University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming
Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
An iconic symbol and sound of the Lucum'/Santer'a religion, Afro-Cuban batá are talking drums that express the epic mythological narratives of the West African Yoruba deities known as orisha. By imitating aspects of speech and song, and by metaphorically referencing salient attributes of the deities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the postcolonial creole societies of Latin America,...
Recess Battles
Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
As children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children's time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand children in a racially integrated, working-class public school, Recess Battles is a moving reflection...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for...
Beyond Windrush
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as "the Windrush writers" in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Paul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted scholarly scrutiny from a variety of critical perspectives. The steadily rising arc of his large readership has...
New Orleans con Sabor Latino
The History and Passion of Latino Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
New Orleans con Sabor Latino is a documentary cookbook that draws on the rich Latino culture and history of New Orleans by focusing on thirteen New Orleanian Latinos from diverse backgrounds. Their stories are compelling and reveal what for too long has been overlooked. The book celebrates the influence...
Little Red Readings
Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender, race, and sexuality. But few scholars have previously analyzed class in children's literature. This definitive collection remedies that by defining and...
Voice of the Leopard
African Secret Societies and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross...
Eleanor Cameron
Dimensions of Amazement
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science...
Twain's Brand
Humor in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Samuel L. Clemens lost the 1882 lawsuit declaring his exclusive right to use "Mark Twain" as a commercial trademark, but he succeeded in the marketplace, where synergy among his comic journalism, live performances, authorship, and entrepreneurship made "Mark Twain" the premier national and international...
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
Conceptions of the African American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the...
Kennedy's Blues
African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2007
Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK collects in a single volume the blues and gospel songs written by African Americans about the presidency of John F. Kennedy and offers a close analysis of Kennedy's hold upon the African American imagination. These blues and gospel songs...