University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede...
Lines of Scrimmage
A Story of Football, Race, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
As in many small towns in the South, folks in Conway, South Carolina, fill the stands on fall Fridays to cheer on their local high school football squad. In 1989--with returning starter Carlos Hunt at quarterback and having finished with an 8-4 record in 1988--hopes were high that the beloved Tigers...
Louisiana Creole Literature
A Historical Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres--in both French and English--connected to and generally produced by the distinctive Louisiana Creole peoples, chiefly in the southeastern part of the state. The book covers primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,...
Louisiana Poets
A Literary Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Louisiana has long been recognized for its production of talented writers, and its poets in particular have shined. From the early poetry of the state to the work crafted in the present day, Louisiana has nurtured and exported a rich and diverse poetic tradition. In Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide...
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding...
Desegregating Desire
Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities...
Death, Disability, and the Superhero
The Silver Age and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Critics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright's mind as well as his life and body of writings, especially those directly concerned with America and its racial dynamics. This edited collection offers new readings and understandings of the particular America that became Wright's...
by Teresa C. Zackodnik
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice.The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which...
All Stories Are True
History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes-history, myth, and trauma-throughout his career, showing how they intertwine....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
"After reading Neuromancer for the first time," literary scholar Larry McCaffery wrote, "I knew I had seen the future of [science fiction] (and maybe of literature in general), and its name was William Gibson." McCaffery was right. Gibson's 1984 debut is one of the most celebrated...
Oil and Water
Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Along the Gulf Coast, history is often referenced as pre-Katrina or post-Katrina. However, the natural disaster that appalled the world in 2005 has been joined by another catastrophe, this one man-made--the greatest environmental and maritime accident of all time, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill....
The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak
A New Orleans Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde, with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruth's Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney Fertel...
The Island of Lace
Drawn Threadwork on Saba in the Dutch Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Nicknamed the “Island of Lace,” the Caribbean island of Saba is the smallest special municipality in the Netherlands. Folklorist Eric A. Eliason, at the behest of the president of the Saba Lace Ladies’ Foundation and Saba’s director of tourism, traveled to the island with the intent to document...