University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Oz behind the Iron Curtain
Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University
In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz....
Unsung Valor
A GIâ??s Story of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2003
Thirty riveting months in the life of a common infantryman, one among the "citizen soldiers" who took the Allies to victory When drafted into the army in 1943, A. Cleveland Harrison was a reluctant eighteen-year-old Arkansas student sure that he would not make a good soldier. But inside thirty months...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
Perspectives on Barry Hannah is a collection of essays devoted to the work of the award-winning fiction writer Barry Hannah. The anthology features a broad range of critical approaches and covers the span of Hannah's career from Geronimo Rex (1972) to Yonder Stands Your Orphan (2001). The book also...
C. L. R. James and Creolization
Circles of Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2001
C. L. R. James (1901-1989), one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century, expressed his postcolonial and socialist philosophies in fiction, speeches, essays, and book-length scholarly discourses. However, the majority of academic attention given to James keeps the diverse mediums...
by Peggy Frankland
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement provides a window into the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially conservative state. The book is comprised of oral history narratives in which women activists share their motivation,...
The Southern Manifesto
Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
On March 13, 1956, ninety-nine members of the United States Congress promulgated the Declaration of Constitutional Principles, popularly known as the Southern Manifesto. Reprinted here, the Southern Manifesto formally stated opposition to the landmark United State Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board...
Bad Boy of Gospel Music
The Calvin Newton Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
"I messed up," Calvin Newton lamented, after wasting thirty years and doing time in both state and federal prisons for theft, counterfeiting, and drug violations. "These were years of my life that I could have been singing gospel music." During his prime, he was super-handsome, athletic, and...
The Comics of Hergé
When the Lines Are Not So Clear
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
As the creator of Tintin, Hergé (1907-1983) remains one of the most important and influential figures in the history of comics. When Hergé, born Georges Prosper Remi in Belgium, emerged from the controversy surrounding his actions after World War II, his most famous work leapt to international fame...
Stan Brakhage
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects nine of Stan Brakhage’s most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in relation to his work; his concept of the muse;...
Jennie Carter
A Black Journalist of the Early West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In June 1867, the San Francisco Elevator-one of the nation\'s premier black weekly newspapers during Reconstruction-began publishing articles by a Californian calling herself \"Ann J. Trask\" and later \"Semper Fidelis.\" Her name was Jennie Carter (1830-1881), and the Elevator...
by Philip F. Rubio
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today? The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent past or current events. To understand the current debate over affirmative action, we must...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
A comprehensive appreciation of the fiction written by this Pulitzer Prize author This is the first book-length examination of the fiction written by Richard Ford, who gained critical acclaim for The Sportswriter, the story of suburbanite Frank Bascombe's struggle to survive loneliness and great loss....
Gender and the Poetics of Excess
Moments of Brocade
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess...
Caribbean Visionary
A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation traces the life of Albert Raymond Forbes Webber (1880-1932), a distinguished Caribbean scholar, statesman, legislator, and novelist. Using Webber as a lens, the book outlines the Guyanese struggle for justice and equality in...