University Press of Mississippi

In this multidisciplinary book, the editor and contributors provide the most accurate and most recent information on health and health care in the State of Mississippi. They explain why the state...

What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the...

In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British...

In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British...

In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its...

In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its...

An in-depth look at a profound flashpoint in social movement historyAuthor: Andre E. Johnson, Amanda Nell EdgarPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Mar 11, 2024Number of Pages:...

With contributions from Will Brooker, Jeffrey A. Brown, Scott Bukatman, John G. Cawelti, Peter Coogan, Jules Feiffer, Charles Hatfield, Henry Jenkins, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Gerard...

How the daytime drama format reaches or loses its audience in the Internet age Contributions by Ernest Alba, Kay Alden, Robert C. Allen, Nancy Baym, Sara A. Bibel, Denise D. Bielby, Denise Brothers,...

How the daytime drama format reaches or loses its audience in the Internet age Contributions by Ernest Alba, Kay Alden, Robert C. Allen, Nancy Baym, Sara A. Bibel, Denise D. Bielby, Denise Brothers,...

The System of Comics by Thierry Groensteen translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen. This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on...

With essays by Stephen Davis, Penelope Drooker, Patricia K. Galloway, Steven Hahn, Charles Hudson, Marvin Jeter, Paul Kelton, Timothy Pertulla, Christopher Rodning, Helen Rountree, Marvin T. Smith,...

In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in...

One survivor tells of the fire-bombing of Dresden. Another survivor recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only...

This edition of the complete Works of Cotton Nero A.x.--Patience, Purity, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight--is the first collected edition since the manuscript itself. Charles Moorman's...

Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as "an outsider between two cultures," a man searching. In these twelve essays written over the last two decades Michel Fabre, Wright's...

The Writing Dead features original interviews with the writers of today's most frightening and fascinating shows. They include some of television's biggest names--Carlton Cuse (Lost and Bates Motel),...

The Years of Our Friendship: Robert Lowell and Allen Tate by William Doreski This well-informed study examines the complexly faceted and often troubled friendship of two poets united by the bonds of...

As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yor?b? god of drumming, known as ?y?n in Africa and A?? in Cuba, is...

Deeply rooted in the soil and culture of his native Greece, in its history, and in its contemporary political upheavals, Theo Angelopoulos (b. 1935) has chosen to make all his films, without...

A celebration of those independent people who call the fringes of the mighty Mississippi homeAuthor: Macon FryPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Apr 05, 2024Number of Pages:...

Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South--the Delta and Mississippi Hill Country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta at the turn of the century until he started...

This is the first full-length study of the literary phenomenon in which the modern South, heartland of evangelical Protestantism, has produced significant Roman Catholic writers. This study focuses...

In the civil rights movement, 1964 was the year of Freedom Summer. On June 21, Mississippi, one of the last bastions of segregation in America and a bloody battleground in the fight for civil rights,...

A compelling memoir of a blossoming life rooted in a Jamaican homelandAuthor: FERN JUNE. KHANPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Aug 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision by Elaine Neil Orr This intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world...

"Why are people looking for escape in movies? . . . Because it's . . . a form of recapturing not a 'childish' impulse, but a way of looking at the world as if it were fresh and interesting." Starting...

How shifts in time and storyline create narrative intrigue on television With essays by Melissa Ames, Frida Beckman, Lucy Bennett, Molly Brost, Jason W. Buel, Sarah Himsel Burcon, Kasey Butcher,...

This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold narrative through...

Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the...