Books from Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Conversations with William Faulkner
By M. Thomas IngeStudent assistant Corrie E. Ward and faculty secretaries Nina Wells and Susan G. Timberlake provided invaluable assistance .
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Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade
By Karen Jackson FordBrooks encountered the new black poets at the second Fisk Writers' Conference in 1967. She discusses her transition to their ideals and values in an interview with Claudia Tate in Black Women Writers at Work (39–48) and in her ...
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Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade
By Karen Jackson FordBoston: Hall, 1984. 44-45. Stimpson, Catharine R. “The Mind, the Body, and Gertrude Stein.” Critical Inquiry 3, no. 3 (1977): 489-506. . "The Somagrams of Gertrude Stein." In Critical Essays on Gertrude Stein, edited by Michael J.
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The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello
By Lindsey R. SwindallOttanelli, Fraser. The Communist Party of the United States from the Depression to World War II. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. Patterson, William. The Man Who Cried Genocide. New York: International Publishers, 1971.
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Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
By James CurtisYet he was also a satirist so savage the editors of Time once dubbed him "Will Rogers with fangs." Here, for the first time, is the whole story of Mort Sahl, America's iconoclastic father of modern standup comedy.
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Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi
By Natalie G. Adams, James H. AdamsJohn Allen Flynt, interview by author, New Hebron, MS. 7. ... Lewis Lord, “Like Watching Something Wonderful Die, Students Say of Total Integration Move,” Meridian Star (Meridian, MS), January 11, 1970. 15. Galen Drewry, “The Principal ...
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Madeline Kahn: Being the Music, A Life
By William V. MadisonSee Danner, Dorothy Frank Franken, Al Frawley, Jim Fredericks, Richard French Postcards Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café From the Mixedup Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Front Page, The Fuller, Larry Fuller, ...
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Walker Percy
By William Rodney AllenThe literature on depression will show how fiction writing — at least as much as his Catholic faith — has been Percy's best defense against the melancholy heritage of his southern fathers. 16. Martin Luschei, The Sovereign Wayfarer ...
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Mississippi Black History Makers
By George Alexander Sewell, Margaret L. Dwight4-Canton OTHER JUDICIAL OFFICIALS: Thomas C. Tolliver, Jr.-Chancery Clerk—Wilkinson County POLICE CHIEFS, SHERIFFS, AND MARSHALS: Willie Bass-Marshall-Friars Point Osborne Bell—Sheriff—Marshall Co.
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Russell Long: A Life in Politics
By Michael S. Martinleading up to the Democratic primary.42 The BoggsLongMorrison team stressed that it would work to undermine the old political categories, divisions that shifted the focus of politics and government away from doing good for the people of ...
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Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher
By Robert Blade... Rhode Island,” March 12, 1971. The American Presidency Project. http://Www .presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3348 (accessed October 7, 2011). Zieger, Robert H. The CIO, 193 5-1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
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Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s
By Cynthia Lee PattersonFor an additional discussion of Kirkland's problems with Sartain, see Nichols, The Fashioning of Middle-Class America, 24–26. 69. See Nichols, The Fashioning of Middle-Class America, 24. CHAPTER 6 1. Godey's office was located first at ...
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Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
By A. Robert LeeIn fact , what Nichols portrays tacitly is the fight for the Chicano heritage in which the bean field acts as a trope for the very soil , the nurturing medium , of a whole people's history . Nichols's novel and the Redford - Esparza ...
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American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
By Jason Edward BlackThe Indian Citizenship Act and the Indian New Deal—as the conclusion of this book indicates—are emblematic of the prevalence of the duality of US citizenship that fused American Indians to the nation yet segregated them on reservations.
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The Mississippi Story
By Patti Carr Black, Mississippi Museum of ArtThe Mississippi Story invites readers to examine the connection between place and the visual arts of the state.
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Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets
By William BaerAs you've been discussing, your tribute to Auden — like other poems in The Arkansas Testament — is very concerned about the craft of poetry. Edward Baugh in the collection of essays mentioned earlier says that, "Walcott's sustained ...
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The Writing Life
By Ellen GilchristA portion of the collection discusses the delicate balance between an artistic life and family commitments, especially the daily pressures and frequent compromises faced by a young mother.
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Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
By Ronda C. Henry AnthonyIn these texts she traces how the emergence of collaboratively gendered discourses, or a blending of black female/male feminist consciousnesses, are reshaping black masculinities, femininities, and intraracial relations for a new century.
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Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
By Stephen E. Ambrose, Richard H. ImmermanBedell Smith kept a close watch on the operation . Bissell said Smith " was the State Department official with whom we dealt almost hour by hour . ... One of the occasions that I remember was a meeting in Smith's office , and several of ...
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Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum
By Derrel B. DePasseReveals how the artist recorded his memories of the American railroad and the traveling circus as landscapes.