University Press of Mississippi

What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when...

What Was Freedom's Price? Edited by David G. Sansing Essays by Willie Lee Rose, Joel Williamson, Richard Sutch & Roger Ransom, George M. Fredrickson, and C. Vann Woodward The political and economic...

Nat Stonebridge is a thirtyish divorcee who, because of her sexy good looks and incorruptible disregard for convention, has stayed in trouble most of her life. Stranded at home in Philippi, a small...

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), critically acclaimed for his novels, short stories, and essays, was one of the most ambitious and influential African American writers of the late nineteenth and...

Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of "the good things in life."Bridging literary scholarship, archeology,...

On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With...

Why I Left America and Other Essays by Oliver W. Harrington edited, with an introduction, by M. Thomas Inge To American black newspapers of the 1930s and 1940s "Ollie" Harrington was a prolific...

An examination and celebration of the distinct sound of Wichita's regional blues traditionAuthor: Patrick Joseph O'ConnorPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Aug 30, 2024Number...

Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so...

Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so...

William Faulkner in Holly Springs describes places and people in this small Mississippi town and defines how these newly identified individuals and locales affected Faulkner's writings. Author Sally...

William Faulkner in Holly Springs describes places and people in this small Mississippi town and defines how these newly identified individuals and locales affected Faulkner's writings. Author Sally...

William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood's golden age. One of the film industry's most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards,...

Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black person appointed as a...

There were two events in particular that had a lasting effect on the life of David Frost, Jr.: "Watching my parents make moonshine in our back yard in a wash pot," he says, "and listening to my...

An examination of the defining role played by one woman writer who covered the South during reconstruction Anne E. Boyd Martin T. Buinicki Kathleen Diffley Annamaria Formichella Elsden Janet...

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. Born in New Hampshire in 1840 and raised...

How did a country whose past is intertwined with African slavery ignore its cultural legacies through much of history? And how did Blackness recently break through this amnesia so that nearly a third...

Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts...

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...

Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement provides a window into the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially...

Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement provides a window into the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially...

Collected essays about Lisa Alther, Toni Cade Bambara, Doris Betts, Rita Mae Brown, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Gail Godwin, Shirley Ann Grau, Beverly Lowry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Berry Morgan, Mary...

Woody Allen (b. 1935) is one of America's most idiosyncratic filmmakers, with an unparalleled output of nearly one film every year for over three decades. His movies are filled with rapid-fire...

How anthropologists meet the challenge of field research in a modernized setting Contributions from Barry Jean Ancelet, Deborah J. Clifton, Dana A. David, Marc David, Jacques Henry, Sara Le...

In this volume Don Peri expands his extraordinary work conducting in-depth interviews with Disney employees and animators. These interviews include conversations with actors and performers rather...

This book includes interviews with Ken Anderson, Les Clark, Larry Clemmons, Jack Cutting, Don Duckwall, Marcellite Garner, Harper Goff, Floyd Gottfredson, Dick Huemer, Wilfred Jackson, Eric Larson,...

With essays by Greg Barnhisel, James P. Daughton, Dwight Eddins, Modris Ecksteins, Geoffrey Jensen, Douglas Mackaman, David Simpson, Jeffrey R. Smith, Regina Sweeney, and Janet Watson Although many...

READINGS OF FOOD IN SOUTHERN LITERATURE THAT REVEAL HUNGER AND CREATIVITY AND THAT GO BEYOND DEEP-FRIED CLICH?S Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again. Vardaman...

Contributions by Laura F. Edwards, Crystal Feimster, Glenda E. Gilmore, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Darlene Clark Hine, Mary Kelley, Markeeva Morgan, Anne Firor Scott, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Deborah...