University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Musical Life in Guyana
History and Politics of Controlling Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and sometimes discouraged musical and cultural creativity in Guyana. The book contributes to the study of the...
Drawing from Life
Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.
Drawing from...
The Caribbean Novel since 1945
Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the nation-state. Engaging with the historical and political impact of capitalist imperialism, decolonization, class struggle,...
Unveiling the Muse
The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Traditional Carnival has been well documented with a vast array of books published on the subject. However, few of them, if any, mention gay Carnival krewes or the role of gay Carnival within the larger context of the season. Howard Philips Smith corrects this oversight with a beautiful, vibrant,...
City of Remembering
A History of Genealogy in New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
City of Remembering represents a rich testament to the persistence of a passionate form of public history. In exploring one particular community of family historians in New Orleans, Susan Tucker reveals how genealogists elevate a sort of subterranean foundation of the city--sepia photographs of the...
Neil Jordan
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the distinguished Guardian Fiction Prize for his very first book of short stories, Night in Tunisia, in 1976. His film...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"He again tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity." That's what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving artistry. The interviews and conversations contained in this volume derive from four decades of Kunitz's...
A Special Relationship
Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
A Special Relationship provides not only a historical overview of the British in Hollywood, but also a detailed study of the contributions made by American individuals and companies to British cinema from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. The story begins with Ohio-born Charles Urban...
A Tyrannous Eye
Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs is the first book-length study of Eudora Welty’s full range of achievements in nonfiction and photography. A preeminent Welty scholar, Pearl Amelia McHaney offers clear-eyed and complex assessments of Welty’s journalism, book reviews,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to be taken seriously as working artists. They also encountered prevailing sexism, often an even more...
SoulStirrers
Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In SoulStirrers, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum describes the birth and development of an artistic movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, identified with the Neo-Ancestral impulse. The Neo-Ancestral impulse emerges as an extension of the Harlem Renaissance, the Negritude Movement, and the Black Arts Movement, all of...
by Tunde Adeleke
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Postcolonial discourses on African Diaspora history and relations have traditionally focused intensely on highlighting the common experiences and links between black Africans and African Americans. This is especially true of Afrocentric scholars and supporters who use Africa to construct and validate...
Brother-Souls
John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac’s life they were—in Holmes’s words—“Brother Souls.” Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in...
by Sadhana Naithani
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Can the study of folklore survive brutal wars and nationalized misappropriations? Does folklore make sense in an age of fearsome technology? These are two of several questions this book addresses with specific and profound reference to the history of folklore studies in Germany. There in the early...