University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
by Elizabeth Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
It is well known that New Orleans has its dark underside as well as its glowing visible delights. The journey that Julia Garrett, an intelligent, attractive, but psychically driven girl, makes through the city's hidden labyrinth shapes the movement of this riveting novel. In crisscrossing the city...
by Elizabeth Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The magnetic appeal of land, sea, and sky along the southern coast has drawn Elizabeth Spencer many times to this lush and semitropical setting. This collection brings together six of her stories set amid terrain lapped by the warm coastal currents. These stories all happen on the shoreline of the...
Last Man Standing
Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A Times Literary Supplement 2017 Book of the Year
On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a new generation of smart comics emerged--Shelley Berman,...
by Robert L. McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of American musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean. Sondheim's brilliant array of work,...
Escape from Archangel
An American Merchant Seaman at War
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
During World War II, merchant marine tankers in convoys plied the frozen North Atlantic through the flaming wreckage of torpedoed ships. Working to keep sea lanes open, valiant merchant seamen supplied food, fuel, and goods to the Allies in the last pockets of European resistance to the Nazis.This...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis...
Rethinking the Irish in the American South
Beyond Rounders and Reelers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region. Indeed, the Irish fascination expresses itself in Southern context in powerful, but disparate, registers:...
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American...
The Construction of Whiteness
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
James Salter (1925-2015) has been known throughout his career as a writer's writer, acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his lyrical prose, his insightful and daring explorations of sex, and his examinations of the inner lives of...
Writing in the Kitchen
Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner's Jefferson, and the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products associated with the South, the connections...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Between 1972 and 2001, Barry Hannah (1942-2010) published eight novels and four collections of short stories. A master of short fiction, Hannah is considered by many to be one of the most important writers of modern American literature. His writing is often praised more for its unflinching use of...
Gone to the Grave
Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
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...
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's...