmental research on the
basin, with emphasis on its environmental degradation and the efforts
to restore and protect this estuarine
system. He also explores the current
biological condition of the lakes.
A COMPREHENSIVE
Hastings begins with the geologiEXPLORATION OF
cal formation of the lakes and the relaTHE FASCINATING
tionship between Native Americans
and the water they referred to as
ECOLOGY AND
Okwa’ta, the “wide water.” From the
HISTORY OF ONE
historical period, he describes the forOF THE SOUTH’S
ays of French explorer Pierre Le Moyne
D’Iberville in 1699 and traces the enviMOST COMPLEX AND
ronmental history of the basin through
THRIVING ESTUARIES
the development of the New Orleans
metropolitan area. Using the lakes for
transportation and then recreation, the surrounding population
burgeoned. This growth resulted in severe water pollution and
other environmental problems. In the 1980s the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation led a concerted drive to restore the lakes,
an ongoing effort that remains significant.
The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson
Jim Bradshaw, Washington, Louisiana, retired as an editor and
writer for the Lafayette Daily Advertiser in 2008 but continues to
write his popular “C’est Vrai” column for syndication. Author of
three previous books on Louisiana, he has written for newspapers
and magazines for more than forty years, and his columns have
received national and regional awards. Danielle Miller, Sulphur,
Louisiana, lived and worked around the world before taking a job
with the Calcasieu Parish Public Library System in 1991. She is a
researcher and translator in French genealogy.
Their History and Environments
Robert W. Hastings, Prattville, Alabama, is a retired professor
of biological sciences from Southeastern Louisiana University
currently working for the Auburn University Environmental Institute and the Alabama Natural Heritage Program. His work has
appeared in a variety of journals, and his conservation efforts in
Louisiana have been recognized with numerous awards.
OCTOBER, 344 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 46 b&w illustrations,
5 maps, bibliography, index
Paper $30.00R 978-1-62846-168-8
Ebook available
appendices, bibliography, index
Printed casebinding $30.00T 978-1-62846-099-5
Ebook available
10 University Press of Mississippi
PUBLIC POLICY • ENVIRONMENT • LOUISIANA
NEW IN
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RECENT LOUISIANA TITLES
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
Craig E. Colten
The hurricane protection systems that
failed New Orleans when Katrina roared
on shore in 2005 were the product of
four decades of engineering hubris,
excruciating delays, and social conflict.
In Perilous Place, Powerful Storms,
Craig E. Colten traces the protracted
process of erecting massive structures
designed to fend off tropical storms
and examines how human actions and
inactions left the system incomplete on
the eve of its greatest challenge.
Hurricane Betsy in 1965 provided
the impetus for Congress to approve
A HISTORY OF OVERunprecedented hurricane protection
REACHING, GRIDLOCK,
for the New Orleans area. Army Engineers swiftly outlined a monumental
INTRIGUE, AND THE
barrier network that would not only
FINAL CATASTROPHIC
safeguard the city at the time but also
RESULTS ALONG
provide for substantial growth. SchedAMERICA’S MOST
uled for completion in 1978, the project encountered a host of frustrating
VULNERABLE
delays. From newly imposed environCOASTLINE
mental requirements to complex construction challenges, to funding battles,
to disputes over proper structures, the
buffer envisioned for southeast Louisiana remained incomplete
forty years later as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city.
As Colten reveals, the very remedies intended to shield the
city ultimately contributed immensely to the residents’ vulnerability by encouraging sprawl into flood-prone territory that was
already sinking within the ring of levees. Perilous Place, Powerful
Storms illuminates the political, social, and engineering lessons
of those who built a hurricane protection system that failed and
serves as a warning for those guiding the recovery of post-Katrina
New Orleans and Louisiana.
Livestock Brands
and Marks
An Unexpected Bayou Country
History 1822–1946:
Pioneer Families:
Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
Christopher E. Cenac Sr.,
M.D., F.A.C.S., with
Claire Domangue Joller
Foreword by Clifton Theriot, C.A.
New Orleans con
Sabor Latino
The History and Passion of
Latino Cooking
Zella Palmer Cuadra
Photography by Natalie Root
Foreword by
Chef Adolfo Garcia
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-895-2
Ebook available
Cloth $69.95T 978-0-9897594-0-3
Ebook available
A 2014 Louisiana Endowment for
the Humanities Book of the Year
Second Line Rescue
New Orleans Memories
One Writer’s City
Carolyn Kolb
Improvised Responses to
Katrina and Rita
Edited by Barry Jean Ancelet,
Marcia Gaudet, and
Carl Lindahl
Cloth $35.00R 978-1-61703-796-2
Ebook available
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-61703-883-9
Ebook available
Craig E. Colten, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is the Carl O. Sauer
Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University. Among
his previous publications are An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting
New Orleans from Nature and (with Elaine Yodis) The Geography of
Louisiana.
OCTOBER, 208 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 8 b&w illustrations, 18 maps,
bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-167-1
Ebook available
Une Belle Maison
The Lombard Plantation House
in New Orleans’s Bywater
S. Frederick Starr
Photography and illustrations
by Robert S. Brantley
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-61703-807-5
Ebook available
University Press of Mississippi 11
CIVIL WAR • MISSISSIPPI
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MISSISSIPPI • CIVIL WAR
NEW IN
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The Civil War in Mississippi
Mississippi in the Civil War
Michael B. Ballard
Timothy B. Smith
From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through
Benjamin Grierson’s last raid through
Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865,
this book traces the campaigns and
causes and effects of armed conflict
in central and north Mississippi, where
major fighting occurred.
The Civil War in Mississippi: Major
Campaigns and Battles is a must-read
for any Mississippian or Civil War buff
who wants the complete story of the
Civil War in Mississippi. It discusses the
key military engagements in chronoTHE ONLY VOLUME
logical order. It begins with a prologue
DEDICATED ENTIRELY
covering mobilization and other events
leading up to the first military action
TO THE MILITARY
within
the state’s borders. The book
HISTORY OF AN
then covers all of the major military
EMBATTLED DEEP
operations, including the campaign
SOUTH STATE
for and siege of Vicksburg, and battles
at Iuka and Corinth, Meridian, Brice’s
Crossroads, and Tupelo. The colorful
cast of characters includes such household names as Sherman,
Grant, Pemberton, and Forrest, as well as a host of other commanders and soldiers. Author Michael B. Ballard discusses at
length minority troops and others glossed over or lost in studies
of the Mississippi military during the war.
In Mississippi in the Civil War: The
Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi’s Civil War defeat by
both outside and inside forces. The
invading Union army dismantled the
state’s political system, infrastructure,
economy, and fighting capability.
The state saw extensive military operations, destruction, and bloodshed
within its borders. One of the most
frightful and extended sieges of the
war ended in a crucial Confederate
defeat at Vicksburg, the capstone to
a tremendous Union campaign.
As Confederate forces and MisA FULL EXAMINATION
sissippi became overwhelmed miliOF A POPULATION’S
tarily, the populace’s morale began
PASSION AND DEFEAT
to crumble. Realizing that the enemy
could roll unchecked over the state,
civilians, Smith argues, began to lose
the will to continue the struggle.
Many white Confederates chose to return to the Union rather
than see continued destruction in the name of a victory that
seemed ever more improbable. When the tide turned, Unionists
and African Americans boldly stepped up their endeavors. The
result, Smith finds, was a state vanquished and destined to
endure suffering far into its future.
The first examination of the state’s Civil War home front in
seventy years, this book tells the story of all classes of Mississippians during the war, focusing new light on previously neglected
groups such as women and African Americans. The result is a revelation of the heart of a populace facing the devastating impact
of total war.
Major Campaigns and Battles
Michael B. Ballard, Ackerman, Mississippi, is author of Civil War
Mississippi: A Guide (published by University Press of Mississippi)
and many other books. He was a professor and university archivist
and coordinator of the Congressional and Political Research Center at Mississippi State University Libraries. He was also associate
editor of the Grant Papers from the Ulysses S. Grant Association.
OCTOBER, 320 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 25 b&w illustrations, maps, appendix,
index
Paper $28.00T 978-1-62846-170-1
Ebook available
Heritage of Mississippi Series
12
The Home Front
Timothy B. Smith, Adamsville, Tennessee, teaches history at the
University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author of several books,
including James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner and The
Mississippi Secession Convention: Delegates and Deliberations
in Politics and War, 1861–1865 (published by University Press of
Mississippi).
OCTOBER, 288 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 15 b&w illustrations, 2 maps,
bibliography, index
Paper $28.00T 978-1-62846-169-5
Ebook available
COUNTRY MUSIC • POPULAR CULTURE
NEW IN
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He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the PrettyMuch Totally True Story of the Making of the
Greatest Country Record of All Time
Jack Isenhour
When George Jones recorded “He
Stopped Loving Her Today” more than
thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the
case and snorting cocaine as long as he
was awake. Before it was over, Jones
would be bankrupt, homeless, and an
unwilling patient at an Alabama mental
institution. In the midst of all this chaos,
über producer Billy Sherrill—the man
who discovered Tammy Wynette and
co-wrote “Stand by Your Man”—would
somehow coax the performance of a
A BEHIND-THElifetime out of the mercurial Jones. The
SCENES LOOK AT
result was a country masterpiece.
In He Stopped Loving Her Today,
THE CREATION OF
the story behind the making of the
A COUNTRY MUSIC
song often voted the best country song
MASTERPIECE
ever by both critics and fans, offers an
overview of country music’s origins
and a search for the music’s illusive
Holy Grail: authenticity. The schizoid bottom line—even though
country music is undeniably a branch of the make-believe world
of show biz—to fans and scholars alike, authenticity remains the
ultimate measure of the music’s power.
Jack Isenhour, Nashville, Tennessee, is the author of Same
Knight, Different Channel: Basketball Legend Bob Knight at West
Point and Today and coauthor, with Dennis Rodman, of the basketball star’s memoir, I Should Be Dead by Now.
SEPTEMBER, 232 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 16 b&w photographs, bibliography, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-166-4
Ebook available
American Made Music Series
BIOGRAPHY • FILM STUDIES
NEW IN
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Joan Blondell
A Life between Takes
Matthew Kennedy
Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes is
the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing Joan Blondell
(1906–1979), who conquered motion
pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, and radio. Born
the child of itinerant vaudevillians, she
was on stage by age three. With her
casual sex appeal, distinctive cello
voice, megawatt smile, luminous saucer eyes, and flawless timing, she came
into widespread fame in Warner Bros.
THE FIRST MAJOR
musicals and comedies of the 1930s,
including Blonde Crazy, Gold Diggers
BIOGRAPHY OF AN
of 1933, and Footlight Parade.
ACTRESS WITH A
Frequent costar to James Cagney,
LONG AND LUSTROUS
Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, and
CAREER
Humphrey Bogart; friend to Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, and Bette
Davis; and wife of Dick Powell and
Mike Todd, Joan Blondell was a true Hollywood insider. By the
time of her death, she had made nearly 100 films in a career that
spanned over fifty years.
Privately, she was unerringly loving and generous, while her
life was touched by financial, medical, and emotional upheavals. Meticulously researched, expertly weaving the public and
private, and featuring numerous interviews with family, friends,
and colleagues, Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes traces the
changing face of twentieth-century American entertainment
through the career of this extraordinary actress.
Matthew Kennedy teaches anthropology at the City College of
San Francisco and film history at the San Francisco Conservatory
of Music. He is the author of Marie Dressler: A Biography and
Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory: Hollywood’s Genius Bad Boy.
SEPTEMBER, 312 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 28 b&w illustrations, filmography,
bibliography, index
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-181-7
Ebook available
Hollywood Legends Series
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COMICS • POPULAR CULTURE • BIOGRAPHY
COMICS STUDIES • POPULAR CULTURE
Seth
Insider Histories of Cartooning
Conversations
Edited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace
Canadian 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.
“AM I NOSTALGIC? CAN These interviews, including one
YOU FEEL NOSTALGIC
career-spanning, definitive interview
between the volume editors and the
FOR AN ERA YOU
artist published here for the first time,
NEVER LIVED IN? I AM
delve into Seth’s output from its earliest
INTERESTED IN THE
days to the present. Conversations offer
insight into his influences, ideologies of
TIME BEFORE I WAS
comics and art, thematic preoccupaBORN, BUT I FEEL THE
tions, and major works, from numerous
MOST NOSTALGIA FOR
perspectives—given Seth’s complex
and multifaceted artistic endeavours.
THE ERA OF MY OWN
Seth’s first graphic novel, It’s a Good
CHILDHOOD. THE
Life, If You Don’t Weaken, announced
1960S AND EARLY '70S
his fascination with the past and with
WAS THE LAST VESTIGE
earlier cartooning styles. Subsequent
works expand on those preoccupations
OF THAT OLD WORLD.”
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. 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. Together they have coedited Dave
Sim: Conversations and Chester Brown: Conversations, both from
University Press of Mississippi.
Rediscovering Forgotten Famous Comics and
Their Creators
Robert C. Harvey
Many fans and insiders alike have
never heard of Bill Hume, Bailin’ Wire
Bill, Abe Martin, AWOL Wally, the
Texas History Movies, or the Weatherbird at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And
many insiders do not know why we call
comic books “comics” even though
lots of them are not at all funny.
Robert C. Harvey, cartoonist and a
veteran comics critic, author of several
histories of comics and biographies of
cartoonists, tells forgotten stories of a
dozen now obscure but once famous
FROM A CARTOONIST
cartoonists and their creations. He also
AND A VETERAN
includes accounts of the cartooning
WRITER ON THE
careers of a ground-breaking African
American and a woman who broke
HISTORY OF COMICS,
into an industry once dominated by
A JOYOUS RECLAMAwhite men.
TION OF CARTOONING
Many of the better-known stories in
some of the book’s fourteen chapters
GENIUSES
are wrapped around fugitive scraps of
information that are almost unknown.
Which of Bill Mauldin’s famous duo is
Willie? Which is Joe? What was the big secret about E. Simms
Campbell? Who was Funnyman? And why? And some of the
pictures are rare, as well: Hugh Hefner’s cartoons, Kin Hubbard’s
illustrations for Short Furrows, Betty Swords’s pictures for the Male
Chauvinist Pig Calendar of 1974, the Far East pin-up cartoon character Babysan, illustrations for Popo and Fifina, and Red Ryder’s
final bow.
Robert C. Harvey, Commerce City, Colorado, comics historian
and critic, is a cartoonist who has written for the Comics Journal, Comics Buyers’ Guide, and Cartoonist PROfiles. Among his
books are The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History, The Art
of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History, Accidental Ambassador
Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola, and Milton Caniff:
Conversations, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
DECEMBER, 224 pages (approx.), 8½ x 11 inches, 71 b&w illustrations,
bibliography, index
Paper $35.00S 978-1-62846-143-5
Ebook available
FEBRUARY, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 22 b&w illustrations
(approx.), introduction, chronology, index
Ebook available
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NEW IN
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NEW IN
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Dave Sim
Howard Chaykin
Edited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace
Edited by Brannon Costello
In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began
to self-publish Cerebus, one of the
earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues
and ended, as Sim had planned from
early on, in 2004. Over the run of the
comic, Sim used it as a springboard to
explore not only the potential of the
comics medium but also many of the
core assumptions of Western society.
Through it he analyzed politics, the
dynamics of love, religion, and, most
controversially, the influence of feminism—which Sim believes has had a
“CEREBUS WAS
negative impact on society. Moreover,
ALWAYS INTENDED
Sim inserted himself squarely into the
AS A FIXED WORK
comic as Cerebus’s creator, thereby
inviting criticism not only of the cre. . . A LARGE WORK.
I WANTED TO ADDRESS ation, but also of the creator.
What few interviews Sim gave
COMPLICATED
often pushed the limits of what an
ISSUES AND TO LOOK
interview might be in much the same
way that Cerebus pushed the limits of
AT THE NOVELS I
what a comic might be. In interviews
LIKE, THE CLASSIC
Sim is generous, expansive, provocaNINETEENTH-CENTURY tive, and sometimes even antagonistic.
NOVELS, AND TO SAY
Regardless of mood, he is always
‘HOW MANY PAGES OF insightful and fascinating. His discursive style is not conducive to the sound
COMICS DOES IT TAKE
bite or to easy summary. Many of these
TO DO THOSE?’”
interviews have been out of print for
years. And, while the interviews range
from very general, career-spanning explorations of his complex
work and ideas to tightly focused discussions on specific details
of Cerebus, all the interviews contained herein are engaging and
revealing.
One of the most distinctive voices in
mainstream comics since the 1970s,
Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned
a reputation as a visionary formal
innovator and a compelling storyteller
whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement
with real-world politics and culture.
His body of work is defined by the
belief that comics can be a vehicle for
sophisticated adult entertainment and
for narratives that utilize the medium’s
unique properties to explore serious
themes with intelligence and wit.
“THE REALITY IS
Beginning with early interviews in
THAT I DON’T FEEL
fanzines and concluding with a new
interview conducted in 2010 with the
LIKE DOING MORE
volume’s editor, Howard Chaykin: ConCOMPLEX MATERIAL
versations collects widely ranging disIS STEPPING AWAY
cussions from Chaykin’s earliest days as
FROM MY ORIGINAL
an assistant for such legends as Gil
Kane and Wallace Wood to his recent
GOALS OF BEING AN
work on titles including Dominic ForENTERTAINER.”
tune, Challengers of the Unknown, and
American Century. The book includes
35 line illustrations selected from Chaykin, as well. As a writer/artist for outlets such as DC Comics, Marvel
Comics, and Heavy Metal, he has participated in and influenced
many of the major developments in mainstream comics over the
past four decades. He was an early pioneer in the graphic novel
format in the 1970s, and his groundbreaking sci-fi satire American
Flagg! was an essential contribution to the maturation of the comic
book as a vehicle for social commentary in the 1980s.
Conversations
Eric Hoffman, Vernon, Connecticut, is an independent scholar
and the editor of Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah: Essays on the
Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard. Dominick Grace,
London, Ontario, Canada, is an associate professor at Brescia University College. His work has been published in Atenea, Canadian
Literature, Canadian Notes and Queries, Early Theatre, English
Studies in Canada, Extrapolation, and Science-Fiction Studies.
Conversations
Brannon Costello, Saint Gabriel, Louisiana, is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University and the coeditor with
Qiana J. Whitted of Comics and the U.S. South (published by
University Press of Mississippi).
DECEMBER, 328 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 35 b&w illustrations, introduction,
chronology, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-177-0
Ebook available
DECEMBER, 271 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 33 b&w/color photographs,
introduction, chronology, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-178-7
Ebook available
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COMICS STUDIES • POPULAR CULTURE • ASIAN STUDIES
COMICS STUDIES • POPULAR STUDIES • ASIAN STUDIES
Asian Comics
Boys Love Manga and Beyond
John A. Lent
Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan,
the continent is nearly devoid of comic
strips and comic books. Relying on his
fifty years of Asian mass communication and comic art research, during
which he traveled to Asia at least
seventy-eight times and visited many
studios and workplaces, John A. Lent
shows that nearly every country had
a golden age of cartooning and has
experienced a recent rejuvenation of
the art form.
THE WIDE-RANGING,
AUTHORITATIVE STORY As only Japanese comics output
has received close and by now voluOF THRIVING COMICS
minous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the
PRODUCTION AND
story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations
CREATIVITY IN ASIA
and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia,
China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,
Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri
Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Organized by regions of East, Southeast, and South Asia, Asian
Comics provides 178 black and white illustrations and detailed
information on comics of sixteen countries and regions—their
histories, key creators, characters, contemporary status, problems,
trends, and issues. One chapter harkens back to predecessors of
comics in Asia, describing scrolls, paintings, books, and puppetry
with humorous tinges, primarily in China, India, Indonesia, and
Japan.
The first overview of Asian comic books and magazines (both
mainstream and alternative), graphic novels, newspaper comic
strips and gag panels, plus cartoon/humor magazines, Asian
Comics brims with facts, fascinating anecdotes, and interview
quotes from many pioneering masters, as well as younger artists.
John A. Lent, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, has founded and chaired
or edited numerous organizations and periodicals, including Asia
and Pacific Animation and Comics Association, Asian Research
Center on Animation and Comic Art, Asian Popular Culture group
of the Popular Culture Association, Asian Cinema Studies Society,
Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group, the International Journal of Comic Art, and Asian Cinema. He is the author or editor of
seventy-six books.
JANUARY, 400 pages (approx.), 8½ x 11 inches, 178 b&w illustrations,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
16
History, Culture, and Community in Japan
Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike,
Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker
Essays 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
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. By
the late 1970s, many amateur women
A CRITICAL EXAMfans were getting involved and creINATION OF THE
ating and self-publishing homoerotic
“BEAUTIFUL BOY”
parodies of established male manga
characters and popular media figures.
LOVE COMICS THAT
The popularity of these encouraged
ENTHRALLED FANS
a surge in the number of commercial
IN JAPAN AND THEN
titles. Today, a wide range of products,
produced both by professionals and
WORLDWIDE
amateurs, is rapidly gaining a global
audience.
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.
Boys 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.
Mark McLelland, Corrimal, 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, Okayama, Japan, is a lecturer
in the school of humanities at the University of Tasmania. James
Welker, Naka-ku, Japan, is associate professor of cross-cultural
studies at Kanagawa University.
FEBRUARY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 42 b&w illustrations,
introduction, bibliography, index
Ebook available
NEW IN
PAPERBACK
ANIMATION • JAPAN
COMICS STUDIES • POPULAR CULTURE
NEW IN
PAPERBACK
Japanese Animation
Autobiographical Comics
Edited by Masao Yokota and Tze-yue G. Hu
Elisabeth El Refaie
East Asian Perspectives
Contributions by Kenny K. N. Chow,
Sheuo Hui Gan, Hiroshi Ikeda, Sonoko
Ishida, Tokumitsu Kifune, Joon Yang Kim,
Dong-Yeon Koh, Masashi Koide, Akiko
Sano, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, Nobuyuki
Tsugata, Yasushi Watanabe, and Makiko
Yamanashi
Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available a selection
of viewpoints from media practitioners,
designers, educators, and scholars
working in the East Asian Pacific. This
collection not only engages a multidisEAST ASIAN CRITIQUES
ciplinary approach in understanding
AND DISCUSSION OF A
the subject of Japanese animation but
also shows ways to research, teach, and
POWERFUL JAPANESE
more fully explore this multidimenEXPORT AND POPULAR
sional world.
ART FORM
Presented in six sections, the translated essays cross-reference each other.
The collection adopts a wide range of
critical, historical, practical, and experimental approaches. This
variety provides a creative and fascinating edge for both specialist
and nonspecialist readers. Contributors’ works share a common
relevance, interest, and involvement despite their regional considerations and the different modes of analysis demonstrated.
They form a composite of teaching and research ideas on Japanese animation.
Masao Yokota, Tokyo, Japan, is professor of psychology at Nihon
University and former chair of the Japan Society for Animation
Studies. Tze-yue G. Hu, Colma, California, is an independent scholar and author of Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building.
DECEMBER, 321 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 30 b&w line illustrations,
introduction, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-179-4
Ebook available
Life Writing in Pictures
A troubled childhood in Iran. Living
with a disability. Grieving for a dead
child. Over the last forty years the comic
book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of
considerable complexity and depth.
In Autobiographical Comics: Life
Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie
offers a long overdue assessment of the
key conventions, formal properties, and
narrative patterns of this fascinating
genre. The book considers eighty-five
works of North American and European
provenance, works that cover a broad
A FRUITFUL READING
range of subject matters and employ
OF THE BEST NORTH
many different artistic styles.
Drawing on concepts from several
AMERICAN AND
disciplinary fields—including semiotEUROPEAN AUTOics, literary and narrative theory, art hisBIOGRAPHICAL
tory, and psychology—El Refaie shows
COMICS
that the traditions and formal features
of comics provide new possibilities
for autobiographical storytelling. For
example, the requirement to produce multiple drawn versions
of one’s self necessarily involves an intense engagement with
physical aspects of identity, as well as with the cultural models
that underpin body image. The comics medium also offers memoirists unique ways of representing their experience of time, their
memories of past events, and their hopes and dreams for the
future. Furthermore, autobiographical comics creators are able to
draw on the close association in contemporary Western culture
between seeing and believing in order to persuade readers of
the authentic nature of their stories.
Elisabeth El Refaie, Cardiff, United Kingdom, is a senior lecturer
at Cardiff University. Her work has been published in Studies
in Comics, Visual Studies, and HUMOR: International Journal of
Humor Research, among other periodicals.
DECEMBER, 282 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 37 b&w illustrations, bibliography,
index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-174-9
Ebook available
Nominated for 2013 Eisner Award
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COMICS STUDIES • DISABILITY STUDIES • POPULAR CULTURE
POPULAR CULTURE • SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY • MEDIA STUDIES
Death, Disability, and the
Superhero
Clockwork Rhetoric
The Silver Age and Beyond
José Alaniz
The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel.
The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and
Marvel comics from the 1950s to the
1990s and marshaling insights from
three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the
humanities—disability studies, death
and dying studies, and comics studies—José Alaniz seeks to redefine the
contemporary understanding of the
superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age,
the genre increasingly challenged and
complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm/The Thing,
THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH
Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the
EXAMINATION OF THE
Doom Patrol.
EVOLVING SUPERHERO Alaniz traces how the superhero
THROUGH THE LENS OF became increasingly vulnerable, ill, and
mortal in this era. He then proceeds to a
DISABILITY STUDIES
reinterpretation of characters and series—
some familiar (Superman), some obscure (She-Thing). These genre changes
reflected a wider awareness of related body issues in the postwar
United States as represented by hospice, death with dignity, and
disability rights movements. The persistent highlighting of the
body’s “imperfection” comes to forge a predominant aspect of the
superheroic self. Such moves, originally part of the Silver Age strategy to stimulate sympathy, enhance psychological depth, and
raise the dramatic stakes, developed further in such later series as
The Human Fly, Strikeforce: Morituri, and the landmark graphic
novel The Death of Captain Marvel, all examined in this volume.
Death and disability, presumed routinely absent or denied in the
superhero genre, emerge to form a core theme and defining function of the Silver Age and beyond.
José Alaniz, Seattle, Washington, is associate professor in the
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington–
Seattle. He is the author of Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (published
by University Press of Mississippi).
bibliography, index
Ebook available
18
The Language and Style of Steampunk
Edited by Barry Brummett
Essays by David Beard, Elizabeth
Birmingham, Joshua Gunn, Mirko M.
Hall, Lisa Horton, Andrew Mara, John
M. McKenzie, Kristin Stimpson, Mary
Anne Taylor, John R. Thompson, and
Jaime L. Wright
This unique book explores how the
aesthetic and cultural movement of
“Steampunk” persuades audiences
and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is a
style grounded in the Victorian era, in
clothing and accoutrements modeled
on a heightened and hyperextended
HOW THE LANGUAGE
age of steam. In addition to its modOF THE IMAGINATIVELY eling of attire and other symbolic
STYLED MOVEMENT
trappings, what is most distinctive is its
ATTRACTS FOLLOWERS adherents’ use of a machined aesthetic
based on steam engines and early
TO STEAMPUNK
electrical machinery—gears, pistons,
AESTHETIC
shafts, wheels, induction motors, clockwork, and so forth.
Precursors to steampunk can be
found in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The imagery of
the American West contributed to the aesthetic—revolvers, locomotives, and rifles of the late nineteenth century. Among young
people, steampunk has found common cause with Goth style.
Examples from literature and popular culture include William
Gibson’s fiction, China Miéville’s novels, the classic film Metropolis, and the BBC series Doctor Who. This volume recognizes that
steampunk, a unique popular culture phenomenon, presents a
prime opportunity for rhetorical criticism.
Steampunk’s art, style, and narratives convey complex social
and political meanings. Chapters in Clockwork Rhetoric explore
topics ranging from jewelry to Japanese anime to contemporary
imperialism to fashion. Throughout, the book demonstrates how
language influences consumers of steampunk to hold certain
social and political attitudes and commitments.
Barry Brummett, Austin, Texas, is Charles Sapp Centennial
Professor in Communication and Chair of the Department of
Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He
is the author of A Rhetoric of Style and Rhetorical Homologies:
Form, Culture, Experience.
SEPTEMBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 4 b&w illustrations,
Ebook available
LITERARY CRITICISM • SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
FILM • POPULAR CULTURE
Black and Brown Planets
Hearths of Darkness
The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Edited by Isiah Lavender III
Essays 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
Black 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
Douglas Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa
LITERARY EXPLOYaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among
RATIONS INTO THE
others, explore science fiction worlds
RADICAL, HOPEFUL
of possibility (literature, television, and
film), lifting blacks, Latin Americans,
RACIAL FUTURES
and indigenous peoples out from the
IMAGINED BY SCIENCE
background of this historically white
FICTION
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. 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 into this otherwise monochrome genre,
Black and Brown Planets imagines alternate racial galaxies 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.
OCTOBER, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 11 tables, index
Ebook available
The Family in the American Horror Film,
Updated Edition
Tony Williams
Hearths of Darkness traces the origins
of the 1970s family horror subgenre
to certain aspects of American culture
and classical Hollywood cinema. Far
from being an ephemeral and shortlived genre, horror actually relates to
many facets of American history from
its beginnings to the present day. Individual chapters examine aspects of the
genre, its roots in the Universal horror
films of the 1930s, the Val Lewton RKO
unit of the 1940s, and the crucial role
of Alfred Hitchcock as the father of the
modern American horror film.
A THOROUGH STUDY
Subsequent chapters investigate
OF A MOVIE GENRE
the key works of the 1970s by direcTHAT REACHED ITS
tors such as Larry Cohen, George A.
Romero, Brian De Palma, Wes Craven,
CULTURAL ZENITH
and Tobe Hooper, revealing the disIN THE 1970S BUT
tinctive nature of films such as Bone, It’s
REMAINS INFLUENTIAL
Alive, God Told Me, Carrie, The Exorcist,
TODAY
Exorcist 2, and The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre, as well as the contributions
of such writers as Stephen King. Tony
Williams also studies the slasher films of the 1980s and 1990s,
such as the Friday the 13th series, Halloween, the remake of The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Nightmare on Elm Street, exploring their failure to improve on the radical achievements of the
films of the 1970s.
After covering some post-1970s films, such as The Shining, the
book concludes with a new postscript examining neglected films
of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Despite the overall
decline in the American horror film, Williams determines that, far
from being dead, the family horror film is still with us. Elements of
family horror even appear in modern television series such as The
Sopranos. This updated edition also includes a new introduction.
Tony Williams, Carbondale, Illinois, is a professor of English and
area head of film studies in the English Department at Southern
Illinois University. His recent books include The Cinema of
George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead; John Woo’s “Bullet
in the Head”; and George A. Romero: Interviews (published by
University Press of Mississippi).
DECEMBER, 368 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Paper $40.00S 978-1-62846-107-7
Ebook available
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BIOGRAPHY • FILM
BIOGRAPHY • FILM
Alexander Payne
Baz Luhrmann
Edited by Julie Levinson
Edited by Tom Ryan
Since 1996, Alexander Payne (b. 1961)
has made six feature films and a short
segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively impressive.
His movies have garnered numerous
accolades and awards, including two
Academy Awards for Best Adapted
Screenplay. As more than one interviewer in this volume points out, he
maintains an impressive and unbroken
winning streak. Payne’s stories of human strivings and follies, alongside his
mastery of the craft of filmmaking, mark
“INDEPENDENT MEANS
him as a contemporary auteur of unONE THING TO ME: IT
common accomplishment.
In this first compilation of his interMEANS THAT REGARDviews, Payne reveals himself as a captiLESS OF THE SOURCE
vating conversationalist as well. The
OF FINANCING, THE
discussions collected here range from
DIRECTOR’S VOICE IS
1996, shortly after the release of his first
film, Citizen Ruth, to the 2013 debut of
EXTREMELY PRESENT.
his most recent film, Nebraska. Over his
. . . IT’S WHERE YOU
career, he muses on many subjects
FEEL THE DIRECTOR,
including his own creative processes,
NOT A MACHINE, AT
his commitment to telling charactercentered stories, and his abiding admiWORK.”
ration for movies and directors from
across decades of film history.
Critics describe Payne as one of the few contemporary filmmakers who consistently manages to buck the current trend
toward bombastic blockbusters. Like the 1970s director-driven
cinema that he cherishes, his films are small-scale character studies that manage to maintain a delicate balance between sharp
satire and genuine poignancy.
Though he has made only five films
in two decades—Strictly Ballroom,
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet,
and the Oscar-nominated films Moulin
Rouge!, Australia, and The Great
Gatsby—Australian writer-director Baz
Luhrmann (b. 1962) is an internationally known brand name. His name has
even entered the English language as a
verb, as in “to Baz things up,” meaning
“to decorate them with an exuberant
flourish.” Celebrated by some, loathed
by others, his work is underscored
“WHEN YOU TAKE PEO- by what has been described as “an
aesthetic of artifice” and is notable for
PLE ON A JOURNEY
both its glittering surfaces and recurAND IT’S A SUCCESS,
ring concerns.
In this collection of interviews,
EVERYONE LOVES
Luhrmann discusses his methods and
YOU. IF YOU TAKE
his motives, explaining what has been
THEM AND THE SHIP
important to him and his collaborators
from the start and how he has been
SINKS, THE HATRED
able to maintain an independence
AND ANGER IS SO
from the studios that have backed his
INTENSE, IT’S ALMOST
films. He also speaks about his other
UNBEARABLE.”
artistic endeavors, including stage
productions of La Bohème and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and his wife
and collaborative partner Catherine Martin, who has received
four Academy Awards for her work with Luhrmann.
Interviews
Julie Levinson, Newton, Massachusetts, is professor of film at
Babson College and has been the film curator for several arts
organizations and film festivals. She is the author of The American
Success Myth on Film as well as book chapters and articles on a
wide range of topics including screen acting, genre and gender,
documentary film, and metafiction.
OCTOBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
filmography, index
Ebook available
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
20
Interviews
Tom Ryan, Victoria, Australia, has lectured in cinema studies at
several universities in Australia and the United Kingdom, has
been writing for newspapers and magazines for more than thirty
years, and was the film critic for the Sunday Age from its inception
in 1989 until 2012. He has been a regular contributor to the Age’s
arts pages for more than two decades and has wide experience
in broadcasting.
NOVEMBER, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
filmography, index
Printed casebindng $50.00S 978-1-62846-149-7
Ebook available
BIOGRAPHY • FILM
BIOGRAPHY • FILM
Harmony Korine
Peter Bogdanovich
Edited by Eric Kohn
Edited by Peter Tonguette
Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine’s stunning rise, fall, and
rise again through his own evolving
voice. Bringing together interviews
collected from over two decades,
this unique chronicle includes rare
interviews unavailable in print for years
and an extensive, new conversation
recorded at the filmmaker’s home in
Nashville.
After more than twenty years, Harmony Korine (b. 1973) remains one of
the most prominent and yet subversive
filmmakers in America. Ever since his
“THE FACT THAT THESE
entry into the independent film scene
FILMS EXIST IS A
as the irrepressible prodigy who wrote
VICTORY. THE VICTORY
the screenplay for Larry Clark’s Kids in
1992, Korine has retained his stature as
IS IN THE CREATION.”
the ultimate cinematic provocateur. He
both intelligently observes modern social milieus and simultaneously thumbs
his nose at them. Now approaching middle age, and more influential than ever, Korine remains intentionally sensationalistic and
ceaselessly creative.
In 1995, Korine was discovered while skateboarding and
became the bad boy teen writer behind Kids. He parlayed this
success into directing the dreamy portrait of neglect Gummo two
years later. With his audacious 1999 digital video drama Julien
Donkey-Boy, Korine continued to demonstrate a penchant for
fusing experimental, subversive interests with lyrical narrative
techniques. Surviving an early career burnout, he resurfaced
with a trifecta of insightful works that built on his earlier aesthetic
leanings: a surprisingly delicate rumination on identity (Mister
Lonely), a gritty quasi-diary film (Trash Humpers), a blistering
portrait of American hedonism (Spring Breakers), which yielded
significant commercial success. Throughout his career he has
also continued as a mixed media artist whose fields include
music videos, paintings, photography, publishing, songwriting,
and performance art.
Before he was the Academy Award–
nominated director of The Last Picture
Show, Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) interviewed some of cinema’s great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock,
John Ford, and others. Since becoming
an acclaimed filmmaker himself, he has
given countless interviews to the press
about his own career.
This volume collects thirteen of
his best, most comprehensive, and
most insightful interviews, many long
out-of print and several never before
published in their entirety. They cover
“A MOVIE SHOULD
more than forty years of directing, with
BE LIKE A DREAM. IT
Bogdanovich talking candidly about
his great triumphs, such as The Last PicWASHES OVER YOU,
ture Show and What’s Up, Doc?, and his
YOU DON’T KNOW
overlooked gems, such as Daisy Miller
WHAT’S AFFECTING
and They All Laughed.
YOU, YOU CAN’T DO
Assembled by acclaimed critic Peter
Tonguette, also author of a new critical
ANYTHING ABOUT IT;
biography of Bogdanovich, these interYOU’RE TAKEN AWAY.”
views demonstrate that Bogdanovich is
not only one of America’s finest filmmakers, but also one of its most eloquent when discussing film and his
own remarkable movies.
Interviews
Eric Kohn, Brooklyn, New York, is the chief film critic and a senior
editor for Indiewire as well as the manager of the Criticwire Network. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Cineaste,
Filmmaker, and other publications. He is a member of the New
York Film Critics Circle.
Interviews
Peter Tonguette, New Albany, Ohio, is a freelance writer whose
work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Christian Science Monitor, Weekly Standard, Sight & Sound,
Film Comment, and many other publications. Also the author of
Orson Welles Remembered and The Films of James Bridges, he is
author of a forthcoming critical biography of Peter Bogdanovich.
JANUARY, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
filmography, index
Ebook available
DECEMBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
filmography, index
Ebook available
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BIOGRAPHY • LITERATURE
Conversations with
Jerome Charyn
RECENTLY IN THE LITERARY
CONVERSATIONS SERIES
Edited by Sophie Vallas
This volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author
Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the
interviews appear in English for the first
time, and two interviews appear here in
print for the first time as well.
As one of his autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn is a “Bronx
Boy,” a child born from immigrant parents who went through Ellis Island in
the 1920s like so many other travelers
without luggage, a “little werewolf”
who grew up on his own in the chaos of
the Bronx ghetto. “I think I was defined
“WE’RE RECEIVERS
by two things: World War Two and the
OF LANGUAGE WHO
movies.” His work remains deeply
marked by this childhood largely forTHEN TAKE WHAT
gotten by the American Dream. While
WE RECEIVE AND
Charyn has spent much of his life in
REINVENT IT IN
Paris, he has paradoxically never left
the Bronx: “‘El Bronx’ is there inside my
INCREDIBLE
head, and I revisit it the way HemingMULTIPLES”
way would fish the Big Two-Hearted
River in his dreams.” His whole work is
a long attempt at evoking his own history and celebrating his
lifelong marveling at the power of language—“our second
skin”—as well as his deep, unflinching belief in the promises of
fiction.
Since 1964, Charyn has published more than fifty books
ranging from fiction to nonfiction and including short stories,
very popular crime novels, graphic novels co-written with European artists, essays on American culture and cinema as well as
on New York, autobiography, and biography—an ever-changing
production that has made it difficult for critics to classify him. And
yet in many ways Charyn’s writing thrives on constant currents:
the words “voice,” “song,” “undersong,” or “rhythm” return
frequently in his interviews as he explains what literature is to
him and ceaselessly asserts that he is trying “to find a music for a
musicless world,” a language for “people who cannot speak.”
Sophie Vallas, Aix-en-Provence, France, teaches at Aix-Marseille
Université, France. She has published essays on several American
novelists including Paul Auster, Chester Himes, J. D. Salinger, Flannery O’Connor, Jim Harrison, Don DeLillo, and Colum McCann.
She is the author of Jerome Charyn et les siens : Autofictions.
SEPTEMBER, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology,
index
Ebook available
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Conversations with
David Foster Wallace
Conversations with
Ken Kesey
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Hunter S. Thompson
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Kevin Simonson
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Jonathan Lethem
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Thomas McGuane
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CHILDREN’S LITERATURE • LITERARY CRITICISM
FAULKNER • LITERARY CRITICISM • FILM
Eleanor H. Porter’s Pollyanna
Faulkner and Film
A Children’s Classic at 100
Edited by Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola
Essays by Anke Brouwers, Mio Bryce, Samantha Christensen, Monika Elbert, Marina Endicott, Roxanne Harde, Dorothy
Karlin, Patricia Oman, Anthony Pavlik,
Ashley N. Reese, Laura M. Robinson, Tanfer Emin Tunç, K. Brenna Wardell, and
Janet Wesselius
Appearing first as a weekly serial in the
Christian Herald, Eleanor H. Porter’s
Pollyanna was first published in book
form in 1913. This popular story of an
impoverished orphan girl who travels
from America’s western frontier to
A THOROUGH
live with her wealthy maternal Aunt
EXAMINATION
Polly in the fictional east coast town of
Beldingsville went through forty-seven
OF THE CONTEXT
printings in seven years and remains
AND IMPACT OF
in print today in its original version, as
THE IRREPRESSIBLY
well as in various translations and adapOPTIMISTIC LITERARY tations. The story’s enduring appeal lies
in Pollyanna’s sunny personality and
DARLING
in her glad game, her playful attempt
to accentuate the positive in every
situation. In celebration of its centenary, this collection of thirteen
original essays examines a wide variety of the novel’s themes and
concerns, as well as adaptations in film, manga, and translation.
In this edited collection on Pollyanna, internationally respected
and emerging scholars of children’s literature consider Porter’s
work from modern critical perspectives. Contributors focus
primarily on the novel itself but also examine Porter’s sequel,
Pollyanna Grows Up, and the various film versions and translations
of the novel. With backgrounds in children’s literature, cultural
and film studies, philosophy, and religious studies, these scholars
extend critical thinking about Porter’s work beyond the thematic
readings that have dominated previous scholarship.
Roxanne Harde, Camrose, Alberta, Canada, is associate
professor of English, associate dean (Research), and a McCalla
University Professor at the Augustana Faculty of the University
of Alberta. She has published extensively on American women
writers, children’s literature, and popular culture. Lydia Kokkola,
Luleå, Sweden, is professor of English and education at Luleå
University of Technology, Sweden. She is the author of Fictions of
Adolescent Carnality.
NOVEMBER, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, afterword,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
Children’s Literature Association Series
Edited by Peter Lurie and Ann J. Abadie
Essays by Deborah Barker, Ivan Delazari,
Robert W. Hamblin, Robert Jackson, Julian
Murphet, Aaron Nyerges, Riché Richardson, Phil Smith, and Stefan Solomon
Considering 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 classical Hollywood, a reason itself for considering his work alongside this dominant form. Beyond their era, though,
A COLLECTION
Faulkner’s novels—or the ways in which
EXPLORING THE
they ask readers to see as well as feel
EXTENSIVE CONNEChis world—have much in common with
film. That Faulkner was aware of film,
TIONS BETWEEN THE
and that his novels’ own “thinking” beNOBEL LAUREATE’S
trays his profound sense of the medium
WORK AND CINEMA
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.
SEPTEMBER, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 17 b&w illustrations,
introduction, index
Ebook available
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
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LOUISIANA • ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
MUSIC • JAZZ • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Negotiating Difference in
French Louisiana Music
Listen to This
Categories, Stereotypes, and Identifications
Sara Le Menestrel
Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of
music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based
on the notions of race, ethnicity, class,
and region. She discusses established
notions and brings to light social stereotypes and hierarchies at work in the
evolving French Louisiana music field.
She also draws attention to the interactions between oppositions such as
black and white, urban and rural, differentiation and creolization, and local
and global.
Le Menestrel emphasizes the imHOW LOUISIANA
portance of desegregating the underMUSICIANS AND AUDIstanding of French Louisiana music
and situating it beyond ethnic or racial
ENCES NEGOTIATE
identifications, amplifying instead the
WITH DIFFERENCE AND
importance of regional identity. MusiSHAPE A COMMON
cal genealogy and categories currently
MUSICAL HERITAGE
in use rely on a racial construct that
frames African and European lineage
as an essential difference. Yet as the
author samples music in the field and discovers ways music is
actually practiced, she reveals how the insistence on origins continually interacts with an emphasis on cultural mixing and creative
agency. This book finds French Louisiana musicians navigating
between multiple identifications, musical styles, and legacies
while market forces, outsiders’ interest, and geographical mobility also contribute to shape musicians’ career strategies and artistic choices.
The book also demonstrates the decisive role of nonnatives’
enthusiasm and mobility in the validation, evolution, and reconfiguration of French Louisiana music. Finally, the distinctiveness
of South Louisiana from the rest of the country appears to be
both nurtured and endured by locals, revealing how political
domination and regionalism intertwine.
Sara Le Menestrel, Paris, France, is a cultural anthropologist and
a research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research in
Paris. Her research interests include the anthropology of music
and the anthropology of disaster through post-Katrina and postRita Louisiana. She is the coeditor of Working the Field: Accounts
from French Louisiana, also published by University Press of Mississippi.
Miles Davis and “Bitches Brew”
Victor Svorinich
Listen to This stands out as the first
book exclusively dedicated to Davis’s
watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew.
Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations
and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as
the jazz scene waned beneath the rise
of rock and roll and as Davis (1926–
1991) faced large changes in social
conditions affecting the African American consciousness. This new climate
served as a catalyst for an experiment
that many considered a major departure. Davis’s new music projected rock
THE FIRST CLOSE
and roll sensibilities, the experimental
essence of 1960s’ counterculture, yet
CRITICAL TREATMENT
also harsh dissonances of African
OF THE ALBUM THAT
American reality. Many listeners emSHOOK JAZZ WITH ITS
braced it, while others misunderstood
ELECTRIC SOUND AND
and rejected the concoction.
Listen to This is not just the story
ROCK-INFLUENCED
of Bitches Brew. It reveals much of the
STYLE
legend of Miles Davis—his attitude
and will, his grace under pressure, his
bands, his relationship to the masses,
his business and personal etiquette, and his response to extraordinary social conditions seemingly aligned to bring him down.
Svorinich revisits the mystery and skepticism surrounding the
album and places it into both a historical and musical context
using new interviews, original analysis, recently found recordings,
unearthed session data sheets, memoranda, letters, musical transcriptions, scores, and a wealth of other material. Additionally,
Listen to This encompasses a thorough examination of producer
Teo Macero’s archives and Bitches Brew’s original session reels
in order to provide the only complete day-to-day account of the
sessions.
Victor Svorinich, 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.
22 musical examples, bibliography, index
Ebook available
JANUARY, 400 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 26 color illustrations,
16 b&w illustrations, 3 graphs, bibliography, index
Ebook available
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NEW IN
PAPERBACK
MUSIC • JAZZ • BLACK STUDIES
PERFORMING ARTS • TELEVISION
Free Jazz/Black Power
Time in Television Narrative
Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli
Translated by Grégory Pierrot
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe
Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote 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
FOR THE FIRST TIME
two offered a political and cultural hisIN ENGLISH, THE
tory of black presence in the United
States to shed more light on the dubiCLASSIC VOLUME THAT
DEVELOPED A RADICAL ous role played by jazz criticism in
racial oppression.
NEW UNDERSTANDING
This analysis critiques the critics,
OF FREE JAZZ AND
building a work of cultural studies in
a time and place where the practice
AFRICAN AMERICAN
was virtually unknown. The authors
CULTURE
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.
Philippe 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, is assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford.
JANUARY, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, preface,
discography, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Translation of this work supported in part by a Hemingway
Translation Grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century
Programming
Edited by Melissa Ames
Essays by Melissa Ames, Frida Beckman,
Lucy Bennett, Molly Brost, Jason W. Buel,
Sarah Himsel Burcon, Kasey Butcher,
Melanie Cattrell, Michael Fuchs, Norman
M. Gendelman, Jack Harrison, Colin
Irvine, J. P. Kelly, Jordan Lavender-Smith,
Casey J. McCormick, Kristi McDuffie, Aris
Mousoutzanis, Toni Pape, Gry C. Rustad,
Todd M. Sodano, Janani Subramanian,
and Timotheus Vermeulen
This collection analyzes twenty-firstcentury American television programs
that employ temporal and narrative
HOW SHIFTS IN TIME
experimentation. These shows play
AND STORYLINE
with time, slowing it down to unfold
CREATE NARRATIVE
narrative through time retardation
INTRIGUE ON
and compression. They disrupt the
chronological flow of time itself, using
TELEVISION
flashbacks and insisting that viewers be
able to situate themselves in both the
present and the past narrative threads.
Although temporal play has existed on the small screen prior
to the new millennium, never before has narrative time been
so freely adapted in mainstream television. The essayists offer
explanations for not only the frequency of time-play in contemporary programming, but also the implications of its sometimes
disorienting presence.
Drawing upon the fields of cultural studies, television scholarship, and literary studies, as well as overarching theories concerning postmodernity and narratology, Time in Television Narrative
offers some critical suggestions. The increasing number of television programs concerned with time may stem from the following:
recent scientific approaches to quantum physics and temporality;
new conceptions of history and posthistory; or trends in late-capitalistic production and consumption, in the new culture of
instantaneity, or in the recent trauma culture amplified after the
September 11 attacks. In short, these televisual time experiments
may very well be an aesthetic response to the climate from which
they derive. These essays analyze both ends of this continuum
and also attend to another crucial variable: the television viewer
watching this new temporal play.
Melissa Ames, Champaign, Illinois, is assistant professor of
English at Eastern Illinois University. She is coeditor of Women
and Language: Essays on Gendered Communication across
Media.
NOVEMBER, 337 pages, 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-173-2
Ebook available
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HEALTH CARE • MISSISSIPPI
CIVIL WAR • SOUTHERN HISTORY • MISSISSIPPI
The State of Health and
Health Care in Mississippi
The Mississippi Secession
Convention
Edited by Mario J. Azevedo
Contributions by Azad R. Bhuiyan, Bruce
Brackin, David Brown, Joyce BucknerBrown, David Bundi, Gerri Cannon-Smith,
Moe Choudhry, Fazlay Faruque, Johnny
Gilleylen Sr., Juanita Graham, Sandra
Hayes, Lennette J. Ivy, Barbara H. Johnson, Mohamed Kanu, Mukesh Kumar,
Edmund Merem, Brandi Newkirk-Turner,
Gwendolyn S. Prater, Wesley Spencer
Prater, Mohammad Shahbazi, Susie
Spence, Monica Taylor-Jones, Yaw Twumasi, Vernesia Wilson, Sudha Yerramili,
and Lei Zhang
This multidisciplinary book provides
the most accurate and most recent
SURVEY OF THE
information on health and health care in
HEALTH CARE CRISIS IN the state of Mississippi. The editor and
ONE OF THE NATION’S
contributors explain why the state finds
itself in precarious health conditions
POOREST STATES
and reveal the prevailing circumstances
as the state debates a path toward a
comprehensive health care system for
its citizens. They show who has had access to good health care
and celebrate the heroes who struggled to provide health care
to all Mississippians. The essays contribute to the debate on how
the health care system might be restructured, reconstructed, or
adjusted to meet the needs of all people, regardless of race,
ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and national origin.
The issue of health disparities and socioeconomic status
leads to a relevant discussion of whether health and access to
quality care are a right of all people, or the privilege of a few. The
volume offers a clear understanding of health care trends in the
state from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries up to
the present and the prospects of transcending the obstacles of
its own creation over the past two centuries. It likewise highlights
the economic challenges that Mississippi confronts and how wise
and realistic its priorities are in meeting the needs of its diverse
populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities.
A COMPREHENSIVE
Mario J. Azevedo, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A., Pearl, Mississippi, former
chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, former associate dean of the School of Health Sciences, and former
dean of the College of Public Service is interim chair and professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Jackson State
University.
FEBRUARY, 480 pages (approx.), 8½ x 11 inches, 66 figures and tables,
Ebook available
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Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War,
1861–1865
Timothy B. Smith
The Mississippi Secession Convention
is the first full treatment of any secession convention to date. Studying the
Mississippi convention of 1861 offers
insight into how and why southern
states seceded and the effects of such
a breech. Based largely on primary
sources, this book provides a unique
insight into the broader secession
movement.
There was more to the secession
convention than the mere act of leaving the Union, which was done only
three days into the deliberations. The
THE FIRST EXAMINArest of the three-week January 1861
TION OF THE ENTIRE
meeting as well as an additional week
CONVENTION AND THE in March saw the delegates debate and
pass a number of important ordinances
MEN WHO DELIBERthat for a time governed the state. As
ATED THERE
seen through the eyes of the delegates
themselves, with rich research into
each member, this book provides a
compelling overview of the entire proceeding.
The effects of the convention gain the most analysis in this
study, including the political processes that, after the momentous
vote, morphed into unlikely alliances. Those on opposite ends of
the secession question quickly formed new political allegiances
in a predominantly Confederate-minded convention. These new
political factions formed largely over the issues of central versus
local authority, which quickly played into Confederate versus
state issues during the Civil War. In addition, author Timothy B.
Smith considers the lasting consequences of defeat, looking into
the effect secession and war had on the delegates themselves
and, by extension, their state, Mississippi.
Timothy B. Smith, Adamsville, Tennessee, teaches history at
the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author, editor,
or coeditor of twelve books, including Mississippi in the Civil
War: The Home Front and James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great
Commoner (both published by University Press of Mississippi).
OCTOBER, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 13 b&w illustrations,
5 maps, appendices, bibliography, index
Ebook available
HISTORY • WOMEN’S STUDIES • SOUTHERN STATES
ARCHITECTURE • BIOGRAPHY • SOUTHERN STATES
Southern Ladies and Suffragists
The Architecture of
William Nichols
Julia Ward Howe and Women’s Rights at the
1884 New Orleans World’s Fair
Miki Pfeffer
Women from all over the country
came to New Orleans in 1884 for the
Woman’s Department of the Cotton
Centennial Exposition, that portion of
the World’s Fair exhibition devoted
to the celebration of women’s affairs
and industry. Their conversations and
interactions played out as a drama
of personalities and sectionalism at
a transitional moment in the history
of the nation. These women planted
seeds at the Exposition that would
have otherwise taken decades to drift
southward.
A CLOSE LOOK AT THE
This book chronicles the successes
and setbacks of a lively cast of postISSUES OF GENDER
bellum women in the first Woman’s
AND POWER AT THE
Department at a world’s fair in the Deep
1884 WORLD’S FAIR IN
South. From a wide range of primary
NEW ORLEANS
documents, Miki Pfeffer re-creates the
sounds and sights of 1884 New Orleans
after the Civil War and Reconstruction.
She focuses on how difficult unity was
to achieve, even when diverse women professed a common
goal. Such celebrities as Julia Ward Howe and Susan B. Anthony
brought national debates on women’s issues to the South for the
first time, and journalists and ordinary women reacted. At the
World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, the Woman’s Department became a petri dish where cultures clashed
but where women from across the country exchanged views on
propriety, jobs, education, and suffrage. Pfeffer memorializes
women’s exhibits of handwork, literary and scientific endeavors, inventions, and professions, but she proposes that the
real impact of the six-month long event was a shift in women’s
self-conceptions of their public and political lives. For those New
Orleans ladies who were ready to seize the opportunity of this
uncommon forum, the Woman’s Department offered a future that
they had barely imagined.
Miki Pfeffer, Thibodaux, Louisiana, is an independent researcher
and native New Orleanian whose work has appeared in the Encyclopedia of World’s Fairs and Expositions and in journals such as
the Louisiana Historical Journal and La Creole.
bibliography, index
Ebook available
Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina,
Alabama, and Mississippi
Paul Hardin Kapp with Todd Sanders
Foreword by William Seale
The Architecture of William Nichols is
the first comprehensive biography and
monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South.
William Nichols designed three major
university campuses—the University of
North Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi.
He also designed the first state capitols
of North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Nichols’s architecture profoundly influenced the built landscape
of the South but due to fire, neglect,
and demolition, much of his work was
A RESTORATION OF
lost and history has nearly forgotten his
THE LEGACY OF ONE
tremendous legacy.
OF THE SOUTH’S
In his research onsite and through
archives in North Carolina, Alabama,
MOST PROLIFIC
Louisiana, and Mississippi, Paul Hardin
AND INFLUENTIAL
Kapp has produced a narrative of the
ARCHITECTS BEFORE
life and times of William Nichols that
THE CIVIL WAR
weaves together the elegant work of
this architect with the aspirations and
challenges of the antebellum South. It
is richly illustrated with over two hundred archival photographs
and drawings from the Historic American Building Survey.
Paul Hardin Kapp, Urbana, Illinois, is director of the Historic
Preservation Program and associate professor of architecture at
the School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is coeditor of SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City. From 2002 until 2008, he was the historical architect
and campus historic preservation manager for the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Todd Sanders, Jackson, Mississippi, works in the Historic Preservation Division of the Mississippi
Department of Archives and History. He is the author of Jackson’s
North State Street.
1 map, foreword, chronology, bibliography, index
Ebook available
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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES • DIASPORA STUDIES • ETHNIC STUDIES
LITERATURE • AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES • WOMEN’S STUDIES
Anywhere But Here
Searching for the
New Black Man
Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Edited by Kendahl Radcliffe, Jennifer Scott,
and Anja Werner
Contributions by Keiko Araki, Ikaweba
Bunting, Kimberly Cleveland, Amy Caldwell de Farias, Kimberly Gant, Danielle
Legros Georges, Douglas W. Leonard,
John Maynard, Kendahl Radcliffe, Edward
L. Robinson Jr., Jennifer Scott, and Anja
Werner
Anywhere But Here brings together
new scholarship on the cross-cultural
experiences of intellectuals of African
descent since the eighteenth century.
The book embraces historian Paul Gilroy’s prominent thesis in The Black
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Atlantic and posits arguments beyond
THAT EXPANDS THE
The Black Atlantic’s traditional organization and symbolism.
BOUNDARIES OF PAUL
These essays expand categories
GILROY’S THE BLACK
and suggest patterns that have united
ATLANTIC
individuals and communities across the
African diaspora. They highlight the
stories of people who, from their intercultural and often marginalized positions, challenged the status quo, created international
alliances, cultivated expertise and cultural fluency abroad, as well
as crafted physical and intellectual spaces for their self-expression
and dignity to thrive.
What, for example, connects the eighteenth-century Igbo
author Olaudah Equiano with 1940s literary figure Richard
Wright; nineteenth-century expatriate anthropologist Antenor
Fermin with 1960s Haitian émigrés to the Congo; Japanese
Pan-Asianists and Southern Hemisphere Aboriginal activists with
Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey; or Angela Davis with artists of the
British Black Arts Movement, Ingrid Pollard and Zarina Bhimji?
They are all part of a mapping that reaches across and beyond the
boundaries typically associated with the “Black Atlantic.”
Kendahl Radcliffe, Long Beach, California, is a lecturer of African
American studies at University of California–Los Angeles and
assistant professor of history at El Camino College, Compton
Center. Jennifer Scott, Brooklyn, New York, is an assistant professor at the New School for Public Engagement, Parsons School
of Art and Design History and Theory, and Pratt Institute Graduate
School of Arts and Design. Anja Werner, Berlin, Germany, is an
independent historian. Her publications include The Transatlantic
World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities,
1776–1914.
NEW IN
PAPERBACK
Black Masculinity and Women’s Bodies
Ronda C. Henry Anthony
Using the slave narratives of Henry
Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well
as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James
Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack
Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony
examines how women’s bodies are
used in African American literature to
fund the production of black masculine
ideality and power. In tracing representations of ideal black masculinities
and femininities, the author shows how
black men’s struggles for gendered
agency are inextricably bound up with
their complicated relation to white men
HOW WOMEN’S
and normative masculinity. The historiBODIES FUNCTION
cal context in which this study couches
WITHIN PRODUCTIONS these struggles highlights the extent to
which shifting socioeconomic circumOF IDEAL AND
stances dictate the ideological, cultural,
PROGRESSIVE BLACK
and emotional terms upon which black
MASCULINITIES IN
men conceptualize identity.
Yet, Henry Anthony quickly moves
AFRICAN AMERICAN
to texts that challenge traditional
LITERATURE
constructions of black masculinity. In
these texts she traces how the emergence of collaboratively gendered discourses, or a blending of
black female/male feminist consciousnesses, are reshaping black
masculinities, femininities, and intraracial relations for a new
century.
Ronda C. Henry Anthony, Indianapolis, Indiana, is associate
professor of English and Africana studies at Indiana University–
Purdue University Indianapolis.
NOVEMBER, 205 pages, 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-180-0
Ebook available
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
JANUARY, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 10 b&w illustrations,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
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AMERICAN HISTORY • WORLD HISTORY
FOLKLORE • SOUTHERN STATES
The Port Royal Experiment
Gone to the Grave
Kevin Dougherty
Abby Burnett
The Port Royal Experiment builds on
classic scholarship to present not a historical narrative but a study of what is
now called development and nation
building. The Port Royal Experiment
was a joint governmental and private
effort begun during the Civil War to
transition former slaves to freedom and
self-sufficiency. Port Royal Harbor and
the Sea Islands off the coast of South
Carolina were liberated by Union
Troops in 1861. As the Federal advance
began, the white plantation owners
and residents fled, abandoning apAN EXAMINATION OF
proximately 10,000 black slaves. SeverTHE EMANCIPATED
al private Northern charity organizations stepped in to help the former
ISLANDS OF THE
slaves become self-sufficient. NonetheCAROLINA COAST
less, the Port Royal Experiment was
THAT SHEDS LIGHT ON
only a mixed success and was contested by efforts to restore the status quo
THE DIFFICULTIES OF
of white dominance. Return to home
NATION BUILDING
rule then undid much of what the experiment accomplished.
The Port Royal Experiment divides
into ten chapters, each of which is designed to treat a particular
aspect of the experience. Topics include planning considerations,
philanthropic society activity, civil society, economic development, political development, and resistance. Each chapter presents the case study in the context of more recent developmental
and nation-building efforts in such places as Bosnia, Somalia,
Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Modern readers will see that the
challenges that faced the Port Royal Experiment remain relevant,
even as their solutions remain elusive.
Before there was a death care industry
where professional funeral directors
offered embalming and other services,
residents of the Arkansas Ozarks—and,
for that matter, people throughout the
South—buried their own dead. Every
part of the complicated, labor-intensive process was handled within the
deceased’s community. This process
included preparation of the body for
burial, making a wooden coffin, digging the grave, and overseeing the
burial ceremony, as well as observing a
wide variety of customs and superstiA RICH SURVEY OF
tions.
FOLK PRACTICES
These traditions, especially in rural
PRIOR TO MORTUARIES communities, remained the norm up
through the end of World War II, after
AND THE FUNERAL
which a variety of factors, primarily the
INDUSTRY
loss of manpower and the rise of the
funeral industry, brought about the
end of most customs.
Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now vanished
way of life and death, documents mourning and practical rituals
through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and
a wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attempts
to stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could not
be mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to high
maternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss was
expressed through obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapter examines early undertaking practices and the many angles
funeral industry professionals worked to convince the public of
the need for their services.
A Case Study in Development
Kevin Dougherty, Charleston, South Carolina, is a tactical officer
and adjunct professor at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Peninsula
Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis, Civil War Leadership and
Mexican War Experience, and Weapons of Mississippi, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
DECEMBER, 160 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 8 b&w illustrations,
1 map, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850–1950
Abby Burnett, Kingston, Arkansas, is a former freelance newspaper reporter. She is the author of When the Presbyterians Came to
Kingston: Kingston Community Church, 1917–1951.
OCTOBER, 352 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 65 b&w photographs,
bibliography, index
Ebook available
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CARIBBEAN STUDIES • AMERICAN HISTORY
CARIBBEAN STUDIES • POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
The Grenada Revolution
Critical Interventions in
Caribbean Politics and Theory
Reflections and Lessons
Edited by Wendy C. Grenade
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
Grenada 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
A DETAILED EXAMINACaribbean story about this revolution,
TION OF THE BROAD
weaving together historical accounts
of slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop,
IMPLICATIONS OF
MARXIST REVOLUTION, the New Jewel Leftist Movement, and
contemporary analysis. There is much
POLITICS, AND THE
controversy: though the Organization
EVENTUAL INVASION
of American States formally requested
intervention from President Ronald
OF THE ISLAND
Reagan, world media coverage was
NATION
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.
FEBRUARY, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 3 tables, bibliography,
index
Ebook available
Caribbean Studies Series
30
Brian Meeks
These essays by Brian Meeks, a noted
public intellectual in the Caribbean,
reflect on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies
in the postcolonial era. But his essays
also explain the peculiarities of the
contemporary neoliberal period while
searching for pathways beyond the
current plight.
In the first part, titled “Theoretical
Forays,” Meeks makes a conscious
attempt to engage with contemporary Caribbean political thought at a
moment of flux and search for a releA WELL-KNOWN
vant theoretical language and style to
PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL’S both explicate the Caribbean’s recent
INTENSE ENGAGEMENT past and confront the difficult conditions of the early twenty-first century.
WITH POLITICS IN
The next part, “Caribbean Questions,”
THE CONTEMPORARY
both retrospective and biographical,
CARIBBEAN
retraces the author’s own engagement
with the University of the West Indies,
the short-lived but influential Caribbean Black Power movement, the work of seminal Trinidadian
thinker and activist Lloyd Best, Cuba’s relationship with Jamaica,
and the crisis and collapse of the Grenada Revolution.
As evident in its title, “Jamaican Journeys,” the concluding
section excerpts and extracts from a longer, more sustained
engagement with Jamaican politics and society. Much of Meeks’s
argument builds around the notion that Jamaica faces a crucial
moment, as the author seeks to chart and explain its convoluted
political path and dismal economic performance over the past
three decades. Meeks remains surprisingly optimistic as he suggests that despite the emptying of sovereignty in the increasingly
globalized world, windows to enhanced human development
might open through greater democracy and popular inclusion.
Brian Meeks, Kingston, Jamaica, is professor of social and political change at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. He has published nine books and edited collections, including
Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory and Envisioning
Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives.
DECEMBER, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Ebook available
CARIBBEAN STUDIES • WORLD MUSIC
RECENTLY IN THE CARIBBEAN STUDIES SERIES
The Music of the
Netherlands Antilles
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin’s Heart
Jan Brokken
Translated by Scott Rollins
In October 1999, eleven Antilleans
attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric
Chopin’s death. This service, held in the
Warsaw church where the composer’s
heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their
debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose
influence is central to Antillean music
history. Press coverage of this event
caused Dutch novelist and author Jan
Brokken to start writing this book,
based on notes he took while living on
Curaçao from 1993 to 2002.
AN EXPLORATION
On Curaçao, the history and legacy
OF AN OVERLOOKED
of slavery shaped culture and music,
CARIBBEAN MUSICAL
affecting all the New World. Brokken’s
portraits of prominent Dutch Antillean
TRADITION AND THE
composers are interspersed with culEUROPEAN, AFRICAN,
tural and music history. He puts the
AND NEW WORLD
Dutch Caribbean’s contributions into a
broader context by also examining the
INFLUENCES THAT
nineteenth-century works by pianist
CREATED IT
Louis Moreau Gottschalk from New
Orleans and Manuel Saumell from
Cuba. Brokken explores the African component of Dutch Antillean
music—examining the history of the rhythm and music known as
tambú as well as American jazz pianist Chick Corea’s fascination
with the tumba rhythm from Curaçao. The book ends with a discussion of how recent Dutch Caribbean adaptations of European
dance forms have shifted from a classical approach to contemporary forms of Latin jazz.
Jan Brokken, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, was a journalist for
several major Dutch papers. He is the author of the critically
acclaimed and bestselling novels The Blind Passengers, The Sad
Champion, Jungle Rudy, In The Poets House, and Baltic Souls. His
works have been translated into several languages. Scott Rollins,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been a cultural entrepreneur
in music, literature, and film for more than forty years. He has
published three volumes of his own poetry, and his translations
of Dutch and Flemish poetry have appeared in the Boston Review,
Callaloo, and Five Fingers Review, among others.
JANUARY, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, glossary, bibliography,
index
Ebook available
The Artistry of Afro-Cuban
Batá Drumming
Aesthetics, Transmission,
Bonding, and Creativity
Kenneth Schweitzer
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-053-7
Ebook available
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the
Making of the Garifuna
Christopher Taylor
978-1-61703-310-0
Ebook available
Decolonization in St. Lucia
Politics and Global
Neoliberalism, 1945–2010
Tennyson S. D. Joseph
Paper $30.00R 978-1-61703-827-3
Ebook available
Haiti and the Americas
Edited by Carla Calargé, Raphael
Dalleo, Luis Duno-Gottberg, and
Clevis Headley
978-1-61703-757-3
Ebook available
Patrick Chamoiseau
The Caribbean Novel
since 1945
Cultural Practice, Form, and
the Nation-State
Michael Niblett
A Critical Introduction
Wendy Knepper
Paper $30.00D 978-1-61703-950-8
Ebook available
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-056-8
Ebook available
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
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FOLKLORE • SLAVIC STUDIES • RUSSIA
FOLKLORE • POPULAR CULTURE • HUMOR STUDIES
The Complete Folktales
of A. N. Afanas’ev
A Vulgar Art
Volume I
Edited by Jack V. Haney
The folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev represent
the largest single collection of folktales
in any European language and perhaps
in the world. Widely regarded as the
Russian Grimm, Afanas’ev collected
folktales from throughout the Russian
Empire in what are now regarded as the
three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result
of his own collecting, the collecting of
friends and correspondents, and in a
few cases his publishing of works from
earlier and forgotten collections is truly
phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas’ev
THE FIRST VOLUME OF
published more than 575 tales in his
A COMPREHENSIVE
most popular and best known work,
GATHERING OF TALES
Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition
to this basic collection, he prepared a
FROM THE RUSSIAN
volume of Russian legends, many on
GRIMM
religious themes, an anthology of mildly
obscene tales, and voluminous writings
on Slavic folk life and Slavic mythology.
His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical
and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet
Union at the end of the twentieth century. Overwhelmingly, his
particular emendations were of a stylistic nature, while those of
the censors mostly concerned content. The censored tales are
generally not included in this volume.
Up to now, there has been no complete English-language
version of the Russian folktales of Afanas’ev. This translation is
based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition, widely regarded
as the authoritative Russian-language version. The present edition
includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international
classification number.
Jack V. Haney, Seattle, Washington, is a retired professor of Slavic
languages and literatures, University of Washington, and is the
translator and editor of Long, Long Tales from the Russian North
(published by University Press of Mississippi).
A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
Ian Brodie
In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy,
leveraging 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 such as literature or
theatre, 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
THE FIRST EXAMINAthem laugh. So this book takes the moTION OF STAND-UP
ment of performance as its focus and
shows that stand-up comedy is a colCOMEDY THROUGH
THE LENS OF FOLKLORE laborative act between the comedian
and the audience.
Although the form of talk on the
stage resembles talk among friends
and intimates in social settings, standup 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 sociocultural 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.
DECEMBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, discography, videography, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural Word Series
DECEMBER, 560 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 1 b&w photograph,
introduction, glossary, bibliography
Ebook available
32
FOLKLORE • PROVERBS • CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
RECENT FOLKLORE IN PAPERBACK
Behold the Proverbs of a People
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and
Politics
Wolfgang Mieder
The thirteen chapters of this book
comprise an intriguing and informative
entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have
always been and continue to be wisdom’s international currency. The first
section of the book focuses on the field
of paremiology (proverb studies) in
general, the spread of Anglo-American
proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second
section analyzes the use of proverbs in
the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third
THE PREEMINENT
concentrates on the uses of proverbs
SCHOLAR OF
in literature. The final section ends with
detailed cultural studies of the origin,
PROVERBS ADDRESSES
history, dissemination, use, function,
THE IMMENSE
and meaning of specific proverbs.
CULTURAL IMPACT
Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder
OF PROVERBS
shows that proverbs matter in culture,
literature, and politics. Proverbs remain
WORLDWIDE
part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they
deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various
chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere
through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture,
and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy
impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of
newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works,
or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices
to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and
wisdom.
Alan Lomax,
Assistant in Charge
The Library of Congress
Letters, 1935–1945
Edited by Ronald D. Cohen
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-060-5
Ebook available
The Story-Time of the
British Empire
Colonial and Postcolonial
Folkloristics
Sadhana Naithani
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-839-6
Ebook available
Legend-Tripping Online
Supernatural Folklore and the
Search for Ong’s Hat
Michael Kinsella
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-061-2
Ebook available
Newslore
Contemporary Folklore
on the Internet
Russell Frank
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-943-0
Ebook available
Wolfgang Mieder, Williston, Vermont, is University Distinguished
Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. He
has published well over one hundred books and is the leading
expert on proverbs in the world. He is the founding editor of
Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship.
NOVEMBER, 480 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Ebook available
Creolization as
Cultural Creativity
Edited by Robert Baron
and Ana C. Cara
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-949-2
Ebook available
33
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Elisabeth El Refaie
A fruitful reading of the best
North American and European
autobiographical comics
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-174-9
The Black Cultural Front
Dave Sim
Japanese Animation
Interviews with the creator of Cerebus
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-178-7
Conversations with Comic Artists
Series
Never before available in English,
East Asian critiques and discussion
of a powerful Japanese export
and popular art form
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-179-4
Conversations
Edited by Eric Hoffman and
Dominick Grace
Black Writers and Artists of
the Depression Generation
Brian Dolinar
Edited by Masao Yokato
and Tze-yue G. Hu
Mississippi in the Civil War
The Home Front
Timothy B. Smith
A full examination of a
population’s passion and defeat
Paper $28.00T 978-1-62846-169-5
How the aftermath of the Great
Depression convinced several African
American writers to adopt a leftist
outlook
Paper $30.00D 978-1-62846-171-8
Margaret Walker Alexander Series
in African American Studies
He Stopped Loving
Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill,
and the Pretty-Much Totally
True Story of the Making of
the Greatest Country Record
of All Time
Jack Isenhour
The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
Michael B. Ballard
The only volume dedicated entirely
to the military history of embattled
Mississippi
Paper $28.00T 978-1-62846-170-1
34
Joan Blondell
A Life between Takes
Matthew Kennedy
The first major biography of an actress
with a long and lustrous career
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-181-7
Hollywood Legends Series
A behind-the-scenes look at
the creation of a country music
masterpiece
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-166-4
Hurricane Protection in
Coastal Louisiana
Craig E. Colten
A history of overreaching, gridlock,
intrigue, and the final catastrophic
results along America’s most
vulnerable coastline
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-167-1
Searching for the
New Black Man
Black Masculinity and
Women’s Bodies
Ronda C. Henry Anthony
Howard Chaykin
Conversations
Wide-ranging discussions with
the comics artist known for the
groundbreaking sci-fi satire
American Flagg!
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-177-0
Conversations with Comic Artists
Series
Perilous Place,
Powerful Storms
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Robert W. Hastings
A comprehensive exploration of
the fascinating ecology and history
of one of the South’s most complex
and thriving estuaries
Paper $30.00R 978-1-62846-168-8
The role of women’s bodies in the
productions of ideal and progressive
black masculinities in African
American literature
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-180-0
Margaret Walker Alexander Series
in African American Studies
HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS SERIES
Selected Letters of
Katherine Anne Porter
Chronicles of a Modern Woman
Edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue
The most thorough gathering of
the great American writer’s lively
correspondence
Paper $30.00D 978-1-62846-175-6
Walt before Mickey
Disney’s Early Years, 1919–1928
Timothy S. Susanin
Foreword by Diane Disney
Miller
The untold story of ten critical,
formative years in the great
producer’s life
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-163-3
Alice Faye
Gloria Swanson
Paper $25.00T 978-1-60473-979-4
Ebook available
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A Life Beyond the Silver Screen
Jane Lenz Elder
Barbara Stanwyck
Hollywood Enigma
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-183-0
Ebook available
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The Miracle Woman
Dan Callahan
Beyond Paradise
The Life of Ramon Novarro
André Soares
Foreword by Anthony Slide
Paper $25.00T 978-1-60473-457-7
Ebook available
Time in Television
Narrative
Exploring Temporality in TwentyFirst-Century Programming
Edited by Melissa Ames
How shifts in time and storyline create
narrative intrigue on television
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-173-2
Twain’s Brand
Humor in Contemporary
American Culture
Judith Yaross Lee
A study of what made Mark Twain a
pioneer of American comedy today
Paper $30.00D 978-1-62846-176-3
Dana Andrews
Carl Rollyson
Hollywood Madonna
Loretta Young
Bernard F. Dick
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Lew Ayres
Hollywood’s Conscientious
Objector
Lesley L. Coffin
Foreword by Marya E. Gates
Wolf Tracks
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Popular Art and
Re-Africanization in
Twentieth-Century Panama
Peter Szok
How red devil buses and self-taught
artists have enlivened one Latin
American nation
Paper $30.00D 978-1-62846-172-5
Ready for Her Close-Up
Tricia Welsch
Mary Wickes
I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before
Steve Taravella
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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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Garden of Dreams
The Life of Simone Signoret
Patricia A. DeMaio
Sitting Pretty
The Life and Times of
Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb and David L. Smith
Foreword by Robert Wagner
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Acting My Face
A Memoir
Anthony James
Cloth $25.00T 978-1- 61703-985-0
Alan Lomax,
Assistant in Charge
The Library of Congress Letters,
1935–1945
Ronald D. Cohen
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-060-5
Black Baseball,
Black Business
Race Enterprise and the Fate
of the Segregated Dollar
Roberta J. Newman and
Joel Nathan Rosen
With contributions by Monte Irvin
and Earl Smith
978-1-61703-954-6
Building the Beloved
Community
Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil
Rights Organizations and Race
Relations, 1930–1970
Stanley Keith Arnold
978-1-62846-002-5
Carroll Cloar
In His Studio
Art Museum of the
University of Memphis
Paper $42.00T 978-0-9723893-2-7
Creating Jazz Counterpoint
New Orleans, Barbershop
Harmony, and the Blues
Vic Hobson
978-1-61703-991-1
Conversations with
Jay Parini
Douglas Fairbanks and
the American Century
Edited by Michael Lackey
John C. Tibbetts and
James M. Welsh
Foreword by Kevin Brownlow
Greeting by Vera Fairbanks
978-1-62846-025-4
Conversations
with Ken Kesey
Cloth $45.00S 978-1-62846-006-3
Edited by Scott F. Parker
978-1-61703-970-6
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-982-9
Conversations with
William Gibson
Embroidered Stories
Interpreting Women’s Domestic
Needlework from the Italian
Diaspora
Edited by Edvige Giunta and
Joseph Sciorra
978-1-62846-013-1
Edited by Patrick A. Smith
978-1-62846-015-5
Faulkner and Formalism
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting
for the Right to Vote
Gordon A. Martin, Jr.
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-049-0
David Fincher
Interviews
Edited by Laurence F. Knapp
978-1-62846-036-0
From the Mississippi Cotton Fields
to the State Senate, a Memoir
David L. Jordan with Robert L.
Jenkins
Foreword by Mike Espy
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-61703-966-9
Delta Dogs
Maude Schuyler Clay
Introduction by Brad Watson
Essay by Beth Ann Fennelly
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-008-7
J. E. Smyth
978-1-61703-964-5
Happy Clouds, Happy Trees
The Bob Ross Phenomenon
Kristin G. Congdon, Doug Blandy,
and Danny Coeyman
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-61703-995-9
The House that
Sugarcane Built
The Louisiana Burguières
Donna McGee Onebane
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-61703-952-2
Returns of the Text
Edited by Annette Trefzer
and Ann J. Abadie
James Z. George
Faulkner and Mystery
The Jazz Image
978-1-62846-029-2
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-051-3
Paper $30.00D 978-1-62846-065-0
Edited by Annette Trefzer
and Ann J. Abadie
Fish and Wildlife
Management
David L. Jordan
Fred Zinnemann and the
Cinema of Resistance
A Handbook for Mississippi
Landowners
Adam T. Rohnke and
James L. Cummins
Printed casebinding $50.00T
978-1-62846-027-8
Co-published with Wildlife Mississippi
Folklore Theory in
Postwar Germany
Sadhana Naithani
978-1-61703-993-5
Mississippi’s Great Commoner
Timothy B. Smith
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-062-9
Seeing Music through Herman
Leonard’s Photography
K. Heather Pinson
Komiks
Comic Art in Russia
Jose Alaniz
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-050-6
Legend-Tripping Online
Supernatural Folklore and the
Search for Ong’s Hat
Michael Kinsella
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-061-2
Little Red Readings
Historical Materialist Perspectives
on Children’s Literature
Edited by Angela E. Hubler
978-1-61703-987-4
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Livestock Brands and Marks
History: 1822–1946 Pioneer Families:
Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
Christopher E. Cenac, Sr. with
Foreword by Clifton Theriot
Cloth $69.95T 978-0-9897594-0-3
Lonesome Melodies
The Lives and Music of the
Stanley Brothers
David W. Johnson
Paper $30.00T 978-1-62846-057-5
Making and Remaking Horror
in the 1970s and 2000s
Why Don’t They Do It Like
They Used To?
David Roche
978-1-61703-962-1
Marilyn Monroe
A Life of the Actress, Revised
and Updated
Carl Rollyson
Paper $28.00T 978-1-61703-978-2
Oil and Water
Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Andrea Miller, Shearon Roberts,
and Victoria LaPoe
978-1-61703-972-0
Post-Soul Satire
Black Identity after Civil Rights
Edited by Derek C. Maus and
James J. Donahue
978-1-61703-997-3
The Southern Manifesto
Massive Resistance and the Fight
to Preserve Segregation
John Kyle Day
978-1-62846-031-5
The Struggle for
America’s Promise
Equal Opportunity at the Dawn
of Corporate Capital
Claire Goldstene
978-1-61703-989-8
The President’s Ladies
Todd Haynes
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-980-5
978-1-61703-983-6
Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis
Bernard F. Dick
Race and the Obama
Phenomenon
The Vision of a More Perfect
Multiracial Union
Edited by G. Reginald Daniel
and Hettie V. Williams
978-1-62846-021-6
Interviews
Edited by Julia Leyda
Toni Morrison
Memory and Meaning
Edited by Adrienne Lanier
Seward and Justine Tally
Foreword by Carolyn C. Denard
978-1-62846-019-3
New Orleans in Transition, 1961–1970
Edward F. Haas
Ravished Armenia and
the Story of Aurora
Mardiganian
Trouble in Goshen
The Mind of the South
Paperback $35.00S 978-1-61703-848-8
978-1-61703-956-0
Mayor Victor H. Schiro
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-017-9
Fifty Years Later
Edited by Charles W. Eagles
Paper $30.00D 978-1-62846-052-0
Mississippi Entrepreneurs
Polly Dement
Cloth $37.00T 978-0-615-83832-8
A New History of Mississippi
Dennis J. Mitchell
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-61703-976-8
Edited by Anthony Slide
Foreword by Atom Egoyan
Russell Long
A Life in Politics
Michael S. Martin
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-974-4
The Search for Sam Goldwyn
Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus,
and Marx in the Great
Depression South
Fred C. Smith
The True Gospel
Preached Here
Photographs by Bruce West
Foreword by Tom Rankin
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-958-4
Carol Easton
With a new foreword by
Carl Rollyson
A Voice That Could Stir
an Army
Fannie Lou Hamer and the
Rhetoric of the Black Freedom
Movement
Maegan Parker Brooks
978-1-62846-004-9
We Shall Not Be Moved
The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In
and the Movement It Inspired
M. J. O’Brien
Foreword by Julian Bond
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-035-3
Werner Herzog
Interviews
Edited by Eric Ames
978-1-61703-968-3
Wide Awake in
Slumberland
Fantasy, Mass Culture, and
Modernism in the Art of
Winsor McCay
Katherine Roeder
978-1-61703-960-7
Women Artists of the
Harlem Renaissance
Edited by Amy Helene Kirschke
978-1-62846-033-9
Writing in the Kitchen
Essays on Southern Literature
and Foodways
Edited by David A. Davis
and Tara Powell
Foreword by Jessica B. Harris
978-1-62846-023-0
Paper $28.00T 978-1-61703-999-7
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COMICS & ANIMATION
Alan Moore
Conversations
Edited by Eric L. Berlatsky
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-159-5
Ebook available
Elisabeth El Refaie
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-174-9
Ebook available
The Comics of Chris Ware
Drawing Is a Way of Thinking
Edited by David M. Ball
and Martha B. Kuhlman
Paper $28.00T 978-1-60473-443-0
Ebook available
Comics and Language
Reimagining Critical
Discourse on the Form
Hannah Miodrag
978-1-61703-804-4
Ebook available
Chester Brown
Conversations
Edited by Dominick Grace
and Eric Hoffman
978-1-61703-868-6
Ebook available
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A Comics Studies Reader
Edited by Jeet Heer and
Kent Worcester
Paper $25.00S 978-1-60473-109-5
Ebook available
Comics and the U.S. South
and Qiana J. Whitted
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-945-4
Ebook available
Drawing from Life
Memory and Subjectivity
in Comic Art
Edited by Jane Tolmie
978-1-61703-905-8
Ebook available
Japanese Animation
Edited by Masao Yokota and
Tze-yue G. Hu
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-179-4
Ebook available
Dave Sim
Comics and Narration
Thierry Groensteen
Translated by Ann Miller
978-1-61703-770-2
Ebook available
Conversations
Edited by Eric Hoffman
and Dominick Grace
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-178-7
Ebook available
Komiks
Comic Art in Russia
José Alaniz
Paper $30.00S 978-1-62846-050-6
Ebook available
COMICS & ANIMATION
Of Comics and Men
A Cultural History of
American Comic Books
Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Translated by Bart Beaty
and Nick Nguyen
Hand of Fire
The Comics Art of Jack Kirby
Charles Hatfield
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-178-6
Ebook available
The System of Comics
Thierry Groensteen
and Nick Nguyen
Paper $25.00D 978-1-60473-259-7
Ebook available
Paper $35.00S 978-1-61703-855-6
Ebook available
Wide Awake in
Slumberland
Fantasy, Mass Culture, and
Modernism in the Art of
Winsor McCay
Katherine Roedar
978-1-61703-960-7
Ebook available
Rodolphe Töpffer
The Origins of Comics
From William Hogarth to
Winsor McCay
Thierry Smolderen
and Nick Nguyen
The Complete Comic Strips
Compiled, translated, and
annotated by David Kunzle
Cloth $65.00S 978-1-57806-946-0
Ebook available
Walt before Mickey
Disney’s Early Years, 1919-1928
Timothy S. Susanin
Foreword by Diane Disney Miller
Paper $25.00T 978-1-62846-163-3
Ebook available
978-1-61703-149-6
Will Eisner
Conversations
Edited by M. Thomas Inge
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-127-4
Ebook available
The Superhero Reader
Edited by Charles Hatfield,
Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester
Grant Morrison
Combining the Worlds of
Contemporary Comics
Marc Singer
Paper $30.00S 978-1-61703-806-8
Ebook available
We Go Pogo
Walt Kelly, Politics, and
American Satire
Kerry D. Soper
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-284-4
Ebook available
Paper $25.00T 978-1-61703-136-6
Ebook available
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MISSISSIPPI
Historic Churches
of Mississippi
An Alphabet
Walter Anderson
Paper $20.00T 978-0-87805-573-9
Blues Traveling
The Holy Sites of Delta Blues,
Third Edition
Steve Cheseborough
Paper $22.00T 978-1-60473-124-8
Ebook available
Christmas Memories
from Mississippi
Edited by Charlene R. McCord
and Judy H. Tucker
Illustrated by Wyatt Waters
Cloth $20.00T 978-1-60473-755-4
Ebook available
Christmas Stories
from Mississippi
Elvis and Gladys
Elaine Dundy
Paper $25.00T 978-1-57806-634-6
Ebook available
Sherry Pace
Essay and captions by
Richard J. Cawthon
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-57806-940-8
Faulkner
A Biography
Joseph Blotner
Paper $35.00T 978-1-57806-732-9
Ebook available
Edited by Judy H. Tucker
and Charline R. McCord
Illustrated by Wyatt Waters
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-57806-381-9
Hurricane Katrina
The Mississippi Story
James Patterson Smith
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-023-9
Ebook available
Canoeing Mississippi
Fortune’s Favorite Child
Ernest Herndon
Paper $20.00T 978-1-57806-222-5
Ebook available
Coming Home to
Mississippi
Edited by Charline R. McCord
and Judy H. Tucker
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-61703-766-5
Ebook available
Delta Land
Photographs by
Maude Schuyler Clay
Introductory essay by
Lewis Nordan
Choctaw Tales
Collected and annotated
by Tom Mould
Foreword by Chief Phillip Martin
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-57806-177-8
The Uneasy Life of Walter
Anderson
Christopher Maurer
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-57806-539-4
From Midnight to
Guntown
True Crime Stories from a Federal
Prosecutor in Mississippi
John Hailman
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-800-6
Ebook available
Growing Up in
Mississippi
Edited by Judy H. Tucker and
Charline R. McCord
Foreword by Richard Ford
James Meredith and
the Ole Miss Riot
A Soldier’s Story
Henry T. Gallagher
Foreword by Gene Roberts
Cloth $26.00T 978-1-61703-653-8
Ebook available
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-934110-71-3
Paper $25.00T 978-1-57806-683-4
Ebook available
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MISSISSIPPI
Juke Joint
Looking Back Mississippi
Cloth $45.00T 978-1-61703-692-7
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-61703-148-9
Ebook available
Birney Imes
Introductory essay by Richard Ford
Towns and Places
Forrest Lamar Cooper
Mississippi Archaeology
Q&A
Evan Peacock
Paper $22.00T 978-1-57806-767-1
Ebook available
The Mississippi Cookbook
The Mississippi Cooperative
Extension Service
Foreword by Martha Hall Foose
The Last Resort
Paper $25.00T 978-0-87805-381-0
Ebook available
Taking the Mississippi Cure
Norma Watkins
Panther Tract
Mississippi’s
American Indians
James F. Barnett Jr.
Cloth $40.00S 978-1-61703-245-5
Ebook available
My Mississippi
Willie Morris
Photographs by David Rae Morris
Cloth $42.00T 978-1-57806-193-8
Ebook available
Native American Place
Names in Mississippi
Keith A. Baca
Paper $22.00T 978-1-57806-955-2
Ebook available
Wild Boar Hunting in the
Mississippi Delta
Melody Golding
Introduction by Hank Burdine
With recipes from
Chef John Folse
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-60473-926-8
Ebook available
Photographs
Eudora Welty
Foreword by Reynolds Price
Paper $40.00T 978-0-87805-529-6
Stories from Home
Jerry Clower
Foreword by Willie Morris
Paper $20.00T 978-1-61703-070-3
Ebook available
New Delta Rising
Cloth $28.00T 978-1-60473-977-0
Ebook available
Photography by Magdalena Solé
Introduction by Rick Bragg
Text by Barry H. Smith and
Tom Lassiter
Cloth $38.00T 978-1-61703-150-2
Ebook available
Mississippi Hill Country
Blues 1967
Tracks
George Mitchell
The Legs Murder Scandal
Hunter Cole
Postscript by Elizabeth Spencer
Paper $22.00T 978-1-61703-300-1
Ebook available
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-61703-816-7
Ebook available
Donald C. Jackson
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-57806-894-4
Ebook available
Mississippi John Hurt
His Life, His Times, His Blues
Philip R. Ratcliffe
Foreword by Mary Frances
Hurt Wright
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-008-6
Ebook available
One Writer’s Garden
Eudora Welty’s Home Place
Susan Haltom and
Jane Roy Brown
Photographs by Langdon Clay
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-119-9
Ebook available
Vicksburg
Sentinels of Stone
Photographs and text by
Timothy T. Isbell
Cloth $40.00T 978-1-57806-840-1
Ebook available
Weapons of Mississippi
Kevin Dougherty
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-60473-451-5
Ebook available
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LOUISIANA
Angola to Zydeco
Down on the Batture
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-61703-129-8
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-60473-461-4
Ebook available
Louisiana Lives
R. Reese Fuller
Ebook available
Cajun and Creole Folktales
The French Oral Tradition of
South Louisiana
Edited by Barry Jean Ancelet
Paper $25.00R 978-0-87805-709-2
Ebook available
Oliver A. Houck
Eyes of an Eagle
Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch
An Illustrated History of Early
Houma-Terrebonne
Christopher Everette Cenac,
SR., M.D., F.A.C.S.,
With Claire Domangue Joller
Foreward by Carl A. Brasseaux
Cloth $49.95T 978-0-615-47702-2
Ebook available
Hydrocarbon Hucksters
Lessons from Louisiana on Oil,
Politics, and Environmental
Justice
Ernest Zebrowski and
Mariah Zebrowski Leach
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-899-0
Ebook available
Inventing New Orleans
Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
Edited and with an introduction
by S. Frederick Starr
Paper $25.00T 978-1-57806-353-6
Ebook available
Louisiana
Erna Brodber
Paper $20.00D 978-1-57806-031-3
Ebook available
Louisiana Cookery
Mary Land
Illustrated by Morris Henry Hobbs
Preface by Owen Brennan
Paper $25.00T 978-1-57806-757-2
Ebook available
Louisiana Rambles
Exploring America’s Cajun
and Creole Heartland
Ian McNulty
Paper $22.00T 978-1-60473-946-6
Ebook available
The French Quarter of
New Orleans
Text By Jim Fraiser
Photographs By West Freeman
Cloth $45.00T 978-1-57806-524-0
Ebook available
The Cajuns
Americanization of a People
Shane K. Bernard
Les Cadiens et leurs
ancêtres acadiens
Paper $20.00T 978-1-57806-523-3
Ebook available
Creole Trombone
Kid Ory and the Early Years
of Jazz
John McCusker
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-626-2
Ebook available
Dictionary of
Louisiana French
As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and
American Indian Communities
Senior editor Albert Valdman
Associate editor Kevin J. Rottet
Printed case with jacket $40.00S
978-1-60473-403-4
Ebook available
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The Garden District
of New Orleans
Text by Jim Fraiser
Photographs by West Freeman
Cloth $49.95T 978-1-934110-68-3
Ebook available
The Gorilla Man and
the Empress of Steak
A New Orleans Family Memoir
Randy Fertel
Cloth $28.00T 978-1-61703-082-6
Ebook available
l’histoire racontée aux jeunes
Shane K. Bernard
Traduit de l’anglais par
Faustine Hillard
978-1-61703-779-5
Ebook available
Livestock Brands and Marks
History: 1822–1946 Pioneer
Families: Terrebonne Parish,
Louisiana
Christopher E. Cenac, Sr. with
Foreword by Clifton Theriot
Louisiana Voyages
The Travel Writings of
Catharine Cole
Martha R. Field
Edited by Joan B. McLaughlin
and Jack McLaughlin
Paper $22.00T 978-1-57806-826-5
Ebook available
Madame Vieux Carré
The French Quarter in the
Twentieth Century
Scott S. Ellis
Cloth $28.00T 978-1-60473-358-7
Ebook available
Cloth $69.95T 978-0-9897594-0-3
Ebook available
LOUISIANA
New Orleans con
Sabor Latino
The History and Passion of
Latino Cooking
Zella Palmer Cuadra
Photography by Natalie Root
Foreword by Chef Adolfo Garcia
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-61703-895-2
Ebook available
New Orleans Sketches
William Faulkner
Edited by Carvel Collins
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-61703-762-2
Ebook available
Out of the Shadow
of Leprosy
The Carville Letters and
Stories of the Landry Family
Claire Manes
Foreword by Marcia Gaudet
The Snare
Voodoo Queen
Paper $25.00R 978-1-61703-686-6
Ebook available
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-57806-629-2
Ebook available
Elizabeth Spencer
Introduction by
Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
The Spirited Lives of
Marie Laveau
Martha Ward
TABASCO®
An Illustrated History
Shane K. Bernard
Foreword by Paul C. P. McIlhenny
Cloth $49.95T 978-0-9797808-0-6
Cloth $28.00R 978-1-61703-776-4
Ebook available
You Are Where You Eat
Stories and Recipes from the
Neighborhoods of New Orleans
Elsa Hahne
New Orleans Cuisine
Fourteen Signature Dishes
and Their Histories
Edited by Susan Tucker
Introduction by S. Frederick Starr
Cloth $28.00T 987-1-60473-127-9
Ebook available
Une Belle Maison
Sacred Light
Holy Places in Louisiana
A.J. Meek
Essay by Marchita B. Mauck
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-60473-741-7
Ebook available
Second Line Rescue
Improvised Responses to
Katrina and Rita
Edited by Barry Jean Ancelet,
Marcia Gaudet, and Carl Lindahl
New Orleans Memories
One Writer’s City
Carolyn Kolb
Cloth $25.00T 978-1-61703-883-9
Ebook available
Cloth $35.00R 978-1-61703-796-2
Ebook available
Cloth $35.00T 978-1-57806-941-5
Ebook available
The Lombard Plantation House
in New Orleans’s Bywater
S. Frederick Starr
Photography and illustrations
by Robert S. Brantley
Cloth $30.00T 978-1-61703-807-5
Ebook available
A Unique Slant of Light
The Bicentennial History
of Art in Louisiana
Edited by Michael Sartisky
and J. Richard Gruber
Associate Editor, John R. Kemp
Cloth $120.00T 978-1-61703-690-3
Women Pioneers
of the Louisiana
Environmental Movement
Peggy Frankland with
Susan Tucker
Printed casebinding $40.00R
978-1-61703-772-6
Ebook available
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